White Haven wrote:So what you're telling me is that if the Collossus, pride of the GTVA fleet, doesn't get fighter cover dispatched for it if its flight deck takes damage. The one ship that can absolutely NOT be allowed to fall...gets no support at all from any other ship (beyond like two flights) when squaring off head-to-head against the one ship in space quite capable of tearing it in hand. I don't buy it.
Also, the Collossus , was massivly inefficient, forget the plot holes, look at the ship, most of the firepower comes amidship, a close target would be virtually safe.
Most of its firepower is spread out, while it might be a good rear support ship, it won't be able to go toe to toe with entire fleets.
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In Battle 9 (?) of TIE Fighter, there's a mission where you are supposed to guard an Interdictor while it transfers cargo to two Corvettes, Chemetti 1 & 2. One of the Corvettes shows up (the other was delayed) takes its cargo, and departs without incident.
Then Chemetti 1 & 2 both enter the area, and just as we discover that the first Corvette was a fake... just as a large Zaarin strike force hypers in! The scary arrangement of the SW Rebel theme that the game uses as "panic" music fits perfectly...
Not really a MISSION, pre se, but at the end of the sequel to Betrayal at Krondor (Not the second Betrayal game, but the actual sequel. Can't remember the name, curse me!) one of the PCs abruptly becomes an avatar of the God of Vengance with just about no warning and...well, dismantles the villain. Very, very badly. Only slightly marred by the fact that the god in question is named Kahoolie.
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Hitman Contracts had a few good ones. For me it's a toss-up depending on mood. If I want to slaughter degenerates in gross lots, give me the halls of the Meat King. If I want to be gentlemanly, give me Beddingford Manor. If I want sneakiness and danger and all-round Hitman prowess, then the final mission (where the SWAT forces storm the hotel room and I'm no longer there to greet them).
Otherwise, Thief had some wonderful missions. I actually think I prever the level Assassins. Sneaking through a living moonlit city to find whoever ordered me killed, then robbing his house, knocking him out... before escaping without anyone ever knowing how... that just fucking ruled.
Finally, the moment of revelation in Knights of the Old Republic (arguably a single player game) was mind-blowing. Power fantasy taken to the extreme. I mean, who doesn't want to be respected and feared?
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Eleas wrote:Finally, the moment of revelation in Knights of the Old Republic (arguably a single player game) was mind-blowing. Power fantasy taken to the extreme. I mean, who doesn't want to be respected and feared?
What do you mean it's 'arguably' a single player game? It *is* a single player game.
Eleas wrote:Finally, the moment of revelation in Knights of the Old Republic (arguably a single player game) was mind-blowing. Power fantasy taken to the extreme. I mean, who doesn't want to be respected and feared?
What do you mean it's 'arguably' a single player game? It *is* a single player game.
...I must be drunk.
Vympel wrote:You knocked that asshole out? I murdered him.
Nah, I figured the loss of his money and his humiliation at my hands hurt worse than death.
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I think he got confused by the fact that you can control up to 3 characters at once.
In related news, the Leviathan doesn't make my top 10 list because of the sheer idiocy of Bastilla 'sacrificing' herself- when I was making Malak my personal bitch!
Pcm979 wrote:I think he got confused by the fact that you can control up to 3 characters at once.
In related news, the Leviathan doesn't make my top 10 list because of the sheer idiocy of Bastilla 'sacrificing' herself- when I was making Malak my personal bitch!
I know! I thumped his ass down to noncombattant status in a single attack.
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Darth Wong wrote:I like the last level of Halo, if only for the fact that the game ended not with a "boss" or "fight your way through a gigantic horde to finish" scenario, but with an unconventional and somewhat refreshing race to escape a countdown that you can't stop.
I never played Halo much, so I never did this, but that sounds a lot like the escape from Zebes and then escape from the space pirate ship you have to do in Metroid Zero Mission.
The 'get the fuck out of there before the planet explodes' bit is a staple of Metroid. Hell, it was in the first one, released in 1986 on the NES!
*shrugs* Zero Mission is the only Metroid game I've played (may rectify that soon). I was just saying that the last level of Halo isn't as unconventional as DW made it out to be, if they're as similar as they sound.
Badme wrote:For me, S3&K's final boss(es) take the cake here. After destroying that massive robot piece by piece as it tries to blast you with the Master Emerald Laser, and after destroying Robotnik's escape pod as the entire Death Egg is coming apart at the seams, you go into freakin' outer space, go Super, and hunt down his final ship while plowing through asteroids and racing the clock. Man, that was a trip.
I can't believe I forgot that. That level was hard as hell until you got the pattern of the asteroids, and it faked you out when you destroyed that blue spaceship, making you think you'd won. Knuckles vs. Hyper Metal Sonic was also pretty good. Pity Tails didn't have his own special boss at the end.
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While "Silent Cartographer" was pretty cool, I only wish the beach assault had been bigger. Six fully loaded Pelicans and thirty or fourty enemies on the beach, with better entrenchements, would have easily made it much more fun.
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That's good old console limittations, coming back to haunt you.
