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Title: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: Ronin RedFox on June 17, 2009, 08:03:50 AM: (http://i40.tinypic.com/2m7exkx.png)
From a long time ago in a solar system with 9 planets, the bottom line for buying a video game was to "earn the acceptance of your peers".

Submitted by PyroJockey
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: -<WillyP>- on June 17, 2009, 06:08:27 PM: Good times, man... those were the days...
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: Scyphi on June 18, 2009, 06:25:46 AM: Good seasons, mate, it's been forever since I've seen that screen! :o
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: SaladBadger on June 18, 2009, 09:01:42 AM: Isn't it funny how 3 screenshots now have featured the level 27 boss? Do we just love that thing or what? (http://basementnet.dyndns.org/ryan/phpbbsmilies/icon_razz.gif)
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: D2Disciple on June 18, 2009, 09:27:39 AM: The screenie with the Class 1 Heavy Driller has the plasma rifle on the right cockpit screen. I never noticed that until now. Must have been a debug shot, as was common then - I remember Super Mario Bros. 3 having a screenshot for a version of World 1 that never existed, and I remember Dark Forces having screens involving guns on early levels unable to be attained until the later levels.
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: PyroJockey on June 19, 2009, 08:36:37 PM: Quote from: D2Junkie on June 18, 2009, 09:27:39 AM
The screenie with the Class 1 Heavy Driller has the plasma rifle on the right cockpit screen.

Nice catch, but I think it's just a mirror image

(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/5585/order02.png)
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: SaladBadger on June 19, 2009, 08:56:55 PM: Yep, that's mirrored. The keys are only on the right in D2.
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: Scyphi on June 20, 2009, 05:18:36 AM: So the question is...why did they mirror the image? So the plasma cannon that's armed could still be seen without being covered up or for some other reason? :-\
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: -<WillyP>- on June 20, 2009, 05:45:42 AM: It's definitely mirrored, look at the image above and to the left, you can see a spreadfire and blue key on the left. Well, I suppose it's possible they had them reversed, took the screen shot, then decided to switch sides at the last minute for the game release. Who knows...
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: SaladBadger on June 20, 2009, 06:28:06 AM: Actually, it's unlikely that the original cockpit graphic was mirrored when that screenshot was taken. The image was probably mirrored, because the robot's eye is also going in the wrong direction.
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: -<WillyP>- on June 20, 2009, 09:35:37 AM: That's what I meant.
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: PyroJockey on June 20, 2009, 05:48:54 PM: Maybe they thought the primay weapon display made a better picture than the secondary but they didn't want to change the overall layout.

(Or maybe it's a secret clue as to the true nature of PTMC) :P
Title: Re: Earn the acceptance of your peers.
Post by: Scyphi on June 22, 2009, 02:12:12 PM: Seeing that the PTMC was pretty much blown out of the stars (literally) in D3 ten years ago, don't you think those secrets should be declassified by now? :P