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[Tony]

What's your best game that you ever played (PC, Xbox, Playstation etc.). Mine on PC is Max Payne/Bioshock (two, both were awesome) and on Xbox Gears of War and Alan Wake.

[AWS]

I don't play many games anymore except for a few word games on my Android. I do have a Wii and occasionally will play a sports game. My fav is Madden NFL and Tiger Woods golf.

Back in the day I was a Mario fanatic. I had them all and mastered everyone of them. Spent a number of hours finding all the secrets of each one of them. I could fire up one of them and play from start to end with my eyes closed. No one could come close to beating me. Those were the days.

[Riess]

First Unreal, I still return to it from time to time.

[Jasey]

Max payne is a awesome game and def in my top 10.

I would say Age of Empires 2 for me

[Sunsettommy]

I like Civilization 5.

Also Colonization.

The rest of the games out there.I have no idea.Since I never played them.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

Final Fantasy VII.

Greatest RPG ever made.

[Webmist]

Original and still a favorite (collect them as well) is Monopoly. D&D back in the day along with ms pacman & donkey kong. That led to Nintendo, Sega, Playstation, and now we have a Wii. Of course we still have the others to. Last few years though it's been strictly The Sims games I'm addicted to.

**Note to self; need to see if those old system still even work.

[Sunsettommy]

Webmist, on 31 January 2012 - 11:16 PM, said:

Original and still a favorite (collect them as well) is Monopoly. D&D back in the day along with ms pacman & donkey kong. That led to Nintendo, Sega, Playstation, and now we have a Wii. Of course we still have the others to. Last few years though it's been strictly The Sims games I'm addicted to.

**Note to self; need to see if those old system still even work.

Do you have SimTower?

I do but will not work on the newer computers.Thank goodness I have an old computer with Windows 98 in it.

[Webmist]

Sunsettommy, on 01 February 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

Do you have SimTower?

I do but will not work on the newer computers.Thank goodness I have an old computer with Windows 98 in it.

Yes I've got it on Vista, haven't tried it on this version, windows 7 64bit.

Have your tried this?
http://windows.micro...sion-of-Windows

This is how I got it to work on vista. I put everything back to basic.

[Sunsettommy]

Webmist, on 02 February 2012 - 07:16 PM, said:

Yes I've got it on Vista, haven't tried it on this version, windows 7 64bit.

Have your tried this?
http://windows.micro...sion-of-Windows

This is how I got it to work on vista. I put everything back to basic.

Hey!

Thanks for the tip!

[Kelson]

I used to love to play MMORPGS. I was addicted to Lineage 2 for years. I can't say it was the best game I ever played, but it was the game that I have played the longest. I also love to play golf games like the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series, and I am bummed that it is no longer made for the PC,

[Sunsettommy]

Kelson, on 09 February 2012 - 09:15 AM, said:

I used to love to play MMORPGS. I was addicted to Lineage 2 for years. I can't say it was the best game I ever played, but it was the game that I have played the longest. I also love to play golf games like the Tiger Woods PGA Tour series, and I am bummed that it is no longer made for the PC,

Yeah the PC games have all but vanished now.

Game stores have stopped selling them in my area.

Now only Best Buy sells a few PC games.But they are cutting back too.

[Kelson]

Sunsettommy, on 09 February 2012 - 10:21 AM, said:

Yeah the PC games have all but vanished now.

Game stores have stopped selling them in my area.

Now only Best Buy sells a few PC games.But they are cutting back too.

A lot of PC games are sold by digital download now. With internet speeds the way they are, usually they are fast downloads.

[Gaza]

Riess, on 15 January 2012 - 08:11 PM, said:

First Unreal, I still return to it from time to time.

That was one of the first online games I played, me and 2 mates from work used to play after working night shift for a few hours running our own LAN game. Good fun GOTY version of Unreal Tournament. Tried QUAKE later for a while, but thought the maps was not big enough. Unreal was much better, even if it didn't have as good a graphics as Quake!

Battlefield Vietnam - was also a good online game, especially if you took the time and learned to fly the Jets proper like I did. You pretty much owned everyone then on the ground, plus was easy to kill the helicopters. Been playing FreeLancer Discovery mod on and off now, but starting to get bored with it after a few weeks of playing. Mainly because I've played the game to death years ago previously.

