By John Walker on May 20th, 2011 at 11:06 am.
As we all know by now, it’s Judgment Day tomorrow. And so will begin five months of all sorts of bother, and then the end of the world. Which is a shame. So assuming that you’re not scooped up to heaven, and that the earthquakes and fire raining from the sky will make gaming a little bit tricky as of about 5.30 tomorrow afternoon, we want to know what will be your final game? In the knowledge that time is up, it’s going to be the very last game you ever play. So which one will it be? An absolute favourite you’ve always been meaning to go back to? A classic you never got around to? Maybe a brand new game that you couldn’t afford, but hey – whatever – put it on your credit card! Or just one last raid? Clearly some people will suggest that playing a game isn’t the most appropriate response to facing your final hours, and something about loved ones, but don’t worry about them. What will it be?
Probably The Witcher 2, if I’m going to be judged I should be ok, as I’ve been skipping past all the sex scenes. They really are rather awkward, aren’t they?
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how could you resist Ves ?
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Why, someone’s just a tiny, litte bit repressed, isn’t (s)he?
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Perhaps, though it’s more because rigid breasts and awkward animations do not make for a sexy few minutes.
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Something unexpected?
surprise,
indeed.
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X-Com: Apocalypse.
It sounds appropriate.
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I always had a soft spot for Total Annihilation.
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The X-Coms are the only choice really. This way Ill get to save the world or watch it burn, on my terms.
Also get to play prehaps the best PC game I have played.
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X-COM would be fairly appropriate and also a good time. Especially the last bit. I need to play more X-COM now. Either that or EVE Online, mainly because of this.
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X-Com enforcer.
That way, the world ending will be a relief.
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Daikatana. To prepare me for hell.
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Heh. I chuckled.
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When I do it I look like the letter J
J
(edit: and stupid)
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I will continue to fail to get the WItcher 2 to load. It’ll be a metaphor for the futility of existence.
KG
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More than likely I’ll be shopping. God, I hope not. My last game however, will probably be New Vegas.
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Stick and Hoop.
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World of Tanks or Brink, likely.
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WoT has decided that I live in the US, not the EU, so I guess that’s what I won’t be playing.
Guess I’ll play Robot Unicorn Attack instead.
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I’ll just listen to Erasure and jump over stars in my head!
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ALLWAAAAAYS!
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By decided you mean you picked the US server when given the option?
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I think it would have to be a blast through Chrono Trigger, however I’d hope there was time to boot up my PS2 for the first bit of Final Fantasy 10… balls to the rest of the game but the opening sequence with the piano refrain deserves it.
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The ending to FF10 made me cry
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What is this Pee Ess Too you speak of?
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I think a bit of Otherworld would be quite appropriate for the onset of the Apocalypse
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I’d finally have the nerve to play Amnesia Dark Descent!
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And I still won’t. It’s far more terrifying than the Rapture.
Do your worst, God!
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You can’t pull out this kind of question this early. I need a full afternoon to think about this.
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Well, time is kinda of the essence here….
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Well I’d cheat your tricky system by playing a good co-op game with my other-half. Maybe shell out for Fable 3 (since it’s the end and all) and give that a whirl. Hey, the world’s going to end tomorrow, might as well be adventurous and roll the dice on a game I’ve never played.
I will brave the end with such bravado as to make Admiral Nelson blush!
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I will be playing L.A. Noire.
I am going to PC Hell, where it’s all based around Limbo of the Lost and Farmville aren’t I?
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Yes. Yes you are.
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I would make a few trips for Azeroth to say goodbye, would load some of savegames of Planescape to experience it once again and I think I would try to make quick plays of a good variety in games I have loved all these years.
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am playing through Planescape again now. Hope I can finish before it all goes rapture-shaped outside. The ending of the game would actually be quite appropriate.
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What do you mean, “would”? Surely you don’t doubt the word of (a) god?
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I’ll probably go and play the final sequences of all the games where I’ve got to the end but then given up before the final boss fight or end sequence.
Bulletstorm, Doom 3, Beyond Good and Evil, , Half-Life, AvP, Crysis, Deus Ex, GTA IV, GTA San Andreas, Serious Sam, Psychonauts, Monkey Island, Planescape, Baldur’s Gate
Probably others. All games I get far into, then near the end I just quit. Never experienced the endings of those games for myself.
