Seems we both have December birthdays! Hope you had a good one, Ross! And yeah, I'm right with you on proper nearest-neighbor scaling, I can't believe that's not a thing yet.
In runescape there was "The Falador Massacre" where some players exploited a bug in a player-made home with a pvp area that allowed them to leave the home but still be able to attack players and their victims couldn't fight back. they ran into the nearby city of falador and killed everyone in their path. when you die in that game, you lose everything but your three most valuable items, so death is not something to take lightly. the most notable player received a permanent IP ban and in 2016 the devs made an event where on the 10th anniversary there was a giant pvp event with the death penalties taken off, players would be "possessed" by the ghost of the banned player and gain the power to attack others.
Not really an MMO story but a good openworld multiplayer story. Playing Red Dead Redemption free roam years ago. Joined a random posse of two other people. One player was the showgirl, the other was a random thug. So thug and showgirl. So me and these two people are traveling all across the map doing freeroam missions and eventually we do one where we have to steal gold from miner and then ride off in a carriage. Me n the thug did most of the work while the showgirl gave us support. When we got to the end of the mission and had to get the carriage the showgirl was the first one on it. Well I was the second person to get to the carriage and so I tried to get on it, only to be shot in the chest by the showgirl and left bleeding in the ditch as the thug climbed aboard and they both took off. Before finishing the mission they kicked me from the posse so I lost out on everything from that mission. I was PISSED So I did the only thing someone who's shot and left for dead can do. I roamed the map looking for the toughest SOBs I could find. The first guy I got was fighting the military in Mexico and was stuck in a church. I got him out and offered him a place in my posse. After that we went and tracked down the highest leveled people or the people with the highest scores and recruited them until we were maxed out. Once we were all together they asked me why I gathered them. "To kill the ones who thought they could leave me for dead" And so we road through the night to blackwater, where the thug and showgirl were hiding out. Me and my posse chased them through the streets and killed them until they left the free roam. After that we all road our separate ways, knowing that the cause I brought them together for was complete. All in all it was a good waste of two hours.
This is something straight out a western movie. Guy gets betrayed, shot and left for dead. But he menages to cling on to life, then gathers band of the most dangerous gunslingers in the West, track downs people who betrayed him and kills them. Amazing.
_Goes onto the AF forums_ _People already recommending soundtracks like FTL, Hotline Maimi, LISA, and Nuclear Throne._ Dont worry Ross, these people know what they are doing.
MMO STORY I used to play WAAAAY to much Lineage 2, and my guild have after a year managed to take over one of the (back than) 6 castles. and after two weeks of harvesting the taxes like a boss and swimming in riches another guild OFC tried to take it from us. Now Sieges in Lineage 2 were massive 200-1500 person battles that always turned out crazy long and crazy painful. it involved taking various gates down and activating certain points inside the castle while players and if they could afford it hardcore castle guard NPCs tried to stop the incoming flood. Now we knew we will be overtakes cause of the HUGE alliance that formed against the upstart guild we had. So our lord figured a super clever and meticulous trick to defend the place. he and his close guard dropped a single coin of gold ALL OVER the final room we had to defend. Mind you this MMO was the good old click to go there type of control, there was no WASD movement here baby. So this meant to come into the inner area you had to click the ground, and pick the gold up sending your character into an animation where they run for the loot and pick it up, allowing just enough time to be shred down to nothing by us standing just outside the field of 1gold pieces :D This worked and we managed to hold them off untill the timer ran out for them. Unfortunately this never worked again cause they told this to everyone and next time sent in about a thousand pets to pick the gold for them, but it was super memorable and I still remember the butt-hurt this caused.
Oh boy, have I got a WoW story for you. Once I had a guild of twenty men and we pulled an EVE style infiltration on a guild with over one thousand individual players. After three years, I successfully got to the point where the guild leader handed power to me while he went on vacation for a couple of days. In that time I promoted several "sleeper" characters to the highest rank below mine, as well as one friend to the same rank as me. I proceeded to clear everything out of the guild bank, and then left. I was set for life, and my account was suspended for one month. After that, I went on an exploit spree. From getting under stormwind to climbing mountains only to fall through the world, and then throwing massive parties in these hard to reach places that would nearly crash servers from time to time. I was even one of the first people to get to GM island, before it was removed from the main map. Now, I have an EVE story for you. As someone who loves screwing with the guys in Titans, I have a little Atron that hits 3 km/h, and I regualrly use it to smuggle ammo across enemy lines. I calculate every movement of every enemy in order to avoid any prolonged contact, though one time, someone challenged me to dodge Titan fire for fifteen minutes. I remember my exact words. "Hold my ammo, I'm going to piss some people off." And for fifteen minutes I flew tight, high speed circles around ten titans.
Ross, you are an absolute legend. I hopped in your magical windowless van when Freeman's Mind was still in its 10s and never left since. And it wasn't even the show itself that kept me going through the years with you on my subscription page, it was a full conviction that you are a guy with his head in the game and unparalleled dedication to what you do. The quality of your content is astounding and it always will be. I salute you!
No views? Did I find a video at the literal moment it was uploaded? In any case, happy birthday Ross. The last MMO I played and got really deep into was Star Wars Galaxies. I became so invested in it, that my love for MMO's died with it. 7th Imperial Battalion on Shadowfire server, those memories are still with me, and the forums are somehow still hosted. THough no one posts there anymore. Innosk will one day question that 9.99$ or whatever deduction from his bank account and cancel the hosting service, but until then, it exists as a time capsule that always reminds me of them. My most memorable story from that game that is similar to what is requested, is something I wasn't even involved in My friends Baxe, Scorriss and Innosk stripped naked during a very serious business 7th Imp Player Association meeting and crawled through the aisles as our leader gave a speech about the future of the guild. The whole heavy roleplay aspect of the guild kinda died right there, and it was as unexpected as it was hilarious. Mostly because Rynn, our leader, did not acknowledge their manpile even once... XD I miss those guys.
