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what do you have and what have you been playing?

me:

Xbox 360
Wii
DS
PC good enough for most games, can run CSS/Half Life 2 on highest settings and Doom 3 on second highest
PS1/PS2

been playing...

Half-Life 2 Deathmatch
Halo 2 (in preparation for 3, which I have pre-ordered already)
Mario Kart DS
Street Fighter Alpha 3
CS:Source
Halo PC
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 3 on DS
Soldier Of Fortune

PC

warbirds
fs2004
x-plane
cycling manager 2007

PS3 x2.
PS2 x2.
Wii.
Primary PC (Intel Q6600, 2x nVidia 8800 Ultras, 4GB Patriot DDR2-800).
Back-up PC (AMD Athlon 3800+ x2, ATI X1600XT, 2GB Samsung DDR2-400).

Playing:

Red Orchestra: Ostfront '41-45.
Counter Strike 1.6.
Counter Strike: Source.
Call of Duty 3.
Gran Turismo HD.
Battlefield 2.
Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

PC (piece-o-crap Acer)

Playing:

Diablo II

Not much time for anything else lately.

PC, as of late:

Need For Speed: Porsche Unleashed
Need For Speed: Underground 2
Test Drive Unlimited
Counter-Strike: Source
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch

Xbox:

Fprza Motorsport.

Sigh.

I love gaming.

Haven't had any time at all.

Getting old computer back from ex - with Diablo II on it. Never solved that one. Thinking this winter may be a good time to do that :)

Let's see here.
Need for speed 2 SE.
Need for speed hot pursuit
Need for speed most wanted
Need For Speed Carbon

Let's see here.
Need for speed 2 SE.
Need for speed hot pursuit
Need for speed most wanted
Need For Speed Carbon



Hmmmm I see a common thought process here .....

PS1, PS3
Wii
PC (C2D6400)

I skipped the PS2 gen, so playing those games on my PS3 now. Got it a week or two ago when the price dropped and the rumor that newer PS3 will only have software PS2 emu. Finished FFX, now on FFX-2; still need to start FFXII. Also playing GT4/GTHD once in a while.

PC-wise, Guild Wars and GTR2.

Didn't play the Wii much except when I first got it.

Ahhhh, my children. I am a king amongst the ranks of the old PC games (Ultima, Wolfenstein, D&D, Diablo and such and such). Grew up playing those things, STILL really good at configuring DOS to play obscure games, also DOSBOX. Lost weight, got a GF, started some actual HOBBIES, and since then life has taken over, but I still feel fond memories.

As Tude says, no time lately, and that's ok. So many real things to do, like learning to sight read sheet music, etc. A friend lent me "Oblivion", haven't looked at it yet. Probably for the best.

The other day I went back through both Halos on the Xbox... I do that about once a month, on average.

On the PC, I lately got back into Deus Ex and Empire Earth. Starcraft, AoE II, Warcraft III, and BF1942 are all in regular rotation, too. (My PC is an old dual PIII with an original Radeon, so no new games for me.)

Ahhhh, my children. I am a king amongst the ranks of the old PC games (Ultima, Wolfenstein, D&D, Diablo and such and such). Grew up playing those things, STILL really good at configuring DOS to play obscure games, also DOSBOX. Lost weight, got a GF, started some actual HOBBIES, and since then life has taken over, but I still feel fond memories.

As Tude says, no time lately, and that's ok. So many real things to do, like learning to sight read sheet music, etc. A friend lent me "Oblivion", haven't looked at it yet. Probably for the best.



Dooooooooood you are sooo my age. Old Wolfenstein on DOS :)

I guess you're my age too if your early stuff are PC-based. CGA graphics, then later HIMEM and EMM386 flags to push stuff up leaving the low 640K's for the games. Fun times. :p

My (older) bro-in-law's childhood gaming memory consists of C64 and such; before my time.

Just a PC

Been playing Fear this summer. Very demanding on the hardware.
I played Warbirds years ago. The whole lag thing drove me crazy after a while.
Need to get Need for Speed Most Wanted.

Wish someone would come out with a game as good as Total Annihalation. I tried the demo that is supposed to be like it. It wasn't.

Diablo, don't play it but a friend did. I remember the guy walked like he was clenching his buttocks. That was funny.

I loved the first Half Life, and Unreal had it's moments (didn't care for UT).

Now I am waiting for someone to come out with a good DX10 game.

Fun times.

