Sudden Attack - CounterStrike meets Gunz?

[Telemediocrity]

Sudden Attack has become huge in Korea, and is now the #2 game in popularity (second only to WoW), ahead of Lineage 1/2, MU, etc.  I've seen it being played, and it looks crazy fun.

The only problem?  No international version as far as I can find, and to sign up for a play account you have to have a Korean national ID number.

I'm jonesing to give this game a try.  Anyone have any workarounds to play it if you're not from Korea?

[Trippy]

Walk into somebody's apartment and copy his or her number down?

[Wolf]

woot, tele could be like that dude from 3-Iron

[Trippy]

He already done it before (according to him), don't see why he can't do it again.

[Wolf]

Yeah, than he'll kill a dude with a golf ball and will go to prison. No internet in Korean prisons! 

[Engels]

National ID to play a game? Good lord, talk about taking things a bit too far. I know its another culture and the prime directive indicates that we aught not judge things like that, but gevalt, if they need to track that shit, Korea does have some kind of problem. Not to mention asking for additional problems like indentity theft.

[Telemediocrity]

Uh, Trippy... ...huh?

As for Koreans using national ID numbers for games, IMHO it works rather well - they use it for their version of MySpace (CyWorld), too.  It basically means that you can't be an anonymous asshole on the internet - If your cyworld makes you look like a loser, it'll be your boss and your parents and whoever else you know in RL seeing it.

For all the bitching on MMO forums about player accountability, the Koreans are way ahead of us.

[Trippy]

Uh, Trippy... ...huh?

Huh? You seem to have a predilection for wandering into other people's homes uninvited and rummaging around. I figured you could do the same while you were in Korea to "borrow" somebody's ID number.

[Cyrrex]

Dear Tele

Greetings from Bat Country!  You've only been gone a few days, and already this place feels different without you.   So how's Korea?  Do me a favor while you're over there - if you see that Jong Kim feller, you give him a swift kick in the pants for me, eh?  Courtesy of the good ole US of A, and whatnot.  Teach that slimey git to point his nucular weapons at us!   Oh!  While I'm at it, I promised Biff I'd ask you to bring him back a souvenier from some place called the 38th Parallel.  I'm not sure what that is, but it sounds like some kind of night club.  Somewhere up in the northerly part, he says.  Be careful though, Biff mentioned that some of the patrons there are armed...yeah right, like they need guns!  We all know them Koreans are masters of the hand-to-hand stuff!

Got you last letter, thanks for that.  I read it aloud for your Grampa Schild.  He's a bit concerned about your attempts at breaking the law in what is only your first week over there.  He reckons that foreigners caught breaking the law over there get locked up and receive daily floggings.  Now, I don't admit to knowing what a flogging is, but it sounds super painful.  Speaking of Grampa Schild, you really do need to visit him more often at the Home...he puts up a brave front and all, but he misses you something awful.  He's been going on of late about some new thing called "Disgaea", which I think is a new medicine that addresses his issues with erectile dysfunction.  Don't ask me what a man of his age needs with something like that - I mean, I've seen the old bags he hangs out with at the Home.  Yuck!   Anyway, he claims that he gets "more than 20 hours of entertainment" out of it.  His words, not mine.

Little Haemish said his first word the other day!  Can you believe it?  He was playing tug-of-war his little pooch, Fluffy.  So Fluffy gets a little rambunctious and accidentally bites Haemmy on the hand.  "Cockgobbler!!" he said, so very clearly.  Screamed it, actually.  So precious.  They sure do grow up fast.

Your Auntie Signe and Uncle Righ are throwing a Labor Day party out at the beach house.  They asked me if you'd be back in time, but I told them no.  "Thank goodness" they said...I don't think they have a lot of room, what with all the remodeling.  I think they're kinda also hoping that Uncle Ironwood won't make it.  It looks like he's back on the sauce.

You'll be glad to know that I am taking good care of your girlfriend Jenny, just like you asked me to.  I can tell she misses you a great deal already.  She's doing her best to find ways to fill the void you left.  Just this morning, she surprised me in the shower and exclaimed "I need the cock!".  So, I did my best to service her needs.  Thricely.  Just kidding!  Hahahahahaha!  Had you going there for a second, didn't I?  Seriously though, you were right about one thing.  World.  Class.  BJs.

Anyway, I had better wrap this up.  Strazos needs help installing his new vid card...he bought an X800 of all things

Keep us posted on all your Korean adventures, be they planned or random.

Sincerely Yours,

Cyrrex

[Zetleft]

Dear Cyrrex,

Thanks for making Tele's posts tolerable.




 
Everyone

[NiX]

Everyone

You're the bestest Cyrrex!

[Telemediocrity]

Huh? You seem to have a predilection for wandering into other people's homes uninvited and rummaging around. I figured you could do the same while you were in Korea to "borrow" somebody's ID number.

..I'm still confused?

Anyhoo, there appears to be some sort of thing on the website where if you're under 15, you put in your parent's e-mail address, and your parent can approve you without a national ID number.  Does anyone here speak Korean to figure that out?  I sort of got it to work, but then there was a "verify your parent is really your parent" step that I couldn't figure out how to get through.