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If you’re going to finish any of those, finish Psychonauts. It’s such a wonderful game that it deserves to be completed.
Also, don’t believe what they say, Meat Circus isn’t actually that bad.
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I disagree.
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Meat Circus beats Hell like Cthulhu beats Jesus.
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I’m all thumbs and I could complete it without too much trouble. YOu just need to read up on how to get past that annoying “climbing on the wire and avoiding the fire” part. That’s the only hurdle.
But setting yourself up for a last-days of annoying boss fights seems self-sacrificing enough that you’re sure to get into heaven.
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If you never got to the end fight of Half-Life, you’re probably better off. And for the love of all that’s holy, finish BG, BG2 and ToB.
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Something arty, so I can feel smug and superior in the face of the heavens and earth melting away. In my opinion humility is overrated.
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Dinosaurs said exactly the same.
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I’ll break into Bioware’s office and play anything Mass Effect 3 related. Then I’ll die.
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I’ll help. They’re bound to have more than one computer with ME3 stuff loaded on it.
And if I have time after that (hah!), I’ll break into Valve and get my hands on anything and everything HL3-related.
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You’d have to take along a save, or you’d end up playing some generic Shep. Or even worse! Fem-shep!
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That sounds like the plot of Fanboys! Will ME3 be YOUR Phantom Menace? :p
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How could I forget about HL3!!! Noo!!!
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Brink on the RPS server, hopefully?
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Psychonauts, the Milkman Conspiracy level especially. I want to be reminded there was some good in the world before the whole condemned to hell lark kicks in.
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Wise decision. And Lungfishtopolis.
Lungfish Civilian: Oh no! Goggalor is headed for the orphanage!
Lungfish Civilian: [the building gets smashed] No, wait, that wasn’t the orphanage!
Lungfish Civilian: Oh no, that *was* the orphanage!… for dogs, it was the puppy orphanage everyone!
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You might actually have me there. Psychonauts. Just to see good old officer O’Lungfish again…
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If it was planned, I’d probably go buy Portal 2 or The Void.
If however I continue to just ignore it, odds are it will be either SWAT4, Company of Heroes or Pirates!
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Chrono Trigger on emulator, obv
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Chuckie Egg, on the speccy.
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I was going to start in on The Witcher, as Jim’s WIT has sold me on the sequel and I still haven’t made much headway on the first, but I don’t reckon there’ll be time now. And if the world is going to end I want to face the afterlife with a good mad on, so maybe I’ll go and bang me head against Super Meat Boy for a while to get me good and riled. I like it, but I’m crap at it and it angers me.
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Good idea on SMB. You might want to alternate with VVVVVV for maximum rage.
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I’m too enraptured with Terraria to even notice anything else.
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I see what you did there.
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See what did where? No time for nuances, I’m playing Terraria.
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Ya’ll can play your last game of your life.
Imma be save and sound in my Vault. Playing games.
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I’m going to spend my final hours being a grammar nazi. Ya’ll? Are you joking me? If you are going to use a southern dialect at least spell the word right. And there ends my daily dose of rage.
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Just a tip, be very careful with your glasses.
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Ecco the Dolphin.
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Psychonauts or Deus Ex of course
I’ll be comforted in the apocalypse by the soothing sounds of JC’s voice, and seranaded by the beautiful tones of I spill my drink!
Or the milkman.
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“What are the goggles for?”
“Where is the Milkman?”
“Where did you get that road sign?”
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I’ll carry on revising rather than playing games, since not even the end of the world would get me much leniency from the board of examiners…
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This.
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Similarly, GLORIOUS SCIENCE doesn’t care for omnipotent undoers. The Thesis must, nay, will be finished!
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This indeed… I will probably be toiling away at some boring formulas when the end of the world comes.
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I’´ll keep playing The Withcer 2. What a good game to be my final one.
No sense in replaying a game I’ve already done, as I imagine hell will be replaying bad games for eternity. So here’s me, anticipating a LOT Big Rigs Racing.
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Doom. Gotta brush up my Demon Murderin’ skills.
Although it’s more likely to be Terraria as I’ll have lost track of time…
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Deus Ex, natch. Appropriate on so many levels.
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That’s easy, i will be playing “The Wonderful End Of The World”.
