Gamers

[Robbie8666]

My lad's got an x box, I have a go but gets boring after 20 minutes or so, rather ride my bike.

+1
kids have a PS2 but i cant be bothered with it! I only get weekends at home so rather spend the time with mrs
 

[Slaninar]

c64 era:
Manic Miner, Boulder Dash, Out Run

Older PC:
North & South, Master of Orion, Test Drive, History Line 1914-1918, Wolfenstein 3d, The Incredible Machine...

[slimwilly]

Chin up mate - think a lot of folks can struggle with the grumpies this time of year, but summer is on it's way and it'll seem like a whole new world, especially your first season on a bike, you're going to have lots of fun. Soon as weather permits we'll get you out on one of my welsh tours. 8 hours on a bike followed by your fill of real ale will sort you out!

Andy

[Dead Eye]

Well I finally got back home last night to find StarCraft had arrived a day early which was awesome

Unfortunately got a bit sidetracked with Sim City and ended up playing until 5am this morning... so far its pretty good and my only real niggle is that I wish the cities were a big larger

I do own an Xbox 360 and PS3 but they collect huge amounts of dust as I am predominantly a PC gamer. I do love building new machines but I just don't have the money Current one is 4 years old but still going strong (i7 965X, 12GB DDR3, GTX580) but to be fair, that's what I built it for

[Raymy]

Ahh Counter Strike

Started playing from 1.0 on the PC right through to 1.6 and beyond. By the time source came out there were far too many dodgy people and anyone and everyone had figured out the best way to manipulate the console settings. But the old days. Ahh, the old days.
Talking around 2001 or 2002 and headsets had just started going mainstream. I stayed with a mate and we had the LAN set up, prmarily for CS but there were some other good things as well. We got right into Empire Earth for a few months. Sitting regularly til 6 or seven in the mornin.

But the buzz mostly came from counter strike sessions that would last days sometimes.
Unemployment mixed in with part time work and LOADS of hash.

To this day there is no game that can get close to the buzz of being the last man In  the team with near no health and taking out the entire opposition through smart play, quiet movement, some decent aiming and a shitload of luck.  I miss that game. Global offensive has potential to be the best port of it onto console but its useless until they patch it. Which they won't.

[simonm]

I never understood the whole competition thing, I preferred the precast set level thing where I was among against something realistic rather than a spotty teenager hiding somewhere with a snipers rifle.

Reminds me of the cowardice of the u s of a.

[Lazarus]

Ahh Counter Strike

Started playing from 1.0 on the PC right through to 1.6 and beyond. By the time source came out there were far too many dodgy people and anyone and everyone had figured out the best way to manipulate the console settings. But the old days. Ahh, the old days.
Talking around 2001 or 2002 and headsets had just started going mainstream. I stayed with a mate and we had the LAN set up, prmarily for CS but there were some other good things as well. We got right into Empire Earth for a few months. Sitting regularly til 6 or seven in the mornin.

But the buzz mostly came from counter strike sessions that would last days sometimes.
Unemployment mixed in with part time work and LOADS of hash.

To this day there is no game that can get close to the buzz of being the last man In  the team with near no health and taking out the entire opposition through smart play, quiet movement, some decent aiming and a shitload of luck.  I miss that game. Global offensive has potential to be the best port of it onto console but its useless until they patch it. Which they won't.

I hear ya mate.


best days when I played on dial up and us HPBers taking out LPBers who auotmatically started crying "cheat"

[Raymy]

Haha


I remember when the updates would be released at like 1am and we'd manage to get a good connection and stay up til somethkng like 4 o clock waiting on the 85meg download finishing.

My mate had a connection with ntl who gave you 56k free with the fone line but only for the first 2 hours so the timer wad always on to get ready to cut it in time.
To teat the download speed and ping of the connection, we'd start downoading a tune on napster. If it was any less than 3.5-4 kbps, we'd disconnect and dial up again to get a better speed. In game we would be happy with a ping of around 200. Any more tjan that it would start lagging out. Totally hilarious. Thankfully broadband started doin the rounds a wee while after that. Pimgs of 20 40 and 60 were always decent. We actually felt the difference hitting american servers where it would rise up to 80. EIGHTY!!!!!!!!!


The cheek