June Hudson Giveaway!

[Peench]

Another Month - Another Game!

And this time it is a whole bunch of games. This month's giveaway features Dungeon Explorer for the PSP. Dungeon Explorer is an awesome RPG that lets you and up to three fellow players battle and defeat an evil that has plagued the Kingdom for years to seal off the portal to the underworld. I'm not sure how these dang portals keep opening, but it is certain our job to close them!

Dungeon Explorer features Wi-Fi (ad-hoc) cooperative play, over 70 different warrior types varying in race, gender and class. There are over 300 variations in weapons, armor and equipment, over 150 different fighting styles.



Here's the official site.

To enter this month's contest you must tell your favorite RPG story. It can be about the time you entered the dungeon and everyone but you and the DM were instantly killed; or that time you were playing Diablo in your underwear and your sister walked in; or it can be completely made up. Keep it short and make it fun and you'll be entered!

[Gordon]

My best RPG times came quite a few years ago when I was in the beginning of high school, back in the age of the SNES. I remember that time as the golden age of RPGs because for a game to succeed it had to have a fantastic storyline or battle mechanics, since graphics were quite limited.

Back in that time I was spoiled with quite a few fantastic videogames, like Ogre Battle, and Breath of Fire 2, but there was one that held my interest even more. That game was Lufia 2.

There was an interesting feature to the game, which involved a secret dungeon that had a hundred levels. Each of the levels was randomly generated, and the difficulty of the enemies ramped up quickly as soon as you entered. The main problem was that your levels were reset, which meant that each time you entered you’d be as weak as the beginning of the game.

If you were able to make it down one hundred levels and beat the mega slime at the bottom, you would be granted ultimate weapons. After several failed attempts of beating it, I spent one summer night, which consisted of seven hours, grinding my way to the bottom. I was able to beat the mega slime, and after that occurred... I found that the cartridge was corrupted. While it meant that I wasn’t able to collect the prize at the end, I was satisfied that I made it to the bottom. Sure it was a waste of seven hours on that trip but I completed a seemingly impossible task.

Well at my age it seemed impossible, but now you can get the game on an emulator and use save slates. >.>

[namehater]

heres my lame attempt at victory~

back in the day i used to be hardcore into console gaming. there was a time when i was probably about 10 (rough guess). my dad woke up in the middle of the night and walked by my bedroom to see me sitting there on the floor playing my old snes. he came in to tell me to get to bed and found that i had actually fell asleep playing my game. paddle still in hand, sitting upright on the floor, with my head resting peacefully on my chest. to this day that story still gets brought up.

[Wallace Suka]

In my last job, I was able to play games while working. I played all the FF series from 1, 2, IV-X2, Pokemon, and a lot of Japanese games, while I was watching the people entering the store. Some kids or my friends tend to come in to see what game I am playing. Most of the time it was near the end at the final boss fights. I tend to beat it in one attempt live in front of others, before the time of achievements on the 360. Beaten the weapons in FFVII to X, I get the most props. Most of them say, how did you beat it? Or how do you play Japanese games? My reply was sarcastic, like... You were watching it live and you still did not know how. Or the easy way to play Japanese games is to realize the first rule of RPGs is get lost (Not the show or the game). So, long story short... My best moment is beating the secret boss and they were there to witness my glory.

[AlphaQ GehaD]

I tried typing up this story on Friday and my cpu messed up, So now the short version...kinda...maybe.

Some of the best times i've had while playing a Rpg came when i played Tibia with a friend of mine while i was in Highschool. Its a 2D free MMORPG, and I ended up making my name "Grobahoe" People asked me if i was Native Americian, i told them no, that name actually stands for
"G rob a hoe" (People call me "G" short for "Gehad") Cause i was planning to level up and just kill and rob people's loot. Well the first part of the world when you make your character is for beginners and you cant attack people. So what me and my buddy did was go kill rats in the sewer to level up. When people would talk smack, (Like the General Public) we would follow them through the sewers, they wouldn't worry cause we couldnt attack them until we leveled up enough to go to the main world. But we would Box these people between us and a hardplace, Which would just be 2 rats. Since we blocked them on one side and the rats on the other, THey had to kill the rats before the rats killed him, Which often didnt happen and we would box them in till they got nibbled to death, Then we would steal their loot.

This is what we did when we couldnt out right attack people. After we went to the main world i decided to be a Ranger, who would use magic and long distance weapons. I was in the town center when this guy starts talking that smack, and Im online by myself at this time. He was 10 levels above me at 30 and i was lvl. 20, I found out the hard way that if you died you would loose your bag of items and enough exp to level down. So i took precautions when i was planning on jumping this guy, I left him at the town center where everybody was selling their items/weapons and took care of my inventory. I dropped off all my items except 40 spears which i would use to throw at the guy from a distance and kill him for talking SHITE! So i calmly walk back to the spot, and there he is, trying to sell an item near these group of other high leveled bastids. I knew if i killed him i would gain mad respect, so i crept up, Fully healed and armored, I ran up and started chucking many spears.

The guy turns around and heals himself than starts telling me to stop it or else. I thought to myself or else what, your healing yourself and your telling me "OR ELSE". Then he gives me a fireball which brings down 35% of my health, so i start back pedaling, Then another guy next to him shoots a 2d arrow at me and im like WTF, i dont have a problem with you. Thats when all hell breaks loose, I start runnning away and headed towards the alter where people cant attack you. I thought i was far away from them cause i couldnt see them behind me on my screen (its an over the top view) but then i see a group of high levelers chasing me down, Shooting ice, lighting, Death & Fireball spells. At this point my heart is racing and im cursing, Then the worse happens and 1 guy summmons a skeleton & another actually turns into a dragon. Now im being chased by not only high level players, But their summons & a Dragon. Need less to say they are moving faster than i am because you gain speed when the higher rank you are. They were closing on me fast, and now im at 30% life, and the alter is right there ahead of me, I was about to step in when a message poped up saying "You have to wait 2 minutes after attacking someone before you can step in the Alter" Thats when i knew i was screwed, But then i seen an alley, and quickly turned in. I knew the dragon couldnt chase me through here but the others could, they just werent as fast. I turned into the alley and was about to make another sharp left, when the dragon shot a fireball down the alley and caught me.

BOOM, instant death, the guy even left my items there...I turned off the computer called my friend and told him i went down another level and he told me that we would get revenge later.

Thats about the funniest story i had during an rpg, Needless to say I kinda felt like this kid after i died

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[AlphaQ GehaD]

I've been looking through the screens of this game and it reminds me of the first psp game i bought, "Untold Legends". Would be sweet if it had Infrastructure though.

[Peench]

This just in... the winners names have been chosen by the powers of Excel. June's winners of Dungeon Explorer are:

AlphaQ Gehad
Wallace Suka
Namehater
Gordon

Shoot me your address in an email or PM and I'll ship them off as soon as I can. Congrats everyone!

[namehater]

sweet, every entry won? thats badass! thanks!

[Peench]

We had enough to give away! Since people are generally lazy here and don't enter, your odds of winning are pretty good!!

[namehater]

saweet! bring on the july giveaway lol

[AlphaQ GehaD]

oops am i late, Lol, ill make my lazy arse send you a pm...do i have to send my name or do you already know it?