Newest game aquisitions

Post by **Dark Silver** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 12:48 pm

never said it wouldn't work Adam ol' buddy
just said it'd be farkin big

Scottish Ninja · Post by **Scottish Ninja** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:28 pm

I'll have to get one, just so that my friends will look at it and say, "WTF?"

Lindar · Post by **Lindar** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:50 pm

Dark Silver wrote:depends, I have a b drive on my computer, but only because I named one of my networked harddrives "b".

If you mean install a b drive, as in install a 5.25" drive on your desktop....I'd be hard pressed to FIND a 5.25" disc drive, much less install it....

but if you find one...eh...why not? aside from the fact it'll be as big as a cd drive....

*grin* actually i have access to a few of them. It's been a thought i've been toying with for a while, more or less because i have some programs on those huge floppies that i can't use otherwise... and all they do is collect dust and it's sorta frustrating...

Adam sweetie, do you know if i'd have to install any software to get it to work?

Destructionator XV · Post by **Destructionator XV** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 7:32 pm

Nope, just hook it up and turn it on. Everything should auto detect, and you will have access to the drive.

Hooking them up is rather easy, too, if your floppy cable still has the necessary end on it. The end is the fat end; it is obvious when you look at it.

The only diffculty might be if the floppies are formatted for some other system. This is actually pretty rare thanks to the long lasting Microsoft monopoly.

If they are from late 80's, they will almost certainly be MS-DOS, so you can simply put them in, and copy the data or even run the programs with no trouble at all.

If they are formatted for some other system, you will have to google or something to get a converter, or simply reformat them, which means you would lose all the data on them.

Ra · Post by Ra » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:35 pm

So, today I stumbled upon Baldur's Gate II in the mall, and decided to buy it. Now I see why so many people say it's so awesome. I've never been a big RPG player, and it rocks!

This has been an offical ego-polishing announcement.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:17 pm

Ra wrote:So, today I stumbled upon Baldur's Gate II in the mall, and decided to buy it. Now I see why so many people say it's so awesome.

Pffft, play Planescape: Torment for a true epic awesomeness.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:20 pm

Destructionator XV wrote:If they are formatted for some other system, you will have to google or something to get a converter, or simply reformat them, which means you would lose all the data on them.

By the way, what converter can read Amiga floppies? Seeing so many excellent Amiga games being sold on eBay, I plan to play them emulated on my PC. Too bad, those games are floppy-based. :sad:

Ra · Post by Ra » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:52 pm

Bah, try and ruin my fun why don't you? No Gungan pr0n for you!

It's all good, except that I'm stuck in the first level, not knowing how to get out. Most of the bad guys (including the Demon) are dead now, I'm kinda trapped there. "Some fearless leader you are, Morfindel!"

Ra · Post by Ra » Tue Jan 17, 2006 10:57 pm

Oh, and BG II has Jaheira, the super-awesome Half-Elven druid with the Russian (or maybe Polish, heh) accent!

"Nature's servant awaits."

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:38 pm

Ra wrote:It's all good, except that I'm stuck in the first level, not knowing how to get out. Most of the bad guys (including the Demon) are dead now, I'm kinda trapped there. "Some fearless leader you are, Morfindel!"

I don't quite remember the level anymore, but I was quite surprised a Black Isle game (Fallout, BG) would get stuck. Have you talked to everybody? Have you (accidentally) dropped an item?

Mind you, some years ago I was also stuck in the first Fallout, because I moronically sold the Rad-X pill I found, and when I tried to get into The Glow, well, you got the picture......

Suffice to say that it was the most moronic decision I've ever made, especially since Rad-X pills are RARE.

Ra wrote:Bah, try and ruin my fun why don't you? No Gungan pr0n for you!

Gungan porn? My brother Jonathan, don't you realize how apalled I was by your mentioning of the word 'porn'; let alone the one with such horrified and grosteque creatures? Haven't I told you many times it is sinful to indulge ourselves in such satanic activity called 'sex'? Sex is a sin, my brother. It is true that we need sex to procreate and populate the world to spread the words of God, but indulging in sex is a sin. Let's not the words of Satan infect thee, o' my brother. Here, take this lily to clean your mind from the horrible influence of the Satan's work that called 'porn'. Now let's pray together, shall we?

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:09 am

Wasn't Baldur's Gate II the one with that ridiculous thing about demi-liches being more powerful than liches?

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:21 am

Charon wrote:Wasn't Baldur's Gate II the one with that ridiculous thing about demi-liches being more powerful than liches?

Actually, that's standard in third edition, but yeah there is a bad ass, spell chucking demilich in Baldur's Gate II.

