Filed under: Fun, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware
by Jordan Running Oct 30th 2006
After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Bill said 12:54PM on 10-30-2006
I tried it, it works and it's beautiful. Dumb as this might sound, it almost seems like I got an OS upgrade. Made XP look way more modern. So thanks.
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Daz said 2:18PM on 10-30-2006
Quite nice but I don't think it has anything on Luna Element Black
http://www.lunaelement.net
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Sean said 2:20PM on 10-30-2006
Finally, a decent looking WinXP without that stupid green start button. What were they thinking?
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Rob Usdin said 8:47PM on 10-30-2006
If you install Royale Noir - Does Firefox (and/or other apps) inherit the style?
I'm running FF with Royale - but I had to download a theme called Outlook Blue to make FireFox look the same as the rest of the OS.
I also had to do something funky with the install of Royale to make Outlook inherit all the blue gradients. So I am wondering if anyone has tried Royale Noir out and how well it does at integrating into the OS.
--*Rob
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Bryan said 7:06AM on 10-31-2006
Great find. I just loaded it up on my work machine. It really does make it look better. Like Rob, however, I wish it would change more of the colors to match the overall theme. Outlook does look kind of strange. After spending so much time learning and customising my ubuntu desktop, It is kind of nice that I can make XP look better.
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MattS said 3:27PM on 10-31-2006
Royale Noir makes XP look very similar to the default WMP 11 skin - I like it!
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hazard said 5:38PM on 11-01-2006
great post .. love the theme
@Daz, Luna Element Black is pretty slick but I _really_ hate what it does to the ListView control in explorer.
should have a topic of favourite XP themes ;)
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Joseph McDonnell said 9:03PM on 11-02-2006
Microsoft Zune Theme for Windows XP 1.0
This is a special Windows XP Theme from Microsoft designed to look like its new Zune portable media player. This is an official skin for Windows XP that has a dark grey style and orange Start menu.
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Monoto said 11:03PM on 11-03-2006
@Rob Usdin: The theme will change the title bar of Firefox, but the rest of the FF chrome is determined by which Firefox theme you're using. To go with the new orange Start button, I recommend Orange Shift (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2296/). It's not yet compatible with Firefox 2, but an update is in the works.
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