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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Lusche on July 01, 2016, 04:17:47 PM
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Back in the day I was playing Unreal Tournament for hours without end. At weekends I would meet up with co-workers for a LAN party (carrying around massive 19" CTRs) and we would blast away till sunrise... :joystick:
Recently I got Verdun, really nice shooter. But despite being much slower in pace than the good old UT stuff, I can not really cope with it any more. Not only that I massively suck, getting killed again and again by guys I never see (I about expected that) - I simply can not play for longer than 15-20 minutes before getting dizzy and exhausted. :rolleyes:
You know what I actually ended up with in the current Steam Summer sale? An effin truck simulator! I'm now down to a game simulating boring work :bhead
Already have spent 25 hours driving irrelevant stuff all over Europe with excitement finding it's climax in reversing my trailer into a parking space...
I dream of playing fun and exciting games online with my little boy, but at this pace I'm afaraid I will be staring for five minutes at a "click OK to proceed button" when he's 12. :uhoh
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How old are you?
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I might still have Unreal Tournament game of the year edition floating around. I played that all the time online, CTF, face being the favorite map. Last time I played that game online was 13 years ago
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Only one thing for it,
"goon driver Version 3.0"
Teach him the basics of the "^" drop over Map rooms and you can slime your way over many an AH base. TU2's can shut down any vbase or port and de-ack after.
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If you're looking for a good shooter I recommend 'Squad'.. Its actually still in Alpha.. but its hard to believe its Alpha.. Even the soundtrack is awesome.. haha
http://store.steampowered.com/app/393380/
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why is the flag on that one dudes helmet backwards?
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Lusche don't feel bad, I've been addicted to farming simulator lately and have already spent 40 hours on one map plowing fields.. :D
Lusche do what you enjoy, not what others tell you to enjoy.
When I got my first computer back in 1999 I used to play the crap out of games like Tribes, Starcraft, Battlefield 1942. I loved playing online vs people and just having hours of fun. Today I prefer much slower games like ES2, FS2015 where I'm not competing against people and I can just take my time. Guess that's why I'm a buff pilot.
Gaming has changed alot over the years, some for better, some for worse. Who knows maybe your boy will like Truck Simulator and you can do convoys with him. (if they ever add Co-Op :furious ) Or maybe you'll join Planetside and be a father - son sniper team. Or maybe he'll fly buffs at 20k so you can shoot them down and pad your score. :D
Granted I don't know how old your son is so I don't know what will be out when he's 12 but I'm sure they'll be something you both can enjoy. Like EVE Online. :D
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Lusche, sometimes what we think is changes from old age is a medical problem creeping up on us. Check with your Doctor. When I changed my diet a lot of my "getting old" symptoms got better.
I'm also wondering if you played UT on a smaller monitor then you use now.
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one day i will get a farming simulator :x , so i dont have to spend much time outside. :old:
As of now im too cheap to buy the game, maybe ill have v.r. goggles by then. :pray
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one day i will get a farming simulator :x , so i dont have to spend much time outside. :old:
As of now im too cheap to buy the game, maybe ill have v.r. goggles by then. :pray
It's 50% off until July 4th on steam so now is a good time to get it if you want it.
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I can't find time to play all the games I enjoy.
Online:
AH
I-Racing
Offline:
Nascar Racing 2003 Season (mostly for the modifications for road racing)
West Front (based on the old Avalon Hill hex board games)
Sim...
Microsoft Games (Solitaire, Mine Sweeper, Pinball, Chess Titans)
Smartphone:
Real Racing 3
Great Little War Game
Monument Valley
Plants vs Zombies
Seems there's always something to pick up and play for a while.
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one day i will get a farming simulator :x , so i dont have to spend much time outside. :old:
As of now im too cheap to buy the game, maybe ill have v.r. goggles by then. :pray
You can do farming simulator for free by going outside and planting veggies :D And its already 3D
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AH is the only game I play...I've got 2 acres of farm simulator in my backyard...night before last it turned into a FPS farm simulator as a raccoon was killing my chickens...he didn't make it...and I have to replace the back door of my chicken house...its even more fun when it a grass picking simulator... Nothing more fun than crawling around 1800 sqft of plants pulling grass
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Congratulations Lusche. You're ready to move up to a simulator simulator.
