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Chubby Henparty
Aug 13, 2007


My complete goldbox run was superlame 'biffo, pally, thiffo, wizzo, rangi' , and errr clermage?

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Big Mad Drongo
Nov 10, 2006

Ever since I played Exile 2 as a kid, I've named all my archers/rangers or cat people Bobbawitz Howard, because that is what I called my Nephil in that game.

I have no idea what I was thinking or if that name references anything/is simply a demon conjured from my 10-year-old brain, but it's so bizarre and pervasive in my memories that it had to come from SOMEWHERE.

Air Skwirl
May 13, 2007

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Big Mad Drongo posted:

Ever since I played Exile 2 as a kid, I've named all my archers/rangers or cat people Bobbawitz Howard, because that is what I called my Nephil in that game.

I have no idea what I was thinking or if that name references anything/is simply a demon conjured from my 10-year-old brain, but it's so bizarre and pervasive in my memories that it had to come from SOMEWHERE.

Howitzer artillery guns maybe?

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
It sounds funny when applied to a giant talking cat. What other reason does a ten year old kid need?

Kuros
Sep 13, 2010

Oh look, the consequences of my prior actions are finally catching up to me.
"Into the arena walks the deadliest Nephil known to everyone in Avernum... MITTENS!!!!!!"

90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:
When I need to name a party or group, guild or whatever, I tend to call it Kittens.

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

OK why is there a £16 new version of Geneforge 1 which looks functionally identical to the original lol

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
It's a full remake in a new engine with new graphics, some new content and creature types that were only introduced in later games.

Nancy
Nov 23, 2005



Young Orc
Yeah Vogel's been doing remake/updates to his older games in between new game releases and personally I appreciate him for it. They're not mindblowingly different but the new QoL stuff and larger viewport is nice.

I want him to do Nethergate sometime.

JustJeff88
Jan 15, 2008

I AM
CONSISTENTLY
ANNOYING
...
JUST TERRIBLE


THIS BADGE OF SHAME IS WORTH 0.45 DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCES

:dogout:
of SA-Mart forever

Charles Get-Out posted:

Yeah Vogel's been doing remake/updates to his older games in between new game releases and personally I appreciate him for it. They're not mindblowingly different but the new QoL stuff and larger viewport is nice.

I want him to do Nethergate sometime.

Apparently Vogel gave up on Nethergate because the setting was just too unpopular/esoteric/specialised to appeal to people, which is a shame because I like it. I can understand retiring a franchise due to lack of popularity, as unfortunate as that is, but I will never understand why he pretends that the original Nethergate doesn't exist when he has plenty of properties that he has remade - in some cases, twice.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
In the end, he's only one man and he has to prioritize what projects he should put his development efforts into - and if he wants to put food on the table, that tends to mean the ones that actually sell.

atholbrose
Feb 28, 2001

Splish!

JustJeff88 posted:

Apparently Vogel gave up on Nethergate because the setting was just too unpopular/esoteric/specialised to appeal to people, which is a shame because I like it. I can understand retiring a franchise due to lack of popularity, as unfortunate as that is, but I will never understand why he pretends that the original Nethergate doesn't exist when he has plenty of properties that he has remade - in some cases, twice.

You can download the original Nethergate from the Spiderweb Software web site for free.

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

how was Queen's Wish anyway? For being fairly "high profile" as Vogel games go, with a successful kickstarter and everything, I neve really see anyone talk about it. I've probably asked this before.

But yeah anything which means he's focusing on his good games as opposed to the weird Bioware-esque turn he went with in Avadon is welcome lol

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
The Spiderweb thread seemed to like it, although nearly everyone can agree that for all the graphics are technically more high-res than most of his games, it is incredibly ugly.

GreenNight
Feb 19, 2006
Turning the light on the darkest places, you and I know we got to face this now. We got to face this now.

Queens Wish is a better Avadon but he did some weird gameplay directions that I'm not a fan of. I still think Avernum is his best games.

Tendales
Mar 9, 2012
Queen's Wish is in this strange position where mechanically, it's probably the most approachable Spiderweb title for a new player, but visually very likely to be offputting to people that aren't used to Vogel's budget aesthetic.

