December Sci-Fi - or nerds unite

Mad Duc · December 06, 2009, 01:37:31 PM

Ever play Space Hulk, the video game? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Hulk_%28video_game%29

Awesome game. The best part was ever once in a while one of the marines would yell: "WE BRING DOOM!" It was (and still is) the only video game that ever gave me goosebumps when playing. Hard game but fun as hell!

Slide Panda · December 06, 2009, 02:35:47 PM

Of course. Kinda preferred the miniature version since you got to be both sides. But that did mean you needed a buddy to play. I just picked up the reissue of the mini game.

Guessing you've played at least on version of Dawn of War than also?

Le Pirate · December 07, 2009, 09:22:34 AM

Watched the first 1/2 of Alice last night

I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the second half tonight

Wasn't real impessed....

Mad Duc · December 07, 2009, 11:00:00 AM

That sucks about Alice. I won't be able to watch it for a couple days, I recorded it on Tivo.

I don't remember all the 40k stuff I played, another guy ran that. I belonged to a gaming guild (WOW! That dork cred right there) and we mixed up what we played a lot. I wasn't into it as much as AD&D, RIFTS, BattleTech & Call of Cthulhu. CoC was the best game. No one ever lasted that long so you never had the uber high level characters that would blow through anything. Hell, most of the time it wasn't even worth shooting at what ever it was that was going to kill you. Running was in general the best option... If you didn't fail your sanity check.

Slide Panda · December 07, 2009, 11:09:12 AM

Yeah, never played CoC, but heard that about it. Which seems pretty real.. you're some regular dude fighing some demon... yeah you are NOT going to kicks it's ass. If you don't crap yourself on the spot, run is the best option!

Oh battletech... I enjoyed that one... though I think I might have dug the computer ones more. Speaking of which, a new computer one's due out some time in 2010 I thin'

rockaduc · December 07, 2009, 11:45:20 AM

Quote from: yuu on December 06, 2009, 06:46:27 AM
Games Workshop is getting started on a cgi film centered on an Ultramarines story. Dan Abnet from Black Library is doing the script.

So it seems I'm not the only table top gamer on the board...

OOOOOO...nice

Kopfjäger · December 10, 2009, 07:17:26 PM

Avatar: The Movie (New Extended HD Trailer)

KnightofNi · December 10, 2009, 07:26:57 PM

Quote from: Le Pirate on December 07, 2009, 09:22:34 AM
Watched the first 1/2 of Alice last night

I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the second half tonight

Wasn't real impessed....

i liked it. it's a new take on alice in wonderland and through the looking glass. i liked seeing how they worked things in.

plus it doens't hurt that my g/f is a freak for alice and was glued to it.

Mad Duc · December 11, 2009, 04:05:00 AM

Alice was ok. Like Tin Man, it just never seems to gel very well in end. I always feel like something is lacking. They throw out a lot of little cool things but never really expands on any of them.

SciFi has done some good stuff - their remake of Dune was really good, and the Children of Dune was awesome.

The more I see of Avatar the less I want to see it. See through plot, complete reliance on special effects. Eyecandy yes, but is it really going to be a good movie like the original Matrix? Or will be more like one of the Matrix sequels. Don't get me wrong, I'm a dork and I'll probably see it the first night in 3D.

factorPlayer · December 14, 2009, 09:56:49 AM

holy shit is this a gaming thread?

Slide Panda · December 14, 2009, 10:01:44 AM

Not directly... but it meandered well into that territory - I've been tempted to toss out a thread like that for a bit now. Pretty much since folks picked up my 'cunning hat' reference with no further clues a bit back.

factorPlayer · December 15, 2009, 05:08:54 AM

I played some CoC back in the day... good times!

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=135

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