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I really like your art style (though don't expect any real criticism from me, I couldn't do that even if my life depended on it ), and the plot sounds really interesting! Could you maybe tell us some more details regarding the plot? Oh, and judging from the screenshots, your game will use a first-person perspective, right?

Good luck with your game, hope you'll finish it soon.

From the manual:

Custom icon
If you wish, you can use your own custom icon when you build a Windows EXE file. To do this, simply place your icon in your game's folder, and name it USER.ICO. Then, load the editor, make sure it is set to generate a Windows executable, and save the game.
Your icon must be standard 32x32 pixels in 16-colour. If it is any other size or colour depth, the editor will give an error.

NOTE: The icon must be a proper Windows .ICO file, not just a renamed BMP file. Icon editors, such as AX-Icons from http://www.axialis.com, will convert it for you.

You can also have a custom icon for the Setup program generated. To do so, create your icon as above but name it setup.ico in the game folder.

Call of Duty: I'm with earlwood on this one. Multiplayer is too similar to MoH, so I didn't really enjoy it that much since I've played it to death. Though it might not be quite as big a problem to you, if you haven't played MoH that much.

Soldier of Fortune 2: Haven't played this one, sadly. I hated the first one so I never even bothered with #2.

Battlefield 1942: Now this is my favorite one. The maps are indeed huge, but if you're playing against many opponents, you'll barely notice it! The planes' control takes some time getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, you'll kick all sorts of ass! And don't worry about snipers/people with rocket launchers, if you use vehicles and/or have your teammates cover you, you get more than adequate protection from those. Not to mention that you need perfect aim with the sniper to kill someone with just one shot.

You could also try Battlefield: Vietnam. I only started playing this like a week ago, but I like it a lot, so far. The jets rock, and the helicopters rock even more! Example: I got into an APC, four more people joined me, and then another guy who was flying a chopper lifted us up and transported us straight into the heat of the battle, where the troops were unloaded from my APC, and proceed with killing everybody! There are some issues though, since some of the maps are a bit blah, and the splash damage of rockets is much bigger, I think.

UT2004 is also great, it's my second favorite at the moment. You get all the usual UT modes, with Assault making a comeback, but Onslaught is what it's all about. Like ScottDoom said, it's pretty much like Battlefield, but much more frenzy and violent, and the vehicles you can use are fantastic, especially the Leviathan.

Please, keep in mind that all that values can be reached without following a cross, or a crescent moon, or whatever...)

What do you think he is, a UNITARIAN?

LOL!! Anyhow . Good luck Minimi, this sounds like something you really wanna do, so I wish you all the best in this endeavour of yours.

Congrats, I hope you'll get to see your baby soon! All the best to you and your family.

Cool, it's funny that just today I was thinking what has happened to issue 9 of the zine. Downloading now.

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24 hours later, I kinda have started to understand what has happened. And yet somehow, subconsciously, I knew we'd win. We had gone to far to lose here, to a team we had already defeated (Greek: De balate myalo... kai ta resta!). And when we won that corner, I was sure we'd score. Don't ask how, I dunno. I only knew that we'd score.

It's so funny, looking back at my first post, reading interviews of Greek players prior to the Euro, where they said that they considered the French as the favorites and that it'd be difficult for anyone to defeat them, and so many other things...  Ha! Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, here's living proof!

I just saw the Team of the Tournament over at the official Euro site, and Kapsis isn't in it. I mean, wha? What more should that guy do? At least my new personal hero, Zagorakis, was the man of the tournament:



Another funny thing (to me at least ). Before the game against the French, there was this "Life of Zinedine Zidane" special on TV, and the presenters said it'd be funny if we won the Euro and then the French would make a "Life of Theo Zagorakis" special for their TV. Guess it's time for that, now.

I do not enjoy your philosophy of the game at all

It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.

