Author Topic: What are your motivations to play RA2? (Read 9104 times)

Thyrus · « **on:** August 24, 2011, 07:11:06 PM »

Robot Arena 2 has no goal. No achievements or nothing you could do after you won a ingame tournament. It`s a rather old game but there are still many people playing it.
so what are your motivations to do so?

I still play it cause I want to bring new shapes in this game. DSL makes it possible to bring up completely new designs that couldn`t be done in stock. I love to experiment with the dome parts and the flippermaker. and with this waste of weight I try to make an good looking MW robot.

Mr. AS · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:12:48 PM »

I'm still exploring all the possible bot types in stock, then I'll go to DSL and explore some of the types there.

russian roulette · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:13:08 PM »

Discovery, R+D, and testing those D's in tournaments.

freeziez · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:14:07 PM »

I do it for the fun of entering tournaments, and besides, if I didn't build bots on an RA2 forum... :P

Badnik96 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:33:50 PM »

To satisfy my addiction to Robot Combat, and to be competitive at the one thing I'm good at (I'm not very athletic)

Natef · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2011, 07:39:32 PM »

It's interesting, and gives me a reason to be here.

MassimoV · « **Reply #6 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:04:49 PM »

I just like breaking things.

Urjak · « **Reply #7 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:26:46 PM »

Looking for new ways to design bots, and by bots I mean Flail Sheck Spinners. And then sharing those designs with the community.

Enigm@ · « **Reply #8 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:31:13 PM »

Good time killer.

MassimoV · « **Reply #9 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:31:53 PM »

Quote from: Badnik96 on August 24, 2011, 07:33:50 PM

To satisfy my addiction to Robot Combat, and to be competitive at the one thing I'm good at (I'm not very athletic)

I'll be your personal trainer. I love sports. Anyways, I like contributing new bots even if they aren't terribly good.

SKBT · « **Reply #10 on:** August 24, 2011, 08:42:22 PM »

I play because it allows me to somewhat satisfy my addition to building stuff without spending money and its fun

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:34:02 PM »

Quote from: SKBT on August 24, 2011, 08:42:22 PM

I play because it allows me to somewhat satisfy my addition to building stuff without spending money and its fun

this person

and

this tournament

Preytor_4 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:36:26 PM »

Running tournaments

J · « **Reply #13 on:** August 24, 2011, 09:49:19 PM »

My story is flat-out un interesting.

kill343gs · « **Reply #14 on:** August 24, 2011, 10:52:50 PM »

none whatsoever

123savethewhales · « **Reply #15 on:** August 24, 2011, 11:03:03 PM »

Exploring the designs and combination that "work".

That's my reason for playing most games.

yoda9726 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 25, 2011, 12:47:15 AM »

I've always most enjoyed the games that let you do your own thing, especially when you get to design. If I can build/create in a game, it'll hold my interest long past when I should've just thrown the game away.

Take any wrestling game with Create-a-wrestler. I'll actually play the game for about 6 hours total. But I'll still create wrestlers for about a year or so, just to see what I can come up with.

RA2 is kinda like that for me. I play to see what I can come up with. If it had 20 or 30 premade bots you could play with, I probably would've stopped playing after a day or so.

Jonzu95 · « **Reply #17 on:** August 25, 2011, 01:02:14 AM »

I've loved Robot Combat Since I was 4. And I love it when Robots get destroyed. RA2 Motivates because It's still the best game about of Robot Combat, and Only thing that I recommend in RA2 is absolutely Vanilla And Absolutely Realistic. That's why I created Robot Wars Virtual - Tournament.

Oh, And I forgot. I'm the only Finnish person that plays RA2 Active anymore.

SteveM4 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2011, 01:28:41 AM »

Wanting to get more flipper power out of the smallest possible chassis.

Sometimes it just hits you.

Like the design for Havok 18 (3 betas), best maths lesson ever.

Scourge of teh Galaxy · « **Reply #19 on:** August 25, 2011, 01:41:38 AM »

I play to glitch. I want to make the system go crazy by adding tons of pistons on a bot or giving it the ability to fly.

I also play it for the spinning. Everything's better with spinning