Gamers?

[tailings]

Anyone here play Roguelikes? I got into the original Rogue back in 1983 and was hooked for life. Played lots of Nethack in the '90's, and been playing ADOM since '96. Have also enjoyed Alphaman and Dungeon Crawl to some extent. Haven't played much the past couple years, mainly because ADOM hasn't had a significant update in that time. Hopefully, Jade will see the light of day, eventually...

[jmcphail]

[edit] D'Oh! I mean that I'm finishing Bioshock, not Rapture.

I'm finishing up Rapture, slowly, and have been milking Oblivion to make it last, really looking forward to Mass Effect!

I'm not a hugely dedicated gamer, I put them down and pick them up as time permits. My preference is for RPG games, and I use a console.

[Soft Morning, City!]

I don't play video games very often anymore, but lately I've been considering going back and replaying the Silent Hill series. Those games have always been my favorites. Very scary, but I always loved the stories and plots and characters.

[RealmofOpeth]

I used to be obsessed with computer games like Test Drive, Test Drive 2, Test Drive 3, Red Baron, Battle of Britain, Secret Weapons of The Luftwaffe, Doom 1/2, Duke Nukem 3D and Quake 1 among others.

Red Baron, SWOTL, Doom 1/2...HELL YEAH those were my faves as well when i first started using computers.
I would play red baron for hours. shitty ass graphics but it really got me obsessed with biplanes. SWOTL was great for the bombing runs.
and Doom I simply was entranced with. In fact it really sorta screwed with my sanity...because there was a stint there in my early years I was actually becoming obsessed with death and hell and stuff.
I also loved to play Aces of the Pacific, A-10, Wolfenstein, Descent, Day of the Tentacle..

[Zero]

Anyone ever get into infocom games? Like Zork or Hitchhikers Guide, etc?

[RealmofOpeth]

I don't play video games very often anymore, but lately I've been considering going back and replaying the Silent Hill series. Those games have always been my favorites. Very scary, but I always loved the stories and plots and characters.

silent hill series is great. a lot of it doesn't make too much sense but oh well. it beats the crap out of resident evil though i think.
The only one I've finished is silent hill 2. and there's multiple endings to that..
oh did you know you can get silent hill 1 on PC? http://www.silentscape.tk/ is the website for it and gives details..they used to have links to bittorrent files but no more...i think you can find it on torrentpond.com though.

[Soft Morning, City!]

RealmofOpeth:

Silent Hill 2 is my absolute favorite of the series. I love the atmosphere, the locations, the emphasis of plot and slow building tension and fear as opposed to an emphasis on monsters and gore... I really think it to be one of the all time greats of the survival/horror genre.

Resident Evil completely tanks by comparison. I never liked the RE series. An interesting plot, but it could have been executed a lot more gracefully and with more cleverness.

Personally, minus a few inconsistencies, I think the SH series does a good job of keeping up a coherent storyline throughout the games. Every successive game essentially builds on a minor plot line from one of the prior games and does a pretty good job with said back story, giving you little bits and pieces of it along the way that eventually add up to something.

But I've played all of the games a number of times, so they tend to make a lot of sense to me. I'll admit, a lot of it was puzzling upon the first plays. But if you give them time, they'll come to make quite a bit of sense.

[RealmofOpeth]

RealmofOpeth:

Silent Hill 2 is my absolute favorite of the series. I love the atmosphere, the locations, the emphasis of plot and slow building tension and fear as opposed to an emphasis on monsters and gore... I really think it to be one of the all time greats of the survival/horror genre.

Resident Evil completely tanks by comparison. I never liked the RE series. An interesting plot, but it could have been executed a lot more gracefully and with more cleverness.

Personally, minus a few inconsistencies, I think the SH series does a good job of keeping up a coherent storyline throughout the games. Every successive game essentially builds on a minor plot line from one of the prior games and does a pretty good job with said back story, giving you little bits and pieces of it along the way that eventually add up to something.

But I've played all of the games a number of times, so they tend to make a lot of sense to me. I'll admit, a lot of it was puzzling upon the first plays. But if you give them time, they'll come to make quite a bit of sense.

