Random Gamer Silliness

[Recidiva]

Let's talk about the darker side of gaming.

I've broken a controller or two when I was younger...and a gameboy

I don't really have breakage issues. Mostly for me it's just a loss of other productivity.

It used to be sleep deprivation and I did play some of the most frustrating and sadistic games in history that nobody would be willing to play now. Now just seems fun and easy and doesn't waste as much of my time.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

The gameboy wasn't all my fault...them flip screen ones were real fragile

 

[Recidiva]

The gameboy wasn't all my fault...them flip screen ones were real fragile

My son breaks stuff, but he pays for it. His issues have slacked up in recent years and I'm grateful. Now it's just general neglect and not really rage monkey. Once he realized he'd be paying for it, that helped a lot on the collateral damage.

 

[lovetoread]

My son ruined my first psp.

I would've thrown him out the window if I could have picked his big butt up.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I broke one controller and one gameboy that I can remember. Usually I just hit a pillow or something and walk away for a bit. Besides, playstation controllers bounce on carpet

 

[Sean Renaud]

I went through my fair share of Super Nintendo and Genesis controllers before both me and my parents learned better than to buy off brand controllers. My original (I think, I've acquired I think 4) still works. My original Gameboy's soundcard died right before I gave it away to a friend who didn't have a brother and thus two Gamboy Colors (this was during the Pokemon craze and you needed to be able to trade in house if you were gonna get everything. My first Wii died, as did my first 360. My Atari. . .well there was an earthquake and someone didn't look behind the car when pulling out of the garage but other than that every system I've ever bought is still up and running and I own almost every system out there. It's literally quicker for me to tell you what I don't have than what I do.

I loved Fable 1, couldn't get into 2 and I didn't try 3 but I was told that I would have loved it.

 

[lovetoread]

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m913r8eDt11rvzq3fo1_500.jpg

 

[Sean Renaud]

LOL. Poor guy, trying to hit on a girl while trying to head shot her.

 

[John Doe]

Oblivion was...funnier and more endearing. I absolutely...adored...the whole line of the Assassin's guild and the horrifyingly romantic family way it was portrayed. "I hope you don't get killed!"

Sheogorath in the expansion was wonderful. "I'm so happy to see you I could just tear out your intestines and strangle you with them!"

Skyrim is...pretty and kinda cold. You have to make your own fun, it isn't going to get handed to you on a regular basis.

I hated how the enemies in Oblivion were always the same level as you no matter where you went or what you did. I never felt like I was getting more powerful.

 

[Recidiva]

I hated how the enemies in Oblivion were always the same level as you no matter where you went or what you did. I never felt like I was getting more powerful.

Oh yeah. You close fourteen Oblivion gates and still get taken down by a wolf.

Bears in Skyrim are like dragons, and they give you a disease. Thanks guys!

 

[lovetoread]

Its the opposite for Skyrim.

I am a level 54 and I am killing with one sword swipe.

2 for dragons.

 

[lovetoread]

I am now finding the horse for the ghost soul.

I am going to assume that the horsey is dead too.

 

[Recidiva]

I am now finding the horse for the ghost soul.

I am going to assume that the horsey is dead too.

Not the horse!

 

[Recidiva]

Looks like the crashing problem is due to me installing a free texture pack that Steam recommended. So now I can only play on the lowest graphic setting or there's crash bogeys or the game won't even load.

*shakes fist*

The world's a bit grayer and flatter...but I can at least play.

 

[CandiCame]

*does pixil art in minecraft like the loser he is*

 

[Recidiva]

*does pixil art in minecraft like the loser he is*

My son does too. If only I were a designer...but I'm not...I'm just one of those "run through stuff other people designed"

 

[CandiCame]

I've gotten addicted to that fucking game and I don't know why.

I've been on a nostalgia kick lately, though... I've been playing old shit that I didn't get a chance to play because of my timing, you know, born to late. But I've been harkening back to the beginning of gaming, running through shit from the 70s and 80s, Atari, Intellivision, Original Nintendo... right now I'm playing Mother on a NES emulator. My mom was a huge gamer too, and she reccomended all these old school RPGs when she heard I was getting into it. I want to do pixil art, and I figured that to learn from the masters I should play my way up, see what they started with and how they progressed.

