What Video Games Are You Playing?

[KYGOTC]

Guess I'm old school I'm playing the PS2 Ratchet and Clank series right now.

You know you're getting old when the PS2 qualifies as retro-gaming. 

Whatever happenned to the Sega Genesis? Or the C64?

C64? N64 was my beat, but ive never played a C64.

[Rev. Powell]

Guess I'm old school I'm playing the PS2 Ratchet and Clank series right now.

You know you're getting old when the PS2 qualifies as retro-gaming. 

Whatever happenned to the Sega Genesis? Or the C64?

C64? N64 was my beat, but ive never played a C64.

I think the Commodore 64 may have already been out of production before you were born.  It was released about 15 years before the N64. 

[CheezeFlixz]

I think the Commodore 64 may have already been out of production before you were born.  It was released about 15 years before the N64. 

I had a Commodore 64 with the snazzy cassette tape drive! Then I upgraded to a classy Trash80!

Shoot, PS2 is uptown for me, I still play a NES and SNES for a long time a GameCube was styling. My kids have the Wii I've yet to play it.

[Psycho Circus]

I used to have a Spectrum 

[Neville]

Behold...



the awesome-ness of the c64! The case was originally white, but Commodore's plastic casings age very badly.

I was the proud owner of an Amstrad CPC464, the main ZX Spectrum competitor in Europe:



It's difficult to explain its capabilities to modern gamers. It had a 4 MHZ CPU and 64 KB of RAM, which in these days may be fine for a pocket calculator, and the games resembled those of first generation pre-JAVA cellphones.

The games, as in the Spectrum or C64, were loaded through the attached tape player, after 5 minutes of loading. And very often, every stage needed to be loaded separately. 

I have many fond memories of my CPC and the many arcade ports I use to play, but unluckily the tape player became very unreliable in the early 90s and I had to jettison it. Now I wish I had thought of buying a second hand replacement instead. Hopefully, there are many decent emulators around.

[And I'd like to apologise for steering now and then this thread towards retrogaming, but I find the subject fascinating, plus I'm reaching the age when the old-fashioned tends to feel more appealing than the modern]

[Doggett]

[Joe the Destroyer]

I don't have quite as much going on right now, not as I did before. 

The World Ends With You
Eternal Sonata
Magna Carta
Zak and Wiki

I usually try to limit myself to about three or four games to complete.  It's been hard to find the time to play them all lately, though.  It doesn't help that I have a huge backlog. 

[Neville]

BTW, I just learned Steam is offering the classic strategy games "UFO: Enemy Unknown" and its sequel, "X-COM: Terror from the deep". If any of you don't mind dated graphics and have a Steam account, I'd advise you to get them. They're easily the most absorving games I've ever played in a PC. Including emulated ones.

Both games combine management simulation (you get to run the logistics of an international organisation created to stop an alien invasion) with nail-bitting turn-based strategy.

[Torgo]

I've started working  again on both Tales of the Abyss & Tales of Legendia  on the PS2.   Both are excellent RPG's. I also just beat Marvel Ultimate Alliance this past weekend on normal mode which in turn unlocked hard mode. 

[indianasmith]

I bought a $5 game at Circuit City last weekend called AVENCAST - RISE OF THE MAGE.  It's not up there with OBLIVION - or even MORROWIND for that matter - but it is kinda fun.

[Jack]

I ordered Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty for the PS2.  Really like MGS Snake Eater, so I'm hoping this one is just as fun.  Haven't really been playing many video games recently, I've been working on Poject Snowblind, which is an awesome game, but this is the third or fourth time I've played it and I just can't get too interested in it.

[Javakoala]

I've been bouncing between "Call of Cthulhu," Riddick-Escape From Butcher's Bay," and "Phantom Crash".  "Cthulhu" is great fun, but I'm stuck at this one point where you have to escape people trying to kill you. Man, it does induce a sense of panic!!

"Butcher's Bay" is a blast. Again, I'm stuck at a point where you have to beat this person to death and he just whomps on me.

"Phantom Crash" is speedy mech warfare. The designers created (by accident or on purpose) great places to lurk so you can wait for some dork to blast.  Too bad my Xbox isn't online.  Oh well....

[Psycho Circus]

I ordered Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty for the PS2.  Really like MGS Snake Eater, so I'm hoping this one is just as fun.  Haven't really been playing many video games recently, I've been working on Poject Snowblind, which is an awesome game, but this is the third or fourth time I've played it and I just can't get too interested in it.

You won't be disappointed 

[Doggett]

I ordered Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty for the PS2.  Really like MGS Snake Eater, so I'm hoping this one is just as fun.  Haven't really been playing many video games recently, I've been working on Poject Snowblind, which is an awesome game, but this is the third or fourth time I've played it and I just can't get too interested in it.

You won't be disappointed 

I was.
Apart the beginning on the boat, you spend all your time as a blond haired gimp. I wanted to be Snake.

[Neville]

I'm checking out some old (well, it's from 2005) FPS, Chrome - Specforce. It's lots of fun, although very limited when you compare it to newer stuff like "Crysis". Still it's somehow refreshing, and I can boost all the detail options to the maximum and it moves as fast as it does on minimum.