Anyone here play video games (except casino games)

I like to play video games

Survivor Horror-Silent Hill, Resident Evil and others
First Person Shooters- Doom, Quake, Painkiller and Half-life
RPG-Heretic, WOW, and others..

I do and probably more than I should. Have been in the business of buying/selling for 20 years, mostly arcade games but also console games.

I love a good horror game like Siren, Clock Tower and such, they rank right up there with my favourite RPGs. Dark Wizard, Shining Force, FFX, FF IX, Legend of Dragoon, Phantasy Star, Hoshigami, Earthbound and many more old-school games that are well-made. Some contemporary ones are worth mentioning, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and a couple more get my attention these days.

Game on, you're never too old, I say!

Swede said:

I do and probably more than I should. Have been in the business of buying/selling for 20 years, mostly arcade games but also console games.

I love a good horror game like Siren, Clock Tower and such, they rank right up there with my favourite RPGs. Dark Wizard, Shining Force, FFX, FF IX, Legend of Dragoon, Phantasy Star, Hoshigami, Earthbound and many more old-school games that are well-made. Some contemporary ones are worth mentioning, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and a couple more get my attention these days.

Game on, you're never too old, I say!

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yeah I play pong asteroids space invaders pac man frogger
can ya dig it

Cindy

I like to play

Hexxagon
Cat Fling
Wedgie Toss
Snowball Of Doom
Death By Hinge
Simon

I am still itching to get the PS3, but my husband goes we already got an Xbox360 and the regular Xbox. Not which I have the PS2 attached to my big screen TV. Awesome..

Warcraft 3, on Azeroth realm,

used to play WoW, but my girlfriend banned me ;-)

I'm a Tomb Raider fan... though it's been a while since I've fired up the PS2... I play more in the winter months.

Mousey said:

I'm a Tomb Raider fan... though it's been a while since I've fired up the PS2... I play more in the winter months.

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I love the original Tomb Raider. I have all of them except for the new one that was released..

Call to Duty4 - Modern Warfare on the PS3... I play online all the time. This is where I lose all my anger and frustration. The graphics in HD are so fast and so real looking, I can't get over it.

Madden Football 09 for the PS3
Europa Universalis ROME for the PC
Just about anything made by Sid Meier for the PC

Ok I'll admit it... I'm a game freak. I own or have owned every single video game system ever made. I even used to write game programs for my kids to play for the AppleI and then for the Commodore64.

I like playing Diablo III expansion set (am waiting patiently for Diablo IV to come out)
Warcraft and the Frozen Throne expansion set
Wolfenstein
I have also bought some hidden object games from Big Fish games ( Ravenhurst, Return to Ravenhurst, Hidden expedition Titanic/Amazon/Everest;
Mystery case Files Prime Suspects/ Huntsville/ Madame fate
Yard Sale Sunnyvile
Lost in the City
Curse of the Pharoah and Hidden Mysteries Buckingham Palace)

I have a Ninetendo 64 , my grandkids love playing Super Mario and Mario Racing
I also have an old play station we play on.

I also enjoy playing the games on Pogo. And I play games on World Winner.

I used to be into Quake and Quake II big time some years ago - Sunday night clan battles and fragfests *sigh* I still miss them, they were good times. I lost interest when Quake 3 came out as I felt it was a bit lightweight, although I switched to Unreal Tournament for a while - that was pretty awesome too, but nothing I ever played could hold a torch to Quake II. Have heard some pretty good things about CoD though...I'm tempted.

Looking back I guess those games were the first incarnation of social networking. Met some really good people some of whom are still friends today playing Quake.

I used to go by the handle "accident" - purely because Quake Deathmatch used to display who killed who and I liked the making people look like amateurs ... "Dmouse was killed by accident"

Well Doom was my FPS and I fell right into playing Quake, I love playing Quake I was playing it a few days ago , my favorite was rocket jumping. I play mostly Quake 3 Arena and played online too. Now Diablo I cannot play that game for the life of me still got the CD's though.

vegetagirl2008 said:

I am still itching to get the PS3, but my husband goes we already got an Xbox360 and the regular Xbox. Not which I have the PS2 attached to my big screen TV. Awesome..

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Hey Vgirl, tell hubby to ditch the 360...you'll save 40 a year if you play online with the PS3, plus its a superior machine...no red ring of death with Sony!

vegetagirl2008 said:

I love the original Tomb Raider. I have all of them except for the new one that was released..

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Thanks for reminding me! I don't have the latest one yet. (I spent my last NetSpend money on a new 1TB external drive. INetBet eat your heart out. LOL) Now I'll save up for a trip to Wally World to pick up the newest Lara... Underworld isn't it?

I gotta agree with Thrap... get that PS3, you won't regret it.

The HD is far better quality and seems to run faster than the 360 with less problems... and it really does look great on a HD big screen.

I was planning on getting that for Xmas. I had heard about the PS3, does the blue-ray look that much better?

vegetagirl2008 said:

I was planning on getting that for Xmas. I had heard about the PS3, does the blue-ray look that much better?

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I can't tell much of a difference between HD and Blue Ray (as far as I am concerned they are the same) and I have them both hooked up to the same TV. After all 1080i is 1080i no matter what product is delivering it to your TV.

PS3 fan here, when I get the time.

My favourite online games are CoD 4 and CoD World at War. The multiplayers are nothing short of amazing.

Other favourites are Res 5 and various sports games.

Maybe we should get a Call of Duty Casinomeister clan going if there is enough interest

I play a little tiger woods 08 and fifa manager 08 at the moment.
I completed GTA IV in full Hd, that was a blast.

Although im sitting here with a high end computer, nothing beats the fun i had with the good old Amiga500. Now that was entertainment.

Good on you all!

