langy71
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I once did a 24hr session whilst playing Fallout 3, had loads of fun and completed loads of side quests, but wasn't half cream crackered the next day...slept like a baby that night.
Computer Games
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I've never been one for computer games, OK I've played chess, solitaire, mahjong, flight sim, but anything in the shoot em up style has never attracted me. I often wonder if I'm missing out, but I think I can cope with that!
Dave
Dave
Prefer turn based stuff myself, mostly because my hand eye coordination isn’t great. Bit of a dying breed these days though, and OI don’t play much these days.
Operational Art of War, mentioned by Andy, was a great strategic game. Played the full Barbarossa and D day scenarios quite a few times. From the same stables East Front II was also great, but only against a human opponent. The AI was quite weak played solo.
Always liked the Civilisation series as well.
The original turn based X Com was great, quite challenging.
From another genre, the Player Manager series of footy management games were excelent…..extremely immersive. You could play leagues from all over the world. I always started at the conference and tried to get higher. Got Salisbury City to League one once……lost many hours to that one.
Operational Art of War, mentioned by Andy, was a great strategic game. Played the full Barbarossa and D day scenarios quite a few times. From the same stables East Front II was also great, but only against a human opponent. The AI was quite weak played solo.
Always liked the Civilisation series as well.
The original turn based X Com was great, quite challenging.
From another genre, the Player Manager series of footy management games were excelent…..extremely immersive. You could play leagues from all over the world. I always started at the conference and tried to get higher. Got Salisbury City to League one once……lost many hours to that one.
Waspie
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Flight Sim. Now you're talking. Dabbled way back with Microsofts FS but wasn't overly impressed. Then I heard about XPlane. Bowser's I was hooked. Downloaded some HD mapping of the uk and spent hour upon hour in a Cessna just puddle jumping around the UK. Spend ages setting up the nav system, ILS and so forth. 90-100 kts. Great fun. You could set the weather, cloud base, precipitation, wind direction etc. Then adjust the water, swell and such. Just amazing. It cost me a mere £35. Bargain when I think the Navy spent half a million on getting realistic wave features on their Lynx sim at Portland.
Got me thinking now!! Might have a look at it again and if its within budget!!!
I wonder if any gamers can answer this one for me. Does anyone remember Carmaggedon ? I played it years ago and would love a trip down memory lane - however, does any one know how I might persuade it to run on Windows 10 ?
Wasn’t that a computer port across from a Mad Max type board game by Gary Gygax? I seem to remember it from the early eighties, but I could be getting it confused with something else?
Gary MacKenzie
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Carmageddon was fun.
pc solution @ https://store.steampowered.com/app/282010/Carmageddon_Max_Pack/
personally i prefer Cities:skylines , and intend to get cities:skylines 2 after xmas.
pc solution @ https://store.steampowered.com/app/282010/Carmageddon_Max_Pack/
personally i prefer Cities:skylines , and intend to get cities:skylines 2 after xmas.
Scratchbuilder
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'Homeworld' 2&3 old but always worth a turn when bored...
Anyone ever play the space sim called Elite (and it's follow on games called Frontiers and now Wing Commander)? I spent many an hour playing it. The moto was 'Think, Trade, Fight'. It was so immersive.
Gary MacKenzie
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BBC micro , and then on PC .....
Been updated , rereleased as ''Elite Dangerous'' and first time flying ship out of spacestation is just as tricky as it was in 1983/84
I remember that one. Only had keyboard controls while I owned it…..landing on the space stations was very hard without a joystick. One of the first ship upgrades I bought was always a landing computer……
It has been named many things. Elite, Frontiers Elite II, Frontiers First Encounters, Elite Dangerous (i owned them all) and it's now available as Wing Commander. I'm tempted to give Wing Commander a go. It looks good
Back in the day, I used to play East Front I & II, as well as West Front I & II from Talon Soft. I have all the add-ons, plus other games from them too. Red Baron and Grand Prix Legends were also favorites. I bought a U-Boat game and it used every key on the keyboard, except 3 of them. I tried to drive my U-Boat forwards in the tutorial to learn how to play the game. Ok, good to go. I then put the U-Boat in reverse, gave a little gas and hit something. My U-Boat sank and that was it!!! Game back in the box and I never played it again. I mean, what can you hit going backwards, underwater in the middle of the ocean???...Oh well, $39.95 in the toilet...
Prost
Allen
Prost
Allen
Sounds like we had similar tastes in games Allen. Loved Red Baron, especially the way the ambulance used to turn up if you crash landed. I had a frustrating Sub game as well. Can’t remember the name, but do vividly remember getting in amongst the Japanese fleet, and watching Kaga et al go by within touching distance. I simply couldn’t turn the periscope fast enough to line up a shot…….found out later there was a lock on button that would have done the hard work for me…….lost interest in it at that point…..
Anyone remember "WORLD WAR ZERO" on the playstation?...
.. based as if WW1 had never ended and had all manner of future weapons,mind altering gas and all mixed with the original German uniforms/equipment of the time....
... I loved it,but they never made another as far as I'm aware?!
.. based as if WW1 had never ended and had all manner of future weapons,mind altering gas and all mixed with the original German uniforms/equipment of the time....
... I loved it,but they never made another as far as I'm aware?!
Played that on the PC. Good fun.Anyone remember "WORLD WAR ZERO" on the playstation?...
.. based as if WW1 had never ended and had all manner of future weapons,mind altering gas and all mixed with the original German uniforms/equipment of the time....
... I loved it,but they never made another as far as I'm aware?!
Pete
I've managed to avoid gaming consoles since SWMBO gave her Nintendo 64 away. I've spent far too much of my life playing first-person shooter games, starting with the original Doom, but I don't bother much these days - too old, don't have the hand/eye coordination or the quick reactions.
Pete
Pete
That's why the older games appeal to me... I don't like the manic play of shooters these days,(I do have a PS4 with lots of games,but I get bogged down
),... So I do fancy getting that again!!
Not sure how much they are these days,.....
Sad thing is,I "leant" my PS2 years ago, with over 40 games,to a work mate, shortly after wards he emigrated to the states,and I never saw them all again!!
Was that Silent Service (Microprose) by any chance?