+jimmy jam senpai He probably will get to it eventually, but I doubt anytime soon though. Same with even games like Fallout 1 & 2, there's still a lot of obscure and/or relatively unknown games that Ross has not covered yet, so he would cover those types of games before he gets onto the super popular and "the now" type of games. Hell, I don't see him doing a Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines video anytime soon (....maybe next year for Halloween?), which is a cult classic, but I'd say more well known then other games he's likely to cover since VTMB is on a lot of "best games of all time" lists somewhere.
+jimmy jam senpai Eh, I doubt it'll happen. They're good games, but everybody knows about Hotline Miami. The Game Dungeon is hardly meant for the type of game that everybody already knows.
+jimmy jam senpai Everyone knows about those games, there isn't much point of him doing those as most of his game dungeons are drawing attention to lesser known games, I'd recommend he covers Underhell to be honest.
+TheVeryRareGmanID Oh crap, I'm still waiting for the re-release/chapter 2 for that. Chapter 1 is probably the best original source mod I have ever played, and one of the scariest games I have ever played as well.
Okay, I'm not exactly sure if this is what you're after, but I've got a story where I became a kill crazy suicide bomber in an MMO. The game was called Gunz: the Duel. I think it's gone offline, and I've never played a game quite like it. It was a third-person shooter platformer. You can probably still find videos to see what it was like. So I was playing a game of team death match with friendly fire on. For the most part, people would know not to use explosive weapons in this kind of game, but this one guy kept throwing grenades into crowds, killing friend and foe alike. I asked him to stop, I _tried_ being reasonable, and his response was to kill me and say" now stfu" As a frustrated teenager with no life, I naturally didn't appreciate the nuance of his response. I quit. But I didn't quit the game, or even the match. I didn't even change sides. I exited to the gameroom, and switched my load out: two rocket launchers, two frag grenade packs. I reentered, and first chance I got, I blew him (and the people in his immediate vicinity) the fuck up. My teammates, either forgetting how much of a douche that guy was or just raging over getting caught in the cross fire, seemed to think I was in the wrong. They killed me quickly, and attempted to do so at the start of each match even though my bloodlust would have ended after the first time. The just _had_ to keep trying to kill me, so fine. FINE. They wanted to get in the way of my fun? Then I would make my own fun. They wanted to stand in the way of justice? Then they would have to face my justice. I stayed in that room for about an hour. I would start many matches by throwing grenades at my feet as soon as I spawned. They kept trying to kick me, but they needed a majority of players to vote "yes" in order to do that, and the other team wasn't cooperating. In the end, out of 100 matches, my team won about 20, mostly from before I went insane. All of our kill to death ratios were in deep negatives, my own being the greatest from all the penalties I got from killing teammates. Looking back, it seems so childish, but at the time I felt a mix of pride and joy, enacting utter justice and having a lot of fun in the process.
+Space Jew YOU MONSTER! The only thing hideous I did in the game is stick my sword in the bottomless pit and wait for noobs to fall in the pit. LOL (especially the gladiator map)
okay, just started watching, but I think you'll love this story I was playing a MMO i think it was called lost colony. something like that... anyways the game's combat revolves around you sending a fleets of ships to attack other players and pray the RNG hates them more than you. another important detail, the game sends information to the server every second instead of every millisecond. this let me reverse engineer their their RNG (which was based on time of day) and time my attacks in order to nearly garente victory in every fight. within hours I had at least 30 people spamming me with death threats, after wipping out weeks of work with basically nothing... needless to say I was banned. But, it was soooo worth it.
Ross, sorry I didn't notice this video sooner! Happy horribly belated birthday. Your videos are so amazing that I let them sort of pile up until I have enough new videos from you that I can comfortably binge watch them all night. I hope your birthday was as awesome as your videos!
My friend played world of warcraft for 55 hours straight and passed out at the end,he slept for the next 35 hours. Best thing about this is that the whole thing is captured on youtube channel:WTii or his twich channel!
This is why you are such an amazing dude. This was a great birthday gift and many of these things were completely possible even for your average Joe. For me, some good soundtracks are for Tales of Legendia and Majora's mask. Any MMO story I can remember is the WoW wedding. I hope you had a wonderful birthday Ross! You deserve it!
Sorry I'm late, Ross, but happy birthday. I'm actually overjoyed about your requests. They're the best kind of gifts, the ones everyone can enjoy! I love finding new game soundtracks that I haven't gotten to because I'm kind of a snob and don't like trying new games, so it's nice to find new soundtracks that I missed because of my strange behavior. And I can read those hilarious MMO stories about mass slaughter and utter mayhem all day long. And the art? Sweet Jesus, do I LOVE me some of that fine art. The type that gets me thinking, imagining, daydreaming. Thanks for all the content, Ross, and I hope you had a great b-day.
Happy Birthday Ross! Thank you for all your hardwork making this videos. Ross's Game Dungeon is my favourite show on RUclips. No question. I hope you get everything you want buddy!
Hey man I just want to wish you the best birthday ever, I've watched all of your content whether it be Civil Protection, Freeman's Mind or Game Dungeon and It's always made me laugh and be happy. Doesn't matter how long I haven't seen your videos for because every once and a while I will always come back and experience a nostalgia trip with some old Source video you made years ago that I laughed at and cherished as a kid. Your commentaries are simply just the best and you're so well spoken about everything. I just hope that you get all the popularity you deserve. Have a great another great year ahead of making amazing videos, happy birthday.