I'm currently re-playing a couple of the Final Fantasy games, pretty thrilling if you're a noid like me

No online/multiplayer crap for me, it's just not appealing. But blast away, by all means, and have a fun time.

Swede said:

Good on you all!

I'm currently re-playing a couple of the Final Fantasy games, pretty thrilling if you're a noid like me

No online/multiplayer crap for me, it's just not appealing. But blast away, by all means, and have a fun time.

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you know... I always had a problem w/the FF series... bearing in mind that I haven't played or even seen some of the later versions... but in the two games I had (and gave away) the characters spoke and behaved like adults (owning a store, firing weapons, etc.) , but they all looked like 8 year old kids. Very annoying... I couldn't stay interested and finished neither game.

Mousey said:

you know... I always had a problem w/the FF series... bearing in mind that I haven't played or even seen some of the later versions... but in the two games I had (and gave away) the characters spoke and behaved like adults (owning a store, firing weapons, etc.) , but they all looked like 8 year old kids. Very annoying... I couldn't stay interested and finished neither game.

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I hear ya Mousey. As in everything else, there are really good and really bad Final Fantasy games. I've found myself enjoying the old-school ones the most. Like the first three which was released on NES and SNES plus the two first ones for the PS1. That said, there are much better RPGs out there, challenging ones that requires your full attention, those are my absolute favs.

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I love this topic! You got me started (and I can go on about this one forever).



I will go on a video game rush for about 2 weeks straight, twice a year.



These days, I really love:


- Far Cry 2


- Call of Duty 1,2, & 4 (3 is really just the same game as Pacific Assault, isn't it?)


- NBA Live '08


- Axis & Allies or A&A Iron Blizt (which are really old games now, but you don't need great graphics for this type of game) will always be my favorite games even if the computer player is devoid of any sufficient strategic skill.


- I'll play StarCraft (although I prefer WC2) from time-to-time because it's HUGE out here in South Korea. Amazing really, because it's the same game as WarCraft II, which was released 14 years ago (!!!), and it's still a great game; albeit a bit too dated on the graphics side of things. I'll always love the Blizzard team for their work on WCII, because I could still run it effectively on a 486, when most games by '95 required at least a Pentium 75.



- I really loved the Rainbow 6 series a decade ago, and then Medal of Honor, and now (above) Call of Duty is the best 1st-person shooter series in my collection. I could go back to Doom 1 & 2, Quake, Duke Nukem (major motion-sickness problem with that one), Jedi Knight, Dark Forces to some of the earlier favorites in this genre as well.


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LotsO

Ok I'll admit it... I'm a game freak. I own or have owned every single video game system ever made. I even used to write game programs for my kids to play for the AppleI and then for the Commodore64.

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Is your real name Steve Wozniak or John Romero by any chance? The 64 was great, well priced, and SOOOOO much better than the "Vic-20".



Although my parents didn't buy it, we did get the Magnavox Odyssey (hand-me-down from my Uncle at one point in the early '80s because he had just bought a.... ... "Vectrex" ), although the interest quickly faded because within a couple of months after that, we got the Intellivision II with the add-on Intellivoice... "B... 17... Bomber...!!!" Useless sounds, but LESS useless than the R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) for the Nintendo. People always seem to think that Pong was the first home video game console, but it was in fact the Odyssey.



I also had a Sega Master System, Turbo Graffix-16 - which I traded-in for a - Sega Genesis (smart move), Super Nintendo, and the computer ever since (although I've borrowed people's systems at one time or another).



My favorite video games on the first few generations of systems, I'd to with:



- Astrosmash (Intellivision)



- B.C.'s Quest for Tires (CollecoVision - underrated system and great game)



- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain (Intellivision and for $1 CND in a bargain bin! back in '85)



- The Activision Decathlon (ColecoVision/Atari 2600)



- Bionic Commando (NES)



- Alien Syndrome (SEGA)



- Wonder Boy in Monster Land (SEGA)



- R-Type (SEGA)



- Donkey Kong (ColecoVision and the best version of the early consoles)



- Metroid (NES)



- Star Control (SEGA - super awesome game)



- Zillion & Zillion II (SEGA)



- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Intellivision)



- Utopia (Intellivision... ahead of it's time)



- Columns (SEGA)



- R.C. Pro-Am (NES)



- Gorf (ColecoVision)



- Super Mario Bros III (NES)



- Fantasia: Mickey Mouse Magic (SEGA - great looking for the time)



- Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle (ColecoVision)



- Revenge of Shinobi (SEGA)



- Rygar (NES)



- Herzog Zwei (SEGA)



Side note: Herzog Zwei is one of those games, that no one talks about, the box-cover is one of those that wasn't thrilling, it's a game more often than not would have been passed over by everyone, and the name is meaningless, but the game itself was exceptional. I used to pick-up Electronic Gaming Monthly every month at the local pharmacy, and the critic in that '89 issue gave it a poor review.


The only reason I came across it, was because I had credit at an old decrepit comic book & collectible store back in the day, and it was there for basically peanuts. I was even regretting getting it on credit on the bus ride home. That weekend, my best friend and I were wondering why didn't they ever make games like this before, and what's up with Electronic Gaming Monthly? Did they even insert the cartridge into the machine to play the darn thing, because this is the first real-time strategy game that I can think of (even before Dune II), and my friend and I couldn't put the controllers down (head-to-head split screen).



Now, if you want to see the most famous blunders in video game history - sometimes cited as the reason for the video game crash of '83 - look no further than E.T. for the Atari. Here's a great review on it, done by the somewhat funny IrateGamer...

If anyone wants a good shoeing on Call of Duty 4 or COD World at War, my Playstation Network handle is Webzcas. Just add me as a friend on there.

I'll then show you how to play the game