Don't sleep during the night. I'm serious. Go for at least one night of no sleep.

Then play a horror game during the day or the night, with closed doors, lights turned off, and headphones to the max. Penumbra or Amnesia, for example. The experience is wonderful in a terrible way.

EDIT: I used this... As soon as I got freaked out by the first zombie in Black Plague (and by freaked out I mean I threw the mouse away, and jumped from the chair), I immediately pressed two buttons... well three actually.

Escape -> Exit Game -> Turn Off Monitor.

Then went to bed.

EDIT2: I don't want the game. ;)

Wow thanks man didn't know I'd won. Gamersgate would be great (same username), and I really appreciate it bruv :D

BTW no hurry with the game, this is all for fun anyway. It also helps if I can get the word on Darkwind out to the masses heheh.

Did you mass purchase the games just for this contest?

I guess I don't have that many strategy games stories to tell.

I do remember being terribly afraid of the aliens in Dark Colony. It was near a time a TV Show here played a clip from the movie 'Fire in the Sky', which scared me for life. So, naturally, when I got to play Dark Colony, when a bunch of greys showed up, I felt really compelled to quit the game.
Over the time, I got to play the game just fine, but I still think some of those grey are creepy.

Other than that, I had some fun stories on Warcraft III. It was an online match, 2v2, and one of the enemy players left the game, but still basically the remaining one almost obliterated me and my partner. Still, I remember I had, like, two wisps somewhere else, and so, for about one hour or more we basically played "hide and seek", with me hiding and running from the enemy. It's was crazy, but fun, and with enough time, my partner could amass a large number of units and we actually won the game.

No need to apologize dude. We're all having fun at your expense (literally), so it's all cool ;)

Gamersgate does not support sending gifts by GG account, so please drop me a mail to iselwin at gmail. You haven't redeemed your copy yet. Is everything OK?

Is this still on?

I just wanted to say that I love turn-based strategy games, even more than real-time. I know I'm in a minority, but I don't like just clicking for my army to attack. I don't feel like I'm influencing it, and having to crank out army after army...no.

I love turn-based because I can *strategize*, see how much damage my troops can take and give, try and hurt a strong enemy troop before it can hurt me, etc. I feel like I do way more than in a real-time.

My favorite turn-based strategies would probably be "King's Bounty: The Legend" and "Disciples Gold 2". The story is emmersive, the characters funny. What I remember most vividly is that I absolutely refused to have spiders on my team, because the animation freaked me out...turns out they're awesome fighters, and I was sad when I ran out of them. :P

(Steam, please).

It is :).

Hey Elwin I've redeemed the game. MAny many thanks my friend :)

(PS. WOOHOO IVE BEEN WAITING TO TRY THIS OUT!)

I was playing the original Shogun: Total War some years ago, and was fighting (and winning) a fairly major battle against one of my opponents. Our armies were engaged in a fierce melee and I had brought my archers around to fire into the rear of his force.

A unit of his Warrior Monks (the best offensive troops) had been reduced to a single man who broke and ran from the battle, unfortunately for me his path ran right between the two rows of one of my archer units and as he fled he lashed out left and right leaving a trail of corpses in his wake. In a couple of seconds I saw half of the unit drop dead at the hands of a single soldier who had given up the fight.

Back in the day, I had Impossible Creatures (in fact, I still have it), a somewhat obscure RTS that involves creating custom units by combining parts of existing animals into hybrids.

Funnily enough, the naming system of your creations takes half the name of one creature and combines it with half the name of the other. I was rather quick to discover that combining the hornet with the grizzly bear gives rise to a beast known only as the horny bear.

Being an 11 year old boy at the time, I naturally thought it was the funniest fucking thing on the planet.

Now that I think about it, why is this game not on GOG?

lol this happened while me and my friends were playing age of empires 2 on hamachi when the game was popular, 5 of us connected and started the game, we always chose random for every option cause it was fun, it was midnight when we started the game as for my rotten luck i got the Mayans :X :X crappy civilization but i was allied with a friend (franks) so i built a base as a fake and decided to take some of the villagers thru the water and join him instead
even team paring was rotten luck 2 vs 3(japan, britons, turks)

then the funny thing happened i feel asleep playing :D and when i woke up morning at 7 am i realized was going to be late to college and rushed off without checking what happened to the game....

i thought i and my friend would have been butchered, thrashed, screenshot-ed and 11(laugh) spammed in chat but when i returned from college and checked i was shocked we had won lol

here is what had happened actually, all 3 of em attacked the fake base and thrashed it first but it took while for them to search of the other base, they had to attack for a long time to defeat my other friend(franks castles and knights pwn) but the game did not end after his defeat cause it showed i was still not destroyed. Before i fell asleep i was taking a transport ship which had 5 knights and 5 villagers to my friends base :D that ship just stood ground near a couple trees in between a island, so it was impossible to see :)
they searched the entire map for 4 hours and resigned :D :D we laughed about it for days
there were some awesome funny moments in aoe2 back then

Another winner!
Please drop me a mail to iselwin at gmail.com, stating, whether you want Steam or Gamersgate copy :).

Not interested in the contest, just want to tell this tale:

In the original Myth you have to dispose of the head of the Fallen Lord's army. Literally his head so he cannot come back. To do this they decide he has to be chucked in a bottomless hole.

When the mission starts you have a journeyman (who can heal your troops or instantly kill an enemy a limited number of times), some berserkers, some archers, and some dwarves. The dwarves throw explosives and are the only ones who can carry the head.

The opposing faction has hordes of thrall (basic slow zombie troops), soulless (archers that float), fetch (the equivalent to dwarves, but are longer ranged and shoot lightning), ghols (weak, but fast melee), and wight (suicide bombers whose explosions can alter the geography, a key point for this story).

Once you've fought your way through the level you finally reach the bottomless pit, The Great Devoid, but it's guarded by many fetch, thrall, etc, AND the lieutenant of the leader of the Fallen Lords you're about to cast into the abyss.

He killed many of my berserkers, but I banished him with my journeyman. I sent a dwarf to toss the head in, but as the head was leaving his hand BOOM a Fetch blew him up sending the head flying the gods know where. All said and done the battle ended with only an archer and dwarf left alive.

The head missing, but a dwarf still standing I decided to search around. While searching along a river bank a horde of wights started coming out so I quickly hauled butt away from their blast radius and blew them up. Much to my surprise out of the explosions the land rises just a enough to expose the head from the deep. I grab it, throw it in the Devoid, and enjoy my victory.

Holy donkey raping mokeyballs, I actually won something! Thanks mate.

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