Video/Computer Games [Archive] - Sean Hannity Discussion

Porkulus Hummer

June 11th, 2009, 12:24 am

Don't know if any here play video or computer games, but if you do post some of your favorites here.

Also--If anyone ever played or liked a series called "Monkey Island" by LucasArts (it was an adventure game series produced between 1990 and 2000), well, there's a new game in the series called ''Tales of Monkey Island'' coming out in July, along with a remake of the original. These were family friendly games which had a pirate theme and tons of humor. Sort of like the Pirates of the Carribbean films but playable.

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 12:33 am

TF2, Red Orchestra, IL-2 Sturmovik, Empire Total War, and next week-

Rise of Flight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB-0ImSpQhw&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbjUwTEOZo&NR=1

Hoobeedoo Bejesus

June 11th, 2009, 1:25 am

Quake Live has most of my time now.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 1:30 am

i've only recently played monkey island... but i love anything on the scumm engine.

playing inFamous right now, still haven't beaten Killzone 2 either. have to finish up mass effect also...

oh, and inFamous kicks ass.

Justus

June 11th, 2009, 2:18 am

I'm not a rich guy, we own a gamecube & ps2, I enjoy the resident evil games, as well as the Legend of Zelda games.

On my computer I play Baldur's gate 2, I have NWN 1 & 2 but because I have Vista (DAMN YOU) I can't play NWN1 and because my computer is pretty old, I cannot play NWN2, you need a great computer to play it.

ArmyMAJretired

June 11th, 2009, 10:31 am

I'm an old school PC player.

I started off back in the late 80s playing 688 Attack Sub, Wolfpack, Knights of the Sky, Patton Attacks and some SSI strategy games.

Now I love First Person Shooters. Amng my favorites:

Medal of Honor (all) especially Airborne,
Call of Duty (all) especially World at War and Modern Conflict
Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2
Crysis
Far Cry
Fallout 3

Many others

MrShotShot

June 11th, 2009, 11:09 am

Personally, I'm all about the Battlefield series.

Every other game I've played pales by comparison.

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 11:39 am

Kudos to ArmyMaj-- I got hooked on pc games with SSI's dragonlance series.
I think the very first pc game I played was the Bard's Tale. Games have come a long way since then.

some of my PC favs I still play today;
Starcraft, Diablo 2, Mechawarrior Mercenaries, all fallout games-xbox BOS which was crap,
Arcanum and Call of Duty series. Sin City 3000 unlimited.

Games I wish I could still play;
Wingcommander, WC Privateer 1 and 2 and this other one I think that's called Revenant.
X-com apocolypse, Elvira 1 and 2. Never even played 2 back in the day so I don't know if it sucked or not but the first one was great.

gdoane

June 11th, 2009, 11:47 am

MrShotShot

June 11th, 2009, 12:01 pm

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 1:06 pm

We're only a few years away from the total immersion experience.

they're gonna do dirty stuff with that...

btw,
I really wish they had made a good game for BSG that had both flight sim and 1st/3rd person shooter in it.

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 1:06 pm

Anyone here every play Red Baron 3d or Starseige Tribes?

Those were my first multiplayer games, all done through WON.net. That site doesn't even exist anymore...

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 1:25 pm

Anyone here every play Red Baron 3d or Starseige Tribes?

Those were my first multiplayer games, all done through WON.net. That site doesn't even exist anymore...

I played the original Starsiege, which I forgot to list...
I never did try tribes but it looked like it was popular. I really liked the first 2 starsiege/mech games though.

MrShotShot

June 11th, 2009, 1:32 pm

they're gonna do dirty stuff with that...

btw,
I really wish they had made a good game for BSG that had both flight sim and 1st/3rd person shooter in it.

And I hope to be in on the ground floor of it - I'll make billions!

