College Football RPGs
by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 13, 2010 7:38 AM EDT
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PrintAs one of a handful of certifiable old farts in the sports blogging niche, I can actually remember when Pong was released upon the world. Yes, I spent literally months using a rectangle to bat a square back and forth with friends because YOU COULD PLAY GAMES ON YOUR TV, MAN! (Incidentally, I also remember TV remote controls you had to attach with a cord.)
Even back then, the innovation curve was steep, and I quickly graduated on to Breakout (a rectangle on the bottom and a group of blocks on the top that DISAPPEARED WHEN YOU HIT THEM WOO) and then on to what may have been the first role playing game ever developed: Zork, in which I found myself standing in an open field west of a white house with a boarded front door next to a small mailbox, which, of course, I opened by typing "examine mailbox." I'm almost certain that I spent an entire summer likely to be eaten by a grue. Then came Lord Dimwit Flathead the Excessive and his royal family and on and on and on until somewhere around Final Fantasy VI or so, when I finally stopped playing RPGs. Sad face.
So I may have 15 years' worth of rust to shake off, but I can certainly appreciate a good RPG meme when I see it, and that's exactly what the RTT community birthed out of the ashes of the Tennessee-Georgia game. Here's a compilation of some of what transpired last Saturday in the midst of the beat down, and I'll ask y'all to devote your day to coming up with some more. Away we go.
Indiana. Lvl 2
Strong vs Michigan
Weak vs Ohio.
by bobothevol
Tennessee. Lvl 10
Strong vs Tradition
Special rules: When you are Tennessee you double your heart but half your party becomes incapacitated.
by bobothevol
Georgia Lvl 10
Strong vs members of the Sun Belt Class
Special rule: When fighting Florida, all attacks take a -3 penalty to hit.
by Caban
South Carolina. Lvl 8
Strong vs Everyone.
Special Rule: Weak in months that end with ber.
by bobothevol
Les Miles uses confusion!
It’s super effective!
LSU Level 8
Strong vs. Chaos
Special Rules: Les Miles always gets a 1d20 saving throw, which has a +18 modifier.
by darthbubba
Florida. Level 15
Strong vs Orange.
Weak vs Red, Snap Damage.
by bobothevol
Florida. Level 15
Strong vs Orange & White (5), Red & Black (15).
Weak vs Red Crimson, Snap Damage.
Special Rules: -5 on all offensive saving throws, due to Addazio and Pouncey.
by darthbubba
Precious Hair. Level 99
Nickname: The God Killer
Strong vs World
Special Rules: Boom.
by bobothevol
So that's what we had in the game thread Saturday. What have you for today? There are a few potential subjects to riff on below the jump.
- Lane Kiffin
- Ed Orgeron
- Monte Kiffin
- Steve Spurrier
- Phillip Fulmer
- Oregon
- Alabama
- Ohio State
- The Big Ten
- The SEC
- The Pac-10
- ESPN
- College football
- Stewart Mandel
- Spencer Hall
- Brian Cook
- Bleacher Report
- SB Nation
- You get the idea
So whatcha got?
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Bleacher Report = Gogo in Final Fantasy VI
Tries to copy everyone else’s moves, but does it much crappier than the original characters.
Intellevision
And the old “”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-17_Bomber_%28game%29" >B-17 Bomber" game. Dude’s accent used to crack me up.
Kentucky Lvl 8
Weak against Orange
Incurs TD bonus only when Health at 25% and when basketball program not under investigation
BloodSpite
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." John Heisman
That's the one I had, too
Friends had Atari, so we were covered. Loved Sea Battle and their version of Space Invaders, whatever it was called. And I could beat anybody in baseball because while they were using thumbs, I treated it like typing and used several fingers.
by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 13, 2010 9:21 AM EDT up reply actions
We played a lot of Burger Time and Wizards of Wor
I was born in ‘81, so I’ve loved being in the generation that got in on the ground floor with Nintendo and never looked back. Final Fantasy VIII came out my freshman year at UT and was directly responsible for them threatening to take my scholarship away after one semester due to substandard academic performance.
by Will Shelton on Oct 13, 2010 9:28 AM EDT up reply actions
81???
Ok I think I am under Joel’s certifiable old farts catagory….. cry
BloodSpite
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." John Heisman
by Joseph Stanley on Oct 13, 2010 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions
76 for me.
’zat make you feel any worse? Or better?
by David Hooper on Oct 13, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Some better
Same age heh!