I'm liking Mother so far. It's kind of nice not to have achievements and whatnot, you just play and... I dunno, it's more relaxing. Controls are a bitch though. I don't know if it's just my emulators or if that delay is really supposed to be there.

 

[Recidiva]

I've gotten addicted to that fucking game and I don't know why.

I've been on a nostalgia kick lately, though... I've been playing old shit that I didn't get a chance to play because of my timing, you know, born to late. But I've been harkening back to the beginning of gaming, running through shit from the 70s and 80s, Atari, Intellivision, Original Nintendo... right now I'm playing Mother on a NES emulator. My mom was a huge gamer too, and she reccomended all these old school RPGs when she heard I was getting into it. I want to do pixil art, and I figured that to learn from the masters I should play my way up, see what they started with and how they progressed.

I'm liking Mother so far. It's kind of nice not to have achievements and whatnot, you just play and... I dunno, it's more relaxing. Controls are a bitch though. I don't know if it's just my emulators or if that delay is really supposed to be there.

Yeah, it seems like it has a very cool customization and mod capability.

Oh, definitely a good way to catch up on the history and the style.

I never played it. Playing games now for me is much more like watching more of an interactive movie.

But it used to be pretty much only grind and puzzles. I'd spend hours on the phone trying to get tips on how to progress.

 

[CandiCame]

On the phone?

With who?

 

[Recidiva]

On the phone?

With who?

Old games like Sierra's King's Quest and other systems.

There was no such thing as online help from gamer community or boards...just being on the phone getting answers from an automated system provided by the game maker. An additional stream of revenue.

Can't figure out the puzzle? It'll cost you by the hour.

 

[CandiCame]

Old games like Sierra's King's Quest and other systems.

There was no such thing as online help from gamer community or boards...just being on the phone getting answers from an automated system provided by the game maker. An additional stream of revenue.

Can't figure out the puzzle? It'll cost you by the hour.

Wait, I knew that. I've seen ads for those help lines. That's actually a brilliant marketing strategy. I bet the internet pissed them right off.

 

[Recidiva]

Wait, I knew that. I've seen ads for those help lines. That's actually a brilliant marketing strategy. I bet the internet pissed them right off.

Oh yeah. No doubt. Saved me hours of boredom. Boasting co-players who will write a walkthrough and spare me having to think when I don't want to? Yes, please.

 

[CandiCame]

Oh yeah. No doubt. Saved me hours of boredom. Boasting co-players who will write a walkthrough and spare me having to think when I don't want to? Yes, please.

Well, something else about old games is that the rom doesn't come with the book, and a lot of times, the book is necessary. In RPGs, you don't get a description with a spell, so you have no idea what it does until you cast it and waste your mp. Which is all kinda bullshit. And there are sometimes no enough in-game clues, forcing you to go on-line. I feel like if I had a manual a lot of the time I wouldn't need things like spell and item lists.

 

[Recidiva]

Well, something else about old games is that the rom doesn't come with the book, and a lot of times, the book is necessary. In RPGs, you don't get a description with a spell, so you have no idea what it does until you cast it and waste your mp. Which is all kinda bullshit. And there are sometimes no enough in-game clues, forcing you to go on-line. I feel like if I had a manual a lot of the time I wouldn't need things like spell and item lists.

Yeah. I know a lot of people complain about games getting too easy, but I like it that way.

You can always go play an old game without a tutorial on iron man mode and then get back to me.

I don't miss no tutorials. I don't miss "twisty little maze of passages, all looking alike", I don't miss dumbass programmers thinking they're clever when they're just making it impossible to progress.

I remember a lot of those answers on the hotlines didn't even make sense. Answers to riddles that were completely stupid and bullshit, puzzles that were purposely obtuse. I remember being infuriated because one of the answers was Rumplestiltzkin and it was just an alternate spelling, one I never would have tried. Mad making.

I like maps, I don't like having to memorize everything, and I don't consider myself to be mentally deficient because I would like things in writing. I just don't want to have to store all this crap in my head, where I try to keep more important things sometimes.

 

[Very_Bad_Man]

On line gaming has cause divorces and loss of jobs and has added to Americas plight with obesity.