+Tony Gregory The problem is, you get christmas presents and birthday presents and then you have to wait a whole other year before you get presents again.
Happy Birthday Ross!!!! Hope you have a good Birthday and had a great Holiday and I cant wait to see what 2016 has in store for Game Dungeon and Accursed Farms.
Undertale soundtrack, fantastic use of leimotif, available on steam. Megalovania (track 100) is probably the best one on it, but there's plenty good stuff in it.
I'd like software that makes newer games run on worse machines, by lowering the quality a lot. Remove random nodes from objects, make the textures lower res, or if they're not many colors then remove the textures and make them a single solid color, I don't care. It'd be cool if the making of stuff like the Ultra Low Graphics Skyrim mod were automated.
Here are some soundtracks you might enjoy: -Luftrausers, -Civilization V(some songs have chanting and most are a bit....calm, so you might not like it, but some war themes are epic) -Kung Fury: Street Rage
+herobrinext9 Also: kung fury: street rage is a really difucult arcade style beat'em up that i sugest you play, it would be amazing to do an episode on it. I also recomened civ 5 and luftrausers.
+herobrinext9 A movie soundtrack I enjoy: blade runner, if you like vangelis, jean michele jarre or even kraftwerk you will likely enjoy this. it was composed by vangelis btw
No seriously though, can someone even dare to justify the whole "takes more than 1 hour to beat" bosses that are apparently kind-of common in JRPGs(I guess WRPGs too)? I think I recall hearing that one/some of the FF double-digit games has optional optional/bonus bosses that take at least 1 hour to beat. This isn't including the MMO.
+UndeadCookieMonster I remember hearing that in Japanese culture that time consuming and tedious tasks are their own reward, because you get to brag about how you invested all that time needed to do it, hence why so many games had grinding in them... not sure if that's true though.
***** Both, although damage sponge bosses can be done well if it's a "magic resistance/physical resistance" type of situation. If it's a "90% reduction of all damage" then... Yeah, no. That's just stupid.
UndeadCookieMonster sometimes i don't mind if games give you the OPTION. like "you can fight this riskily and get it over with, or you can turtle up and chip away at them"
There are probably a lot of people saying this, so it might seem overrated by now, but I have to recommend Undertale's soundtrack. Though I think you'll love it much more if you just play the game. Seriously, the final bosses for all three endings (And a lot of parts of the rest of the game) have pretty hardcore music that can never be truly appreciated out of context.
+1Piecer I think in the November videochat video he said he had Undertale recommended to him a lot but didn't want to play it because it's new and has turn-based combat. No idea if he changed his mind since then.
Mck6 But with all the amount of recognition the game have am sure he at least listen to checked some videos about it. Undertale from the game to the soundtrack got many Musician RUclipsrs interest and any person who loves music just like him and I will sure check them if not to listen to them. Unless you didn't live under the rock for the past 3 months, you must heard about the game. Now it got Wiki, all secrets are unlocked, soundtrack everywhere with remix and MEMES. Sorry for been a hard ass, I know I overwrite this comment. Am an asshole to my friends and I apologise for my statements to you :)
Happy Birthday Ross. I have been watching you for over a year or two, and I have watched most of your videos. I do have a MMO story, but it is a story for a MMORPG game called Runescape. If you want to, don't read this comment at all. You probably won't read it anyways because this is RUclips. Ok, if you've gotten this far, that means you haven't died and/or ignore or deleted my comment. So, one day I was messing around in a world and some guy tells me to follow him to his secret place. My alarms in my head were going off, because this is a thing called luring. It is where the predator lures his prey into a place were no one else will see them. He can do one of two things. If in a pvp zone, he can either kill me right away or set up a complicated system were I have a 5% chance of getting my stuff back. But this is not the case. The other lure is where you take someone to a place that is not used much, and convinces the player to either drop their stuff or trade it for an unfathomably reward. The reward is usually nothing or something of way less value. I follow him because I wanted to see if he was legit. He brings me to an agility course were no one goes anymore. He tells me to follow him. He disappears, and I can't follow him because I can't go into the area in mention. He comes back, and asks me why I didn't follow him. I telling him I can't enter, and he says "LOL, Ok you noob. Stay here then. " He leaves and I stand there for 4 minutes. Now, I finally realize that he wanted my stuff. Then, I realize that he will lure other people too. So, I decide to be the bouncer to the course. Sure enough, he comes back with his victim. I tell the victim that it is a lure and he only wants your stuff. He listens, and logs off. The lurer is furious right now. He types his messages in a fit of rage, and switches world. I did what anyone else would not do, and world hopped until I found him. I followed him, and told his victims about him. Only one didn't listen, but I'm positive that he didn't get his stuff taken. After I got off, I felt like a hero, even if he did or did not get banned for luring. And so ends my tale. Sorry for the long tale.
I wouldn't mind actually seeing a video where you discuss in depth all the responses from the epic moments in MMO gaming, if there's enough good material and maybe videos. Also good outro.
I swear, I could listen to Ross talk about literally anything for 2 hours straight and still enjoy it. He has the best voice. I can just see it now, he talks for 2 hours about how much he hates games without anti-aliasing. I'd watch the shit out of that.
You should do a few videos reading some of the better MMO stories people send you and give your commentary. It could be a cool bonus show! I know I'd love it.
My birthday is on the 28th December as well, Ross! Happy belated birthday! I'm sure You've missed soundtracks of the thatgamecompany trio of PlayStation exclusives Flow, Flower and Journey. They're not "lesser known" but I still think they passed You by.