BloodSpite
"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football." John Heisman
by Joseph Stanley on Oct 13, 2010 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions
I ain't old.
I won’t be old for a long time either. If my dad’s any indication, I’m probably looking at something well above 90 before I’m old. (He’s nowhere close to 90.)
by David Hooper on Oct 13, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Hey, I feel the same way
But I’m an ‘87 kid, so it’ll take longer to reach 90.
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 13, 2010 1:25 PM EDT up reply actions
'89 here
So I’m the generation that got the smash with the Super Ninento and never looked back. I can still be proud that my first game was Super Mario World, one of the best platformers — and games in general — of all time, though I really got into RPGs with the release of the N64 and Ocarina of Time.
I made the mistake of getting an XBox 360 before my freshman year of college (had been all NIntendo and Sony up to that point) and got XBox Live with the addition of Cable to my dorm room. Then Halo 3 came out, and I was out of college and into Community College. Yikes!
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
I played the original a lot; never got into the sequels.
Certainly never got so into a game I had to transfer. (I had my own, separate in-college academic issues, but they at least involved people I could see in person.)
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Good grief...
…compared to y’all, I’m practically ready for the rest home! Born in ’70, and the year bobothevol was unleashed, I was getting yelled at by Dr. Julian in my 2nd year in the Pride of the Southland…
No one ever says "Let's go to Birmingham for the weekend!" -- Dr. W J Julian, Director (emeritus) Pride of the Southland Band
If Ohio State is the protagonist
The SEC is the last boss. You’ve been cruising along and you think you’ve leveled up enough, and then you get it handed to you right quick.
They remind me more of Ziegfield (from FFVI).
Supposedly this great, super-dangerous swordsman who gets absolutely rolled whenever you run into him.
On the other hand, the dude just doesn’t die.
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 9:18 AM EDT up reply actions
(er, that'd be Ziegfried)
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 9:20 AM EDT up reply actions
More like Jecht 10..
He’s totally got something kinda bad-ass about him. Every now and then he can totally beat something down all by himself. Him and your dad go waaaaaaaaaay back, they were great friends like ten-thousand years ago. But now he only seems to be around because of Sin and, let’s face it, he’s just the walking dead when it comes to Holy — bible belt — damage anyways.
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
Jecht from 10*
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Tebow Left.
Level 2 spell
Does an unblockable 1d6 quantity of damage to your opponent. Upon casting Tebow Left, roll 1d10 (+ CHA modifier); if the total is greater than 10, the round immediately concludes and the next round begins.
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
I'm starting to think Les Miles is a Time Mage.
Generally useless and ineffective ….but wait, how the heck did he end up being able to cast Meteo? And wait, he can start battles over? That’s not fair.
And yes, he uses Haste extensively when he has the ball with less than 2 minutes to go in the 4th quarter.
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
Oh, and if Monte Kiffin isn't Strago from FFVI I don't know what to tell you.
(And yes, that would make Lane Relm. That’s intentional.)
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
Dooley I: The Undermanned Empire
North of Jumbotron Score: 0 Moves: 0
You are standing in an open field north of a large Jumbotron, with a small number of scholarship players.
There is a Motorola headset here.
>
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
by birdjam on Oct 13, 2010 10:04 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
examine headset
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions
The headset comes to life! From the earpiece you can hear the voice of Justin Wilcox frantically asking, ""What number comes after 10, Coach? We’re running out of time!"
>
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
throw headset
Dooley: “What manner of demonry be this?!”
by Will Shelton on Oct 13, 2010 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
The stadium lights have been turned off. It is now pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
>
Lou Brock loves Lamp.
sing Rocky Top
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 10:20 AM EDT up reply actions
Incedentally enough
I still play games that are much like this. As a matter of fact, I create games that are much like this.
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
Oregon, level 18
Special rules: Skip all turns during the first quarter of each match. +10 speed bonus in the second half.
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 13, 2010 10:20 AM EDT reply actions
Posted this in another thread:
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
Orange Pants
When equipped:
Strong vs. Tennessee fan morale, sanity, superstition
Weak vs. opponent ‘x’
Neyland Stadium-It goes to eleven.
Black shirts
Strong vs. Orange Pants
Weak vs. Tradition
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 13, 2010 12:36 PM EDT up reply actions
This isn't RPG exactly, but
I have a feeling that a few people here will like this website.
Kiss your productivity goodbye.
