favorite old mac games

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Macs had games?

I thought that was an urban myth.

[Anonymous No.675012]

this game

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little people run around and you kill them

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> that crunch sound

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> THAT SOUNDTRACK

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One of the greatest

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>>675107
Hot damn, I never thought I'd come across anyone else who'd played these games. Yipe III was awesome -- it expanded so much over the previous games and actually felt a little like a real RPG. Such a timewaster but somehow really charming and fun.

I remember figuring out which chests could give you weapon/armor upgrades and saving them to run through them all at once -- you can reap RIDICULOUS rewards by savescumming the chests and continually getting the next weapon over and over (since they like double in price every time).

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>>675134
I loved them, never actually bought them but played through the demos lots of times
also
> neon parka

[Anonymous No.675152]

Requires 256 colours

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>>675145
Yeah, I liked how there was a "silly mode" and a "serious mode" that changed the names of the items. Always play on silly mode.

[Anonymous No.675174]

How come we never have threads about Escape Velocity, OP? That game was awesome. I have more fond memories of the sequel, EV Override, though; mostly because the universe was bigger and there was more to do in it, especially considering how many parallel plot arcs could be completed on a single pilot file.

I recently stumbled across this forum thread from 2006 where the creator of Override showed up and shared a lot of details about the game's creation and design; it was really mindblowing to me as someone who played the game as a little kid and always assumed that these things were mysteries lost to time.

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=108951

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>>674957
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>>675129
FUCK. ALL THE MEMORIES

[Anonymous No.675198]

watch out guys, best mac game coming through

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>>675174
yeah it's such a rich and well built universe, it's probably the first game that I got properly immersed in. such a classic

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>>675042
Holy shit I completely forgot about the name of this game and have been searching for years

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>>675198
Good pick. Did you ever play Ferazel's Wand, by the same guy?

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>>675225
yes but only the demo I wanted it badly back then

the way your weight would push down on the spinning thing to make it move was incredible to me back then

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No one but me played Mazeworld Catacombs.

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Thinking about this game brings back so many feels. It was truly one of the many triumphs of Macintosh history. Why would anyon einto PC

[Anonymous No.675276]

wow just found some full maps of bill the demon and glider pro http://l.j-factor.com/maps/

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>>675263
Fuck, I loved this game. Stupidly deleted it once and then went to download it again but for some reason it was GONE from the guy's site. All his other games were still up except that one and I had no idea why. :(

[Anonymous No.675286]

LET'S PLAY KEIBOT, /vr/!

Fuck, I could beat the computer like 5-10% of the time at most. Also, no one had this game but me.

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This game was the best thing on the school computers in 3rd grade. Of course it was only the demo; one of my friends had the full version and I was so fucking jealous.

We used to make up our own levels for it on graph paper in the vain hope that someday a level editor would be available (and also frankly just because making them was fun). Our whole group of friends had a communal folder for storing them all.

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>>675278
you could play it on wine today http://web.archive.org/web/20090218232345/http://somegames.net/

>>675287
me and my sister used to play this a lot! I don't know if either of us knew what we were doing but it was fun

>>675305
this is another one whose demo I loved but I never played the full game

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so is that all 3 of us that had macs?

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This silly game about Bill Clinton perfectly captures the essence of 90s Mac shareware games.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCg7YIckPeA

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>>675868
hahaha, that game, also, I'm pretty sure there was a windows version of that thing as well... it was actually a pretty fun game if I remember correctly

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>ctrl + f oregon
>0 results
I know its been ported to a bunch of systems, but the Apple ][ version is the definitive one IMO.

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anyone else ever play the exile games?

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>>674957
Thankfully Escape Velocity was ported to the PC with Nova and there's a mod to play Original and Overdrive in it.

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>>675886
not to be an ass or anything... but the Apple II is not a mac

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>>675906
There's a whole thread about them over in that direction:

>>672885

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Barrack and Escape Velocity: two great tastes that taste great together.

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>>675937
barrack was pretty cool!

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>>675943
Ambrosia games always had the best sound effects, but Barrack really topped them all. Hearing the score counters continually rolling over at the end of a level where you cashed in massive amounts of bonus points was so satisfying. Damn good music too.

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>>675909
The Nova versions aren't quite the same though; there are subtle engine differences that make some minor aspects of the originals impossible to port to a Nova plugin accurately.

