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Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.

Next question: Are you married or have a significant person in your Life other than your mother? On second thought, don’t answer that – we already know based upon your gamer tag. 8)

I’ll start…
It’s a long list. Suffice it to say I’ll cut it short, list only the last two and call it good: Skyrim and Mass Effect 3, both on the XBOX. I like a good game that goes on for weeks providing rich entertainment and interactivity. ME doesn’t truly allow reentry of past conquests without starting a new play-through, and Skyrim is limited as well with partial refill of cleared dungeons. Still, to me this is dang good gaming. The XBOX though is reaching the end of its’ service life and I am looking forward to the next version, and to where platform gaming will go. As a UI/UX-guy, I enjoy the virtual immersion into realms of possibility: of flight, of swimming, climbing or looking down then leaping from high vistas (definitely a visceral sensation)… the extensions of our super-humanity and all that goes with it.

The ME series (other than online gaming) came to an end this version. D.C. Douglas, a voice actor recognized as Geth-Legion (ME) and Albert Wesker (Resident Evil) recently signaled the end of his tenure with these games and put together a humorous clip that totally cracked me up. Perhaps I should find a mate and develop my own egg naturally. In the meantime, I look forward to the next DLC.

[youtube]tj2BKTYbZjg[/youtube]

Till then…
Hun Kaal Zoor! KF :twisted:
 
All N64:

Battle Tanx, Battle Tanx Global Assault, and F-Zero.

Those games are the only reason I still own a game console.

I'm kind of the opposite of you it sounds like.

When I play a game, I don't want something that's going to absorb weeks of my time. I want to turn it on, blow some shi+ up and then do something else.

I also really like Desktop Defender.

http://armorgames.com/play/1128/desktop-tower-defense-15
 
Portal. Seriously, the best game ever. Not very repeatable. once you've heard all GLaDOS's sarcastic remarks and solved the puzzles, it's done. But it was good while it lasted. PC

MW3. Multiplayer is ok. Shoot some people, win some prizes. Fun, but its all been done before. But the single player game is brilliant. The game sucks you in, and you find your self caring about the game goals. It ain't just about body count, you realy want to stop that evil son of a dog for all the shyt he did back in... . PC.

Angry Birds. No really. Because it gives me an excuse to steal the girlfriend's phone, making her mad, and instigating a tickle fight. It has something to do with birds, right? Phone.
 
Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.
1) Earth
2) Business
3) latest
4) Owners and Managers
5) Greatest game in the world. Gambling with high stakes etc... Cast of billions. Constantly changing environment.

Hehe... sorry KF, couldn't resist.

LocK
 
Lock said:
Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.
1) Earth
2) Business
3) latest
4) Owners and Managers
5) Greatest game in the world. Gambling with high stakes etc... Cast of billions. Constantly changing environment.

Hehe... sorry KF, couldn't resist.

LocK
np :)
After the first reply I realized this would have made a great poll.

C'est la vie, KF
 
The Platform: Uncle Irv's home made poker table, but we never got to use the felt center. He always covered it with a masonite cover so we wouldn't ruin it with our drinks. Don't think anyone ever got to play on the felt... Uncle Irv is gone now.

The Game: 7 card stud or 3 card draw.

The Version: Straight preferred, or one eyed jacks wild, or deuces wild if you must.

The Characters: Uncle Irv, retired body man for Oldsmobile dealership. Uncle Martin, PA State Trooper. Uncle Andy, best darn straight faced poker player who still thought he was playing in the hold of a WWII troop transport. My Dad, a great gentle man with golden hands who could make anything and could bluff like no one else. Steve, best man at my wedding and good friend. Brian, great mountain man, outdoor expert and semi truck driver. Tom, Uncle Irv's son and successful entrepreneur. Sometimes lucky, oftentimes not. Always showed up with a new gun, knife or automatic weapon concealed somewhere on his person or in his car.

Why: 'cause men were meant to be together doing manly things once a month on a Friday night. The womenfolk made the sandwiches, ice, drinks and the danish pastry. We always had to have danish pastry at 1:30 am.

... those were the days!
 
Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.
DOS(dosbox), Warlords, Warlords1, little 8 bit dude with a sword and a dress that figths dragons and S@#%$, simple enjoyable strategy not oft reproduced since
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Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.
Java, Starfleet battles online, ---, -----, Strategic combat simulator with no RPG or FPS crap.
http://www.sfbonline.com/index.jsp

http://www.sfbonline.com/screen_shots.jsp

ScreenShot_Map.jpg

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My two favorites are not very complicated:

Pente, a board game, two or more players. It is very simple, and thus learned quickly by anyone, but strategies can be complex, and sometimes it can take hours for a couple of good players to complete a game. It is actually relaxing for me, even when I occasionally find another decent player (rare--I actually haven't even played it in years).

Flow, a flash-based game (also available on the PS3 I think, but have only played the basic original flash game).
http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/cloud/flowing/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(video_game)
It's a solo game, single player. It's very relaxing overall, though there are moments I end up "on the edge of my seat" as it were, rarely. The music and sounds are peaceful and not annoying, unlike practically every other game I've ever tried to play. The gameplay itself is very intuitive--you do not need to read any rules or how-to before playing; you'll easily figure it out on your own during play.


Long ago, in late gradeschool / early highschool, I loved playing the stand-up version of the Star Wars arcade game, and became very good at it, eventually to the point where I could play indefinitely on one quarter. :) One of my favorite things about it was the controller itself, as it was very different from most every other arcade game of the time, and was much like a steering yoke, rather than joystick or rollerball or whatnot. Since it was just a vector-graphics game, it was quite easy to imagine the movie battles themselves happening around me, making it quite realistic in my head, instead of having to un-visualize cheezy graphics first in order to do that.


For a short time, I also liked playing the Babylon 5 "I've Found Her" game put together by an international group of programmers (after Sierra ditched their version of a B5 game, shortly before completing it apparently), but it was only a small demo version of the game, to show that it could be done, and nothing happened with it for long enough after I discovered it that I gave up. I just googled it to see if it was still around, and it looks like they have done more work on it:
http://ifhgame.ru/main/
Since it used a "real" physics engine for flight, etc., it was quite fun just learning how to fly within the game itself, piloting a Star Fury. (whcih is the main thing I wanted to do with the Sierra game, that they unfortunately never released).
 
atari 2600: pitfall2, defender, river raid
commodore 64: defender of the crown, bard's tale, the pawn, anything by infocom, times of lore
SNES: chrono trigger
sega genesis: madden football 90' NHL hockey
N64: james bond, zelda ocarana of time, tony hawk skateboarding, pilotwings
PC: enemy territory, grand theft auto series, tiger woods golf, far cry 2, the hunter, so many others...
pinball: cyclone
arcade: don't get me started...

I could go on and on. I still play games all the time.
I like Maximus Arcade http://www.maximusarcade.com/ for a front end. with over 40 emulators and 10's of thousands of games it gets crazy.
here's a quick list of emulators I use, most of them work awesome, a couple not so good. I'll start with atari jaguar which is the worst one, most others work great compared to jaguar.
1. atari jaguar: virtual jaguar
2. atari 2600: stella, awesome in every way
3. atari 5200: kat5200, works most of the time
4. atari 7800 prosystem, works most of the time
5. atari lynx: mednafen, very good
6. intellivision: nostalgia, very good
7. coloecovision: MESS, very good
8. arcade games: MAME, awesome
9. pinball: visual pinball and vpinmame, awesome
10. NES: mednafen
11. SNES: zsnes, top notch
12: sega genesis, Sega 32X, Sega Game Gear, Sega Master System, SG-1000 and SC-3000: kega fusion, awesome
13. sega saturn: SSF, works most of the time
14. sega dreamcast: nullDC, very good
15.SNK NeoGeo: MAME
16. neo geo pocket, color: mednafen
17. PCengine and NEC turbo grafx16: magic engine
18.sony playstation: epsxe, awesome
19. PS2: pcsx2, awesome if you have powerful computer
20. gamecube, wii: dolphin, awesome
21. atari ST: steem, awesome
22. commodore 64: vice, winvice, my favorite
23. amiga: UAE
24: N64: projest 64
25. atari 800: atari800winplus
26. texas instruments ti994a: MESS
27. gameboy, color, and advanced: mednafen
28. panasonic 3DO: freedo
29. magnavox odyssey 2: MESS

I think thats it, but I may have missed a couple :)
game on!

edit: oh and AMBERWOLF, I love pente, played alot when I was a kid.
 