Another one:
For any nostalgia fans out there with time to kill and don’t mind breaking the most broken Internet Lawz — I’m of the opinion that if a gaming system is over 15 years old and can easilly be played on your computer … who really cares about breaking emulation laws? Does anybody really buy Super Nintendo games anymore? No? Just Chronotrigger? Okay, then.
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by bobothevol on Oct 13, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Greatest Football Game Of All TIme
Of ALL Time. Played that one quite a bit during this past summer.
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I looooved that game
I was the 49ers. If I ever lost, I don’t recall. And I promise I only used the “secret” uninterceptable pass to the TE when I really needed to get out of a jam.
...just apologize for not thanking me.
If you search for them
you can find Tecmo sites online that have patched the ROM with updated rosters. There also used to be one out there that had a patch with the 1998 college football rosters, and when I came across it five or six years ago I think I played an entire season in one afternoon.
by Will Shelton on Oct 13, 2010 3:27 PM EDT up reply actions
Woah
They have Apple emulators now? And I had missed Advance Wars terribly. . .
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 13, 2010 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions
They have emulators for
EVERYTHING. I had an emulator for my scientific calculator, at one point, after the screen died for a bit before I could buy a new one.
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
I've played Chrono Trigger all the way through more than once.
Also, don’t knock FFVI – I spent 6 weeks searching for that game back in ’03.
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 1:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Earthbound FTW
but before that, Chrono Trigger was the game that got me started on RPGs
by Will Shelton on Oct 13, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Speaking of games I've played through more than once...
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Yep
Wikipedia links included for the n00bs
Guess my first real RPG was Bard’s Tale… although I never really figured it out.
That or one of those old Epyx games, like Temple of Apshai.
Never beat either of them, and really wasn’t THAT interested until Final Fantasy for the NES… I was so excited when I got the silver sword, although ironically enough my dad beat it but I never did. Actually got Chrono Trigger on release day by accident, I had heard of it from Nintendo Power… but my parents took me to Toys R’ Us that Tuesday and I just happened to notice they were putting the tags(take a number type) they used at the time up. I didn’t set that game down for a month… Bought Final Fantasy 3(7 in Japan) the week of release, and had half of junior high wanting to stay over for the weekend… and these weren’t just A/V club folks, I went to a weird school where half the football team played Dungeons & Dragons.
After that, I tried out Meridian 59 and The Realm… the progenitors of all your World of Warcraft/EverQuest games. Had fun, signed up for the beta test of Ultima Online not knowing the first thing about Ultima. Was quickly sucked into Ultimas 1-7. After that game, and trying out EverQuest, RPGs started to get old though. Not big on MMOs as they are just such pointless time wasters, but I did play Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2 and enjoyed them both.
I would recommend getting Elder Scrolls 4
Oblivion. Your tastes sound like you’d like that game, which is one amazing RPG.
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
Actually, now that I think about it,
Secrets of Evermore was my first real RPG. Go, Laser-Demon-Machine Dog!
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
This is like the subthread of games I played through more than once.
Can someone at least say Lufia 2? I kept on getting distracted by the Ancient Cave and never finished that one.
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 5:06 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
While I'm at it:
I’m more a fan of the non-online emulators, personally. (And if we’re going down that route, there are arcade game emulators out there, if someone else wants to get their Pengo on.)
Simulated Gameday Experience - just like the real thing, only we have smoke machines.
by Chris Pendley on Oct 13, 2010 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Same here, I use ZSNES and VBA for my emulation.
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RPGs were not my thing
I would contribute to this thread, but I am mostly just confused.
...just apologize for not thanking me.
That being said...
…let me see if I can follow the pattern and play along. It seems fun.
The Big 10 lvl 11
Strong vs. The MAC
Weak vs. team speed
special rules: upon entering final level, thrower must retreat 12 steps prior to projectile release forward
...just apologize for not thanking me.
That's what I tried to
Didn’t get any responses either time, so who knows what that means.
by Incipient_Senescence on Oct 13, 2010 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Still appreciated.
A lack of response doesn’t always mean a lack of like. ;-)
by David Hooper on Oct 13, 2010 11:55 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
That’s why I quit the Animated BlogPoll last year — lack of comments. The comments came after I stopped. Speaking of . . . no Animated BlogPoll this week. Partly lack of time, but mostly lack of ideas.
by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 14, 2010 6:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Awww...
I figured the Mad Hatter’s win in the Swamp would give you some inspiration!
