Gamer thread - you got game?

[rgraham666]

You should try publishing it now, lovely.

I'm also a Diablo 2 player, and the original Diablo, of course...

Just repaced my Phantasmagoria off ebay.. cannot WAIT to start playing it again, that is one HELL of a game.

Sigh. The computer files that contain it are on diskettes now unreadable in format inaccessible. I have a paper version still, but it would take a fair bit of typing to replace.

Also, last time I tried peddling it I found most game companies are even cheaper than smut publishers. I meant it to be a new gaming system, they treated it as an expansion pack. So many cents a word and that's it.

And they didn't want to keep one of my major and most important innovations. Loose leaf catalogs of equipment, skills etc. With an index. One of the things I disliked most about most RPGs was how often the game stopped while everyone had to search through books for the relevant information. During play tests we never took longer than a minute to do that. My players loved that. So did I.

And it would be a steady revenue stream. I was planning on new catalogs yearly.

None of the companies I dealt with got that.

Anyhow, a lot of my writing skill comes from stories I created for RPGs. For a story to be successful you need character, plot, conflict, mood and all the rest of that stuff. Doesn't matter the medium the story plays out in.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Civilizations of all stripes.

Civilization III, Play The World, Conquests... I'm saving up for CIV.

 

[rgraham666]

I've gotten rather bored with Civ, I'm afraid.

And I'm sure CivIII cheats.

 

[FallingToFly]

I've gotten rather bored with Civ, I'm afraid.

And I'm sure CivIII cheats.

Funny, that's what my husband says.

I should have my Phantasmagoria on Monday. *shudder of delight* So, no one should be surprised when I suddenly start turning out practically aubergine prose dripping with violence, decadence and sinister undertones, kay? That game just does that too me.

 

[rgraham666]

Funny, that's what my husband says.

When you have a whole continent to yourself and the best you can build in military units is Swordsmen because you have none of the strategic resources required to build anything more advanced, and this happens repeatedly, I have to question the algorithms that generate said strategic resources.

Especially when your opponents rarely go short.

 

[SummerMorning]

Civilization III, Play The World, Conquests... I'm saving up for CIV.

Don't go there. It will eat you alive.

BTW - If you REALLY want to go there, I can mail you my CDs. I'm not interested in playing any more.

 

[Guest]

When you have a whole continent to yourself and the best you can build in military units is Swordsmen because you have none of the strategic resources required to build anything more advanced, and this happens repeatedly, I have to question the algorithms that generate said strategic resources.

Especially when your opponents rarely go short.

I recently revived CIV II just for nostalgia purposes. It's a good way to waste time

 

[rgraham666]

I recently revived CIV II just for nostalgia purposes. It's a good way to waste time

I'm afraid I played that one until I was sick of it.

I sometimes wonder if my dislike of CivIII consists in large part of my residual nausea of CivII.

 

[Guest]

I'm afraid I played that one until I was sick of it.

I sometimes wonder if my dislike of CivIII consists in large part of my residual nausea of CivII.

I haven't played it in a few years, so that had all worn off. Plus I usually don't play to the end. For whatever reason, my favorite part of the game is the early part when you are building and exploring. Sometimes I just go to war to wipe out one of the other nations. Then I get bored and go do something else.

I am not committed to it And I like to be the Celts.

 

[Oblimo]

When I was eight years old, my mother, hearing rumors about Dungeons and Dragons leading to Satanism, immediately ran out and bought me a copy. Not the boxed set, mind you, that hadn't been published yet, but the ziplock bag with the three beige booklets. Skip ahead over 20 years and I'm a freelance writer for d20 D&D supplements and a couple other RPGs.

I got bit bad by the WoW bug this Spring but haven't touched it since i started writing smut again.

Civilization II is a perennial favorite in my house; it's the only PC game my wife plays other than puzzles like Bookworm. I wanted to love CivIII, but the inability to trade resources between your own cities utterly ruined my suspension of disbelief. The whole point of civilization (lowercase-c) and empire is to specialize the local economy! I simply could not handle the idea of New York City having to feed itself with its own farms, even as an abstraction. The fact that CivIII does not interactively model intra-empire trade absolutely ruined the game for me.

 

[Guest]

When I was eight years old, my mother, hearing rumors about Dungeons and Dragons leading to Satanism, immediately ran out and bought me a copy. Not the boxed set, mind you, that hadn't been published yet, but the ziplock bag with the three beige booklets. Skip ahead over 20 years and I'm a freelance writer for d20 D&D supplements and a couple other RPGs.

I got bit bad by the WoW bug this Spring but haven't touched it since i started writing smut again.

Civilization II is a perennial favorite in my house; it's the only PC game my wife plays other than puzzles like Bookworm. I wanted to love CivIII, but the inability to trade resources between your own cities utterly ruined my suspension of disbelief. The whole point of civilization (lowercase-c) and empire is to specialize the local economy! I simply could not handle the idea of New York City having to feed itself with its own farms, even as an abstraction. The fact that CivIII does not interactively model intra-empire trade absolutely ruined the game for me.

Was that actually the first D&D set or the precurser, Chainmail? A friend of mine has that one and it looks like what you describe.

Oh, how it's grown! I've given up buying D&D suppliments, though -- ran out of room, and then they updated the engine and....I'm too invested in 2nd edition We bought the base books and now hardly play anymore.

*sigh*

I tried to start an online message based MAGE game, but everyone sort of wandered off. I didn't have the energy to keep it up. I just wanna PLAY. I've been too involved in running games the last few years. I don't enjoy that as much as playing.

 

[Remec]

Inspired by the Comic Con thread, and not limited to computer games. No mind games, though.

Well, let's see...
board games-------check
CCGs--------------check
RPGs--------------check
regular card games-check
online games-------check
PS2 games---------check
GameBoyColor------check

Yeah, I got the gamut covered. *g*

hehehe
No, seriously, I play almost anything or have the option to do so. I'm just a gamer, period.
Current faves---M:TG, D&D3.5, Living Death, Delta Files, Neopets (both the card game and the online site)

I do have the PS2 and GameBoy, but have really only played a handful of the console games and Pokemon Silver (only missing, like, 40 or less pokemon from a complete set)

Games I would love to play, but haven't the time or people around me: Shadowfist CCG, Champions, Spades, Cribbage

 

[Aurora Black]

That reminds me! You found your angel (AV), but where is it from? Was it a NOLA cemetary?

[LOL, I'm threadjacking my own thread. ADD much, Huck? ]

It turned out to be a stock photo from Getty Images, if you can believe it.

Firefly: In the mood for some bloody gardening, are we?

 

[FallingToFly]

It turned out to be a stock photo from Getty Images, if you can believe it.

Firefly: In the mood for some bloody gardening, are we?

WHo me?



Truthfully, I'm just an evil bitch, and I've decided to embrace the fact. Don't much care who likes it or not.