Fun things to do in games

[Durzel]

Occasionally you come across a game that allows you to do silly/humorous things, usually by virtue of being able to modify it but occasionally its like it out of the box (Serious Sam 2, for example, is a very amusing game)

A long while back I customised a version of Quake 2 Lithium so that the rockets were QW speed, the splash effect caused players to ricochet across the screen, cratering often and blasting people into positions they'd never end up in normally (you could rocket someone from the bottom of Q2DM1 to the grenade launcher, for example). It was quite fun to play.

Q3A came out and I wrote this same mod (this time from scratch) and called it "Barrymore" - so called because someone playing the original Q2 version (which ended up being called Barrymore as well) said it was "gay". Again, much hilarity ensued - try playing it on Q3DM17 Comically, and this was unintended, because it was one of the first mods for Q3A, it ended up being mentioned on Stomped, Blues News, Planetquake et al - no one even questioned the name You can download it here if you want to see what its like.

Anyway, the reason I mention all of this is that usually I get more enjoyment from the quirks and foibles of todays games, by making odd things happen.

Like F1GP4 for example, or maybe even Operation Flashpoint.

Anyone else feel the same?

 

[Munkey-]

heh. Chello strikes again

this is one of my operation flashpoint favs:

MISSILE AWAY!

 

[S-Gray]

heh, i liked Black and White for the PC, i didnt like the game itself, but i just loved smacking your animal around making him cry
it just makes you feel sorry for the lil thing heh that was a smart idea for a game tho

 

[Sawtooth]

You may need therapy

 

[FatBusinessman]

Definitely. I mean, he liked Black and White!

 

[dysfunction]

Duke Nukem: There is a club room and you get him to sing a few lines into a microphone on stage! Very Funny!

 

[Kempo]

in an attempt to liven up ra2 a bit a while ago, some tiny maps were put onto the jolt ra2 server, everyone had ~600 health and 500 bullets for chaingun, with 16 people on the server at a timje, it wqas absoloute mayhem and the most fun id had playing ra2 in a long time

 

[Sawtooth]

Snipe you're own side. Makes me laugh everytime.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Little things....

 

[caLLous]

Hobo knife fights on the Normandy beach in MoH.

 

[Will]

Operation Flashpoint is great for all those little bugs. I've landed a chopper on it's rotors before, and I've seen a UAZ take out a chopper (chopper fires rocket, UAZ flies into the air, comes down on top of chopper, chopper ploughs into the ground).

Counterstrike - matrix mode, and 32 player fy_iceworld all have their places. Low grav/hi grav combos make me chuckle too. And if you've seen Lock Stock, you'll appreciate the rubber dildo replacement for the knife.

Action Halflife has to be the greatest for stylish kills (I'm thinking back to AHL 4 here). I spot my enemy at the end of a corridor, and charge forwards, akimbo's blazing. I see her pull a grenade, and decide I'll race past it, it'll probably land well behind me.
I was so wrong, she dives backwards into a convenient lift shaft, dropping the grenade where she was standing, rather tragically where I was now standing.

I guess you had to be there.

 

[WPKenny]

AQ2 (ActionQuake2) was the best and still is, for me, the most FUN mod to play.

The hillarious times I've had with that game are far too many to mention here so I'll just list a few.

Any sort of knife fight. Pure class.
Maps with vent shafts on that rocket you around the map into totally unexpected places.

The acceleration you could get from bunny hopping accross areas meant you could pull off huge leaps accross gaps and sneak up on people from very surprising places.

Ooooh. AQ2. Those were the good old days.

I've NEVER been as addicted to any other game.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Then come and play it again? There's still a pretty strong scene going, and if I'm on a server there will prolly be knives and or HCs flying around.

AQ FOREVER ahem

 

[bodhi]

UT at a LAN party. When you're in SS. Playing in the CTF competition. The most fun I have ever had playing games full stop.

You have to picture six pissed up CTF'ers changing all their skins to the Warcow model, coming up with amusing names like FetidAnalCheese and RancidFannyJam, then promptly spamming inane comments on the big screen such as "my cock is hard" and "wizzo sucks dicks", When the game actually started bedlam then ensued. Everyone in the same room as us knew exactly what was going on in the UT matches. Phrases such as "Some one get the fucking flag back for fucks sake" were normally yelled at top volume, mixed with a few "HA take that you shit fucking cunt" "fuck off shooting me" and the occasional "warcow frenzy" which promptly meant we had 6 attackers. What made this better was the fact that we were pissing ourselves with laughter most of the way through the games whilst our opponents remained the stereotypical gaming geeks all the way through. We has fun taking the piss out of KEA and DOA mind.