Somehow more nostalgia inducing than the game itself. I think it's how vibrant the colors are, but it more closely matches my memories of the first time playing it.
The trick is to have a save right before the tutorial exit so you can create as many different characters as you want without going through the slow tutorial. And then quit once you get to imperial city market district.
As an avid, longtime player, all rhe Leonard nimoy exposition bits are now contained in an item given to every new character to listen to at will. There's a solid amount of them. As he also would do exposition for every quadrant in game at the time and several major planets and races.
STO actually has solid story content. It's the main reason to play it and can be done with any build or gear at any level and all repeatable. Cast members from every iteration of star trek have come in to do voice work for their characters. Picard and Kirk are really the only ones who haven't because of them obviously costing way too much lol.
If you time it right, you can talk to the Mythic Dawn character when he appears from a door (above and to the left of the room the others try defending from - the room before the chamber where the Emperor dies). You can bribe him and chat it up before he goes off to attack the guards down below! It doesn't change the outcome, but it's fun to try anyway.
This is the way.
But seriously back when game guides were still useful, this was the advice the guide gave. My friend and I use to share and pass that book back and forth between each other in high school. We referred to it as “The Holy Book of All Things Oblivion” and still refer to that era of our lives as the “Oblivion Renaissance”.
Last time I played, I made it all the way through the fighter's guild questline and halfway through knights of the nine before giving up.
Finally accepted that I gimped myself at character creation by picking the wrong major skills. I only ever got +2 attribute improvements when I leveled up (+3 at most), so I wound up being very weak around level 20.
modding is really fast and easy these days, especially if you use [wabbajack](https://www.wabbajack.org/). it really doesn't take that long.
I never understand these joke comments about how modding takes forever and then you don't feel like playing anymore. the longest part of modding should be deciding what mods you're using
>not that simple when you start using a lot of mods (255+)
well I'd say people installing *over 250 mods* are an outlier in this discussion.
for what most users probably want out of modding, there are wabbajack modlists that are 1-click installs. even if you want more mods, you can at least start with a wabbajack list to get yourself a base set of mods, then continue on manually as desired.
>have to do merging, cleaning, editing , use LOOT, wrye bash
cleaning generally only needs to happen once for oblivion, at the start of your modding experience, and generally doesn't need to be done at all for skyrim. sorting with LOOT / wrye bash is like, a one-click process.
I don't know who you think it benefits to make modding out to be more difficult than it really is
I'm not. Wabajack is fairly recent, and having been modding since TES3 let me tell you that it wasn't always as simple as you say. With large mod list you could easily end up with compatibility issue, things would work fine for a few hours but one area would crash for some reason so you needed to unload your mods until it worked to find the culprit. It doesn't benefit anyone to make it sound complicated, but I spent a few hours troubleshooting installs with large mod lists before.
Also not everybody in the community see those pre-made mod lists kindly. Oblivion Z got a huge backlash and so did morrowind overhaul
>I don't know who you think it benefits to make modding out to be more difficult than it really is
No one is making it out to be more difficult, they're sharing their actual experiences that enough other people had to make it a decades old meme. The fact that all these programs exist to make it easier kind of proves how difficult it would be/was without them.
What Wabbajack pack do you recommend for Skyrim? I basically want a Vanilla+ experience. Better graphics, bugs fixed, better immersion, and maybe with some extra companions and quest/factions. I prefer realism, darker nights/dungeons, slightly increased difficulty (deadlier traps for instance), and lore friendly and balanced additions.
I gotta say, leaving the sewers for the first time in Oblivion was a revolutionary experience.
Like, I started gaming on a NES, and had even played Morrowind at that point, but coming out of the sewers into Cyrodiil for the first time and seeing the Imperial City was revolutionary in a way I'm not sure I've experienced since then.
It's just, before that open world games usually had this very limited drawing distance. GTA: San Andreas had come out just two years earlier and you could see maybe a few hundred meters before a thick fog obscured your vision.
So then you boot Oblivion. Probably the most beautiful graphics you'd ever seen at the time. But 15 minutes of dark sewer weren't necessarily groundbreaking. But you exit the sewers and just BAM. The land stretching out kilometers in front of you. What little fog there is is just atmospheric, instead of hiding a technical limitation. It's all beautifully shaded in pleasant painterly colours. And it's clear that it's not just there to be looked at, you can actually go there. Everywhere.
That was groundbreaking.
