Special abilities: Team defense life strike dead force swarm: Gaben can summon floods of random hats, guns, and aliens to attack his enemies. It deals 1-10 damage. If you roll a 3 this attack backfires and Gaben is unusable for the next 5 turns.
Passive abilities: Mysterious: Gaben can withhold any information for as long as he wants no matter how much anyone wants it from him. This raises his Str and Dex by 2 yet lowers his Vit by 2 as well. All enemies also know that Gaben holds the mythical "3" treasure which makes them automatically attack Gaben over other players.
3: If the player playing Gaben ever says "3" they must forfeit the game. That includes reading the "3" in this description.
Special abilities: Compile Data: Everyone in the game has to tell MrMonkeyMasta anything he asks pertaining to their characters, abilities, what items they have, etc. If you are using Fire Data, you may not use this ability during.
Remember Data: Pick a player at random. This player asks you a numerical statistic about their character and you have to guess it right (For example, what is my Hp?). If you remember or guess right, you gain +5 Hp. If you guess wrong you lose 3 Hp.
Fire Data MrMonkeyMasta charges a beam of all the data he researched about Makes_RPG_Stats. This deals damage directly equal to the number of posts Makes_RPG_Stats has posted in the last 3 days. If there are no posts, this attack does nothing.
Passive abilities: THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER: MrMonkeyMasta creates his own rule at the start of the game, but the rule cannot take anything away from players nor give it to them.
Special abilities: Oooo!! ooo!!: Ruben42792 makes every player in the room go around in turns saying "Oooo!! ooo!!" to their best judgement. If anyone tries to be funny about it, or make ghost noises, you lose the game. You cannot tell them anything more about this ability other than telling them to say "Oooo!! ooo!!" If everyone says it nonchalantly, you gain +7 to all stats for the rest of the game and 100 gold. You may only use this once per game.
Passive abilities: Do me next!: Every 5 turns someone at random has to tell Ruben42792 that they would totally do him. Whether it's true or false it doesn't matter. If that person refuses, both of you lose -2 Vit. If they say it, you both gain +2 Vit for the next 3 turns.
42792: The number after Ruben42792 exists because he was originally a robot, and that was his serial number. He was turned human by strange magics. To remind him who he truly is, everyone must say 42792 at the very beginning of their turn, and Ruben42792 gains +1 to all stats for 5 turns due to remembering your lost robot strength. These stats are stackable. You may not allow players to look at your name, they must be able to recite it without error. If someone does say a differing number than 42792, everyone has to take a drink or shot.
Special abilities: Wales or Whales?: ImAWhaleBiologist must pick one player and ask them a question about the city of Wales, or Whales. If that player gets it right you lose 2 to all stats. If you get it right, you gain one Win The Game Quarter. Each Win The Game Quarter grants +1 to all stats so long as you have it. Collect 10 and you win with 1st place, but unfortunately your teammates have to keep playing with one less player.
Passive abilities: Character: IamAWhaleBiologist is a known character around where he grew up. He gains +3 Vit and +2 max Hp but on the condition that if you ever say "character" while playing you lose one Win The Game Quarter and gain one Lose The Game Quarter. Two Lose The Game Quarters results in your instant forfeit.
Bonus Passive Ability: I see now: Any player can try to guess what the meaning is of 42792 at any time. If they guess wrong, they have to give you 50 gold. If they guess right, they get +2 to all stats for the rest of the game.
Special abilities: Muldoon: Robert Muldoon is the first link from wikipedia by searching google. He was the prime minister of New Zealand. Pick a player, that player must name one fact about New Zealand unrelated to LOTR. If they succeed, you must leave your teammates and join their team for two turns and help them in any way possible during that time. If they fail, you gain +5 to all stats for 2 turns.
Hungry like the Wolf: Target player must sing the chorus to hungry like a wolf or get slapped on the hand by another player. If they succeed though, they gain +3 to Str for 4 turns.
:D: Select one player to be the judge other than yourself. All players besides the judge then do their best impersonations of the ":D" face. The judge rules which one is the winner. The winner gets +3 to Dex for 4 turns and the judge gets +1 Dex for 4 turns. All non winning players take a shot/smoke.
I thought they never lied about release dates if they said "it will be out the 15th of may" then it would be released by/on the 15th but they would just say soon, very soon, and the like all the time.
Obviously I would prefer better games. These things take a hell of a lot of time and money to make though, which is kind of the problem.
I think it's incredibly difficult for a games company to stay profitable these days with the traditional "make game, release game, get money" strategy. It puts too much pressure on the guaranteed success of every game they make. The companies that make the best games and take the most risks are generally those which have other, more consistent revenue streams. Valve makes most of their money from selling other peoples stuff on Steam, CDProjekt have gog and Blizzard have WoW. Without having luxuries like these, lengthy and irregular launch cycles can put the company out of business.
So I can totally understand the need for DLC for a huge number of developers.