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“AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity ” is also appropriate, I don’t want to get sucked in the heaven
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This is perhaps the only moment in history that anyone has ever really and truly wanted a like button
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So,the world ends with you, then?
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I see what you did there. ;)
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Ehhh. Witcher 2 I guess :D
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Beyond Good and Evil or Jade Empire, both are absolutely great, maybe I’d prefer BGE because Jade is so cute
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Hey! I just finished Jade Empire.
Er… that’s about all. But I’m happy someone is talking about it at a time when it’s in my mind… i usually get to games 10 years after everyone forgets them.
It was cool, and I liked the refreshing setting (though i hoped it’d be even more classic-king-fu-movie).
Did you think that all the characters (except Hu and mad inventor guy) seemed more like california teenagers than ancient asian villagers though?
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It will be a tie between Leagues of Legend or STALKER, I’m not too fussed about the end of the world, and who’s to say that we do not have computer games where we are going after this?
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See this is what I usually wonder. I do not see a reason to assume that human creativity and invention stops upon arriving in Heaven, since I consider those to be Good Things about humans…so it seems at least not impossible that we will still build things, which may include computing devices.
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I think Darksiders just for the irony.
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Darksiders. Should get me prepared since I failed the test:
http://peasandcougars.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/will-you-be-raptured-flowchart/
EDIT: Cyberpope just beat me to it on the Darksiders thing…
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it was that or carmageddon
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Messiah might not be a bad choice either…
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Black and White also!
this is now an appropriate games for the rapture subthread
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Surly Requiem: Avenging Angel would be appropriate.
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@ross_angus: After reading about that on Wikipedia I am very disappointed that it is not on gog.com
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Duke Nukem Forever. To ensure hell has frozen over.
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You won’t be able to do this. Ensured by snowball unthawed in the fires of hell by impossible chance.
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Since I’m not likely to be taken up into heaven, the world will end for me on 21st of October, so I still have some time to play more games. Feel sorry for those people going to heaven, never having the opportunity of playing Duke Nukem Forever (still, maybe we will still see pigs fly before that happens. one can hope that that prophecy also comes true).
Here’s to hoping Diablo 3 will launch in time before the apocalypse.
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DOOM – co-op.
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We’ll ALL be playing this, silly.
RIP AND TEAR!
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I’m getting dibs on the super shotgun though. I don’t think I’m strong enough to lift any of the others for more than about 10 mins.
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Big Rigs Over the Hill Racing. By the time I’m done, eternal oblivion won’t seem so bad!
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Terraria, or Symphony of the Night which I have recently acquired. I am not going to change my gaming plans because some idiot super-being might want to murder me.
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Guess I shouldn’t have bothered buying that train ticket then. Shit.
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Bioshock. Purely to be in Rapture for The Rapture.
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Probably Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and no doubt my last run before I’m conspicuously not raised up to the heavens will be one of those ones where you get poisoned and are running around looking for health potions or hoping that you get better as your life slowly ticks away to zero.
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End of the world huh? Is opening 10 Redtube pages a game or just an affront to the lord?
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Its certainly a way to pass the time.
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Episode 3.
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To add: I didn’t want to add anything to it, because it will drown in a causality discussion one way or the other. The chicken or the egg. But clearly, the release dates for it coincide.
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Clearly.
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I still haven’t finished Fallout 3, ooh, I also have to find all the audio diaries in Bioshock. That’s two vaguely topical games I have to play before the end times!
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Hexen. Or Mount & Blade whilst I ride to Valhalla.
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I’ll be doing M&B as well :) I’ll reach heaven on the mountain of corpses beside the SINGLE LADDER into a castle!
*Edit: I cannot spell today. I shall stop posting and offending everyone’s eyes. Enjoy the rapture!
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Sacrifice, of course.
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Oh yes. Was about to say this myself. Good to know others think that.
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Oh FFS, what was the point of doing all these exams if I’m not even gonna get the grades for them.
Actually, d’you reckon God is qualified to mark A-Level exam papers?
Also, Starcraft II. If it was the only game I owned I’d probably be in Diamond.
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“Actually, d’you reckon God is qualified to mark A-Level exam papers?”
No, but that never stopped me :)
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I must finish The Witcher 2 before judgment day!
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Jeez, well, 90% of my fave games are out as in a day i wouldn’t finish a Total War, Master of Magic or Xcom.
