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Posted March 14, 2011
Poker Night at the Inventory makes me feel completely stupid. I have no idea how to play poker and the game really isn't helping me learn very well.
Posted March 14, 2011
Flight simulators, basically.
The Simcity games didn't make me feel stupid more than they make me feel like the whole game turned against me with all my citizens complaining about everything, but then I realize that's how politics work in my country!
Posted March 14, 2011
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chacksie: Flight simulators, basically.
The Simcity games didn't make me feel stupid more than they make me feel like the whole game turned against me with all my citizens complaining about everything, but then I realize that's how politics work in my country!
I think Tropico lets you torment your citizens for disliking what you're doing. Also while a different genre, Warcraft always let you blow up sheep when you got bored.

As for simcity, you could always focus on making that stupid helicopter crash. Sometimes it takes other things out with it.
Posted March 14, 2011
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chacksie: Flight simulators, basically.
The Simcity games didn't make me feel stupid more than they make me feel like the whole game turned against me with all my citizens complaining about everything, but then I realize that's how politics work in my country!
Yeah, I second Tropico. Mainly the third one which eclipses its predecessors. If you can't satisfy your people in that (or simply aren't inclined to) then there's always the option of being a lazy corrupt dictator surviving only though the brutal suppression of others.
Posted March 14, 2011
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Xaromir: There once was this simulation where you had to find famous shipwrecks,
the ocean was big, i had very view good clues but tons of tools like sonar,
which wasn't that easy to handle.
The crew had to be compiled and had to keep em happy etc, and the ship had to be navigated.
That thing was seriously hard, i must have been between 13 and 15,
so i guess it's ok, but back then i couldn't even make it with the right coordinates. xD
It's rubbish but somehow i have very fond memories, guess it's nostalgia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx4_lCYa1C0
ur game sounds better but
reminded this
Posted March 14, 2011
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Foxhack: Uplink.

Good game, but I can't figure out how to raise enough money fast enough, and hide my tracks when doing stuff.
Do a bunch of trash missions until you can get the voice recorder, decypher for the elliptic encryption part, a 200 GHZ processor, a firewall and proxy bypass at lvl. 5 because anything else is just worthless for bank fraud.

Take a "find out this dude's bank account balance and send it to us" or "trace a recent balance transfer" mission. Set up an account at the target bank. It's free and painless. Word of warning: make sure you consolidate your moneys AFTER clearing your tracks. I once bought a bunch of stuff and got "killed" by...an unpaid overdraft fee of $500. Once you get into the bank as an admin, snoop around in the other accounts. Once you find the account(s) with LOTS OF MONEY in them start funneling EVERYTHING into your account...at the bank you are stealing from :D.

ERASE ALL LOGS especially those dealing with the recent transfer of funds from one account number to another.

Enjoy being rich.
Posted March 14, 2011
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Foxhack: Uplink.

Good game, but I can't figure out how to raise enough money fast enough, and hide my tracks when doing stuff.
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JudasIscariot: Do a bunch of trash missions until you can get the voice recorder, decypher for the elliptic encryption part, a 200 GHZ processor, a firewall and proxy bypass at lvl. 5 because anything else is just worthless for bank fraud.

Take a "find out this dude's bank account balance and send it to us" or "trace a recent balance transfer" mission. Set up an account at the target bank. It's free and painless. Word of warning: make sure you consolidate your moneys AFTER clearing your tracks. I once bought a bunch of stuff and got "killed" by...an unpaid overdraft fee of $500. Once you get into the bank as an admin, snoop around in the other accounts. Once you find the account(s) with LOTS OF MONEY in them start funneling EVERYTHING into your account...at the bank you are stealing from :D.

ERASE ALL LOGS especially those dealing with the recent transfer of funds from one account number to another.

Enjoy being rich.
I've done all that, but I can't figure out how to delete my tracks well enough to stop the cops from getting me. :(

I r st00pid.
Posted March 14, 2011
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JudasIscariot: Do a bunch of trash missions until you can get the voice recorder, decypher for the elliptic encryption part, a 200 GHZ processor, a firewall and proxy bypass at lvl. 5 because anything else is just worthless for bank fraud.

Take a "find out this dude's bank account balance and send it to us" or "trace a recent balance transfer" mission. Set up an account at the target bank. It's free and painless. Word of warning: make sure you consolidate your moneys AFTER clearing your tracks. I once bought a bunch of stuff and got "killed" by...an unpaid overdraft fee of $500. Once you get into the bank as an admin, snoop around in the other accounts. Once you find the account(s) with LOTS OF MONEY in them start funneling EVERYTHING into your account...at the bank you are stealing from :D.