AWS, on 14 January 2012 - 01:59 PM, said:

I don't play many games anymore except for a few word games on my Android. I do have a Wii and occasionally will play a sports game. My fav is Madden NFL and Tiger Woods golf.

Back in the day I was a Mario fanatic. I had them all and mastered everyone of them. Spent a number of hours finding all the secrets of each one of them. I could fire up one of them and play from start to end with my eyes closed. No one could come close to beating me. Those were the days.

I used to play PGA Tour Golf on a console I once had, was good fun. Also used to enjoy a car racing game called Grand Turismo (first one) on the PSP. Your going back some years there though!

First ever game I played? Hmm, I think was a space game named Elite on the Commodore 64. Now your seriously going back some years there, that was also the space game that set the ground for all others that followed, such as the Egosoft X-Games (played them also). Very famous game was Elite for people old enough to remember it, was one of the first (if not the very first) open end games with no ending and was more or less impossible to reach the highest rank of "Elite" status. I managed to reach one rank before it though.

Edited by mrgtb, 16 February 2012 - 03:57 PM.

[Gaza]

Been playing FreeLancer online (on an off) still, not as much now though. Anyway, because I've played it before years ago, the first time around for a long time, I'm well aware many try and mod (cheat) in the game. I see loads getting kicked for trying all the time while playing it! That said, the new Discovery Mod uses a lot of Anti-Cheat measures that are server-side, I think it also checks file-size on INI files. To be honest, I can mod FreeLancer myself, but only did so before to make easy money with spawn cheats (not possible on the Discovery Server). But it seems from what I can gather, it's not perfect though, people can still mod their ships in certain areas like speed and flight dynamics giving them an edge. Tonight playing it I chased a "Corsair" faction player and he was jumping all over the screen, one minute 2k away in-front of me, the next he just darted across the screen and was 4-5k away from me in a totally different direction. I've known for a while many of the Corsair players are modding their ships, tonight I've had enough of it now I think.

Same old thing again with players in FreeLancer, too many cheaters flying modded ships, that don't fly like they should do. Or they make themselves LAG on purpose (by downloading something, like using uTorrent in the background and setting a download rate to perfection). So you pretty much can't kill them due to them being laggy jumping around the screen when their PING goes up, while they can kill you easy because of it. Same rubbish once again, just like years ago!

Really, the Discovery Mod server should be kicking people if their PING goes over a certain limit, that tool was there years ago for FreeLancer to boot Laggers. Can't understand looking at all the good anti-cheat they already use, while they don't do that. I suspect they don't because they may lose a lot of online players doing it, players they need to keep the numbers up online? But Laggers is the biggest problem on the server and many do it on purpose when fighting. I was fighting one "Outcast" guy last week in a Sabre ship, my ship was twice as agile and he was out-turning me, even when I was using engine kill and strafing on turns. Just a joke, and I told the guy he was a modder as well!

It really miffs you off when your playing fair, your not modding or lagging. Then you get some player coming at you to fight who's modding his ass off! Worst thing is though, on the Discovery Server if you lose a PVP fight your not allowed to re-enter that same system again for the next 4 hours as part of the "Role Playing" rules. So some modder can come into a system you could be doing missions in to earn much needed money, kill you by cheating - forcing you out that system for the next 4 hours. They should scrap that 4 hours rule, it's a stupid one anyhow and doesn't help encourage role play at all. In fact you'll avoid fights if your after staying in that system for example for a good while.

Everyone is flying around in Battleships of late also, they cost a fortune to buy, your talking hundreds of millions that would take you weeks to earn trading none stop. It does nothing for role playing when your in a bog standard normal fighter ship and if killed your out that system for the next 4 hours. And you WILL GET KILLED going against a Battleship in a VHF (Very Heavy Fighter).

Rant over - think that modder tonight was just the last straw for me on the server now.

Edited by mrgtb, 20 February 2012 - 09:03 PM.

[AWS]

The very first game I ever played was one called Guerrillas that was a console game in DOS 5.0. It was a game where 2 gurrillas stood on tall buildings and threw bananas at each other trying to destroy the building they stood on. When you toppled the building you won.

You had to calculate the angle and velocity of the throw. You could also play in different gravities by changing a setting before you played. I created a mod with qbasic that changed the gravity on every throw to make it harder to calculate the angle and velocity, thus making the game more challenging.

[Marker1z]

Well for me the best games are need for speed and counterstike. i love to play these games.