Don't forget the joys of the never-working-quite-right Sound Blaster emulation and all that, if you were one of the unfortunate souls who opted for a shiny new Gravis Ultrasound or the like. :rolleyes: (And that's not even getting into the jumpers and IRQ issues you went through in getting the thing working at all.)

Or the systems like the 286-16mhz, 386DX-40, etc, where your cards may or may not work because of the weird ISA speeds.

Thinking about that stuff again... think I'ma hafta break out one of the old boxen and get some Commander Keen action going. ;)

Awwww...yeah. If you gotta change jumper settings to get a game working, you KNOW it's something special.

I'll jump back into this tomorrow, cooking for a RL GF at the moment. Didn't expect so many kindred souls.

Don't forget the joys of the never-working-quite-right Sound Blaster emulation and all that, if you were one of the unfortunate souls who opted for a shiny new Gravis Ultrasound or the like. :rolleyes: (And that's not even getting into the jumpers and IRQ issues you went through in getting the thing working at all.)

Or the systems like the 286-16mhz, 386DX-40, etc, where your cards may or may not work because of the weird ISA speeds.

Thinking about that stuff again... think I'ma hafta break out one of the old boxen and get some Commander Keen action going. ;)


Add to the fact that I'm putting in an awesome sound card from present computer --- just so's I can get the surround sound up and running. Ohhhhhh, that subwoofer :D (and a bane to my tenant downstairs)

MacBook Pro - 2.33GHz, 2GB DDR2, 256MB ATI RadeonX1600

Counter-Strike 1.6
Call of Duty 2
Half-Life 2

C2D E6600 @ 3.5ghz--Ausus P5B--Creative x-fi--2x1gig Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800--eVGA 8800 GTS

It runs pretty much anything, right now i'm actually playing MVP 2005 a lot, waiting for Madden.

Falcon 4.0
Nascar 2003
GTR and ARMA

Bzflag, Anyone up for a rabbit hunt?

PC...
NFS III
Sports Car GT
I can't help myself there is something about an old VooDoo 4500 vid card and the Glide API,Namely this at Laguna Seca...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w36/pjphreak_photos/Porsche917c.jpg

PS2 is the first game system I bought since the original NES. I like the Final Fantasy games, Ratchet and Clank, God of War and a few others, but I generally buy a game, finish it, then don't play anything else for a few months. I get really caught up in them and will play them for hours, but then all the sitting makes me depressed, so I don't do it that often.

Since I started school, I usually wait 'til I get a long break then play the crap out of a game for a few days and finish it. Someday, I'll pick up WOW, but right now, I'm about to start 15 hours of hard classes next semester, so Warcrack would be like freebasing Kryptonite for me.

I'm slowly piddling my way back through FF12 again, (old school D&D fanatic here, ) trying to get more sidequests done. SquarEnix makes some rad games for this series.

All the console PC emulators; Nintendo, Super N, Sega, a friend of mine hooked me up with tons of them Air Trooper, Donkey Kong, Berzerk, Tron, etc.

Got a chipped XBOX with 200 Gg HD

N64 console with Starfox rarely used as the XBOX got the emulator

PS2 with Code Veronica X, Max Payne etc

At the present time the console games are gathering dust as I just finished Half Life 2 (yep just recently), Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Rainbow Six Las Vegas (insane cool graphics and superb AI), and I just started playing F.E.A.R. and Battlefield 2.

I bought very cheap Doom 3 and Quake 4 but have not played them yet, started the first few missions of Quake; the sounds are a delicacy.

Got my eye on BF 2142 and GRAW 2 but I am thinking about it. I will wait to see hoe my PC mood goes.

System I use is:

DELL XPS 400 w/ 5.1 Creative sound system

2 Gigs of DDR2 SDRAM

Geforce 7950 GX2 OC

19" digital flat screen

What can I say? Its amazing with the sounds and graphics, worth every penny. The Geforce is a stallion of a video card, runs on rails even on the most demanding scenes.

Leisure Suit Larry's Acid Trip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-hEMNGOGuc

The other day I went back through both Halos on the Xbox... I do that about once a month, on average.

On the PC, I lately got back into Deus Ex and Empire Earth. Starcraft, AoE II, Warcraft III, and BF1942 are all in regular rotation, too. (My PC is an old dual PIII with an original Radeon, so no new games for me.)

SC and WCIII are awesome games :) Despite having a 1 year old gaming machine I built last year they're still up there as my favourite games :o

Then again, I also haven't had much time for playing the shiny new games that come out. My PS2 and Gamecube are neglected, hopefully I'll be able to game more come winter since I won't be biking as much!