ERASE ALL LOGS especially those dealing with the recent transfer of funds from one account number to another.

Enjoy being rich.
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Foxhack: I've done all that, but I can't figure out how to delete my tracks well enough to stop the cops from getting me. :(

I r st00pid.
Delete logs at bank and InterNic. Get a monitor bypass lvl.5 as well. Keeps that goddamn tracer off your back for a little bit.
Posted March 14, 2011
Might and Magic Book One



...and Two
Post edited March 14, 2011 by TheJoe
Posted March 14, 2011
I played some sort of flight simulator game with military helicopters. I think I only got to the destination point once, every other time I would crash.
Posted March 14, 2011
Chess
Posted March 14, 2011
the first time i started up dwarf fortress, i could hardly manage to start a new game.. then a friend showed me the ropes, and now it's completely awesome! :D
Posted March 14, 2011
I'll start with some of my earlier gaming memories. When I was about 12 the Atari 2600 was the popular system, and my brother and I had quite a few games for it. There were a couple of games that we just could not seem to figure out. The ones that come to mind are:

Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. - we spent quite a bit of time with those games, and I don't know if we ever actually beat them. BUT, the worst game of all that we had was a game that I think was called Sword Quest. I remember that there was actually some kind of competition offered by the developer that if you could beat the game and take a picture of the final screen you would win a lot of money. We must have spent 100's of hours trying to play that game, and never even had a clue what we were doing. We beat a lot of the puzzles, but never really knew why. One of the most confusing game I've ever played.
A bit more recent, I would add StarCraft Brood Wars (the expansion game). I beat StarCraft a few times, so I figured I should do OK with the expansion. I could never get past the first scenario. Never has a game made me feel more stupid that that game. It seems like you are given about 10 minutes to try and prepare your forces to face countless waves of enemies that include some of their best units. Bad, bad memories of that game.
More recently I would probably add Portal. I just couldn't figure out the whole where to place the hole concept without racking my brain to the point of getting a headache. What made me feel even more stupid is that my 12 year old son jumped right in, and figured it out within seconds - UGHH.
I would also say Spellforce. It started pretty good, not too hard, but pretty soon, I was getting so confused trying to find ways of beating the hordes of enemies (without getting quickly slaughtered) that I felt really dumb. Seems like a fun game, but just not one for me.
Posted March 14, 2011
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kalirion: Chess
I hear that. I lose at Chess Titans everytime on EASY. The one time I actually have a win in sight with two queens a king and another piece vs just their King, I still manage to screw up and it ends in a draw because of a stupid stalemate rule.I moved and surrounded their king so it couldn't move but since he wasn't in check, it's a stalemate. So pissed.

And Pokemon at the beginning. Pikachu, why can't you kill a rock type with an electrical type? It works in real life damnit!
Posted March 14, 2011
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joshdad: I'll start with some of my earlier gaming memories. When I was about 12 the Atari 2600 was the popular system, and my brother and I had quite a few games for it. There were a couple of games that we just could not seem to figure out. The ones that come to mind are:

Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. - we spent quite a bit of time with those games, and I don't know if we ever actually beat them. BUT, the worst game of all that we had was a game that I think was called Sword Quest. I remember that there was actually some kind of competition offered by the developer that if you could beat the game and take a picture of the final screen you would win a lot of money. We must have spent 100's of hours trying to play that game, and never even had a clue what we were doing. We beat a lot of the puzzles, but never really knew why. One of the most confusing game I've ever played.
A bit more recent, I would add StarCraft Brood Wars (the expansion game). I beat StarCraft a few times, so I figured I should do OK with the expansion. I could never get past the first scenario. Never has a game made me feel more stupid that that game. It seems like you are given about 10 minutes to try and prepare your forces to face countless waves of enemies that include some of their best units. Bad, bad memories of that game.
More recently I would probably add Portal. I just couldn't figure out the whole where to place the hole concept without racking my brain to the point of getting a headache. What made me feel even more stupid is that my 12 year old son jumped right in, and figured it out within seconds - UGHH.
I would also say Spellforce. It started pretty good, not too hard, but pretty soon, I was getting so confused trying to find ways of beating the hordes of enemies (without getting quickly slaughtered) that I felt really dumb. Seems like a fun game, but just not one for me.
I had a couple of the Sword Quest games and remember the competition. It wasn't just you, the games just didn't make any sense.
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