So...why DO you like video games?

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Just had to go and steal Ciderman's thunder, didn't you?

It's tough love. He can't be asking me to beat the Capra Demon for him forever :P

krudler

o1s1n wrote: »

That's what I love about gaming and why I find so many modern games utterly boring. No challenge.



Just had to go and steal Ciderman's thunder, didn't you?

The Last Of Us suffered from the no consequences thing, if you died then you went back to a pretty close checkpoint. I'm not sure if that changes on the harder difficulties though.
Dark Souls is punishing but rarely unfair, many a time I rushed an enemy or section or fell off a cliff, not the game's fault. although you do get stuff like this occasionally :pac:

richymcdermott

I like videogames because it offers more to me than any other medium.

I met some amazing people all over the world playing videogames and have cherished childhood memories playing games. To me its much more than just a bunch of pixels on a screen you can interract with, its about enjoying something that can make you feel every emotion and you can feel satisfied with when it ends.

Temptamperu

I like it the same reason I like books and certain TV shows. I love a good story and having them interactive just makes it even better.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's tough love. He can't be asking me to beat the Capra Demon for him forever :P

You said you'd never tell, you cur, that's it, I want a divorce

Kiith

I doubt it's the first divorce caused by Dark Souls :P

Sgt Hartman

My love for video games started all the way back in 1986 when I was 7. My local shop in Carew Park in Limerick got a Kung Fu Master coin-op machine. It was the first video game I ever saw and I was totally fascinated by it. I completely sucked at it from the start though. I watched older lads play it though and I remember seeing then get further and further in the game. It was always a thrill to see the next level and the next new boss. From that moment on I was just hooked on games for life (I completed KFM myself many years later):)

Eventually the owner of the shop got more games in such as Double Dragon, Jailbreak, Robocop, Bonze Adventure and the brilliant Rastan Saga. I spent a fortune on all those games over the next couple of years. I then got an Atari 2600 in 1989, a NES in 1992, an N64 in 1999, a PS1 in 2000 a PS2 in 2001 and an Xbox360 in 2006.

As Krudler was saying, I do miss some of the more challenging older retro games. The feeling of satisfaction after beating a boss and completing a level was amazing. I remember the cruel checkpoints and the archaic password system for some games in order to record your progress. Thank God for emulators cos it's great to go on a nostalgia trip revisit some of those older games:)

krudler

Man I miss real arcades, not the ones dotted around now with a handful of racing and dancing games and sod all else, proper arcades. Dimly lit, smoky, noisy things with fag burnt cabinets and a decent selection of games. If I ever had the money I'd open a game themed pub, get a few old cabs and put retro stuff in them.

Duggy747

One day, I'll have myself an arcade cab. I've a ridiculous collection of roms, just need a proper cab to complete the setup.

I've always wanted one since I was a kid and it would be a massive blast from the past since I've so many fond memories as a kid in the arcades like the ones that used to be common in Salthill in Galway..........Chase H.Q..............Double Dragon...........Bubble Bubble......................a hacked version of Street Fighter 2.....................the full, proper cabinet of Afterburner 2 that moved like a massive gyroscope....................trying to figure out how to fùckin' play Hard Drivin'...........

Ah, I can still see the row of 20ps along the screens and smell the fags from the little aluminium ash trays..........................and when I had no money checking the change machines and coin operators for any forgotten coins :pac:

Brother used to enter a some Nintendo competitions and would win them so we always had a good flow of games. He won the SNES and the launch titles on it's release, it was like Xmas when we received a massive box with about 18 games a few months after he won the competition.

First game I properly remember playing was when the brother got the NES + Zapper for Xmas, I was only about 4 or 5. Super Mario + Duck Hunt cartridge was what came with it and I remember when the relations called by that day and all had a go at it. Everyone would move the joypad up when they wanted Mario to jump and would all try to shoot the dog in Duck Hunt when it laughed at them :pac:

Any time we went to Galway, Mosney, or Bundoran we'd kill hours in the arcades, it was like prime gaming as the consoles couldn't match them at the time............with the exception of the Neo Geo which I could only dream about when seeing the crazy prices in the back pages in the old Mean Machines / CVG magazines.

