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Rick Chasey wrote:NGale wrote:I'm retro in my games playing. While I have a Nintendo Wii (which I really must set up again!) my favourite games machine is my old Sega Mega Drive!
Yep still in working order and Sonic The Hedgehog is frequently played in this household!
I still also have an original Game Boy machine, a Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and a Nintendo DS
The mega drive still wins for me though
Is that the one with the "SEEEEEEEGAAAAA *BLIIING*" intro?
That's the one!Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men0 -
Skyrim & the Assian Creed series will no doubt suck up your life for awhile if you liked New Vegas!0
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The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.0 -
Agent57 wrote:The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.
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Nearly 2000 hours of WoW on just one of my max-lvl characters... You want value for money? :P0 -
Thats over 2 months!
I can't talk though, I probably did at least that on GoldenEye back in the day and, more recently, Gran Turismo on the PS2.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
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I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Agent57 wrote:The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.
^_^
Nearly 2000 hours of WoW on just one of my max-lvl characters... You want value for money? :P0 -
dhope wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Agent57 wrote:The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.
^_^
Nearly 2000 hours of WoW on just one of my max-lvl characters... You want value for money? :P
Now, thats old skool!FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
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Rick Chasey wrote:Mud?0
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Have heard stories of mud... Never played. Too young.
If you like those kind of games, there's a new freeware game called Cart Life which is supposed to be brilliant.
Has quality tunage anyway. Worth downloading just for that.
http://youtu.be/lFxeU8swXUc
A review here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01 ... cart-life/0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:Have heard stories of mud... Never played. Too young.
If you like those kind of games, there's a new freeware game called Cart Life which is supposed to be brilliant.
Has quality tunage anyway. Worth downloading just for that.
http://youtu.be/lFxeU8swXUc
A review here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01 ... cart-life/
Hmm, that looks like it actually has images. Far too new fangled for me E and Void were text only, no graphics at all.
I don't really game anymore. Much of it is not having a decent size desk for the PC, silly as it sounds. Wall mounted TV all fine for console and TV, lousy for PC.0 -
I remember playing a text only adventure game on the Amstrad CPC464. Tape load, no internet connection.
"You are lying on your back in a long thin chamber in total darkness..."FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
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Bioshock?
it gave me the willies!
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lost_in_thought wrote:Agent57 wrote:The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.
^_^
Nearly 2000 hours of WoW on just one of my max-lvl characters... You want value for money? :P
Value for money? Well, I paid about £30 for the Orange Box, which had TF2 and Portal, as well as Half Life 2, HL2 Episode 1 and HL2 Episode 2. If we just take TF2, that's about 2.4 pence per hour of entertainment.
WoW costs around £9 for month, doesn't it? At least, it did when I played it. 2000 hours is at least a year of playing, and that's if you average more than 5 hours every single day. So well over £100, or more than 5 pence per hour of entertainment. I reckon you've been paying your WoW sub for a lot longer than that, and of course there's the cost of WoW, Burning Crusade, Frozen Throne and Cataclysm; so in terms of value for money, TF2 knocks it into a cocked hat.
:P
I only got to level 60 first time around (which was the level cap at the time) on my undead spriest. Got to 85 on my worgen priest, but have never put that amount of time into WoW. It's still my favourite of all the MMORPGs I've played though (and there have been a lot), despite its faults.
Old school open world PvP was the best, back in the early days. Tarren Mill / Southshore, for example. Fun times.0 -
Mass effect 1 and 2 are good RPGS with shooty elements, I'm about half way through ME2 atm. I massively enjoyed fable 2 and 3 however it is a 3rd person adventure type rpg so I dont know if its for you. Fall out 3 has also been entertaining so far.Scott Addict R2 2010
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EKE_38BPM wrote:I remember playing a text only adventure game on the Amstrad CPC464. Tape load, no internet connection.
"You are lying on your back in a long thin chamber in total darkness..."
I used to be the geeky, nerdy type that used to write those kinds of games on an old BBC computer at school :shock:Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men0 -
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If anyone remembers Hellgate London... the one where the online Servers were shut down and everyone stopped playing?
Well - it's back in another guise: http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
I'm playing it off and on at the moment and it's not bad at all. Someone has spent some time redoing it from scratch and there are some new bits to play.
It's pretty much mindless shooting with lots of upgrades for your character and you can play m/p co op with anyone online at the time.Chunky Cyclists need your love too! :-)
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Agent57 wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Agent57 wrote:The rhythm games are easy to dip in and out of (Guitar Hero, Rock Band), but can consume a lot of time if you're determined to win at expert level.
Steam tells me I have played 1251 hours of TF2. Got bored of BF3 fairly quickly, but looking forward to Guild Wars 2 next. Neither on a console, of course.
^_^
Nearly 2000 hours of WoW on just one of my max-lvl characters... You want value for money? :P
Value for money? Well, I paid about £30 for the Orange Box, which had TF2 and Portal, as well as Half Life 2, HL2 Episode 1 and HL2 Episode 2. If we just take TF2, that's about 2.4 pence per hour of entertainment.
WoW costs around £9 for month, doesn't it? At least, it did when I played it. 2000 hours is at least a year of playing, and that's if you average more than 5 hours every single day. So well over £100, or more than 5 pence per hour of entertainment. I reckon you've been paying your WoW sub for a lot longer than that, and of course there's the cost of WoW, Burning Crusade, Frozen Throne and Cataclysm; so in terms of value for money, TF2 knocks it into a cocked hat.