PC gamer:
Gothic 3
Evidence: the last ritual
Eve Online
Half-Life2
Need for Speed Underground2 (mostly just when some friends come over with their laptops and we have a LAN match...my 240sx will WTFpwn j00!)

Despite having a 1 year old gaming machine I built last year they're still up there as my favourite games

Ya, when it comes right down to it, I've never bothered to upgrade my computer (at least not since late 2000 or so) simply because there hasn't really been anything amongst the newer games that was really compelling enough to need new hardware. Though after seeing stuff like the new C&C:Tiberium, the new Oblivion expansion, Supreme Commander, and upcoming SC2, a new system may be in order before too long.

connect four

dominoes

chess (mostly online)

checkers, - (with the idiot charity case who got hired to work the overnites with me).

'Go' - as soon as my gf learns to play (by way of the instructional youtube videos I sent her) and as soon and she stops being such a self-absorbed *****.

I just got a chess set like the masters use at the outdoor tables of au bon pain in harvard square, (the ones with the roll out mat and big weighted pieces) - but so far I have no one to play. :P

Currently playing:

Age of Empires 2 (PC)
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)
Planet Puzzle League (Nintendo DS)

I have a slew of Gamecube and PS2 games to work through still and afew PC games which i'll play when i build a new computer... I sometimes buy games even if my computer can't run them very well so i won't have to worry about searching for them later when they've been forgotten.

I also regularly go back and play older games (AOE2 as listed, Unreal Tournament, Total Annihilation, and System Shock 2 are afew that regularly get reinstalled or have yet to leave my hard drive). And since i love "schmups" (shooters or schoot-em-ups) i find myself playing Ikaruga (Gamecube) or Space Megaforce (SNES) rather often.

And dammit, i really really need to get around to finishing Earthbound (SNES emulator on my PC)...

No console here, although I wish MS would sell the XBox 360 XDK (with the debug BIOS) to us proles.

One ironic thing. Last week, I got bored, downloaded an Apple 2 emulator (AppleWin), to play some very old games for the Apple 2.

PC gaming:

NWN2, making custom modules for that.
C&C: Zero hour. Yes, its fairly dated, but I use it to make custom terrain and units to simulate battles for inspiration for fantasy writing.
Everquest 2. Everyone has to have their MMO fix.

PS2
Gamecube
iBook G4

Games I'm currently playing:
I can't remember the games I used to play on the PS2 and the gamecube for I'm playing World of Warcraft pretty heavily.

SC and WCIII are awesome games :) Despite having a 1 year old gaming machine I built last year they're still up there as my favourite games :o

Then again, I also haven't had much time for playing the shiny new games that come out. My PS2 and Gamecube are neglected, hopefully I'll be able to game more come winter since I won't be biking as much!

I used to play a lot of SC and WC3. I still like to play a little WC3 occassionally, but haven't had much time this summer.

Oh, another game that I've spent A LOT of time playing in the past is Baldur's Gate for PC. Every couple of months, I'll play through the entire game again. (It does get a little boring after a while.) When I have more time for gaming when school starts, I want to get Baldur's Gate 2.

edit: for anyone who's played BG, you should know where my user name comes from. :)

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/7102.html

The one I am playing right now, select FULL SCREEN, adjust the sound accordingly and watch it with the lights off.

The end is amazing.

It's all about Super Nintendo Emulator. Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana and FF3.

PC only nowadays. I usually play what the clan is playing, but I never got into WoW or BF2142.

- Tribes 2 (not in a very long time) (BEML)
- BF1942 (Vanilla, DC) (BFCL)
- BF2 (Vanilla, Special Forces, POE2) (BEML, CAL, BFCL)

I started with downloading source code from Usenet for games like xtrek and xpilot. We would play them on the LAN on Sparcstation2's.

What a coincidence, I bought Stalker yesterday. It's a very tough but fun game.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/7102.html

The one I am playing right now, select FULL SCREEN, adjust the sound accordingly and watch it with the lights off.

The end is amazing.

Which game is this? (i ask because i can't view it here at work, websense pwnz me...)

