What do you mean, 'meme video game'?
Played this for weeks with friends in Mumble to climb the (time-trial) leader boards. As always lots of fun + lots of being angry on the person who fumbled the third run in a row (me, most of the times).
Akronymus 1 hours ago [-]
Id say "a game that became a meme" to be much more of an apt description
ryan42 8 hours ago [-]
huehuehuehuehuehue john madden john madden
ethagnawl 7 hours ago [-]
I'm not sure why but that is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on the internet.
Hovertruck 4 hours ago [-]
My wife and I still say this to each other all the time
The final song in that one is so subtly sophisticated; check out the underlying text. For example, to get it to sing "it doesn't matter now" the user types "tdah zih ntmae trr nnaw"; they're providing the phonetic sounds of every word rather than the words themselves, presumably because it produces better output and it allows them to change tone in the middle of words.
nurettin 7 hours ago [-]
Spent years playing this game. It is the closest thing I've seen to real time chess. Also excellent soundtrack that sets the mood.
EDIT: whoops I thought this was moonbase commander, another NASA sponsored game from another time.
p1mrx 7 hours ago [-]
> real time chess
That would describe Crypt of the NecroDancer.
shibeprime 4 hours ago [-]
kick it in the front seat
imchillyb 5 hours ago [-]
Ben Bova wrote a book: "Welcome to Moonbase."
I purchased that as a kid, in a souvenir shop, on our way out of Cape Canaveral. We were there specifically to see the Space Shuttle slow-crawl to it's launchpad destination. I never got to see a shuttle take off first hand.
That book, though, began a life-long love of space and all things unexplainable.
I love space, science, and the unknown. That love all comes down to a childhood fascination with the Space Shuttle program, and Ben Bova opening my childish mind to the idea of life on the moon, and how different everything would be.
Thank you Ben Bova. And thank you NASA for daring to dream big. You've both made a lifelong friend.
dirtyhippiefree 6 hours ago [-]
Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set.
First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.
_bent 6 hours ago [-]
here comes another chinese earthquake ebrrrbrbrrbrrbr
jacknews 10 hours ago [-]
Bah, thought this was related to the classic UK TV series Space:1999.
> which tasked the company with working on updates for "America's Army," the 2002 first-person shooter
30 seconds
Ahhh so they're the ones who made that game less realistic and more modern shooter-y. Which I have no doubt is exactly what they were asked to do, because the original AA game was slow and a lot of people hated it compared to ut or cs1.6
Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.
gundmc 5 hours ago [-]
I still remember sitting through a legitimate field medic first aid course before unlocking the medic class. That game was something else!
dtech 4 hours ago [-]
It was finances by the army as a recruitment tool and to save on training costs, that's why
Yeul 2 hours ago [-]
If you want realistic they should have put IEDs and PTSS in it.
The Netherlands now has to spend 5% of GDP on the military which is doable- recruiting fools is the hard part in a country with free university and a functioning welfare system.
dmoy 2 hours ago [-]
IIRC the sniper course in AA had IED disposal (via anti material rifle) in it as one of the major components for passing.
But yea it was very much a rah-rah-go-Army game, nothing about the aftermath.
urda 3 hours ago [-]
I felt so cool after passing Sniper School, then you could pick that role in matches.
lawlessone 4 hours ago [-]
I remember sitting in the prison...
seivan 3 hours ago [-]
The training course to sneak past behind enemy lines for the SF role was the hardest, lol.
petsfed 5 hours ago [-]
> Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.
The original Ghost Recon came out the year before, and the Delta Force series was already well underway. I recall enduring the interminable mandatory training of America's Army, just to discover that it was a flashier, gamey-er version of games I was already playing.
In fairness, I think you can definitely see AA's impact on the design of e.g. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter on the PC, but hilariously (and true to form) when ArmA came out in 2006, its clear they took not one cue about how to build a playable game.
dmoy 4 hours ago [-]
Fair, I guess I never played Ghost Recon
I do remember winning a lot of AA games without ever even taking out my rifle, and just using binoculars and telling all my teammates (who were lying in bushes for minutes not moving) where people were moving.
nocoiner 5 hours ago [-]
Wasn’t ArmA the successor to Operation Flashpoint?