:P
I only got to level 60 first time around (which was the level cap at the time) on my undead spriest. Got to 85 on my worgen priest, but have never put that amount of time into WoW. It's still my favourite of all the MMORPGs I've played though (and there have been a lot), despite its faults.
Old school open world PvP was the best, back in the early days. Tarren Mill / Southshore, for example. Fun times.
Welp, with rounding, 2760 hours played in total. Got my subscription Christmas 2009/2010, paid £20 for everything up to Wrath, then a further £14.99 preorder for Cata. Stopped the sub for the 4 months prior to cata's release. So far, then, it's cost me around £220. ETA: 7p per hour.
However, so far I've *earned* over £700 writing about it!
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Kieran_Burns wrote:If anyone remembers Hellgate London... the one where the online Servers were shut down and everyone stopped playing?
Well - it's back in another guise: http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
I'm playing it off and on at the moment and it's not bad at all. Someone has spent some time redoing it from scratch and there are some new bits to play.
It's pretty much mindless shooting with lots of upgrades for your character and you can play m/p co op with anyone online at the time.
I tried that recently, it's..... kind of OK.
I'm really enjoying LA Noire though.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:However, so far I've *earned* over £700 writing about it!0
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lost_in_thought wrote:Kieran_Burns wrote:If anyone remembers Hellgate London... the one where the online Servers were shut down and everyone stopped playing?
Well - it's back in another guise: http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
I'm playing it off and on at the moment and it's not bad at all. Someone has spent some time redoing it from scratch and there are some new bits to play.
It's pretty much mindless shooting with lots of upgrades for your character and you can play m/p co op with anyone online at the time.
I tried that recently, it's..... kind of OK.
I'm really enjoying LA Noire though.
Never felt I was in enough control in LA Noire. The story was going to only go one way, and even if I f*cked up it'd still eventually get solved.
The whole GTA style driving around bit seems pointless.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Kieran_Burns wrote:If anyone remembers Hellgate London... the one where the online Servers were shut down and everyone stopped playing?
Well - it's back in another guise: http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
I'm playing it off and on at the moment and it's not bad at all. Someone has spent some time redoing it from scratch and there are some new bits to play.
It's pretty much mindless shooting with lots of upgrades for your character and you can play m/p co op with anyone online at the time.
I tried that recently, it's..... kind of OK.
I'm really enjoying LA Noire though.
Never felt I was in enough control in LA Noire. The story was going to only go one way, and even if I f*cked up it'd still eventually get solved.
The whole GTA style driving around bit seems pointless.0 -
Rick Chasey wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Kieran_Burns wrote:If anyone remembers Hellgate London... the one where the online Servers were shut down and everyone stopped playing?
Well - it's back in another guise: http://hellgate.t3fun.com/home/home.aspx
I'm playing it off and on at the moment and it's not bad at all. Someone has spent some time redoing it from scratch and there are some new bits to play.
It's pretty much mindless shooting with lots of upgrades for your character and you can play m/p co op with anyone online at the time.
I tried that recently, it's..... kind of OK.
I'm really enjoying LA Noire though.
Never felt I was in enough control in LA Noire. The story was going to only go one way, and even if I f*cked up it'd still eventually get solved.
The whole GTA style driving around bit seems pointless.
I get my partner to drive because I agree it's pointless. Makes it all go a lot faster. I agree, though, that there's no free will!0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:[WoW]
However, so far I've *earned* over £700 writing about it!
Now that's value for money!
Closest I got to making money out of gaming was when I worked for Eurogamer (they do gaming web sites). My job didn't actually involve playing games though - I wrote C and PHP for the sites and back end systems.0 -
EKE_38BPM wrote:"You are lying on your back in a long thin chamber in total darkness..."
Reminds me of something...
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
Also reminds me of other text adventure phrases, such as "Thorin says 'Hurry up.'" and "You have... a thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is; no tea."0 -
Well, I finished Portal 2 pretty quickly.
Was great, albeit a little short.
Anyway, took the plunge and bought Skyrim.
Never really played a straight up dragons/swords/old bearded men in huts RPG before.
No idea what 'race' to be, so ended up as Reguard in a *shuteyespickone* moment.
Have immediately gone-off piste and have a million quests. And I've got some chap who follows me around who sings awful awful songs. Tempted to kill him.
Oh, and I steal a lot.
WTF is a mage btw? Is it basically a wizard type bloke?0 -
A mage is a magic user, of any description. Skyrim isn't so rigid, though, in making you choose magic or swords; you can (and I do) wield both at once quite effectively.
As for going off-piste, you're expected to. If you just run straight through the main quest line, you'll miss out on an awful lot of gameplay.0 -
I picked Skyrim up last week (damn you Steam...) and the depth and freedom is pretty bewildering. I'm used to pretty rigid game experiences like those of WoW etc... where you go down a specific path. Skyrim is far more complicated. The combat system seems clunky at the moment, having to bind spells to your hands. And I still haven't really figured out how to tell if the mob I'm about to lay in to is around my level or not.
Its kinda fun though, such a huge game, lots of possibility.0