Damn, man, talk about dedicated. I didn't realize those games were still played (except for DOTA).
we like to keep it to the older games so our poor friends can still play.
that and there aren't any better games available. Graphics may have improved but game play has IMO went sharply downhill in the last few years.
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Consoles? Pff. Back in my day, we had some funny-looking dice, a pencil and some notebooks and a couple photocopied players handbooks.
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Ahem. I don't play a lot of computer games anymore but am in a couple of regular tabletop RPG groups. At one time or another we've played almost all the d20 variants (3.0/3.5 D&D, Star Wars, Traveller, Big Eyes Small Mouth) along with some of the older D&D and AD&D versions and Star Wars Saga edition.
I was in college when Everquest first came out, and I immediately thought, "Man, that looks *awesome*. I can never, ever play that game." Same thing for World of Warcraft.
The only console I have is a PS1 that I bought after I built a pair of Dance Dance Revolution pads. I figured I needed something to use 'em with, and the PS1 was cheap.
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I spend way too much time on my PS3 rock bandin it up. I have had NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and copious amounts of computer games. Strategy, FPS or whatever is most eye appealing.
Anyway im always looking for more people to add to my PSN network my handle there is also Kevlar39.
I played MUDs from the begining. Hell, my wife still plays a MUD. I moved on to Everquest, which sucked. From EQ, I've played almost every MMO out there. I played EQ, DDO online (which I loved, but ran out of content), WoW (which sucked from day 1, but managed to keep me playing for a few years), Star Wars Galaxies from launch day, Warhammer Online (awesome until you got to max level, then it was just a matter of riding the train), now I'm tinkering around with City of Heroes/City of Villans until the new Star Wars MMO (based on Knights of the Old Republic) comes out.
In the early 90s when the multi line chat board running Major BBS was the big thing, there was a game called Tele-Arena which was the big game that everyone played. We would use Qmodem to script routes through the forest and even fight our battles. My buddy had this ridiculous script that you could program in your path and it would fight whatever came your way and would keep track if you got tumbled into another room or whatever and the whatnot, it was really genius. TA had 2 surges for me, back in the 90s then back 6 or 7 years ago we found a BBS who had a heavily customized version of the game that we played for a good while.
As for MUDs we would play a few of them, but there were too many high leveled people playing at the time and they really didn't want to have much of us around, so I eventually lost interest in it.
(for the other half of the original topic. I started off with a Coleco-Vision and an old Tandy Color Computer 3 that we would program from computer mags back in the day). I as mainly always a computer gamer, playing all the Sierra *Quest games and the LucasArts games (Maniac Mansion, Zak McCracken, etc). I eventually got a PS1 late in the game. Then moved on to the Xbox. I was on the Xbox Live Beta team (I'm sure so was everyone else, so it really wasn't this special thing). Now a days I play my 360 when I have the time. (Janzik on XBLive).
I'm a console and PC gamer. I play a lot of Left 4 Dead, TF2,(both PC) and Rock Band (360). Is there a thread for xbox gamertags or Steam names? Always good to see more gamers around!
I grew up with an Atari 2600, and then moved onto a Commodore 64/128. College honed my fighting skills with Street fighter for the SNES. I dabbled with a PS with twisted metal 2 (still a great game) and currently own a Wii with some guitar hero games.
But any gaming I do these days is PC based. I like FPS mostly. But Steam recently hooked me on Sword of the Stars, which is an incredible waste of time. And, no monthly fees. (can't wait for GW2)
I knew the search function was good for something. I'm a gamer growing up in the 90s, big influences are SNES, Genesis, Saturn, PS1. PC gaming currently is my thing, from BF2142, CoD4 and what not. I use to play WOW but just got sick of it and the immense time suck.
Back in college to get my B.A. with a double major of History and Education, so my gaming time is limited as of now. I don't care for a lot of newer Shooters, MMOS are no longer feasible, but I did build a smaller PC which I house all my emulators and ROMS on (From NES, Snes, Genesis, Gameboy Advanced, Playstation, Saturn, Mame) all that good stuff, so it serves as my nostalgia machine. Currently playing Ocarina of Time again for the 20th time, and about to beat it, again.
Been on PCs since the TRS80 days. I even managed to scarf an emulated version of Dungeons of Daggoroth for the PC from back in the CoCo3 era. Should play that some more this winter.
Just about the only game I play now is WoW. Was pretty heavy into LAN games since the first Null Modem DOOM, right up until UT3.
I'd also be jamming on Guitar Hero if our Wii didn't die (Disc won't read correctly, still trying to decide if we want to replace it...)
I'd like to get back into paper games, but just don't have the time.
NES, Seqa Genesis, Play Station, PS2, and currently have 360 and Wii. The Wii is only used for Netflix these days. 360 is also primarily for TV viewing, but I occasionally get an evening for some Black Ops.
Pong, Atari 2600, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PC. Shooters and RPGs mostly. Lord of the Rings Online is my current poison of choice, but only because Descent: Freespace was abandoned.
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