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DLaurent

DLaurent

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I like point and click adventure games but not many get made. A few do... I've played Technobabylon, Gemini Rue, Thimbleweed Park and maybe a couple of others. But I'm still waiting for the next Broken Sword instalment. Those games I've listed take me back to the days of Beneath a Steel Sky. Anyone else like those kind of games?

I've got a playstation 4 but don't get into the games that much. Tried Detroit: Become Human and didn't get into it. I think the last game I completed was L.A. Noire and the game I play most is Hustle Kings snooker.

Always preferred immersive adventure games to multiplayer type games.
 
luka

luka

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computer games

has anyone played braid? it's fan-tas-tic
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Teach my lazy arse about computer/console games

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...
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How Computer Games Shaped Our Imaginations.

Let's do a thread about this finally. I'm always on about it.
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Early 2000's video games

I got an xbox for my 8th birthday and a drum kit for my 10th so i have an incredibly narrow window of being a game enthusiast. can i muster version and corpsey to wallow in a niche nostalgia with me? halo, timesplitters 2, ssx tricky, splinter cell, rainbow six 3, manhunt, star wars...
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The impossible architecture of video games

Borges would have a field day with this stuff. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games There is a saying in architecture that no building is unbuildable, only unbuilt. Structures may be impossible in the here and now, but have the potential to...
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Can computer games be art?

Played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas last night, which is amazingly fun (much more so than the bloated, stoopid Vice City). Set in Straight Outta Compton era LA, it's extraordinarily rich in observation- one of the characters (Ryder) is clearly Eazy-E, perpetually blunted, hunched up behind...
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Grand Theft Auto

seems to me theres two really visible influences among the youth/pop culture of the 00s. one is vice magazine which is just the face for a more affectless generation the other, much more potent pervasive influence is this computer game. it must be in more homes than any recent album or dvd or...
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Red Dead Redemption II

The general idea of open-world/sandbox games is old hat now but the continuous refinement and expansion of them is pretty staggering. They genuinely seem to be able to present entire worlds at this point, you can practically live in them. Apparently in this one there's stuff like your horse's...
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Grand Theft Auto

I'm leaning toward III or Vice City, but it's tough. Got an unplayed copy of Episodes from Liberty City here too, might give it a go shortly.
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DLaurent

DLaurent

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Sorry I did search but only found a couple of threads. Point and click games are a niche market it seems these days. Give me Monkey Island or Broken Sword over a lot of novels, or at least comparable to Choose Your Own Adventure ones.

I might get into a few strategy games. Used to love Utopia as a kid.
 
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Pandiculate

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DLaurent said:
Sorry I did search but only found a couple of threads. Point and click games are a niche market it seems these days. Give me Monkey Island or Broken Sword over a lot of novels, or at least comparable to Choose Your Own Adventure ones.

I might get into a few strategy games. Used to love Utopia as a kid.
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I keep thinking I should load up some RTS games, used to spend hours in Age of Empires as a kid just building a massive base. Don't think I've got the patience for it any more.

Not something that really gets made any more.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
DLaurent said:
Sorry I did search but only found a couple of threads. Point and click games are a niche market it seems these days. Give me Monkey Island or Broken Sword over a lot of novels, or at least comparable to Choose Your Own Adventure ones.

I might get into a few strategy games. Used to love Utopia as a kid.
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Used to love Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2... these days I'm glad that I don't have a PS or whatever cos I find so many ways to waste time already... some of the games do look super cool though gotta admit.
 
chava

chava

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Oh Zak McCracken and the Alien Mindbenders on the C64 brings up memories. There was some wierd muzak jams in it as well
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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Has anyone else ever spent so much time playing 1st-person games (shooters or otherwise) that they've found themselves having dreams that were apparently rendered in a particular game's graphics engine?

I distinctly remember having Doom dreams that gave way to Quake dreams, that were in turn superseded by Unreal and Half-Life dreams.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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I was dreaming about video games last night actually.

When I occasionally play call of duty for six hours straight then try to go asleep I lie there for hours playing out scenarios in my head
 
chava

chava

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Mr. Tea said:
Has anyone else ever spent so much time playing 1st-person games (shooters or otherwise) that they've found themselves having dreams that were apparently rendered in a particular game's graphics engine?

I distinctly remember having Doom dreams that gave way to Quake dreams, that were in turn superseded by Unreal and Half-Life dreams.
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The invention of 1st person games is one of the reasons I got out of gaming in time. I mean who'd want such a totally conservative approach? I've got plenty of first perspective in my life already! The same with 3D or VR, completely redundant technologies.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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chava said:
The invention of 1st person games is one of the reasons I got out of gaming in time. I mean who'd want such a totally conservative approach? I've got plenty of first perspective in my life already! The same with 3D or VR, completely redundant technologies.
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That's an interesting position, and one I totally disagree with. I love the immersion of 3D games. If I had a few thousand to spare I'd be all over Half-Life: Alyx.
 
luka

luka

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adhd is presumably caused by the environment these demented kids are raised in plus being suckled on monster energy drink
 
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