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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 11:12:21 AM

Title: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 11:12:21 AM
Seriously, Shadow of Rome is the best game in the Roman setting? C'mon.

Play Gladius.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: demi on February 19, 2015, 11:13:34 AM
:badass

Rygar is better
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 11:16:34 AM
:badass

Rygar is better

That is your opinion. You are allowed to be wrong you lovable little bastard you.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 19, 2015, 11:25:16 AM
R-type is better.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 11:33:34 AM
R-type is better.

 :geoff
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: demi on February 19, 2015, 11:35:05 AM
R-vie the R-tard
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: kick51 on February 19, 2015, 11:39:56 AM
Shadow Of Rome and Gladius are those games I see in the store that I'm like "didn't people like this one" then i put it back on the shelf
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 11:42:10 AM
Shadow Of Rome and Gladius are those games I see in the store that I'm like "didn't people like this one" then i put it back on the shelf

:ufup
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: brob on February 19, 2015, 11:58:26 AM
I really liked Shadow of Rome until I had to play as the cool young dude.  >:(
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 19, 2015, 12:02:53 PM
I had a Gladius poster on my wall for years, but I never owned or played the game itself.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: brob on February 19, 2015, 12:06:55 PM
Does the sword and sandal beat em up Mark of Kri get a mention here or are we strictly roman?

I remember liker Mark of Kri, but I don't think I ever finished it. In fact, what I remember most about it was how smoothly the transition from the loading screen (concept art of the upcoming stage) into gameplay was.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Steve Contra on February 19, 2015, 12:08:36 PM
:badass

Rygar is better
Fuck that guy  :bolo
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: mormapope on February 19, 2015, 12:11:16 PM
(http://lparchive.org/Shadow-of-Rome/Images/2-MeatSculpter.gif)
 :umad

Two gens ago there was a surge of gladiator games for some reason. Always wanted to check this one out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum:_Road_to_Freedom
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 19, 2015, 12:14:16 PM
Two gens ago there was a surge of gladiator games for some reason. Always wanted to check this one out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum:_Road_to_Freedom

Wasn't there some chariot racing game that came out for the original Xbox?
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: mormapope on February 19, 2015, 12:17:57 PM
Wasn't there some chariot racing game that came out for the original Xbox?

I never heard of it, but it does exist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPfB6pmIuuo
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 19, 2015, 12:21:40 PM
Do you like gladiator movies, AIA?
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Am_I_Anonymous on February 19, 2015, 12:26:20 PM
Do you like gladiator movies, AIA?

Watching Spartacus right now.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Rufus on February 19, 2015, 02:11:52 PM
Gladius was sooo. fucking. slow. When I tried to play it a year or so ago. Maybe the Gamecube version at least feels snappier than the PS2 version, I dunno. Gonna try it again some time, but I didn't get very far the first time.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: CatsCatsCats on February 19, 2015, 02:19:16 PM
I somehow fell into owning this on GameCube, couldn't really get too into it.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: ToxicAdam on February 19, 2015, 02:58:17 PM
Bought it for 5 dollars on clearance (back when Circuit City was a thing), but never opened it.


I miss those CC clearance sales. They didn't give a fuck towards the end.

 

Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Positive Touch on February 19, 2015, 04:07:01 PM
just got Shadow of Rome for Xmas; looking forward to playing it
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: mormapope on February 19, 2015, 04:23:57 PM
just got Shadow of Rome for Xmas; looking forward to playing it

Don't make the same mistake I did, start on normal difficulty. You can't switch in the middle of game and hard mode is more frustrating than challenging.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Steve Contra on February 19, 2015, 05:36:48 PM
Shadow of Rome is boss, except the stealth sections.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Positive Touch on February 19, 2015, 05:54:02 PM
just got Shadow of Rome for Xmas; looking forward to playing it

Don't make the same mistake I did, start on normal difficulty. You can't switch in the middle of game and hard mode is more frustrating than challenging.

ugh...the ultimate challenge for me is NOT starting on hard mode. what's frustrating about it?
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: mormapope on February 19, 2015, 05:59:35 PM
The gladiator matches have more enemies than usual, and they have more health.

Now that sounds dandy, except when you have to fight three lions/tigers with your bare fists, when originally it would be one or two. You'll end up fighting beefy dudes with no weapons left because they all broke when fighting the other beefy dudes. Shit just feels unbalanced.

It is gratifying though if you survive an onslaught of dudes and chicks with a sliver of health left. Have no idea if hard difficulty changes the stealth sections.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: chronovore on February 22, 2015, 07:18:00 PM
Do you like gladiator movies, AIA?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNsPE5XUXA
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Kara on February 22, 2015, 07:53:06 PM
I might be a shit, but I did play Gladius.

On GameCube.

There is nothing you can do to me that I have not already done to myself.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 22, 2015, 09:31:16 PM
i played it onna xbox you reclined fuckcycle
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 22, 2015, 10:28:07 PM
I think I might have rented it on PS2 you second hand sodomy seadoo
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on February 23, 2015, 04:45:56 AM
There was years of Lucasarts not making a sequel before they couldn't anymore.

Gladius was from the last wave from when Lucasarts was actually trying.  Watching the slow, self-inflicted spiral of Lucasarts was endlessly painful.  Like watching a videogame company with Alzheimers, they forgot how to do things they were really good at (adventures), they stopped doing anything new (IP), and eventually they even stopped doing basic sorts of brush-your-teeth kinda things (Star Wars).

and just when they were starting to show some mild signs of life again, the plug gets pulled and Grandpa goes back to rubber pants.  Lucasarts depresses me.
Title: Re: Gladius is the best game you shits never played
Post by: chronovore on February 23, 2015, 07:07:06 AM
That’s the saddest assessment of LucasArts’ fall I’ve read, largely because it feels so true.