I know what you mean. A BSG game like that would have been awesome. The same could be said for Star Trek.

sironin

June 11th, 2009, 1:44 pm

This E3 had some pretty good announcements. Wii is getting the Motion Plus sensor and Microsoft announced Project Natal, controllerless gaming. It looks like the future of video games will be moving more towards control rather than going after more powerful graphics like the trends of the past.

I'm more of a console gamer than a PC gamer and I have about 16 consoles hooked up, everything from an Atari2600 to an Xbox360.

There is a ceiling right now on what one can mathematically do regarding increasingly more realistic graphics while staying under a given price point. Also, the more development time you spend on graphics, the less time you have for mechanics and story support (scripting, etc). There have been quite a lot of indy games recently that rely on developing their mechanics over the graphics. It has turned out to be a good thing.

I'm personally really looking forward to Achron (http://achrongame.com/). It's a time travel real time strategy game.

badkarma

June 11th, 2009, 1:52 pm

688 Attack Sub
a FANTASTIC game. I may have to go looking for a good sub sim now.

I played a lot of FPS multi-player games way back when. QuakeII and Delta Force mostly. Now I just raid casually in Warcraft.

sironin

June 11th, 2009, 1:53 pm

And I hope to be in on the ground floor of it - I'll make billions!

I know what you mean. A BSG game like that would have been awesome. The same could be said for Star Trek.

There is actually an upcoming Star Trek Online game (2010 release estimated). It follows the original Star Trek universe after the fork to the current movie universe.

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 2:07 pm

And I hope to be in on the ground floor of it - I'll make billions!

I know what you mean. A BSG game like that would have been awesome. The same could be said for Star Trek.

there was a pc game for star trek in the mid to late 90's I think. I can't remmember the name but it was based on the original series. There were some pace battles but also puzzle solving kids of missions on the ground. The graphics weren't great but it was a fun little game. It even made fun of the "you're a red-shirt security guard. you're not gonna last long..." type thing. Then I think there was a cave in and the red shirt guy got crushed by a ton of rock. Pretty funny.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 2:15 pm

This E3 had some pretty good announcements. Wii is getting the Motion Plus sensor and Microsoft announced Project Natal, controllerless gaming. It looks like the future of video games will be moving more towards control rather than going after more powerful graphics like the trends of the past.

I'm more of a console gamer than a PC gamer and I have about 16 consoles hooked up, everything from an Atari2600 to an Xbox360.

i'm wary of natal... that they didn't do a live demo is one thing, and then to have peter molyneaux talking it up is just proof that big claims will be made and not achieved.

i am looking forward to mass effect 2 though, and final fantasy 13... ff14 might be what finally gets me to play an mmorpg.

and of course i can't wait for Uncharted 2. in the multiplayer beta now, kicks ass!
anything with 'metal gear' in the title is in my sights, and i'm looking forward (of course) to God of War III.

so after e3 this year i can tell you that i'm damn glad i have a ps3. not to say there weren't a few games i'm interested in for the 360 but sony brought the games this year... microsoft didn't.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 2:17 pm

there was a pc game for star trek in the mid to late 90's I think. I can't remmember the name but it was based on the original series. There were some pace battles but also puzzle solving kids of missions on the ground. The graphics weren't great but it was a fun little game. It even made fun of the "you're a red-shirt security guard. you're not gonna last long..." type thing. Then I think there was a cave in and the red shirt guy got crushed by a ton of rock. Pretty funny.

star trek: 25th anniversary. great game.
star trek: judgement rites was the sequel. equally as good.

the game was an inventory based adventure game, along the lines of LucasArts scumm games.

if you're a trek fan or point and click adventure fan and ever get the chance, check them out.

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 2:30 pm

star trek: 25th anniversary. great game.
star trek: judgement rites was the sequel. equally as good.

the game was an inventory based adventure game, along the lines of LucasArts scumm games.

if you're a trek fan or point and click adventure fan and ever get the chance, check them out.

crap, I didn't know they made a sequal. I doubt they'd run on a modern computer now..
: (

what is "scumm"?

