I feel very old every time I catch myself going into a rant of “I remember when you had to know how to USE a computer to play a game! When you had to muck around with the Autoexec.bat and the Config.sys files to free up enough memory to play a game and STILL have sound in it! You EARNED the right to play a computer game back then!”
And of course, when I was younger, I had to walk uphill, both ways, in the snow, just to download porn for my computer. 
I’ve been playing Stranglehold. Sure, it’s Max Payne with Chow Yun-Fat and more bloodshed, but that’s an extremely good thing, IMHO.
I play Civ IV:BTS hardcore. Game kicks ass.
I also really love IL2 all the way through the Pacific expansion. I have my computer hooked up to my DLP projector and home theater system and I have a little cockpit built as well so it is practically a simulator. VERY immersive.
I am waiting expectantly for Guitar Hero III which comes out for PC at the end of the month. I dont have to buy a console to play it!! WOOT!!
half life 2 episode 2 in 3 days!!!
I’m fixin’ to fire up NeverWinter Nights 1 for the first time. I finally got around to getting the Diamond edition with both expansion packs for 20 dolla. It also comes with “Kingmaker”, whatever that is.
And of course it goes without saying that I’m playing Sims 2 off & on at all times. I spend way more time making people than I do playing them, but it still counts!
I’m really just counting down the days to Mass Effect. I know I oughta get BioShock, but dammit, I don’t like FPSs… even a “really good” FPS still ends up being a damn FPS.
Sierra Indigo, Bloodlines is a freakin’ awesome game. I have it, and it’s even still installed, but I can’t bring myself to start it back up because a) my computer is too damn slow for this one part in the sewer where I fight a really tough guy and b) I’m at a part where it’s really creepy and I want someone to beat it for me 
Oddly enough lately I’ve been playing the hell out of Age of Empires II.
I’ve been playing WoW a great deal since I started early this year. I’d be playing Medieval II: Total War’s expansion, but my video card has been misbehaving and can no longer run Medieval properly. I’ve been enjoying Beyond the Sword, but mostly just with goofy games (Sid’s Sushi Co. is hilarious if you use the map editor to put fish in every water tile in your territory). Yesterday, I fired up my SNES emulator and started a game of Uncharted Waters: New Horizons; it’s so very fun.
Are you kidding me? I had to walk uphill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes and no feet, and then pay my teachers just for permission to come to class and when I got home, my dad would kill me and dance about on my grave singin’ hallelujah … but you tell that to the kids these days and they won’t believe you.
Er … yeah, about games. I remember the golden days too. One of the worst offenders of DOS era configuration I can ever remember was Terminator Rampage. That game was as fickle as I’ve ever seen. It took ages to configure memory and sound drivers to get it to run. Even today, I could never hope to run it via emulation because the setup process was so whacked. That’s got me thinking: what other offenders from the golden age of gaming were hopelessly impossible to configure? 
DDO here. Anyone else?
I’ve gone back to EQ2 again. I got bored and went back to LOTRO for a bit (I beta’d it but didn’t subscribe after launch), got bored with that and tried out WOW, got way bored with that and went back to Dark Age of Camelot but that made me sad (my first MMORPG, and it’s a dying one) and I miss the RP aspect of EQ2 so… I’m back to EQ2.
I never “finished” Oblivion, so from time to time I’ll fire it up, but I feel almost like there’s TOO much to do. And for some reason it makes me kinda dizzy.
I’m very much not a FPS gamer. MMORPG’s are for me.
I’m always several years behind.
Currently I’m working my way through that (again) as well as playing Keepsake and I just picked up Fable…
This sounds like a great topic for a spinoff thread.
Heh, you’re right. Whether or not it’s actually a good topic, I’m not sure, but I was thinking the same thing. You wanna start it or should I?
Forgive me, CK?
I’ll go do it. 
Edit: I’m retarded. :smack: :smack:
Still stuck on Everquest 2. I don’t think I’m ever going to be able to ditch it. I’ve tried others, but keep coming back to it. It’s like home to me. :D:D
Asheron’s Call 2 was like that for me, at least until they shut it down after the failed expansion. It had a small community, was repeatedly bashed in gaming mags and forums around the web–but gosh darnit, its still the most fun I’ve had playing an MMO since Sierra’s The Realm (which was later taken over by codeweavers and altered to the point of sucking).
I dunno, there was just something uniquely accessible about it for a casual gamer like me–I didn’t have to group in order to kill a higher level solo monster–heck, prior to the Feral Intendant nerfs, I didn’t have to group in order to kill a group mob–I loved taking down the weaker Tyrants and walking away from the battle with full health. 
Today? Eh, I occasionally dust off my World of Warcraft account, but my character has been consistently stuck at level 40 since well before the expansion was released. That and I’ll occasionally replay the original and expansion for Warcraft III.
Old-ish games are the best. I wish I had PC copies of Alpha Centauri and Morrowind.
That’s Guild Wars for me. I’ve been all over DAoC, EQ, LOTRO, AO, etc. And I always come back to Guild Wars. I can find my way around Tyria better than I can find my way around here