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Forums - BayAnime.com » Tag: games - Recent Posts http://bayanime.com/forums/ San Francisco Bay Area community for fans of anime, manga, and Japanese pop culture en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:22:37 +0000 DYRL84 on "virginal experience in a mmorpg guild" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/virginal-experience-in-a-mmorpg-guild#post-1638 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:39:49 +0000 DYRL84 1638@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Ya MMOs can be tough. First you have to find a game that you are willing to plunk down the cash for especially if it has a monthly subscription and hope that it doesn't fail in the near future (if it's a new game). Then you have to find a guild if the game is set up where you almost have to join a guild to experience endgame content like loot, crafting, and raiding. Raids. I have seen guild officers who were the nicest people in guild but changed during raids where egos, power trips, nepotism and greed dominated their personalities. I was going to post links to Youtube videos about raids gone wrong but I decided against it because the content may have been too offensive and disturbing to those who haven't raided in MMORPGs or have not been in guilds. I loved Diablo2 because you could go off on your own and farm or craft endgame content without having to be in a guild...yes it's a hack-and-slash and not a true MMO but I had tons of fun. And what I liked about Guild Wars was that you could solo some of the instances or find a decent pick-up-group without too much trouble. cobaph on "virginal experience in a mmorpg guild" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/virginal-experience-in-a-mmorpg-guild#post-1637 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:41:56 +0000 cobaph 1637@http://bayanime.com/forums/ RO guilds with a valued War of Emperium. Happens all the time where everyone turns out to be bitchy and greedy, or suckups. There's usually already a social structure set up in the guilds. I can't even count the guilds I've been in in RO, let alone all my MMO experience. AnimeEmperor on "virginal experience in a mmorpg guild" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/virginal-experience-in-a-mmorpg-guild#post-1633 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:41:38 +0000 AnimeEmperor 1633@http://bayanime.com/forums/ I've had good and bad experiences with guild. I ran a rather successful guild in the first days of Guild Wars, but I left my officers in charge when I went on vacation and when I got back they had had a fight and formed their own guilds taking everyone with them. I never played that game again. I've had success with WoW guilds. If it isn't a proper fit you just quit the guild and find another. It's best to either discover a very friendly easy going guild, or a very serious playing guild. If they're just focused on the stats and the playing then there is very little drama. EdOfNoName on "virginal experience in a mmorpg guild" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/virginal-experience-in-a-mmorpg-guild#post-1631 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:39:34 +0000 EdOfNoName 1631@http://bayanime.com/forums/ I'm in a Guild Wars guild (actually an Alliance). Our founder insisted that only people we knew could join. Sometimes groups of two or three of us play together. Sometimes five to seven of us will all gather together at someone's house to play. I've never had the "join a guild with random people on the internet" experience. DYRL84 on "a memorable online gaming experience" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/a-memorable-online-gaming-experience#post-1630 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:52:30 +0000 DYRL84 1630@http://bayanime.com/forums/ game = return to castle wolfenstein (pc) / map = beach / punkbuster = on several years ago i joined a server and a rag-tag team that had been losing match after match. shortly after a few new players joined our team. we lost the following matches but i sensed that the tide was turning and that we were becoming more cohesive. this all culminated in a moment that i will never forget: i had retrieved the "objective" and was met with a small escort as i made my way to return the "objective" and win the match. everything was so surreal and was in slow motion as i sprinted. the marksmanship of my teammates was phenomenal as i was unscathed and didn't have to deviate from my course. as i made the home stretch i saw teammate after teammate in perfect defensive positions as they laid down intense and deadly covering fire to allow me to win the match for our team. i was in awe as the disharmonious became harmonious and how in one moment total strangers had worked together as if they had known each other for years. have any of you had similar online gaming experiences? DYRL84 on "virginal experience in a mmorpg guild" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/virginal-experience-in-a-mmorpg-guild#post-1629 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:53:40 +0000 DYRL84 1629@http://bayanime.com/forums/ i used to play AGE OF CONAN solo and decided to join a guild for the first time to experience more "end game" content found during "raiding". on the surface the guild had a lot of nice people and relative to other guilds we were behind in raid progression. a lot of guildmates had told me that this particular guild was the best guild that they had ever joined. but what i had experienced was a lot of politics, favoritism, brown-nosing, deception, hidden agendas, and subtle coercion similar to what george orwell portrayed in ANIMAL FARM...not fun at all. guilds are not for me and mmorpgs that almost require you to be in a guild to get the best loot are also not for me. in retrospect i am a soloist by nature and admire the genius of other innovative players who think outside-the-box and transcend cookie-cutter character builds to create amazing solo farming builds. what were your mmorpg guild experiences? DYRL84 on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1599 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:16:37 +0000 DYRL84 1599@http://bayanime.com/forums/ YES! there is someone else out there who knows about this game! my other obscure favorite game: Herzog Zwei for the sega genesis cobaph