Quake 3, WoW, Eve Online

[JMpMasterSteve]

Anyone have a game they have been able to immerse themselves in lately off steam? These are some of the few I nerded out on back in the day but I haven’t been on in a while. Looking for something new. This kind of reads like a tinder so if you want to take me to dinner and drinks that’s cool too.

 

[MisterSuperGod]

Quake III Arena, that brings back memories.

i don't have Steam, but i recently fixed an older model laptop i had and just installed the original Gothic.

i'm not really into video games, the last console i played was the Xbox 360. i don't play too often, but i do love my older PC games when i do.

 

[KL8209]

I was huge into counter-strike for many years around 2000 and also heavily got involved in starcraft, WoW, diablo 1 & 2, the original warcrafts, command and conquer and... I'm sure I'll think of more

 

[JMpMasterSteve]

Quake was the shiznit. I could play that game for hours. @KL8209, I tried so long to get decent at CS, but by time I got in dudes were hacking and and using the hot keys so fast I couldn’t keep up

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I was huge into counter-strike for many years around 2000 and also heavily got involved in starcraft, WoW, diablo 1 & 2, the original warcrafts, command and conquer and... I'm sure I'll think of more

My girlfriend and I played through Diablo 3 on PS4 awhile back. We were looking for something both of us could play at once.

I've been playing Civilization 6 and The Witcher 3 lately. First Witcher game I've played, but I've been a Civilization fan since the first one on PC in the 90's.

 

[notdeadYET]

We have a couple XBoxs at the house for my boys and their friends. I've learned I'm terrible at FPS now that I'm older. I tried playing Call of Duty with my boys and it ended with threatening to kick their asses if they kept head shotting me. Hah.

Now go back in time and give me Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl and we have a game!

 

[KL8209]

Quake was the shiznit. I could play that game for hours. @KL8209, I tried so long to get decent at CS, but by time I got in dudes were hacking and and using the hot keys so fast I couldn’t keep up

Took me quite a while to get good at CS and literally sunk thousands of hours into it eventually competing in the top league at the time CAL-invite. Counter-Strike: GO doesn't have the same feel or the same registration imo

 

[KL8209]

My girlfriend and I played through Diablo 3 on PS4 awhile back. We were looking for something both of us could play at once.

I've been playing Civilization 6 and The Witcher 3 lately. First Witcher game I've played, but I've been a Civilization fan since the first one on PC in the 90's.

Diablo 3 is a good game and my wife and I play it off and on. Did you ever get into D2 at all? Terrible graphics when you look at it now but it set a new milestone in the dungeon crawler looting genre. It was and still is considered to be one of the best games ever made.

Blizzard North was incredibly talented and it's only been downhill since the devs left and they just became Blizzard. The main guy who was behind the Diablo franchise (D1 ~ D2:LOD) and everything that made the series great moved on from Blizzard and ended up making the free to play Path of Exile. Not a huge fan of PoE but is has some Diablo flavor to it. Diablo 3 is good and we still grind it out but just doesn't seem quite the same.

The Civilization games are great and I definitely remember the first one. I remember Seirra releasing games like Lords of the Realm II and also Caesar around that time too.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

Diablo 3 is a good game and my wife and I play it off and on. Did you ever get into D2 at all? Terrible graphics when you look at it now but it set a new milestone in the dungeon crawler looting genre. It was and still is considered to be one of the best games ever made.

Blizzard North was incredibly talented and it's only been downhill since the devs left and they just became Blizzard. The main guy who was behind the Diablo franchise (D1 ~ D2:LOD) and everything that made the series great moved on from Blizzard and ended up making the free to play Path of Exile. Not a huge fan of PoE but is has some Diablo flavor to it. Diablo 3 is good and we still grind it out but just doesn't seem quite the same.

The Civilization games are great and I definitely remember the first one. I remember Seirra releasing games like Lords of the Realm II and also Caesar around that time too.

No, I never played Diablo 1 or Diablo 2. Dungeon crawling isn't a genre I've played a lot of. I've mostly been into JRPG and simulation/strategy since my early gaming days.

Haven't really found any RPGs I've really gotten into since Lost Odyssey on Xbox 360. The open world hack and slash thing seems like it's taken over. I don't think people don't have the attention span for a proper RPG anymore with turn based combat and grinding countless hours for stats to beat super difficult optional bosses. I do have Disgaea 5 on PS4, it's more a tactical RPG. It's decent, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet.

I don't remember Lords of the Realm or Caesar. Back in the Civilization 1 days I played that, Colonization, Outpost, SimCity and SimCity 2000, and Pizza Tycoon. Some of the Tycoon games were decent. I thought about buying that Railway Empire on PS4, but it looks kinda dry. Plus I dig the war aspect of simulation games more than just building stuff. Planning and mounting a massive invasion of another country utilizing land, air, and naval units on Civ 6 is pretty entertaining.

