Summer Games Challenge 2015

[noiseredux]

ok, so I finally feel like my list is solid and realistic. I'll plan to start it Friday, as I've kicked off all of the Summer Challenges with Memorial Day weekend.

The Adventures Of Willy Beamish
Bonk's Adventure
Call Of Duty
Diablo
Dragon Quest
The Great Giana Sisters
King Of Fighters 2002
Loom
Outrun Coast 2 Coast
Tomb Raider Legend

[MrPopo]

Grinding isn't really necessary except maybe for your healers. Due to the way experience works once your mages get area spells they won't have any problems leveling up and the rest of your fighters are going to get that big exp boost on their kills, so the healers are where you need to focus on ensuring they get experience. The reason being that healing doesn't give you a lot of experience and you'll probably be keeping them out of combat (but look at their stats on the character screen; some can hit hard).

Otherwise there's a few characters where you need to baby them early and have them sneak in kills for a payoff later when they level up and promote. It definitely is a game focused on the RPG end of the SRPG spectrum.

[Ack]

ok, so I finally feel like my list is solid and realistic. I'll plan to start it Friday, as I've kicked off all of the Summer Challenges with Memorial Day weekend.

The Adventures Of Willy Beamish
Bonk's Adventure
Call Of Duty
Diablo
Dragon Quest
The Great Giana Sisters
King Of Fighters 2002
Loom
Outrun Coast 2 Coast
Tomb Raider Legend

Noise, if I may make a request, as someone who plays FPS with you...play Call of Duty early on. Every one of the guys you chat with and play games with during our Thursday night Steam sessions has beaten it. Fastbilly1, Xentrix, xero, Coyote, Scorpion, Goji, myself, and whatever other random guys might pop in from that group, we've all beaten it and spent years playing it in multiplayer together. And we all have stated that the intro to the Stalingrad level is one of our favorite moments in an FPS ever.

As one of our merry menagerie of miscreants, you owe it to yourself to join us at the big boy table and to cross the Volga River and charge that damn hill for the Motherland. You want it. You NEED it. It's an infection in the blood, one that will sink into your bones and turn you into one of us. Come noise, do what it takes to join our ranks, become a god king among mortals. Lift yourself from the ranks of peasant filth and build yourself into the elite PC gamer you know you deserve to be. Call of Duty is just a single step, but a vital one, another skull in the pile that you must climb to find us on our thrones of blood in our castle of pain.

[TSTR]

noisey, what version of OutRun C2C are you playing? PC?

[noiseredux]

noisey, what version of OutRun C2C are you playing? PC?

yeah, everything I'm playing is PC except I'm doing the Android version of Dragon Quest so that I have at least one portable game on the list. Oh and the Amiga version of Bonk's Adventure was released as freeware. I already have everything on the list except for the KOF game, which I'll get through Steam.


@Ack: Sold! I'll plan to start up COD earlier rather than later. Looking forward to it!

[Exhuminator]

I beat the original Call of Duty many years ago, but I remember enjoying it. I also remember it being tougher, far tougher, than the modern versions. Call of Duty 2 is a bit easier, but still puts up a fight. After that though the series started focusing on being more accessible.

[Ack]

I beat the original Call of Duty many years ago, but I remember enjoying it. I also remember it being tougher, far tougher, than the modern versions. Call of Duty 2 is a bit easier, but still puts up a fight. After that though the series started focusing on being more accessible.

Yeah, there are a lot of times where you find yourself charging into entrenched placements while taking machine gun fire in Call of Duty. It's not the hardest FPS I've ever beaten(I think that would probably be Iron Storm), but there are some moments that I got through by the skin of my teeth, that's for sure.

[noiseredux]

now you guys are scaring me.

[Ack]

now you guys are scaring me.

You'll be fine. Just never retreat. It's easier than Iron Storm's sharpshooters who can see beyond the game's draw distance. I got headshotted in that game from snipers in buildings I didn't know existed.

[Exhuminator]

It's not the hardest FPS I've ever beaten(I think that would probably be Iron Storm)

I would love to read your reactions as you played through Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter on PC. Every FPS fan should experience the bliss and joy.

You'll be fine. Just never retreat.

Especially if you're playing as the Russians.