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If the UNSC had any brains, that beach assault wouldn't have happened at all. I mean, how hard could it be to bolt a few rocket launchers to the wings of a Pelican? Or, for that matter, to have Pelicans hover a few dozen metres away from the coastline while the marines inside wasted the Covvies with sniper rifles?
"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
"This was evil manifest."
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GeneralTacticus wrote:If the UNSC had any brains, that beach assault wouldn't have happened at all. I mean, how hard could it be to bolt a few rocket launchers to the wings of a Pelican? Or, for that matter, to have Pelicans hover a few dozen metres away from the coastline while the marines inside wasted the Covvies with sniper rifles?
Maybe because the PoA, with all their heavier equipment had gone down, and then didn't have Rocket Launchers they could attach to the wings.... and those Pelicans didn't happen to be fully loaded with sniper rifles?
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Well, first off, I'm talking about equipping Pelicans with rockets generally; it would certainly make those kinds of insertions a lot easier. As for sniper rifles - you got them in the previous level, and several Marines had them in the one before that, and considering the accuracy I've seen when they use them, just one or two would probably have been sufficient to clear the beach (of Elites, at the very least; with them gone the Grunts would probably break and run, and the Marines could take them down easily).
"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
"This was evil manifest."
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Tacitus, they had no ammo for the Pelicans' rocket pods or chin guns. That is why they didn't strafe the beach beforehand. Besides, they had the Master Chief.
And yet they could afford to send in a Pelican loaded with rockets later on, and get it shot down? Seems to me it would have been better for them to wait a little bit for that one to arrive and then attack, thus ensuring that a lot more Marines survived.
Although, yes, the Chief is enough, by himself, to make up for all those other problems, even if he shouldn't have to be...
"The bird let out a slow chicken cackle. It sounded like a chicken, but in her heart she knew it wasn't. In that instant, she completely understood the concept of a chicken that was not a chicken. This looked like a chicken, like most of the Mud People's chickens. But this was no chicken.
"This was evil manifest."
- Terry "Not a fantasy author, honest" Goodkind, bringing unintentional comedy to a bookshop near you since 1994.
Also: They have limitted Pelicans, and making one such a blatant 'must-kill-now' target by strafing a fortification with rocket and cannon-fire would be a sure-fire way to paint a big 'kill me' sign on it for a Covenant Banshee squadron. They need their transport assets alive more than they need air support for attacking a lightly-defended beach.
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As mentioned any part of Deus Ex was classic. My particular favourite was the Submarine facility where i finally got to cap Simons's ass.
Homeworld, i can't remember the mission title but there where like 1000 fucking ion frigates englobing some facility. I remember stareing at the map screen in disbelief wondering how the fuck i was gonna kill all of them, after 5 tries i worked it out, i also managed to steal quite a few of them.
Jedi Accademy, the speeder level was awsome, sliding up to enemies and fragging them with my saber. The last level at the Sith Temple was good too, plenty of duals to keep me happy. Nothing was more satisfying then following up a furrious of attack with a swift kick to the head knocking the Jedi scum down a bottomless pit.
I have to second the Burning of Kharak. Few games have ever awakend the sheer levels of wrath that were directed at those puny assault frigates. I saw Kharak on fire, I heard S'Jet's shaken voice as she announced it...and, well, I saw red, and shit died. Relic are collectively the Man.
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Pcm979 wrote:I think he got confused by the fact that you can control up to 3 characters at once.
In related news, the Leviathan doesn't make my top 10 list because of the sheer idiocy of Bastilla 'sacrificing' herself- when I was making Malak my personal bitch!
I swear that was a ruse designed to disguise the fact that she intended to defect to the Dark Side all along.
White Haven wrote:I have to second the Burning of Kharak. Few games have ever awakend the sheer levels of wrath that were directed at those puny assault frigates. I saw Kharak on fire, I heard S'Jet's shaken voice as she announced it...and, well, I saw red, and shit died. Relic are collectively the Man.
Pah, maybe I'm heartless, but my first reaction on seeing those frigates was to wonder if I had enough salvage corvettes to steal them all. The hundred ion frigate mission was good until I replayed it this week and found that you could only steal about a quarter of the frigates before the rest 'mysteriously' dropped out of the map playable zone. Major disappointment as I was quite prepared to sit there and steal every single one of them.
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White Haven wrote:I have to second the Burning of Kharak. Few games have ever awakend the sheer levels of wrath that were directed at those puny assault frigates. I saw Kharak on fire, I heard S'Jet's shaken voice as she announced it...and, well, I saw red, and shit died. Relic are collectively the Man.
Pah, maybe I'm heartless, but my first reaction on seeing those frigates was to wonder if I had enough salvage corvettes to steal them all. The hundred ion frigate mission was good until I replayed it this week and found that you could only steal about a quarter of the frigates before the rest 'mysteriously' dropped out of the map playable zone. Major disappointment as I was quite prepared to sit there and steal every single one of them.
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Pcm979 wrote:I think he got confused by the fact that you can control up to 3 characters at once.
In related news, the Leviathan doesn't make my top 10 list because of the sheer idiocy of Bastilla 'sacrificing' herself- when I was making Malak my personal bitch!
I swear that was a ruse designed to disguise the fact that she intended to defect to the Dark Side all along.
...Bastila was hotter as a Sith, anyway.
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