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I believe the abandoned MMO you're thinking of was Mythic's Imperator? http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/imperator/558621p1.html
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BungMonkey posted:There's ahl_endlrainhc, ahl_endlraindc, and ahl_er2. Yeah, looking through Bobthejanitor's screenshots the one I was remembering was HC.
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Dec 14, 2011 23:39
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Speaking of mythical, non-existant betas, there is one thing related to pokemon that I remember reading about way back when, that I don't remember being mentioned. In a nutshell, when the player completes the Nugget Bridge in Red/Green/Blue, he's given an option to join Team Rocket. In the final version, the player automatically says no, and fights the Team Rocket grunt. The original plan was that the player would be given an option to join Team Rocket, with an actual "Yes/No" prompt. If the player declined, the game would play out as it does in the final version, but if he accepted, some events would change. The actual progression would be the same, but who the player fights would change. One example was that as a member of Team Rocket, you would fight Silph Co Scientists instead of Team Rocket Grunts when you go to Silph Co. The actual pokemon that they carry would be the same, just that the sprite and pre/post-fight text would have changed. Other changes was that people would be fighting you to try to stop Team Rocket instead of randomly fighting a random 10 year old who happened to be wandering by, and Team Rocket members would challenge you just to see how good you were. The main reason why this plan was scrapped was they had problems getting the proper fights/text to trigger for the side you were on, and it was easy to "sequence break" the game with trading pokemon between cartridges, resulting in the game not setting the "Faction" flag. The game would default to you being on Team Rocket for some maps, while defaulting to you being against Team Rocket for others. Eventually they just cut out the Team Rocket Member content and removed the "Yes/No" dialogue box so you had to fight Team Rocket.
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Dec 15, 2011 08:29
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Randalor posted:Speaking of mythical, non-existant betas I have one too that has been driving me a bit nuts for years now. It was some sort of FPS with emphasis on weapon modding, collecting and timetraveling. It boasted with over 200 different weapons and fuckload of accessories from Napoleonic Wars to modern day. All I can remember that is was back in like 2008-2009, they had this heavy flash site of a old manor in thunderstorm that you could travel in and check info about the game. You were in some secret bureau or something to do with time travelling and being timecop or something. They had videos about the weapon hall of game, modding your guns and gameplay circa 1st Desert Storm of some bazaar firefight and it looked pretty impressive at its time. Then it just dissappared from the internet.
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Dec 15, 2011 10:20
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Nebelwerfer posted:I have one too that has been driving me a bit nuts for years now. It was some sort of FPS with emphasis on weapon modding, collecting and timetraveling. It boasted with over 200 different weapons and fuckload of accessories from Napoleonic Wars to modern day. All I can remember that is was back in like 2008-2009, they had this heavy flash site of a old manor in thunderstorm that you could travel in and check info about the game. You were in some secret bureau or something to do with time travelling and being timecop or something. They had videos about the weapon hall of game, modding your guns and gameplay circa 1st Desert Storm of some bazaar firefight and it looked pretty impressive at its time. Then it just dissappared from the internet. Can't remember the name, but pretty sure these guys got absorbed into the Second Life programming team.
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Dec 15, 2011 12:35
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Nebelwerfer posted:I have one too that has been driving me a bit nuts for years now. It was some sort of FPS with emphasis on weapon modding, collecting and timetraveling. It boasted with over 200 different weapons and fuckload of accessories from Napoleonic Wars to modern day. All I can remember that is was back in like 2008-2009, they had this heavy flash site of a old manor in thunderstorm that you could travel in and check info about the game. You were in some secret bureau or something to do with time travelling and being timecop or something. They had videos about the weapon hall of game, modding your guns and gameplay circa 1st Desert Storm of some bazaar firefight and it looked pretty impressive at its time. Then it just dissappared from the internet. Do you mean Darkest of Days? I'm sure that came out. It wasn't the best but it was pretty fun gunning down confederates with an assault rifle
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Dec 15, 2011 12:47
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After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby. You can read it here. I'd transcript it here but it relies on images for immersion. Please, let me know what you think 
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I liked it, it was a good balance of 'could just be part of the game' and 'wtf is going on' weirdness that made it genuinely creepy. Listening to the music you posted in the background as I read really helped the atmosphere too. Like you, I kept anticipating the AI to do something but it never happened. Great job!