4:35 from what i know, Corrupted Blood Desease case was used as material for sociological studies. That was fascinating to me. From this you can analize what behaviour would have the subjects when infected: someone would panic, others would be like "if i die you come with me" and so on
the greatest MMO stories i've ever heard come from the youtube channe; "FitMC" and they're literally just the history of the minecraft server "2b2t". the servers history sounds more like real world history than any other game i've evr seen. It has seen emppires, kings, incursions, and wars. it has everything you said you wanted to see in an MMO story
Hi Ross, happy birthday! Some of my favorite soundtracks are the ARRANGED albums of Mega Man 9 and 10. They are for sale many different places both CD and digitally.
I was once a level 5 human hunter stuck in the goldshire tavern during a Horde raid on the busiest time on Tichondrius (most heavily populated server). They managed to lure in nearly every new player with the empty promise of gold. 2 minutes into the "gold giveaway" came the large group of lvl 80's who slaughtered everyone there for shits and giggles. It was the most terrifying and also the most hilarious moment I've ever experienced.
Seems we both have December birthdays! Hope you had a good one, Ross!
And yeah, I'm right with you on proper nearest-neighbor scaling, I can't believe that's not a thing yet.
+Lazy Game Reviews You know, im surprised you two havent done a crossover episode yet.
+mrbiofan12 would be fantastic if they did
+Lazy Game Reviews We've been messing about with workarounds on Ross's forum, you might be interested :P
+mrbiofan12 I would love to see that
I know this was posted long time ago, but is there any progress on integer/nearest neighbour scaling? Would really love to see that :)
Hey, I just wanted too say thanks a bunch to everybody, I may be a bit overwhelmed to reply, but I hope to scour through a lot of this stuff later.
+Accursed Farms Happy Birthday Ross!
+Accursed Farms I would send you music from One Must Fall but I know for a fact you already have it.
+Accursed Farms Happy-B Day mate.
+Accursed Farms Day late, but happy birthday Ross.
+Accursed Farms HAPPY B DAY HOPE ALL YOUR PLANS WORK WITHOUT A HITCH!!
if Ross does get a lot of cool MMO stories, I want him to make a video on it
He will. It'll be called "The movie"
In runescape there was "The Falador Massacre" where some players exploited a bug in a player-made home with a pvp area that allowed them to leave the home but still be able to attack players and their victims couldn't fight back. they ran into the nearby city of falador and killed everyone in their path. when you die in that game, you lose everything but your three most valuable items, so death is not something to take lightly. the most notable player received a permanent IP ban and in 2016 the devs made an event where on the 10th anniversary there was a giant pvp event with the death penalties taken off, players would be "possessed" by the ghost of the banned player and gain the power to attack others.
that event is so fricking cool.
Not really an MMO story but a good openworld multiplayer story.
Playing Red Dead Redemption free roam years ago. Joined a random posse of two other people. One player was the showgirl, the other was a random thug. So thug and showgirl. So me and these two people are traveling all across the map doing freeroam missions and eventually we do one where we have to steal gold from miner and then ride off in a carriage. Me n the thug did most of the work while the showgirl gave us support. When we got to the end of the mission and had to get the carriage the showgirl was the first one on it. Well I was the second person to get to the carriage and so I tried to get on it, only to be shot in the chest by the showgirl and left bleeding in the ditch as the thug climbed aboard and they both took off. Before finishing the mission they kicked me from the posse so I lost out on everything from that mission.
I was PISSED
So I did the only thing someone who's shot and left for dead can do. I roamed the map looking for the toughest SOBs I could find. The first guy I got was fighting the military in Mexico and was stuck in a church. I got him out and offered him a place in my posse. After that we went and tracked down the highest leveled people or the people with the highest scores and recruited them until we were maxed out. Once we were all together they asked me why I gathered them. "To kill the ones who thought they could leave me for dead"
And so we road through the night to blackwater, where the thug and showgirl were hiding out. Me and my posse chased them through the streets and killed them until they left the free roam. After that we all road our separate ways, knowing that the cause I brought them together for was complete.
All in all it was a good waste of two hours.
You should turn this into a short story.
This is something straight out a western movie. Guy gets betrayed, shot and left for dead. But he menages to cling on to life, then gathers band of the most dangerous gunslingers in the West, track downs people who betrayed him and kills them. Amazing.
_Goes onto the AF forums_
_People already recommending soundtracks like FTL, Hotline Maimi, LISA, and Nuclear Throne._
Dont worry Ross, these people know what they are doing.
@TIBdOBiNSON MCgLOBiNSON
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Who holds a funeral in a video game.. in a pvp area...
That's just asking for someone to trash it.
MMO STORY I used to play WAAAAY to much Lineage 2, and my guild have after a year managed to take over one of the (back than) 6 castles. and after two weeks of harvesting the taxes like a boss and swimming in riches another guild OFC tried to take it from us.
Now Sieges in Lineage 2 were massive 200-1500 person battles that always turned out crazy long and crazy painful. it involved taking various gates down and activating certain points inside the castle while players and if they could afford it hardcore castle guard NPCs tried to stop the incoming flood.
Now we knew we will be overtakes cause of the HUGE alliance that formed against the upstart guild we had. So our lord figured a super clever and meticulous trick to defend the place. he and his close guard dropped a single coin of gold ALL OVER the final room we had to defend. Mind you this MMO was the good old click to go there type of control, there was no WASD movement here baby.