Maybe Microprose’s Magic The Gathering Shandalar game, that’d be one i’d have one last long game of that fits in the time.
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I’ll be finishing S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl (with obligatory Stalker Complete 2009 mod).
Opened the path to Pripyat yesterday then had to go back to Rostok to stock up on supplies & drop off all my newly acquired stuff in my stash at the bar.
After that’s finished I have to choose a next game to play between Team Fortress 2 scrims/matches.
Current list of potential next games is King’s Bounty: The Legend (have Armored Princess & Crossworlds too), King Arthur – The Role-playing Wargame, Metro 2033, Penumbra: Overture (have Black Plague, Requiem & Amnesia: The Dark Descent too), Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale, SpaceChem, or The Ball.
Before anyone says “you can play x without having played y” well I’m sure that’s great for some people but not for me thanks.
Having said that I know it’ll be mostly TF2.
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Pong – So I can spend my last moments feeling a certain ‘coming full circle’ grand finality to it all (a-la Hitchhikers Guide).
but then Pongs shite so maybe Portal or something
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I would track down that arcade machine from ‘The Last Starfighter’, I’d take the high score and get recurited to join an elite intergalactic alien defence force. While the rapture continues for humans and the mudball called ‘Earth’, I’ll be rocking some interstellar warfare in far off galaxies and starting romances with three breasted alien chicks.
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Battletoads for the Gameboy. The perfect preparation for spending all eternity in hell.
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I’d love to be replaying BG&E or maybe the first X-Com, but realistically speaking, given that my gaming PC is in a cardboard box in a warehouse somewhere, it may just have to be Dwarf Fortress instead.
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Hide the sausage
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Hur hur… and in the game?
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Hey, I’m hungry here, which one of you jerks hid all my sausages?
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I have given up on games starting now, this evening and every evening until ascension or a unpleasant descent will be spent repenting my digital sins.
Geralt lured me into his wild adventures of vice.
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Dreamfall is something I regret I haven’t found the time to play, so now would be a good time.
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Something very appropriate: Pathologic. I’ve already beat the game once, last year, as the Bachelor, now I’m replaying it as the Haruspex. Man, I love this game. I can’t think of anything else that has such wonderfully intertwined game mechanics not for the purpose of entertaining you, but rather social engineering, to convince you, on your own, to make bad choices and become a bad person. And not in the “haha murdering these hookers is fun” kind of way.
Just recently I broke into someone’s house, murdered those who responded negatively to my presence, and robbed the place blind. I viewed this as a necessary act in my quest to save these people from the plague: I was starving, food prices have skyrocketed in a massive panic bubble, and I was running low on HUMAN ORGANS anyway. Can’t go without those. Need to trade ‘em for drugs, and then blend them with drugs to make other, better drugs.
Wish that re-translation project hadn’t died out at Ice-Pick or whatever it is that happened to it. I can’t convince any of my friends to try out Pathologic due to the notoriety of the babelfished translation. :(
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Minecraft. To keep in the spirit, I should probably start a new world.
Maybe I’ll get back to Dead Space 1.
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Or you could steal someone else’s. I will either play that or summon undead in d&d. You know to put the last nail in the coffin. At least if we end up fighting demons for eternity I can cast lighting bolt.
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Deus Ex.
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If I have time to choose it will be an agony of indecision ending with my favourite game of all time: shadow of the colossus.
If I don’t get time to choose it’ll probably catch me at a bad moment like in the shower or something, *sigh* these things always coem at the worst times.
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Rapture is here soon
Shadow of the Colossus
Playing ’till the end
Cause Haiku’s are cool!
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DOOM. Then Hexen. Then Quake. Then Blood.
Just to ensure that I will be able to destroy whatever demons I meet. I will also be listening to Apocalyptica while humming the Imperial March. It’s going to be amazing.
EDIT: I’m also going to live tweet it.
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My thoughts exactly. If I have to fight the legions of Hell, I might as well prepare myself now. I just need is to find a Super Shotgun, but I expect they’ll be lying around everyhwere once the Apocalypse actually starts.
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Heretic, surely?
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That too! Also, Duke Nukem 3D, in case it’s actually aliens who are after our babes.
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QuakeWorld. The Bad Place. One last duel.
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Good choice of map. One of my favourites, so much so that I re-made it for UT2004.
http://jonhill987.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/mapping-how-hard-can-it-be/
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Afterlife. Bit of research is always a good idea.