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I feel the same way some days Lusche, and also same as BaldEagle. I have more free time now than any other time in my life, yet I spend far less time gaming than I used to. When AH first came out I can remember 12 hour marathon sessions being more common than not, and I played the early Counterstrike and Rainbow 6 even more than that. Quake 2 prior to that, I paid for 3 different net connections back when dsl/cable was "@home" and very new, just so I could pick the one with the best ping when I needed it - if I could have gotten a t1 in my area, I would have.
Now...the hardware I have is 10x better than back then, and I have so many games in my Steam directory I don't have room for them all on 4tb worth of space - although I've never actually put that to the test. SO many games it feels overwhelming now, and I end up just not playing...any. Netflix and other such services have been my problem I think. I disconnected them, hulu, and even AH for the first time in a long time, in order to force myself to get back into playing games in general. I know, it sounds odd, killing the sub for Ah to get back to playing Ah, but other than messing around offline in beta, and the last scenario, I think I've played under a dozen hours this year, and as I said, I used to clock that in a single days, while working 15 days on 15 off, then 3 months on 3 off later on. My days off were 100% spent gaming while the wife was at work, and 1/2 the time when she wasn't (rawr). I hope to have re-ignited the desire to play by the time AH3 is out.
I think the reward center of the brain sort of becomes less...less, as we age. Mine has. I used to play to get the satisfaction of winning, succeeding, whatever it was, now, that just doesn't seem important. It's a shame too, because games now are incredible. Hopefully VR will bring some of that reward center back. Otherwise I keep upgrading and buying new stuff for Mrs and her nephews/niece to use, and for her to play WoW, which can be done on a rasp pii almost, not a 5$k gaming setup.
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Same here, If I don't play from work, I fly AH a few hours a month if any. I used to spend hours on games like COD/GTA/FORZA/SKYRIM and early MMOs. Really cheap and exciting entertainment. My worst was 41H straight in Falcon 3.
Two things. For our generation playing online 'affordably' was always a dream, everything was single gaming. So office LAN parties were step 1, MMOs step 2 our of childhood fantasies. Now it's been there done that.
The other side of the coin, at least for me is video games are really a time killer at best. Having more disposable income, my life is busy. I always have something to do. Or I deal with work, or rebuild one of my car, or I'm working on my house, or I'm working on my land ... my favorite free time is to go hike a mountain, go explore the desert with my wife. When I'm sitting it is to read/learn about how to do something. I don't even have cable TV, I don't go to the movies and I occasionally watch/rent something. Same boredom, movies genres feel so scripted that you have seen that before.
With gaming, I still enjoy it immensely and there are extraordinary games out there but I feel bad if I sit for too long, like I'm wasting my life waiting to die. :lipsrsealed: Don't feel bad about your lack for skill level, like everything, someone spending gazilion of hours on something will get God like at it (like my 12 YO nephew at COD Ghost) ... but he can have it. As he is busy parading his ubberness on a virtual scoreboard and Youtube, I built a couple of things that will still be around for a few years. :old:
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I got on a few games that were posted in the Oclub, Hobowars and Ogame, both text based browser games. After a while it got boring and lost interest
Right now im playing Minecraft on the PC. I dont have the skills to build anything fancy or interesting, just get on and play on an online server to kill time. Before that I played Kerbal Space Program, which is fun seeing if what you build actually makes it into orbit or not. Also a time waster.
Stuff like Call of Duty or games like that I just have no interest in anymore. Last time I actually played them was right after we had our first child which involved long nights of rocking them back to sleep (sound muted of course). About a few months of that I havent played it for 4 years now. Just too much to do around the house and with family to get involved into games like I used to
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Feel your pain sir......my son tried to teach me to play COD but it was an epic failure. I can't get use to the new style controller (Xbox, PS4 type) with the little joysticks for moving and looking......think I'll just stick to flying badly
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AH is the only game I play...I've got 2 acres of farm simulator in my backyard...night before last it turned into a FPS farm simulator as a raccoon was killing my chickens...he didn't make it...and I have to replace the back door of mychicken house...its even more fun when it a grass picking simulator...
Classic.
- oldman
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For me the AAA COD type games, Far Cry, and the like, are the ones I DO actually play through when I buy them. Usually takes a couple/few days, and then the single player is over. Frenchy made me think of all the flight sims I should be playing besides AH that I have -
Falcon BMS (most recent).
All the DCS (I have 90 percent of the modules)
IL2 Cliffs/Dover with that Fusion mod
IL2 Stalingrad (just got in for over 1/2 off on the Steam summer sale)
ROF - bought it last year on the summer sale with the complete/all in package
Flight Sim X - bought as well on summer sale for cheap.