What a coincidence, I bought Stalker yesterday. It's a very tough but fun game.
I think it's very well done actually. I first heard of it from a Fallout website waaaay back in the day. I think i'm about 2/3 through the game. I haven't touched it for afew weeks though. I got to the Red Forest and it just gets really hard but that's not why i stopped... My computer is relatively old (AMD Athlon XP2000) so it will occasionally hang for afew seconds now and then. It's not too bad but in the middle of a firefight it can be deadly. And reloading saved games takes a while. So i stopped playing with the intention of jumping back in when i get a new computer built... But i think i may just try to finish it later this week or next week. :)

Nice....my computer plays it well, but still chops up on disc access (I run slow old PATA hard drives), so I'm about ready to do some tweaks to how disc-caching works on my PC....it should work out fine.

My next build will have SATA drives, as well as higher performance drives for game installations.

PC only. I have been playing a lot of Doom 3 on line lately. I am starting to get sick of it. I am also partly a way through Medal of Honor Pacific Assault.

Nice....my computer plays it well, but still chops up on disc access (I run slow old PATA hard drives), so I'm about ready to do some tweaks to how disc-caching works on my PC....it should work out fine.

My next build will have SATA drives, as well as higher performance drives for game installations.

On your next build, I'd consider having a dedicated USB PCI if possible. If and when you move to Windows Vista, you can use ReadyBoost on a 4 gig USB flash drive for an added cache between RAM and the hard disk. Also, consider ReadyDrive-enabled hard disks when they start appearing on the market for a reasonable price.

Even though most people are doing a good job dodging Vista, it will be a fact of life in a year or two, so I'd get ready for it. At least get at least 4GB of RAM.

I'm going to play some CS 1.6.

On your next build, I'd consider having a dedicated USB PCI if possible. If and when you move to Windows Vista, you can use ReadyBoost on a 4 gig USB flash drive for an added cache between RAM and the hard disk. Also, consider ReadyDrive-enabled hard disks when they start appearing on the market for a reasonable price.

Even though most people are doing a good job dodging Vista, it will be a fact of life in a year or two, so I'd get ready for it. At least get at least 4GB of RAM.

Nah, no need for ReadyBoost...RAM is cheap enough that I could have 8GB in that beast. I never skimp on RAM....heck my laptop has 2GB in it...

Nah, no need for ReadyBoost...RAM is cheap enough that I could have 8GB in that beast. I never skimp on RAM....heck my laptop has 2GB in it...

I'm going to be going for 8GB of DDR3 pretty soon.

^Agreed. Readyboost is pretty much useless, and even at best it can't come anywhere close to simply having more ram.

A little OT, but I don't quite understand this whole attitude about Vista becoming a fact of life, though. Everybody's buying it because they think everybody else is buying it, when in reality, pretty much everybody seems to hate it. There's a really easy and effective way around this cycle... :rolleyes:

I'm still running Windows 2000. I occasionally have to find a patch for an "XP-only" application, or an updated driver for a new piece of hardware, but not very often. Everything works fine. I even have a copy of XP sitting on my desk, but I just don't have a compelling reason to upgrade. I really don't forsee much changing with XP --> Vista, and that's if Vista isn't simply another WinME. At very least, I think XP can be made to last long enough to hold out for Vienna in late 2009, which will hopefully include the missing features that would have made Vista worthwhile.

Of course, that's also assuming MS ships the new version on time. Heh.

And back on topic: after thinking about it the other day, I threw together a 486 box (woohoo, VLB!) and got some oldschool PC gaming action going... Doom, Raptor, Major Stryker, Commander Keen 4, Wolfenstein, X-Com, Descent, all sorts of good stuff. I also found my old NES in my search for disks. Jackpot!

I use DOSBOX for my old games. :D Betrayal At Krondor FTW! I just might have to load up Decent II now that you've mentioned it...

XBOX
Compaq laptop
DS Lite

I haven't been playing much on the xbox lately, usually football, hockey, halo(s), call of duty or from russia with love. Thinking about a 360 once H3 comes out, looks awesome.

on the PC either MAME ( I have a think for great 1000 mile rally) or Flight simulator or motocross madness. I like the civilization series, but I have a problem in that I can't start that game without playing 6 hour sessions!!

Me: World of Warcraft

I have several characters, all warriors.

That is all.

PS2:

Madden, NCAA football, Racthet and Clank series, Guitar Hero series (play all these games with my 12 year old son, we have a blast)

PC:
Civ4
STALKER
Silent Hunter 3 & 4

Favorite all time PC game series: Monkey Island by lucasarts

Monkey Island

OMG I totally forgot about that one... such an awesome game. I don't think I have a copy anymore, though... :(