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[flabort]

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

[blazing glory]

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

Hallelujah!

I may not know what on earth Dark Wizard is but I do know about getting games you enjoyed in your childhood to work and then playing them.

[MaximumZero]

Panic Attack - Dream Theater Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

[flabort]

I finally found a way to play Dark Wizard on PC... that doesn't freeze up after the first level.

Finally, I can relive my childhood glory!
*hallelujah chorus in background*

I beat the second level with only one casualty. Unfortunately, it was my starting cleric, but it's still only one casualty. Pretty darned good, if I do say so myself. Much better then when I was a kid.

Dark Wizard.

Hallelujah!

I may not know what on earth Dark Wizard is but I do know about getting games you enjoyed in your childhood to work and then playing them.

Only the best hex-based strategy RPG ever. It's impossible to stop playing, the quests and storylines are engaging, the characters are full of character, the cutscenes only last a few minutes at worst, and only arrive once a map or so, the anime cutscenes are gorgeous and the voiceacting is great, especially when you consider the time this game came out, and the animated battles (if you have them enabled - I guess technically they're cutscenes that you can disable) are beautiful. There are secrets galore, replayability is through the roof even without random generation, the game will take you months to beat (longer than Tales of Symphonia), there are numerous upgrade paths for your hired army and wide variation among your summoned army, the leveling and experience system is perfection, random chance is not nonexistant but neither does it rule the whole game (in fact, it exists to the perfect degree), and the maps are scenery porn (not the NSFW kind, don't worry; don't play games at work anyways, though).
Add a heaping spoonful of obscureness, a dash of atmospheric music, and a worldload of nostalgia, and boy. My life is complete.

[Jacob/Lee]

I hooked up with some of my buddies and got a full group to play PAYDAY 2 instead of dealing with the dumbass AI crew members. We proceed to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple missions, including a three-part contract that involved framing some politician. While I'm still only level eleven, having gained nine levels from the multiplayer experience alone, it was still awesome as we had many cases of running for dear life with our bags of cash while police snipers' laser sights showered everything and SWAT operatives climbed out of the woodwork.

This was a welcome improvement over earlier where I accidentally tossed a bag of coke into the ocean, along with other blunders. Even then, I had one human ally + two resident morons for AI-controlled crew. The game just gets so much easier when you have allies that will actually shoot in a timely manner, can use special abilities, and won't blow someone away with their unsilenced rifle when you're trying to knock them out quietly.

[Corai]

I hooked up with some of my buddies and got a full group to play PAYDAY 2 instead of dealing with the dumbass AI crew members. We proceed to rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple missions, including a three-part contract that involved framing some politician. While I'm still only level eleven, having gained nine levels from the multiplayer experience alone, it was still awesome as we had many cases of running for dear life with our bags of cash while police snipers' laser sights showered everything and SWAT operatives climbed out of the woodwork.

This was a welcome improvement over earlier where I accidentally tossed a bag of coke into the ocean, along with other blunders. Even then, I had one human ally + two resident morons for AI-controlled crew. The game just gets so much easier when you have allies that will actually shoot in a timely manner, can use special abilities, and won't blow someone away with their unsilenced rifle when you're trying to knock them out quietly.

There was one job where we traded paintings for cash, went off simply, we walk to the escape v-This is SWAT! Hands in the air!-Massive ambush. We spend the next twenty minutes fighting for every inch of ground from the endless waves of SWAT and FBI pouring in from the roof and sides. We get confused and can't find the way out, we lose two bags of cash before we can get to the van. By then, everyone but me and Jacob got downed and arrested. We fight our way BACK through the warehouse, through the SWAT teams, with our friends being released as we do so, fight the SWAT in our spawn area, take the bags of cash back, fight our way back again and escape with all four people and all four bags.

Golden.

Payday 2.

[Itnetlolor]

Panic Attack - Dream Theater Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

I'm impressed. This sounds like a fun song to play through. Hell, I wanna try it out.

[cerapa]

Panic Attack - Dream Theater Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

My current record is 30 million on Dubsidia - Ganja Monsta, but I have a hard time replicating it since I always superbomb a millisecond after I die, rather than before.

Shiny game is shiny indeed. I usually play on 150% shinyness.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Got summoned by a rat in the Doors of Pharros, threw a lightning spear at the Primal Knight and Dog that were attacking me, then turned around and instakilled the summoner with a Sunlight Spear. Easiest Pharros Lockstone ever.

DS2

[Mego]

Panic Attack - Dream Theater Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

Yay! Dream Theater is speading!

Now try Octavarium if they have it.

I wonder if they have the whole Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory on it. If so, try that non-stop.

I was under the impression that you can load your own music from iTunes. If so, I have Part II all in one file, and will attempt it. I bought this game just to try some of Dream Theater's super-long songs. Part II and Six Degrees, specifically.

UPDATE: I beat Scenes from a Memory, but I need a wrist brace and an ice pack now.

[Akura]

Trumped Akinator with what I thought was a fairly unique and guessable character. I'm surprised, too. You'd think he would finally get it after 80 questions.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Akinator, doy. The character was Marivel from Wild Arms 2.

[MaximumZero]

Panic Attack - Dream Theater Hardcore difficulty.

Over 4 million points. Four bosses beat.

So...shiny...

Beat Hazard.

Yay! Dream Theater is speading!

Now try Octavarium if they have it.

I wonder if they have the whole Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory on it. If so, try that non-stop.

I was under the impression that you can load your own music from iTunes. If so, I have Part II all in one file, and will attempt it. I bought this game just to try some of Dream Theater's super-long songs. Part II and Six Degrees, specifically.

UPDATE: I beat Scenes from a Memory, but I need a wrist brace and an ice pack now.

You don't have to use iTunes. You can use whatever music folder you like. I love Dream Theater, and eventually, I'll try some of their longer stuff.

[Something Evil]

Be in SoO LFR, just after the Fallen Protectors. Both tanks run ahead of the healers, overpull the sha in the digsite, get killed.
Be in Arms. Charge in; switch into defensive stance and pop Shieldwall. Start doing AoE rotation to pick up threat. Get melted by adds. Eat healthstone; drink potion; OhgodI'mgoingtodie.
My healthbar is literally empty. Pop Retaliation/Die By The Sword.

I manage to hold the things off until I get support and healing. On like 300 health.



Then there's that one time I ended up legit-tanking Megaera in Arms because our offtank had just over 500k hp buffed, and was standing autoattacking the thing.

World of Warcraft.

[Greiger]

Managed to beat a crashed terror UFO full of cryssalids with only laser weapons and one wounded soldier.

Apparently cryssalids are very confused by smoke because I spent 90% of the fight in a reaction formation in the smoke around the skyranger and 6 of the 7 were perfectly content to end their turn 3 tiles from my soldiers just as they entered the smoke.  The 7th was shotgunned down inside the UFO.

...Yes I still consider this an own even though just a few days ago this same UFO resulted in a total party kill.

Open X-Com

[Graknorke]

Managed to bring my population from 10 mostly elderly people to in the 30s of healthy young adults. Turns out that you have to build houses so that the teenagers move away from home, do sex, and form babies. Then came the absurdly high population growth (like, 1/4 of the people were under the age of five) and the saving of the entire settlement. Also probably a good deal of inbreeding down the line but that's a bridge I'll pretend isn't there.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Banished.
I was so distracted by resource problems I didn't think about building houses. Oops?