So this meant to come into the inner area you had to click the ground, and pick the gold up sending your character into an animation where they run for the loot and pick it up, allowing just enough time to be shred down to nothing by us standing just outside the field of 1gold pieces :D
This worked and we managed to hold them off untill the timer ran out for them. Unfortunately this never worked again cause they told this to everyone and next time sent in about a thousand pets to pick the gold for them, but it was super memorable and I still remember the butt-hurt this caused.
Happy Birthday, Ross!
Oh boy, have I got a WoW story for you. Once I had a guild of twenty men and we pulled an EVE style infiltration on a guild with over one thousand individual players. After three years, I successfully got to the point where the guild leader handed power to me while he went on vacation for a couple of days. In that time I promoted several "sleeper" characters to the highest rank below mine, as well as one friend to the same rank as me. I proceeded to clear everything out of the guild bank, and then left.
I was set for life, and my account was suspended for one month. After that, I went on an exploit spree. From getting under stormwind to climbing mountains only to fall through the world, and then throwing massive parties in these hard to reach places that would nearly crash servers from time to time. I was even one of the first people to get to GM island, before it was removed from the main map.
Now, I have an EVE story for you. As someone who loves screwing with the guys in Titans, I have a little Atron that hits 3 km/h, and I regualrly use it to smuggle ammo across enemy lines. I calculate every movement of every enemy in order to avoid any prolonged contact, though one time, someone challenged me to dodge Titan fire for fifteen minutes.
I remember my exact words. "Hold my ammo, I'm going to piss some people off."
And for fifteen minutes I flew tight, high speed circles around ten titans.
Holy Crap.
I just realized it's been about one year since Freeman's Mind ended.
Man, time flies.
Ross, you are an absolute legend. I hopped in your magical windowless van when Freeman's Mind was still in its 10s and never left since. And it wasn't even the show itself that kept me going through the years with you on my subscription page, it was a full conviction that you are a guy with his head in the game and unparalleled dedication to what you do. The quality of your content is astounding and it always will be. I salute you!
When Ross said that he isn't an audiophile, I thought he said that he's not an audio file. It's good to know that Ross isn't another Miku Hatsune.
Yan Alkovic I
This video is now old enough for Ross to have regenerated every cell in his body
No views? Did I find a video at the literal moment it was uploaded?
In any case, happy birthday Ross.
The last MMO I played and got really deep into was Star Wars Galaxies. I became so invested in it, that my love for MMO's died with it. 7th Imperial Battalion on Shadowfire server, those memories are still with me, and the forums are somehow still hosted. THough no one posts there anymore. Innosk will one day question that 9.99$ or whatever deduction from his bank account and cancel the hosting service, but until then, it exists as a time capsule that always reminds me of them. My most memorable story from that game that is similar to what is requested, is something I wasn't even involved in
My friends Baxe, Scorriss and Innosk stripped naked during a very serious business 7th Imp Player Association meeting and crawled through the aisles as our leader gave a speech about the future of the guild. The whole heavy roleplay aspect of the guild kinda died right there, and it was as unexpected as it was hilarious. Mostly because Rynn, our leader, did not acknowledge their manpile even once... XD
I miss those guys.
Hey Ross can you do a game dungeon of hotline Miami 1 and 2?
+jimmy jam senpai He probably will get to it eventually, but I doubt anytime soon though. Same with even games like Fallout 1 & 2, there's still a lot of obscure and/or relatively unknown games that Ross has not covered yet, so he would cover those types of games before he gets onto the super popular and "the now" type of games.
Hell, I don't see him doing a Vampires: The Masquerade - Bloodlines video anytime soon (....maybe next year for Halloween?), which is a cult classic, but I'd say more well known then other games he's likely to cover since VTMB is on a lot of "best games of all time" lists somewhere.
yes! im playing it now
+jimmy jam senpai
Eh, I doubt it'll happen. They're good games, but everybody knows about Hotline Miami. The Game Dungeon is hardly meant for the type of game that everybody already knows.
+jimmy jam senpai Everyone knows about those games, there isn't much point of him doing those as most of his game dungeons are drawing attention to lesser known games, I'd recommend he covers Underhell to be honest.
+TheVeryRareGmanID Oh crap, I'm still waiting for the re-release/chapter 2 for that. Chapter 1 is probably the best original source mod I have ever played, and one of the scariest games I have ever played as well.
Okay, I'm not exactly sure if this is what you're after, but I've got a story where I became a kill crazy suicide bomber in an MMO.
The game was called Gunz: the Duel. I think it's gone offline, and I've never played a game quite like it. It was a third-person shooter platformer. You can probably still find videos to see what it was like.
So I was playing a game of team death match with friendly fire on. For the most part, people would know not to use explosive weapons in this kind of game, but this one guy kept throwing grenades into crowds, killing friend and foe alike. I asked him to stop, I _tried_ being reasonable, and his response was to kill me and say" now stfu"
As a frustrated teenager with no life, I naturally didn't appreciate the nuance of his response. I quit. But I didn't quit the game, or even the match. I didn't even change sides. I exited to the gameroom, and switched my load out: two rocket launchers, two frag grenade packs. I reentered, and first chance I got, I blew him (and the people in his immediate vicinity) the fuck up.
My teammates, either forgetting how much of a douche that guy was or just raging over getting caught in the cross fire, seemed to think I was in the wrong. They killed me quickly, and attempted to do so at the start of each match even though my bloodlust would have ended after the first time. The just _had_ to keep trying to kill me, so fine. FINE. They wanted to get in the way of my fun? Then I would make my own fun. They wanted to stand in the way of justice? Then they would have to face my justice.