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I hope I get to see the Four Surfers of the Apocalypso in person!
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Music to destroy worlds to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj0B0fyZNc8
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farmville
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Training for Hell, huh?
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Outcast. My ALL TIME favourite. Also Doom.
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The Witcher 2, which I’d acquire by any means necessary. I’m still waiting for my collector’s edition to arrive in the mail, and it’d just be too damn ridiculous if the world ended before I got to play it.
On the other hand, I think it’d be appropriate to end my gaming life with the games that started it: Little Big Adventure 2 and Riven: The Sequel to Myst. Both are truly wonderful games, and I’d love to get lost in those worlds again. Hell, I might even do that if the world doesn’t end.
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I’m finally getting around to playing Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, so probably that.
Except for this weird problem I’m having where it crashes on start up if I’ve not played any other games since booting Windows. So maybe Super Meat Boy, depending what time the end comes, ’cause that’s the fastest game to load and quit again that I have installed at the moment.
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System Shock 2
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Solium Infernum, while laughing like a madman
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I will also be doing this after I have finished my FPS binge. I’ve got my madman laugh perfected now.
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I shall also play this, for the Irony.
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Im gonna play Elemental: War of magic, becasue after a few hours of that, God is gonna be like “Whoa, dude you have suffered enough and let me into heaven”
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Since I’m more likely to stay behind than not, I would research playing times for all the games that interest me and I never finished, stick them in a spreadsheet, arrange from shortest to longest (with maybe some tweaking for preference) and play through them in that order, so that I may play as many games in as little time as possible. For as long as my computer survived the earthquakes and rains of fire, anyway.
Yes, I am anal. But efficient!
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For balance I’d be tempted to play my first ever game (certainly the first I bought anyway) as my last – Booty on the Spectrum. But it was a bit shit and bloody hard, so probably Lords of Chaos instead.
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Scrabbling my collection for titles with religious or after life related themes:
Planescape Torment
Archangel
Soul Reaver
Painkiller
but the prize has to go to perhaps my favourite game of all time:
Sacrifice.
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slow news day, eh?
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Team Fortress 2.
Would have to be some kind of MP just for interests’ sake – so I could see whether people were dropping off one by one, by location, or whether we all get hit at once.
Of course, if I’m first to go from the server then it would be a wasted experiment, but at least I’d have got in a game of the only decent team-based online MP game that exists beforehand. (In spite of the new hats, weapons etc).
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UFO: Enemy Unknown.
This is the only correct answer right? What do I win?
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Left Behind
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Zelda game watch…. I’m finishing my gaming life the same way I started :D
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I’ll be trying to play through The Witcher 1 to consider myself worthy of the sequel. I’m already at chapter 3 and it became less of a chore to play, so I’ll probably have it finished by then.
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Prey, obviously.
(What? RPS too highbrow for a cheap pun?)
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I was looking for the programme schedule on the Family Radio web site, as I quite fancy listening along tomorrow, but the only listing I can find is for Sunday! http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/join/live/
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If the world was definitely going to end and there was no doubt we were all going to hell anyway, I’d pirate RapeLay.
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Dwarf Fortress. Just to show that puny god how the shit is done.
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I’d have to toss a coin between Starcraft 2 and Demon’s Souls. Both should provide me with necessary skills for the upcoming apocalypse.
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Hide the Sausage.
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Warband, my men and I will ride into the sunset of victory. Also clasping to my girlfriend in the throes of passion. Rapture, fuck yeah.
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I’m really on a Frozen Synapse kick, so I’d probably keep at that and its eerily soothing music until my computer shut off and reality sank in. Then, I would try to hide behind cover for the firefight advantage. XD
Also anyone else have anything going on tomorrow? Happy 26th birthday me…
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If i’m playing with people- Team Fortress 2, so that i can be going out with my friends when it all ends.
On my own- Morrowind. Happily lose myself in Solstheim or Sadrith Mora one last time…
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PATHOLOGIC.
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Dig out the NES, play Noah’s Ark. Get some tips.
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Sadly, while I’d like to spend my final hours with the Witcher 2, instead I’ll be in Slough with my girlfriend. Rubbish.
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If fortune smiles upon me, then it’ll probably be one of the first three Ratchet & Clanks. Man, do i love these games.