I dig point and click and stuff like fallout more than FPS. fallout 3 being trhe exception...

MrShotShot

June 11th, 2009, 2:32 pm

There is actually an upcoming Star Trek Online game (2010 release estimated). It follows the original Star Trek universe after the fork to the current movie universe.

That has been being bantered about for years, hasn't it?

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 2:57 pm

crap, I didn't know they made a sequal. I doubt they'd run on a modern computer now..
: (

what is "scumm"?

I dig point and click and stuff like fallout more than FPS. fallout 3 being trhe exception...

Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion

basically, it was the **** in late eighties, early to mid nineties when it came to point and click adventure games.

you had classic games on it like Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, of course Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island, one of my all time favorites Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle...

really if you haven't played any of the LucasFilm/LucasArts adventure games you're missing out on some classics. They're a lot like the KingsQuest games by Sierra, only a little more forgiving.

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 3:22 pm

Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion

basically, it was the **** in late eighties, early to mid nineties when it came to point and click adventure games.

you had classic games on it like Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders, of course Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island, one of my all time favorites Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle...

really if you haven't played any of the LucasFilm/LucasArts adventure games you're missing out on some classics. They're a lot like the KingsQuest games by Sierra, only a little more forgiving.

I've heard of some of those titles but never played them. ONly lucas games I've played were (yet another set I forgot to mention) X-wing and Tie fighter. I wish wish wish they'd do a tie fighter reboot. That game was terriffic.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 3:28 pm

I've heard of some of those titles but never played them. ONly lucas games I've played were (yet another set I forgot to mention) X-wing and Tie fighter. I wish wish wish they'd do a tie fighter reboot. That game was terriffic.

tie fighter was great.

in case you still have your old disks floating around, or know where to find them...

dosbox works well to play old computer games on new machines. takes a little tweaking but it works.

if you want to play a scumm game there's an emulator out there called 'scummvm' and it works really well.

JudasGoat

June 11th, 2009, 3:35 pm

tie fighter was great.

in case you still have your old disks floating around, or know where to find them...

dosbox works well to play old computer games on new machines. takes a little tweaking but it works.

if you want to play a scumm game there's an emulator out there called 'scummvm' and it works really well.

thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.
I don't have any of the xwing stuff other than xwing alliance, which I think is the last one they made for that series.
I do have a copy of privateer 2, which I think stars a young CLive Owen, gabriel burns and a couple of other well known actors.

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 3:50 pm

I played the original Starsiege, which I forgot to list...
I never did try tribes but it looked like it was popular. I really liked the first 2 starsiege/mech games though.

There was a starsiege game before tribes?

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 3:50 pm

thanks for the tip, I'll check that out.
I don't have any of the xwing stuff other than xwing alliance, which I think is the last one they made for that series.
I do have a copy of privateer 2, which I think stars a young CLive Owen, gabriel burns and a couple of other well known actors.

i never got a chance to play privateer 2 - well i take that back, i did play it a bit and then lost the disc images in a hard drive crash.

but clive owen, christopher walken, john hurt... not a bad cast.

if you want to play it again start here http://www.wcnews.com/techsupport.shtml

wcnews.com also hosts a remake of privateer with full 3d spaceflight. it's not too shabby.
http://priv.solsector.net/

AgreatAmerican

June 11th, 2009, 4:38 pm

I;m a Nintendo person all the way...I've owner every system execpt DS and SP...I like the zelda and Metroid...there was a pc flying game I had about 12 years ago...it came with aeronautical charts of Bosnia and Russia(I think), I think it was called iF-16 does anyone remember that game?

countmein

June 11th, 2009, 4:44 pm

Does Boggle, Minesweeper, and Spider Solitare count as "computer games"? If so, I play those. Actually, I am addicted to Boggle. I see letters in my sleep.

shinyranger

June 11th, 2009, 5:17 pm

I'm a fan of several developers over the years.
Black Isle Studios. I think they did the Baldur's Gate, Planescape:Torment, and the first two Fallout games.
Obsidian Entertainment was the spiritual successor for BIS and they did Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2...