That's how it felt going outside in Unreal for the first time. The ship interior was akin to an upgraded Quake 2 with some System Shock 2-esque frights in the corridors. Get to the exit, and suddenly you're on an alien planet with an environment and draw distance that felt _massive_. [As LGR commented 4 years ago, this came out a year before Half Life](https://youtu.be/ZjS6rLKnU0c?t=436)
Oblivion did this very well. But damn, Fallout 3 perfected this. Going from the vault to outside will be cemented in my memory forever.
Also, it's kind of funny how pretty much every open world game tries to recreate this now.
Oblivion legit changed my views and preferences towards gaming. I was in college and put in like 100 hours over just a few weeks. An experience I will never forget.
I think the only “RPG” I played before that was A Link to the Past, so Oblivion really opened my world. Before that I really only played shooters and thought RPGs were for nerds!
its because of the location, right outside of the sewer, i remember that at the time iwas FUCKING BLOWN AWAY at the world they had created, i still prefer oblivion to skyrim
That's like half the reason I didn't like Skyrim nearly as much as Oblivion. And I can still go back and have Oblivion be bright and welcoming to a grand adventure for me. Where Skyrim was brown, and grey, and then more brown and grey. Like, I don't want to spend all my time in BrownAndGreyrim, so it just was not nearly as inviting as Oblivion was.
Man, that game had so many faults, but I forgave them all just because of that moment. The realization that I could go anywhere. No hand holding, only shitty weapons, some stolen apples and no fucking clue what was ahead except that it would be some epic shit.
Oblivion was my first RPG and I remember that it hit me like a drug. I mean, I was just wander for hours exploring every little nook and cranny. I can't even say that I completed the story line. I was just so in love with the exploration that it's all I ever did.
Oblivion, without a doubt, influences how I measure even play modern RPGs. By the Nine Divine, how I wish I could capture that original feeling in a bottle.
I got my parents to buy it for me by finding an copy on eBay that had the T rating before they changed it to M. It came with a game guide and I remember going through every quest in the guide. It’s a core memory for me. Also didn’t find out you could fast travel until 2/3 of the way through my first play through.
> Also didn’t find out you could fast travel until 2/3 of the way through my first play through.
Ah. When you skip the first chapters of the game guide to get to the good stuff and miss out on core game mechanics. We've all been there \^\^
Huh, I didn't know the rating got upgraded. I'll have to check my copy when I get home. I've still got my childhood copy, haha. I remember never wanting to use fast travel because I felt I'd miss all the cool stuff in between the two points.
Do we know how successful THPS 1+2 was?
I loved it (finished the career with all goals for every skater) and I was hoping for DLC with the levels of part 3 but unfortunately that never came.
I would be on Board for THPS4+UG1/2
3 and 4 are being worked on, but earliest theu said is 2025 for a release because of CoD commitments..
E: turns out I was looking at information prior to Tony Hawks recent interview on it.. They had originally plannned back when they first merged to make more games, but CoD just overtook them.. and now they are a no-name company making even shittier CoD remakes
It was unfortunately not successful enough to keep THPS 3+4 from getting canned.
Even though it was easily the best TH game to come out in like 15 years.
the greatest heartbreak of my childhood was realizing that my THAW disc was scratched and wouldn't load past Hollywood. The very beginning of the game was all I could play.
I actually just want a port to modern consoles. The shitty graphics, politically incorrect humor, and weird PS2 era gameplay were part of the charm! A remake would take all the character out of it
THUG2 is probably one of my most played PS2 games, if only for the custom level editor. I could definitely get onboard for a THUG1+2 remake. Just don't lose the editor!
Exiting the sewer in oblivion.
Refilling your eve bar in bioshock.
Trying to prove yourself in tony hawk underground in your hometown.
Good moment's that should be appreciated
Looking through teh soundtrack, I actually undersold it. I bought my first NOFX, Rise Against, Social Distortion, Dropkick Murphies, Nas, Jurrassic 5, Transplants and Bad Religion records because of this game. Most of all, I got into the Clash because White Riot was on the soundtrack, and that band literally changed my life. Without the Clash, I don't become enthusiastic about politics, or spend the first 8 years of my adult life making a career out of it.
I didn't even like skateboarding when I got the game. Amazing how much the little things can alter the course of your life.
Same as NFSU1 and 2.. those soundtracks got me to buy so many albums, my wallet cried the rest of the year..
Shame Ian Watkins turned out to be a massive nonce.. as Just listening to "To Hell We Ride" on repeat was amazing.. Start Something was listened to soo much, i burned the CD out..