And if fortune REALLY smiles upon me (and by extension everyone else), then i guess there won’t be an end of the world tomorrow.
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Total War 2: Kingdoms with the newest version of the mod “Third Age”. It’s just fucking EPIC!
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I’ll convince the Lord to play a round of TF2 with me (wearing The Cheater’s Lament of course) and give him a good ol’ facestab.
Then I’ll introduce him to the Beast which bears the name WoW and live a long and happy life as God is trying to finish the game.
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TF2 I have been playing, and in TF2 I shall remain… ‘cuz it’s not actually happening tomorrow. Otherwise it’d probably be StarCraft: Brood War. Maybe I could finally finish it.
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After watching one more time the intro sequence from Anachronox, I’ll go down slaughtering bots in Unreal Tournament ’99, FEAR 1 or the last level from Serious Sam – The First Encounter. I’ll probably go with UT.
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Ahh, simulated epic death surrounded by actual epic death.
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16 bots with rocket launchers on a small map. Mwuahahahaha.
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I still miss SiN multiplayer, or Heretic 2. Assuming I could get people to play against on a server it would be one of those. Failing that, fuck it, will be in the pub.
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I think i’d play Half Life again, but i’m not sure i’d play games at all.
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Final Fantasy VII, sorry its not a pc game but, its just a great adventure.
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It had a PC port made in 1998. I played it in 2006. :)
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I’ll probably be playing Terraria, which I just got yesterday. I’m loving the Witcher 2 when it works, but I’ve run in to so many bugs that I’ve decided to wait for a patch before I continue.
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“Just another raid” in my case, which is Project Reality (not actually an MMO.)
Hopefully a round like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13BR5NnVjZ8
:D
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It’ll be The Witcher 2. However, if it really does look like the world is going to end, I’m going to strap on my plate mail, head out into the street and shout “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!” at the first angelic/demonic entity who looks at me funny.
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I’m determined to get a reasonably profitable factory loop going in X3: Terran Conflict before judgement day.
Why yes ladies, I’m single!
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A suggestion: LBGames Collectors Pak ($99.99) – the amazing Left Behind series in one handy, downloadable collectors volume.
Buy it here, while you still can: http://www.leftbehindgames.com/Product.php
Failing that…I’ve just bought myself Mass Effect 2. It’s so good to unleash the One True Shepard again that I suspect I’ll be doing this right up until the angels come knocking at my door.
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not ‘Charlie Church Mouse SuperPak’, surely?
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Wow, $100 for the Left Behind games? If only there was some form of online store where I could frequently buy massive bundles of actual good games for around a third of that…
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I was counting on the word “amazing” to clue people in to the fact I was MASSIVELY talking the piss out of these games, and by extension the entire ‘franchise’, philosophy, clothing line…but it seems that people may actually be taking me seriously.
Relax. I was joking. These games are pish. Left behind is hateful in every way, and a whole buncha Christian Fundies are going to have egg on their faces come the 22nd, which I hope we’ll all be watching with undisguised glee.
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Praise Champion: With 40 top praise and worship songs and 20 bonus Christmas songs, up to 4 players can sing along together and compete for the highest score!
And you thought a video game could never capture the essence of Christian worship.
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“Thought”, Urthman? No. Hoped.
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I found a copy of Planescape: Torment buried in an Electronics Boutique bargain bin on my way home. Then I heard about this apocalyptic business. I’m not entirely sure what to draw from it, but as far as last games go, I think I might have a winner.
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I’d play Big Brother 2. After a few minutes the apocalypse will seem a blessing and I’ll look forward to the world ending.
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Ball in a cup evidently.
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Starcraft 2… big fan of escapism
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“The Last Guardian”, the new game from Team Ico. I know it’s not out yet, but if it’s really the end of the world, I’ll just fly to japan and force the developers to let me play it at gun point.
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Probably Portal – or if Steam survives Judgement Day then I’ll pick up Portal 2.
Other options would be Jedi Knight (1) or Ocarina of Time (from a console!) or Tie Fighter – but I’m not sure I’d have the time or ability to concentrate on those if it was all fire and brimstone. So portal it is.
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I’m going to play a Japanese tentacle rape game. If I’m going to Hell (and I probably am) then I want it to be for a damned good reason.