I do like that Vogel keeps his different franchises mechanically distinct. Even if they're all recognizably his style of game, they're also different enough from each other that you feel like you're not just repeating the same game experience in different locations. This might be one of the reasons he's not in any rush to bring back Nethergate, incidentally; it doesn't have as much to distinguish itself from Avernum.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Tendales posted:

Queen's Wish is in this strange position where mechanically, it's probably the most approachable Spiderweb title for a new player, but visually very likely to be offputting to people that aren't used to Vogel's budget aesthetic.
It's honestly kinda offputting even to a lot of people who are used to his aesthetic. It just doesn't look good.

Nancy
Nov 23, 2005



Young Orc
His isometric tile set just looks way better than the 3/4ths one he used for QW.

Also realized yesterday when rummaging for my old Spiderweb discs that Nethergate got a remake already! Totally forgot that Nethergate Resurrection was A Thing.

JustJeff88
Jan 15, 2008

I AM
CONSISTENTLY
ANNOYING
...
JUST TERRIBLE


THIS BADGE OF SHAME IS WORTH 0.45 DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCES

:dogout:
of SA-Mart forever

atholbrose posted:

You can download the original Nethergate from the Spiderweb Software web site for free.

I just double-checked, and I don't see it. If you can find it please, by all means, link it for me, but all I see is 'We have a better version of Nethergate!', as always.

As Thuryl can substantiate, I got in a tiny bit of trouble a few years ago for sharing Nethergate the First on the SW forums.

Weedle
May 31, 2006




the original nethergate is gone since it was a 16-bit windows app and doesn't work on modern systems. they'll send you a copy if you have an original license but otherwise it's resurrection or bust

JustJeff88
Jan 15, 2008

I AM
CONSISTENTLY
ANNOYING
...
JUST TERRIBLE


THIS BADGE OF SHAME IS WORTH 0.45 DOUBLE DRAGON ADVANCES

:dogout:
of SA-Mart forever

Weedle posted:

the original nethergate is gone since it was a 16-bit windows app and doesn't work on modern systems. they'll send you a copy if you have an original license but otherwise it's resurrection or bust

Incorrect. All of the Exile games, including Blades, were 16-bit, but Nethergate was the first game that was 32-bit and will run on a 64-bit OS. I have tested this on Win7x64 and Win10x64, and I have a confirmation e-mail from Spiderweb when they sent me the game.

Dr. Quarex
Apr 18, 2003

I'M A BIG DORK WHO POSTS TOO MUCH ABOUT CONVENTIONS LOOK AT THIS

TOVA TOVA TOVA

Libluini posted:

You are all heartless monsters.

I like to name my characters after nerve toxins, poisons and evil godesses.
I was thinking I had already been mocked for this here, but then I realized I posted about this in the MS-DOS Gaming group on Facebook once upon a time, not here

Inspired by a guy running a tabletop game where he asked us to choose a character we had played from a previous game, and me concurrently digging up a sheet of potential character names I wrote up in 7th grade study hall, I started compiling a text file of every character name I could remember using in an RPG (mostly CRPG but also tabletop-exclusive names). I still use it ~20 years later, both when I come up with a name I find worth remembering and when I want to go back and use a name I do not actually remember using anymore.

I did not count, but paging down through the file suggests I have used about 400 unique character names, and it really makes me wonder where I went wrong, considering it seems like literally no-one else actually wastes their time this way

Which reminds me I should update it with my ill-fated Wasteland Let's Play party, though "Ace Creamcone, P.I." was the only truly precious name to come from that project

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

I have an extensive list of character names mostly stored in my head which I generally come up with on the spot and/or when drunk. Not a character exactly but I still don't remember why my Slay the Spire profile/character is called "clumps!"

inscrutable horse
May 20, 2010

Parsing sage, rotating time



Dr. Quarex posted:

Which reminds me I should update it with my ill-fated Wasteland Let's Play party, though "Ace Creamcone, P.I." was the only truly precious name to come from that project
To be fair, it's an extremely good one. Reminds me of my brother's weird, faux-zen names, like One Egg Shoe, Gumdropper Egg Winds, and Egg Oceansong. I've never dared to ask him about eggs.