Skyrim, on a PS3 with a beamer in a dark room and a 5.1 sound system
I've been creeped out so badly a few times I turned it off, don't want a heart
attack from a game :D

Other favorite is Final Fantasy XIII, though once I got in the big open area
after 25 hrs of playing I lost interest.
 
mud2005 said:
edit: oh and AMBERWOLF, I love pente, played alot when I was a kid.
http://www.pente.net/
http://pente.org/
Too bad I don't ever have enough time to sit down and play it. (or Flow, which I could spend several hours at just one game, and that's if I don't doze off repeatedly!)
 
I'm a PC FPS gamer. Loved Serious Sam 3. Currently playing Dead Island. (That game is an RPG but I still like it) Waiting on Max Payne 3. (Third Person Shooter)
 
I don't really like video games. It's very rare that I pick up on one and stick with it for more than a few minutes.

One time, at my brother-in-law's we played guitar hero and rock band for an entire week (fueled by a ton of beer). After that I never touched it again. Totally burned out.

The only game, in the last thirty years, that I played until total mastery was Mario Cart Wii. I'm world-class, pretty much. I enjoy it, but once I mastered all the levels, including mirror courses, and then beat most people online, I got burned out and quit.

Angry Birds was fun for a week or so.

I do Words with Friends, but that's becoming boring too.


For me, I like to make things. I spend a lot of computer time working on photos. I usually only download apps that help me create something (music, art, photos, etc.).



I don't like board games, but if I had to play one my choice would be scrabble.

I do like Jeopardy on tv (fast-paced). I couldn't stand "millionaire" or ...fifth grader. Boooooring.
 
"Stupid games": https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

"Gamers will save the world": http://blog.ted.com/2010/03/17/gaming_can_make/

"So far, we've spent 5.9 million man-years playing W*rld of W*arcraft...."
 
Tip: If you want to get people to Shut the Fu#& Up about WOW if they are talking insessantly just very enthusiastically say that WOW should have a SMURF DAY, you could log on and play warrior smurf or magician smurf or hunter smurf, imagine the smufiness that could be had.
 
Currently, for me, it's Modern Warfare 3 on Wii.

I'll play some Rockband or Guitar Hero once in a while too. Expert.
 
don't forget about choplifter! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choplifter
 
Kingfish said:
Name it: The Platform, The Game, The Version, The Characters, and Why.

Next question: Are you married or have a significant person in your Life other than your mother? On second thought, don’t answer that – we already know based upon your gamer tag. 8)

I’ll start…
It’s a long list. Suffice it to say I’ll cut it short, list only the last two and call it good: Skyrim and Mass Effect 3, both on the XBOX. I like a good game that goes on for weeks providing rich entertainment and interactivity. ME doesn’t truly allow reentry of past conquests without starting a new play-through, and Skyrim is limited as well with partial refill of cleared dungeons. Still, to me this is dang good gaming. The XBOX though is reaching the end of its’ service life and I am looking forward to the next version, and to where platform gaming will go. As a UI/UX-guy, I enjoy the virtual immersion into realms of possibility: of flight, of swimming, climbing or looking down then leaping from high vistas (definitely a visceral sensation)… the extensions of our super-humanity and all that goes with it.

I'm with you KF, Skyrim and ME3 are amazing, even if nearly everyone dies...

And I'm married, with a 2yr old and a second on the way
 
PC, Might and Magic, All, especially IV, because I'm a dork

Wii, Resort Sports, Because my wife will compete against me

Wii, Super Mario Bros., I love the nostalgic feel to the game and play it with my 5yo son

PC, Solitaire, Windows Version, It kills a lot of time at work
 
My new favorite game is to cruise around town hunting down motorcycles with the Sheriff (my Cannondale SuperV powered by Hubmonster) :mrgreen:

Before SuperV my favorite game was one I've never gotten to play, which is see how long it would take to destroy every time wasting social skills retarding video game and device used for video games within a 50m radius.
 
John in CR said:
Before SuperV my favorite game was one I've never gotten to play, which is see how long it would take to destroy every time wasting social skills retarding video game and device used for video games within a 50m radius.

from 'the king of kong' : "everyone games" if you don't like games... it's pretty much impossible. some don't like games with a controller and screen, but I'm sure you would like a game of cards, darts, pool, whatever. and it is a social thing.
 
mud2005 said:
John in CR said:
Before SuperV my favorite game was one I've never gotten to play, which is see how long it would take to destroy every time wasting social skills retarding video game and device used for video games within a 50m radius.

from 'the king of kong' : "everyone games" if you don't like games... it's pretty much impossible. some don't like games with a controller and screen, but I'm sure you would like a game of cards, darts, pool, whatever. and it is a social thing.