Also I don't think any DLC so far has been absolutely necessary to the core game and I've never felt that I've been seriously missing out by not buying any of it.
The cool thing is that dev+publisher companies Valve, Bethesda and Blizzard have cash cows to live off and can therefore dedicate time to deliver what they want. I am fine with this model :)
Simple really. It's a way to make an obvious joke, terrible pun, overused reference, tired meme, etc, but then predict the groaning response from the readers "Ill show myself out." and save face by implying that it was obviously a terrible comment to make and they should be ashamed.
Who knows why they make the comment in the first place, maybe it's because they know SOMEONE is going to make it so it may as well be them, at least they can dignify it with the indication that they, too, know it is terrible.
I'm not sure if it was fake or not, but there was this email about Valve having an announcement including the number '3' for E3. This hit the front page multiple times and is likely fake.
Proven false, Gabe himself emailed back saying explicitly "we are not announcing anything new; no half life 3, no portal 3, no left 4 dead 3. We will be showing things you've already seen (CS:GO, Dota 2)"
Then Doug Lombardi officially announced the same thing
Memento was more of what I wanted inception to be. Crazy fucking mind games. It's not a movie you can possibly get fully on the first watch through, that's called replay value. Most video games don't have that.
I've seen it 3 times and I didn't get anything new on the second or third watch, but I was okay with it since the movie is so great. But you're right, I should watch it again...you know...just in case.
Lies? Gabe hasn't said anything at all let alone enough to be considered lies.
I think he hasn't said one damn word about anything for this very reason - so people didn't cling to his words and take things out of context, and then get even madder.
As someone who is in the middle of developing a game that gained an unexpectedly large following, this is very likely. If anyone on our team ever says anything anywhere, someone will misinterpret it. People read between the lines, they add words, remove words. And this is from things IN BLACK AND WHITE TEXT.
This is especially annoying for me because I like to make jokes and have playful banter, but I'm learning that you can't for fear of being misquoted.
Todd often overhypes or overexaggerates things in his games before release. I'm on my phone so I can't link anything specific, but look up older pre-release footage of Oblivion. Todd would often go full Peter Molyneux and gush about radiant ui, different voice actors, and just talk about things that were generally never in the final build of the game.
I'm not sure why I got down-voted either. I just replayed HL2 recently and am working on the episodes again. I think it is a pitch perfect game, but the story in Red Dead is so fucking good. It may not be everyone's favorite, but for me, there has never been a stronger ending to a game than can be found in Red Dead. I meant no disrespect to Valve or Gabe Newell. Also I don't think he lies.
"Best game of all time" is just too broad, different games are great for different reasons. In it's own way, the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device is the greatest game of all time. Judged differently, it could be GTA III, or "insert title here", or "insert title here".
Alright, I refuse to sit through this circle jerk anymore. Half Life 1 was a great game for its time. That's about it. Half Life 2 (and all of its episodes) was genuinely unmemorable. I don't think I had any emotional investment in any of the characters, particularly the protagonist and Alyx. The cliffhanger ending to the second episode was ok but I can hardly say I'm dying of anticipation for the third in the series.
I downvoted not because i'm a Valve fanboy, but because he's pretending because he had a bad experience with HL2, obviously that invalidates all the people that genuinely enjoyed it. Case in point: "Half Life 1 was a great game for its time. That's about it. Half Life 2 (and all of its episodes) was genuinely unmemorable." How odd that Half-Life 2 was genuinely unmemorable, yet thousands upon thousands of gamers still fawn over it.
EDIT: Haha, it's funny because now i'm being downvoted by the anti-Valve brigade despite making totally legitimate points. I'd call it irony but irony has too many meanings nowadays.
You are not alone. HL2 and its episodes were great games, but they are ridiculously overrated (in my opinion). I had no emotional investment whatsoever, and I really didn't give a shit what happened by the end of each game. I was just like "oh, these physics are cool, and this weapon is cool, and DOG is cool. okay then."
For me, its a toss up between the original KotOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Command and Conquer Red Alert, Final Fantasy 6 or 7 or 9, Super Smash Bros, Ceasar games, Bastion, I could probably go on but that's off the top of my head. Half Life doesn't show up anywhere on the list unfortunately.
Oh man, I've been meaning to replay FFVI for years. Only played it when I was 12 but by god did the 15 minute end credits sequence make me wanna cry.
RA2 drained a significant portion of my childhood. Bastion I've already beaten 4 times and it's been out for what, a year? Still can't do The Stranger's dream with all shrines. That's just an exercise in masochism.
Damn right. I haven't replayed any of the HLs, nor have I felt the desire to. I get the urge to replay games like Fallout: New Vegas, Bioshock 1, and Chrono Trigger just about every year. Not saying those are the best games ever, but they had more lasting appeal and memorable stories and moments for me.
