Video game thread

[Hurt]

I love video games, i've been playing them ever since i was a kid. My 1st console was nintendo and my favorite game was ninja gaiden. I now have an xbox and a ton of pc games also. I was addicted to WoW and UO for a while, but couldn't afford the monthly fees. I now play civilization4, halflife2 plus any adventure game i can get my hands on. There's so many games i play i can't name them all.

what games do you like to play?

what games made an impact on your life?

Do you like to play online games?

I'd like to team up and play some online games with anyone. Let me know what you have and we can team up and play or if someone has that game and i don't then you might find someone to play with.

[margo]

Hi Hurt - I was a champ on Zelda and Super Mario Brothers on the original 8-bit system. I could get through both games without losing a life and without taking the shortcuts. Ditto for Donkey Kong on the SNES. I was also pretty darned good at Pong. I don't have time to play video games these days, but when my grandson is old enough to play I guess I can get back into it all over again.

[Hurt]

Hey Margo, oh how i remember the days of zelda. That game was what started me out in loving rpgs. That's quite an accomplishment with mario and zelda, with skills like that i hope you get back into playing video games with your grandson and show him how it's done.

[best]

Pong and Space invaders were my games *LOL*
Packman was my wife's. I just couldn't get into that one.
Luxor is what I have been playing as of late.

Impact on my life? Yup all of them cause such bad habits.

[Jwife22]

I play x-box and playstation two.....i have loved video games since i was about 6......my mom loves them too...she's 63 now and plays more than I do......

I still have a regular nintendo with a bunch of games.....Super Mario was probably my favorite.....

Now my favorite is Jak and Daxter....still working on the second one.....I do love video games....if i had a computer at home, I'd probably like computer games too!

[cmc]

I used to do online Soduku puzzles.... especially this spring when I was so stressed about my AS and his problems. Sitting too long and being stressed already was not so good. But.... I am fast at that game!
I don't care for many online games but like online versions of solitaire and mah-jong sometimes. I play them so much for period of time and then get sick of them!!!

I just got the huge 140 meg community expansion for Neverwinter Nights. AWESOME. I love adventure games! Probably has something to do with escapism...no?

Ultima IV had the most profound impact on my life. In a way, it still does. There's a module of it for NWN!

I like Deus Ex, Quake II, Half-Life, but Unreal is the real eye candy for me. Unreal Tournament is a blast. Low-grav shock rifle arena!!! Wooohoooo!

[Mongo]

I love PC games.

Currently playing Oblivion but it really makes my system chug; I'd like to see it with all detail up high.

Anything flight simulator. I fact, when I first saw it, I bought the program and then went and bought a computer to run it on.(C64 I think)

I had an Amiga 500 after the C64 and spent much of my life with it, Eye of the Beholder series, Wing Commander stuff like that. Privateer was a blast. Oh yeah, Elite too.

A real blast from the past. Eliminator on the TRS-80 model one. It took twenty minutes to load from a cassette tape into my 16K ram, but I loved it.

Ron

[Hurt]

Midas, i have NWN. It's a great game! I've downloaded a few modules. I need to install it back on my computer and see what you're talking about. Yes that's excactly why i play adventure games, to escape from reality. just a few to name are syberia 1 & 2, the longest journey & dreamfall.

Mongo, i need to get microsoft flight simulator, i see they come out with alot of different planes. another game i need to get is oblivion, i hear it's pretty cool.

Later i'll make up a list of all the games i have.

[Hurt]

ok here are most of the games i have, i know i missed a few, i can't find them all right now.

PC games: Adventure
dracula: ressurection
echo: secret of the lost cavern
journey to the center of the earth
myst 3: exile
myst: uru
uru: ages beyond myst
myst iv: revelation
salammbo
syberia 1
syberia 2
post mortem
still life
safecracker
the longest journey
the messenger
the moment of silence


PC games: action/fps/rpg
alien vs predator primal hunt
american mcgee's alice
american mcgee's scrapland
american mcgee's bad day l.a.
Clive barker's: undying
drakan
enter the matrix
grand theft auto 3
grand theft auto: vice city
halflife 2
heretic
hitman 2: silent assassin
jekyll and hyde
medal of honor: allied assault
pirates of the caribbean
planet of the apes
postal 2
prey
psychonauts
rayman 3: hoodlum havoc
serious sam
severance: blade of darkness
starseige
the simpsons: hit and run
tron 2.0
unreal tournement: game of the year edition
XIII

PC games: simulation/strategy/rpg
age of empires II: the conquerors
civilization IV
creatures 2
diggles: the myth of fenris
neverwinter nights
red alert
red alert 2
simcity 4
sims
sims: livin' large
vampires: the masquerade
warcraft 3
world of warcraft

