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2009-07-07, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Remember how I was wishing for the peace of oblivion a minute ago?
Yeah. That hasn't exactly changed with more knowledge of the situation. -Security Chief Victor Jones, formerly of the UESC Marathon.
X-Com avatar by BRC. He's good folks.
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2009-07-07, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
And what, let me out of the storeroom? Right.
On that note, who said I was unattractive? I'll take the beatings and ridicule... but ugly? Too far, too far.My last breath... ...is also my mintiest...
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2009-07-07, 06:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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- Switzerland
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2009-07-07, 06:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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- Whose eye is that eye?
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2009-07-07, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
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2009-07-07, 06:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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- Raleigh NC
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
X-com land attractions:
The "beat Copper with a shock rod" booth. With a real, 100% effective stun rod. 1 quarter, 1 swing. We give you your money back if you make him scream.
Everybody knows that when you have a problem, you have a problem. But when you have multiple problems -- lots of people with ready money and a desire to hit something, a beat-worthy X-com employee -- they can be made to solve each other.
Don't forget we need employees -- excuse me, 'cast members' -- to dress up in alien costumes to pose with the kiddies for the camera.
I volunteer to wear the Chrysalid suit.
Respectfully,
Brian P.Last edited by pendell; 2009-07-07 at 06:49 PM.
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2009-07-07, 06:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Last edited by chiasaur11; 2009-07-07 at 06:54 PM.
Remember how I was wishing for the peace of oblivion a minute ago?
Yeah. That hasn't exactly changed with more knowledge of the situation. -Security Chief Victor Jones, formerly of the UESC Marathon.
X-Com avatar by BRC. He's good folks.
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2009-07-07, 06:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2007
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Well, excuse me for always turning away because of my sheer repulsion before being able to get a good look at you. So you're not ugly, I guess.
But, given your unique status, you will be before this is over.
Well, the latter would fit right in, I suppose.
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2009-07-07, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2008
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- center of earth
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I'm pretty sure that I said I wanted to be recruited on an earlier page, how many other people in the world are there with death wishes?
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2009-07-07, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2008
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- NYC
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I'll throw myself into the fray. I'm an accomplished Colonel in Gral's X-Com already, with incredible scouting power and awful psionic strength. Maybe I'll be luckier this time.
edit: Ah, it was because the game confused my stats with those of a tank, and I ended up with 25HP more than you're allowed. I think I qualify as awesome now.
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2009-07-07, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Last edited by chiasaur11; 2009-07-07 at 10:59 PM.
Remember how I was wishing for the peace of oblivion a minute ago?
Yeah. That hasn't exactly changed with more knowledge of the situation. -Security Chief Victor Jones, formerly of the UESC Marathon.
X-Com avatar by BRC. He's good folks.
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2009-07-07, 11:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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2009-07-07, 11:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2005
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Truly a great scout, if you look at his Credentials, it Appears the game thinks he is a tank, as It is impossible to have Health over 60.
I suppose I will also Sign up for Red Shirt Duty.
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2009-07-08, 12:37 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2004
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- Zentraedi flagship
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2009-07-08, 12:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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2009-07-08, 03:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2005
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
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2009-07-08, 03:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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- Northern California
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I have my own TV show featuring local musicians performing live. YouTube page with full episodes and outtake clips here.
I also have another YouTube page with local live music clips I've filmed on my own.
Then there is my gaming YouTube page with Kerbal Space Program, Minecraft, and others.
Finally, I stream on Twitch, mostly Kerbal Space Program and Minecraft.
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2009-07-08, 04:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2007
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2009-07-08, 06:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2006
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- Raleigh NC
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
No prob. I kinda had this dream of a big, black monster that zombifies everyone it touches. Yet for some reason, kids love it. My wife knows what a needle and thread are for ... I'll see what we can do.
I can think of only one reason why Mr. Brian 'I'm human, honest, the compound eyes are just a rare birth defect' Pendell would know about alien species we've never even heard about.
... or maybe it's whatever chow they're serving in the mess room these days. I swear I saw Copper in the food preparation area, and that would explain a LOT.
Respectfully,
Brian P.Last edited by pendell; 2009-07-08 at 06:49 AM.
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2009-07-08, 06:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2009
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
It's been a bit, GitP. If you're reading this, you're either digging through old stuff, or I've posted for the first time in forever.
If you want to stay in touch, reach out to me on twitter (same username).
The best answer is always to ask your DM.
Unless you're the DM, in which case you should talk to your players.
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2009-07-08, 11:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I find boddy count suprisingly low, what dificoulty are you playing on?
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2009-07-08, 12:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
Summing up: The Sectoids hate us, the Floaters hate everyone else, and I hate Copper.
Well, as March rolled in and the screamings of the Sectoid leader from the construction of the psi lab were a constant sound in the base. Made me sleep better, but the men couldn't wait until the soundproof booth was done. The klaxons of the alarm system were hardly audible over the din, but the Interceptor pilots were in the cockpit in seconds. The conveniently soundproof cockpits.
The ace pilots of X-COM are up to the job, of course. The enemy craft gets the explodo.
The Science teams manage to do well despite the screaming. Cubey summed the whole bit up. "It's like that monkey poop coffee. It keeps you awake, you don't like it at first, and you really don't want to know where it comes from, so you desperately think about anything else.
