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Topic: Holy Shit. M.U.L.E. is back. Someone page Falconeer. (Read 4966 times)
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schild
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I'm sure he felt a ripple in the force.
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I'm sure he felt a nipple in the force.
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Bunk
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Falconeer
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And someone actually paged me for reals!
I am going to change my lifeplans for the next few months if this manages to capture even 1/10 of the original. Frothfap!
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Nebu
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I'm hesitant to try it for fear that it will ruin my nostalgia.
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« Last Edit: December 09, 2009, 06:02:17 PM by Nebu »
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Nonentity
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Hm. I have never played this.
Someone sell me on it.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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Trippy
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Some people consider it the best multiplayer computer game of all time?
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Teleku
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Some people being Falconeer?  I never played it either. I'm now forced to try it due to the froth spewed by Falconeer these boards. |
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raydeen
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M.U.L.E. was one of those games that looked so cool and I really wanted to play back in the day. Sadly, I don't think they ever had a port for a lowly Atari 400 with 16k and cartridge/cassette. Sure, I had Miner 2049er and Star Raiders, but I used to drool over the games my C64 and Apple II buds had.
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Falconeer
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M.U.L.E. was a miracle of perfect details. Music, sounds, humour, stylized but appealing and functional visuals, wonderful multiplayer mechanics. Now of course, it needed to be played by real people battling in front of the same monitor, and for this reason it was much closer to a boardgame kind of fun than a videogame. More, said details are the reasons why its greatness can't be reproduced by modern clones, no matter how cool they are. Don't get me wrong, the game mechanics are STILL brilliant, but the way you need to play it to feel the fun doesn't work in the 21st century. The auction is the perfect example: of course you could play the auction minigame online and it would still work, and same can be said for the Land Grant (rush) phase, but it was the perfect mix between the human element dynamics (you and your friends) happening over the keyboard/joysticks and the delicious onscreen feedback that made it perfect.
I am having weird real life days so I didn't try this new clone yet, but I doubt it can recapture the spirit, most of which was about cramming yourself and three other friends on a couch in front of a screen. That's what I still do from time to time witth my friends (although marriages and toddlers basically killed our M.U.L.E. nights since 2008) because the game provides SO MUCH fun. Online? I am not sure...
So it's not that M.U.L.E. aged badly. I think it is still the best "LAN" (bear with me) game ever. It's us, we conveniently evolved our flesh into bytes. And M.U.L.E. doesn't work well with the internet cause it needs bodies, not avatars.
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eldaec
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Falconeer has it with this: real people battling in front of the same monitor MULE is like Monopoly only it is actual fun, but you need to be able to shout at the other players. This is the sort of thing someone should make for consoles. Alcohol + MULE + people in the same room = win. |
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Falconeer
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They did it for the NES. I have it, but I don't have a NES. They should do it again, for sure. Yes, it would be superwin, so easy.
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Jeff Kelly
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So it sounds like the perfect Wii Game, doesn't it?
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Nebu
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That video brought back some fond high school/college memories. Thanks for that. |
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Falconeer
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You used to play it on the NES, Nebu? Really?
I ask becuase I always wondered if the game was as awesome as the original even with different sounds and graphics.
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Bunk
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Gave it a quick try last night, and it really is quite true to the original. I can see Falc's point about everyone being in the same room, it proably just won't have the same effect online.
Of course my very first game, turn one, radiation makes my only M.U.L.E. on my food plot run off, and I'm stuck perpetually in last for the rest of the game...
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Thrawn
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You used to play it on the NES, Nebu? Really?
I ask becuase I always wondered if the game was as awesome as the original even with different sounds and graphics.
Yes, please elaborate on if the NES version is any good. I've never played MULE before but if it was on NES I've probably got it on an emulator and would like to try it next time I have some buddies over. |
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Falconeer
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Well Thrawn, you can play the Atari 400/800 version on the emulator too, and I am sure it's better than the NES version. If only, because it's THE Original.
The Commodore 64 version (very easy to find and emulate) is, for popularity reason, more original than the original so I'd go with that one.
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Nebu
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You used to play it on the NES, Nebu? Really?
I ask becuase I always wondered if the game was as awesome as the original even with different sounds and graphics.
I played it on ... I think it was a C64. I was just thanking you for the gameplay footage. I'm sorry about the confusion. |
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