Any gamers?

TheGreekPhysique · Jan 17, 2022

Ever since I can remember I was playing video games. Sure I grew up playing out doors and those were some of my fondest memories as well but I also have great memories associated with playing difference consoles and/or games. It all started out when my Dad came home with the brand new at the time super nintendo. We would spend hours playing different games like Mario. At first, he would have me or my brother hold a controller (that wasn't even plugged in) while he held the other one telling us we "were playing the character together." As the years went by that transformed into less and less time playing for him and more and more for us as we grew more inpatient.

I built a PC (and by built I mean I had a friend tell me what to do step by step as you would with a monkey) Christmas of 2021 as PC's tend to be the end game (or final boss if you will) when it comes to gaming. I now tend to play RTS games like starcraft and FPS like COD or halo. It's a shame that the RTS genre has seem to have fallen out of favor with today's youth but I guess that's a conversation for another day.

Anyways.. any one else? If so, what games do you enjoy and why.

JwRosenthal · Jan 17, 2022

My wife is a junkie, she has had a PlayStation 4 for years. She loves the fantasy/adventure games like Skyrim, Witcher, as well as the entire Far Cry opus (4 being my fav). I’ve played a couple 2-player games with her but I fumble the controls…just too many buttons compared to the Nintendo brick I used as a kid (2 buttons and up/down/left/right).
But I do enjoy sitting with her while she plays and I navigate or play spotter and strategize while I post meaningless content here.

TheGreekPhysique · Jan 17, 2022

JwRosenthal
My wife is a junkie, she has had a PlayStation 4 for years. She loves the fantasy/adventure games like Skyrim, Witcher, as well as the entire Far Cry opus (4 being my fav). I’ve played a couple 2-player games with her but I fumble the controls…just too many buttons compared to the Nintendo brick I used as a kid (2 buttons and up/down/left/right).
But I do enjoy sitting with her while she plays and I navigate or play spotter and strategize while I post meaningless content here.

Did she grow up playing as well? There is something to be said about the simplicity of games from our childhood that I do miss as well.

Those fantasy/adventure games are terrific for couples to play together. Especially if one is proficient with the controls while the enjoys watching along. May I suggest you guys try out Sea of Thieves. An amazing adventure game with beautiful cinematography and treasure hunts along the way. She would probably love it. You both would.

Braindrain · Jan 17, 2022

I love re-living my youth through MAME... also a helluva lot cheaper than it was back then.

BlackTalon · Jan 17, 2022

Hoping to build a mid-level gaming desktop for my son in the next 3 weeks, but the graphics card issue is disheartening. And prebuilt pricing is pretty silly right now as well. Seems like a $500 or so premium these days due to shortages and scalpers.

TDBK · Jan 17, 2022

After years of not touching the stove, knowing it was dangerous, I went ahead and bought factorio a couple of months ago. It's every bit as addictive as I feared.

JwRosenthal · Jan 17, 2022

BlackTalon
Hoping to build a mid-level gaming desktop for my son in the next 3 weeks, but the graphics card issue is disheartening. And prebuilt pricing is pretty silly right now as well. Seems like a $500 or so premium these days due to shortages and scalpers.

We had the graphics card issue trying to get a couple new computers for CAD work. We waited for 6 months for 2 cards. Then we are told they couldn’t get the glass for one of the laptops….glass! We never think about how tight we had pulled the supply chain until shit like this happens.

Burr · Jan 17, 2022

I’ve always enjoyed multiplayer party games like Mario party, smash bros, goldeneye on n64, towerfall

BlackTalon · Jan 17, 2022

I went ahead and configured/ ordered on about an hour ago. It was painful putting in the credit card info, but I really need to have a computer here before mid-Feb for my son's birthday. Definitely a lot more expensive than I had hoped.

...good thing I saved $$$ on interconnects and speaker cables for my wife's stereo system this past summer 😁

Foo2rama · Jan 17, 2022

I play splitgate, hearthstone battlegrounds, little BF2042. Then some others to relax like ship breaker.

I played competitively in my youth 25 years ago, won my last competition about 9 years ago with the Mech Warrior Online launch event.

alas the fast twitch starts to go away at 28 and crafty wiles of someone playing FPS’s longer then his competition can only go so far.

I also worked in the games industry for 15 years as an executive producer.

instill remember the first time I played a video game on a tabletop console Galaga machine in 1980.