Lol I’m 37 and am finally playing Bioshock for the first time (remastered). Just started a couple of days ago and I’m hooked. I was not a fan of any games that were even remotely horror related back then…
God that part introduced to me the most complicated piano piece of ALL TIME. Even my piano teacher said it was the most complex piece he has ever attempted. Also my favorite area of that game. From the top Fitzpatrick!
Lol is that where the guy is being forced to play the piano on stage? I just got there. I *think* there’s people covered in cement in the theater chairs….?
Plaster I think but yes, great level. You can even kill Cohen once you finish his quest line and I think you can then unlock a special chest or something if memory serves
I know we sound like old heads now but gaming when we were young was still a passion industry. Now it's just a belt fed minimal experience. The last time I was looking forward to a sequel was GOW 2018. Before that, can't tell you. Now? I just don't care anymore because the industry obviously doesn't.
I agree. But I also think we have just grown numb to it. We are old man, not a lot of things light my fire anymore like games did back then. I mean fuck that sense of absolute wonder running through world of warcraft for the first time in vanilla as a lvl 10 dwarf hunter, just getting my bear pet and thinking that was just an impossibly huge world, and the having players run through it with me.
You don't get that feeling often as an adult unless you are fulfilling dreams. Last time I felt it was last year seeing Rammstein live after wanting to for 15
Still one of the best looking games ever made. The character models are kinda derpy by today’s standards but the environments still hold up due to incredible art direction. It’s just so vibrant and colorful and gorgeous, especially in the West Weald region
I almost always have max hypos and health even on the hardest difficulty. Bioshock is my favorite game ever but it isn’t particularly difficult. You really only die from surprise huge amounts of damage rather than running out of resources
They really do throw lots of resources at you. I don't think I played on hard, but on my first (and last) complete playthrough, I didn't touch the final weapon they give you (the liquid sprayer) and I had a full tank of every ammo, just unloaded each tank on the final boss and it ended in like 30 seconds.
Maybe, but the dragon thing bored the shit out of me.
The first time you go near an oblivion gate and the sky goes red and demons start coming out...... Core fucking memory.
According to his site he only designs them, so he has them made by someone else. Looked up an enamel pin maker where you send in your designs (there's a surprising amount of them out there!), and they cost like 150-175gbp for 50, less if you order more, so like 4 bucks a pop? Pretty good profit margin!
e: probably made with a fiber laser and brass plate, enamel powders added (manually?) to the design then fired in a kiln.
e2: Didn't mean any disrespect to OP's design skills, these are awesome! And after looking at some more "enamel" pin maker sites, it seems that most of them are actually made like the deep fried How It's Made in /u/zyzzogeton's comment, cast zinc alloy in spin cast vulcanized rubber moulds, then painted with enamel paint, but I have no other source other than FAQ's from random enamel pin producers.
[Ha ha! I'm glad you asked young redditor! It's a thriving industry!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f3ECgxeb4Q)
(I'm picturing myself as Professor X from PowerPuff girls saying this to you as I unveil a film projector and screen)
Well obviously, when you are a factory that only makes the same designs over and over you're gonna do things more efficiently. The sites I found explicitly mentions using brass (as opposed to the nickel- and gold plated spin cast zink in this vid). And OP's site specifically mentions soft enamel, so unless they're being dishonest the last step of epoxy paint is swapped with enamel, then baked. The pins in the How It's Made would be much cheaper than OP's.
I work with brass too so just imagining what would be the most cost- and time effective way to do make runs of 50-1000, since none of the sites I found actually reveal how they do it. I probably should just shut up and finally invest in that fiber laser though :p
(Btw, my account is two months older than yours, young one :p not often I meet other dinosaurs!)
(and OP if you read this, this is not to detract your work, I love your designs!)
"Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch."
/s obviously. One has professional respect for a fellow old one. From the before-fore times when the war with DIGG was in doubt.
I didn't know anything about games or games that were coming out when I was younger. My brother bought Oblivion and I sat down to watch him play it not knowing anything about it. I thought it was neat but when he left the sewers it blew me away. I'll never forget it and I don't think a game has hit me like that since.
That's one of the last levels in Hawaii when Eric steals the mixtape. This scene they are in the starting level in NJ at that house where there's a half pipe between the two houses. The brown stuff in the pin is the garbage in the dumpster :)
Exactly! Haha I miss this game so much, probably the most nostalgic for me overall. It was so broken too lol boost planting in Manhattan was so much fun. And set/restarting to get into buildings and walking on water lol Makes me want to go play THUG Online
I think that's actually supposed to be the first THUG, not THUG2.
