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Pong was the first game I played, followed closely by pacman. I played tactical shooters, open world and real time strategy a bit. I haven't been interested in games for years now so it's strange I might be prepared to buy a PS4 just to have a go at Horizon Zero Dawn.
It kills me that my wife has zero interest in video games... Occasionally she will watch for a moment, but what kills me more is she is actually really good at them... She won't play, but on rare occasions she will come into the room and my daughters will lament not being able to get past some monster or jump platform and she will just pick up the controls and mess with it for a minute or two, complete the task perfectly and walk off... I've made up a backstory for her that before I met her, she was really some high level video game hustler who was recruited by some covert ops organization to infiltrate a video game company trying to take over the world with self aware game consoles, and she is the only surviving member of her team and she won't play games because it brings back bad memories... She denies it but I wonder...
...I basically am an old school pinball junkie. When video games first appeared I thought they were kind if odd. You couldn't bump them (well, actually you could, but it didn't do anything except maybe make the screen flicker and get a cross look from the arcade attendant), they cost more to play (with pinball, you could get a discount on pinball like 3 games for 25¢ which videogames didn't offer), and there was just something about the nature of dealing with real physics that seemed more appealing. With pinball there were no patterns or sequences to memorise or no predictable results.
Sadly, to compete, pinball had to take on some of the aspects of vidogames, like recorded sound effects/voices, those DotMation™ inset displays on the backglass and a few even with full video displays. One machine I saw even went as far as to mimic a projected holographic display over the playfield which served as little more than a distraction rather than an enhancement to the playing experience. I've even seen full video pinball machines that take the physical aspect completely out of the game.
Personally, today, I don't find the new brand of pinball much fun anymore unless I happen into a place that has some of the old vintage machines (particularly the ones with the mechanical score counters).
I am currently playing World of Warships, World of Tanks and KOTOR online. Used to have a PS3, but play PC online now.
World of Warcraft addict for 10 years, dungeons, raids until that warlords expansion, just couldn't go it any more so finally gave it up it was becoming too much like a job instead of a game. Played several Tera, SWTOR, recently Final Fantasy 14 with my fluffy tailed Miqo'te but no where near like i use to play at time i would be on for 12-14 hours, now 4 at most having started during the atari 2600 and on up through nintendos and playstations, sega systems. I was a console gamer until I got hooked on the WOW bug.
I loved the sounds & feel of the old mechanical pinball machines, although I never played them much. For me, my interest was always sims and racing games, never the shooters.
Flying has always fascinated me. I had SubLogic's Flight Simulator on the Commodore 64, and kept upgrading all the way through to FSX. 2005 I gained my real world pilots licence. Currently there's a group of six of us flying a 'round the world' trip multiplayer on Sunday mornings. We're not trying for any world records or anything, or even going the shortest route, but we have a good time of it and chat over Skype as we fly. We started at Melbourne Australia about a year ago, and yesterday we reached northern Germany, ready to cross into Denmark next time.
Interesting thread. It's strange how fashions come and go. I used to play the Sims and then one day was just bored with it and have never touched it since.
The only game I was truly addicted to - way back in the day when I was a teenager - was Snakebyte on Apple - and you couldn't save it because it was on disk and it would take hours to finish a game and then nobody could use the computer
. No other game has fascinated me as much, since.
Now I mostly play the games I write myself ...
Galaga..1942 & Defender. as pretty as todays game look I never have as much fun as I do when playing the older arcade games,
curently playing Space Pirate Trainer on the Vive..it's a blast..and being VR it keeps me fit at the same time :)
Galaga now you're talking grew up on that one !!!
Currently a lot of Overwatch : )
My all time favorite video game series is The Witcher.
I recently also finally bought GTA V (never played a GTA game before) but I haven't played it in couple of days now. It is pretty decent though.
I am also a fan of Sid Meyer's Civilization and the Tomb Raider series.
