State of the BBS Address

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:07 pm

Ah, thanks. B-day was OK, uneventful.

Good! Living in interesting times is a curse.

So Bruce left after a nasty comment by PB back at the end of July? I'd assume there's some more story that ISN'T sitting on the JC forums.

Maybe Bruce was also not digging the place for a while. He bought some land in British Columbia and had been staying there (IIRC) for a while as well. I hope he returns.

BTW, one of his last messages was in a thread about fighting games, and you were looking for innovations (as 3D doesn't count in your opinion.)

I say it doesn't count because it's boring and stupid and was already done in the Wrestlemania game from the 1980s. One of the chief problems in the fighting game thread was that Lysander and Worm was saying, "Here is an innovation," and I was saying, "It sucks, I can't count that." They didn't care about the quality of the innovation, just that it existed. Meanwhile I am all about the quality.

I can't remember the name, but one PS2 fighter I've got (I thought it was Barbarian, but apparently that's a different game) has a few goons walking around (you choose how many), that you can knock down, pick up, then beat your opponent with. Nothing says "fun" like multiplayer fighting games where you're swinging goon bodies at each other.

Actually, until right now I had completely forgotten about Thrill Kill. There's the fighting game that bridges the gap between MK2 and now IN MY OPINION. Thrill Kill is just a wholly inappropriate game that, by killing it when it was *finished*, let us all know that EA had passed its prime and become irrelevant.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:56 pm

...That'd be more of a beat-em-up than a fighting game, wouldn't it? Is this thing more loke Golden Axe, Final Fight and Streets of Rage, or is it more like, er, an actual fighting game?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:15 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I think Worm's been banned from there, for instance.

Nope. The last bad thing I said on there was "Don't tell me about your blog, I don't care what the fuck your blog says." paraphrasing the immortal(n. : not chris' children) classic by The Dicks called "Bookstore".

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Actually, until right now I had completely forgotten about Thrill Kill. There's the fighting game that bridges the gap between MK2 and now IN MY OPINION. Thrill Kill is just a wholly inappropriate game that, by killing it when it was *finished*, let us all know that EA had passed its prime and become irrelevant.

Whatever. I think we had a previous discussion on here where I asked if you actually played the fucking thing.

Lysander: Thrill Kill was a shitty single elimination wrestling game.

Jethro Q. Walrustitty · Sat Sep 03, 2005 7:49 pm

Lysander wrote:...That'd be more of a beat-em-up than a fighting game, wouldn't it? Is this thing more loke Golden Axe, Final Fight and Streets of Rage, or is it more like, er, an actual fighting game?

Not sure if you're referring to Thrill Kill or the one I'm talking about, but in both cases, we're talking actual fighting game. Though both do let you move around a small environment, but in both cases, there's no scrolling (or extremely little), but there is more X-Y movement than in a 2D fighting game, which is strictly X-axis movement. You can also pick up stuff and hurl it. OK, controls are, admittedly, a little more Golden Axe-like.

Now that I'm home, I'll check for the name of the game I was referring to. ... Yes, it is "Barbarian", the 2002 release - it looks like a different Barbarian game came out last year or so. You can play with four players, and/or "thugs" which can be killed, or just stunned and then used to whallop your opponent.

Back on the earlier topic. Hmm. I would think you-know-who would have had a thicker skin, after over at groucho, I did a Photoshop and him and Nessman's babies being held by John Wayne Gacy... then there was my Photoshop parody of the retarded-kids music album "Kids of Widney High", which I did as "Kids of Whitney's Guy". Ah, some of my best work!

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:19 pm

For the record, I was refering to Jeff's game.

You can move in both X and Y in 3d games like Tekken or Virtaa Fighter or Soul Calibur or (gag) Mortal Kombat D/DA, and all of these games scroll at least a little bit... I ean really, if you only have one attack button it's not much of a "fighting" game. Anyway, so I guess it's most like Super Smash Brothers Melee than anything? I love that game. I hate playing it--with a vehement passion--but something about it's completely over-the-edge stupid insanity appeals to me in an annoying way.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Sep 03, 2005 9:34 pm

Worm wrote:Nope. The last bad thing I said on there was "Don't tell me about your blog, I don't care what the fuck your blog says." paraphrasing the immortal(n. : not chris' children) classic by The Dicks called "Bookstore".

Someone was telling you to go to their blog on Q23? Jesus Christ. When did it become socially acceptable to have a blog? When did it become some place you direct people to? A blog is fucking embarassing. At least take your lumps on a forum LIKE A MAN.

Whatever. I think we had a previous discussion on here where I asked if you actually played the fucking thing. Lysander: Thrill Kill was a shitty single elimination wrestling game.

Haha, okay. It was better than every fighting game that has existed since Mortal Kombat 2, but I'm sure your sensitive sensibilities were offended by it, wrestling, or something equally stupid. Aren't you currently in college? How long before you denounce everything you've ever said on the Internet? Do we have to wait until your sophomore year for the inevitable?

Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:09 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Worm wrote:Whatever. I think we had a previous discussion on here where I asked if you actually played the fucking thing. Lysander: Thrill Kill was a shitty single elimination wrestling game.
Haha, okay. It was better than every fighting game that has existed since Mortal Kombat 2, but I'm sure your sensitive sensibilities were offended by it, wrestling, or something equally stupid. Aren't you currently in college? How long before you denounce everything you've ever said on the Internet? Do we have to wait until your sophomore year for the inevitable?

I transferred in from a Community College, so I'm technically a junior.

The stupid thing that made me dislike Thrill Kill was that it was an inferior wrestling game with fatalities. That's pretty much it. If it was more similar to that THQ game for the N64, I'd love it.

You obviously haven't ever played Thrill Kill. Shut up or fuck off.