My game playing tastes have changed, but I am not interested in giving up. I did decide to shift away from WOW type RPGs and have gone pretty much exclusively with EVE Online.
I just plain got tired of the grind, go out kill 100 of bunnies and rip out their hearts and turn them in. Go pick 10 000 flowers and turn them into potions just to make gold to buy stuff with.
With Eve, I am my corps Director of Planetary Interaction. I am in charge of acquiring and manufacturing components that go into the building program. I also teach people planetary interaction, and I coordinate the logistics of the program. I get to use my real world logistic and accounting skills. I get to hang out with people I like so I have social interaction. Our corp is a member of a good alliance, and it is a good corp. If I don’t want to I dont have to kill people and I can still live in null sec space in a reasonably safe area tucked away in Branch. My corp even built me a POS to work out of in my own lonely little solar system =)
I still play Civ, and just got microsofts flight sim game for the heck of it, but I never got into facebook, so the only silly little game I play is solitaire =)
Don’t know how well it’s going these days in terms of player base, but Warhammer Online is damn close to DAoC in spirit - although the combat mechanics are more on the action-y side.
I liked it a lot - but my old guild moved back to WoW (the bloody sheeples !) which I refuse to play, and I didn’t feel like playing an MMO without them, so…
Other than that, I’m a bit like **Athena **: my gaming libido’s still strong, but PC games these days just aren’t as hot as they used to be, are they ?
Oh well. Still a metric ton of old games to (re)play.
You should check out The Void. There’s no other game quite like it. It’s very much a “love it or hate it” experience, but it’s unforgettable either way.
ETA : oh, and **Superhal **? DOSBox is your friend. Get it, use it, love it, play X-Com again.
I’ve been done with PC gaming for a few years now. It’s the same story, X2, that you see on this thread:
Marriage/Mortgage/Kids/Work - hardly any free time, and what I have is better spent than…
Trying to learn how to learn new interfaces/game mechanics/etc.
I think the last “new” game that I made it all the way through was Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. I’ve bought Civ 3 and 4, but never could find the time (or the interest) to play a complete game.
As a matter of fact, it was likely Civ 3 that made me pull the plug. I was playing a campaign and, after a few days, I got to the mid 19th-century (aka “halfway” ) on one of the harder levels.
It was then that I really paid attention to the pop-up that appeared after quitting a game - it told me that I had spent 43 hours on this campaign alone. 43 hours! That’s a work week! That’s time that I could have spent exercising, reading, sexin’ the wife, playing with my kid (she was 2 at the time), etc etc etc… And I was only halfway done.
Ugh… no more. I’ve tried getting back into PC gaming since then, but other than the aforementioned MoH:AA, I just can’t do it.
Except for the original Colonization… I’ll fire that one up at least once a year.
OTOH, I do have a Wii and spend a fair amount of time playing Rock Band variants, so I’m not completely out of gaming altogether… just PC gaming.
There’s ton of stuff to see in PC gaming. Too much for one person to possibly go through, nevermind a busy person.
I don’t get t play multi-player as much as I’d want, since I also like playing single-player a lot and with work/family AND school, it doesn’t leave much time for playing a lot of both single and multi-player.
If I ever ditch PC gaming for plastic toy guitars, someone please shoot me.
To each their own. It’s not that I can’t see the appeal with PC games I was an avid gamer for over 25 years. It’s just that it’s worn thin for me as far as keeping me engaged as of late. I’m pursuing other interests.
I’m 27. The first PC game I really got into was Wolfenstein 3d. I made the progression through Doom, Doom II, etc. PC games were superior to console games, so I got the PC version if I could. The Mortal Kombat games were much better on PC. Since I was young, my computer started falling behind around 1998, so I stuck to consoles. I got a new PC in 2001 that could run anything, so I got into NASCAR simulators and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I played a handful of games up through Doom 3. That was the last one I bought.
Now it’s just the occasional console game. I’ve got Doom and Doom II for my 360 though, so I’ve been working my way through them. No idclip sucks at times.
Shit, I’m almost 32 and I feel like I’m in my twilight days of playing computer/console games. My interest quickly wanes, my free time is more valuable, my tolerance for online punks is at an end and I just don’t really get that thrill of staying up till 4 in the morning to finish one more level anymore.
I promised myself Civ 5 and Fallout New Vegas but that might be it.
It comes and goes, I’ll be really into it for a few months, then not so much for a month or 2.
Recently the Steam summer sale got me into Civ IV and The Witcher, and I’ve been re-discovering the HL2 engine with mods like the new Firearms Source and Insurgency.
One thing I’m into now that I have less time to devote to getting into a new game is casual/flash games. I read JayisGames.com regularly, especially for Friday link dump. Those games tend to rarely require more than an hour of effort to finish, often much less. It’s great to have a game you spend only a session on and don’t need to do much with.
Plus there’s some really interesting stuff being made in this format - Desktop TD, Shift, The Majesty of Colors, Where We Remain, Fancy Pants, and the bizarre world of Minoto.
Fuck no I’m not done. I will continue to ignore my kids and wife at the expense of PC games because I can, and once the divorce is settled I will play them even more. Buncha fucking women.
Haven’t given up completely, but certainly don’t play with the same intensity I used too when I was younger. I’ve pretty much given up MMORPGs, however…I doubt I’ll every play one again, not unless they completely change the gaming model. I am looking forward to the new Fallout game, and I’ve enjoyed Star Craft II so far. But I’d say I’m down to maybe a couple of hours of gaming a week, instead of hours of gaming a day, and these days it’s unusual for me to even turn my main computer on at night (always presupposing I’m actually at home and not on the road…another thing that’s getting really old, but that’s another story).
I have to agree with you on MMORPGs, I played Asheron’s Call years ago and had a blast, but the same old grind of leveling up and respawning monster dens got old even back then. The game world needs to be constantly evolving, if I clear a dungeon it needs to STAY cleared, or at least gradually and realistically repopulate. And of course the game companies keep stringing you along by raising the level caps periodically. Easy money.
Gawd, not remotely. I play more game hours today than ever, and I’m a veteran of the release of the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. World of Warcraft has most of my time these days and has for 4 years, but I also play Spore, Europa Universalis 2 and 3, and am working on the release of the computerised 7 Ages. I’m in it for life, it seems.
What people get out of video console games I’ll never understand. There is simply no depth to them.
) on one of the harder levels.
