You know how the Grim Reaper can let you have a game for your soul?
What would your game be?
I'd probably choose Guitar Hero 2, YYZ on Expert.
How about a game of... Dance Dance Revolution!
Quote from: Ren Gaulen on May 23, 2008, 09:04:32 AM
How about a game of... Dance Dance Revolution!
His sandals would come off and hit you in the eye.
Hell, I would die to see the Grim Reaper playing DDR (or Guitar Hero)! :) It's a win-win situation!
Deathmatch played in a head-to-head game of Doom 2.
Eh. I'd probably flip a coin.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 23, 2008, 09:27:11 AM
Eh. I'd probably flip a coin.
That's not really a game, is it?
I'm a traditionalist. Chess, or Starcraft.
If a single-player game is acceptable, I'd probably go for Serpent Isle with the Silver Seed expansion, because I know how to break the game into making the player immortal.
chess or maybe gin rummy to 500 points. not sue then again i'd have nothing to wager unlike yugi, doctor McNinja and others with a double soul.
Quote from: Tapewolf on May 23, 2008, 10:41:18 AM
If a single-player game is acceptable, I'd probably go for Serpent Isle with the Silver Seed expansion, because I know how to break the game into making the player immortal.
If you choose a single player game, the rule would probably be impressiveness.
You have won your soul...
I'd play the "Give Slowtini's soul back before he kicks you in the balls" game.
For my soul? Huh...I'm actually pretty ruthless at checkers, but I haven't won a game in ages.
Mostly I'd go with impressiveness at first-person games too. If Death's any good at games with lots of ruthless puzzle and thinking elements, such as Tomb Raider or Pnoenix Wright, or race for the most loot in Oblivion, I'd like to see him (it...) try me. :P
Of course, I may just be smart enough to not bet my soul in the first place. :3 Why keep your soul when life is often too cruel, so long as paradise is at the end of death.
Quote from: Cogidubnus on May 23, 2008, 10:28:23 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 23, 2008, 09:27:11 AM
Eh. I'd probably flip a coin.
That's not really a game, is it?
I'm a traditionalist. Chess, or Starcraft.
i expected you to say sword duel, which is probably even more traditional even though its hell to try and fight a scythe with a sword, but starcraft ranks right up there
i too am a traditionalist- i would challenge him to a rousing game of PONG!
QuoteAn effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
Nim.
Standard version:
I
III
IIIII
IIIIIII
My opponent starts.
Nim?
The only thing that comes to mind is the Rats of Nimh, but that's something else entirely.
How would one play this game, Gabi?
If its the game I'm thinking of, the rules are thus:
You can remove any number of sticks / lines / counters in a horizontal row (or group); the person who removes the last object loses.
I believe there is a winning strategy for the configuration provided.
Coming to that point, I would pick a game where there is a complete winning strategy. Some games are mathematically proved to guarantee a winner if they follow such a strategy. I would choose such a game, if I can remember one right now. (I think Connect 4 has a winning strategy, but I have no idea what it might be without looking it up.)
Hmm... that depends. Do I get his soul I win? Fair's fair, and all... :kittydevious
maybe not but you might get his mantle and become the new death.
Sumo
or something that takes advantage of the just bones with a cloak.
Quote from: Cogidubnus on May 23, 2008, 10:28:23 AM
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on May 23, 2008, 09:27:11 AM
Eh. I'd probably flip a coin.
That's not really a game, is it?
Why not? A Russian roulette is a game too, is it not? Luck is also a powerful factor in some games.
Unlike many of you might know, the original idea of this "game" comes from an old Swedish movie "Seventh seal", by Ingmar Bergman.
I think that the chess might be a good idea, or go.
Quote from: Omega on May 26, 2008, 03:03:03 AM
I think that the chess might be a good idea, or go.
But death has undoubtedly had so many chess matches over time that it has memorized any move that can be taken.
it's not the always smart moves that win it's the sneaky ones that do.
Quote from: Deebs' servant on May 26, 2008, 02:42:03 AM
Sumo
or something that takes advantage of the just bones with a cloak.
A punch in the face.
Quote from: Dannysaysnoo on May 26, 2008, 08:28:13 AM
Quote from: Deebs' servant on May 26, 2008, 02:42:03 AM
Sumo
or something that takes advantage of the just bones with a cloak.
A punch in the face.
You mean, Boxing?
Being the nerd I am, I would play a game of Dungeons and Dragons with him. No PvP, a typical adventure. Whoever characters lives the longest keeps my soul. However I won't tell Death about the Rod of Automatic Resurrection with 20 charges, I keep in my Bag to give me an advantage, besides if he brings Gary Gygax to DM I will need it from what I've heard of the 'tomb of horrors' adventure.
Hmm... I think I've got another game. I'll... rochambeau for my soul. (All credit for this idea goes to Deadpool) (http://images.imabearmeow.com/comics/deadpool/rochambeau.jpg)
Quote from: Deebs' servant on May 26, 2008, 03:38:20 AM
Quote from: Omega on May 26, 2008, 03:03:03 AM
I think that the chess might be a good idea, or go.