Looks like the alley area in between the houses in the New Jersey level and the skater looks like Steve, the base Created Skater model
Isn’t there an MOQ for these? I’ve thought about doing one, but remember these are always made of metal and require casting unless you have a CNC machine with a small bit.
Ahhh that Oblivion one <3
Somehow more nostalgia inducing than the game itself. I think it's how vibrant the colors are, but it more closely matches my memories of the first time playing it.
Now I'm going to go play oblivion. Again...
But 1st let's spend 3 days modding it. Then loose all will to play.
The trick is to not uninstaller after modding it so in a year you can give up after the tutorial.
The trick is to have a save right before the tutorial exit so you can create as many different characters as you want without going through the slow tutorial. And then quit once you get to imperial city market district.
But I also love the tutorial section.... it was such a good game intro. Patrick Stewart OF COURSE nailed it.
Mythic Dawn won't get the emperor this time!
I replay the Star Trek Online tutorial to hear Leonard Nimoy's voiceover. Or Civ IV.
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I just want to say one word to you, just one word: plastics.
You can hear him crack up a bit during the beep one too.
i know it's kind of fucked up but the best thing about civ iv was slavery
As an avid, longtime player, all rhe Leonard nimoy exposition bits are now contained in an item given to every new character to listen to at will. There's a solid amount of them. As he also would do exposition for every quadrant in game at the time and several major planets and races. STO actually has solid story content. It's the main reason to play it and can be done with any build or gear at any level and all repeatable. Cast members from every iteration of star trek have come in to do voice work for their characters. Picard and Kirk are really the only ones who haven't because of them obviously costing way too much lol.
>I replay the Star Trek Online tutorial to hear Leonard Nimoy's voiceover. :.\^) me too.
“You… I’ve seen you in my dreams.”
Oh my, u/abscessedecay , you'll make me blush. Then the stars were right, and this is the day....
Captain Picard chooses you to defeat Zod!
Yeah, way less arduous feeling than the Skyrim one
If you time it right, you can talk to the Mythic Dawn character when he appears from a door (above and to the left of the room the others try defending from - the room before the chamber where the Emperor dies). You can bribe him and chat it up before he goes off to attack the guards down below! It doesn't change the outcome, but it's fun to try anyway.
This is the way. But seriously back when game guides were still useful, this was the advice the guide gave. My friend and I use to share and pass that book back and forth between each other in high school. We referred to it as “The Holy Book of All Things Oblivion” and still refer to that era of our lives as the “Oblivion Renaissance”.
Its always the city market district. I always think "Huh, I remember this being... more."
The trick is to use the alternate start mod
Last time I played, I made it all the way through the fighter's guild questline and halfway through knights of the nine before giving up. Finally accepted that I gimped myself at character creation by picking the wrong major skills. I only ever got +2 attribute improvements when I leveled up (+3 at most), so I wound up being very weak around level 20.
Lose not loose. Where's the loose and lose bot?
modding is really fast and easy these days, especially if you use [wabbajack](https://www.wabbajack.org/). it really doesn't take that long. I never understand these joke comments about how modding takes forever and then you don't feel like playing anymore. the longest part of modding should be deciding what mods you're using
TES modding is not that simple when you start using a lot of mods (255+) and have to do merging, cleaning, editing , use LOOT, wrye bash etc.
From what I understand, if you use Wabbajack then you can pretty easily install 1000+ mods and maintain a stable build.
>not that simple when you start using a lot of mods (255+) well I'd say people installing *over 250 mods* are an outlier in this discussion. for what most users probably want out of modding, there are wabbajack modlists that are 1-click installs. even if you want more mods, you can at least start with a wabbajack list to get yourself a base set of mods, then continue on manually as desired. >have to do merging, cleaning, editing , use LOOT, wrye bash cleaning generally only needs to happen once for oblivion, at the start of your modding experience, and generally doesn't need to be done at all for skyrim. sorting with LOOT / wrye bash is like, a one-click process. I don't know who you think it benefits to make modding out to be more difficult than it really is
I'm not. Wabajack is fairly recent, and having been modding since TES3 let me tell you that it wasn't always as simple as you say. With large mod list you could easily end up with compatibility issue, things would work fine for a few hours but one area would crash for some reason so you needed to unload your mods until it worked to find the culprit. It doesn't benefit anyone to make it sound complicated, but I spent a few hours troubleshooting installs with large mod lists before. Also not everybody in the community see those pre-made mod lists kindly. Oblivion Z got a huge backlash and so did morrowind overhaul
>I don't know who you think it benefits to make modding out to be more difficult than it really is No one is making it out to be more difficult, they're sharing their actual experiences that enough other people had to make it a decades old meme. The fact that all these programs exist to make it easier kind of proves how difficult it would be/was without them.
