Very OT... What video games do you play?
McGyver
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Maybe I'm just bored and felt like writing something, but the other day I was looking through the store and noticed a bunch of things that seemed to be created with Fallout 4 in mind (or possibly it's just post apocalyptically coincidental). I know I've seen the Skyrim series mentioned many times, but I was wondering what else was popular... Actually, since some series take a few years for the next title to come out and many of us tend to just play filler games in between our favorites, I'm curious about stuff from even a few years back or even your favorite "epic" titles... even if those were/are quite old.
Feel free to throw in any interesting "epic moments" you might recall from a game, like maybe playing late night and having something jump out of the shadows at the same moment your cat hopped into your lap, kinda thing...
Also, curious... Console or Computer?
Its all in fun, just curiosity and making conversation...
I'll start... My first video game was a Tank Battle knock off I bought at "Genovese Drugs" drugstore in '78 or '79... I think I payed $18 for it... After that it was an Atari 2600 and many of the subsequent consoles after... Traditionally I've been a console gamer, (with a few text adventures on the computer in the past)... I suppose at one time I could have been considered a "gamer"... Lately I don't play games that much anymore, but mostly I tend towards games with "big worlds" like the GTA series, Fallout, (totally missed the Skyrim series)... Driving games like Gran Turismo and Forza... In the past Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Soild, Ico... Stuff like that.
Recently I have been playing Fallout 4 and have found that to be quite enjoyable with lots of special moments... I'm thinking getting the Season Pass expansion...
So how about you?
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might and magic 6, 7 & 8 although 7 is my favorite
pool of radiance ruins of myth drannor
the morrowind series as well as skyrim of course
Baldurs gate and Icewind Dale
None, except solitaire that came with windows. After owning and operating a commercial game room I'm just not much interested in gaming anymore.
I don't play video games anymore. Mostly because I do not like to play with others online, and a lot of games have become online rpgs and also because I don't have much spare time. I liked Baldur's Gate, Fallout, KOTOR etc. Anything that has some action and actual plot. I like roleplaying.
I also played sims 2 for a long time, until the final few releases wrecked aspects l like about the game.
I was big into the Nintendo 64 console and played Goldeneye, Rogue Squadron and Turok Seeds of evel till my eyes bled, ah, good times, LOL.My first video game on PC was MS Combat Flight Simulator 2 and after playing it every which way I could lead to me learning to mod games and create content. I'm a big fan of tactical shooters, especially the Ghost Recon/Rainbow Six series.
Currently I have installed, Garry's Mod, MS Flight Simulator X, Lockhead Martins Prepar3D, Counterstrike Global Offensive, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, SIMS 4, IL-2 Sturmovik 1946, and Tropico 3. I really love open world, sandbox type games where you can explore virtual worlds and environments. I keep hoping for a great new space simulator that can be modded.
I don't do consoles, never cared for the controllers and from my time with a couple of design studios, most don't have the funding to do both console and PC titles justice, so they focus on one and I prefer that to be the PC version.
I have done/do free and commercial content for lots of games including the MS flight simulator series, Sims 2 and 3, battlefield 2, Ghost Recon, Xplane, etc.
Started many, many years ago with flight sims, but now play them just occasionally. For now it's mostly Skyrim and The Witcher 3..... (both single player, so no problems with online m#@#&s
), All on PC..
I used to play EVE which was great unless you wanted to eat, sleep, work or do anything other than play EVE - That's is when you become a filthy casual and lose your competitive edge. Alas, i'm not allowed to video game anymore, perhaps the odd hour or so on GTA 5 or just cause 2. I hear Americans are really into pokemon GO, which is awesome - everyones outside and interacting, it's like the 60's all over again :)
Master race ofcourse. Started gaming seriously when I had Dell Precision M6300 with 512 MB shared graphics. Those were the only workstations with decent graphics available in my region in those days. These days, now that I have an Alienware 17 R3, almost any action RPGs that comes out of Bioware stable and a few Bethesda ones. But Microsoft Game Studios have already consumed the better part of my life.
I'm not at all into playing games online... The online aspect of GTA 5 kinda killed the series for me, as in many games it tends to "insist itself" on you... I don't so much mind expansions, (FO4's expansions seem to be added in a way that actually makes me want them, without needing them... Which is smart)... but having to be constantly online or buy stuff to progress or fit in, just sours the whole experience.
