Modern Warfare 11: Child Soldier

I think a really well done game could have you playing as a child soldier. With the tutorial mixed into the indoctrination and regular beatings. Maybe see a friend or two get shot trying to escape or just not living up to standards.

If a stealth aspect was included it could really add a powerful element, having you train your combat skills a few times on a range and later on live villagers. Then dumping you somewhere fighting other children.

Ultimately you attempt to escape, pants shittingly tense stealth sections of breaking out of camp unarmed, then escaping across a desert, avoiding patrols, wild animals and rival warlords before finally reaching safety.

The victory scene shows you in a refugee camp, surrounded in barbed wire and armed guards. A different prison, still dreaming of freedom.



I didn't think twice about extracting organs from the little girls in bioshock

I like my arrest like my period, bloody and nonexistant

How do you make drugs and drug use appeal to the demographic that thinks 'chemicals' are somehow dangerous and 'natural' is somehow healthy.

Whelp, you don't. The collective unconscious has absorbed more than 70 years of fear mongering and fear stories. Acid in your spine driving you insane? Cannabis causing schizophrenia? Acetylsalicylic acid tolerance leading to use of harder drugs?

Well the last one is true.

Medicinal use is a great argument, but ultimately avoids the important issue.

Freedom to do whatever you like with your own body.

Which we have by the by, but we don't have the ability to posses dried flowers and chemical compounds that react with our bodies. Why? I am not really sure.

Stealth legislation might work, bury it in rhetoric regarding police protection and better use of resources and you might well find yourself in luck.

If the opposition is not above point scoring, and they aren't.

Democracies are only as strong as their weakest participating member.

Reduce those participating or make them stronger then.

Hax!

Hold up, I'll hook you up with a moist devil's food that is superior to packet mix.

From my dear old Aunt Eva.

1 cup sugar
1 cup flour
.5 cup cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
.5 cup shortening (I use butter)
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup hot water

Mix dry except soda. Add egg, vanilla and butter. Stir through.

Pour hot water over soda, add to mixture, bake in 8x8 pan at 350f for 35'

Progression profession

I like a good progress bar on games, do you?

A sense of achievement and a solid endgame to work towards are essential reinforcer in goal oriented behavior. For instance, the time it takes me to go from picking a pokeball and naming my rival 'rapist' to utterly ruining said rival's shit after the elite four when he now goes by the dubious nomenclature of 'champion rapist', is virtually identical to when I first played the game.

The markers that ticked up for me were badges and pokemon level. I was not concerned with catching them all, and I only did so once, on a particularly boring transatlantic flight. While sitting next to a lady who smoked and complained that she had to sit next to a damn kid.

She made more noise than I did! Not to mention the constant coughing and trying to subtly smoke while crammed into the window seat of economy class.

Ahem.

So Gyms, I can speed up a bit on a replay by knowing what requirements each has, making sure to pick up a Butterfree to buffer my Charmander against Brock while I am in the forest. But the intermediary time between Gyms and the travel and fetch quests between cities is held up by the need to fight anyone who looks at me. Sure I could skip them, but without leveled up pokemon, the endgame became a grind fest or a painful use of revive and repel only to reach the elite four with no hope of winning.

The only difference between my first play through and subsequent ones was my awareness of how far I had progressed. True I did things a little differently, but the outcome was a similar time.

The progress bar became visible.

Jumping over to two other classics I have replayed. Super Metroid, took 14 hours to explore fully the first time I played it, and 3 hours the second time. Internet tells me that less than 1 hour is possible.

The shortened time span works greatly in its favor, replay value is up and I felt like I was playing with fast forward held down once I knew where to go next.

The other classic, Metroid Prime, felt faster on the replay, but not the same way. It was faster, a difference of 14 hours down to 8 between first an second play through. But there was a big old percentage bar sitting there on the pause screen monitoring scanning progress and exploration. I knew how fast I was progressing the first time.

I have largely opted out of modern gaming in the era extending past the PS2 and N64. I'll get there eventually, but I suspect that achievements systems, while driving people to acquire and finish bad games, will do nothing to improve replay value.



Stupid ice shriekbat.

People to do, things to see.

I'm heading out
and off
I'm headinv over the hill and around the bend
I'm heading nowhere special and noplace fast
I'm heading in and on.
I'm following the heading of my tilted head.

Curry pizza with marinated Chicken and Roast carrot.

Whelp lets see, do you want to make this?



You should!

It is really tasteful.

To make the base, I used a Naan bread recipe.

Turn on your oven, 180 degrees C fan forced or whatever you feel like.

.5 cup hot water
1 tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt

Wait until it starts bubbling, maybe 10 minutes or less.

Add

.5 cup yogurt
1 tbs oil
2-3 tsp crushed garlic, to taste.
2-3 cups flour or enough to make it stop sticking to your hands while you kneed.
.5 tsp baking powder

Then kneed it, and leave it someplace warm to rise. This takes a while, so do something else.

Baked carrots.

