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Feeling old (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/gaming

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No one, I mean no one mentions Battlezone or Battlezone II, ever. I love that series. I still have the BZ II box and everything.

[–] BoxOfFeet 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Do you really? Dang, I'm so jealous. I still have my original discs for I and II, at least. Yeah, my brother and I loved those as well. My dad worked in IT for EDS at the time, and got some old laptops on the cheap. So, I remember my brother and I laying on the living room floor, playing BZ facing each other over the IR ports. We started implementing gentleman's agreements, like no killing scavengers and no attacking your opponent's base for 30 minutes. It became a cold war game, where we would max out our units, and just spy on each other. Maybe send a single fighter over to poke at defenses. Then, I'd send over the mass of APCs I was hiding away from my base, and just annihilate everything.

And BZII had such a great mod scene! We loved XMod. We'd always say no nukes, but we always made them anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I remember my first foray into online in BZ II. I didn't realize turrets could be glitched to not deploy, so my strategy of high-armor turret run lasted about 10 minutes...

My friend's strategy was very similar to yours when we played BZ I. He'd go silent, then the next thing everyone knew, he had a fleet of bombers wipe the map clean.

[–] Cypher 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There are other BZ2 enjoyers!?

I keep hoping for a modern take on it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hmm... Manson's Battlezone,... 3. Hey I ain't got nothin' else to do!