Teach my lazy arse about computer/console games

woops

woops

is not like other people
luka said:
I'm very ambivalent about it. If you want something to get mindlessly absorbed in you don't notice the days drift away, it's great. If you're unhappy or in some kind of pain it will distract you. Some of the pubs are really great but you always reach a point where you're horrified and disgusted by the hours you've poured into it. Your eyes are bleeding. You haven't slept in weeks.
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pattycakes_ said:
if you wanna relive the old days - emulators are the way to go. so many games still hold up and have that replay factor. bomberman 5 on the snes is one of the most fun and addictive multiplayers ever. the entire release catalog is less than a GB to dl. all those old games you used to love for free. plus all the ones you never got. just need to buy a cheapo usb controller. old xbox ones work a treat. nintendo 64 works well too, and if your pc can handle it you can even play playstations, nintendo wii and whatnot. 16bit is where it's at for me tho
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Getting a master system ROM and finally completing Alex the Kid by using cheats and unlimited saves was a very life-affirming moment for me.
 
luka

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Alex Kidd appears as a short boy with large ears and slightly monkey-like features, a red and yellow jumpsuit, and oversized hands.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
WashYourHands said:
Right, preamble intro - I haven’t played comp or console games for around 20 years. Int Superstar Soccer, Goldeneye and Age of Empires are where I got off the bus. Maybe a match or two with a mate on his FIFA PS thing since then, disinterested at stupid (make that impossible) sidesteps and tricks and there was no flying leg-break tackle option to add insult to no injuries.

Pc graphics card is a bit crap, so, what’s the Dissensus take on console gaming? Kids haven’t gravitated toward this zone yet, thank fuck, so this all about Daddy staying sane. Can just sort of ‘park’ Brexit in the background, Covid too. Mrs Wash travels all over these god forsaken isles with work, so maybe you Skyrimmers could reach out to help out.

Blasting things, tedium, no golf, online multiplayers would be ideal. Games that test your thirst for violence, but make you work at it. Like an instrument, which I’ve also got half a plan for in gestation.

What you saying, gang. Don’t laugh.
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Ah interesting... I often think about getting back into gaming. I used to love playing Amiga games when I was... I dunno... 17 or 18 or something bu I pretty much stopped when I went to university. Although maybe some friends had playstations and stuff every now and again and I've enjoyed playing with them too.
I like when I used to go home at Christmas or whatever and see my brothers maybe playing GTA or something and I would get quite absorbed in watching them play - and sometimes just have a silly little blast myself, but I was so far behind them of course cos they played games in general all the time and had most likely been playing whichever one this was for months already, and so after they watched me die pitifully a few times I would sadly hand the control back and return to watching.
I do sometimes think about buying a console and a few great games. Like I really almost sprang for Red Dead Redemption with all the hype, but somehow I didn't. And part of me thinks that such a big, deep game like that might suck me in and just lead to me wasting more time that I could use more profitably... and then I think to myself "What about the opposite? How's about if I just grabbed a nice beat 'em up or footie game which is fun and which you can just pick up and have a blast with a few drunk friends." Although that's not really ideal cos we live at a distance that most people think of as impossibly far outside of town and so it's rare for people to just pop round.
Or I could... I dunno. I wonder if I'll ever have as much fun as I did when I was young and at the same time I wonder if I'll have too much fun somehow and I'll spend time on it that I could have done something better with. I don't even know what I think... but something always stops me. In short I feel as though I'm permanently stuck on this kind of precipice of almost buying one but unable to get it... or even shorter, I probably should have started this thread myself and, although I have nothing to contribute, I'll read with interest and see if I can learn something.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
pattycakes_ said:
if you wanna relive the old days - emulators are the way to go. so many games still hold up and have that replay factor. bomberman 5 on the snes is one of the most fun and addictive multiplayers ever. the entire release catalog is less than a GB to dl. all those old games you used to love for free. plus all the ones you never got. just need to buy a cheapo usb controller. old xbox ones work a treat. nintendo 64 works well too, and if your pc can handle it you can even play playstations, nintendo wii and whatnot. 16bit is where it's at for me tho
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Bomberman, was that not the same game as Dynablaster or something on the Amiga? You could have a load of players on that if it's the same thing I'm thinking of. It was a killer.
I remember Lemmings had a great two player option that most players I knew didn't use - that was fucking wicked, we used to call it "Falling out with friends" cos you could do such brilliant sneaky things to fuck over your opponent.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
luka said:
Painstook! Stan!
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I gotta admit I double-taked there, thought it was a typo, then realised it wasn't. I'm gonna come down for it.. I think it's not an ugly word in itself although it does have a clumsiness to it. I dunno.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
One thing that's good for us oldies is the graphics are so good now. Something that the kids will laugh at as pathetically primitive still looks mindblowing to someone who grew up playing Chuckie Egg and Dizzy and... well, yeah Lemmings.
Dizzy was fucking great though, remember that anyone? Think this is Dizzy 2; Treasure Island Dizzy, spent ages inviting myself round the houses of friends with nicer parents to waste time on this fucker.

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pattycakes_

pattycakes_

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IdleRich said:
Bomberman, was that not the same game as Dynablaster or something on the Amiga? You could have a load of players on that if it's the same thing I'm thinking of. It was a killer.
I remember Lemmings had a great two player option that most players I knew didn't use - that was fucking wicked, we used to call it "Falling out with friends" cos you could do such brilliant sneaky things to fuck over your opponent.
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had bomberman 2 on the snes. that and mariokart are my two most played games. endless fun.
 
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