 

[flenser]

I spent one too many trade shows in the 90's tweaking software for various laggy HMDs (3D goggles) that weren't really ready for market. Would get a bad headache by the end of the first day, and the rest of the week could only wear the things a couple of minutes at a time or risk puking in the cockpit. Now I get motion sick just watching someone else play a video game.

 

[4Figgy]

Played EQ and WoW years ago - for years. Shit sucked me in like a $1k prostitute. Got into FPS and the only thing I play (which is rare due to kids and life now) is Battlefield. Rebuilt my PC for BF5 in late 2018, and only have maybe 100 hours in it. Steam wise I haven’t played much in a few years. Would love to go back and run through both Portals, and I hear they are coming out with or have come out with a new Half Life.

 

[JMpMasterSteve]

Played EQ and WoW years ago - for years. Shit sucked me in like a $1k prostitute. Got into FPS and the only thing I play (which is rare due to kids and life now) is Battlefield. Rebuilt my PC for BF5 in late 2018, and only have maybe 100 hours in it. Steam wise I haven’t played much in a few years. Would love to go back and run through both Portals, and I hear they are coming out with or have come out with a new Half Life.

Half life alyx, supposedly dropping in March. I really wish I could find a good MMO that wasn’t being hacked to shit that I could get into these days. Kids, work and life do get in the way but I try to give myself some decompression time at least a few times a week.

 

[KL8209]

No, I never played Diablo 1 or Diablo 2. Dungeon crawling isn't a genre I've played a lot of. I've mostly been into JRPG and simulation/strategy since my early gaming days.

Haven't really found any RPGs I've really gotten into since Lost Odyssey on Xbox 360. The open world hack and slash thing seems like it's taken over. I don't think people don't have the attention span for a proper RPG anymore with turn based combat and grinding countless hours for stats to beat super difficult optional bosses. I do have Disgaea 5 on PS4, it's more a tactical RPG. It's decent, but I haven't gotten around to finishing it yet.

I don't remember Lords of the Realm or Caesar. Back in the Civilization 1 days I played that, Colonization, Outpost, SimCity and SimCity 2000, and Pizza Tycoon. Some of the Tycoon games were decent. I thought about buying that Railway Empire on PS4, but it looks kinda dry. Plus I dig the war aspect of simulation games more than just building stuff. Planning and mounting a massive invasion of another country utilizing land, air, and naval units on Civ 6 is pretty entertaining.

I 100% agree and the game genre has seemed to change over into quicker grinds and almost instant loot. With D3 you can essentially have whatever the full set is in about a week of play time and it's just a matter of upgrading and fine tweaking from there. Diablo 2 often took months of daily grinding out to find any somewhat decent high end gear.

The non-stop grinding is actually what led me quitting WoW entirely as I just don't have the time anymore.

I played a lot of SimCity & SC 2000 as well. I definitely remember those. Great games. With the tycoon games I put some time into Roller Coaster Tycoon and I may or may not have (but definitely did) constantly create death trap rides that would kill as many people as I could.

You mentioning your interest in simulation games - have you ever checked out Crusader Kings II? Really good game and once you figure out how to actually play it it's very easy to sink a ton of time into. It's now f2p on steam too.

Also, Total War: Warhammer II is really good too

 

[KL8209]

Played EQ and WoW years ago - for years. Shit sucked me in like a $1k prostitute. Got into FPS and the only thing I play (which is rare due to kids and life now) is Battlefield. Rebuilt my PC for BF5 in late 2018, and only have maybe 100 hours in it. Steam wise I haven’t played much in a few years. Would love to go back and run through both Portals, and I hear they are coming out with or have come out with a new Half Life.

Battlefield is a great game and I really prefer it over CoD.

I got into building and customizing/overclocking high end gaming PC's mainly after getting into Counter-Strike around 2000.

In WoW I got mainly into PvP and absolutely hated the PvE grinding. Just found it so tedious and boring where PvP it's mostly random and almost anything can happen if you aren't thinking quickly.

I'm not a console guy at all and even the thought of aiming with a joystick bothers me lol. I remember having competitions at our house with groups of people playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros and Mario Party for N64.

Once I got a feel for gaming on PC though that was the end of it. I was 100% converted. Especially when it comes to upgrading your system vs a console. Often times once your system is a bit out dated you can just upgrade your video card and you're good again for a few years.

 

[KL8209]

Half life alyx, supposedly dropping in March. I really wish I could find a good MMO that wasn’t being hacked to shit that I could get into these days. Kids, work and life do get in the way but I try to give myself some decompression time at least a few times a week.

