Any gamers here?

[kamloops67]

i cant be bothered but my son collects and plays "vintage" game and consoles.
he showed me duck hunt ,let me try it. then gently took the pistol from my hand "dad,you cant pull the trigger so hard ,thats a 30 year old piece cant get parts for them."
he said i was pretty good at it ,considering i had never tried it before...

 

[bummer]

I am thinking of getting Wings of War for my son, anyone play it?

 

[M&P Freak]

I'm a regular BZFlag player. It's a fun take on the Battle Zone classic arcade game. It takes lots of practice to be good. Not easy but it's a fun shooting game.

 

[UncaGrunny]

Been a gamer since Pong. My path was more C64 then PC oriented (with some S100-bus time thrown in early on, long story) - first console I owned was my current PS3, bought mainly for the bluray capability.
Many years of flight sims, RPGs, RTS, & adventure gaming.

Last year or so I haven't had much time though.

My once-uber PC gaming rig is now outdated - - I probably can't play half the new stuff. & frankly, I haven't seen a lot of new games the last few years that looked to be any good or original. The industry's not what it used to be.

 

[Bullzaye]

Well... I was involved in the creation of a number of role-playing games such as "The Morrow Project" (Evidently still used by the US military as a training tool.),

That's very interesting. I remember playing "The Morrow Project" back when I was in the USAF. This is the main type of "gaming" in which I've participated. Back then we also played "AD&D", "Boot Hill", "Top Secret", "Star Wars", "Space Opera", "Call of Cthulhu", "Warhammer", "Star Trek", and several others I can't recall right this moment.

Also, over the years, I've played quite a few board games, mostly war or battle games. These included "Risk", Air War", "Kriegspiel", "Star Fleet Battles", "The Third Reich", "Squad Leader", "Ace of Aces", "Ambush!", "Flight Leader", "Dawn Patrol", "Panzer Leader", "PanzerBlitz", "Gladiator", and dozens of others.

Then I got a computer in the 80's. Then came games such as "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe", "Red Storm Rising", all the AD&D games, "Torment", "Guadalcanal", "Dreadnaughts", etc. I never really fell in love with the console games, but I did come to really like the PS2 games "Max Payne", "Gran Turismo 3", and the PS1 and PS2 "Resident Evil" games, and the PS3 game "Fallout 3" which is an awesome game, the biggest and best console game I've ever seen!

Tim

 

[raymo2u]

psn id [email protected] add me

 

[G-Mac]

Yeah...I play a game called "go to work and pay your bills".

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Does anyone remember the games with Leisure Suit Larry???

 

[WuzzFuzz]

Hmmmm...Sure are some gamey folks here on this forum.

Me? I've got two more days to go until Saturday night.


WuzzFuzz

 

[quneur]

Yeah...I play a game called "go to work and pay your bills".

The follow up game is called 'gray hair and ulcers'.

 

[MattLarmore]

Yeah...I play a game called "go to work and pay your bills".

We all go to work and pay bills...i see no game there

 

[MattLarmore]

The follow up game is called 'gray hair and ulcers'.

i'm the one that hauls the gray haired ulcers into the hospital lol...other job is actually in the ED at the hospital so i treat from both sides

 

[MattLarmore]

Does anyone remember the games with Leisure Suit Larry???

yes i do remember this game, never played it though

 

[MattLarmore]

i rotate shifts every 4 weeks...when i am on 11-7 and don't have to work weekends, i often stay up on weekends and play. not much to do at 2am when you can't sleep. i have a ps4 and cod:ghosts already paid for.

yes, i have it reserved and paid for...however it is for 360, i always wait til 4-6 months after the first consoles come out...ever since n64 they have always come out with a new version after they have found particular bugs in the system(most recently most remember is xbox360s "red ring of death")

 

[MattLarmore]

I used to be more into games and still play from time to time. Some of the game's stories are better than the dreck that oozes out of Hollyweird these days. I'm terrible at it but I liked the first two GOW games and am still sitting on the third one. The bit in the story about the one guy that was feverish about trying to find his missing abducted wife and when he finally found her was pretty powerful stuff. I had my at the time GF sitting there watching and she broke down and started crying her eyes out at the scene. Games have come a long long way from Pong and there are many more adult oriented games out than ever before I guess as us original Nintendo generation are getting older. I guess I find it more entertaining some nights to actually be a part of the story playing through it than just be a lump on the sofa. But then I've never gotten so into gaming that I've ever really gotten good at it. I just enjoy a good shoot'em up with a decent story to play through. And if you don't have to have the newest latest release games then buying them used a year or two later is pretty cheap.

If you enjoy a good shoot 'em up game, there are several out now that have bridged the gap between shooters and RPGs(role-playing games) Borderlands and Borderlands 2 was excellent, as well as the Mass Effect trilogy(the first one was on xbox 360 only, the 2nd and 3rd on PS3 as well as 360)

I would highly recommend those games, and as to your last two comments: I completely agree, I love talking to TV buffs that look down on gaming, if I am going to be a lump on the couch enjoying a good story, I would much rather be involved then just watch...

Also i have been buying used games since the 90s, and haven't spent nearly as much on games as alot of people tend to think...

 

[MattLarmore]

Think of the firearms you could have bought with all that cash you used on 300+ games a XBOX, WII and a Playstation......just think about it or all the ammo red dots and other neat things you could have added

I thought you might be interested to know that i have 2 games that if I sold right now, would net me more than what my entire gun collection(whopping 14, don't judge ) is worth!!

 

[MattLarmore]

I used to be heavily into military flight simulators in the '90s and early 2000s. Then the publishers stopped putting out decent products that I was interested in (WWI, WWII) and the hardware manufacturers either stopped making serious gear (I HATE twist grips instead of real rudder pedals), and the standard switched from gameport to usb. I haven't done any military flight sim stuff in years.

The only other thing I do is Age of Rifles, which is a serious board type military game that concentrates on unit level ground combat from around the end of the Napoleonic era to WWI. It's long out of print, but is kept alive by a very active user community.

i never got heavy into flight simulators, but i agree i think developers didn't find a heavy enough profit in it. That being said, Squaresoft put out an excellent one back around the late 90s called Einhander you would probably like...

 

[UncaGrunny]

Does anyone remember the games with Leisure Suit Larry???

"Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards." It and the Space Quest series were hilarious.

 

[venomballistics]

yes, i have it reserved and paid for...however it is for 360, i always wait til 4-6 months after the first consoles come out...ever since n64 they have always come out with a new version after they have found particular bugs in the system(most recently most remember is xbox360s "red ring of death")

yeah .. the RROD .. from the same company that gave us the death of the zunes
Software companies should stay out of hardware because you can't fix hardware with an update which is the dominant mentality in software

 

[speedyquad]

yes, i have it reserved and paid for...however it is for 360, i always wait til 4-6 months after the first consoles come out...ever since n64 they have always come out with a new version after they have found particular bugs in the system(most recently most remember is xbox360s "red ring of death")

i thought about the xbone, but i have never liked their controllers, and most of the people i know who i play online with have their ps4's reserved to. my ps3 is one of the very first ones, there was not much wrong with them, nothing as bad as the rrod. i'm hoping the same goes for the 4.

my brother has the xbone on reserve so i'll be trying it when it comes out.