How old are you? Remember about 10 years ago, you couldn't move for games... Got in from school, get on the computer no matter what you had and play something. I remember getting up at 6am before school just so i could play donkey kong country, i needed to get 100% (even though the max was over 100%, lol).
I remember way back when, where i would have my tea while ghostbusters was loading on the old Amiga.
I remember playing Mario 64 and Goldeneye on the 64, thinking "this game is pure realistic fun, those guys look REAAAAAL!"
But... I remember all this from years ago...? I think memories really died in the n64/psx/Quake 2 era for me. I would play Quake 2 and action Quake 2 online all night. I would skip food, play all night into the early hours of the morning, and wake up tired. But i wouldn't care. I never even cared that my 56k line wasn't pay monthly, but pay per second, so at the end of the month there would be a huge bill...
So while playing Quake 2 on the Pc, while playing FFVII on the PS-One... I had fun. I had a LOT of fun...
But now... I have zero fun. I buy games that i rarely complete. My shelf is full of games but i just can't be bothered with any more.
I dunno what point im trying to make, i guess i'm getting to the stage now where i'm just to "grown up" to need to sit in front of a TV all day. I went into the garden today in the nice weather and did a spot of gardening. i enjoyed it. I came in to the PC and started drawing... It got old. Fast.
How old are you. Do you still play and view games like you used to? And if you haven't all but given up already like me, when do you image that day to come?
Fuck, i'm bored... Lets chat
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Don Carlos
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I remember getting up before school in 6th grade to beat Mr. Sandman in the original Mike Tyson's Punchout for the nintendo.
Remember playing Super Mario brothers at the burger place about 5minutes from my house every day when I was in roughly that age as well. It was funny, I was the best in the area at that game as a little kid. The older high school kids would sit there waiting in line to play...it drove them nuts having to sit and watch some little kid run up all the high scores...but I do remember, quite vividly, them getting excited and one time a guy actually calling his buddy on the pay phone to say "the little shit is about to beat level 8-4...no, I'm not fucking kidding..."
I miss the glory days of the video arcade...stacking up your quarters across the front of the game....
Remember playing Super Mario brothers at the burger place about 5minutes from my house every day when I was in roughly that age as well. It was funny, I was the best in the area at that game as a little kid. The older high school kids would sit there waiting in line to play...it drove them nuts having to sit and watch some little kid run up all the high scores...but I do remember, quite vividly, them getting excited and one time a guy actually calling his buddy on the pay phone to say "the little shit is about to beat level 8-4...no, I'm not fucking kidding..."
I miss the glory days of the video arcade...stacking up your quarters across the front of the game....
26. Still playing. Slowed down after 3 years of Q3, so haven't been very active the last two years, but now with HL2DM I play a lot again. It's very buggy, and very slow compared to Q3, but it's very action filled and very fun 
Waiting for AG2 to bring the speed back.
Used to love playing games like Super Mario Bros on NES, but then I just started disliking consoles around 2000 or so. Not sure why, but I can't stand playing on them.
I do wish someone would take away my inet connection so I can get other stuff done and play some good singleplayer games, cause I'm not getting anything done now
Some weird fear of lagging behind I guess.
Waiting for AG2 to bring the speed back.Used to love playing games like Super Mario Bros on NES, but then I just started disliking consoles around 2000 or so. Not sure why, but I can't stand playing on them.
I do wish someone would take away my inet connection so I can get other stuff done and play some good singleplayer games, cause I'm not getting anything done now
Some weird fear of lagging behind I guess.I'm 20 and Diablo 2 is the only game I play as if I'm a 12 year old. I remember back when I had my PSX I would buy and trade so many games and stay up all night beating them all. I really miss those days. Where you eagerly waited for the next Gran Turismo to come out and then played it non stop for a month.
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reefsurfer
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17. I only play q3 and sometimes cs (1.6 that is). Other games do not get me interested, at least not for days. Other games i download i often install and unistall the same day. I just hate most of the new games with nice graphics but shitty gameplay.
I think i play 2 hours a day. That amount will decrease when im going to university this year. i think.
I think i play 2 hours a day. That amount will decrease when im going to university this year. i think.
I'm 20. I used to spend so much money at the arcade, it was ridiculous. I remember on my 11th or 12th birthday, I asked for either $25 or $50 dollars -- in quarters. I spent it all on games like Revolution X, Mortal Kombat II, and NBA Jam.
Funny -- those are all Midway games.
That and I was an absolute console beast, before I got into PC gaming (and during). I had over 80 games for Sega Genesis (MegaDrive to some of you), about the same for SNES, tons of NES games. I had the 3DO which was horrible, but it let me play cool games like Quarantine (which I highly recommend checking out) and the Alone in the Dark series, as my PC couldn't run either of them at the time.
I played games hours and hours every day.
In 1994 I started playing DOOM at 9 or 10 years old, and I was playing that probably five hours a day. I remember that Thanksgiving day, I skipped the whole day, spending extremely minimal time with my family and spending it playing DOOM instead.
I remember buying the Quake shareware at Walmart (with the full version encrypted) and trying to find out how to "crack" it (a new term for me at the time) to unlock the full version.
