TDIRunner

For anyone checking out MYST for the first time, or even the first time in a long time. After you are done playing it, don't forget to checkout the game PYST.

I agree with all of this. Usually I suggest playing the original first for the experience, but Myst is the rare exception to the rule. Unfortunately, it's the type of game where if you didn't experience it when it first came out, you might have a hard time understanding what made the game so unique and special. That's not to say you shouldn't try it today, but I would stick with the latest version.

No, that wasn't me because I've never signed up for the Secret Santa. Unfortunately, tickets are not transferable. Each ticket has a unique code and the code is assigned to the email address of the person who bought the game. It's a little disappointing, but it makes sense if you think about it. There could be a lot of misuse of the rewards system otherwise. I'm 10 tickets short of a free game, and obviously that's what I would want the most, but it's impossible for me to get any more tickets. So I'll just stick with my soundtrack and stickers.

Not sure if we've already discussed this or not, but this came up on Facebook yesterday. If you still have any of the rewards tickets from the early days of LRG, you need to submit them before November. While the rewards program has been gone for a few years now, they have continued to allow us to submit the tickets for rewards. It sounds like they are finally going to shut that program down for good. I was only able to get 30 before the stopped the tickets, so unfortunately, I can't get a free game, but I have enough to get a soundtrack and some stickers. If you still have tickets, you can read the instructions to redeem them here: https://limitedrungames.com/pages/rewards

Not when you are six. When you are six, you need the cards specifically made for this kind of game. But yeah, I could have made this game at home for nothing. At least it was only $2.

Speaking of knowing anything about Pokemon. My son today just found a Pokemon guessing game at a garage sale for $2. You wear Pokemon cards on your head and everyone knows who you are except you, and you have to ask questions and figure out which Pokemon you are. Guess what I'm doing this weekend?????

Never played it, or any other Pokemon game outside of the Pinball game for the GBA. I was just old enough when Pokemon came out that I knew it wasn't really for me. If I had been 5 or 6 years younger, I bet I would have really been into it. I really knew nothing about Pokemon until last year when my son started to get into it. He enjoys the toys, cards and TV show, but he hasn't gotten into any games yet, outside of the same Pokemon Pinball I mentioned earlier. Now I know way more about Pokemon then I ever thought I would.

I get what you are saying, but I'm just the opposite. I want to build it and look at it for a little bit, but I don't want to display it afterward. I would love to build the upcoming Nintendo LEGO set, but i have no desire to keep it as a display piece.

I might check it out for the database and pictures, but definitely not interesting in buying...........must........restrain.......myself.

This thread has made me start looking up my old sets, which has allowed me to discover Brickipedia which has been bringing me all sorts of nostalgic happiness this afternoon. The unfortunate side effect is that all of this makes me want to start buying my old LEGO sets again. Fortunately, I have just enough self control to avoid this...... barely.

That's awesome. You just reminded me about a time when my brother and I made an RPG out of our Micro Machine toys. Outside of LEGOs and video games, Micro Machines were also near the top of toys I enjoyed the most (and outside of video games, the only toys from my childhood that I still have today). The Micro Machine RPG we made was primitive and it included mostly military Micro Machines. We used dice and rulers along with a bunch of preset numbers and stats to battle each other. It was fun, but my brother couldn't' get into it as much as I could.

There are so many interesting modern LEGO sets out there that I've never owned and probably never will, it would be pretty much impossible to pick a favorite. So I will stick with the sets I owned as a kid. I was a huge fan of the Pirate and Castle LEGO themes and my brother was into Town. So I had experience with most of the original lines outside of Space. I really went back and forth between the Pirate and Castle stuff, but overall I think I preferred the Pirate sets the most with the 6277 Imperial Trading Post as my favorite overall set. I never had the big Pirate ship (which probably would have been my favorite), but I did have the Caribbean Clipper which was slightly smaller. I remember selling the 6277 Imperial Trading Post in my college days for about $150. It looks like it goes for a little more than that today.

They are one of those bands where I never actively choose to listen to their music, but if I hear it on the radio, I always enjoy it.

That reminds me. I used to work in the finance department of a large manufacturing plant. There used to be a white Hummer H3 with a HUGE Umbrella logo on his back window. It was a big plant with a lot of employees, so I never figured out who owned it, but I always wanted to figure out who it was.

I've tried to play the 3DO version, but that version doesn't run very well. That is the type of game where I can tell that if I played it when it was new, I would have loved it. However, it's a difficult game to get into as a first timer today. It's unfortunate because I think I definitely missed out on that. It's fun to watch YouTube longplays of that game though.

Here's the way I look at it. Fixed camera angles used to be an important aspect of survival horror because they cause blind spots where monsters could be hiding. It makes it easier for the developers to incorporate jump scares. Plus the feeling of not knowing what's around the corner adds to the suspense. Once you move to a free roaming camera, you lose a lot of what made the fixed camera angle special. That's why I feel that RE4 begins to move away from survival horror and RE 5&6 drop it entirely. This is the reason why I feel that RE7 moving to a first person view is important. Moving to a first person perspective brings back a lot of the blind spots and monsters hidden behind corners that make survival horror what it is. While I haven't played RE7 myself, I've seen enough of it to know that it went back to the survival horror roots. Of course, a lot of my argument went out the window when Capcom remade RE2 in a third person perspective with a free roaming camera. They figured out how to make it work and that game is definitely survival horror.

I think most would agree that RE 1-3 is definitely survival horror and RE 5-6 is action. However RE4 is the oddity that people could argue either way. My stance is that it's some type of hybrid between the two.

I hear those have automatic scrolling instead of the manual hand crank scrolling.

I also prefer them for cardboard rather than disc based stuff, with one exception. I like to use them for PS1 longbox. Anyone familiar with PS1 knows that there were 3 different styles of longbox that were all pretty different. The variances look a little odd on a shelf. Plus some of the artwork likes to peel off the plastic versions after all of these years. Putting them in box protectors makes them look a little more uniform and helps to hold down anything that is peeling off.

That was definitely the best level in the game. Getting on the rooftops and using the super high view was also pretty amazing at the time.

I want to say I like survival horror, but the only games I've ever truly played through were RE1, RE2 and REmake2. I've started a few other RE games along with a few Silent Hill games, and a hand full of other survival horror games, but I've never been able to get into them. I've never hated any of the other games, but I think part of the problem is that they are not good for picking up and playing for 30 minutes and calling it a day. They tend to demand more of your time, which I don't really have these days.

I almost said the same thing, but at the end of the day, I can't resist the urge to talk about PS1 in an era where Nintendo still gets the most discussion time (and probably always will).

The thing that I really enjoyed about V8 was that nearly everything in the environment could be destroyed, plus the mortar rounds put large craters in the ground that could damage your car. Back then, environment damage was still pretty new and that type of stuff was really cool to me. TW2 (the best TW game in my opinion) had a little of that, but not nearly what V8 had. Of course, TW always had the better story line for each character.

I love the PS2, but I will always remember it as the first console I ever owned that died on me. Of course it wasn't the last, but at least I've only had one PS2 ever fail on me. I'm on my third PS3. Oddly enough, I'm still using my launch PS1 to this day and I've never once had to turn it upside down.