When I was younger, I used to play a lot of WoW and I still love the game (basically grew up in Azeroth lol : D ) but it is extremely time consuming so I am no longer subscribed. I might return one day though, for the nostalgia : )
When I was even younger, I used to play a lot of The Sims : ) But the latest installment seems like a huge step back for the series.
I'm sure there's more but these are the ones that come to mindd atm.
These days, it's basically mostly Overwatch : )
I like to play all kinds of games shooters, racers, rpgs, horror, fighting, puzzle/platform, anything really just love gaming. Mostly a console player nintendo 64 - conker's bad fur day is a classic, nintendo wii, have all the playstations keep running out of room on my ps4, do play online on both ps3 and 4. Like said mostly console only few pc exceptions I'm a fan of the Warhammer/Warhammer franchises artwork, books, comics, the models for the tabletop games, movies and of course the pc/console games getting a new pc which was/is mainly for our hobby here was really planning on gaming on it but found out after many years they're releasing Dawn Of War 3 so I'll be getting that and I've played plants vs zombies, various Sim City editions last was 4, and The Sims games aint played 4 but looks fun and would need decent pc for that so might try it. Enjoy games let you get more into them creating unique characters and such and big open world games just like wandering around exploring been enjoying fallout 4 on ps4
Yep, I spent way too many hours playing Galaga in college when I should have been studying, but I had this high score to maintain and someone kept topping it so I was always playing it to get back the high score. I have to admit it was kind of fun to finish a game and only see two names filling up the high score screen. That was a blast!
I really like collecter games, especially the ones that let you unlock alot of characters. If those characters have alot of outfits to unlock on top of everything else, ill be happy running the same repetitive tasks over and over again. Coincidence that I like daz?
Back in the day, arcades were the only place to play any decent games... I'm talking the early 80s mostly. Cerebral games, computers were good for, consoles for graphically simple stuff (but sometimes decent gameplay)... But if you wanted real action and dazzling graphics, arcades were the place to go. My friends and me used to trek miles across NYC (no public transit, because if you walked you had more quarters), all the way over to Times Square to the arcades there... In our area in Long Island City in Queens there were few arcade machines, mostly stuff like Asteroids or Space Invaders in a pizzeria or deli here and there (there were actually still a lot of real pinball machines still around back then)... But a real arcade was were you wanted to go to play the new stuff... In retrospect they probably were slightly behind in the cutting edge games, giving in to multiple units of whatever was popular, but here and there if you knew where to go, you could find some new gems.
I used to love the look of the Raster-Scan / Vector Graphics type games (like Battlezone, Asteroids Deluxe or Star Castle), especially when they started using color graphics (like Tempest and the Star Wars ones).
Today I don't think I've seen a real arcade in years... Places like those "fun centers" that serve food and have "games of skill" where you earn tickets, are really kinda terrible... They are like gateway casinos for kids to develop a gambling habit... Most of them actually have roulette wheels... But despite the terrible drinks and horrible food, whats really sad is the arcade aspect... There are very few new games and most of the technology is very dated on the new ones... Here and there, there you find something potentially cool, but they are ridiculously expensive... My daughter played some Star Wars mini simulator and it was the equivalent of $5 for under minute and on top of that some of the features were broken... Granted, back in the day the old arcades were far from perfect, but at least around here those fun center places seem like such a flashy big ripoff... Especially the games that are available as apps.
Rediscovered Skyrim on the PC and found the Skyrim nexus mods, and StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm was on sale so I picked it up but have not had a chance to play it.
Top 10 list with bonus list and in no particular order since the internet lacks top 10 lists:
1) Adventure [Atari VCS (aka 2600)] Say what you will about duck dragons and blocks, but at the time it was visually epic.
2) Mindsweeper, Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon, Necromancer [Amiga/Atari ] Bill Williams was always pushing the limits of what a game was along with what it looked like
3) Warcraft /StartCraft [PC] Expansion packs were amazing, then you went on line and got destroyed by a 6 year old Korean kid.
4) WarHammer [PC] the most unbalanced fighting system ever
5) Dark Forces [Mac] the first FPS with a plot and Star Wars, this may have been the first FPS with up and down as well. Do you like to duck in video games? Thank Lucas Arts.