I remember going to a friend's house becase once again, my PC couldn't run Quake. But I spent a ridiculous amount of time on that too.
I remember playing Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) and Chrono Trigger a whole lot, and than Final Fantasy VII even more.
Now, so many years later -- I'm still a sucker for it. I'm not into new games all that much, minus just a very very few. And I'm warming back up to console games again, as developers really seem to "get it" these days. I'm excited about the future of gaming, for fun, and as a competitive sport. It's cool -- it's a great hobby. Let's you be somebody else, let's you control an alternate reality. It looks cool.
I don't know, games are pretty much our generation's rock and roll, I suppose.
Funny -- those are all Midway games.
That and I was an absolute console beast, before I got into PC gaming (and during). I had over 80 games for Sega Genesis (MegaDrive to some of you), about the same for SNES, tons of NES games. I had the 3DO which was horrible, but it let me play cool games like Quarantine (which I highly recommend checking out) and the Alone in the Dark series, as my PC couldn't run either of them at the time.
I played games hours and hours every day.
In 1994 I started playing DOOM at 9 or 10 years old, and I was playing that probably five hours a day. I remember that Thanksgiving day, I skipped the whole day, spending extremely minimal time with my family and spending it playing DOOM instead.
I remember buying the Quake shareware at Walmart (with the full version encrypted) and trying to find out how to "crack" it (a new term for me at the time) to unlock the full version.
I remember going to a friend's house becase once again, my PC couldn't run Quake. But I spent a ridiculous amount of time on that too.
I remember playing Final Fantasy VI (3 in the US) and Chrono Trigger a whole lot, and than Final Fantasy VII even more.
Now, so many years later -- I'm still a sucker for it. I'm not into new games all that much, minus just a very very few. And I'm warming back up to console games again, as developers really seem to "get it" these days. I'm excited about the future of gaming, for fun, and as a competitive sport. It's cool -- it's a great hobby. Let's you be somebody else, let's you control an alternate reality. It looks cool.
I don't know, games are pretty much our generation's rock and roll, I suppose.
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18... only play quake 3 online at the AP lounge, about three to four times a week. Its a lot of fun, I sweat during intense games, its like a sport. I'm thinking of installing Heroes of Might and Magic 4, but I'm not feeling like it. I got the CD laying on the table, but I'm not feeling like installing it.
I never played a variety of games, and the only console I ever had was a NES clone when I was 6 to 8. I loved to play Teenage Ninja Turtles games, especially Tournament where we played a lot of 1v1.
Now I can't image playing a game on a console. I don't understand any of the people who are my age and who still buy console games.
I never played a variety of games, and the only console I ever had was a NES clone when I was 6 to 8. I loved to play Teenage Ninja Turtles games, especially Tournament where we played a lot of 1v1.
Now I can't image playing a game on a console. I don't understand any of the people who are my age and who still buy console games.
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*OptimusPrime*
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I'm 23. I definitely do not play games nearly as much as I used to. But I don't really blame that on me "growing up". I still love games to death. I blame it more on the fact that the quality of games has rapidly deteriorated over the years.
Nowadays the industry consists of a small amount of very large companies that buy out all the smaller game studios and have them create bland mass-marketed games and sequel upon uninspired sequel. As opposed to 10 years ago when games were made by a small group of geeks in a tiny office who made games they wanted to make (ie the old id and Apogee games). But I guess with the emerging technology and the increasing amount of money and time it costs to create games it was inevitable that this would happen. You see the same thing happening with mod communities too. I haven't seen a decent or original mod come out for any current generation games in a while. The amount of time and skill it takes to create them is just beyond what the average amateur developer has and unfortunately I think that trend is just going to continue. (and yes, I'm a pessimist!)
I can't even remember the last truly great PC game that came out in the past few years. I guess for me it'd have to be Warcraft 3 and even that was a sequel. But atleast it was a sequel that managed to capture the magic of its predecessors and actually build upon it with some new elements.
Nowadays the industry consists of a small amount of very large companies that buy out all the smaller game studios and have them create bland mass-marketed games and sequel upon uninspired sequel. As opposed to 10 years ago when games were made by a small group of geeks in a tiny office who made games they wanted to make (ie the old id and Apogee games). But I guess with the emerging technology and the increasing amount of money and time it costs to create games it was inevitable that this would happen. You see the same thing happening with mod communities too. I haven't seen a decent or original mod come out for any current generation games in a while. The amount of time and skill it takes to create them is just beyond what the average amateur developer has and unfortunately I think that trend is just going to continue. (and yes, I'm a pessimist!)
I can't even remember the last truly great PC game that came out in the past few years. I guess for me it'd have to be Warcraft 3 and even that was a sequel. But atleast it was a sequel that managed to capture the magic of its predecessors and actually build upon it with some new elements.
The truth.Die wrote:I blame it more on the fact that the quality of games has rapidly deteriorated over the years.
Game makers are more worried about having BLOOM these days rather than making great games.
Some of my fave games of recent times have been either ports of old games, or sequals with the same gameplay just updated.