Steel Beasts - just ordered this 100$ tank sim, supposed to be "the it" armor game
Silent Hunter 4/5
Dangerous Water - again, Steam sale for like 3$ or some such
Wargame Europe/China/etc
Star Citizen
Elite Dangerous
Kerbal space - I just got it and played a bit, hilarious and fun
I'm missing others, but the general idea is JUST the sim games - so many great, great options.
Frenchy, you still doing work with the Mirage 2000 DCS? I'm waiting for it to show up on Steam, as I have a large credit there I"m wiping out with DCS modules, and it's one of the last ones (F5 too) that I want to get.
edit - Puller that got an actual out loud laugh, good times.
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Have you tried pie chart simulator :bolt:
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The campaign for the M2000 is 13 missions long. I think you will like it. Baltic Dragon did a good job with keeping you entertained as you are going thru them. And ... you'll get to hear my voice telling you what to do as the all so relax squadron leader. :joystick: :rofl
The issue we have is RAZBAM keeps on tweaking the M2000 removing/adding/changing functionalities that screws up the script everytime we explain a system in the first few missions.
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Have you tried pie chart simulator :bolt:
:rofl
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The computer game industry is doing the dying cockroach from what I see. Everything is now geared towards the game box and is what I call twitch games. Games that are so fast that the player twitches the controller more than anything else. The grandkids have an xbox and the boys like to try and get me to play. I hate the controllers and won't play most of the games. There are a couple that do work, shooters that will allow some tactical aspects to work rather than run blindly around shooting everything. On a couple of those the kids have found out that the old guy can be a nasty opponent or a good partner.
Most of what I play on my own anymore are the old Command and Conquer games, the latter ones. They work on win 7. If I have time and am bored I'll do the campaigns otherwise it's skirmishes set to a decent level of difficulty. Occasionally I'll break out the far cry games. Once we started traveling I got rid of all the flying games and my joystick / rudder pedals.
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For me the AAA COD type games, Far Cry, and the like, are the ones I DO actually play through when I buy them. Usually takes a couple/few days, and then the single player is over. Frenchy made me think of all the flight sims I should be playing besides AH that I have -
Falcon BMS (most recent).
All the DCS (I have 90 percent of the modules)
IL2 Cliffs/Dover with that Fusion mod
IL2 Stalingrad (just got in for over 1/2 off on the Steam summer sale)
ROF - bought it last year on the summer sale with the complete/all in package
Flight Sim X - bought as well on summer sale for cheap.
Steel Beasts - just ordered this 100$ tank sim, supposed to be "the it" armor game
Silent Hunter 4/5
Dangerous Water - again, Steam sale for like 3$ or some such
Wargame Europe/China/etc
Star Citizen
Elite Dangerous
Kerbal space - I just got it and played a bit, hilarious and fun
I'm missing others, but the general idea is JUST the sim games - so many great, great options.
Frenchy, you still doing work with the Mirage 2000 DCS? I'm waiting for it to show up on Steam, as I have a large credit there I"m wiping out with DCS modules, and it's one of the last ones (F5 too) that I want to get.
edit - Puller that got an actual out loud laugh, good times.
Dangerous Waters, coool. You should check out FPSchalzy's tutorial videos on youtube. It's a complicated game and the tutorial vids that come with it didn't seem that helpful if I recall.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvzqNmdX71x2COOyM-p2qHIpRNOvpGQ
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My favorites are Cooking Mama and Soccer Physics.
I'm waiting for a good washing dishes simulator. Totally a market opportunity for some enterprising game entrepreneur.
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Way back in the days of yore when I knew nothing about flying sims, a buddy and I gathered a group of gentlemen for some Toca2 racing every Saturday afternoon. One of the other guys felt relieved when he heard my age. He himself was closing the mature age of 30 and had been in the belief that gaming past that would be childish and embarrassing.
There's times when I find watching grass grow utterly interesting. That added with a couple of bumble bees for audio sometimes make a perfect morning.
Hint: Don't review your wife's lingerie in the laundry machine as an erotic movie, though. If you get aroused by watching the round glass door, keep it to yourself...
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we've gotten old, that's all.
I find that only Civ type games manage to hold my interest for any period of a time those days :(
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I think that is just human nature Gman. When ya had less time it made play time more valuable perhaps and it was new. Now that ya have been there and done that and have more time it just may not be as important to ya. I still enjoy AH but I don't put in 10-12 hour days at it anymore either. When I was new to flight sims I couldn't get enough now I can take it or leave it.