But death has undoubtedly had so many chess matches over time that it has memorized any move that can be taken.
Perhpas, but since I do not know Deaths strenght and weaknes, I cannot pick a right game against him/her/it. Chess, however is not a short game, whitch means that I can prolong my life at least for a while.
Then again. I can challenge death to a sleeping contest and say that I can sleep over 1000 years. He/she/it will buy it and sleep even longer. The opponent doesn't dare to wake up, because it's a one shot.
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
Pokemon
I MEAN I DUNNO.
Quote from: Eibbor_N on May 27, 2008, 12:10:49 AM
Pokemon
I MEAN I DUNNO.
digimon 2003 is far superior as far as i'm concerned.
Quote from: Slowtini on May 26, 2008, 11:59:33 PM
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
You think you've found the ultimate strategy that you can't lose with?
Quote from: Omega on May 28, 2008, 03:52:35 AM
Quote from: Slowtini on May 26, 2008, 11:59:33 PM
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
You think you've found the ultimate strategy that you can't lose with?
"Strange game. The only way to win is not to play."
"...How about a nice game of chess?" WarGames = yay.
As for the game itself... maybe The Game. But that might take a while, because all you can do is perpetually lose...
Maybe Scrabble, or Go Fish. I'm the Scrabble champion of my family.
A game of 'çatch' I have never seen someone lose it.
"What's a 'soul'? Is it some kind of Chinese delicacy?"
I think the game I would play death in would be
IL-2 Sturmovik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_2_sturmovik_%28game%29) a combat flight sim. As for what I would fly it would be the
Lavochkin La-7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavochkin_La-7) with three 20mm cannons mounted in the nose.
Quote from: Tezkat on May 25, 2008, 11:52:50 AM
Hmm... that depends. Do I get his soul I win? Fair's fair, and all... :kittydevious
I agree why should Billy and Mandy have all the fun. :bat
Liar's dice.
Quote from: Omega on May 28, 2008, 03:52:35 AM
Quote from: Slowtini on May 26, 2008, 11:59:33 PM
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
You think you've found the ultimate strategy that you can't lose with?
Indeed.
Quote from: Omega on May 28, 2008, 03:52:35 AM
Quote from: Slowtini on May 26, 2008, 11:59:33 PM
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
You think you've found the ultimate strategy that you can't lose with?
the only winning move is not to play. would you like to play a game of thermonuclear warfare?
Quote from: lucas marcone on June 25, 2008, 04:14:49 PM
Quote from: Omega on May 28, 2008, 03:52:35 AM
Quote from: Slowtini on May 26, 2008, 11:59:33 PM
Tic-Tac-Toe.
I go first
You think you've found the ultimate strategy that you can't lose with?
the only winning move is not to play. would you like to play a game of thermonuclear warfare?
http://www.introversion.co.uk/defcon/about/screenshots.html
Sure, I kick ass at that game! I call USA =U
Quote from: Darkdragon on May 24, 2008, 11:06:49 PM
If its the game I'm thinking of, the rules are thus:
You can remove any number of sticks / lines / counters in a horizontal row (or group); the person who removes the last object loses.
I believe there is a winning strategy for the configuration provided.
Coming to that point, I would pick a game where there is a complete winning strategy. Some games are mathematically proved to guarantee a winner if they follow such a strategy. I would choose such a game, if I can remember one right now. (I think Connect 4 has a winning strategy, but I have no idea what it might be without looking it up.)
What Darkdragon said.
And yes, all full-information combinatory games have a winning strategy for one of the players (or, in some cases, a strategy to end the game in a draw). Even chess has one, but no one has found out what that strategy is.
Quote from: Gabi on July 27, 2008, 05:16:42 PM
And yes, all full-information combinatory games have a winning strategy for one of the players (or, in some cases, a strategy to end the game in a draw). Even chess has one, but no one has found out what that strategy is.
Sure they have. "Think ahead more steps than your opponent."
The game of purest chance: A real life.
I might be hit for reviving this...
I didn't realize how funny that was for a moment. Anyway, I would challenge death to an eating contest with the qualifier that the winner also has to use the toilet first after finishing their food. A skeleton can't digest food so I should win this one, and if Death is a perky Goth chick as in the Sandman series I can expect her to likely not finish eating cause she's girly (girly meaning the stereotypes and not meaning that all girls that are feminine aren't voracious eaters) and won't eat it all.
A game for MY soul? There's only one appropriate one.
Calvinball.
A race to beat EVERY Final Fantasy game in order. Story only.
Well I was gonna say Tic Tac Toe but someone already beat me to it so...Rock Paper Scissors!
totally sumo wrestling. bones dont weigh that much, especialy old decayed bones. throw him four miles!
I'm all for killing newbies who don't pay attention.
That seems like a good game. We'll see who can get the most distance.