6) Zelda [Nintendo] I don't even remember what you had to do, it might have been you had to get the Aunt in Sigmund & Sea Monsters to confront the old gods lived under her ranch house and succumb to eternal madness. If not I'm pitching that to EA.
7) Lemmings/Shadow of the Beast [Amiga] Shadow was designed to look and feel like a mid 1980's Yes album that was worse than "Tormato". No, that's not a typo.
8) Skyrim. Still very playable, mods are still being made by loyal fans to the point of the game immersion has wounds, sleep breaks, hunger, hypothermia and cramps if you swim right after you play volleyball with a trolls head.
9) Red Dead Redemption [Xbox] I thought this was superior to GTA in many ways (read: Horsies!)
10) Minecraft [Xbox] It's like never running out of Lego, and no cleanup!
11) Archon , rebooted many time, the original is still the best. I played against a wookie and kept my arms ('cus I lost
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Our family is a Xbox junkie. we have tons of games. like all the Need for speed games. All the assassin greed games , tour of duty, Mysit , Doom, and witcher 1-3 we also have most of the guitar hero games and a few games like minecraft and Mario bro's etc... yeah we are xbox junkies and have most of thegear to go with it as well ...lol
PC gamer, here.
1 ) Marvel Heroes Online - free to play, and not pay to win. Yes, you can get bonuses and buy new heroes, but you can also get those same bonuses as drops or quest rewards, and you get "eternity splinters" you can also use to buy new heroes.
2 ) Skyrim - with all the DLC. Yes, I'm waiting for the remastered. And I've got a buttload of mods.
3 ) Vindictus - An action stlye MMO, easily playable solo, also F2P. A little more investment is needed unless you want a serious grind, but most of thecash shop consumables are also available in a shop in game - but they cost, effectively, skill points.
Started on a C64 (well, probably neigghbors Atari). Went the Amiga to WIndows PC route, and got into consoles when I picked up a PS3 as a blu-ray player. I used to look down on console gamers, now I'm one! *hangs head in shame*
I have a PS4 now. For that, I highly recomend: Journey (best example of how a game can be art), Dying Light Enhanched Edition and Dragon Age Inquistion GOTY. The Witcher 3 looks really good so far, but I'm only level 4 so I'm hesitant to endorse it. What I have seen so far has been great, and I expect I will be adding it to the list. I am waiting for a Fallout 4 GOTY edition and I expect it will also make the list. I also liked Dead Island Defintive Edition and Dead Island: Riptide Defintive Edition, but I wouldn't say they were must haves (and Techland went on to make Dying Light -- their publisher had the rights to the Dead Island brand and they split over disagrements, hence "Dying Light")
On the PC, Pillars of Eternity really stands out if you liked the Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale games, and Planescape: Torment. The Dead Ialand Definitive Editions and Dying Light are also avaialbe on PC.
As a side note, there have been some good boardgame ports onthe iPad, including Forbidden Island, Forbidden Desert, Pandemic, NeroshimaHex, Galaxy Trucke, Ticket to RIde, Carcasonne, etc.
Daz has taken over most of my gaming time. I still play Dungeons and Dragons Online on weekend mornings with my coffee, usually with a render running in the background.
Let's see.....first gaming?
Pinball.
First video game?
Pong arcade machine. (yes, they did exist.)
Then, lunar lander, space invaders, night driver, asteroids.....pac-man, defender, vanguard, scramble, tail gunner, and a whole slew through the late 70's to the 80s.
First home games? Sears brand Tele-pong, followed by a dedicated Tank game. Then the Atari2600, then a Coleco-vision.
First PC game? Temple of Apshai on an Apple ][+, followed by Castle Wolfenstein, drol, Sammy Lightfoot, Lode Runner, Wizardry (1-4), Bard's Tale (1 and 2), Choplifter, and more.
Then later arcade games....including Street Fighter (all versions), Tetris, Star Wars, and more....then Laser Arcade Games like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Cliff Hanger, Chopper Command,...