This is the exact reason I never even bothered trying Ark. There have been a few others that have come up which looked good but they're dominated by cheats and your days/months of grinding goes down the tubes.

I can relate too because ever since I started working 6 days a week a few years ago I haven't really bothered getting into anything that requires any sort of grind. I have too much to do with too little time.

 

[JMpMasterSteve]

This is the exact reason I never even bothered trying Ark. There have been a few others that have come up which looked good but they're dominated by cheats and your days/months of grinding goes down the tubes.

I can relate too because ever since I started working 6 days a week a few years ago I haven't really bothered getting into anything that requires any sort of grind. I have too much to do with too little time.

Bro, I was HEAVY into ark for like a month. Me and a couple buddies built a nice steel base. Just to log off an get raped by hackers. I was honestly so disappointed because I mined so much shit for that lmao

 

[KL8209]

Bro, I was HEAVY into ark for like a month. Me and a couple buddies built a nice steel base. Just to log off an get raped by hackers. I was honestly so disappointed because I mined so much shit for that lmao

Yea exactly what I'm talking about lol. There always seem to be two notorious groups of hackers where they'll take over, dominate a server, loot everything then move onto another one. Ark has been plagued with it for a while and they don't seem to really do much to prevent it long-term. Really sucks too because there were some really good games out there that were borderline destroyed because of this very thing. People are assholes.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I 100% agree and the game genre has seemed to change over into quicker grinds and almost instant loot. With D3 you can essentially have whatever the full set is in about a week of play time and it's just a matter of upgrading and fine tweaking from there. Diablo 2 often took months of daily grinding out to find any somewhat decent high end gear.

The non-stop grinding is actually what led me quitting WoW entirely as I just don't have the time anymore.

I played a lot of SimCity & SC 2000 as well. I definitely remember those. Great games. With the tycoon games I put some time into Roller Coaster Tycoon and I may or may not have (but definitely did) constantly create death trap rides that would kill as many people as I could.

You mentioning your interest in simulation games - have you ever checked out Crusader Kings II? Really good game and once you figure out how to actually play it it's very easy to sink a ton of time into. It's now f2p on steam too.

Also, Total War: Warhammer II is really good too

Yeah, I don't have as much time to grind endlessly these days. By the time I'm off work and done at the gym I usually just want to relax and watch TV. It takes me forever to finish a game and a lot of the time I just end up quitting playing it before I finish it. Still haven't finished Horizon Zero Dawn, Vampyr, and haven't even started Final Fantasy XV even though I bought it like a year ago.

Haven't played Crusader Kings. From pictures it looks similar to Liberty or Death on SNES or that other strategy series, Nobunaga's Ambition. Those were okay, but I like more hands on rather than just crunching numbers. Like positioning your individual units and whatnot. The ones like Age of Empires were pretty cool as far as real time strategy rather than turn based.

 

[4Figgy]

Battlefield is a great game and I really prefer it over CoD.

I got into building and customizing/overclocking high end gaming PC's mainly after getting into Counter-Strike around 2000.

In WoW I got mainly into PvP and absolutely hated the PvE grinding. Just found it so tedious and boring where PvP it's mostly random and almost anything can happen if you aren't thinking quickly.

I'm not a console guy at all and even the thought of aiming with a joystick bothers me lol. I remember having competitions at our house with groups of people playing Goldeneye, Mario Kart, Super Smash Bros and Mario Party for N64.

Once I got a feel for gaming on PC though that was the end of it. I was 100% converted. Especially when it comes to upgrading your system vs a console. Often times once your system is a bit out dated you can just upgrade your video card and you're good again for a few years.

N64 was awesome for those games! We played the crap out of all of those too, especially Goldeneye. That led me to eventually buying a PC and playing Unreal Tournament 2004 which is what really got me hooked on FPS.

For the current upgrade I had to replace the cpu, video card, motherboard, and ram. I held on to my 2500k as long as I could, but it started bottlenecking. Current set up is a 9700k @ 5ghz, 1070ti, and 16gig ram. Runs pretty much everything at ultra and 60fps. Wish video cards weren’t so overpriced as I would like to have a 144hz 1440 monitor and a 2080ti.

I’ll buy a PS5 eventually. I don’t want to miss out on stuff from Naughty Dog. There are some games that you can’t get on PC which make a console worth it.

 

[Perrin Aybara]

I played the hell out of Goldeneye in high school. We'd literally have like ten hour multiplayer sessions after school.

My first FPS was Wolfenstein 3D on Atari Jaguar and then Doom soon after in the early to mid 90's. Then played Doom 2 on PC. I was super into Halo on the original Xbox back when it came out and beat it on legendary difficulty. Haven't really gotten into any FPS games since then besides one of the Halo games on Xbox 360.

I'm definitely picking up a PS5 later this year when they come out.