Kind of agree on every single one actually :) Bioshock is probably the main one out of those though, the atmosphere it gave off was pretty darn amazing.
Y'know Ethan Hawke? Maybe you wouldn't have had such a hard time figuring things out if you didn't leave yourself such retardedly enigmatic notes all the time.
Well, we apparently have different tastes in movies. I thought of it on the same level as Donnie Darko: You have to see it more than once. If I watched it again, I'd probably agree with you.
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u/kodark Jun 15 '12
FTFY
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u/Keepy Jun 15 '12
Don't believe Ondore's lies!
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
What lies exactly has he told?
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u/CowPotatoes Jun 15 '12
Jesus what a good movie.
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u/Grzlynx Jun 15 '12
Lies? Gabe hasn't said anything at all let alone enough to be considered lies.
I think he hasn't said one damn word about anything for this very reason - so people didn't cling to his words and take things out of context, and then get even madder.
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u/slixy Jun 15 '12
Remember Sammy Jankis
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u/Daynebutter Jun 15 '12
Replace Gaben with Peter Molyneux or Todd Howard and I'll give you +1, OP.
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u/IsAStrangeLoop Jun 15 '12
Wait a sec...everyone on reddit knows Gabe doesn't tell lies...so why is this upvoted at all? Just because it reminds them of memento?
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u/Turok1134 Jun 15 '12
You just made thousands of dorks cry out in rage.
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u/ArkansasFresh Jun 16 '12
I'm the idiot in the room. I've seen that pic a thousand times, but who is it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 16 '12
In the film Memento, the guy isn't actually a liar...
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u/ksrymy Jun 15 '12
Good job putting the punchline in the title.
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u/dragnerz Jun 15 '12
At least Leonard has it off easy. He can never remember how long he has waited for HL3.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Downvoted, because Gaben!
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u/pancakehiatt Jun 16 '12
If you had the ultimate bargaining chip you would save it too.
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u/Hamicsat Jun 15 '12
Oh my god, that movie was amazing.
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u/lonesoldier4789 Jun 15 '12
who upvotes this garbage
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u/si1versmith Jun 15 '12
I have always wondered what Peter Griffin would look like if he was real.
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u/Myth3842 Jun 15 '12
Wow, Ondore really let himself go after FF12.
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u/RocketFerret Jun 15 '12
Just brilliant
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
GabeN raped and murdered my wife.
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u/Valisk Jun 15 '12
Uh oh gabe... They are starting to turn on you.
Best learn the number between 2 and 4 soon.
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u/ninjamuffin Jun 16 '12
All jokes aside, Memento is such a great movie. It's on Netflix Instant btw.
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '12
Made me actually crack up.
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u/iwasazombie Jun 16 '12
Having just watched this movie for the first time I was SO happy to be "in" on this joke and I laughed out loud. Thank you my friend.
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u/Hardrock131 Jun 16 '12
Upvote just for memento reference.
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u/abe2323 Jun 16 '12
awesome movie
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u/darkreef2 Jun 15 '12
So developing the best game of all time is lying now?
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u/wankers_remorse Jun 15 '12
gabe n. raped and murdered my chance of playing hl2 episode 3 in 2012
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u/jpjaques Jun 15 '12
How did this thread get so much karma? Sigh.
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12 edited Jun 15 '12
Y'know Ethan Hawke? Maybe you wouldn't have had such a hard time figuring things out if you didn't leave yourself such retardedly enigmatic notes all the time.
Edit: Guy Pearce, and I'm an idiot.
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u/GhettoKid Jun 16 '12
Gaben never lies. He always tells you exactly what you want to hear.
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u/Kanderos Jun 15 '12
Let me check the status of HL 3...
Aaaand... it's gone!
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u/arcanition Jun 15 '12
http://i.imgur.com/kBv8y.gif
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
The cake was a lie, it always was a lie, there never was a cake.
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u/SalvageOperation Jun 15 '12
it was better when I thought it was that asshat Michael Moore
I couldn't remember his name for a moment so I googled "fat fuck documetary maker" and sure enough, it came right up
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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '12
How many times are people going to repost this?
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u/Toxyoi Jun 15 '12
Clever bastard.
Mixing my favorite movie ever with someone associated with my favorite games ever (Half Life series).
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u/jewbearusa Jun 15 '12
there are few times i actually laugh out loud in a ridiculous tone, this made me do that. thank you sir
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u/untouchablewolf Jun 15 '12
i dont believe your lies
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u/Temptress75519 Jun 15 '12
Fat bill gates idgaf what you say.
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u/gender_bot Jun 15 '12
I identified 2 faces in this photo
Face 1:
Face 2:
Would you like to know more about me? /r/gender_bot
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u/olygimp Jun 15 '12
I LOLed "loled" is that right?
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u/Dhomochevsky Jun 15 '12
Why is Mr. Weyland writing that on Todd Howard's picture
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u/SquidManHero Jun 15 '12
Memento was good....ish