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Dec 15, 2011 13:46
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I'm going to be recording some Hondo stuff today. If anyone wants in on it, bug me on Steam; http://steamcommunity.com/id/NemsMole/ Edit: In doing some research, turns out I was right about nocredit. Hondo posted here saying it ends in the last dark drowning room. Video just processing now. If I can get some people together I'll take a bash at 5AM. Shazam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-ISLGWfyo Sorry for the awful audio and naff editing. Also my horrible voice. Nemesis Of Moles fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Dec 15, 2011 |
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Dec 15, 2011 14:31
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nexus6 posted:Do you mean Darkest of Days? I'm sure that came out. It wasn't the best but it was pretty fun gunning down confederates with an assault rifle Nope, pretty it wasn't Darkest of Days because there ain't no Desert Storm e: The weapon hall was pretty much like the wall on Hitman 2, you'd have to finish the mission with weapon in your inventory to unlock for further upgrades.
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Dec 15, 2011 15:18
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Nebelwerfer posted:Nope, pretty it wasn't Darkest of Days because there ain't no Desert Storm Remember, Darkest of Days is a mere shadow of what it was supposed to be. Something to the tune of 250 levels in 15 time periods, rpg leveling, customizable squadmates and Blacklight: Tango Down style weapon customization. Why yes, I'm at Waterloo holding a belt fed BAR chambered for Napoleonic musket balls, incendiary ones at that. That's what happens when you let people design a game with "unlimited" funds before telling them that those funds are only unlimited in the sense that a flash casino game will always keep generating some ad revenue and that current stockpiles only keep a fifth of the required dev team employed for a year.
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Asehujiko posted:Remember, Darkest of Days is a mere shadow of what it was supposed to be. Something to the tune of 250 levels in 15 time periods, rpg leveling, customizable squadmates and Blacklight: Tango Down style weapon customization. Goddamnit, I'm starting to believe you but it just bugs me that there's no way to make sure of it.
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Dec 15, 2011 18:02
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Obnoxious Brit posted:After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby. I couldn't lift my eyes from the page. Great work. Even though it made me feel sad. F.E.: You should embed the music.
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Dec 15, 2011 19:23
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Obnoxious Brit posted:After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby. This is really good, especially when listening to the music.
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Dec 15, 2011 20:25
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Heliotrope posted:This is really good, especially when listening to the music. Yeah. It feels less like a "haunted game" story and more like something someone would make as an anti-war statement.
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Dec 15, 2011 20:30
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Reminded me a lot of Ender's Game.
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Dec 15, 2011 20:34
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Obnoxious Brit posted:After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby.
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Dec 15, 2011 20:38
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Obnoxious Brit posted:After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby. America isn't blasting everyone to hell and back? So unrealistic. Seriously tho, good read. It sounds plausible enough to be an easter egg, while being quite creepy, especially with the music. I didn't know DEFCON had such a cool OST.
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Dec 15, 2011 20:55
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Honestly, the only really odd part about it is the lack of any form of defence at all. I mean, it would only make sense to have SOME sort of defence, even if it was just anti-nuke defence. As it is, it sounds almost like someone made a mod/patch where they could relieve stress by nuking everything that isn't them, and you somehow ended up with it.
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Dec 15, 2011 21:02
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm going to be recording some Hondo stuff today. If anyone wants in on it, bug me on Steam; Pretty cool! Good work.
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Dec 15, 2011 21:08
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm going to be recording some Hondo stuff today. If anyone wants in on it, bug me on Steam; No, no, no. It was great. Everything. Thanks.
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Dec 15, 2011 21:54
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Thanks guys. I'll get another one out tomorrow probably. I got halfway through Endless Rain 2 a bit ago but then AHL crashed and FRAPS corrupted my videos and 
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Dec 15, 2011 22:28
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Sods Law posted:I believe the abandoned MMO you're thinking of was Mythic's Imperator? It's a shame they did Warhammer instead of this.
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Dec 15, 2011 22:36
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm going to be recording some Hondo stuff today. If anyone wants in on it, bug me on Steam; That was great, thank you for uploading it! I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of Hondo's secrets.
