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Has anyone tried Proto Man yet? Is it worth buying? ...Bumblebee Man?

OMG I just realized... you play videogames... with your HANDS!! And what did Nintendo start out as? A card game company? Hand of cards, eh, EH??? Pokemon cards?? A lot of Pokemon have... HANDS!!?! Bah forget it....

Let's not forget that whole "touching is good" campaign, the Power Glove, and of course the most freakish Nintendo monster of all time, the "Dead Hand".... not to mention the second-most freakish, Bongo Bongo. And oh yeah, and wall/floor/ceiling masters. Darn right he's on to something!

Well now that they're both banned, this doesn't apply to them. But to anyone who's still capable of voting: Behold, the scale of Mechyness! 10% mech ---- 30% ---- 70% ---- http://torokun.deviantart.com/art/Samus-Aran-Fan-Art-30046088 http://torokun.deviantart.com/art/Ironman-01-30386133 80% ---- 100% mech ---- So although my Varia and/or Gravity Suit drawing is not as mechy as Magitech Armor, it's still up to 300% mechier than the suit from Metroid Prime! Actually I don't really care if I don't get many votes again, I just wanted to post mecha things because they're cool (especially the ones in the deviant art links)

It's for PC, legal to download - and if I recall it comes with a patch that fixes some gameplay issues involving too many enemies spawning...? About System Shock 1... I tried to play it but I couldn't handle the difficult controls and gave up... so I can't exactly recommend it =p Light switches not working is a recurring thing in my dreams, but I can't recall it happening ever in nightmares (nightmares are very rare for me, and usually only turn nightmarish at the very end). I was gonna go off on a tangent about the lighting in my dreams (and the sunlight from my window shining into my eyes and being visible inside my dream!), but my last three nightmares are much more interesting and relevant to the thread: The first one (months ago), there was a bee hovering around the floor of a bus shelter and I thought "ok that thing better not try to sting me" and sure enough it starts harassing my face, and I wake up. The second one (weeks ago) is freaking messed up; you might not want to read this at night: So I'm in my room (the room where I'm sleeping) and I get up to go to the bathroom, and I see in a mirror, the reflection of a baby's head and it scares the shit out of me, though there's nothing scary about it aside from the fact that there SHOULD NOT BE the reflection of a baby's head in my mirror! And then everywhere I look that baby's head is reflected in every reflective surface in the room, always at the same angle and orientation (profile facing to the right, slightly towards me), looking still and lifeless like a doll, but as real as a living baby, except perhaps inhumanly too large. I think I remember opening the door to leave my room and then I wake up, and the lighting in my room is the same as it was in the dream... fun times =\ Third nightmare (days ago): I'm in my back yard, all is well (except my next-door neighbours have a new fence right across the middle of their back yard for some reason involving the neighbours behind them), but I digress... a bee is stinging my mom in the neck so I start to panic, and this 1.5-inch wide circle of what looks like yellow pollen appears on her around the sting, and I try to knock the bumblebee off but its butt is stuck there quite firmly. A few more more vigorous tries and the bee's free, but of course it starts to attack me. I'm feeling pretty defenseless, and the bee starts going at my right leg, trying to get through my jeans (or trying to get its stinger through at least). I don't know WHY or IF I lifted up the leg of my jeans, but then it was stinging my leg - again the yellow circle of powder appears around the bee, little particles of dust clinging to my leg hairs, the big fat (well, AVERAGE fat) bumblebee's stinger stuck way the F into my leg, and then I wake up. Yet bees in videogames don't bother me one bit for some reason =/ Actually that nightmarish scenario was the ending to a rather epic dream involving an OOT-type game. Holy shit I just realized that dream is insanely relevant to this thread, and worth describing: So I'm in this game that could really be any 3D Zelda game... I'm in this place that would take a very long time to describe, but I'm in some part of a building I'm not supposed to be, and this security guy is pointing a silenced pistol at me (keep in mind everything else is a least somewhat Zelda-themed), so I go back to area where the public is allowed. So this building leads out to a beach, and I start some kind of side-quest involving watching talking fish, and then I think they turned into Zoras or some other fish-people (and no, I was NOT attracted to them!!) and it was some kind of counting or music or memory minigame that I can't quite remember (HA!). All I remember is that there were 4 or so groups of three of them, and for whatever reason I was counting them (I'm as confused as you are). I don't remember getting any item from it either so I guess I didn't win, but I start to swim around the body of water (I'd call it a lake, though it's not nearly as deep as lake Hylia, and was more like a beach, actually like a mini version of the one in Majora's Mask), and then I'm swimming around and leaping like Zora link... feels pretty damn liberating (though I still prefer flying dreams and super-jumping-power dreams!) You know how 3D open-world games like Zelda often have gigantic sheer walls of vaguely forest-looking textured stuff at the edges of the map to keep the player from escaping? Well both sides of this big lake had this; thinking about it now it's kind of funny So anyway, swimming across the entire lake was fun and not at all frightening, although I distinctly recall there was some villain or creature after me (Ganon? Nazgul? Sharks?)... in any case, at the other end of the lake were some islands that had an awesome song that I can no longer remember, and some friendly minigame-hosting NPC folks. So I traveled back and forth to different islands interacting with NPCs and searching for stuff a bunch of times... How I got to my back yard for the finale; I have no idea. Haha sorry for the wall of text I thought the bee stuff was relevant to the widespread fear of bees and wasps in this thread, but everything else... well, my apologies XD

Hey where's my post? Did I accidentally close the tab AGAIN?? I guess I did =/ So, who wants to collect the votes? And all the entries are in the first post.

