Nashrakh Posts

Do it in 24 hours then? :P

As already mentioned, Team Fortress 2 should definitely be on your radar if it isn't already.

For cheaper, more compelling games, I'd say Left 4 Dead and its sequel, Super Meat Boy, Civilization V, Magicka and Pineapple Smash Crew are just a handful of games that I've had difficulty tearing myself away from. Especially Civ V, which is a MASSIVE timesink - you'll hardly notice you've just spent five hours playing the thing. Bring friends, though, for L4D and Magicka, but definitely they're just a handful of hard-to-put-down games I've come across.

You also might want to consider an RPG like Dragon Age, Witcher 2 etc., the sort of story-driven, compelling nature of those games being perfect for extended play. And they tend to last into the 100s of hours, too.

I can see myself getting some negative reps for this. But...well here goes.

Naruto: Broken Bond. Nothing about the story, it was about online play for me. I'm already naturally great at fighting games(and that's not arrogance, when you play fighting games and have a win/loss pattern of 10/1...that's pretty damned good) and I pride myself on being able to expertly use any character in a roster(given a couple days to get used to them) MK, DOA, SC, SF, any fighting game, give me the controls and I'll learn them. So NAruto, Broken Bond was my first ever personal online play in a game ever. I expected to get my ass kicked a couple times, and sometimes I would. But the times I would...it wouldn't be because the other player is good, it'd be because I messed up on simple mistakes.

After reaching a high ranking I got invited to join a clan. They said in order for me to join I needed to beat one of their members, and they wanted to set me up with a match. So I went for it, and sure enough, I won. I found out the clan I joined had a long standing feud with the guy at the top of the leaderboards.

After a few months of back and forths where our clan leader would fight the guy(can't remember names anymore, it's been awhile) He would have the rest of us pair up and fight each other to get better. My partner was the second best in the clan and I did...pretty well. 5 wins for every one loss. IT got to the point where he didn't want to train anymore because I was no fun to fight(his words, not mine). The clan leader got on the website and told everyone he was holding a tournament, and the dude from the leaderboards would be there to fight all of us(evidently, the guy was calling us all pansies, and claimed he could beat all of us one on one). So we had the tournament, and I won. After winning, my clan leader gave me a pep talk and told me what the guy's tactics usually were(Substitution , jump, flying eagle kick, rinse, repeat). So the other guys watched as the leaderboard guy picked Naruto, and I picked Random, and it gave me Rock Lee.

It was a best 3 out of 5 fight. The first round I lost, because I couldn't get my rhythm down. The second fight I won. After a guy does a move enough times, it's pretty easy to see it coming, and figure out what to do. As a counter to his substitution/flying eagle kick I would substitute his eagle kick, and do a quick air combo. After wining that round he got wise to my counter and starting substituting my last attack in my combo, and throwing me. So I stopped finishing the combo and instead simply would substitute the eagle kick, hit him twice, then stop, land with him, and throw him. It was 2 to 1 and he was complaining that I was 'spamming' him. So I tried something different. Instead of the same combo/throw over and over, even though it was working, I decided to do one air combo counter, combined with a throw, and then I did Lee's jutsu(essentially getting super speed and strength at the cost of draining life). After I did this I started hitting him with Lee's combos, without finishing them. I'd stop a combo, then start a different combo before it finished. I didn't get to end the fight because when I had him at a 10th health, he quit.

After that I decided to quit while I was ahead and simply stopped playing the game altogether(once you beat the leader on the boards and the game, and have figured out how to use everyone...what's the point?). So I stopped playing, after having proven I was better than the best.

As a bit of a continuum to that story, I got online for a bit when I rented Ninja Storm. I met the leaderboard guy again...beat him with Gaara. He refused to play me again after that, and simply sent me a one word text message over live, "Spammer."

It felt nice.