Ra · Post by Ra » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:29 am

KAN wrote:I don't quite remember the level anymore, but I was quite surprised a Black Isle game (Fallout, BG) would get stuck. Have you talked to everybody? Have you (accidentally) dropped an item?

Mind you, some years ago I was also stuck in the first Fallout, because I moronically sold the Rad-X pill I found, and when I tried to get into The Glow, well, you got the picture......

Suffice to say that it was the most moronic decision I've ever made, especially since Rad-X pills are RARE.

Ah, I finally escaped, after being chased the entire way by an assassin with a personal magical forcefield! Now I'm in Athkatla, and fought a bunch of wherewolves. Where's Selene when you need her?

KAN wrote:Gungan porn? My brother Jonathan, don't you realize how apalled I was by your mentioning of the word 'porn'; let alone the one with such horrified and grosteque creatures? Haven't I told you many times it is sinful to indulge ourselves in such satanic activity called 'sex'? Sex is a sin, my brother. It is true that we need sex to procreate and populate the world to spread the words of God, but indulging in sex is a sin. Let's not the words of Satan infect thee, o' my brother. Here, take this lily to clean your mind from the horrible influence of the Satan's work that called 'porn'. Now let's pray together, shall we?

I have seen the light. Brothah Kreshna. May the LORD MY GAWD fuhgive may of mah transgrayshuns!

But the LORD THY GAWD is willin' to fuhgive us of awll of awah sins, if we ah to leayt Him into ouah hahts, and cayst off the ways of this wuhld. So it says in thu BAHBUL!

And everyone said AMAYN, and AMAYN.

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:05 am

Now that's scary...

Illithids are utterly TOO convincing as fundamentalist priests

Charon wrote:Wasn't Baldur's Gate II the one with that ridiculous thing about demi-liches being more powerful than liches?

Demiliches are Liches which have decomposed to the point of having only a skull or something left. But they're a shitload more powerful for it, becoming almost as unstoppable as dracoliches. Almost. Dracoliches still rule the roost.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:26 am

Dakarne wrote: Demiliches are Liches which have decomposed to the point of having only a skull or something left. But they're a shitload more powerful for it, becoming almost as unstoppable as dracoliches. Almost. Dracoliches still rule the roost.

You are unfortunately wrong.

In first and second edition, demiliches were the remnants of liches that had abandoned their physical forms. In 3.0/3.5 they are a kind of uberlich. The amount of concentrated cheese is staggering. Huge stat boosts, retains spellcasting ability (and you have to epic level to become one), soul sucking, cheesy immunities (including to almost all magic), nice AC, can use magic items near your phylactery as if you were wearing/wielding them, and some nifty power (like unlimited use of the harm spell, just on the off chance you take damage). The punniest demilich is CR 29 and would obliterate a dracolich if it so desired.

Of course, a dracolich with sufficient spell casting ability could become a demilich (for even more cheesiness). The only redeeming feature about the demilich is that players can become one too, thus making the mountain of cheese the DMs problem as well as the players.

Brother-Captain Gaius · Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:14 am

Ah, the joys of simply having one's players run through a cave and kill plain old unremarkable utterly straightforward believeable and normal CR 1/2 orcs. With the occassional ettin.

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:33 am

In first and second edition, demiliches were the remnants of liches that had abandoned their physical forms.

Baldur's Gate games aside... I've never played 2E.

In 3.0/3.5 they are a kind of uberlich.

Indeed... which is the version I'm actually referring to, since there is actually a 'process' to create them.

The punniest demilich is CR 29 and would obliterate a dracolich if it so desired.

I use a mildly custom ruleset... if it's Draconic, it's better than everything else.

Mostly because it is Dungeons and Dragons, and the Dragons deserve to win... because they're awesome.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:15 am

Here goes another.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:03 pm

These games... they be... for PC users...

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:06 pm

Oh shit. I remember that game.

But who remembers the good old 5.25 floppy games like fucking BAGASAURUS, eh?

Narsil · Post by **Narsil** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:20 pm

I've got Deluxe Galaga, Superfrog, Simon the Sorcerer and an Amiga in the other room... not sure how that would rank.

Post by **B4UTRUST** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:33 pm

we can't all be cursed with macs

Post by **B4UTRUST** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:34 pm

Spellcasting 101,201 and 301. Eric the Unready. Emperor of Fading Suns.

Classic...

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:28 pm

Wait, I just got an idea:

How about moving this thread into G&C, then rename it "your newest acquisition thread" or something?

Ra · Post by Ra » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:30 pm

Well, if that's the case we would also need to merge my BG II gloating thread with this.

But seriously, I like the idea.

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