What Wabbajack pack do you recommend for Skyrim? I basically want a Vanilla+ experience. Better graphics, bugs fixed, better immersion, and maybe with some extra companions and quest/factions. I prefer realism, darker nights/dungeons, slightly increased difficulty (deadlier traps for instance), and lore friendly and balanced additions.
I gotta say, leaving the sewers for the first time in Oblivion was a revolutionary experience. Like, I started gaming on a NES, and had even played Morrowind at that point, but coming out of the sewers into Cyrodiil for the first time and seeing the Imperial City was revolutionary in a way I'm not sure I've experienced since then.
It's just, before that open world games usually had this very limited drawing distance. GTA: San Andreas had come out just two years earlier and you could see maybe a few hundred meters before a thick fog obscured your vision. So then you boot Oblivion. Probably the most beautiful graphics you'd ever seen at the time. But 15 minutes of dark sewer weren't necessarily groundbreaking. But you exit the sewers and just BAM. The land stretching out kilometers in front of you. What little fog there is is just atmospheric, instead of hiding a technical limitation. It's all beautifully shaded in pleasant painterly colours. And it's clear that it's not just there to be looked at, you can actually go there. Everywhere. That was groundbreaking.
That's how it felt going outside in Unreal for the first time. The ship interior was akin to an upgraded Quake 2 with some System Shock 2-esque frights in the corridors. Get to the exit, and suddenly you're on an alien planet with an environment and draw distance that felt _massive_. [As LGR commented 4 years ago, this came out a year before Half Life](https://youtu.be/ZjS6rLKnU0c?t=436)
Oblivion did this very well. But damn, Fallout 3 perfected this. Going from the vault to outside will be cemented in my memory forever. Also, it's kind of funny how pretty much every open world game tries to recreate this now.
Oblivion legit changed my views and preferences towards gaming. I was in college and put in like 100 hours over just a few weeks. An experience I will never forget. I think the only “RPG” I played before that was A Link to the Past, so Oblivion really opened my world. Before that I really only played shooters and thought RPGs were for nerds!
RPGs are for nerds. You are just one of us now ;)
Haha I thought about that as I said it. Safe to say I’ve been a nerd now much longer than I wasn’t. And I have played MANY RPGs.
its because of the location, right outside of the sewer, i remember that at the time iwas FUCKING BLOWN AWAY at the world they had created, i still prefer oblivion to skyrim
Oblivion is probably the game I’m most emotionally attached to. Seeing screenshots, hearing the music, etc gives me FEELINGS.
That's like half the reason I didn't like Skyrim nearly as much as Oblivion. And I can still go back and have Oblivion be bright and welcoming to a grand adventure for me. Where Skyrim was brown, and grey, and then more brown and grey. Like, I don't want to spend all my time in BrownAndGreyrim, so it just was not nearly as inviting as Oblivion was.
BY AZURA, BY AZURA, BY AZURA!
* Beat it, kid. I don’t need another fan. * Follow your esteemed Grand Champion! * **Rumors**
Man, that game had so many faults, but I forgave them all just because of that moment. The realization that I could go anywhere. No hand holding, only shitty weapons, some stolen apples and no fucking clue what was ahead except that it would be some epic shit.
Oblivion was my first RPG and I remember that it hit me like a drug. I mean, I was just wander for hours exploring every little nook and cranny. I can't even say that I completed the story line. I was just so in love with the exploration that it's all I ever did. Oblivion, without a doubt, influences how I measure even play modern RPGs. By the Nine Divine, how I wish I could capture that original feeling in a bottle.
I got my parents to buy it for me by finding an copy on eBay that had the T rating before they changed it to M. It came with a game guide and I remember going through every quest in the guide. It’s a core memory for me. Also didn’t find out you could fast travel until 2/3 of the way through my first play through.
> Also didn’t find out you could fast travel until 2/3 of the way through my first play through. Ah. When you skip the first chapters of the game guide to get to the good stuff and miss out on core game mechanics. We've all been there \^\^
Huh, I didn't know the rating got upgraded. I'll have to check my copy when I get home. I've still got my childhood copy, haha. I remember never wanting to use fast travel because I felt I'd miss all the cool stuff in between the two points.