Then more modern PC games....including Unreal, Half-Life, Lemmings, Everquest, Half-Life 2, Portal (1 and 2), City of Heroes (and later Villains too), Left4Dead (1 and 2), SWTOR, Borderlands (1, 2, and Pre-Sequel), the Batman series, lately Elder Scrolls Online and SOMA...
Yeah, I've been a gamer for a LONG time.....
(and yes, I do own a console, but only use it really for one game series.....an XBox360 for doing Guitar Hero/Rock Band stuff with friends.)
PC only for me these days. I have a 360, but have not gotten a game for it since skyrim came out. Once I got a decent graffics card, and discovered mods, I can't game any other way. Not that I game a whole lot, last game I played was the latest fallout game, and I never even bothered finishing it. The story never sucked me in, and it got too repetitive for me, even with all the cool mods. Before that it was skyrim.
I still remember when I first discovered Pong. It was in a bowling alley, they had a room that had a bunch of pinball machines....and a single Pong machine. It amazed me. Spent quite a few quarters on it.
Then there was the arcade at the Myrtle Beach Pavillion. I discovered it, and spent hours and hours (and quite a few quarters) in there, much to my parents chagrin.....I was on vacation, with my family, at the beach....and I was spending all my time playing video games.
A few years later, the Mall in my home town got a "Gold Mine" arcade....and there was no going back. It was the social meeting spot for the nerd/geek crowd. A couple of years later, when the arcade craze REALLY hit, we had a couple more open up in town. So many different games......Vector, Raster, LD.......we had uprights, cockpits, and even cocktail machines popping up everywhere. It was at that time that my left rear pants pocket became dedicated to quarters. To this day, I still keep my quarters there, with my other change in the front pocket......
The early raster was so bad that the vector games looked crisp and sharp and wonderful....even if they were monochrome at first. Star Castle tried to be color, but it was just gel overlays on the glass...the screen underneath was monochrome vector. Remember Omega Race? Or, I think it was called, Dark Castles (with vector knights swordfighting in a top-down view?) But as raster screens improved, they quickly became the more frequently encountered.
The real arcades are pretty much gone. All that is left are what we termed (when they first started coming out) quarter-munchers. The ones that constantly chipped away at your playtime unless you plugged in more quarters. Guantlet (wizard needs food, badly!) was the first one. Play-Choice (which was an arcade machine with a NES hooked up in it) was another shortly thereafter. Prior to that, if you were good at a game, you could play for hours on a single quarter. But that meant less money for the arcade owners.....so they went to the 'competitive' (like street fighter) and 'quarter muncher' games. Competitive games could be 'finished' pretty quickly single-player....but head-to-head meant someone new was plugging in quarters each 2-3 rounds of fighting.....
The machines that put out tickets are horrible. And I nearly fell down laughing the first time I saw an arcade machine version of Fruit Ninja.....I mean...wow. That app is cheap enough that if you played the arcade machine more than 3-4 times, you'd have paid the same as if you just bought the app.
The arcades that still have 'real' arcade games are few and far between now. A few, like Dave & Busters/Jillians still have some of the older games around. A few mall-based arcades have one or two of the older games. And there isn't the impetus to create new and innovative, since the costs of the stand-alone machines are so much higher than just developing for a console or PC, and the demand is so much lower. It's really a shame, though....as l said before, the arcades were the social gathering spot for the nerdy/geeky crowd. Now we don't have one, and everything is done online......
(edit: Note, for us old-school arcade hounds, it's always an option to build an arcade cabinet, stick a PC inside it, wire it all up with real arcade controls, and run MAME with some legitimately obtained ROM images. You can often find the old mainboards for sale on ebay (sometimes cheap), and if you own the physical rom, you can legally download the images. Allows me to play some of my old faves again when I feel the urge.)
Back in the day when arcades were the only thing going, it was Galaga and Centipede. Remember swiping that trackball on Centipede with your whole arm while frantically bouncing up and down pounding on the fire button? It was whole body workout to play games in the arcade.