No one ever says "Let's go to Birmingham for the weekend!" -- Dr. W J Julian, Director (emeritus) Pride of the Southland Band
Sounds about right...
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
by bobothevol on Oct 13, 2010 4:29 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
so, so Rec'd...
+ eleventy-kajillion. I read this at work, and nearly wet myself laughing…
No one ever says "Let's go to Birmingham for the weekend!" -- Dr. W J Julian, Director (emeritus) Pride of the Southland Band
Sounds about right...
Thats funny right there!
Hello all! I was a member of RTT lonnng ago, and after laughing my tail off on this thread I decided enough lurking I gotta join, yall have way to much fun to miss!
I STILL play B-17 Bomber & Space Spartan, “Hello Commander” never sounded like that in any war movies I ever saw! Dang, make ya run right out and save them stations!
Ok here is my contribution:
Tennessee Fans LvL 10
Resolute Faith VIII -
Grants Targets a 50% chance to recover Energy and support for young undermanned team after each setback.
by Lunacidal Vol on Oct 13, 2010 8:02 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Alabama
Lvl 20
Strong vs. Big 12
Special Rule: If leader is destroyed, immediately replace with a Lvl 1 variant of the same family.
Auburn
Lvl 12
Strong vs. ACC
Special Rule: When attacking subtract the level of Alabama’s leader from 10 and add to roll.
Michigan
Lvl 10
Strong vs. MAC and Independents
Weak vs. Defenses and Offenses
Special Attack: Jangle Keys – Uses a turn, no effect.
Also lol on the brevity, although I would reserve that for Dawg Sports.
by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 13, 2010 8:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I actually...
found you guys from reading mGoBlog, Brian Cook may lack brevity… but none of the words are ever extraneous.
True
Brian excels in most things, and in those at which he doesn’t, he’s merely very good.
by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 14, 2010 6:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Michigan uses Jangle!
… But nothing seems to happen.
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Texas Tech
Lvl 5
Strong vs. None
Weak vs. None
Special Rule: After 5 successful battles, roll a “save vs. COTG”. On failure, leader is either destroyed or you must start your current placeholder at WR.
Firehorse. Level FIRE
Strong vs Swearing
Weak vs ADDAZZIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I will give my North Carolina for Tennessee Today. Apparently.
by bobothevol on Oct 13, 2010 9:44 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I just saw...
…that my entry from Saturday about LSU made it into the tweet about this post! WoOt!!
No one ever says "Let's go to Birmingham for the weekend!" -- Dr. W J Julian, Director (emeritus) Pride of the Southland Band
Here's the two cards we'd burn* if they showed up in our deck...
Lane Kiffin Level 3**
Strong vs. Impressionable or desperate Athletic Directors
Weak vs. Any Team card Level 5 or above
Special Rules: At end of season, must make saving throw to keep. If roll is failed, place in discard pile.
Special Ability: Can provoke Urban Meyer and Mike Slive into fits of uncontrolled rage (+3 penalty to hit on all die rolls)
** Special Modifier: Increases to Level 11 if played with the Monte Kiffin card
Ed “Ogre” Orgeron Level 6
Strong vs. Red Bull
Weak vs. Rules, Ethics, NCAA Investigators, the English Language
Special Rules: Every turn this card is in play, +5 increased chance of the NCAA Investigators card to attack you.
- not the kind of burn in card games of discard it face down, but literally, flick-your-Bic kind of burn!
No one ever says "Let's go to Birmingham for the weekend!" -- Dr. W J Julian, Director (emeritus) Pride of the Southland Band
by darthbubba on Oct 14, 2010 3:20 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Network Cards
NBC
When Played: All teams suffers blindness, -5 penalty to attack.
ABC
Not playable for SEC class.
Not playable for characters under level 10 unless playing SEC class.
When Played: Big12 class takes a -5 penalty to defense, all others take a -5 penalty to aerial attacks.
Versus
When Played: Casts “Shroud of Darkness”, experience gain drops by 85% for all combatants.
by Caban on Oct 14, 2010 3:57 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Vanderbilt
Lvl 3
Strong vs. Georgia
Weak vs. Orange
Special Rule: May be sacrificed for an extra turn at the end of combat.
Kansas
Level 5
Strong: vs. the ACC
Weak: vs. any team not from the ACC
Special Rule: If head coach has major success, job security takes major hit in accordance
"I don't think it's me personally, I really don't." - JaMarcus Russell after losing 38-0 to the Jets
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