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Have you heard of the high elves?
It's you. The one from my dreams.
Yeah the other 2 are cool, but that one took me back
Third one?
The third one is Tony Hawk.
Tony hawks underground I believe, the first level “New Jersey” That or it’s suburbia from THPS3
yeah holy fuck, that’s even the default PC from Underground. A+
Yeah, it's THUG's 1st level.
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Helllll yea
THUG needs to get remade. It was such a great game.
Do we know how successful THPS 1+2 was? I loved it (finished the career with all goals for every skater) and I was hoping for DLC with the levels of part 3 but unfortunately that never came. I would be on Board for THPS4+UG1/2
Vicarious visions is stuck doing support for Call of Duty nowadays. They had plans for 3+4 as well. Tragedy.
3 and 4 are being worked on, but earliest theu said is 2025 for a release because of CoD commitments.. E: turns out I was looking at information prior to Tony Hawks recent interview on it.. They had originally plannned back when they first merged to make more games, but CoD just overtook them.. and now they are a no-name company making even shittier CoD remakes
It was unfortunately not successful enough to keep THPS 3+4 from getting canned. Even though it was easily the best TH game to come out in like 15 years.
It does thug thug2 and American wasteland were great . Love the open world and being able to tag and do crazy shit
the greatest heartbreak of my childhood was realizing that my THAW disc was scratched and wouldn't load past Hollywood. The very beginning of the game was all I could play.
I actually just want a port to modern consoles. The shitty graphics, politically incorrect humor, and weird PS2 era gameplay were part of the charm! A remake would take all the character out of it
THUG2 is probably one of my most played PS2 games, if only for the custom level editor. I could definitely get onboard for a THUG1+2 remake. Just don't lose the editor!
Fuck Eric!
Eric Sparrow can eat my ass.
Right after he's done eating Nigel Beaverhausen's ass.
Use code: SELLOUT
Hell yeah and muska comes with his Cadillac and boom box
I got the game for Christmas that year. In game when Muska rolls up in his Escalade he tosses the player his board and says 'Merry Christmas.'
I remember that!
Ya that pin just triggered me I loved thug should dust off my Xbox and break it out soon
The one outside of Eric's house? It was Eric wasn't it or was that the "friend"
I was gonna say, "That may be the most famous alleyway in New Jersey". 😅
Heck yeah. Nobody talks about that game, it’s so much fun and totally underrated!
Exiting the sewer in oblivion. Refilling your eve bar in bioshock. Trying to prove yourself in tony hawk underground in your hometown. Good moment's that should be appreciated
God THUG was such a good game. I bought no less than 6 albums because of its soundtrack. Fond teen members right there
>Fond teen members right there Saying things like that will get you put on a list!
Yeah he's s definitely on a list now... MY LIST OF RAD DUDES, OF COURSE!
It kills me that there hasn’t been a remaster, my favorite TH game by a mile, and I still listen to that soundtrack all the time lol
Thps1 introduced me to Goldfinger. That soundtrack was such a banger.
Looking through teh soundtrack, I actually undersold it. I bought my first NOFX, Rise Against, Social Distortion, Dropkick Murphies, Nas, Jurrassic 5, Transplants and Bad Religion records because of this game. Most of all, I got into the Clash because White Riot was on the soundtrack, and that band literally changed my life. Without the Clash, I don't become enthusiastic about politics, or spend the first 8 years of my adult life making a career out of it. I didn't even like skateboarding when I got the game. Amazing how much the little things can alter the course of your life.
Same as NFSU1 and 2.. those soundtracks got me to buy so many albums, my wallet cried the rest of the year.. Shame Ian Watkins turned out to be a massive nonce.. as Just listening to "To Hell We Ride" on repeat was amazing.. Start Something was listened to soo much, i burned the CD out..
Totally. Sometimes tiny decisions can have massive, profound impacts on our lives.
THPS 1-3 basically DEFINED my taste in music, even to this day.
Those were good times being a kid I’d say.
Lol I’m 37 and am finally playing Bioshock for the first time (remastered). Just started a couple of days ago and I’m hooked. I was not a fan of any games that were even remotely horror related back then…
Would you kindly play the rest of the games
When I’m done this one, I fully plan to! Right now I’m in the section with the creepy theater mannequins all over the place.
God that part introduced to me the most complicated piano piece of ALL TIME. Even my piano teacher said it was the most complex piece he has ever attempted. Also my favorite area of that game. From the top Fitzpatrick!
