The end of my gaming?

steevc (73) in gaming • 7 years ago (edited)

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bozz (70) · 7 years ago

Halflife was such an awesome game. I put so many hours into it. I was finally able to beat it, but only by using god mode. I was never that great at games to beat them on my own. Unless they were role playing games. It's funny you talk about wanting to spend more time learning the guitar. I had bought a guitar some time back and had every intention of learning to play it, then I started playing World of Warcraft and that consumed all of my free time. I don't play WoW anymore, but I still have the guitar in a closet somewhere. I feel like my fingers aren't coordinated enough to pick it up now. Our first gaming system was from Sears and it was just Pong. I don't even remember the brand of the system. We had an Atari after that. This was a great series! Thanks for sharing!

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

I get that games are a social thing now, but otherwise I'd just use them to fill spare time that I don't have :)

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bozz (70) · 7 years ago

Yeah, I really don't play them like I used to either. The only consoles I have ever owned are the Atari, Nintendo(original), PS2, and now a Wii for our relatives. I never turn it on.

slobberchops (74) · 7 years ago

Argh! WoW, I extracted myself from that years ago, before that it was Everquest.

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bozz (70) · 7 years ago

I never played EverQuest. WoW gave me a free trial and then I was hooked 😋. I stopped playing during Pandaria.

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steemonkey (56) · 7 years ago

With you on the wii. Great family fun they are. Good to keep fit too with the wii sports. I worked plenty of sweat up boxing and playing volleyball in the living room :)

slobberchops (74) · 7 years ago

I don't play much either as there's too many other things that take my time up like... STEEMIT.. grrr., I need to cut this time down just like you say you need too.

bozz (70) · 7 years ago

I am starting to think I need to just do my comments in the morning, then shut it down for the day. Too much happening on Steemit to distract me!

verhp11 (67) · 7 years ago (edited)

My kids nowadays play PS4 online games like the popular Fortnite. I have played a lot online in the early day's like Quake I, II and III. Games I played a lot too where games like red alert "Afirmative" lol... You can still play it online in emulator mode... Great game :)

We occasionally play Call of duty on line with my brothers and some friends, the we talk with a headset to eachother, but that more for fun :)

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

Aren't all games for fun?

verhp11 (67) · 7 years ago

I guess you're right :) But what I meant whas that we weren't any good and didn't pay a lot of attention to the game but where mostly chatting through the headsets with eachother :)

jalayn (53) · 7 years ago

I've been gaming for nearly 27 years... And this year has been the longest I did not touch a game, more than 3 months.
I have nearly 150 games on Steam, some I've been waiting to play for quite some time, and somehow, it just lost its appeal. I've looked at this, and the only reason I see is that since I started steeming, I had to cut something as my personal time is limited (as 99% of people, non-millionaire people I guess).
Between Japanese self-learning, reading, and trying to stay in shape in my too-fast moving field of work (software dev) and gaming... Something had to be cut, I can't fabricate time...

I waited more than a year to buy Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun cheaper and play it. And since I have it, I played 18 minutes... I will play from time to time, but only because I can play in subtitled Japanese ;-)

I think I will come back to game more in the future, but for now, I've put other things on top of my personal time, same as you did a while ago.

ps: and having played nearly all Assassin's Creed games (love the history side), that AC: Origins game will be mine at one point, I can't resist ;-)

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

It seems a lot of games need a serious time commitment. I used to have some little games on my phone, but I don't even play those now. If I have a spare moment I will be checking steemit

jalayn (53) · 7 years ago

Indeed, a lot of games are very demanding. I played more than 150 hours of _Rocket League _ to come to the conclusion that I just suck at it, and that it's not for me ;-)
I played the most excellent Witcher III for more than 320 hours, it was more than 2 years ago when I had more time. I don't regret any second of it. Since then, I played lots of indie games, and a lot of them can be "finished" within 20 to 25 hours.
I like to have a feeling of completion, that "I did it" moment.

One thing though that I tried and I don't play anymore: punishing rogue games where you have no savegame and tens of hours of gaming can be gone in a matter of seconds... Except for Dungeon of the Endless which was rogue but all games ended within 3 to 4 hours if you managed to go to the end.

Ah well, too little time, and always something interesting to read, whether it's on steemit or not!

trevor.george (67) · 7 years ago

I used to play Descent.

It was f-ing AWESOME!

flying around in a 3D space in zero gravity, where any direction could be up, shooting robots - loads of fun. i also played Tombraider a lot. that is until I got to a puzzle that no-one in my flat cold get past, so then i just quit playing it.

But the games today are graphically way superior to the games we had back then. But I think the fun is just the same ;-)

planetauto (67) · 7 years ago

That’s very random I went a similar way to you, from Atari STFM to a 350mhz pc on win 98 I think, before that I had Atari Lynx, Mega CD, PS2 and 3 and SNES to name a few - now a few PC’s and 2 Xbox Ones.

steevc (73) · 7 years ago

My kids had Game Boy and DS too. I sort of bypassed the original consoles as they came out late for me.

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planetauto (67) · 7 years ago

I started on the 2600 then the ST, then likely the Lynx missed out on the Jaguar then to SNES, I’ve now a Lenovo Z50 for video work and a quad core AMD for mining and other bits.

obest (59) · 7 years ago

You have been involved in gaming for a very long time and have played a lot of different games , I am amaze at you interest in playing games over these year. And now that you are pursuing a new passion for music I wish you all the best and I know you will become a good guitarist and musician also @steevc

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niteshgupta (36) · 7 years ago

@steevc Good to hear that you are still interested in playing a computer games. Well, in music, you are good but you should try playing some awesome games which have been recently launched in the marked named as 'Detroit become human'.
I am eagerly waiting for steemit song which you have written

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steevc (73) · 7 years ago

No need to wait as here's one of them from last year

niteshgupta (36) · 7 years ago

wow!!! @steevc I loved the song you are an expert guitarist and lyrics are just awesome.
Just loved it its so unique and also subscribed your youtube channel

superherogamesq (52) · 7 years ago

This Is Great!

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roselover (57) · 7 years ago

A very special article
Really a very special and entertaining game
I wish you good luck

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