Bioware: Gotta love the Neverwinter Nights franchise. They also gave us Baldur's Gate II. They did the first SW: KOTOR and they are doing the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO... Exciting!

Blizzard: Diabo, Starcraft, and Warcraft franchises. How can you not love their games?

id Software: Doom and then Quake. Those got me in to gaming in the first place.

Bertha

June 11th, 2009, 7:14 pm

Our family has several xbox 360 consoles with live accounts.

Some of my favorites:

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty: World at War
Fallout 3
Oblivion

The COD games are extremely addictive with the online multiplayer options. Just downloaded Map Pack 2 which was released today -- haven't had the chance to try the new maps out yet.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 7:24 pm

Our family has several xbox 360 consoles with live accounts.

i suppose by the time you got to three or four of them you'd be guaranteed to have one that worked at all times... maybe...
;)

i've got a 360 as well, but i don't play anything multi-plat on it. it's out of warranty and i've no need to tempt fate.

Bertha

June 11th, 2009, 7:28 pm

i suppose by the time you got to three or four of them you'd be guaranteed to have one that worked at all times... maybe...
;)

i've got a 360 as well, but i don't play anything multi-plat on it. it's out of warranty and i've no need to tempt fate.

LOL -- funny you should mention that. We have had one episode of "The Red Ring of Death". They had it back to us within 5 days.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 7:30 pm

LOL -- funny you should mention that. We have had one episode of "The Red Ring of Death". They had it back to us within 5 days.

hope you knocked on wood...

Bertha

June 11th, 2009, 7:31 pm

hope you knocked on wood...

Just did -- sitting in a coffee shop that has solid wood tables. ;)

Sennik

June 11th, 2009, 7:56 pm

I'm an old school PC player.

I started off back in the late 80s playing 688 Attack Sub, Wolfpack, Knights of the Sky, Patton Attacks and some SSI strategy games.

That looks like my playlist from that era. Did you get any M.U.L.E. playtime in by any chance? I loved that game.

Currently playing Call of Duty on the PC (can't stand FPS on consoles), EVE Online, some WoW, and looking forward to Star Trek Online.

Someone needs to get a new MechWarrior, X-Wing v Tie Fighter, Wing Commander or Strike Commander(remember that merc flyer game like Wing Commanger?) published.

AgreatAmerican

June 11th, 2009, 8:03 pm

Is there a good Star Trek game from the early 2000's I don't have the best computer and I don't want to over load it....

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 8:03 pm

a FANTASTIC game. I may have to go looking for a good sub sim now.

I played a lot of FPS multi-player games way back when. QuakeII and Delta Force mostly. Now I just raid casually in Warcraft.

Get Silent Hunter 3 or 4 if you want a sub sim.

There is also an open source 3d sim if you want to play ASAP:

http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/

It's still a work in progress, but its pretty good for a non-commercial game.

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 8:15 pm

Get Silent Hunter 3 or 4 if you want a sub sim.

There is also an open source 3d sim if you want to play ASAP:

http://dangerdeep.sourceforge.net/

It's still a work in progress, but its pretty good for a non-commercial game.

sub sims... i played the hell out of 'silent service II' back in my 486 sx 33mHz days.

that bad boy packard bell rocked. 4mb ram, 140mb hard drive, ms-dos 5.0 and Windows 3.11

****ing ms-dos and its 640k of conventional memory... in truth it's why i'm a console gamer now. could only take so much screwing with autoexec.bat

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 8:26 pm

I had silent service on the original nintendo!

and lol at 4 mb of ram...

ogibillm

June 11th, 2009, 8:35 pm

I had silent service on the original nintendo!

and lol at 4 mb of ram...

couple yeasrs later we upgraded that bad boy. bought an 8 meg ram stick for just under $200. Double speed Cd-Rom and sound card ran about $300. And we put in a new processor (66mHz) which required it's own fan and heat sink...

god i hate to think of the money we sank into that thing.

silent service ii actually holds up pretty well. the graphics aren't great (games from like 1991, what do you expect?) but the strategy involved is still top notch. and it'll always be fun to play at wwii sub commander in the pacific theater.