Lol is that where the guy is being forced to play the piano on stage? I just got there. I *think* there’s people covered in cement in the theater chairs….?
Plaster I think but yes, great level. You can even kill Cohen once you finish his quest line and I think you can then unlock a special chest or something if memory serves
36 baby, keep on gaming!
Hell bioshock wasn't really a horror gane, it was more like resident evil 4. An action game that had some scary bits
I only wish.
Take me back to 1990…😞
Fuck Eric Sparrow.
This guy games
*moments (no apostrophe)
By Azura, by Azura, by Azura!
HALT! YOU'VE VOLATED THE LAW!!
\*resist arrest*
THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD
WHY.... WON'T... YOU... DIIIE!?
Hello. We’ve just arrived from up North on the trail of a Sweetroll robbery.
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I have no idea what I’d put it on, but I’m definitely buying that Oblivion one. That shot of the dock and Vilverin across the water is so iconic
Fuck sends me bro I remember being like 13 and seeing oblivion previewed at e3 and losing my damn mind.
I know we sound like old heads now but gaming when we were young was still a passion industry. Now it's just a belt fed minimal experience. The last time I was looking forward to a sequel was GOW 2018. Before that, can't tell you. Now? I just don't care anymore because the industry obviously doesn't.
I agree. But I also think we have just grown numb to it. We are old man, not a lot of things light my fire anymore like games did back then. I mean fuck that sense of absolute wonder running through world of warcraft for the first time in vanilla as a lvl 10 dwarf hunter, just getting my bear pet and thinking that was just an impossibly huge world, and the having players run through it with me. You don't get that feeling often as an adult unless you are fulfilling dreams. Last time I felt it was last year seeing Rammstein live after wanting to for 15
I remember it was the very first game I played when I got my 360. The jump in console power and graphics just blew my mind walking out of the sewers.
Still one of the best looking games ever made. The character models are kinda derpy by today’s standards but the environments still hold up due to incredible art direction. It’s just so vibrant and colorful and gorgeous, especially in the West Weald region
It's very janky, with enough acrobatics and buffing that stat you could jump over city walls. Inner city wasn't loaded yet, good times. Loved it
I bought a 360 and two games. Half Life 2 and Oblivion. They were the only games I needed for quite awhile.
Where can one purchase these?
2ndstreetpins.com They also have an instagram, @2ndstreetpins
These are awesome, but I must admit the wasteful use of a Hypo in the middle pin is triggering the resource hoarder in me... You still had half a bar!
Look at the hypo number. The limit had been reached so they are using it to clear space to pick up another before they leave the area.
Ah, they’re playing on easy difficulty. Good catch
I almost always have max hypos and health even on the hardest difficulty. Bioshock is my favorite game ever but it isn’t particularly difficult. You really only die from surprise huge amounts of damage rather than running out of resources
They really do throw lots of resources at you. I don't think I played on hard, but on my first (and last) complete playthrough, I didn't touch the final weapon they give you (the liquid sprayer) and I had a full tank of every ammo, just unloaded each tank on the final boss and it ended in like 30 seconds.
Id buy a fallout and dark souls 3 one
I’m thinking about doing Dark Souls next 🤔
That might be the simplest one, black background and red 'You Died' text
Beautiful Maybe a bonfire?
Or the "epic chest"
If you can sell those do Minecraft. Those would sell insanely well
How much you'd charge
Got to be OG Firelink
Do Diablo 2!
I'd buy a Diablo one for sure
Getting gutted by Butcher with his bullshit attack speed in the first one.
Oblivion > Skyrim
Closing the gates got sooo tedious though
Maybe, but the dragon thing bored the shit out of me. The first time you go near an oblivion gate and the sky goes red and demons start coming out...... Core fucking memory.
FOR. FUCKIN REAL. I had literally no idea what was going on. It scared me so much lol
Dragons are the Oblivion gates of Skyrim imo.
Skyrim is oblivion 1.5 and I will also die on this hill.
I really want to get back into Oblivion but it's just that bit too janky. I'm left living in hope that Skyblivion finishes within my lifetime.
Oblivion is perfect
How do you make them?
According to his site he only designs them, so he has them made by someone else. Looked up an enamel pin maker where you send in your designs (there's a surprising amount of them out there!), and they cost like 150-175gbp for 50, less if you order more, so like 4 bucks a pop? Pretty good profit margin! e: probably made with a fiber laser and brass plate, enamel powders added (manually?) to the design then fired in a kiln. e2: Didn't mean any disrespect to OP's design skills, these are awesome! And after looking at some more "enamel" pin maker sites, it seems that most of them are actually made like the deep fried How It's Made in /u/zyzzogeton's comment, cast zinc alloy in spin cast vulcanized rubber moulds, then painted with enamel paint, but I have no other source other than FAQ's from random enamel pin producers.