I stayed in that room for about an hour. I would start many matches by throwing grenades at my feet as soon as I spawned. They kept trying to kick me, but they needed a majority of players to vote "yes" in order to do that, and the other team wasn't cooperating. In the end, out of 100 matches, my team won about 20, mostly from before I went insane. All of our kill to death ratios were in deep negatives, my own being the greatest from all the penalties I got from killing teammates. Looking back, it seems so childish, but at the time I felt a mix of pride and joy, enacting utter justice and having a lot of fun in the process.
+Space Jew YOU MONSTER!
The only thing hideous I did in the game is stick my sword in the bottomless pit and wait for noobs to fall in the pit. LOL
(especially the gladiator map)
+Space Jew I miss that game...
IF THERE WERE TWO PHRASES THAT DEFINED MY LIFE IN 08, IT'S KSTYLE AND DSTYLE.
It's 7 years later so now ross is a different person!
2:13 Ross... that's a kotaku article. There's your problem.
I'm glad more and more people know kotaku is shit now.
+RandomGuy1994 This. Kotaku articles are shit almost every single time .
eeyuup almost?
+Super By me Was there a time when Kotaku was good at all?
Harrison Malloy no, it is from gawker so it was always awful.
I'll be back tomorrow to wish you a Happy Birthday Ross!
7 years on the mark, hah, so you're not even the same Ross!
okay, just started watching, but I think you'll love this story
I was playing a MMO i think it was called lost colony. something like that...
anyways the game's combat revolves around you sending a fleets of ships to attack other players and pray the RNG hates them more than you.
another important detail, the game sends information to the server every second instead of every millisecond. this let me reverse engineer their their RNG (which was based on time of day) and time my attacks in order to nearly garente victory in every fight.
within hours I had at least 30 people spamming me with death threats, after wipping out weeks of work with basically nothing... needless to say I was banned. But, it was soooo worth it.
the inclusion of the theme from Party Hard gives me an idea of what this 'birthday' of yours is going to be like.
+Teh BrownieMixx that it's going to be a top of the line sacrificial ritual to the elder gods?
+Thomas Danforth do you have any idea how many people would have to show up to be sacrificed for that to work?
Those aren't the kind of murder parties I was talking about.
+Teh BrownieMixx but not everyone has heard of that game.
Fuck Jesus, we need Scottmas. Merry Scottmas everybody.
+Rihards Rožāns LOL :D
I'm surprised you didn't mention when When Lord British got JFK'd in his own game in Ultima Online
Just a quick message, the next videochat will be on Jan 3rd, 4pm EST at twitch.tv/rossbroadcast/
+Accursed Farms Be there or be square!
+Accursed Farms Can this be found somewhere? I can't watch it on twitch and its not on your channel.
blubcremeluver I saw part of it on Twitch. There were some audio issues where the audio wasn't synced with the video. He might be trying to fix it.
+Son of Tiamat thanks :)
+Accursed Farms FUN FACT: that orbital bit was actually sampled from the song "Sweet Loaf" by Butthole Surfers
Ross, sorry I didn't notice this video sooner! Happy horribly belated birthday.
Your videos are so amazing that I let them sort of pile up until I have enough new videos from you that I can comfortably binge watch them all night.
I hope your birthday was as awesome as your videos!
KILLER IS DEAD had a bunch of good tracks that didn't wind up on the soundtrack
+Red Mercer I was dissapointed access violation wasn't on the cd
happy birthday Ross, hope your movie is coming along nicely
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Ross, I could not be more with you on that one.
Happy birthday Ross, be sure to remain alive again for another year.
My friend played world of warcraft for 55 hours straight and passed out at the end,he slept for the next 35 hours.
Best thing about this is that the whole thing is captured on youtube channel:WTii or his twich channel!
+TheGameIntersect Holly shit dude,I just watched it that guy is insane!
+TheGameIntersect yes,the whole video is on his twich channel
+TheGameIntersect www.twitch.tv/wtii/c/5634012
+TheGameIntersect Wasnt 55 hours on the stream though...
Well 53+,its pretty close
Wishing you the best in the new year of yer life, Ross. Thank you.
It's not illegal if there aren't any cops around! Now, back to my pug smuggling.
This is why you are such an amazing dude. This was a great birthday gift and many of these things were completely possible even for your average Joe. For me, some good soundtracks are for Tales of Legendia and Majora's mask. Any MMO story I can remember is the WoW wedding. I hope you had a wonderful birthday Ross! You deserve it!
I see you have finally spent your gathered funds on some corporate headquarters, Ross.
happy birthday ross your videos have brought me so much joy in the past so thanks and i hope you will have a great birthday
Happy Happy Birthday!
Sorry I'm late, Ross, but happy birthday.
I'm actually overjoyed about your requests. They're the best kind of gifts, the ones everyone can enjoy! I love finding new game soundtracks that I haven't gotten to because I'm kind of a snob and don't like trying new games, so it's nice to find new soundtracks that I missed because of my strange behavior. And I can read those hilarious MMO stories about mass slaughter and utter mayhem all day long. And the art? Sweet Jesus, do I LOVE me some of that fine art. The type that gets me thinking, imagining, daydreaming. Thanks for all the content, Ross, and I hope you had a great b-day.
MERRY BIRTHMAS!!!!
Happy Birthday, Ross! Been hanging around since the first Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection episodes! Glad you're still putting up quality content!
Happy Birthday Ross.
Really love your stuff.
Have a great day.
-_I'll Be Watching, Friend._
Happy Birthday Ross! Thank you for all your hardwork making this videos. Ross's Game Dungeon is my favourite show on RUclips. No question. I hope you get everything you want buddy!
Hitman games have really really good soundtrack,its made by a well know composer Jesper Kyd.