In for a penny and all that…
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I’ll be going to a game jam, so it’s going to be something entirely brand new and either rubbish (being whatever I’ll have put together) or potentially not so (if made by someone else at the jam).
“finish game before end of world” is a nice way to put pressure on though….
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Looks like it’s going to be Vagrant Story. I shall die as I lived: poring over weapon stats.
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Jagged Alliance 2
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I’ll play Ninja Gaiden on a NES emulator.
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Seems like the obvious choice under the circumstances is Left Behind: Eternal Forces.
Not that it’s entirely appropriate. Tim LaHaye (co-author of the Left Behind series) has come out against getting Raptured this weekend. Because if there’s one thing that a Bible Prophecy enthusiast can’t abide, it’s another man’s predictions. Accepting them would be like admitting that your neighbor’s stamp collection is more impressive than your own.
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So I just skimmed that link quickly. A few things that stand out is the short quotes taken from the bible to express their point. In my experience you never trust a bible quote as it’s usually taken out of context.
Other than that, if they are correct in their “calculations” that every time 1 day is mentioned in the bible it means 1000 years than those 5 months are going to be awfully long. Even with their studious mathematicians working out this end of the world calculation I find it odd they failed to pick up on that.
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Given how short the breaks my tyke gives me at the moment are, it’s likely to be the Cargo demo or Ghost Master (if he gives me no breaks, because I’ll be playing them this lunchtime) or Defense Grid (if he gives me some little breaks.)
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Realms of the Haunting. I’ll need to memorize the locations of those disembodied brains for when I’m in Hell. Alternatively, Grim Fandango, in order to make the right contacts that will get me into the afterlife.
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How about Dante’s Inferno?
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It would be hilarious if they actually got this one right.
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“Hilarious” is not the word I’d choose, but I see your point. The most surprised will be the guy who put up the webpage, I bet.
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Well, as a bare, bare minimum, I’d revisit oldies to take them fresh in my mind, so I’d do some pirating in Elite, a night terror mission in Xcom, L4D versus No Mercy with my mates, the last level of Portal 2, one race in Spa with Grand Prix Legends in the Lotus, a big dogfight guns only in Su27 Flanker, the last missions of Tie Fighter, the intro to Half Life, some World of Goo, a walk around my Minecraft palace, a stroll in the Britannia of Ultima V, a NHL 96 tournament final with the glorious Suomi against the evil Canadians, a pair of rounds of Day of Defeat in the Anzio map, a 2 versus 2 in any small map of Teeworlds, the first third of Giants: Citizen Kabuto, some Doom 2 coop and of course, the beginning of Day of the Tentacle.
Once I was done with this, I’d get back to try and finish as much of SpaceChem as I could before the sea rises (I live in Holland, so I suppose this is how the world ends here…)
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Starsiege: Tribes
If i find someone to play with I’ll do some round of all the old maps like Raindance, Scarabrae, Snowblind and Rollercoaster!
SHAZBOT!!!
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Left4Dead.
You see what I did?
It’s a metaphor.
For God leaving me behind.
You reading this, God? Huh? What’s the frickin’ big idea? You love all your creations, apart from the ones that don’t attend your club meet on Sundays?
Git.
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Lord of the Rings Online and I’ve added a timer!
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I’ll just spend all day thinking about what game I want to play. And then make up my mind and play one for 5 minutes before I go to Hell (for being Pastafarian instead of Christian, who apparently get dibs on Judgment Day stuff)
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I’d go with Realitymod for BF2. Running armed through a forest for hours chatting with random strangers on how to traverse given forest properly. Just the right thing to do during the apocalypse but without acquiring the expensive gear needer for proper warfare.
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I will be riding my white horse (Spirited Courser) with my companions beside me taking the battle to those evil demonic forces (Khergits) arrayed against Zion (Halmar). There will be rivers of blood.
Armageddon baby!
But seriously, as a Christian I think these people are just nuts. This sort of prediction comes along every few years and they are always wrong. “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” – Matt. 24:36
Ya’ll need to get right with God for sure, but this isn’t the way to convince anyone.
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Maria Whittaker Strip Poker on the Commodore 64.
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I suppose I’d replay the Ultima VII series.
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Wasn’t there a Left Behind game? Wouldn’t that be the most appropriate?
I’ll be playing TF2 and Amnesia: Dark Descent.