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>>674957
Fuck yeah Escape Velocity

>>675003
Fuck yeah Crystal Quest

>>675012
HOLY SHIT SHUFFLEPUCK CAFE.
Dat freaky creativity that went into a goddamn black and white pong game

>>675042
Aww yeah Spectre.

>>675062
MMMMMMMMMARATHON

>>675120
>System's Twilight
I can barely deal with the thread at this point holy shit guys

>>675917
Why the hell did the Exile thread disappear? That just went up last night.

Did a mod delete it for some reason?

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Does anyone remember those old Freeware first-person exploration titles? Basically roam around (mostly) abandoned places looking for treasure, it was a point and click Myst style thing

The first two were in abandoned houses, the third was in this entire little arabian/middle eastern city...

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Exile/Spiderweb Software thread at >>672885

You guys misquoted the thread, made me afraid they'd deleted it

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bump!

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>>678637
oh you want more huh

how about Taskmaker

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>>675079
Legend of Nemesis is probably the greatest Mac game to never see light on another system. Those islands, those puzzles. I used to follow around the citizens on their daily routines and see what they would be up to.

This game really needed a sequel.

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Shit, anyone remember this little Civilization-like game? It was scifi, there was a handful of different alien races to pick from...I remember dragging workers onto different nodes or squares to assign them to places to work, and battle showed a little realtime melee of everyone screaming and running into one another...

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>>675089
Fuck yeah. I actually played the Mac version before the DOS version and was completely flabbergasted as a child as to why one looked so horrible compared to the other.

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>>675198
Yessss. Didn't have to click on the thumbnail to identify it.

However,
>no Bolo
>no Stuntcopter
>no Burning Monkey Solitaire (or any Freeverse?)

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>>679226
Jared nigga

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>>679226
bolo is like dwarf fortress to me: probably awesome but I have no idea how to play it

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Darwin's Dilemma
Brick Bat
>That Lego clone with the swearing announcer and random pop up blocks that ruin your game
>That one robot game where you turn into a plane with music based on that classical piece, it was also remade by squeenix later on

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Beyond Dark Castle is one of the first games I played as a child, along with this >>675012 and Glider 4.0

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>>674984

BEST GAME

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Bolo.

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>>687018
First LAN party game?

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Scarab of RA

First person noncombat roguelike about exploring an abandoned pyramid. Each successive level gets bigger, since you enter at the top.

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>>675907
Oh man I mapped out the entire castle and catacombs on millimeter graph paper. Navigated the maze and got to Far Land while I was home from school after having my tonsils removed. Surprisingly cool world from having been made by just one dude

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Ray's Maze / Another Fine Mess / A Mess of Trouble

The best adventure games I have played. The puzzles are usually pretty logical (the guy who made them does amateur rocketry so he seems like a practical hand's on guy). Stuff like use screwdriver on fuse box cover to open get fuse, go to different area, replace fuse in machine, activate electromagnet, use electromagnet to move heavy chain, etc.

The world is fucking bonkers, with portals that interconnect between all these different dimensions.

I've played these games for hours and hours, but I've never actually finished a single one. They are balls hard.

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>>687105
nice, ill try it out!

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Pathways into Darkness by Bungie
(they were originally a Mac developer, remember!)

First person shooter with RPG elements, weapon skill, talking to nazis and weird ass monsters and alien artefacts.

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Fukken SPECTRE

I played the hell out of this as a kid. I think we only had the demo so I could only ever play like two levels, but I played them OVER AND OVER AND OVER.

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>>687131

Seriously, someone should start a wiki to figure these out. I've got a bunch of hand-drawn maps and stuff from my last playthroughs but it always kicks my ass in the end. Search (command-F) every scene! I'd recommend starting with Another Fine Mess or A Mess of Trouble - Ray's Maze is his first and has a bit too much combat.

Also just post if you need a hand setting up mini vMac or anything.

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While we're here, I have a question.

I distinctly remember this old Mac game where there were a few elevators and you were a stick man running between them. You could ride them to the top if they were at the bottom, or you could be crushed by standing below them.

I have no idea what it was called. I thought it was Elevator Action, but that was an NES game about spies and shit, and it's nothing like what I'm thinking of.

Any ideas?

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>>687018
This game looks fucking cool. Too bad I could never get it to work on my computer.

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>>675120

I went back and tried to play this again like two weeks ago and it's still hard as shit past like, the first 2 puzzles in each area.