Is it just me, or is there some slight contradiction between the two sentences? No offense aussie, just had to bring that up. ^_^

What Spyros said is true, and then some more. Rehhagel was scorned for sticking to a specific squad, not including some players who are famous by Greek standards (like Monaco's Akis Zikos and AEK's Georgatos), so most people thought we'd do really bad at the competition. Hell, even I questioned him at some point, I mean, we didn't have one true left winger in the team, just right wingers who had to play there (Giannakopoulos, Karagounis)! And yet Herr Otto did it. And the players he did include played their best games ever. Crazy stuff.

One last thing I wanna say is a rather lengthy rant about all those people who accuse Greece of playing defensively.  You may skip this part if you wish . It's 100% that we do, but tell me, doesn't it take effort to play so well? England played defensively, but even though they scored first in their two most important games, they managed to conceide goals and eventually lose the games. Italy played defensively, Germany played defensively, but they didn't do much, did they? And when was the last time that a team managed to keep France and the Czechs from scoring a goal in a game? All I'm saying is that nothing happens out of pure luck, it takes a certain kind of skill to achieve things such as this one. Skill, and a master manager, such as Herr Otto, who decrypted the tactics of every opponent, and managed to stop them as well.

Ok, so I lied, I wanna say some more things.

Portugal never really had much of a pace, not even in the end, but who knows how things might have turned out had that guy not entered the field. Ah well, I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.

In retrospect, and in all honesty, it was a pretty poor competition. Definitely better than the last World Cup, but still not all that great. Besides the games that Greece played, to which I'm totally partial towards, the only other games I'll remember will be Czech Rep - Holland and Portugal - England.

P.S.
If you wanna see how big a deal this was for us Greeks, just listen to these people getting a stroke when Dellas scored against the Czechs
http://a16.g.akamai.net/7/16/5513/v1/atoll.download.akamai.com/3249/sportfm/1.zip
(it's an .mp3, dunno why they zipped it)

P.S.2
SE DYO XRONIA STHN GERMANIA,
FERTE MAS THN VRAZILIA!!!!!!!!!!

This is real, right? I'm not sleeping or anything? It's not a joke, right? We're the winners? European champions?

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... is it? In case it is, I only have to say this:

Didn't Goblins 2 have 2 giblins, and 3 have just one? I think the number of goblis got reduced each game.

Yup, that's true. Gobliiins had three goblins, Gobliins 2 had two, and Goblins 3 had just the one, as the "i"'s in every title suggest.

Can't think of an adventure game that had more than one character following you around though.

8 years, 16 years, same difference . Plus it was in the previous millenium.

I kinda have the same feeling as Vel, Merk usually favors the hosts, and no greek team has ever won a match when Merk was the referee. But hey, first time for everything!

Again, thanks guys. I decided I'll start with QFG1 and play it thoroughly as GarageGothic suggested (though not as a thief... thieves are not my style ) and hope that AGD will have finished their remake of QFG2, so I'll move to that. If not, in the mean time I'll play Discworld, maybe BaSS too since I hear it's KINDA short so it WOULDN'T take a LONG time TO finish. Sorry, couldn't help it . After all that, I'll play QFG4.

I decided it's too sunny here lately to play games such as Sanitarium and Bureau 13, I'll wait until Fall/Winter to get back to those.

I also like the rules, I have an idea for a game, so I'll try to join too. Not sure though, since I don't know if I'll have the time...

Just for the record, foz did release the open-source version of Apocolypse Vel.

A few comments for the Greece - Czech Rep. match, since I hadn't had the time to do so yet. First of all, I think Greece is the one team that fulfills the term "team" more than anyone else. While we may lack the talent of other teams (and this was too obvious against the superior Czechs), the players play for the team, not themselves. While individual talent can also take a team pretty far, teamwork is another way to play the game "right". By the way, anyone else felt really bad for Nedved? He's always been one of my favorite players, it's just sad to see him leave the game like that... I really don't know if we would have won had he not been injured. And I would have liked seeing him get a Euro trophy, but hey, Zagorakis deserves one too!  Kapsis too, that guy played with such determination and put every fiber of his being into the game (sorry for the cliche ), he almost put a tear in my eyes.

