Zeusthecat

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  1. The topic of the early Xbox Live community reminded me of playing Conker Live and Reloaded on the original Xbox. I played that game online for a couple hundred hours and throughout that whole time it was always the same group of people and we always played on the same map (Castle Von Tedistein). Looking back that was probably one of my favorite times in online gaming because not only could I count on playing with the same friendly people every day, but the way we all played was completely different than the way you would play a multiplayer game today since everybody knew everyone else's playstyle. We would often completely ignore the objectives on the map and instead focus on dominating certain areas of the map with certain classes to prove our superiority. That game rocked.
  2. Licenses That Demand A Game

    My god you're right. I played a lot of that game over multiple playthroughs and it totally does exactly that. So yeah, I guess my Groundhog Day game idea isn't very original.
  3. Super Mario 3D World

    Wario Land on the Virtual Boy is one awesome fucking game. Just figured I'd throw that out there.
  4. Life

    SMART PEOPLE ARE STUPID!!!
  5. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    Thanks for sharing that syntheticgerbil; that was a good read. And Steve Purcell sounds like a totally awesome dude.
  6. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    For me so far the music in this game hasn't been anything too spectacular but I sat there in Trixie's trailer for at least 10 minutes last night listening to that song. It really resonated with me for some reason. I also managed to get a little further last night after getting the pants and miniature golf ticket from Trixie's trailer. Since the gator golf place had become unlocked I went straight there and got some more information from the redneck guy at the entrance. I also picked up an extendable golf ball grabber which I quickly discovered I could attach the severed hand to (there was something the redneck guy said that hinted at this) along with either the magnet or the cup. I then went onto the gator golf course and witnessed Max freak out on Conroy Bumpus which resulted in him getting golfed into a dunk tank at the other end of the course. I had to find a way to free Max at this point but there didn't seem to be any way to get to him and hitting golf balls into the various objects and alligators around the course didn't seem to have any effect. After being stuck for a little while I remembered something the redneck guy had said about the alligators needing to be fed. I didn't have any luck when I tried to use the bucket of fish on them but then I realized the obvious similarity between the bucket of fish and the bucket of golf balls I had picked up. Sure enough, cartoon logic came into play and the solution was to put the bucket of fish on the ground where the golf balls were and hit the fish towards the gators with the golf club. After seeing how the gators reacted to the fish when I hit them in various locations around the course I figured that I probably needed to get them all lined up with the snake statue to make some kind of a path towards Max (also I assumed this was sort of a reference to Pitfall). After the path was completed I was able to make it to Max and get him out of the tank. That revealed a secret door where I found some sort of vortex snow globe thing. After picking it up a new area opened up on the map around Washington and so I went there and stopped playing around that point. So now I have a new area to explore which will hopefully go towards clearing up a few other outstanding things. Namely the golf ball grabber with hand and magnet/cup attached and the binocular things that are wired up to the elevator back at the ball of twine. Also, I think I got super lucky getting through the gator golf thing without much issue. That was kind of a poorly designed puzzle in my opinion and had I not been in the right (or wrong) state of mind I think I would have been stuck on that for much longer.
  7. I Had A Random Thought...

    I wonder why the Flintstones brand has such a good track record with things that are edible. I'm pretty sure most human beings my age grew up with Fruity (or Cocoa) Pebbles, Flintstones push-up pops, and Flintstones vitamins as an integral part of their diets.
  8. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    In case I forget to mention this later, I love the music in Trixie's trailer.
  9. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    Hipsters are the bastard children of skaters and hippies.
  10. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    Are we arguing about who is an asshole or who is a hipster? Or is hipster the new asshole?
  11. Licenses That Demand A Game

    I've never actually played more than a few minutes of Majora's Mask. I'm a horrible person, I know.
  12. Licenses That Demand A Game

    Groundhog Day. You relive the same day over and over and watch the same series of events happen each day with slight changes based off of your interactions. Once you eventually discover how to break out of the loop the game's ending would consist of you getting to live one last day and experience the world finally moving forward again.
  13. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    Huh? I'm not sure I follow. But I am pretty sure that almost every person casts some level of judgment on the quality of other people's fun. It's called having an opinion and being human. Is Chris' opinion about lighters at concerts all that different then me thinking it's fucking stupid that people have fun obsessively following celebrity gossip? Plus, I'm pretty sure your definition of hipster is totally wrong. Someone is only a hipster if they wear a fedora and don't own a tv.
  14. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    Wait, what? Leggings are very clearly a sub-classification of pants. They are not something you wear instead of pants, they are pants.
  15. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    If it doesn't make you barf it isn't gross. Unless it makes you shit.
  16. Idle Thumbs 131: Real Life

