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OMG OMG OMG WE JUST GOT WORLD IN CONFLICT: THE COMPLETE EDITION
it was on sale at Steam for US$9.99, and I hadn't yet got my brother a birthday present, and we both really wanted this, so I bought it for him :D :D :D
BEST GAME EVER I MISS IT SO MUCH EVER SINCE OUR COPY STOPPED WORKING
I love it so much I even had an LJ tag for it
...wow the last entry on that tag was almost 3 years ago D:
and this is the complete edition with the Soviet Assault expansion pack, which we've never had before. :D
this is perhaps the only game I've ever played where I can get into the 'zone' - in which I'm almost on autopilot and everything flows perfectly and everything is beautiful
(I really loved Age of Empires 2 back then too, but somehow I never got that same kind of high from it. in competitive AOE2 I was only mediocre; my team got into the finals in a Singapore competition, and I was the top scorer for the prior round, but playing online on international platforms I got routinely thrashed. but it was still epic.)
whereas for WIC, I used to be among the top 15 players in Singapore. which admittedly isn't that impressive, because there were only like 200-ish competitors, but still. I was really good at this game, and there's a special kind of joy in playing a game you're really good at.
my goal was to get into the world top 500 (out of 27k-ish active players), which I still have yet to accomplish. I think the best ranking I ever got was #589. at least, that's the one I saved a screenshot of. my brother was a more hardcore player than I (he's played 13+ days vs my 8+), and I think he was ranked in the #400s at one point. he's won a higher percentage of matches and got more medals than me. and he has a 1.20 kill-death-ratio, vs my pathetic 0.88. >_> I have a higher average score, but that doesn't really count for much other than showing off.
and now I will have something to do whenever I'm feeling restless, instead of picking fights on the internet. which would be a great improvement.
there were fights on WIC too, and I guess lots of frustration at noob players who did stupid things and/or selfishly refused to cooperate, going to do high-point-scoring things for themselves which did no good to the rest of the team (WIC is a very team-focused game; if someone on the team is a jerk and doesn't work with the others, you're almost guaranteed to lose). and gamer demographic is heavily dominated by adolescent males of the sort who like to taunt their opponents by calling them girls or gay, which isn't fun either until I get the top score and go 'hah, guess what...'
but the great thing about that is that once the game is over, you usually don't have to see them again, and the next game it's a different team of people unless you specifically search friends out.
sadly I seem to have forgotten all my skillz, but they'll come back eventually.
until then I shall go get stuff done before the game is downloaded and installed and becomes a distraction. >_>
it was on sale at Steam for US$9.99, and I hadn't yet got my brother a birthday present, and we both really wanted this, so I bought it for him :D :D :D
BEST GAME EVER I MISS IT SO MUCH EVER SINCE OUR COPY STOPPED WORKING
I love it so much I even had an LJ tag for it
...wow the last entry on that tag was almost 3 years ago D:
and this is the complete edition with the Soviet Assault expansion pack, which we've never had before. :D
this is perhaps the only game I've ever played where I can get into the 'zone' - in which I'm almost on autopilot and everything flows perfectly and everything is beautiful
(I really loved Age of Empires 2 back then too, but somehow I never got that same kind of high from it. in competitive AOE2 I was only mediocre; my team got into the finals in a Singapore competition, and I was the top scorer for the prior round, but playing online on international platforms I got routinely thrashed. but it was still epic.)
whereas for WIC, I used to be among the top 15 players in Singapore. which admittedly isn't that impressive, because there were only like 200-ish competitors, but still. I was really good at this game, and there's a special kind of joy in playing a game you're really good at.
my goal was to get into the world top 500 (out of 27k-ish active players), which I still have yet to accomplish. I think the best ranking I ever got was #589. at least, that's the one I saved a screenshot of. my brother was a more hardcore player than I (he's played 13+ days vs my 8+), and I think he was ranked in the #400s at one point. he's won a higher percentage of matches and got more medals than me. and he has a 1.20 kill-death-ratio, vs my pathetic 0.88. >_> I have a higher average score, but that doesn't really count for much other than showing off.
and now I will have something to do whenever I'm feeling restless, instead of picking fights on the internet. which would be a great improvement.
there were fights on WIC too, and I guess lots of frustration at noob players who did stupid things and/or selfishly refused to cooperate, going to do high-point-scoring things for themselves which did no good to the rest of the team (WIC is a very team-focused game; if someone on the team is a jerk and doesn't work with the others, you're almost guaranteed to lose). and gamer demographic is heavily dominated by adolescent males of the sort who like to taunt their opponents by calling them girls or gay, which isn't fun either until I get the top score and go 'hah, guess what...'
but the great thing about that is that once the game is over, you usually don't have to see them again, and the next game it's a different team of people unless you specifically search friends out.
sadly I seem to have forgotten all my skillz, but they'll come back eventually.
until then I shall go get stuff done before the game is downloaded and installed and becomes a distraction. >_>