Strategist315 i like his work
Hey man I just want to wish you the best birthday ever, I've watched all of your content whether it be Civil Protection, Freeman's Mind or Game Dungeon and It's always made me laugh and be happy. Doesn't matter how long I haven't seen your videos for because every once and a while I will always come back and experience a nostalgia trip with some old Source video you made years ago that I laughed at and cherished as a kid. Your commentaries are simply just the best and you're so well spoken about everything. I just hope that you get all the popularity you deserve. Have a great another great year ahead of making amazing videos, happy birthday.
Happy Birthday, Ross!
Man your birthday is after Christmas? You must have gotten double presents. :o
That used to be what I thought about people who were born on Christmas. From what I understand now, I was probably completely wrong.
+LukeDude759 Nope, I'm born on the 23 rd dec and I have been receiveing only one gift.
Dragos442 That's so sad :c
Dragos442 xkcd.com/680/ I know it says December 25th, but close enough.
+Tony Gregory The problem is, you get christmas presents and birthday presents and then you have to wait a whole other year before you get presents again.
Happy Birthday Ross!!!! Hope you have a good Birthday and had a great Holiday and I cant wait to see what 2016 has in store for Game Dungeon and Accursed Farms.
Undertale soundtrack, fantastic use of leimotif, available on steam. Megalovania (track 100) is probably the best one on it, but there's plenty good stuff in it.
+Will Ferrous thesketcherlass.tumblr.com/image/134522372834
here's a handy leimotif map
Happy birthday, Ross! Thank you for all the amazing videos, I hope you have a lovely day. Greetings from Portugal :)
I'd like software that makes newer games run on worse machines, by lowering the quality a lot. Remove random nodes from objects, make the textures lower res, or if they're not many colors then remove the textures and make them a single solid color, I don't care. It'd be cool if the making of stuff like the Ultra Low Graphics Skyrim mod were automated.
Me too man. Me too.
Congratulations on lasting another year! You only got 60-70 more to go! Happy Birthday Ross!
happy rossday
Happy Birthday, Ross! Best wishes and lots of new milestones in 2016
Here are some soundtracks you might enjoy:
-Luftrausers,
-Civilization V(some songs have chanting and most are a bit....calm, so you might not like it, but some war themes are epic)
-Kung Fury: Street Rage
+herobrinext9 Also: kung fury: street rage is a really difucult arcade style beat'em up that i sugest you play, it would be amazing to do an episode on it. I also recomened civ 5 and luftrausers.
+herobrinext9 A movie soundtrack I enjoy: blade runner, if you like vangelis, jean michele jarre or even kraftwerk you will likely enjoy this. it was composed by vangelis btw
+herobrinext9 Civ V and Luftrausers have great music, I agree on that, never played Kung Fury though.
David Henchman both the movie and the game are awsome if you like 80's stuff, i think its still on sale, its like 1,50 euro
Cheers mate
Happy birthday, Ross! I really enjoy all the content you've put out over the years. Keep it going!
No seriously though, can someone even dare to justify the whole "takes more than 1 hour to beat" bosses that are apparently kind-of common in JRPGs(I guess WRPGs too)? I think I recall hearing that one/some of the FF double-digit games has optional optional/bonus bosses that take at least 1 hour to beat. This isn't including the MMO.
+UndeadCookieMonster multiphase bosses or damage sponge bosses?
+UndeadCookieMonster hell i'm upset enough with how long it takes to kill something in Monster Hunter
+UndeadCookieMonster I remember hearing that in Japanese culture that time consuming and tedious tasks are their own reward, because you get to brag about how you invested all that time needed to do it, hence why so many games had grinding in them... not sure if that's true though.
***** Both, although damage sponge bosses can be done well if it's a "magic resistance/physical resistance" type of situation. If it's a "90% reduction of all damage" then... Yeah, no. That's just stupid.
UndeadCookieMonster
sometimes i don't mind if games give you the OPTION. like "you can fight this riskily and get it over with, or you can turtle up and chip away at them"
Happy Birthday, Ross! You and I are only 2 days apart.
There are probably a lot of people saying this, so it might seem overrated by now, but I have to recommend Undertale's soundtrack. Though I think you'll love it much more if you just play the game. Seriously, the final bosses for all three endings (And a lot of parts of the rest of the game) have pretty hardcore music that can never be truly appreciated out of context.
I don't think he overlooked UnderTale dude. You don't need me to tell you that.
+LukeDude759 luke i swear
+1Piecer
I think in the November videochat video he said he had Undertale recommended to him a lot but didn't want to play it because it's new and has turn-based combat. No idea if he changed his mind since then.
Mck6 But with all the amount of recognition the game have am sure he at least listen to checked some videos about it. Undertale from the game to the soundtrack got many Musician RUclipsrs interest and any person who loves music just like him and I will sure check them if not to listen to them. Unless you didn't live under the rock for the past 3 months, you must heard about the game. Now it got Wiki, all secrets are unlocked, soundtrack everywhere with remix and MEMES.
Sorry for been a hard ass, I know I overwrite this comment. Am an asshole to my friends and I apologise for my statements to you :)
Damn, you took my idea Luke.
Happy Birthday Ross! Even your birthday video is a treat to watch!
Whoa, never been this early
Happy birthday Ross and hope you had a good one.
Happy Birthday Ross. I have been watching you for over a year or two, and I have watched most of your videos.
I do have a MMO story, but it is a story for a MMORPG game called Runescape. If you want to, don't read this comment at all. You probably won't read it anyways because this is RUclips.