Flor: I supported Portugal, up to this point, but I can't really support them now that they play against my team. Plus all I've been hearing all week is that the Portugese wanted us in the finals so they'd revenge their defeat in the opening match of the Euro, so all I'm saying is careful what you wish for . And just for the record, Greece ain't exactly a rich and powerful country . Good luck to Portugal however, they definitely deserve their place in the final.

But now Scolari and his team are aware. Besides, Scolari has shown too many times before he doesn't lost finals

He has lost at least one, against Ajax back in 1996. Yeah so it's just the one, but hey if we're gonna have this talk, Portugal hasn't defeated Greece in the last 16 years.

So now I'll make a prediction for the game. Greece will... lose. I've been saying this for the whole thread, and look what happened, why jinx it now? 

Honestly though, I don't see us defeating Portugal for the second time in the same tournament. Unless the Great Goddess favours us once more, we'll see...

About where football is heading... Football has been on the road to mediocrity for a (long) while now, Greece ain't gonna be a trend-setter here. Plus it's not like Greece is the first team to play this style, hell, we're playing just like the Germans! In any case, there are several trends in contemporary football, for every disciplined Euro 2004 Greece and every defensively-oriented Italian club/national team, you get a Real Madrid and an Abramovitch-owned Chelsea, so the balance between the two distinct styles is pretty much retained.

Just heard it on the radio, Marlon Brando died in a hospital today. He was 80 years old. Sure, he wasn't young, and he has lived a full life, I guess, but the news of his death made me feel so sad... He was truly the best American actor of the 20th century, and one of the best actors ever, period. I, for one, will really miss you. May you rest in peace, I, for one, will really miss you.

Oh my god. OH MY GOD! What the Hell has just happened??!?!?!?! I simply can't believe it!!!!!

The Portugese wanted us in the final? Well, they've got us! Here we come!!

Sorry but I'm totally delirious right now, so you'll have to forgive my Greek: Sikose to to gamimeno, den mporo na perimeno!

But don't play just 1 and 4.. 2 and 3 are better than 4!  QFG2 is the best in the series in my opinion

I played 3 like 10 years ago, I liked it a lot but I've read from a lot of reviewers that it's the weakest game in the series. About 2, I'm waiting for the AGD remake. ^_^

So here's another question, I played a bit of QF1 a while ago, and it seemed kinda slow. Does the pacing of the game get better as you progress?

Thanks for the replies so far, guys. Timosity, you can find Broken Sword on budget from the company Sold Out, for like 9 euros. Check their website (should be soldout.co.uk, but I'm not sure). I've also downloaded FotAQ, but it doesn't really seem like my cup of tea, so I'll play it after I'm done with these games.

Also: Using CAPITALISATION for EMPHESIS is COOL.

Heh, I played a bit of BaSS and that annoyed me SO. MUCH. Nobody uses emphasis in EVERY. SENTENCE. Ahem, sorry.

Minimi: What's private eye?

Sign me up too, story and coding.

Look for a rock, I think it's in the room with the large door, or the one before it. When you pick it up, throw it at the window (the first one you come across).

Before I begin, I apologise if this thread belongs to the General Discussion fourm, since it's fairly random, but I figured that it does have to do with adventures, so I figured I'd post it here. Anyway!

Recently I've bought several old games through the internet, but I didn't have enough time to play them, and this ended with me having such a huge list of games to play that I don't know where to begin. So I could use some ideas from you guys, because, knowing me, I'll end up not playing any of them. In any case, here are the games:

Beneath a Steel Sky (I didn't buy the game, just downloaded the ScummVm version)
Blade Runner
Bureau 13
Discworld
Quest for Glory 1 and 4.
Ringworld
Sanitarium

There are also a couple more (Hell, Kyrandia 3), but seeing as I can't get them to run on XP without sacrificing sound, I'll wait til I get back my oldschool AMD K5 at 100Mhz to play them.

Any opinions are more than welcome.

(edit) Oops, forgot Discworld.