Slice the carrots into pieces 1cm thick and put on a greased baking tray. Add salt, pepper and paprika, or whatever you feel goes well with carrot. Some people like honey.

Bake those suckers in the preheated oven from the first step. Aren't you glad you preheated it before making the dough?


The carrots are done when they are soft through, maybe 15 minutes or so.

Anyway, at this point in time, fire up your time machine and travel back at least 5 hours, where you will prepare.

Marinated Chickens!

Dice two pieces of thigh fillet chicken, or three or however much chicken you want on the pizza.

Mix a half a cup of yogurt, some chili powder and a bit of coriander. You can put in tomato paste if you want, but pfft, come on man.

Marinate the hell out of that chicken, then spend the rest of your time busily hunting down your grandfather and killing him.

After five hours cook that chicken in a hot pan with a little oil, or a bbq if you have one. The idea is to make delicious chickens.

Take the carrots out of the time paradox or oven and leave someplace for a bit later.

Squash the naan flat then stretch it out with your hands on a floured surface. Bake on a greased pan for about 10 minutes. Then put some ghee or butter on the top, flip it and start pizza assembly.

You can put a bunch of other fresh stuff on at this stage, or cheese, a cottage cheese is probably most suitable.

I used a premade curry sauce, cause i'm kinky. But making your own is a better idea. The internet will help you since I am a curry fraud.

Curry sauce goes on the pizza, then chicken and carrot, then other stuff if you like.

Bake for another 15-23 minutes, to get everything delicious and risen. Or whatever, it depends on how you like your naan and making sure everything is heated through. If you have cheese it depends how well you want it cooked.

I really shouldn't have to tell you how to handle this. Get with it.

Some interesting titles

of gaems I have played recently that were so awesome I wanted to share.


Point and click adventures

Submachine 1 The basement - and the rest of the submachine series heavily puzzle based, not much storyline.

The Dreamerz

Synapsis

Casual Gameplay Escape - Nostalgia and presuppositions, I enjoyed the introspection

Johnny Rocketfingers

Johnny Rocketfingers 2

Back to the Cubeture - for teh lulz

Belial chapter 1

Belial chapter 2

Belial chapter 2.5

Reincarnation series - the entire reincarnation series by this developer.


Atmosphere and narrative, have not played anything immersionating since thief 2

Neverending light Great narative driven gameplay

How to raise a dragon How to raise a dragon, you play the dragon raising yourself

Endeavor Shadow of the collosis may look better than 8 bit graphics, but this one got me.

No time to Explain No time to explain, just play the game.

Vox populi vox dei - A Werewolf Thriller Nice mechanics, short and snappy gameplay, beautiful atmosphere.

Mastermind World Conqueror


Text adventures, short and sweet fun.

You find yourself in a room I find myself in rooms often, it is a nifty trick I use to navigate.

Don't shit your pants Sage advice, good luck


Programming puzzle gaem, if you can describe how to adapt the behavior of making coffee to pissing and have already tried to optimize these are for you

Light bot

Lightbot 2.0 Now with vibrating wheels

Exploit If you ever wanted hacking to seem well awesome, this is with what you shall delude yourself.

Electic box Fun, but not in a having sex with robots kind of way.

Talesworth Adventure ep1


Metroidesq platformers

K.O.L.M. - kind of like metroid

Robot wants kitty - also like
metroid and duke nukem (the first and second ones) there are more in the robot wants series, robot wants ice cream was fun


Interesting duplication mechanics, especially check out company of myself for the story

Enough plumbers

Continuity

Hello Worlds

The company of myself You should be playing this, when you finish you should play it again.


Portalesq games with a hostile narrator giving you bad advice.

Shift

Shift 2

Shift 3

Shift 4

Time kufc

Portal the flash version


The understanding games series was quite interesting also

Understanding games episode 1, a new hope


And this was just weird an experiment in visual perception that makes you think funny for hours afterwards.

Z-rox



Originally sent as an email.

God of Thunder

Damn this is a good game.

http://www.adeptsoftware.com/got/

The puzzles are tight, the characters are funny, the combat is nerve wracking. The difficulty curve is perfect, not just good or decent, perfect.

I still get cold sweats when I look at the D key. (Pressing it kills you).

Like all Norse gods and some plumbers, Thor dies by spinning in a circle and falling on his back. His eyes do not close, he can see forever!

There is no excuse for you not to play this, it fits on a 3.5 inch floppy. Remember those?



I told you I was hardcore.

Distressing Reassessing Repossessing Disposessing

You can hear her coming from over a k.
Just her proximity will ruin your day.
She keeps on the dick by dressing a whore.
And the government pays her to keep spawning more.

The babies pay for the booze that keeps her placated.
Booze filled despair makes learning seem overrated.
Systematic social slavery can't make me frustrated,
Cause inarticulate whining just fills me with hatred.

I must be old, I'm scared of the youth.
Not for my life, I'm scared for the truth:
That meaning in life comes from finesse.
And mindless consumption is a worse fate than death.



I need a good beat and I might try rap, or at least beat. I have the beret and everything.