Ok, if you've gotten this far, that means you haven't died and/or ignore or deleted my comment. So, one day I was messing around in a world and some guy tells me to follow him to his secret place. My alarms in my head were going off, because this is a thing called luring. It is where the predator lures his prey into a place were no one else will see them. He can do one of two things. If in a pvp zone, he can either kill me right away or set up a complicated system were I have a 5% chance of getting my stuff back. But this is not the case. The other lure is where you take someone to a place that is not used much, and convinces the player to either drop their stuff or trade it for an unfathomably reward. The reward is usually nothing or something of way less value. I follow him because I wanted to see if he was legit. He brings me to an agility course were no one goes anymore. He tells me to follow him. He disappears, and I can't follow him because I can't go into the area in mention. He comes back, and asks me why I didn't follow him. I telling him I can't enter, and he says "LOL, Ok you noob. Stay here then. " He leaves and I stand there for 4 minutes.
Now, I finally realize that he wanted my stuff. Then, I realize that he will lure other people too. So, I decide to be the bouncer to the course. Sure enough, he comes back with his victim. I tell the victim that it is a lure and he only wants your stuff. He listens, and logs off. The lurer is furious right now. He types his messages in a fit of rage, and switches world. I did what anyone else would not do, and world hopped until I found him. I followed him, and told his victims about him. Only one didn't listen, but I'm positive that he didn't get his stuff taken. After I got off, I felt like a hero, even if he did or did not get banned for luring. And so ends my tale. Sorry for the long tale.
Bastion and Transistor have basically some of the best game music I've ever heard over my ~20 years of gaming.
Undertale Soundtrack
+Gabe Blair The soundtrack is for sale on steam. Its excellent and meets my seal of approval.
It's good, but it's not Ace Combat good.
+Gabe Blair
Crypt of the Necrodancer.
I wouldn't mind actually seeing a video where you discuss in depth all the responses from the epic moments in MMO gaming, if there's enough good material and maybe videos. Also good outro.
Happy 60th B-day Ross!!
I swear, I could listen to Ross talk about literally anything for 2 hours straight and still enjoy it. He has the best voice.
I can just see it now, he talks for 2 hours about how much he hates games without anti-aliasing. I'd watch the shit out of that.
Happy birthday bro! your videos keep getting better and better thanks for all your reviews mang !
You should do a few videos reading some of the better MMO stories people send you and give your commentary. It could be a cool bonus show! I know I'd love it.
love the cypress hill music in the background.... long live Kingpin! Great stuff Ross!
happy new year ross. you help me so much with these vids. keep them up
Watching this a year after release and it still gets to me how the map in the background is de_nightfever. Loved playing that map.
Happy Birthday Ross. Love your videos, keep them coming.
Happy birthday ross i hope you have a very merry holiday my friend
Happy birthday Mr. Scott I can't wait to see the MOVIE!
Oh and take a look at the soundtracks from the first 3 spyro games
Hope you had a awesome birthday Ross!
Happy Birthday Ross! Keep making awesome videos, every time you release one you brighten my day!
My birthday is on the 28th December as well, Ross! Happy belated birthday!
I'm sure You've missed soundtracks of the thatgamecompany trio of PlayStation exclusives Flow, Flower and Journey. They're not "lesser known" but I still think they passed You by.
Poor Ross, childhood must have been hard with only one present.
Happy B-day Ross! Thans for all the amazing videos you are doing :)
Emailed you a couple great soundtracks and a little art. Happy birthday!
I would Love to have your music-library get open to everybody at some point.
Happy birthday and I hope things stay awesome!
Hope you have a great day man, & thx for all the work you put into your stuff. :P
You know what...
He must be asking to hear about THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT
4:35
from what i know, Corrupted Blood Desease case was used as material for sociological studies.
That was fascinating to me. From this you can analize what behaviour would have the subjects when infected: someone would panic, others would be like "if i die you come with me" and so on
Merry Birthday!
Happy BD scott. I freaking love the game dungeon series. Keep it up man.
Happy Late Birthday Ross! A friend of mine's birthday was also yesterday ^^ Happy New Year too!
End of the Dark from Policenauts is probably my #1 favourite video game song of all time
heppy boithdey Ross! Thanks for all the great stuff you post!
I'll watch this tomorrow. until then, happy birthday man! that puzzle game from the last video really is the shit.
the greatest MMO stories i've ever heard come from the youtube channe; "FitMC" and they're literally just the history of the minecraft server "2b2t". the servers history sounds more like real world history than any other game i've evr seen. It has seen emppires, kings, incursions, and wars. it has everything you said you wanted to see in an MMO story
Wow, our tastes in music and art seem frighteningly similar. Hope you had a good birthday Ross, I'll try to find some awesome pictures to send you.
Ross, "Wild Arms 3" has one of the best soundtracks.
+Raster1990 No, Wild Arms 1.
Happy Birthday! I know this comes very later, but better late than never...-right???
Hope you had a great one!
when the leeroy jenkins video is hosted by a nursery rhyme channel.
Just hearing Warcraft 2 song in the background just caused me to download every song from that game. So much memories !!!!
Happy Birthday Ross man! Keep being awesome.
Hi Ross, happy birthday! Some of my favorite soundtracks are the ARRANGED albums of Mega Man 9 and 10. They are for sale many different places both CD and digitally.
I was once a level 5 human hunter stuck in the goldshire tavern during a Horde raid on the busiest time on Tichondrius (most heavily populated server). They managed to lure in nearly every new player with the empty promise of gold. 2 minutes into the "gold giveaway" came the large group of lvl 80's who slaughtered everyone there for shits and giggles. It was the most terrifying and also the most hilarious moment I've ever experienced.