on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1593 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:08:16 +0000 cobaph 1593@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Blaster Master is a freaking hard ass game. And so is 2. :((( Gryph on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1570 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:10:53 +0000 Gryph 1570@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Continue with the series and you'll see if he has a thing for her. I'm not sure what you mean by "where did he disappear". He was asleep in the office most of the time... if you mean when instead of where, I guess some time after he left the phone message but before she saw him in the office. They didn't really show it. DYRL84 on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1569 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:05:03 +0000 DYRL84 1569@http://bayanime.com/forums/ @ Gryph: hehe i watched the 1st movie a while ago & was impressed but then i got caught up in other titles...i definitely have to get back to KnK although my brain is still trying to absorb the events of the 1st movie... ...like the guy who bought the girl strawberry ice cream in the opening of the movie?...does he have a thing for her? ...and where did he disappear? @ ann: *sigh* i miss those days...yes! i did watch voltron but i was more partial to transformers =) hmm...there was also g-force & speed racer yay! another d2 fan...hehe a game where the stone of jordan was the currency of choice...well at least when i played oooh! a former female pc fps gamer...that's so kwel! a rare & elusive breed...the female pc fps gamer just a blog that i stumbled upon: Elsa's blog, "A Girl's Guide to Online FPS Gaming" <a href="http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Elsa/a-girl-s-guide-to-online-fps-gaming--137822.phtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Elsa/a-girl-s-guide-to-online-fps-gaming--137822.phtml</a> Gryph on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1563 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:30:45 +0000 Gryph 1563@http://bayanime.com/forums/ If you haven't seen it yet, I think you should check out Kara no Kyokai. Looking at your criteria, it seems you might like it. Ann on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1561 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:52:45 +0000 Ann 1561@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Hey DYRL84! Welcome to BayAnime! So you started with Robotech and Star Blazers... what about Voltron? I used to be really hooked on D2 and Quake III when I was in school, but I honestly haven't seriously played another PC game since then. Anyway we should have more meetups in SF in the future so I hope you can join us! DYRL84 on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1555 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:44:57 +0000 DYRL84 1555@http://bayanime.com/forums/ hi sounds good thanks! lifepoint1 on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1551 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:30:29 +0000 lifepoint1 1551@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Welcome DYRL84! Hope you enjoy your stay at BayAnime! suprasaiyajim on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1550 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:06:00 +0000 suprasaiyajim 1550@http://bayanime.com/forums/ Hi DYRL84 Cool If-Then philosophy. I think I did a few of those. LOL Checkout the meetups sometime. Whenever the next one is... DYRL84 on "my intro" http://bayanime.com/forums/topic/my-intro#post-1549 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:02:02 +0000 DYRL84 1549@http://bayanime.com/forums/ hi all! randomly found this site live on the outskirts of san francisco ANIME: it all started with starblazers & robotech! didn't really watch much anime later except for the occasional drunken blockbuster night with friends jumped back into anime a couple of years ago...with a vengeance! My "IF...THENs": IF i'm hooked after watching the 1st ep...THEN the anime will most likely become a favorite IF i watch past 1/3 of the season series...THEN i'll say that the anime was pretty good IF the 1st 1/3 of the season series ever becomes unappealing..THEN i'll drop the anime i'll watch anime based on #1) animation style & quality/character models #2) premise #3) story pacing/character progression generally i like mecha, action, historical, sci-fi & seinen but i'll give almost any anime a shot some favorites - macross franchise (except macross7), gurren lagann, ninja scroll (movie), basilisk, GitS franchise, evangelion, claymore, bamboo blade, full metal panic!, black lagoon, moribito, code geass, soul eater, sengoku basara, eden of the east favorites that require special attention: shigurui - may be slow and hard to follow but outstanding animation quality, artistic style, and unique premise/story make this anime a favorite for me makoto shinkai - (voices of a distant star, the place promised in our early days, 5cm per second) using off the shelf software and home pcs/notebooks to produce anime of exceptional quality is truly a talent to be admired Yasuhiro Yoshiura - (pale cocoon, eve no jikan) another talented director/artist like makoto shinkai currently watching canaan, bakemonogatari, umineko no naku koro ni, needless GAMES: played pretty much every console classic favorite obscure game = blaster master for NES last console played = N64 favorite N64 games = goldeneye/starfox/wcw vs nwo: world tour/star wars: rogue squadron abandoned console gaming indefinitely & moved on to pc games exclusively my favorite pc games are: strategy = civilization series/total war series (shogun total war is still my favorite) hack&slash = diablo2 (I FREAKING LOVED THIS GAME!!!!...until the game and my accounts got hacked to pieces & ppl were running multiple farming bot instances) fps = return to castle wolfenstein multi-player (LOVED THIS GAME TOO!!!)/call of duty series rpg = baldur's gate series (storyline was win)/neverwinter nights mmorpg = guild wars series ----> age of conan (gfx = win but game = fail for me) flight sim = il2 sturmovik don't really game much now..last games played were age of conan & call of duty: world at war waiting for diablo3 & guild wars2 OTHER STUFF: i like samurai & ninja movies (currently watching tenchijin taiga drama)