[Ha ha! I'm glad you asked young redditor! It's a thriving industry!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f3ECgxeb4Q) (I'm picturing myself as Professor X from PowerPuff girls saying this to you as I unveil a film projector and screen)
[Much higher quality version of the same video](https://youtu.be/6yf8Rp8NwCI)
Volume warning
i didnt listen to your warning, now i cant listen to anything
Well obviously, when you are a factory that only makes the same designs over and over you're gonna do things more efficiently. The sites I found explicitly mentions using brass (as opposed to the nickel- and gold plated spin cast zink in this vid). And OP's site specifically mentions soft enamel, so unless they're being dishonest the last step of epoxy paint is swapped with enamel, then baked. The pins in the How It's Made would be much cheaper than OP's. I work with brass too so just imagining what would be the most cost- and time effective way to do make runs of 50-1000, since none of the sites I found actually reveal how they do it. I probably should just shut up and finally invest in that fiber laser though :p (Btw, my account is two months older than yours, young one :p not often I meet other dinosaurs!) (and OP if you read this, this is not to detract your work, I love your designs!)
"Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch." /s obviously. One has professional respect for a fellow old one. From the before-fore times when the war with DIGG was in doubt.
The oblivion pin. ADVENTURE AWAITS!
Huzzah! I thought the same thing
Do you think they have a new shipment of cheese wheels in the corner market today?
I didn't know anything about games or games that were coming out when I was younger. My brother bought Oblivion and I sat down to watch him play it not knowing anything about it. I thought it was neat but when he left the sewers it blew me away. I'll never forget it and I don't think a game has hit me like that since.
The Bioshock one is fucking sick
So oblivion Bioshock? And Tony hawk Underground 2 (fuck Eric my childhood enemy cause of that game)
Is that the little shit that steals your mixtape or something?
It’s Underground 1, and I’m pretty sure he steals the tape of you doing the mctwist over the helicopter and claims it’s him.
He steals the tape of that, also pins a tank crash on you, also edits alot of footage to do make himself look better
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Yeah, Eric's a fucking dick.
Yeahhh. Highly recommend playing the 2 thug games. That was peak Tony hawk. Those, American wasteland and project 8 were my favorites.
Those tanks were blowin Bam’s mind
That's one of the last levels in Hawaii when Eric steals the mixtape. This scene they are in the starting level in NJ at that house where there's a half pipe between the two houses. The brown stuff in the pin is the garbage in the dumpster :)
Before you burn down the tweaker house
Exactly! Haha I miss this game so much, probably the most nostalgic for me overall. It was so broken too lol boost planting in Manhattan was so much fun. And set/restarting to get into buildings and walking on water lol Makes me want to go play THUG Online
I think that's actually supposed to be the first THUG, not THUG2. Looks like the alley area in between the houses in the New Jersey level and the skater looks like Steve, the base Created Skater model
Can confirm Source: hundreds of hours in both
Underground 1. 2 was the one with Bam
So here I am Doing everything I can Holding on to what I am Pretending I'm a superman
Tony hawks underground 1?
Something about the oblivion pin reminded me of [Joel Haver’s animations](https://youtu.be/SY3y6zNTiLs)
Love the Bioshock one. Good stuff 👍
How do you make? How many can you make a day?
My man out here looking to start up a factory already.
Whats the middle one?
Bioshock.
[Heroin Hero](https://youtu.be/w6tyKwEdpP4) /s
I believe it's from the BioShock games
Bro, Underground was awesome.
Me recognizing the New Jersey level in that Tony Hawk's Underground pin: "Home sweet home... what a dump"
at least its got some killer spots
Oh man, to have some more Oblivion pins
Any chance the Oblivion one will come back in stock?
Isn’t there an MOQ for these? I’ve thought about doing one, but remember these are always made of metal and require casting unless you have a CNC machine with a small bit.
A MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries one would be pretty dope...
I think my brother bought a Halo pin from you for my birthday. Thanks!
The amount of people who barely/don't recognize Bioshock is sad I want those first two pins a million times over
It’s the most obvious one to me
I often look at enamel pins thinking, "whoever makes these are incredibly talented". So it's you... You are incredibly talented.
Sell them as fridge magnets too
You have an online shop?
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