Console-Nintendo 64 and Tetris. I never really dug Zelda or Mario.
Gameboy/Gameboy Color/Nintendo DS/Nintendo 3DS-Pokemon. All of them. Pokemon now and forever. And Animal Crossing.
Gran Turismo is the only reason I have to use the PlayStation. Kingdom Hearts, the first one, was terrific. The franchise sort of went south from there. I never dug Final Fantasy either. Who knows why.
Computer-when I have a few spare minutes, Spider Solitaire or Mahjong Titans or online jigsaw puzzles.
*Hangs head* - tablet-Candy Crush and Candy Crush Soda. I'm adamant about never buying any boosters.
That is a trip down memory lane.
8 bit and 16 bit area
Started with Sega Master System and then upgraded to Sega Mega Drive (Genesis).
Revenge of the Shinobi, Streets of Rage were my favorite 2D side scrolling games. More colors and very addicting synthesizer sounds kept me playing.
Phantasy Star II was my first JPRPG that made me care about the characters especially Nei.
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Importing Games
In the area of Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and the first playstation games were often released one year later in Europe than in US or Japan.
Favorite memories are trying to figure out what to do with only japanese screen texts. This made even simple games even more challenging and added an extra layer of entertainment. While I never finished learning japanese I actually do believe that video games helped me to learn english.
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Local Coop
At boarding school the most fun was to play with others in the spare time.
Trying to beat each others fastest laps in Daytona USA or Sega Rally.
Sometimes 10 - 20 people were sitting in the video room playing games like Samurai Shodown on Neo Geo. Looser hands over controller to next player. Winner stays.
At university it was split screen games like Halo, Army of Two or that four player dungeon crawler that kept us awake until late in the night with the help of pizza delivery services.
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PC Games
After playing mostly on consoles I was happy to try out Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind on pc.
I enjoyed creating my own character and finding my way around this world at my own pace.
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Online Coop
While I have some fond memories of Counterstrike and Phantasy Star Online the real game changer for me was Final Fantasy XI on pc.
The ability to play with other people all around the world at every hour of day and night consumed more time than any other game I ever played before. When the US guild mates went to sleep the JP crew would get up. So there was always someone online.
Things got even more crazier when World of Warcraft was released. Molten Core and Blackwing Lair with 40 (!) other people on sunday afternoon and wednesday evening kept me busy for years.
Then the change happened. In the early online games you were restricted to one server and actually got to know the people you play with.
Then online games started to add cross server group tools. PuG = public pick up groups
A new area of gaming when you play with random people for a few hours and then not even remember their name.
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Story based games
I enjoy games that try to give you the illusion of choice in creating your own story.
Until Dawn (PS4) - Your actions deceide who will survive the night and how the relationship of the different characters change.
Life is Strange - This game made me care about all the characters soo much. Nevertheless explaining why would spoil the game. Just give it a try.
Heavy Rain - Also quite dark in theme.
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What did I play the last weeks?
I enjoyed trying all the different heroes of Battleborn. If only the would have created more diverse PVE maps.
Then Overwatch game along and that was fun for a few weeks as well. But there also the loot system was messed up with all those duplicates.
I extremely enjoyed playing Mirror's Edge Catalyst. I felt this game is extremely underrated and would have deserved more attention. So much fun to find the quickest routes trough the city.
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What am I playing now?
Paragon. I enjoy deck building for card games like Magic The Gathering or Gwent so much. Now combine this with Multiplayer online battle arena features like "lanes" and "jungle".
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What am I looking forward to?
No Man's Sky. I absolutely loved Mass Effect because of its story and the ability to explore planets. As far as I gather in No Man's Sky there will not be a story but you basically can explore a randomly created universe. Curious to see how that will turn out.
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To summarize: What I enjoy most about video games is the ability to explore new worlds and experience all new adventures for the very first time.
Because of that I feel currently that in most cases there is not anymore the same exceitement as back in the "good old days" when we played the very first version of all those franchises.