[Trippy]

Huh? You seem to have a predilection for wandering into other people's homes uninvited and rummaging around. I figured you could do the same while you were in Korea to "borrow" somebody's ID number.

..I'm still confused?

So for those of you who may not know, the Trinity Broadcasting Network are the uber-kings of Televangelism.

Their headquarters are a garish testament to conspicuous consumption, just as Jesus would presumably have liked.  It's almost like visiting a palatial Italian estate, situated in a nice area of Orange County.

I was in the area for car repairs, and figured I'd poke around.  Usually they have large audiences and security in for their mega televangelist-a-thons, but today the place was almost deserted.  After enough poking around, I found the closet somewhere on the top floor where they keep all the prayer requests people mail to them.

Mounds and mounds of prayer requests.  Easily 50,000 of them or more.  Little sheets of blue paper, piled high in bundles as far as the eye could see.

I took them out and started reading through them.  About 50 or so in, it was already a cornucopia of human suffering.  I'm not sure what the saddest part was; the things these people were going through, or the fact that they felt that writing a letter to the Nice Man On Television might make everything okay.

[Cyrrex]

Trippy - as Tele's acting spokesperson and legal advisor for the remainder of this thread, I'd just like to say:  huh?

[Trippy]

It's from Tele's Random Adventures 2 which is now in the Den. That's him claiming to have walked into the HQ of Trinity Broadcasting Network (well the door was unlocked and there were no security guards around so why not?) and rummaging around reading letters people wrote to the them.

[Cyrrex]

It's from Tele's Random Adventures 2 which is now in the Den. That's him claiming to have walked into the HQ of Trinity Broadcasting Network (well the door was unlocked and there were no security guards around so why not?) and rummaging around reading letters people wrote to the them.

Haha, I was just being silly.  The irony of the whole thing is that everyone knew what you were talking about EXCEPT for good ole Tele.  Hard to keep track of one's own untruths, and whatnot.

[Telemediocrity]

It's from Tele's Random Adventures 2 which is now in the Den. That's him claiming to have walked into the HQ of Trinity Broadcasting Network (well the door was unlocked and there were no security guards around so why not?) and rummaging around reading letters people wrote to the them.

Can we at least agree that's very different than barging into someone's house, just as using Kazaa and Bittorrent is a lesser sin than identity theft?  Also, the HQ allows visitors, it's not like some walled off compound.  Have we forgotten our basic principles of urban exploration?

Haha, I was just being silly.  The irony of the whole thing is that everyone knew what you were talking about EXCEPT for good ole Tele.  Hard to keep track of one's own untruths, and whatnot.

Do you really want me to upload the pics I took?  And turn this into another stupid me-centric thread?  C'mon, there's an addictive semi-MMO FPS here (along the lines of Gunz) just begging for us to figure out how to play it if we're not Korean, and it's a denned thread we're focusing on?

If I upload the pics, will you STFU and help me find a way to play Silent Attack, or can we just agree to do that anyhow?

[Cyrrex]

If I upload the pics, will you STFU and help me find a way to play Silent Attack, or can we just agree to do that anyhow?

Now that is a toughy.  I'm going to have to say "yes, please post the pics".  I will then stop accusing you of being untruthful about the TBN thingy and then offer all manner of helpful advice as to how you might get to play your Sudden Attack game.  Please note that this may take us on completely new tangents, the content of which I will not be held accountable for.

[Telemediocrity]

R0x0r.  I just arrived in Japan (Homestay with a retired Japanese couple out in the countryside, should be interesting), give me a bit to figure out how to convince them to let me install Bluetooth on their PC.

Again: Does anyone here speak Korean?

[schild]

You're the one that's there, idiot.

And no, the Japanese have never heard of Korea.

Kekela.

[Der Helm]

I wish people would stop baiting that Teleguy, it is really getting old.

*sighs* So, this thread is one step closer to the den, isn't it ?

edit: Trying to re-rail, according to this article, there does not seem to be any difference between this title and Gunz/War Rock. Why is this so special ?

[Azazel]

I wish people would stop baiting that Teleguy, it is really getting old.

Turnabout is fair play?

Or did you miss his troll-filled reintroduction to f13 recently?

[Righ]

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[Telemediocrity]

I actually read that Sudden Attack article.  Haven't tried War Rock, but as per the title of this thread, it sounds like Gunz with less of an emphasis on the acrobatics and whatnot.

I dunno - I stopped enjoying Gunz at about the level where people began realizing that they could safe fall from my power dagger attack with the space bar.

[Der Helm]

Turnabout is fair play?

Or did you miss his troll-filled reintroduction to f13 recently?

I think the "troll-filled" part eluded me. :-D

My usual reaction to some of his posts is something along the line of:

*readTelepost*

*blink*

*blinkagain*

"Whatever ..."

*readsnextpost*

Some other people seem to react like:

*read*

*blink*

RAGE !!! MUST ... DESTROY ... RAAAAARGH !!!

Which is funny enough in itself, but gets a little bit tiresome after being repeated over and over again.

Can we talk about gamez now, plz ?

[Der Helm]

I dunno - I stopped enjoying Gunz at about the level where people began realizing that they could safe fall from my power dagger attack with the space bar.

I loved that dagger attack.

"Helm u uz noob attak u noob!!!"

"OMG, learn2block, noob"

Hilarity ensues