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:Edit: In doing some research, turns out I was right about nocredit. Hondo posted here saying it ends in the last dark drowning room. Hondo probably wants us to forget the (unfinished?) actual ending. There's a switch at the bottom of the third dark pool that's fairly difficult to hit. The last room is rather anti-climactic and it's probably not worth recording video for. BobTheJanitor posted:For the people struggling through ahl_5am, there's this ancient guide which will tell you pretty much everything you need to do to get in to the 5 o'clock room. The guy never figured out how to get past there, and I don't know if anyone has ever solved whether you can get in to 9 o'clock or not. Back in the day, SUparJErk emailed a link to that guide to Hondo and got "I hope you get run over by a bus" in response. pre:12/14/2011 - 20:21:48: <BungMonkey> BobTheJanitor helped get that thread hijack going. 12/14/2011 - 20:22:01: <Varinger> Bob! 12/14/2011 - 20:22:03: <Varinger> I miss him :( 12/14/2011 - 20:22:10: <Varinger> He never played after the DoD went down :(
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Nebelwerfer posted:Nope, pretty it wasn't Darkest of Days because there ain't no Desert Storm Are you talking about Alliance: The Silent War? It was indeed being developed by some team that went into doing stuff for Second Life to pay the bills; it was intended to be like the Gran Turismo of shooting things, with you having loads of realistic guns ranging from 1916-2000s, and a conspiracy angle taking you through the different time periods. They apparently want to finish it nowadays, with the advent of alphafunding and online-distribution like Steam making it easier to push out a small title.
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Dec 16, 2011 02:34
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Nemesis Of Moles posted:I'm going to be recording some Hondo stuff today. If anyone wants in on it, bug me on Steam; This is awesome and I request more. How many maps did Hondo make that had secrets?
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Liku posted:This is awesome and I request more. How many maps did Hondo make that had secrets? A handful, as far as I know; Nocredit 5am endlessrain2 Block War HdHouse Heres a download link for the maps he's done. I dont think Cliff2Snow has a secret, and I'm not sure about HDhouse either. Also for comedy value, here's a thread with a poor fella confused about the gender and identity of Hondo, based on an image he remembers from one of his maps. http://www.hlfallout.net/topic/30799-anybody-know-hondo/
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Edit: ^^^^ HDHouse does, cliff2snow does not, since it was a remake of someone else's map. BungMonkey posted:
Heh. Yeah well, not a lot of people playing AHL any more. I think the dev team killed the community themselves when they decided that instead of going to HL2 that UT2K3 was the future. Good to see that some of the old school are still around and kicking. We just need someone to track Hondo down and buy him a forum account and then slap him until he coughs up all the secrets of the old maps.
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Hondo actually had an SA account. Way back in the day. edit: boink http://forums.somethingawful.com/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=50689
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As interesting as the Hondo stuff is, can we perhaps move on to another topic? It gets tiring after seeing 7 or 8 pages on it.
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HonorableTB posted:As interesting as the Hondo stuff is, can we perhaps move on to another topic? It gets tiring after seeing 7 or 8 pages on it.
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HonorableTB posted:As interesting as the Hondo stuff is, can we perhaps move on to another topic? It gets tiring after seeing 7 or 8 pages on it. I vote we move onto Hondo's cats.
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NovaPolice posted:Are you talking about Alliance: The Silent War? It was indeed being developed by some team that went into doing stuff for Second Life to pay the bills; it was intended to be like the Gran Turismo of shooting things, with you having loads of realistic guns ranging from 1916-2000s, and a conspiracy angle taking you through the different time periods. Holy loving poo poo that was like ten ton boulder off my mind, thanks man!
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Dick Burglar posted:Also known as "adventure game logic." It's so intentionally obscure and acausal, I'd be more inclined to call it Tower of Druaga Logic. 
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jvempire posted:Or maybe someone should make a thread for it. The Hondo stuff is very interesting, and I liked Nemesis Of Moles video too. Yeah maybe that would be best, I can knock up a thread for it in a little while, maybe after I get er2 done.
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Some of these videogame stories intrigued me so I searched for some random ones to read which was a big mistake. I've read about six or so and every single one without exception has the following:
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Yeah, alot of the creepypasta video game stories have a "Me too!" vibe, where someone read a good one, and tried to imitate it. The Creepy Pasta wikia has some good VG ones. It's where I read the good pokemon and Link's Awakening ones first.
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Obnoxious Brit posted:After the talk of the do's and don'ts of scary videogame stories, I decided to try my hand at one myself since I'd really like to do writing more often as a hobby. This was nicely done.
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Dr. Dos posted:This was nicely done. Agreed, quite nicely done.
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