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I’ll keep playing Deus Ex. If I finish that before the clock runs down I’ll fill the rest of the time with some more Frozen Synapse multiplayer goodness.
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I will play the opening minutes of Monkey Island. The haunting/jaunty music would be a perfect background to the apocalypse, on the one hand we’re all going to die, on the other, I assume that means heaven exists and we have a few split seconds to repent and find a place up there. I would guide Guybrush down to the first bunch of pirates and tell them I want to be a fireman, then when they show no interest in that ambition, I would smile and wait for the fires to consume me.
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I’d replay the entire Thief trilogy. Then I’d go break into the homes of everyone who was eaten by the giant spaghetti monster or whatever.
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Don’t Shit Your Pants, obv.
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Rise of Flight. naturally.
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I would prolly fire up a NES emulator and play Super Mario Bros, Contra, Double Dragon and Spartan X. The first games I remember playing as a child.
For PC.. Doom, Tie Fighter, X-Com should do it.
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Quazatron
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Well, I’ve always wanted to play Russian Roulette.
Is this happening by time zone? If I switch time zones at 5:00 in my time zone resulting in the time being 6:00, what will happen? I’m riding back with my parents on vacation tomorrow and would like to ensure that they are not behind the wheel when this all goes down.
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It’s May 21st, 4:30 AM here. World didn’t end. Just finished Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (PC + 360 controller) in one sitting (6-7hrs). Have a feeling nobody knows that it’s a really gosh darn good game.
Mechanically it’s the best of the franchise, Assassins Creed engine derived and all. Weirdly felt a little ridgid but at the same time more in control and stuck in animations less. The combat is somewhere between AC and Arkham Asylum with a dash of God of War. You fight heaps of dudes at once at times but they’ve done some kind of witchcraft to make it actually fun and never annoying. Frequent bad assery thanks to that kick move. Way fewer cutscenes than most “AAA” games. No QTEs. No Nolan North. Leveling system is a nice addition (and actually tied into narrative!) but the skills were pretty disappointing. That UPlay shit is shit but atleast it syncs save games. Makes up for Prince of Persia ’08.
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I never played Deus Ex, and started 2 days ago because human revolution looks freaking awesome.
So I guess a game as loved as Deus Ex should be okay as a final one ^^
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Have a little ‘fun’ before it’s too ‘fun’ to have more ‘fun’..A little more of Dwarf fortress?
To be honest i think i wouldnt be in the mood to play..
If the backdrop for this was ” IF computers would become unusable ” then sure…
When i was little, something close to that experience was when my father wanted to use the PC for work while i was at the best of playing… The result was Tiberian Sun cut and folded from paper, played with dices and rulers on the floor…..
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Drakensang : The River of time. Ikve been playing it whenever I get the chance lately and I’ll be damned if It isn’t one of if not the best RPGs I have ever played. I honestly expected it to be budget filler material before AAA season but it has truly blown me away. So, yeah.
Also cricket with my toddler who is in hospital tonight.
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Oh well, I will probably finish aquaria, and then go and play Duke Nukem 3D
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The World Ends With You
The game is amazing, the title is fitting, and I get the added bonus of a good soundtrack to die to.
Plus, I get to die smug with the fact that I have played one of the best games ever not to go mainstream.
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Gaaah, had no time to play games. Had to saddle horse and stuff for ride today.
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“It will be on May 21st that God will raise up all the dead that have ever died from their graves.”
What better way to celebrate the zombie apocalypse than some L4D2?
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So… is this happening in the afternoon or what? Do we have 15 minutes left?
I spent my final AM on earth playing the hung-over-in-bed game.
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Aw, shit! I forgot about the apocalypse. Now the last game I ever play will be Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned…
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There’s a friend I’ve never beat at chess. But perhaps DOOM would be the best “prepare for the future” game.
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I’ll die as I lived. Playing Quake.
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How about a game of ‘Hunt The Sausage’ with the beautiful Mrs The Tupper? Co-op obviously – it’s the end of the world after all, so no embarrassing cups of coffee and small talk to worry about in the morning.
Who’s game?
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Well, “6 pm” came and went without earthquakes, so I guess I’ll… keep playing Fallout.
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The Rapture stopped The Witcher 2 crashing every 30 minutes, Hooray! However, it failed to fix the letter boxing and lack of in-game save management, Boo!
7/10
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