-American-

June 11th, 2009, 8:54 pm

Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare, Call of Duty World at War, Grand Theft Auto IV, Midnight Club Los Angeles are taking up my game time now.

Hoobeedoo Bejesus

June 11th, 2009, 11:01 pm

Anyone here every play Red Baron 3d or Starseige Tribes?

Those were my first multiplayer games, all done through WON.net. That site doesn't even exist anymore...

Tribes is coming back as a free web based game just like id did with Quake3 to Quake Live.

I can't wait.

SHAZBOT!

Hoobeedoo Bejesus

June 11th, 2009, 11:21 pm

Free Games!

Quake 3 as Quake Live - http://www.quakelive.com
Tribes 2 - http://www.tribesnext.com/

Info on the original Tribes:
March 17, 2009, GarageGames announced[1] they have purchased the IP and source code for Starsiege: Tribes and will be releasing an update through the browser based game service, InstantAction. It was announced on May 14th, 2009, that they would soon be accepting email addresses for beta invites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starsiege:_Tribes

AeroEngineer

June 11th, 2009, 11:40 pm

Tribes is coming back as a free web based game just like id did with Quake3 to Quake Live.

I can't wait.

SHAZBOT!

Sweet!

ChaosControl

June 12th, 2009, 12:06 am

I like Mario Kart Wii the most right now. Especially Rainbow Road. Nothing like falling into space.

gdoane

June 12th, 2009, 12:16 am

There is a ceiling right now on what one can mathematically do regarding increasingly more realistic graphics while staying under a given price point. Also, the more development time you spend on graphics, the less time you have for mechanics and story support (scripting, etc). There have been quite a lot of indy games recently that rely on developing their mechanics over the graphics. It has turned out to be a good thing.

I'm personally really looking forward to Achron (http://achrongame.com/). It's a time travel real time strategy game.

I think there's something else to limit graphic realism too. There was an interview on one of the PIXAR DVD's (I think it was Shrek, not sure) where one of the CGI team said they'd actually started out trying to make the humans in the tale appear 100% realistic and it was determined that it would just freak out the audience too much.

Video games are essentially animation and making them TOO realistic is very possible. Reality isn't much fun, if it were then we wouldn't be trying to escape from it with video games or movies or books.

To me, the one thing that can sell me a game is if it makes me laugh. The best characters in video games are funny looking as heck. A fat little Italian plumber. A sassy blue hedgehog in red sneakers. An anthropomorphic ape in a necktie. A yellow round guy who is 1/4 mouth and eats dots around ghosts.

The iconic video game characters are just plain funny, aren't they? And how funny can realistic characters be? Even Mortal Kombat went over the top while using real actors and had Ninjas in every color of the rainbow.

I don't see games going towards photo realism. They could, the technology is here, today and affordable, but I don't think it would sell. Gamers want to play and have a laugh, not gawk at a bunch of eye candy graphics.

gdoane

June 12th, 2009, 12:41 am

I like Mario Kart Wii the most right now. Especially Rainbow Road. Nothing like falling into space.

I actually liked the Rainbow Road level on Mario Kart 64 better. I keep peeking at the Wii Shopping Channel to see if it pops up.

Mario Kart Double Dash was sort of disappointing on the Gamecube, but it brightens up a bit if you have the Logitech force feedback wheel for the GC. The wheel does work on the Wii as well if you're playing Mario Kart DD, which I was surprised by when I tried it. I figured it would be an orphan peripheral but it seems the Wii is solidly compatible with almost all things Gamecube (no Gameboy Advance adapter, though).

