Do you play video games in your spare time?
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Only tetrix to relax then and when. Keep in mind old fart responding here :laugh: [Edit] Before decades: Pipe Mania (what I remember deliverd with Logitech Mouse driver) Pipe Dreams gameplay (PC Game, 1989) - YouTube[^] :laugh:
0x01AA wrote:
to relax then and when
The youngsters today play games for entertainment. It took me a few years (back in the 80's) to finish Robot Odyssey[^] You had to build circuits with logic gates to pass each level. There were no instructions included! The Hardest Computer Game of All Time[^] :omg:
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Only tetrix to relax then and when. Keep in mind old fart responding here :laugh: [Edit] Before decades: Pipe Mania (what I remember deliverd with Logitech Mouse driver) Pipe Dreams gameplay (PC Game, 1989) - YouTube[^] :laugh:
0x01AA wrote:
Keep in mind old fart responding here
Hah! And another here (63 next month), but I gave up Tetris decades ago ...
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
Just finished Final Fantasy VII Remake, great game (though not as brilliant as the original)! Before that I played Hades, very addictive. Other than that I played Ratchet & Clank, the entire Mass Effect trilogy (awesome, epic, some of my all time favorites), Outriders, Baldur's Gate II (the original, not the enhanced version, for good old times sake)... All of them on PS5, except BGII which I played on PC. Started Kena: Bridge of Spirits, but unfortunately I don't like it very much due to lack of story. Same goes for Darkest Dungeon. Looking for a new game to play at the moment.
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
Like to play Age of Empires. Working on an implementations of 19th century Prussian / British / American "war gaming". Have found the roots of current games rules back to 1824. Only the distances, fire and casualty rates change. And formations. They had tables, index points, scaling factors, peg boards, "sounding boards" used to count off without looking. Large scale maps and true-to-scale unit blocks (a first). Standards and time intervals which could be varied according to the situation (frames). Lots of data collection and analysis. Just missing a computer. Also, they had the "fog of war" (multiple maps; screens). And the uncertainty / friction factor (dice). The AI / final call was an umpire.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
I used to play a lot of MMOs but right now I play Guilty Gear: Strive and sometimes play some Dead Cells or Slay the Spire. When I get a big chunk of free time I'm planning on finishing Ori and the Will of the Wisps. That's pretty much it right now. Might give DNF Duel and Lost Ark a try when they release.
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Like to play Age of Empires. Working on an implementations of 19th century Prussian / British / American "war gaming". Have found the roots of current games rules back to 1824. Only the distances, fire and casualty rates change. And formations. They had tables, index points, scaling factors, peg boards, "sounding boards" used to count off without looking. Large scale maps and true-to-scale unit blocks (a first). Standards and time intervals which could be varied according to the situation (frames). Lots of data collection and analysis. Just missing a computer. Also, they had the "fog of war" (multiple maps; screens). And the uncertainty / friction factor (dice). The AI / final call was an umpire.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote:
roots of current games rules back to 1824
Check out Hounds and jackals[^] Do you have a list? I'd like to read more about them if you have time.
The "first" (true to scale) was the 1824 Von Reisswitz "Kriegsspiel"; followed by more expansive issues. (Search the web). These were in turn translated by the British under "Rules for the conduct of the war game" 18xx. (search the web). The U.S. took it to the next level with "The American Kriegsspiel 1882" and "Strategos 1880". Interestingly, the American authors each think their version is superior to the other. (Library of Congress).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
Can't call it 'spare' time when its all i got, but i do spend a lot of time in Diablo 1 - 3, Starcraft 1 & 2, and Plants vs Zombies :cool: :sigh:
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I used to play a lot of MMOs but right now I play Guilty Gear: Strive and sometimes play some Dead Cells or Slay the Spire. When I get a big chunk of free time I'm planning on finishing Ori and the Will of the Wisps. That's pretty much it right now. Might give DNF Duel and Lost Ark a try when they release.
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Hmmm, So I am guessing that you are a PlayStation fan. Two of those titles are Sony exclusives unavailable on the Microsoft platform. :)
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0x01AA wrote:
Keep in mind old fart responding here
Hah! And another here (63 next month), but I gave up Tetris decades ago ...
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
These days I only work virtual jigsaw puzzles on FascistBook. Or cards with the family. The last real computer games I played were Myst and its sequels. Before that I went through all the Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and other Sierra games, and a zillion more from the 70s. And of course, old codger that I am, my first was Colossal Cave and MS Flight Simulator on a Trash-80.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Nope. Steam on PC. I used to be a Playstation fan but honestly I haven't played console since the PS3 :laugh:
I used to have an XBox 360, but two RRODs put me right off consoles. Pity, it was good while it worked (and cheaper than gaming spec PC's). Oblivion on XBox was very nice, better than the PC version on mouse and KB.
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
Do you know about Wordle? Wordle - A daily word game[^] It has kind of taken over social media, but it really is kind of a neat (simple) game. Just guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less. THere is a new word puzzle every day. It runs in your browser. Very simple but quite satisfying. A bit like the old game Mastermind but with words. If your afraid, run the VirusTotal.com[^] on it.
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Just finished Final Fantasy VII Remake, great game (though not as brilliant as the original)! Before that I played Hades, very addictive. Other than that I played Ratchet & Clank, the entire Mass Effect trilogy (awesome, epic, some of my all time favorites), Outriders, Baldur's Gate II (the original, not the enhanced version, for good old times sake)... All of them on PS5, except BGII which I played on PC. Started Kena: Bridge of Spirits, but unfortunately I don't like it very much due to lack of story. Same goes for Darkest Dungeon. Looking for a new game to play at the moment.
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These days I only work virtual jigsaw puzzles on FascistBook. Or cards with the family. The last real computer games I played were Myst and its sequels. Before that I went through all the Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and other Sierra games, and a zillion more from the 70s. And of course, old codger that I am, my first was Colossal Cave and MS Flight Simulator on a Trash-80.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Do you know about Wordle? Wordle - A daily word game[^] It has kind of taken over social media, but it really is kind of a neat (simple) game. Just guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries or less. THere is a new word puzzle every day. It runs in your browser. Very simple but quite satisfying. A bit like the old game Mastermind but with words. If your afraid, run the VirusTotal.com[^] on it.
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
I used to...then wife/life/family took over my spare time, so not much anymore...I'm lucky to get a half-hour of Super Mario for PC a month! (the only 'game' I've actually installed on this system) edit: sorry, I almost forgot about MineCraft which I haven't played in over 3 years now! Ah, there was a time though, when I would spend hours in a dark office until the late hours, working my way through the likes of Lighthouse, Myst, and then Riven. I wasn't much into the FPS as much as puzzle solving. When I retire, maybe I'll have time for games again...and by that time, with VR, I'm sure it will be way better than I remember.
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Curious, I've discovered that quite a few members here play video games when they are not writing code. Some of you even design game mods. What games are you playing in your spare time?
Colossal Cave (PDP-10), Flight Simulator and Wizardry (Apple ][+), Arcticfox (Amiga 2000), and the Myst series. I've tried a few since then, but the only ones that managed to hold my interest were Obduction, Firewatch, and The Witness. I no longer have any interest in "real-time" games, which eliminates a lot of them.
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Colossal Cave (PDP-10), Flight Simulator and Wizardry (Apple ][+), Arcticfox (Amiga 2000), and the Myst series. I've tried a few since then, but the only ones that managed to hold my interest were Obduction, Firewatch, and The Witness. I no longer have any interest in "real-time" games, which eliminates a lot of them.
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