I prefer to play games with friends in person... Even if it's just a one player game and I'm just adding "witty" commentary in the background as they play.
I only recently realized Skyrim wasn't a Final Fantasy type game (nothing wrong with FF, it's just too much planning and statistics for me)... I kinda hope there is a new one soon.
If anyone was into Ico when it was new, there seems to be a new "similar" game by the same team, called "The Last Guardian"... It seems to have that same dreamy look... I like the idea of your character becoming friends with a lost/injured/young(?) dragon-griffin-dog... Looking forward to that one's release.
EDITED TO ADD... Ah, Witcher 3... I could not remember that title, I was looking up games that might interest me and I totally forgot that one!
I've been playing video games since "Lode Runner" on a c64, I still have my Sega Genesis which includes cartridges for Sonic and Earthworm Jim. Have all the playstation consoles with atleast 100 titles for PS3, as well as the Gamecube and Wii consoles. Managed to convince my own kids and nephews that games are fun, there's no slowdown in the amount of games still being purchased and played. There's another 100 PC games through the years plus all those attached to my Steam
Started modding and learning 3D plays games like Monolith's No One Lives Forever and Aliens vs Predator 2
Really enjoy the open world games like Skyrim, Fallout, FarCry, Watchdogs, but I'm also playing Minecraft and Lego license games with my kids regularly.
Commercial game room? Is that another name for an arcade? I don't blame you for not wanting to game anymore if you ran an arcade... Too much of that getting de-materialized from the real world and then re-materialized into the game world and being forced to throw death-frisbees at people and ride lightcycles into walls and eventually overthrow the CPU overlord... Yeah, that would really kill it for me too.
The kids are fun to play with sometimes... They often drag me in to kill something or help them figure out a puzzle. They are more into apps like Minecraft, but they like console games too... Big on Star Wars and Lego games... One of my daughters discovered Tomb Raider (via the movies) and is obsessed with being like her.
...mostly arcade games, the old ones like Breakout, Asteroids, Battlezone, Tempest, Defender, Berserk, and Missile Command. Was actually pretty good at Tempest on which I held the top score record in Seattle for a while and could hold my own pretty well in Defender. Another one I was really good at was Omega Race.
Oh, and yes, I actually did play Spacewar as well as the original Lunar Lander and Star Trek back when I was in college.
For home computers, my favourite was M.U.L.E by Electronic Arts (before they got into all the sports stuff) and Star Raiders that came with any Atari system. The last ones I played regularly was the old Doom and Duke Nukem 3D so that sot of dates me. Tried Halo and gave up, couldn't even make it more than a couple hundred metres from the dropship most of the time.
Not into the online ones at all. I prefer actual in person P & P roleplay as most tables don't condone P vs. P play.
I get a lot of people asking me why, when they learn I am into 3D CG, that I don't play computer games. I tell them if I did it would cut into the time I spend on my 3D work and that I also like to get out into the real world from time to time, especially on nice days (I know some gamers who literally live the stereotype in their off time from work or school). I also like to see something more "tangible" for the time and effort I put forth than just a bunch of numbers and some kind of pseudo ranking.
My first and only console game machine was the Atari 2600. In fact it's still sitting in my closet (in its original box, no less).
After that I enjoyed games that ran on the Apple ][. "Choplifter" and "Lode Runner" were two of my favorites.
After that, games that played on the Macintosh platform were my preference, preferably first person shooters like "Duke Nukem" or "Unreal".
Then along came "Half-Life". I bought a Windows laptop just so I could play this Windows-only game. Happily, subsequent releases were available for the Mac platform, and I played them all.
The later versions of "Half-Life" came in a bundle called the "Orange Box". Included in the bundle was a little known game called "Portal". Well, I set it aside for the longest time while I concentrated on "Half-Life". Little did I know, but "Portal" (and "Portal 2") was to become my new favorite game of all time.
As of today "Portal 2" is the last game that I've played.
(The cake is a lie...)
I've been gaming since Pong came out on the Atari, but roleplaying in MMO's has been my real enjoyment for more than a decade now. When my dog died last summer, the grief killed a lot of my passions, and gaming was the biggest casualty. But I did fall head over heels for Fallout 4, which was really my first single-player game in a long time (other than my off and on again Sims addiction).
I've been having a really hard time finding another MMO that I want to play and it seems there's nothing on the horizon that interests me to RP in, but I was talked into going back to Champions Online for a bit over the summer.