I remember back when Mario Kart came out on the SNES, I had an SNES modem called "X-Band" which used a phone line, dial-up gaming. I had a subscription and the X-Band modem would dial into the service, and match up players for games. Sort of like the X-Box Live service does now, but this was like caveman online console gaming. Mario Kart was one of the supported games. I played the heck out of that and tied up my phone so badly my parents started writing me letters instead of calling.

I wanted online gaming so badly back in the day that I had X-Band, and then I got the Saturn Netlink, and the Dreamcast had a built-in 56K Modem and an optional LAN module (woo-hoo!).

Now that I've got online gaming on XBox Live and the Wii, I don't seem to like it as much anymore. I think it's because I've got a "Shut Up And Play" attitude and I get annoyed when somebody gets chatty. The PC is for chatty. The game console is for game, so press the start button early, and press it often.

Hoobeedoo Bejesus

June 12th, 2009, 12:49 am

I think there's something else to limit graphic realism too. There was an interview on one of the PIXAR DVD's (I think it was Shrek, not sure) where one of the CGI team said they'd actually started out trying to make the humans in the tale appear 100% realistic and it was determined that it would just freak out the audience too much.

Video games are essentially animation and making them TOO realistic is very possible. Reality isn't much fun, if it were then we wouldn't be trying to escape from it with video games or movies or books.

To me, the one thing that can sell me a game is if it makes me laugh. The best characters in video games are funny looking as heck. A fat little Italian plumber. A sassy blue hedgehog in red sneakers. An anthropomorphic ape in a necktie. A yellow round guy who is 1/4 mouth and eats dots around ghosts.

The iconic video game characters are just plain funny, aren't they? And how funny can realistic characters be? Even Mortal Kombat went over the top while using real actors and had Ninjas in every color of the rainbow.

I don't see games going towards photo realism. They could, the technology is here, today and affordable, but I don't think it would sell. Gamers want to play and have a laugh, not gawk at a bunch of eye candy graphics.

I agree.

I enjoy stylistic and cell-shading more than realistic now.

ogibillm

June 12th, 2009, 12:57 am

I actually liked the Rainbow Road level on Mario Kart 64 better. I keep peeking at the Wii Shopping Channel to see if it pops up.

Mario Kart Double Dash was sort of disappointing on the Gamecube, but it brightens up a bit if you have the Logitech force feedback wheel for the GC. The wheel does work on the Wii as well if you're playing Mario Kart DD, which I was surprised by when I tried it. I figured it would be an orphan peripheral but it seems the Wii is solidly compatible with almost all things Gamecube (no Gameboy Advance adapter, though).

I remember back when Mario Kart came out on the SNES, I had an SNES modem called "X-Band" which used a phone line, dial-up gaming. I had a subscription and the X-Band modem would dial into the service, and match up players for games. Sort of like the X-Box Live service does now, but this was like caveman online console gaming. Mario Kart was one of the supported games. I played the heck out of that and tied up my phone so badly my parents started writing me letters instead of calling.

I wanted online gaming so badly back in the day that I had X-Band, and then I got the Saturn Netlink, and the Dreamcast had a built-in 56K Modem and an optional LAN module (woo-hoo!).

Now that I've got online gaming on XBox Live and the Wii, I don't seem to like it as much anymore. I think it's because I've got a "Shut Up And Play" attitude and I get annoyed when somebody gets chatty. The PC is for chatty. The game console is for game, so press the start button early, and press it often.

i'm pretty sure i bought mario kart 64 for the virtual console a while back...

as for realism - there's something to be said for it and against it. MGS4 was almost photorealistic and it was amazing. Call of Duty 4 was very close realistic. Uncharted was amazing to look at (while still being bright and colorful). Now that's not to say i don't like some stylistic direction.

gdoane

June 12th, 2009, 1:58 am

i'm pretty sure i bought mario kart 64 for the virtual console a while back...

as for realism - there's something to be said for it and against it. MGS4 was almost photorealistic and it was amazing. Call of Duty 4 was very close realistic. Uncharted was amazing to look at (while still being bright and colorful). Now that's not to say i don't like some stylistic direction.