>>675092
Loved the hell out of this one but it crashed my computer. So did many of these games, actually, I remember >>675063 and >>675042 being culprits as well

>>675850
realmz: arabian nights style

>>678730
This is what I was looking for. Motherfuckin' Taskmaker. So, so many hours spent playing through these two games. In Tomb of the Taskmaker I actually used Master mode to create an entire fucking castle/town all to myself; I wiped out the bottom catacombs level of the second (?) quest town and rebuilt it, placed a castle in the mountains in the overworld, populated it and called it my own.

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>>687105
hoooooooooooly shit I forgot all about these.

Didn't the same guy do Twisted!

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the hell is the term for the style of RPG in Realmz/Legend of Nemesis/Exile

CRPG?

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Can we get threads archived yet? Stuff like this needs it

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>>687637
CRPG is the term I use.

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>>687637
>>687661

Yeah, CRPG would be right.

I'll grant that it does feel kinda weird calling them that when the term CRPG feels a lot more like you're describing the old Might & Magic or Wizardry games; both Wizardry 7 and Realmz are CRPGs, but one was made by an established developer in 1992 and the other was released as a shareware project two years later. And they look so different.

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Unicycle was trippy as hell

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Fun little game that I've never seen mentioned in any of these threads. It's a legit classic if you ask me.

http://members.shaw.ca/tspreen/breaker.html

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>>687774
Yeah, that's weird because the "select a command and target" menu-driven turnbased combat of M&M and Wizardry gave rise to the definitive combat paradigms for JRPGs, while western CRPGs ended up following the Ultima paradigms with individual unit movement and positioning

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Who all remembers Epic Banana? I know I do.

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>>687783
especially when it color cycles!

>>687808
I always thought it was gross that he was naked

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>>687828

whenever mac gaming comes up or i post a link to macintosh garden, someone always pops up and mentions epic banana. it's funny, a lot of these games are the kind where you think "i HAVE to have been the only one that played that" but it turns out there were tons of us screwed up brats running around and shooting people in a day at work or whatever.

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Underrated sci-fi roguelike with a surprising level of depth.

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>>687853
oh shit is that the one where you start with the suicide pill

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>>687845
Nah, I never thought their games were all that obscure. You could find them uploaded to all sorts of sites even though they were just silly little freeware games made by bored teenagers. Their games actually got quite a lot deeper and more polished over time, too. If you were still using OS9 in like 03-04 and got to play their last few releases, you could really see how their output had matured over time.

Off-topic, but I once made a game using one of the tools they used to make their games in (Cocoa or whatever it was called). Cool little puzzle game with simple graphics; I was like 13 years old and had no programming knowledge, so I was pretty proud of it. I could never figure out Klik & Play though.

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> This thread
> tfw Ambrosia Software shifted from "here, take my game, if you're nice think about paying it" to "Fucking captain Hector blew up my ship"

Here, take Factory. Why isn't this game on tablet and smartphone ?

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I couldn't find the old version I was playing on

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>>690319

That happened in all of them though, just slowly over time. He got more and more likely to nick your shit or waste you the longer you left it.

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>>690319
Factory is fucking amazing and I have no idea why it has not been reimplemented it. It's on my top five game ideas to implement.

I mean you can turn this into a facebook game for mommies, or an iPad-game, both would work.

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>>687634
Yeah he did. Unfortunately he seems to have hit a wall after that - a combination of trying to do 3D, and his development environment no longer being supported on modern machines (World Builder, which he became the curator of).

I wish there was a good framework he could get into to make more stuff.

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>>675051
HOLY SHIT I REMEMBER THOSE SPIDERS
Thanks a lot man, I've been searching for that game for a long, long time.

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>>690319

Ambrosia is bro as hell though. I emailed them yesterday after seeing this thread and asked for my 10+ year old reg codes and they still had all that shit on record. So back to playing Ares, I guess.

i also forgot i bought Cythera, the worst/best ultima vii ripoff ever

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>>691484

Wow, for real? Man, I should do this; I regged all three EV games back in the day and if nothing else I should be able to run Nova on this computer at least, and play the Nova plugins for the other two. They might be registered in my dad's name though, I don't know if that makes a difference.

>i also forgot i bought Cythera, the worst/best ultima vii ripoff ever

I could never figure out what to do in that game; it was just beyond me as a kid even though I was ploughing through other RPGs like Exile and Jewel of Arabia with no problem.

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>>690542
In the first one, all he did was show up from time to time and remind you to pay for your shareware. In the second EV, he robbed your bank account. I don't think he started killing you until Nova.