But then suddenly there it is again: That one new game that just makes me happy for the moment loosing myself in a new world with new interesting characters...
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I sometimes play Luxor Amun Rising and occasionally a couple of other old ShockWave games. Never really been much into gaming and this type of games is the only ones I really like, and mostly to test and improve my reaction time.
I started on computers. I played some of the Scot Adams adventures on a TRS80 and went on through a few 8 bit computers to the Amiga and finally the PC. Highlights on the Amiga were Populous and The Settlers, and on the PC I really like Caesar III.
When I started on consoles I put in a lot of hours playing Final Fantasy VII but I never got off the first disc (I enjoy playing games but I'm not very good at them) . I enjoyed the original Rige Racer on the Playstation and Simpsons Road Rage on the Playstaion 2. I've played Mario Kart on a range on Nintendos, the one on the 3DS is brilliant.
And then I discovered Good Old Games and now I've got Populous and Caesar III again, as well as more games than I have time to play.
I'm not keen on the latest games since seem to be constantly trying to get you to play online, I've got a PS3 but I never bothered to get a PS4. When I "upgraded" my laptop to Windows 10 I found this thing called Candy Crush Soda Saga on it and I've had a go at it few times. Most of the time I've got no idea what is going on, OK I know you have to line up things that are the same colour but then you get fish and other odd things and when you move them things start moving and exploding according to rules that I can't figure out. It looks pretty but I'm not sure I'd call it a game.
Loved Animal Crossing!!! Great game. I have to admit to intentionally not saving my games, at times, just to see what would happen with Mr. Resetti.
I currently have Candy Crush, Candy Crush Soda, and Candy Crush Jelly on my phone. No buying boosters or extra lives here either. I like that it is kind of a self limiting game if you do it that way and you have to take a break and wait until your lives build back up. The downside to playing it is when you get special bonus' inside the game that include 2 hours of unlimited lives and it is way past bedtime. They really should put a pause button feature on those! That happened in Jelly last night and it was already after midnight and I had to get up early this morning. Such a bummer that I couldn't take advantage of it. The extra boosters were nice, though.
Way back when it was Pong on a second-hand console thing, then Galaga and Dragon's Lair at the arcades. I remember Nine Princes in Amber, and one I can't remember much of; something about Mars maybe, and the line "smells like the inside of a motorman's glove". I was stuck on that one and never got far, and can't remember the rest of it for the life of me.
SimCity pretty much broke me of my habit. I was addicted and one day it was over. I played Alpha Centuri (I ended up nuking most of the world, melting the ice caps but surviving pretty well).
My daughter and I played Pirates of the Carribean Online when she was little, which was surprisingly fun. Then we switched to World of Warcraft and I got hooked. But I was never too hardcore, never having time to do full-on raids. But I enjoyed coming home from work and PvP in Wintergrasp, griefing noobs and earning the coveted Purple Drake. I kept up my main character until fairly recently, just keeping his stats kind of up to date.
Love gaming. If I could game full time i would lol. Started on consoles as a kid, total Nintendo generation and have probably owned every console since at some point. One of my favorite games was Legend of Legaia for Playstation I still have it and my save on memory card just cause I cant let it go lol. Have played on every console over the years but condisder myself a pc gamer these days since I just dont seem to enjoy console games that are coming out although Bloodborne on PS4 and Destiny on XBone have been alot of fun I will admit. Currently World of Warcraft is my biggest time suck but the game I love the best and still play daily after all these years. I do love all Blizzard run games but I cant seem to get into Overwatch even though it looks tons of fun :D Skyrim is another favorite but I have spent so many hours in there I cant bring myself to play it any more just have to wait for the next elder scrolls game. Also spend alot of time playing pokemon emulators on my phone and now there is pokemon go so that is a great fun new thing we are doing driving around at 2am to catch pokemon rofl.
Oooh - laser disc! What is this new magic technology?! Loved that game when it came out! Lol
I have a copy of Dragon's Lair that can be played with a DVD remote kickin around somewhere . . . "Save me!"
- Greg