I might have missed it. It's not like I can't play it anyway, the N64 is in the Retro Game Room. The modern games are in the living room and the guest bedroom has the older game systems. There's an Atari 2600 and a 3DO in there too.

I've played Konami's Metal Gear Solid on the PSX and it didn't do much for me. I still have the receipt with the game, I bought it on Friday, October 30th, 1998 for $44.89. The game is practically in mint condition, but I never even got to the second disk before I lost my attention span in the game and put in something else.

There's a lot to be said for style. Probably my favorite game of all time is Williams "Joust", a game designed by John Newcommer, a guy who applied for the job with a resume in the mouth of a rubber chicken. Putting Knights on an Ostrich (flightless bird) and then flapping to fly was FUNNY.

I'd jump over a hundred Metal Gear games to get to a spy game based on Inspector Gadget or the A-Team. That would make me laugh and have some fun.

angelicmadrigal

June 12th, 2009, 6:41 am

gdoane

June 12th, 2009, 10:04 am

Monkey island.....ugh....

My favorite games:

Nintendo: Super Mario 3, Clash at Demon Head

Super NES: Contra III, Romanace of the 3 Kingdoms, Final Fantasy 4, and Final Fantasy 6, Lemmings

Playstation: Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy 8, Final Fantasy 9

PS2: Xenosaga I, II, and III, Final Fantasy X, Valkyrie Profile II: Silmaria

Computer: Heroes of Might and Magic III and IV, The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain, Ceasar III

A bunch of RPG's, a platformer, a shooter and a puzzle game. No racers or fighters, eh?

My faves:

Atari 2600: Circus Atari

Nintendo: M.U.L.E.

SNES: Earthworm Jim

Genesis: Toejam & Earl Panic On Funkotron

3DO: Road Rash

Saturn: Magic Knight Rayearth

PlayStation: R4 Ridge Racer Type 4

Dreamcast: Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

PlayStation 2: Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies

XBox 360: Soul Caliber 4

Wii: Rayman Raving Rabbids

DSi: Elite Beat Agents

PSP: Lemmings

Gameboy Advance SP: Mario vs. Donkey Kong

Gameboy: Tetris

PC: Minesweeper

I tend to be a controller freak, for example on Ace Combat 4 I have the Hori flightstick for the PS2 and for the PSX and R4 I have the JogCon, a Namco force feedback mini wheel that most gamers have never seen. I have the fighting sticks, the steering wheels, the trackballs, all the controls it takes to stay that crucial one step ahead of the game.

I think my taste in games is fairly broad, although I'm not much into the First Person Shooter genre. I don't really like using a computer for gaming because of some bad experiences where game installs screwed up the whole computer rendering it useless because computer programmers are stone cold incompetent and they have a philosophy of releasing bug-riddled software to push it out the door with the idea that it can be patched later.

Console software is right the first time, all the time and won't require reformatting the hard drive and reloading the PC for ten hours because some idiot didn't debug a game before publication.

JudasGoat

June 12th, 2009, 10:48 am

There was a starsiege game before tribes?

yeah, there were 2. They were like Mechwarrior kind of. I liked certain things about SS more than MW like, you had to salvage scrap to repair your mechs and arm them. SO if you aimed for the feet/ankles of the enemy mech, you'd get more scrap.
The 2nd one had a 'mech' you could fly which was pretty cool. They were good games but not as popular as MW.