I saw a video of Mosney recently (a year or 2 old) and saw they still have some of the old arcade machines I remember, including the big gambling machine where these little different coloured jockeys on horses raced each other in a straight line. I was always fascinated by that machine and hated the white jockey because he always won the races..............except when you put money down on him :P They had the same machine in Seapoint too except if you were a kid you weren't allowed near it.

I always like games because of the challenge and escapism, these days a good story helps but primarily gameplay is what I look for. Hence why I always tend to regularly go back and play arcade and retro games from the 8bit / 16bit / 32bit era..........the 90's basically :pac:

Arcade games in particular are great for short bursts and either I set a challenge to get as far as possible on 1 credit with a game or beat my highscores.

Played through Super Metroid + Legend of Zelda earlier this year and they kept me consistently hooked until the end which I find somewhat of a rarity these days with modern gaming.

I've always been fascinated by how the industry changes, all the way back to these supposed super-duper consoles of the time like the 3DO, Jaguar, and the CD-I ("FMV will blow your mind!!").

krudler

or the Mega-CD, remember seeing the videos of it on some VHS (ask your parents kids) that came with Mean Machines Sega and it had footage of Night Trap and Sewer Shark on it, they looked amazing then, now they look like they were filmed on a potato and rendered on a loom.

Duggy747

I still have a Street Fighter 2 VHS that came with the Nintendo magazine, essentially a 20 minute Let's Play of the Snes version :pac:

krudler

Duggy747 wrote: »

I still have a Street Fighter 2 VHS that came with the Nintendo magazine, essentially a 20 minute Let's Play of the Snes version :pac:

I had that, trying to figure out the combos the guys were using. Magazines back then were the job, loads of free stuff, remember the hologram covers Mean Machines (I think) used to do.

Duggy747

krudler wrote: »

I had that, trying to figure out the combos the guys were using. Magazines back then were the job, loads of free stuff, remember the hologram covers Mean Machines (I think) used to do.

Yea, had loads of them stuck around the house. I remember there were glow in the dark one, too. Really derranged stickers that rarely had anything to do with games, like some sort of cyberpunk stuff or grimey art of drugged up looking fish.

Mean Yob who insulted people who wrote in and Insult Corner that just took the piss out of people who sent pictures of themselves in.


"Jaz" Rignall with that mullet of his :pac:

nesf

They hold my interest better than movies/TV does but slightly worse than books do but are more social than books so they have a slight edge.


I suppose one of the big draws is playing co-op with people I've known for over a decade who are now separated from me by hundreds of miles and talking crap together on TS or whatever. The other one is playing games with my kids.

ShadowHearth

I am in love with games since I was 5 or 6. I wont say anything new that lads already have said, but I do notice that the Function that gaming does changed in my life through the years.

When I was 5-6 I played games in arcades when me and my family would go working in holiday towns. If I would get some free time and a few quid I would blow them in arcades. There was not much to blow, so I would just mainly hang out there and watch other kids play. It was always amazing for me to see video games.
I got my first console - Nes ( it was actually a chinese clone with yellow cartriges. It was the only thing you could get in my country, still costed a fortune ). Back then Video gaming was the best entertainment for me. I still had friends and we would spend hours and hours outside, but we always loved gaming and lego in doors. So I guess in my youth gaming was best entertainment I could get my hands on. Mind you we were still playing NES when the whole western world were already getting bored off SNES and Sega Mega drive 2!
At one stage in my life 17-19 Video games were the only thing were keeping me off the suicide. My life was **** and broken. I would wake up in the mornings and the only thing I was looking forward was night time so I can sleep again. When I had some spare time from school/work/constant mental abuse by my mother I would play games, it was a perfect way to get out somewhere far away from the life I had and think about something else then "how to do it".
After a huge U-turn in my life and coming to Ireland I rediscovered video games again. It took me a while to get on my feet, and the first luxury Item that I bought after months and months of work was PSP. From that moment I rediscovered my good old friend. I cant stay away from gaming anymore. I know it is in my blood and I will die being a gamer.
So I guess now gaming is just one of my main Hobbies. I love it and it always manages to entertain me. I made a lot of friends ( who are real life friends now ) thanks to it. I socialise a lot with friends I cant see as often as I would love to. And in the end of the day it is a great hobby, which is cheaper and better then just Watching TV or farting in a Pub.