I like games just fine, but anything that is just an electronics device that makes a person sit alone for hours on end pushing buttons to no real world outcome or benefit isn't a game, just a time waster and time is all we really have on this planet. The multi-player games provide some competitive release, which can be healthy especially for guys, but all video games are designed to be addictive and stimulating the addictive trait is horribly destructive for a significant percentage of people.
 
John in CR said:
I like games just fine, but anything that is just an electronics device that makes a person sit alone for hours on end pushing buttons to no real world outcome or benefit isn't a game, just a time waster and time is all we really have on this planet. The multi-player games provide some competitive release, which can be healthy especially for guys, but all video games are designed to be addictive and stimulating the addictive trait is horribly destructive for a significant percentage of people.

thats an interesting viewpoint and I can see where your coming from.

In my case, I don't know how I would have made it through adolescence w/o video games. they provided an escape I desperately needed. also I spent many hours playing games with friends, making new friends...

when I got a little older I became obsessed with writing video games. I "wasted" much of my spare time in from of a screen by myself hacking away. I never went to college and I just barely made it through high school. I learned c/c++/java 3d modeling UI design and even physics coding all on my own.

right now I am negotiating with a company for a job that makes triple what I'm currently making as a baker. the job is website development, but the company was impressed with the fact that I'm self taught and I know linux very well. they told me they're going to give me contract work for a couple months and if that goes well hire me.

so all my time wasting turned out to be a good thing.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. John Lennon :mrgreen: game on!
 
i would have to say any one of the gran turismos on playstation. also any one of the forza motorsports and grand theft auto from the third one and up on xbox.

but i think one of the best games ive played on a nintendo ds was dementium: the ward and dementium 2: the escape. call me a bitch, but i didnt think a game could be so scary on a 2 inch screen. :lol:
[youtube]2-CQn63K-Wg[/youtube]
 
Before SuperV my favorite game was one I've never gotten to play, which is see how long it would take to destroy every time wasting social skills retarding video game and device used for video games within a 50m radius.

I have always been intrigued at the deep hatred that a lot of people hold for video games. Don't get me wrong, I don't let my kids play them, for the same reason I drastically limit the amount of TV they watch - ie, because I would rather they did something physical and outdoors than indoors if possible. And it is probably more than that, in that I am aware (even from my own experience) how addictive computer games can be. At first blush most haters of video games will say that they hate the sedintary nature of the activity, but you don't hear them hating on people playing poker in the same way.

I personally have never understood the attraction to the really deeply involving and addictive computer games like World of Warcraft and Skyrim and so forth, I just don't understand why role playing games are so fascinating to people, but I don't resent them for it, whatever floats their boat. I personally don't think that people who hate video games hate the indoor/sedintary part, I think there is something deep in a lot of people, that they feel very uncomfortable when other people take a deep interest or fascination in something they can't find an attraction to. Why I say that, is that I remember there used to be similar handwringing by concerned parents about role playing games before they were in video form. I remember when I was at school they banned Dungeons and Dragons and those kinds of games, and there was all this discussion about the impact of these games on young minds. It is the same mentality of people who hate recreational drug use, even putting aside the "problem" people who take drugs, they don't even like or can't believe that productive healthy people can be undertaking the activity, because they can't relate to it, and so the fact that others are deeply engrossed in the activity which they hold no interest in, makes them uncomfortable. It is the same reason that people develop a strong dislike for different religions, cults, sexual practices and ideologies, even where the practice has no discernable impact on their life.

I first developed this theory from talking with homophobes. I couldn't understand why they had such hatred for something that had no impact on them. They would say things to me like "So what do you think about men having sex together?" and I would explain "I don't really think about it". But then I realised that for a large number of people, they are deeply affronted by other people taking a deep interest in something they hold no interest in themselves. I think this recurrs throughout most bigotry.

That's my theory anyway, otherwise I just struggle to understand the degree of hate which so many people have for an activity that is really pretty benign (I am talking about video games there, homosexuality is positively good, because it increases the hetero woman to man ratio). I just fundamentally come from a perspective of wanting everyone to be happy, and to do whatever they enjoy, as long as it doesn't harm others. I would never want to destroy something that brought others pleasure which didn't harm others.

EDIT: I should point out I wasn't suggesting you are a bigot John, I just genuinely am always amazed at the passionate hatred that alot of people have for video games, and was ruminating on that.
 
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