As for the post apocalyptic genre, that's just something I've always loved, no matter the medium. I spent three years playing Fallen Earth and RP'ing the wasteland life, and it was pretty cool being the old lady to the president of a post-apoc MC. :D
No kidding
(played that in coop with an internet buddy, was quite addictive.......)
PC. With the exception of Age of Empires II which I still play a couple or three times a week (as a 60 minute skirmish) I haven't had a game installed for more then a couple of days since about 2000. Prefer tabletop games and opponents I can throw things at when they beat me.
The cake is a lie sounds right.
RIght now I am plaing a game called Runefall, but it is a basic match 3 game. I currently have an ancient video card so I do not feel comfortable running high intense graphics.
My family are all gamers, especially my oldest son. I'm a total embarassment to them as the only game I've ever been heavily into was 'Paperboy' (stop laughing at the back!). I'm hoping Pokemon GO makes it to the UK, just so that I can see what effect sunlight has on Eldest Son :)
My first console was the Sega Mega Drive II. Even to this day, my favorite game is Castlevania: The New Generation. Although "New Generation" is a pretty heavily edited game, compared to the American versions called "Bloodlines". Having said that, I love Streets of Rage and the Sonic games. My Mum used to play Coloumns on the Mega Drive too. There are quite a few consoles around here. Most of them have been birthday or christmas presents and, I don't have the heart to get rid of them.
Thanks to my Aspergers, I am massively obsessed with Devil May Cry, especially a character in it called Vergil (I'm not too keen on Devil May Cry 4 though). In the past, I've also been very obsessed with Pokemon. I hope Pokemon Go gets released in the UK too. But, I read an article which said that that wasn't going to happen anytime soon :(
I also love Legacy of Kain. My favorite fighting series is Tekken, and I've spent a lot of time playing Diablo III (Ultimate Evil Edition). The Fable series is also a favorite of mine.
I'd love to try Bloodborne, but I think I'd be pretty rubbish at it.
I've got a friend who has introduced me a few other gaming series too.
I was a pretty avid gamer up until 2009, but then I lost someone who was important to me and I didn't really play anything after that. Unless I have an urge to play a game, I don't go near a console. Plus, I only really game at night.
To be honest, I have and have played lots of games and I have lots of favorites, butI think I'd be here for a few hours writing them all down :p
PC. Bought a PS4, my first console, sold it after playing it for about 5 hours.
Used to play Everquest, a lot.
Play Elite Dangerous occasionally; even play the original on my Amiga very occasionally.
I found something even more time consuming than Everquest: Rendering. :) Although not by much.
I make my own, I find it more satisfying to play when you build it yourself. These days anyone can make there own, heck knew a guy who became a millionaire over night just for doing something he love, Mobile games yes!
I've often wondered why I still game on consoles, but I guess it's for several reasons... One, probably the biggest is habit... most of my earlier computers were not all that great... Two, I used to be a Mac user at home... Three, I didn't like putting additional stuff on my computers because will all the graphics and photo files I used to have, I've always been desperate for hard drive space (thank god for 3 terabyte drives)... Four, older computers had crappy CRT monitors and my living room TV was always way bigger... And lastly I'm usually ready to jump out of my skin after working all day on a computer, so I never really could relax at even a good game.... Maybe one more might even be that I've subconsciously realized that if the game was really good, I'd never get up from the computer and would eventually fuse with the chair and desk, turning into some freakish human/furniture hybrid.
I wasn't laughing... I was coughing... I breathed in a gnat. Granted, I was about to laugh when that happened, but it was just me choking on bug parts... Naa, just kidding... Paperboy was actually a pretty addictive game, I knew a couple of people who really loved it.
Been gaming since the Atari 400.. and still on a computer.
I still like Fallout 3 better than 4, but I haven't played FO4 properly modded yet.. waiting a bit still for the good stuff. Skyrim uber modded (like so many that mod organizer barfed and I had to start combining mods.) In my game you have to sleep, you can die of dehydration or hunger, and it's very easy to freeze to death. Sneaking actually takes thought, combat isn't just spamming the mouse button, no fast travel, etc etc. It's great.
Recently Ark: Survival Evolved (semi modded 'cause updating the server every other day is a pain), Minecraft (modded all to hell), Stardew Valley (mostly vanilla), Rimworld (modded to the point that it's almost not the same game), and I play LOOP: A Tranquil Puzzle Game and Spider Solitaire while I wait for promos and thumbnails to render.