DKC, while it DID look the dogs back when it was released, was still all about the game, not the looks. The looks were just a great addition.
Remember when they made DK64, and they told everybody how the graphics were amazing, how proud they were to have great visuals in 3d... YEH, but the game blew chunks, they forgot to do it...
You just cant beat the oldies. No matter how hard you try, how many polies a fish has, or how many baddies are onscreen. Pixels are pixels, pixels change, but gameplay will always be gameplay. FACT.
I don't play much anymore, aside from the Q3 game now and then.
I've bought D3 and FarCry recently and haven't finished either of them, even though they're both good games in my opinion.
There's something of that magic missing from the times I was younger, when I would be eagerly awaiting to see what was coming in the next level, or what kind of cool item the next boss was going to give me. Nowadays it seems like I've already seen all the cool items.
Lately though I've been playing a lot of my older Nintendo games on an emulator, and even though a little bit is lost looking at the old graphics and crappy sounds, I still have a blast playing them. Part of it is nostalgic too though, I guess.
But there have been some recent games that really got me excited and were hard for me to put down. Not surprisingly, they were sequels to original games I used to love playing - Zelda, Metroid, Mario. The developers did them right, and managed to include that certain something that made them just pure, old-fashioned fun like the old ones.
Doom3 was a good game (my opinion at least), but I found that the only reason I was looking around corners was to see the next graphical milestone, or what else just "looked cool." It didn't have that scary, but blast your way out of hell in a hurry feeling that the original Doom had. Heck, I almost wish they would have just used the original Doom shotgun sound for the new shotgun.
Serious Sam is a badass, fun game - especially in coop - and I can't help but think that Doom might have been a little more fun if they had made the gameplay and enemies a little more like Serious Sam -- fast, frantic, but not so quasi-realistic. Even with all the badass graphics included, if the imps had made funny, shocked faces and tinny-sounding screeches while I was making canoes in their chests, I think the game would have been 10 times more enjoyable - especially if I could see what was going on around me for at least half of the game.
I definitely haven't outgrown video games, but the ones I don't like just don't seem to appeal to the kid in me. I think that's what makes them the most enjoyable. I play them for entertainment more than I do for a "super-hard competitive realistic challenge that breaks all previous barriers of a video game."
That's what I really DID like about FarCry -- even though they did try really hard to make it realistic and immersive, there was still an element in there that was just pure fun; especially getting to really play around with the environment and explore a little bit.
I've bought D3 and FarCry recently and haven't finished either of them, even though they're both good games in my opinion.
There's something of that magic missing from the times I was younger, when I would be eagerly awaiting to see what was coming in the next level, or what kind of cool item the next boss was going to give me. Nowadays it seems like I've already seen all the cool items.
Lately though I've been playing a lot of my older Nintendo games on an emulator, and even though a little bit is lost looking at the old graphics and crappy sounds, I still have a blast playing them. Part of it is nostalgic too though, I guess.
But there have been some recent games that really got me excited and were hard for me to put down. Not surprisingly, they were sequels to original games I used to love playing - Zelda, Metroid, Mario. The developers did them right, and managed to include that certain something that made them just pure, old-fashioned fun like the old ones.
Doom3 was a good game (my opinion at least), but I found that the only reason I was looking around corners was to see the next graphical milestone, or what else just "looked cool." It didn't have that scary, but blast your way out of hell in a hurry feeling that the original Doom had. Heck, I almost wish they would have just used the original Doom shotgun sound for the new shotgun.
Serious Sam is a badass, fun game - especially in coop - and I can't help but think that Doom might have been a little more fun if they had made the gameplay and enemies a little more like Serious Sam -- fast, frantic, but not so quasi-realistic. Even with all the badass graphics included, if the imps had made funny, shocked faces and tinny-sounding screeches while I was making canoes in their chests, I think the game would have been 10 times more enjoyable - especially if I could see what was going on around me for at least half of the game.
I definitely haven't outgrown video games, but the ones I don't like just don't seem to appeal to the kid in me. I think that's what makes them the most enjoyable. I play them for entertainment more than I do for a "super-hard competitive realistic challenge that breaks all previous barriers of a video game."
That's what I really DID like about FarCry -- even though they did try really hard to make it realistic and immersive, there was still an element in there that was just pure fun; especially getting to really play around with the environment and explore a little bit.
I am 30. I actually have Contra on an emulator in the control room of the 280ft. supply boat I work on. I managed to sneek it onto the valve console computer and every now and then if I need a quick break, I'll go down there and run through it. I miss the days of Goldeneye, Quake2, and expecially Street Fighter.
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*OptimusPrime*
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Im 17 and I know I missed many of the glory days of gaming, and I can still see games are going down hill. Everythings a fucking sequel that sucks or a slightly altered game with a new name. I played Mike Tyson punchout and was always a big fan of hockey games on consoles, but i didnt get a computer until after quake 3 had been released. That game and that game alone has been the only one i can still play time in and time out and still be entertained, although i have drawn a liking to Rome: Total War. First Person shooters have come great lengths in terms of graphics, but gameply wise they suck. suck suck suck.