PC games: sports/racing
mvp baseball 2003
need for speed: high stakes

xbox: action/adventure/rpg
alien hominid
conker: live and reloaded
curse: the eye of isis
dreamfall
fable
fable: the lost chapters
jade empire
jaws: unleashed
leisure suit larry: mcl
mortal kombat: shaolin monks
ninja gaiden
oddworld: strangers wrath
over the hedge
silent hill 4
spiderman 2
splintercell 2
splintercell 3
stolen
sudeki
the da vinci code
the suffering
the suffering: ties that bind
the warriors
vexx

xbox: fps
black
call of cthulhu
doom 3
gta san andreas
gun
halo
halo 2
hitman: contracts
red dead revolver
riddick
the godfather

xbox: sports/racing/fighting/everything else
amf bowling
blazing angels
blitz: the league
def jam: fight for newyork
fightnight 3
flatout 2
l.a. rush
madden nfl 06
metal slugs 3
midnight club 3: dub edition
mlb 2k6
monopoly party
mortal kombat: deadly alliance
mortal kombat: deceptions
mvp 2006 ncaa baseball
ncaa football 06
outrun 2006
pro fishing challenge
soul calibur 2
stacked
virtual pool
xyanide

daaaaaaaang. that's a lot of games.

ever play Soldier of Fortune? that one's pretty violent. Blade of Darkness is a good fantasy fighter. You could hack an opponent's arm off and beat him up with it. Pretty gory though.

[Hurt]

lol i know i have a ridiculous amount of games.

Blade of darkness was an awesome game, but i never got to finish it. I still have it and all, but for some reason when i switched my os it wouldn't play on my computer. i allways get errors. At least i played about 3/4 ways through it i think.

No, i never played soldier of fortune. I do like violent games. I'll have to get it.

[margo]

Originally Posted by Midas

that's a lot of games.

No kidding! How do you decide which one you want to play??!!

[Hurt]

I probably spend more time thinking about which one i want to play then actually playing them. :scratchch

I've beat most the games i have and some i just can't get into. It's also more of a hobby to collect them.

[GreenTea]

Originally Posted by Hurt

what games made an impact on your life?

Talk about a blast from the past!

You are standing at the end of a road before a small brick building.
Around you is a forest. A small stream flows out of the building
and down a gully.
> ENTER BUILDING

It was one of the reasons I seriously took up the pursuit of programming...

Out of the gloom behind you pounces a bearded pirate.
"Hardy har!" he chortles. "I'll just take all this booty and hide
it away with my chest deep in the maze"
> WAVE WAND

That game also introduced me to the Hall of the Mountain King and the wonder of a plover, (or at least its eggs!)...

There is a jewel encrusted trident here.
> PLUGH

Come to think of it, that game ALSO had a vending machine...

Your lamp is getting dim. You'd better find some batteries.
> GO WEST

I also learned that birds can successfully fight snakes from that game, and the value of NOT disturbing sleeping dwarves...

It is pitch black in darkness. If you proceed you will likely
fall into a pit.
> XYZZY

Its successor taught me about grues.

LoL. See next post...

OMG, Zork!!!! That was the first game I ever bought, shortly after I bought my Apple //c in 1984.

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

>_

The next game I bought was Ultima I. My life forever changed from that point. Lord British this, Lord British that. Where are my runes? Argh!

*sigh* *sob*

[Arura]

I must admit i was doom Queen on my son first play station or nintendo...he had both,...!.... now he plays 'Grand theft auto, vice city' at the age of 15...??? Excellent...?

He lives with my mum so thats not my choice...but i carnt see that you could stop him as he plays at his friend as aswell...!

It does affect his behaviour, hes more hostlie towards women, in away...! ..., from them...
Distroted veiw the kids are given...by the media...!

[Blake]

I love the zeldaq series and I am going to get a new nintendo when they comeout specifically for the new zelda game....

Recently I have been cracked out on oblivion and trying to complete every single quest.......right before I got clean it was WoW......

But the games that are nearest and dearest to my heart are super mario cart for the snes, goldeneye & killer instinct gold for the n64 .....these were the alltime trash talking, "i will kick anyone's ass in the facillity with proximity mines or automatics in the stack, liscense to kill"....."uuuuuullllllttttiiiimmmmaaaattttee cccccccccccoooooooooooommmmmbo!!!!!!!!!"......"red shells of death"......games me and my friends played throughout highschool...

[Arura]

Zelda is an old game aswell ...ive not seen the updated version...!

Thanks for the info Blake...!

[justicej]

I have been addicted to video games in the past. I have stayed up all night getting obsessed with the next level, only to not be satisfied and need to get to the next level. I have nearly lost jobs with video game obsession. I haven't played in years, (i think that zelda masks was the last one). I have gone into sudoko land recently, but they don't satisfy me anymore either. I have just gotten bored with Kakuro, and Killer Sudoku.

So what does all this mean. I have addiction issues.

But Now I am worried about my 16 y.o. son. He isn't happy much of the time. He plays video games alot. And when really depressed he will cut school to stay home and play Maple Story all day. He made a pact with friends back in grade school not to drink, do drugs, or smoke. He is critical of drug abuse, but refuses to see that addictive behavior is the problem, not the drug of choice.

I don't know how to help him. Any advice, thoughts, stories??? Can you relate?

[Morning Glory]

Zelda is my favorite. I played all of them until they went to gamecube.

This site has Zelda you can play on your computer and you can make your own quests. http://www.zeldaclassic.com/

The most recent game I played was Myst. I got through the first game. I'm on Riven now. I think it's an old game.