Medkits were the result of the first burst of inspiration. They came too late for Fri and Atranis, but they should stop bleeding out from being an issue for anyone else. We have plans for dealing with Headless Ninja based friendly fire as well.
Motion sensors also were invented. When asked why, Cubey spoke for the whole team when he said "They had them in Aliens, and that movie rules"
"But, in Aliens, the ranking officers, and almost everyone else, died horribly"
"Oh. Right."
Armor research was frontlined after that, and the results looked promising. We had plenty of alien alloys, and saving a trooper or two was worth some money.
Not a ton, mind you, but if it was less than 40k, it was a savings.
Unfortunately, before the new gear could go into production, Russia was attacked!
The mood was tense. We had lives on the line. Innocent people could die if we failed. Then, in a moment of bravery that would live forever in X-COM history, Trazoi spoke up.
"Sir, am I missing something? It's just Russians."
"Oh. Right. Ninja, not too many HE rounds on full auto."
Ninja grabbed all the ammo and flares he could carry. A night mission was a new and unpleasant experience, and we did not want to go unprepared.
As we disembarked, Lopez spotted, and I wasted, another Floater. It seems Floaters and people really don't get along. Maybe the Reapers pooped on a councilman's lawn or something.
The mission continued more or less routinely. We secured the north half of the map, saved a couple of Russians...
Then we went south. It seemed the Floaters took the "terror" part of the missions seriously. If those weren't dirty Reds...
"Sir, the Russians abandoned the glorious struggle back in the 90s"
"Thank you, BRC. Really relevant"
Well, if they were, say, American, or British, I might be pretty disgusted.
Even Russians deserve a little vengeance, though, and we made sure every single Floater paid.
We headed back to the Skyranger, tired but reasonably satisfied. We'd dropped every one of the monsters, and there were 9 less Russians threatening democracy without X-COM lifting a finger. Then we checked the cargo hold. Ninja was the first to spot it.
"Um, weren't all of those big dog things supposed to be dead?"
Eldan's response was standard
"Yes. X-COM has no aliens to worry about being alive on the Skyranger, and humanity has no traitor based worries HA HA!"
"...Right. Well, I'd doubt the claim, even if Knight doesn't, on a standard mission, but this time I had something not in an X-COM uniform in mind. See that movement in the back? Seems we got a stowaway."
Knight was as true to form as Eldan had been.
"Right. Want me to hit something? Because I have this Stunstick right here. Captain? What you want me to hit? Because if Sgt. Ninja is irritating you..."
I always appreciate blind enthusiasm.
"No, hit the thing in the cargo bay. At least now. We'll consider the Ninja part at a later date."Remember how I was wishing for the peace of oblivion a minute ago?
Yeah. That hasn't exactly changed with more knowledge of the situation. -Security Chief Victor Jones, formerly of the UESC Marathon.
X-Com avatar by BRC. He's good folks.
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2009-07-08, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2006
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- where the wind blows
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I also thought that, but I restrain myself from saying that out loud, because, you know, I'm a ghost.
It might give them wrong ideas and then they'll start bringing exorcists into the base. It can only goes downhill from there.
And ah, finally we got a medkit. As it is (or more specifically, the lack of it is) the indirect cause of my death, I'm torn whether I should do more or less creepy apparition to celebrate (or mourn) this event. Anyone know what usually ghosts do in these kinds of event?You got Magic Mech in My Police Procedural!
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2009-07-08, 01:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2006
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- BFE
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I am glad to see that even in death, I am still contributing to the war effort!
...well, I'd be glad to see it if not for the whole being dead thing, but still.SpoilerBossing Around Mad Cats for Fun and Profit: Let's Play MechCommander 2!
Kicking this LP into overdrive: Let's Play StarCraft 2!
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2009-07-08, 01:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2008
Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Well, without X-COM Util, every game of X-COM is on very easy, and if I grabbed Util there'd be other changes. Combine that with occasional (I can quit any time I want, I swear!) bouts of reloading (not every mission, and less often then I used to, but still on occasion) and you have the surprisingly low bodycount explanation.
Remember how I was wishing for the peace of oblivion a minute ago?
Yeah. That hasn't exactly changed with more knowledge of the situation. -Security Chief Victor Jones, formerly of the UESC Marathon.
X-Com avatar by BRC. He's good folks.
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2009-07-08, 01:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2004
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- Zentraedi flagship
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
I suggest an alternative approach: haunt the first Medi-Kit we ever produce. Manifest by shooting syringes at people. Or, because Medi-Kits' healing functions don't have any needles (wusses! I didn't work on that project, by the way), overuse stimulants on everyone and watch them run around like kids on sugar.
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2009-07-08, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2007
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- Southwestern Germany
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
Fri the Talking Med-Kit?
Sounds awesome!LGBTitP Supporter
In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die - Ever drifting down the stream - Lingering in the golden gleam - Life, what is it, but a dream?
- Lewis Carroll
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2009-07-08, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2007
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- Chicagoland
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Re: Hey, everybody else has started a let's play and abandoned it. Lets Play X-Com!
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2009-07-08, 02:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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2009-07-08, 02:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007