JudasGoat

June 12th, 2009, 10:50 am

i never got a chance to play privateer 2 - well i take that back, i did play it a bit and then lost the disc images in a hard drive crash.

but clive owen, christopher walken, john hurt... not a bad cast.

if you want to play it again start here http://www.wcnews.com/techsupport.shtml

wcnews.com also hosts a remake of privateer with full 3d spaceflight. it's not too shabby.
http://priv.solsector.net/

that's AWESOME!!! thanks! A few years ago microsoft tried to make a game like privateer but I didn't think it was as fun. I can't remember the name but I think it didn't do to well.

Sennik

June 12th, 2009, 11:58 am

****ing ms-dos and its 640k of conventional memory... in truth it's why i'm a console gamer now. could only take so much screwing with autoexec.bat

Tell me about it, I had at least half a dozen different boot floppies that modified the memory configuration. The most used, the 'Falcon 2.0 boot floppy'. At least I think it was 2.0, mind is somewhat hazy. Now that game had a *real* manual.

Sennik

June 12th, 2009, 12:00 pm

that's AWESOME!!! thanks! A few years ago microsoft tried to make a game like privateer but I didn't think it was as fun. I can't remember the name but I think it didn't do to well.

That would be Freelancer. I actually beta tested that game, submitted a couple planet names that made it into the game, and had an NPC somewhere in the game named after me :)

And I agree, it wasn't terribly fun either.

Psudo36

June 12th, 2009, 2:59 pm

I been gaming since the x286... never got out of the habit. ( 40 now...Where has the time gone?)

I think Crysis and those 'sandbox'-style games are the way to go! (Just finished Falllout 3, again)

But once in a while - I got to go old school. Checkout "Dwarf Fort" - It's ASCI based, not even real graphics, but the programming behind the game is huge.

Mr. Psudo-name

jungulator

June 12th, 2009, 11:26 pm

There was a starsiege game before tribes?

There was Earthsiege and Earthsiege 2. Starsiege and Starsiege: Tribes were released around the same time with Starsiege being more like Mech Warrior and Tribes being a 1st person shooter. I miss Starsiege. I got rather deadly with my Olympian setup.

CaptainPike

June 12th, 2009, 11:29 pm

Hoobeedoo Bejesus

June 12th, 2009, 11:34 pm

I haven't found a good game lately. Of course, I don't have the hardware I need to run any new games. A couple years ago I was playing Halo and Counter Strike Source quite a bit, but not so much anymore.

There are a bunch of good indie games on Steam.

http://www.glumbuster.com/ is a fun free one too.

ArmyMAJretired

June 13th, 2009, 12:28 am

There are a bunch of good indie games on Steam.

http://www.glumbuster.com/ is a fun free one too.

I'm playing Empire Total War on Steam.

Off line I liked Rome Total War also Medeval Total War I and II.

ArmyMAJretired

June 13th, 2009, 12:29 am

Also World in Conflict

jelake

June 13th, 2009, 7:37 pm

Games I wish I could still play;
X-com apocolypse

I got this to work on XP with DOSbox and VDMSound. Runs fine.

Spaceman Spiff

June 13th, 2009, 10:44 pm

I'm still hooked on Fallout 3 on X360. I have all three DLCs and am counting the days until the next two come out.

StoneScratcher

June 14th, 2009, 1:29 pm

There are a bunch of good indie games on Steam.

http://www.glumbuster.com/ is a fun free one too.

What's Steam?

angelicmadrigal

June 14th, 2009, 1:35 pm

A bunch of RPG's, a platformer, a shooter and a puzzle game. No racers or fighters, eh?

I admit it I'm a game snob. I don't play First Person shooters, I don't like fighting games (my boyfriend LOVES Soul Caliber...::gag:: )

I do have to correct you though. Hereos of Might and Magic is turned based strategy with some RPG elements, but it's NOT an RPG, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is also strategy.

The only computer game I ever had issues with being buggy was my copy of Simlife. ::grumps:: the save function didn't work on mine, and it would crash a lot.