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Exile just started crashing to desktop on me randomly in combat

I think I'm going to cry

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>>693306

>Realize it wasn't set to compatibility mode
>do that, win95 mode
>play
>it works it works!

>Party member dies at Bandit Fort
>collect 150 gold, feel rich
>Go to healer
>resurrection is 1000 gold

>reload
>go to bat cave instead
>I can take a few bats
>raped by swarms of rabid bats

I think I'm going to cry

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>>675063
Oh. My. God.

THIS was the game that was on my second grade teachers Mac that I played the shit out of because I finished the math worksheets in literally under a minute!

OXYD!!! Fuck! I was trying to remember what this was!

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>>693610
What kind of builds are you running? I remember the default party included a character with archery, which was a pretty useless skill; I never had that in my custom parties. I also always made sure to have lots of casters -- usually a mage, a priest, and a mage-priest. I'd give the dual-caster more levels in each school than the default party -- three in mage spells and two in priest spells rather than just two in mage and one in priest. The more people who can cast bless, haste, heal, and fireball, the better.

I also liked to give lots of assassination to the fighters, though I really have no idea what the optimal amount was. I just enjoyed doing double damage all the time and hearing the sound effect.

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>>694539
I was running the default party yeah. It's basically edged fighter, pole fighter, archer, magepriest, mage, priest. I should do my own skill setup.

Still, where the fuck am I supposed to go first if the bandits rape my shit

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>>693652
It now goes by the name Enigma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_(video_game)

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>>694564
I don't remember if I ever did the bandits as the very first thing or if I always spent a little while exploring the towns and fighting outdoors. There are some goodies hidden in the towns, as well as a few fights, and the outdoor fights near the towns with goblins and thugs are a pretty easy way to gain a few levels. Still, with proper tactics and the right builds and equipment you could probably do okay against the bandits at level one.

You also don't have to COMPLETE any dungeon just because you start it. Go fight through the first few areas in the bandit fort, then leave and do the bats for a little while, then come back, etc.

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>>694664
remind me what the fuck to do with the sad gremlins, do I murder them all or come back later

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>>694695
Yeah, I don't remember what the deal is with those guys, sorry. I do think you're supposed to leave them alone until later in the game, though.

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What was your favorite ship in EV? For me, it'd have to be the Rebel Cruiser. Really puts the Kestrel to shame in terms of power, and I love the way the Manta fighters launch all at once. The Confed Cruiser is more powerful but way too slow to be any fun to fly; the Rebel Cruiser is nice and speedy.

On one of my runs, for some reason the game allowed me to do both the Rebel and the Confed mission strings all the way to completion. One of the Confed missions involves fighting these modified Bulk Freighters that carry Mantas, and they show up from time to time for the rest of the game after you complete the mission. I used the Forklift cheat in this run, and by sheerest coincidence a single forklift strike did precisely the right amount of damage to instantly disable these ships. So after I completed the Rebel missions these guys were friendly, and I was flying around in my Rebel Cruiser instantly disabling them with the forklift whenever they showed up, and all their weapons and fighters would never even be launched. It turns out that unlaunched fighters count as normal weapons that you can steal when you board a ship, and I was taking 4 Mantas from each of these guys whenever I encountered one. I ended up with 64 Mantas on my ship; I could instantly flood the screen with Mantas to the point where new ships wouldn't be able to hyperspace in because the game engine wouldn't allow any more.

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>>694885
forklift

but really, I just had a kestrel with as many fucking plasma cannons as I could fit on it

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>>694898
Which were the plasma cannons again? I hardly ever used any guns or turrets aside from the basic green lasers and blue proton cannons; the beefier ones took up so much space and never seemed worth it, though on larger ships they probably more than earn their keep.

I remember there were red ones that I liked, I think they were called neutron blasters or something. There was also the Mass Driver, which I think was a secondary weapon. Really though I always spent most of the game in a Corvette loaded with missiles and shield/maneuverability upgrades. You can do pretty much any mission in a Corvette and I couldn't afford a Kestrel until the end of the game when I could get a Rebel Cruiser instead, so I never used it. It was actually kind of a letdown when I finally tried it out after other players had talked it up so much.

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bump

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>>694950

The red ones. Neutron Blasters were from Override.

I traded like crazy before getting a Kestral, did everything in that. Eventually switched sides, worked my way up to doing the Alien levels for the Confederates, and ended the game waltzing around wrecking shit in one of their big capital ships. I think I must have honed my grinding tolerance for WoW on EV trading runs.

[Anonymous No.700492]

this was pure brilliant