Foo2rama · Jan 17, 2022

@BlackTalon

the video card problem/prices are unreal….

Omegafanman · Jan 18, 2022

I have not played for a long time but when our office got its first PC in the eighties a lot of people used it to play Space Quest which was fun despite terrible graphics. There were also some bearable golf games.
In the nineties it was Duke Nukem, Doom, Half Life...command and conquer etc for me. Quake was my favourite. I still have copies of most of the games. I did have a brief dabble on Counter Strike but enjoyed it too much so went cold turkey. For flight sims there was Nova logic F22 raptor and finally a bit left of field I loved Rowan Software Flying Corps. I have toyed with trying to get that to run in a modern machine / a great WW1 flying game.

dsio · Jan 18, 2022

I’m a fan of Hearthstone, Magic The Gathering Arena, used to be into Overwatch and PUBG and now sort of getting into Escape from Tarkov a bit.

dsio · Jan 18, 2022

I watch a fair bit of Twitch as well as its sort of relaxing background noise / entertainment while I work so watching Tarkov, NoPixel GTA RP and some Minecraft Speedrunners on that

Bugbait · Jan 18, 2022

PC gamer since my father brought home an Apple 2e with 7" monochrome screen when I was in primary school. Was assembling my own IBM compatible PCs in late high school and have continued to do so since then. Have been custom water cooling since just after University and main PC has always been water cooled ever since.

Preference was Fantasy RPGs, real and turn based strategy games but did play a good amount of FPS games too. Ultima series, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Diablo, etc. Also Command and Conquer, Warcraft, Starcraft, etc. Playing early Heroes of Might and Magic versions (later ones sucked) in hotseat mode with friends until early hours. Wasted far too much time playing online MMORPGs in the younger years. Only have time for one game at time these days so it's just Destiny 2 at the moment.

Bugbait · Jan 18, 2022

Omegafanman
I have not played for a long time but when our office got its first PC in the eighties a lot of people used it to play Space Quest which was fun despite terrible graphics. There were also some bearable golf games.
In the nineties it was Duke Nukem, Doom, Half Life...command and conquer etc for me. Quake was my favourite. I still have copies of most of the games. I did have a brief dabble on Counter Strike but enjoyed it too much so went cold turkey. For flight sims there was Nova logic F22 raptor and finally a bit left of field I loved Rowan Software Flying Corps. I have toyed with trying to get that to run in a modern machine / a great WW1 flying game.

Ah, the Sierra adventure games. Played most of them as well in my youth. Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, and Kings Quest come to mind.

DoctorEvil · Jan 18, 2022

Started when I was 10 years old and Dad bought us a simple Philips "pong" type video game console, which also had a pistol so you could shoot a bouncing target on the TV screen. Later, when PCs came along I played Doom, Dune 2000 as my RTS, Jane's F/A-18 as my flight sim and the original Call of Duty as my FPS. When I got married, we were gifted a Nintendo Wii so played a lot of Super Mario Bros. Got a PS3 free with our TV around the same time so started getting into Gran Turismo 5 and GTA4, which I loved. Now that we've got kids, I don't game so much but we play simple games on the Wii with them. Currently a Pokémon Go addict.

perenowell · Jan 18, 2022

I always played video games as far as I can remember.
It started with the Sega Master System. My neighbor had one and I spent all of my free time playing with him at his place. So my father bought one to keep me home... Since then, I have the bad habit to buy every new console even if I don't find the time to play anymore.

Omegafanman · Jan 18, 2022

perenowell
I always played video games as far as I can remember.
It started with the Sega Master System. My neighbor had one and I spent all of my free time playing with him at his place. So my father bought one to keep me home... Since then, I have the bad habit to buy every new console even if I don't find the time to play anymore.

Bad habits..... In a loft somewhere I still have Astro wars, Scramble and Computer Battle ships - which should all still work :0) (not my pictures but these are the games). We have come a long way / VR headsets etc.

perenowell · Jan 18, 2022

I think I never saw or tried any of those!

Any gamers?

TheGreekPhysique

JwRosenthal

TheGreekPhysique

Braindrain

BlackTalon

TDBK

JwRosenthal

Burr

BlackTalon

Foo2rama

Foo2rama

Omegafanman

dsio

dsio

Bugbait

Bugbait

DoctorEvil

perenowell

Omegafanman

perenowell

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