    Unless someone like Miyamoto is that content provider. That could be a dream come true (or a hellish nightmare).
  17. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    I wonder why they felt compelled to add some of these minigames to the various LucasArts games at all. I can't imagine too many people got much enjoyment out of them but maybe they just did it in an attempt to increase replayability? I will admit that I enjoyed the Car Bomb mini game in Sam and Max but all of the others that I've played across the different games so far have been kind of not fun.
  18. Life

    At least a bachelor's degree and completion of an early childhood teacher education program. http://www.ehow.com/about_7506285_arizona-preschool-teacher-requirements.html Note that it can be any bachelor's degree, not necessarily one in education. Also, Arizona is on the lower end of the spectrum when it comes to education in the US.
  19. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    I played some more last night and made a couple more key discoveries. First, I found that I could play the whack a mole game at the carnival which resulted in me winning a flashlight. The flashlight didn't have a bulb so I used my blacklight bulb on it to get it working. I figured the only place dark enough to necessitate a flashlight was the Tunnel of Love so I went back through there and discovered a few things hidden in the darker areas including an electrical panel. After a few more trips through the tunnel I discovered that I could use Max to short the panel which stopped the ride and enabled us to get off and walk around. I then got the door in the back to open after the executioner statue guy cut off the other statue's head. In the back room I found a weird greenish guy that looked just like Roger from the show "Doug". I talked to him and was able to give him the box of chocolates I had been hanging on to in exchange for information on Trixie and Bigfoot as well as the key to Trixie's trailer. This is the only progress I was able to make because I was stuck for awhile until I discovered that I could play the whack a mole game to win the flashlight. Hopefully I find something useful in Trixie's trailer because aside from that I'm not sure what I can do next. Also, is there any real purpose to playing that driving game on the main map? After winning the flashlight from the carnival game I'm not sure if there are other items that I can only obtain through winning other mini-games and I'd rather not waste time trying to beat that driving game if I don't get anything for it.
  20. Life

    My daughter brought this home from preschool the other day. That is the teacher's handwriting. I guess it's the effort that counts.
  21. Intoxicated:

    Hey, I'm intoxicated! Unfortunately I have nothing interesting to share. Spongebob is on right now and that's a weird fucking show.
  22. The Big LucasArts Playthrough

    I made a bit more progress the other day. I went to the giant ball of string from where I left off previously and after taking the elevator up to the top, I discovered that I could pull the elevator's loose wires out and use them on the sightseeing binocular thingies. However, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do from here. I tried looking through the binoculars and moved them to various positions but it didn't seem to do anything. Sam said something worth remembering when I first hooked the wires up to the binoculars but now I can't remember what it was so I am just assuming it will rotate the elevator or something like that so I can access the room on the opposite side of where I went up in the elevator. Either way I'm stuck because moving the binoculars doesn't seem to do anything. Maybe I need a quarter to power the binoculars. Before leaving I also managed to get a bent wrench from the dude in the restaurant at the top of the string ball. After exploring the area with the giant ball of string I went back to the fish place and found that I could use the bent wrench on the giant fish in the water. When I jumped inside after using the wrench and asked Max to join me the fish fell off the post and I was able to trick the fisherman into thinking I was a giant fish. He then fished me into the net and drowned in the process (I guess?). Then the helicopter picked me up and carried me to the area that was previously inaccessible at the giant ball of string. The fish cook's door in this area was locked and I eventually discovered that I could use Max on the ball of string to help us get back down and obtain a big piece of the string. And that's about the extent of my progress. So I've explored every area open to me so far and need to go back through to figure out what I am missing. The tunnel of love is the most obvious place to start as well as the binoculars rigged up to the elevator wires and the ice cream guy at the gas stations. Also, I'm slightly intoxicated right now so I'm probably forgetting other stuff.
  23. PL4YST4TION 4

    Fair point. But it is my job as a nerd baby to moan and complain about this kind of stuff. Also, I wouldn't worry about having more than 512 items in a playlist anyways since you are limited by their Unlimited music service (see what I did there?); that is, assuming they don't change course.
  24. PL4YST4TION 4

    I guess I just don't get why they couldn't have gone with at least 1TB to begin with. It would have only been marginally more expensive than the 500GB they went with. I would rather not have to drop another $70 on top of the initial price of the console. Basically, I'm just a baby complaining.