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AH is the only game I play...I've got 2 acres of farm simulator in my backyard...night before last it turned into a FPS farm simulator as a raccoon was killing my chickens...he didn't make it...and I have to replace the back door of my chicken house...its even more fun when it a grass picking simulator... Nothing more fun than crawling around 1800 sqft of plants pulling grass
Sounds very immersive! :old: :D
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When I am not playing Mechwarrior Online after having been reunited with the highest skilled core of 1st FW's from WoT? I am playing Assetto Corsa. Best physics on the market right now and challenges my abilities.
I just recently purchased the HTC 10 and the only game on it is Hill Climb Racing.
BTW, PC gaming is not going anywhere, anytime soon. There will always be quality PC gaming. They are what is keeping the fresh updates of hardware in check.
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Mash, have u played iRacing lately?
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Mash, have u played iRacing lately?
I used to and enjoy the incredible physics of Assetto Corsa. Not to mention the eye candy. I was in the alpha's of both rFactor and iRacing. I stopped playing rFactor when the Second one was proposed and stopped tinkering with iRacing about two years ago.
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Sounds very immersive! :old: :D
To quote MxR, "Immersive as f%*£" :D
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You might give it an another try. The tire model on the road cars is much more tuned. No more of the 'unrecoverable rear wheel break'. Plus like AH, the skill level online is severe. (and I'd get to race against you or with u as teammate in an endurance race). :cheers:
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Iracing is fun but i did not have a good week racing at Daytona so its break time from racing for a bit. thinking about trying the Aces high beta now while waiting for WoW to release legion
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Daytona 500 or the 24H of Daytona?
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I sold my old GameCube recently and I hooked it up to test it just to make sure that it worked. I put in 007 Nightfire which was my favorite game on the platform and I could not even manage to walk around, let alone shoot anything. Proficiency with the console controllers definitely takes a nosedive after a decade.
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If you like driving you can rally with us at r/simrally (https://www.reddit.com/r/simrally/) every week.
What is rallying? It's more or less the opposite of oval racing. :D
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If you ever make it out to west Texas be glad to give you a ride in a boring work truck. 2014 kw t680 with Cummins isx15@600hp from the factory. It's been worked on a wee bit and puts 950hp to the ground. With both sticks in the big hole in theory it could reach 137 mph or 219.2kph. The truck is governed at 99mph to keep the bean counters happy. Still all in all its not boring
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The other side of the coin, at least for me is video games are really a time killer at best. Having more disposable income, my life is busy. I always have something to do. Or I deal with work, or rebuild one of my car, or I'm working on my house, or I'm working on my land ... my favorite free time is to go hike a mountain, go explore the desert with my wife. When I'm sitting it is to read/learn about how to do something. I don't even have cable TV, I don't go to the movies and I occasionally watch/rent something. Same boredom, movies genres feel so scripted that you have seen that before.
I have so much friggin crap to do... I often find myself sitting here thinking about whether or not to game, or go try and figure out which project I should get on first. Then it's 4am and I go to bed.
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I have four Steam gaming accounts. There are many games on Steam that are just there to appeal to your memories from your early days of gaming. I own just about every game worthy of being played including some that have stopped working (EA Sports mostly) since technology has progressed.
I own every simulation I could find, including many that are so broken they don't really simulate anything more than frustration. I have considered buying out the titles just to make something playable, but then I think that the money spent would never be recovered.
One of my squad members looked into my library and commented that I could never find the time to play them all. He's right about that, probably, but I also have six kids now, and a seventh on the way. My kids will love many of these games. I bought the games mostly to see how games are designed, how they function, and what is working in the gaming world. I play games just three times a week for youtube, and a fourth night for time with the wife. I also paint with Photoshop (for fun), and create sounds a music with programs I found on Steam. Steam is also a really good place to get downloads like Blender, and GameMaker Studio (really easy to use too).
We are putting up a dairy on the family property, so my free time will be decreasing and we may move to the PI very soon depending on the cultural climate here.
I don't feel any ill effects from playing computer games, but we did study how to 'cure' some of the problems that come up and I believe most gaming companies will be making those changes as time goes on. Technology is a wonderful thing, as long as you remember not to back toward the cliff's edge when taking your selfies.
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I really dont see him "massively sucking" at any game.
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I still remember the escargot incident.