Tuna-Fish 4 hours ago [-]
Yes. Operation Flashpoint was made by Bohemia Interactive and published by Codemasters, with BI owning the code but Codemasters owning the trademark. When the companies went their separate ways (iirc there was some drama, but can't remember about what), BI had to rename the next installment of the game series.
fetzu 4 hours ago [-]
Operation Flashpoint having also been spun off into “VBS” (Virtual Battlespace Systems) a military combat simulator whose first client/user was incedentally the USMC. So AA’s was probably arguably the first mainstream (from the heavy promotion and the fact it was free, something out of the ordinary for an “AAA Game” at the time) “realistic shooter”, but certainly not the first.
lawlessone 4 hours ago [-]
OF was great, i'd spend hours in the editor just making custom scenarios.
ranger207 2 hours ago [-]
AA3 was my first shooter, and it was slowed down a lot compared to AA2 (then AA4 sped things back up) and I haven't been able to find anything quite like it since. Some of those maps were incredible
That team also did a helicopter flight simulator at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville (IIRC the devs were at Redstone Arsenal?) that I saw once and was surprisingly in depth. Required 2 players, one of whom would be the gunner and the other would be the pilot, complete with stick, collective, and pedals. A far different experience than helicopters in video games at the time
Bjartr 5 hours ago [-]
Doesn't the ARMA series at least support that level of realism?
Hikikomori 5 hours ago [-]
Could snipe people at 2km+ in arma 2.
fetzu 4 hours ago [-]
Which is also (arguably not easily) doable IRL. The most realistic part of it surely being the pacing and “tactical” aspects of it.
somenameforme 3 hours ago [-]
At those distances there's a lot more involved in shots than just bullet drop/gravity, which AFAIK is all that ARMA models.
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seivan 3 hours ago [-]
I loved how slow that game was, my favourite map was the bridge one, before they added the ridge so you could circumvent the bridge as a chokepoint.
- Here's a web version (with backend): https://webspeak.terminal.ink/
- Steam thread: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=91936...
- "Modern" codebase and builds: https://github.com/dectalk/dectalk/
Pappa pia
Baby got a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_vNhLYW_e4
The final song in that one is so subtly sophisticated; check out the underlying text. For example, to get it to sing "it doesn't matter now" the user types "tdah zih ntmae trr nnaw"; they're providing the phonetic sounds of every word rather than the words themselves, presumably because it produces better output and it allows them to change tone in the middle of words.
EDIT: whoops I thought this was moonbase commander, another NASA sponsored game from another time.
That would describe Crypt of the NecroDancer.
I purchased that as a kid, in a souvenir shop, on our way out of Cape Canaveral. We were there specifically to see the Space Shuttle slow-crawl to it's launchpad destination. I never got to see a shuttle take off first hand.
That book, though, began a life-long love of space and all things unexplainable.
I love space, science, and the unknown. That love all comes down to a childhood fascination with the Space Shuttle program, and Ben Bova opening my childish mind to the idea of life on the moon, and how different everything would be.
Thank you Ben Bova. And thank you NASA for daring to dream big. You've both made a lifelong friend.
First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
"JohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMaddenJohnMadden"
"uuuuuUuuuuUuuuuuuUuuuuuuUuu"
30 seconds
Ahhh so they're the ones who made that game less realistic and more modern shooter-y. Which I have no doubt is exactly what they were asked to do, because the original AA game was slow and a lot of people hated it compared to ut or cs1.6
Shame though, it was the only game that kinda had that level of realism, with "rifle from prone while waiting can hit you at 400+ yards, but if you're running around you struggle making hits under 100 yards" that encouraged very methodical play with teamwork and spotting.
The Netherlands now has to spend 5% of GDP on the military which is doable- recruiting fools is the hard part in a country with free university and a functioning welfare system.
But yea it was very much a rah-rah-go-Army game, nothing about the aftermath.
The original Ghost Recon came out the year before, and the Delta Force series was already well underway. I recall enduring the interminable mandatory training of America's Army, just to discover that it was a flashier, gamey-er version of games I was already playing.
In fairness, I think you can definitely see AA's impact on the design of e.g. Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter on the PC, but hilariously (and true to form) when ArmA came out in 2006, its clear they took not one cue about how to build a playable game.
I do remember winning a lot of AA games without ever even taking out my rifle, and just using binoculars and telling all my teammates (who were lying in bushes for minutes not moving) where people were moving.
That team also did a helicopter flight simulator at the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville (IIRC the devs were at Redstone Arsenal?) that I saw once and was surprisingly in depth. Required 2 players, one of whom would be the gunner and the other would be the pilot, complete with stick, collective, and pedals. A far different experience than helicopters in video games at the time
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-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo
The one teaching his nazi AI to lie about "wHiTe GeNoCiDe? That dickhead elon?