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Dr. Quarex posted:

I was thinking I had already been mocked for this here, but then I realized I posted about this in the MS-DOS Gaming group on Facebook once upon a time, not here

Inspired by a guy running a tabletop game where he asked us to choose a character we had played from a previous game, and me concurrently digging up a sheet of potential character names I wrote up in 7th grade study hall, I started compiling a text file of every character name I could remember using in an RPG (mostly CRPG but also tabletop-exclusive names). I still use it ~20 years later, both when I come up with a name I find worth remembering and when I want to go back and use a name I do not actually remember using anymore.

I did not count, but paging down through the file suggests I have used about 400 unique character names, and it really makes me wonder where I went wrong, considering it seems like literally no-one else actually wastes their time this way

Which reminds me I should update it with my ill-fated Wasteland Let's Play party, though "Ace Creamcone, P.I." was the only truly precious name to come from that project

That's not something I could do, my bad memory and my habit of reusing names I really like (I've made so many women characters named "Sarin" or "Pyre Thrine" it's getting weird), I'd probably hard pressed to ever get even 1/4th that many names.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Libluini posted:

(I've made so many women characters named "Sarin" or "Pyre Thrine" it's getting weird)
Naming all your female characters after toxic compounds miiiiiight speak of some light issues, yes.

Libluini
May 18, 2012

I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...
Grimey Drawer

Cardiovorax posted:

Naming all your female characters after toxic compounds miiiiiight speak of some light issues, yes.

Heh. My male characters tend to be boring and with mostly zero personality. Sometimes I can't even bring myself to revive them.

And I stopped making male characters for action RPGs because I tended to get so bored with them, after a few hours in I would just let the monsters have them and stop playing

andrew smash
Jun 26, 2006

smooth soul
I name all my guys Flavius Brosephus provided the name field allows enough characters

Genpei Turtle
Jul 20, 2007

Interesting how naming after toxic/disease stuff is a thing. My go-to name for any character that's an evil mage archetype is Pox Goregargle.

But overall I'm really bad at thinking up creative names and go to one of the myriad name generators online until I get something that doesn't sound completely stupid.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
Are you the guy who does the naming for World of Warcraft NPCs? Because man, that could've been one.

Hannibal Rex
Feb 13, 2010

Genpei Turtle posted:

Pox Goregargle.

I killed that guy in Diablo so many times.

FuzzySlippers
Feb 6, 2009

I've always gone with characters from bad fantasy novels. It's doesn't take any time and I can remember their class easily. Though I had someone ask why a wizard is named Pug (wtf was with Feist on that name?).

The real struggle is online games where you can't do that and I want to come up with something clever. I am amused when I log back into WoW that I have characters with W era joke names.

Lunchmeat Larry
Nov 3, 2012

My Elder Scrolls Online character was called Aftertug Sobbins and I got a lot of questions, though less so than with my brief second character, the Argonian Chugs-in-Tesco

Genpei Turtle
Jul 20, 2007

Lunchmeat Larry posted:

My Elder Scrolls Online character was called Aftertug Sobbins

OK, this made me laugh out loud. I've really got to step up my game in naming after seeing this.

I find it easier to make creative names when the characters are more specialized and you can make the names fit. TOME4 has been a good game for this for me; I mentioned Pox Goregargle, which originally came from a disease/blood-based Corruptor, but also Secretus Flemm (Oozemancer), Halle Tosissa (Wyrmic) and Urnott Reelgh (Solipsist). It's harder to come up with dumb puns for ordinary fighter/mage/cleric/thief archetypes.

Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010

Big Mad Drongo posted:

a demon conjured from my 10-year-old brain
Last year I played Gloomhaven with my pals and after clearing a few scenarios with undead voted to name our party the Boner Killers (accepted unanimously). Silly humor doesn't pass with age, it can only mutate into dad jokes.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Genpei Turtle posted:

thief archetypes.
Grubbin Smash.

Nancy
Nov 23, 2005



Young Orc
I got a new game in the mail.




Definitely one of the dumbest things I've bought, especially because I haven't finished Wiz I yet.

Cardiovorax
Jun 5, 2011

I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.
That's one pretty box, though.

Weedle
May 31, 2006




that cardboard texture... i want to touch it ;_;

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Pierzak
Oct 30, 2010
I think I remember GOG using some weird DOSBox version in a few releases that allowed save states. Anyone know what that was and where to get it?

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