I know what you mean. I've played all the silent hill series...haven't finished them all of course, but I do 'get' some of the overall point/storyline to the game. it just happens to be one of those games that deals primarily in the subjective instead of the objective. a lot of it is interpreted, not laid in stone like many other games. sometimes i have a hard time with that. but perhaps the confusion/vaguness of certain things adds to the mysterious, brooding, hellish nature of it which is also great.

[think]

I am an avid gamer. I play 2 MMORPGs (World of Warcraft and Eve), but mostly enjoy multiplayer FPS's. Mr. Robot is a fun little independent puzzle game, and I really like the Warhammer RTS's (I play the table top version of the game as well). While on table games, I also like chess (horrible at it) and go (not too shabby I think ^shrug^). I'm currently on travel for work, so I don't have a lot of spare time for games, but I'm really looking forward to the Halo 3 release next week. And not being on travel the week after that.

I have a fairly high end PC and an xbox 360.

[phish]

I really like the Warhammer RTS's (I play the table top version of the game as well)

I used to be really into 'games workshop' games. Played them intensely for about 5 years (12-17 y.o.) although they are so damm expensive! Would play again but am put off by the kind of people that hang around GW stores here in the uk :shock:

[alex]

Resident Evil completely tanks by comparison. I never liked the RE series. An interesting plot, but it could have been executed a lot more gracefully and with more cleverness.

Silent Hill definitely takes the cake for the scary and cryptic, but you should give RE4 a shot, it's and insanely fun action game.

What do server do you play on in WoW think?


Zero - I have played the humor/puzzle games you mentioned earlier. Tons of fun and I totally forgot about them... can they still be played on modern PCs? I know most old games won't run even in compatibility mode. :cry:

[Zero]

Yeah, if you google "infocom online" you can get a bunch of java game that you can play right in a web browser. Otherwise, I've gotten things like C64 versions and played them in emulators. You can probably also get old DOS box emulators to play pre-compatibility-mode stuff.

[alex]

I was a big fan of the turn based game X-Com : UFO Defense (called UFO : Enemy Unknown in Europe). Unfortunately I can't find a flwaless copy, someone made a patch that makes it run most of the time in XP. You have to remember to save often because crashes occur often and can really be annoying.

[Subtilo]

I've never been that hooked on games (well, in the 80's and early 90's I was really beating up my old C64 + the later NES).

Have done some gaming though, mostly RTS-games like the C & C series, Rise of Empires and - of course - the Warcraft saga too. Other than that I've had two intense 1-person-shooter periods some years ago. First it was Battlefield 1942, and later it was the surprisingly cool (and free) Americas Army (well, cool if you can cope with the recruitment motives).

... oh yeah, I also really like the GTA-series! I know the state of San Andreas like the back of my hand :wink:

If I had more spare time I'd probably get myself a PS3 ... but then again, even when I had the PS2 + several fun games, I didn't use it that much.

[think]

I used to be really into 'games workshop' games. Played them intensely for about 5 years (12-17 y.o.) although they are so damm expensive! Would play again but am put off by the kind of people that hang around GW stores here in the uk :shock:

I agree to an extent. I just don't make friends with these people. It's kind of like a business relationship. Show a bit of mutual respect, get my game out of it and go. I decided long ago to not let people I don't like get in the way of my enjoyment. I would never have gotten very good at Halo 2 if I didn't. That has got to be one of the most annoying communities around. But that can only go so far. Half the reason I quit playing Magic the Gathering was the people I was forced to hang around. So I definitely see your point.

Alex: Area 52, but my highest level character is a 20 rogue. I'm a very casual WoW player. I'm much more addicted to Eve. Though, since Halo 3 came out, I think I will be occupied by that alone for the next few weeks. That has got to be, in my mind, the best FPS ever made, and I play quite a few. The twitch factor is there, but becoming really good at it requires quite a bit of tactics and teamwork. Half-Life has to be the best storytelling via FPS though. And the graphics are phenomenal. The controls are still just a bit too much of the twitch variety for it to get my "best FPS ever" statement. Unreal, a Pure twitch shooter, also deserves to be high up on the list, but I tend to prefer the more tactics based games like America's Army (recruit however you want, a video game is as good as anywhere else, and it makes the game free), Ghost Recon, and other games based heavily around fireteams.