A game that's about crabs that cling to people's faces doesn't have any creatures that cling to your face? I haven't played more than the HL2 demo (and I'm awaiting fixing that), but this strikes me as odd for some reason. =/ Haha, we just have to wait for the 3D-glasses version of HL2, where they'll program Stalkers to stick their legs at your face and shoot debris into your face.

I think you have to be alone in the woods or something and knocking down trees with one hand... wait-

IMO that was the weakest metroid encounter ever for me; it all seemed so scripted. The darkness didn't mean a thing because everything there was glow-in-the-dark for some reason, and the metroids themselves were extremely dumb and not at all aggressive. When they DID attack, they drained about 2 damage per second... You'd think metroids that can temporarily phase out of existence would be nightmare fuel, not another boring "wait & shoot" pattern. On top of that it was all like "arrr this is supposed to be scary!!" The melty guy in the first doorway gave me a jump though. And I will admit that [spoilers] I had a slight "holy sh**" moment when the metroids started flying out into the sky, but I soon remembered "the script of this entire game sucks, and those metroids will probably never be seen or mentioned again". But holy cow Overflow.... wow

Can... can I sig this??

Yeah. It was impossible to PM Atma because he was banned so we all pissed ourselves and posted our drawings in a panicked frenzy. At least that's how it happened for me. cobaltstarfire Faulken friendlyHunter Ninja-san Rambo Rawk Hawk relyanCe Sindra Vilecat [Edit] Also Atma's going to have to check his PMs and make sure this is the full list.

Can't be that hard, caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan it? I'll have one in a giffy.

Heeeeeeeere's ATMUH!

Can I guess??? =D Fiiiiixed. And anyone who's scared of Metroids needs to play Metroid Zero Mission on hard mode. Those babies stay frozen for about one second, and they almost always come in groups. I simply love the low-item runs where missing once can get you killed ^__^ Also I need to acquire Silent Hill.

Nice list Heh, I think anyone can agree on that. For me, Jabu-Jabu's insides was pretty unnerving my first time around - all that pixelated organic shit, hard-as-shit puzzles with that not-entirely-un-creepy fish girl who's too spoiled to walk anywhere (except for INTO A BIG BLOODY RED HOLE IN THE FLOOR!!), giant pulsating invincible tentacles that swing at your face, big cube sponges thrashing around for no apparent reason... and on top of all that, everything you attack either bleeds or electrocutes you. Epic boss though, felt so good to conquer that place =D Oh yes, and I've always had a slight phobia of jellyfish (or at least the idea of touching one or stepping on one, even swimming near them *shudder* DAMN THOSE STINGING BEASTS!), so that didn't help at all =/ Ironically, I've yet to be actually frightened by jellyfish in a videogame (Metroids included). The movie "The Sphere" is a whole other story Oh wait I forgot, the SMB3 jellyfish. That game was just a horror-fest, wasn't it =p And on the topic of Super Metroid: The first time I got to Ridley's Lair (the boiling fiery place with the trademark drum/choir-filled theme and all those beige-ish bird statues), I got a terrible fever which only got worse after I stopped playing. Now every time I play that place I feel a little ill... ugh just thinking about it..... Super Metroid is so awesome. In fact many areas in that game have some ingrained childhood memory associated with it - some of which take place in entirely different seasons for some reason... it didn't take me THAT long to beat, did it?? Haha, I just remembered another one: When I was a little kid, I played Metroid (I mean this is one of the first NES games I ever rented)... all I remember is that it was an epic giant-ass maze, and that the music in the item rooms scared me right back out the door... it made me think there was going to be some giant boss that would suddenly appear!

I am assuming you haven't played System Shock 2 then? =P I think that's why I liked the game so much.

Fixed. That would cause incredible awesomeness and/or lawsuits. And without spoiling the story: that would fit sooo perfectly with the story.

The only thing in Zelda:OOT that I really found scary was the multitude of invisible things at the bottom of the well (especially the invisible holes in the floor that lead into a pit of redeads and green mush with hands sticking out of it!!) If I recall, the wall/ceiling-masters were invisible too I mean that game had some really messed up stuff, but the invisible hazards and enemies plus creepy music was something not very many games had (and at that time, certainly not many 3D games!) And some of those low-res textures really creeped me out for some inexplicable reason. Mostly those crazy like-likes (the shield-eating... sponge things), and the mysterious brown heaps of who-knows-what on the floors of dark corners and jail cells. Gaaah, the pixels!! I also had to turn the brightness up at one point in System Shock 2, because in some parts I simply couldn't see a thing. And boy did THAT game have some creepy low-res textured organic matter spreading across the walls and floor! I can't even remember if that stuff damaged you in the game, but I always stayed the hell away from it. And on the topic of phobias, SS2 has a mod/patch that removes all those spider creatures, for players with arachnophobia. [Edit] And the freaking eggs, those were the worst!

I was stuck there for maybe an hour before I figured out the REAL solution. I put it in spoilertext because the "DUH" moment you get when you figure it out is priceless: When you first enter the room, there's no lava! I'm serious! Get to the top by whatever means you want before the top one has a chance to fire. Also this game gives new meaning to the words "flower clock". Not that "flower clock" had a meaning before...

The link isn't working for me =[ [Edit] Nevermind it works now =]

Haha, I wonder if it'll let you miss when Rush is selected. I don't think anyone would be willing to test that theory though =p

I guess it's impossible for voting to start until he's unbanned though =( I'll post mine too: http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9351/samusmechatu8.gif Not a giant mech in the traditional sense, but I really wanted to draw this!

Uhhh who do I PM again? Atma's been banned! =O Oh noes how will we see the entries then?!?!

Thanks for wishing me luck! Actually I'm submitting mine right now without any background... let's see if I can finish up in the next 15 minutes.

Egad, the contest! Expect a last-minute uncoloured collection of sketches from me some time tomorrow.