I played my first game, Zork, on a friend's computer then had an Atari 2600 and played games like Pitfall and Frogger. Gotta love that frog! I discovered Lode Runner while in college with pirated copy that was making the rounds of the computer lab. Had great fun with while I was supposed to be writing code.
I mostly played PC games like Doom and Quake while dating my husband. Nothing says romantic like killing your boyfriend on a daily basis on linked computers. ;) I'm a big Duke Nukem fan since the early side scrolling games. I've loved Tomb Raider since the beginning on the PC. After the kids were born, I won a Playstation and decided to sell that without even opening the box and bought a Nintendo Gamecube since it seemed to have more little kid friendly games at the time. We've been getting Nintendo systems ever since so all of the Mario games, Yoshi's Story and all of the Zelda games were popular in my house. Harvest Moon and all of it's version were well loved and very enjoyable. Yes, I played all of them, too, and had loads of fun. My oldest son did branch out when he hit his teens and got his own Playstation 2. He got Little Big Planet for me to play on it, but then I could never get on the Playstation because he was always on it so I still haven't played that.
More recently, the boys discovered Steam a couple of years ago so I'm on there to monitor them. At least, that's what I tell them. I did recently buy some of my older favorites on Steam including all of the Tomb Raider games including the ones that weren't available on the PC and I hadn't played yet.
Commander Keen, Halloween Harry, Serious Sam were favorites as were Leisure Suit Larry and Police Quest.
More recently, I've gotten into playing Civilization V which is loads of fun so I'm working my way through getting all of those Steam achievements. I was playing Microsoft Flight Simulator until I found out that my favorite joystick, which was perfect for games like Descent I, II & 3, was too old to play nicely on my new computer and I've been researching what to get to replace it that goes well with that game so I can actually play it. I don't really do online games as I usually get slaughtered when playing them. My boys have tried to get me into Team Fortress 2 and I usually die almost immediately these days. Apparently, I don't have the aggressive streak I used to have when I would kill my husband on a daily basis and I've gotten out of practice. :)
Impossible... I just had cheesecake like twenty minutes ago.
I think I did... ?
What if I'm a lie and the cake is real... What if we are both a lie?
Damn you, GLaDOS!!
My husband just bought an HTC Vive. I like to play the slingshot in the lab. Does anybody have any game recommendations for the Vive?
Uhhh...lately?
Sims 3, Vampire: The Masquerade. Bloodlines, Shogun: Total War (original), Dreamfall Chapters, Spore, The Long Dark...
Been itching to get back into Planetside 2 and Neo-Scavenger.
Been playing games for quite some time. Worked in the industry as well. Used to be a console gamer, now mostly PC.
Post apocalyptic games remind me of the neighborhood I grew up in... Seriously, the parts of NYC in Queens (where I lived) and nearby Brooklyn, back in the late 70s and early 80s were really crazy falling apart and uncared for... One of our favorite places to hang out was an abandoned mental institution on Roosevelt Island... One of the buildings (Blackwell Manor) was used in the first Spider Man movie... The part where the green goblin gets killed.
Nintendo kid here, I started with Duck Hunt and Mario. But I was never very good at most vedio games no matter how much I loved them. Eventually I lost interest until I started dating my now husband. He was trying to get me interested in vedio games. didn't really care for them until he introduced Lunar Silver Star Story in the Sega CD. Never heard of an RPG when I was growing up. I'm such a sucker for a story driven game. Lunar has a very special place in my heart. I even have Lunar 1 and 2 playstation collection box set by Working Design before they went belly up. Baldur's Gate 2 stole 8 months of my life. Best US RPG as far as I was concern. I was stationed in Japan when Final Fantasy 7, Pokemon and Panzer Dragoon first came out. I fought with my husband for the TV when I was playing Xenogears (he bought me a new TV, I guess I won!) Morrowind was my first sandbox game. I've played the original Fallout and 2 when they came out. Dragon Age series and Mass Effect series was muched loved. Plants vs Zombie was addictive. Skyrim is beautiful and I loved it to death. Dungeon Fighter online is the only online game we play but I'm interested in playing Secret World.
As of now. I'm playing DFO, and Fire Emblem Awakening.
I hope to get my hands on the new Final Fantasy coming out in Sept. Odin Sphere remake, Persona 5, Warhammer, and Final Fantasy 7 remake.