The Shrine

<div style='font: 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hello everyone! This looks like a cool forum.

My name is Andrew Seidman (or Mental), and I'm a 21-year-old former college student/programmer/future college student (as soon as possible). I love computer games! Not all of them, mostly good first-person shooters, RPGs, puzzle games, and almost anything massively multiplayer. I've wanted to develop games, too, as long as I've been able to talk.

I just got a new PC, so that broke the bank enough so that I have only Tribes 2 and Unreal Tournament, and Everquest if I ever find my CD. Oh, yeah, I love console games even more if possible, but I hate the PS2 and don't own a Dreamcast.

What all is everyone playing around here? Anybody who knows about Tribes 2? Or Unreal? Are there any good console games out?

And, as an aside, have any of you ever microwaved a burrito/pizza/bunch of fishsticks while working on a computer, forgotten about them, microwaved them again, forgotten about them, and repeated this until the thing you microwaved took on the characteristics of a polymer? I was setting up my new PC today...boy oh boy...

<i>(Mental finds a table and sits back, waiting to converse or talk with - anyone!)

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<span style="background: black; color: black;">(Okay, so some of you know me. More than half of everyone wasn't here when I left, and I figured you've all been sick of my in-out-in-out attendance anyway, so I can pretty much introduce myself as a new member without any strangeness. Besides which, I pretty much am by now ;). But hello to Zeus, Sine (the man), G-Man, Crono, Gentz and too many other people to name anyway, and I hope this time that I'm back to stay and have some real involvement with y'all, or at least that I stick around for a few months anyway!)</span></div>

<div style='font: 9pt "Copperplate Gothic Light", Modern; text-align: left; '>Welcome back! I wasnt here when you left, but I have heard you mentioned time and again.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hey remember me? I'm Sine's #1 ban. :P</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Or should that be Ban #1......bah.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>Yeah, yeah... you'll be gone in a week dude. =)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Agatha, Modern; text-align: left; '>Heh. I think Brotus is right. :)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>I remember you slew your brother. Or was that Cain? You only took your brother's name for nefarious purposes. ;)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Heh! I'll prove you ALL wrong! ;)

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<span style="background: black; color: black;">By the way, I was looking over some of your old poetry the other day...never quite realized how strongly evoking it is. I really thought it was interesting.</span></div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Besides which, I meant the real subject of this thread to be: What games is everyone playing lately?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Hi there! I'm one of the frequent visitors (read: not posters) of your Aqua Demesne, just with a different nick now</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>I never really introduced myself, just kinda jumped into everyone's conversations. I'm a junior at Univ. of Arizona, majoring in Erotic Art. Well, I'm actually a Biochemistry major, but it's a lot like that...without the erotic part...or the art. Anyways, I'm a huge fan of fighters and RPGs, mainly capcom fighters and usually Square Rpgs.

I'm mainly playing games at the arcade, kinda too busy to start a new RPG. I do plan on going through Skies of Arcadia, Lunar2, Grandia2, and Breath of Fire 4, Onimusha, and ZOE this summer. I hear all of those games are pretty good. Unfortunately, I haven't played/don't play any of the games you're playing now. I'm not the FPS type.

You like console games a lot, yet don't own any of the new systems? Strange. Why do you hate the PS2 and not own a Dreamcast?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica, Modern; text-align: left; '>Doof! You forgot me... oh well, nice to see you're still alive and all.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>Hey! Very long time, no see! Wasssssssssaaaaaa!</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>Mega Man X5, Rockman and Forte (just got the Jap cart). Can't get enough Mega Man</div>

<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>what do you have against he PS2?</div>

<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Within the past 2 months:

WWF No Mercy (N64)
Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber (N64)
Shenmue (DC)
Grandia II (DC)
Madden NFL 2001 (PSX)
The Legend Of Dragoon (PSX)
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Awakening of the Dragon (PSX)
Vanguard Bandits (PSX)
Final Fantasy IX (PSX)
Tactics Ogre (PSX)
Front Mission 3 (PSX)
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete (PSX)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>How did you like Romance 6?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>-Romance of the Three Kingdoms 6 (PSX - I've easily spent 500 hours on this game since I got it last June)
-Mr. Driller (DC)
-Fire Pro Wrestling D (DC - Import) <---Fun
-NFL2k1 (DC)
-Unreal Tournament (DC)
-Smackdown 2 (PSX)
and...
-Shenmue (DC - didn't live up to my expectations)</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Skies is a beautiful, well-crafted, interesting, fun RPG that no one who considers themselves an RPG player can miss out on. Give it a try... I mean, a DC is only $99 now, and everyone should play Skies..

BTW, I have been a visitor here ever since the Aqua Desmesne was still up. I have had several name changes, and I haven't always posted regularly. I usually only visit the Gamethought forum (That's all the Aqua Desmesme used to be), and I will post if I find something interesting and reply to it, or if I have something that I want to say (not always).</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>This is The Seeker, and you pop around every time this time of year and then you're gone in a month</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>I believe I've been banned more than you</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>No, I didn't, you were the only one who laughed at my "FFVII Family Values Edition" Post way back when</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>No, I'm back for good this time! Seriously! What games are you playing?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Is the new Romance game any good/different?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Also, it has about zero games I like. I can play Tekken Tag in the arcades.

I wish they'd import DDR already...</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>WAZZZAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaab! (with tongue hanging out)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Helvetica, Modern; text-align: left; '>LOL! That brings back memories... :)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt papyrus, Modern; text-align: left; padding: 0% 15% 0% 15%; '>You may have been asking Kent but, as the resident RTK nut, I feel obliged to answer.
Quite a few changed from past versions, too... more troop types, no need to train troops, seven short scenarios (ranging anywhere from 6 months to 3 years) along with seven standard scenarios, and new exent sequences (showing important scenes from the novel, but most are VERY hard to get).

Infinite replayability... I've been playing it at a steady rate for almost a year now.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah but who was banned first?</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>Re: consoles - Because I don't like the software libraries for either one really much. I'm definitely a mascot platformer these days. RPGs seem to be in a rut now - no innvations in the combat system or plot, and they take too boring long. Sonic/Mario/Zelda/Metroid (and FF, I guess), also rhythm and puzzle games, are up my alley, and I just don't know any good ones for the new systems. Oh - I like fighters, too, but not enough to want to buy Tekken Tag or MvC 3 when I can play them at the arcades if I want. ;)

Erotic Art, hmmm? I'll have to see if my college of choice has an Erotic Art major... ;)</div>

<div style='font: 14pt Modern; text-align: left; '>I used to post every once in a while at Aqua D, then continued to post after AD evolved into TOWS. Not playing any new games right now, too strapped for cash. Instead I'm playing through Star Ocean 2 and Final Fantasy 7 again. Other than that, I'm hardly playing games at all. Later-J 1999</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Garamond, Modern; text-align: left; '>Welcome home...</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Arial bold", Modern; text-align: left; '>Waaaaassssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>WAAAAAA Zzzzzzaaaaaaab!!!!!!! (mouth open wide enough to cacth horseflies)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: justify; padding: 0% 8% 0% 8%; '>That actually means a lot to me! ;) (Whatever hospitality I still have to give, I extend it to you too!)</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>You, but what exactly were you banned for again?</div>

<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>i play it on and off, every month or so i would conquer all of China in two or three days.</div>

<div style='font: bold 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>that's why i don't have one but i wouldn't say i hate it.</div>