Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-3547390-20160223102718

Yeah, Wikia has been acting up with responses. I couldn't see my reply after I posted it, which made me scared that it was not posted and led to me posting that junk "A" post.

Well, glad you were able to respond at least. Seems responding is working fine now, plus the previous message going through means I don't need to say everything again.

Quake isn't currently installed on this computer, I need to set it all up again and am just lazy due to the configuration settings. Stronghold is the first game, the one I am actively recording for Youtube at the moment (rendering level 7 currently). I really need to set up Elder Scrolls Arena, I just am lazy to do such. Note that though I only have 2 on my desktop, I have plenty resting on my hard drive such as Thief, Heretic, and Doom.

The other is a MMO since I generally like hanging out in a multiplayer environment, even if the games themselves aren't that interesting to me nor do I like the grind at all. It is called Toontown Rewritten, basically a game involving cartoon animals which completely contrasts with everything else I do. The main reason I am involved with it is nostalgia, it was the first MMO I ever touched, plus the fact that the shutdown by Disney means there cannot be donations of any kind (which means no cash shops or subscriptions, meaning one of the only MMOs I could find that is free in every sense of the word). Between the nostalgia and the community, it is a good place to hang out when I feel lazy enough to procrastinate on the book series (one of the reasons I go so slow, I read a chapter or so a day usually simply because more gives me migraines). Note that with the new direction, aka not finishing the entirety of the series, I basically could inch my way through and still be done before being done with Hexen. Being grind based, it is a game that doesn't lend itself to recordings in my opinion since it can be dull and repetitious, TTR is probably one of the heaviest grind-based MMOs as well. This basically gives me an excuse to play a game that I won't have to worry about recording for, which in turn means it is good during the long periods of waiting for videos to render/upload.

So, yeah, to summarize the previous paragraph I play an MMO I admit is dull because that dullness will prevent me from feeling like I am missing out by not recording like I would with most titles, even less grind-based MMOs like more modern titles. As I have said, I would rather play a bad game than read a good book, so therefore it becomes a great source of procrastination. And while I could do the same with a Single Player title, even a better game, the problem is that I would have to play it over and over to the point of dullness. With an MMO you interact with others, which leads to different experiences at least. I wonder if I am a masochist, I play games that bore me and do actions like reading that I hate, all for an inefficient system I refuse to change :P

I am definitely excited to try Hexen, even if the Doom engine and being a sequel to Heretic makes me kinda skeptical. Heretic wasn't the worst FPS I have ever played, but it just felt relatively dull in most levels and I am happy to say it is completed. I guess that is why I have procrastinated on the sequel, even though the puzzle element does intrigue me. It could potentially be more like Unreal or Thief, which would be great, though its age makes me doubtful once more.

Doom is just not the game I am passionate over. I would be more like your geek friend, I am more about Unreal and that short era. I would not be surprised if I enjoyed Half Life heavily, it is during the time period of what I consider to be the best era of FPS gaming.

It has been so many years since I played TR3. Even TR2 I started, but then got distracted by a massive amount of Indiana Jones stuff. I think TR3 added the sprint function, which I heavily enjoy, and might have been the one to add the roll functionality. I loved the greater focus on vehicles as well, riding an ATV into a prison is definitely one of the memories of my childhood.

Yeah, most people go for the new engine with most games. I could have done such with Stronghold, there is an HD release, but I stuck with the older version. As long as it is past the dull era of early 90s gaming, I don't mind playing the vanilla first and usually want to do exactly that.

Now time to hope my response actually goes through. You might have replied to my test message "Ra!". If so, you are probably wondering what that is about. Either I have turned totally uncivilized or am being held hostage by the mole people. If the former, blame Wheel of Time cracking my mind. If the latter, they will release me if you can go back in time and stop Wheel of Time 8 from being created. You know me and my randomness with names.