Gamers

[Dead Eye]

Just an interesting thought, are there any particularly enthusiastic gamers on here?

I've spent the last 8+ hours watching the live stream for the launch of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - an RTS game which is huge in the e-sports community Unfortunately I'm not at home so I'll have to wait until I get back to get online and start playing later this week

[jon]

No

[Dead Eye]

Apparently not, or at least no one up between 3 and 7am this morning :lol

[Panthor]

Only ps3

[Looney tune]

Not for me, wouldn't know where to start and don't really want to. But hey ho, I'm surrounded with the great outdoors 

[Jazz999]

I game on pc, black ops and black ops 2 mostly

[Liroka]

I game on the PC since my wife commandeered the Xbox.  :lol


I like a good single player story / adventure.

[Dead Eye]

Same here, I love games with awesome story lines and epic campaigns but I also enjoy several multiplayer games

Running on Coffee atm after my all nighter Takes me back to hosting LAN parties in my parents kitchen ^^

[Rebuilt]

I play Fallout New Vegas on the PS3 and skyrim on the pc ... also i do like a game with something to actually figure out and do rather than all shoot n nothing else ... not partial to racing games either ...

[Tiberius Onklevaart]

Yes I game. In varying amounts. Sometimes never off it. Sometimes never on it. Never played starcraft but I know much money is involved for the pros, especially in South Korea where its a big tv event. These guys can earn well in ecxess of a coupla hundred grand a year. What most impresses me tho is that can have several games going on at once andbe doing well in all of them.
A mate of mine plays poker online quite heavily and he said he was speaking to an opponent some time back who claimed he was on about 3 or 4 poker tables as well as playing somethjng like 6 games of starcraft all at once. Its the new chess.

[Slaninar]

Warcraft (the old one), Warcraft 2, Starcraft - played in small LANs during secondary school.
Then some clan CounterStrike (never very good myself).

Panzer General 1 and 2.

Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 (all time favourite).

World of Tanks (Brotherhood of Steel clan, with some crazy Poles and Russians).

If I had 3 lives  (    )  I would happily spend one whole lifetime in the fantastic world of video games. RPGs, strategies and race simulations.

[Dead Eye]

I spend a lot of time on games, even replaying existing ones.

Currently burning through the Mass Effect series (again) but Sim City 5 just got released (granted EA screwed up again), plus there is StarCraft II and the new expansion to Battlefield 3 and I haven't completed Crysis 3 yet :O

Got a lot of gaming ahead in the next week or two including my usual Counter-Strike Source to help break up my working day

I dabble in most genres; Shooters, RPGs, Real-time Strategy, Racing etc

Needless to say, I am a definite enthusiast

[Grahamm]

Just an interesting thought, are there any particularly enthusiastic gamers on here?

Yes, I've played Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, 7 Wonders, Citadels, Stone Age, Pandemic, Ticket to Ride...

[ghostbiker]

Used to play a lot of everquest and then world of warcraft. Don't anymore though as sucked to much time out of my life.

[ChristoT]

I like to game, but due to lousy computer performance, I don't play many new games. I play a lot of TF2 and Minecraft though.

I'm playing through Half Life 1 at last - amazing how clunky it looks now. And to think that was the pinnacle of gaming a mere 12 yrs ago!  :eek

[Dead Eye]

And to think that was the pinnacle of gaming a mere 12 yrs ago! :eek

To be fair, those "mere 12yrs" are over half of your life

[Tiberius Onklevaart]

Used to play a lot of everquest and then world of warcraft. Don't anymore though as sucked to much time out of my life.

Thats why its known as evercrack

[ChristoT]

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And to think that was the pinnacle of gaming a mere 12 yrs ago! :eek

To be fair, those "mere 12yrs" are over half of your life
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Don't. The thought of that scares me.

[cbx63]

Manic Miner Jet Pac Horace goes skiing to but a few..

Love gaming on the pc cant play consoles i have dyslexic thumbs.

[andybesy]

I've always been a gamer, although less so at present due to other commitments (motorbikes!).


Favourite games of all time have probably been Civilisation series (CIV2 was best) and Sim City, although I've played most genres at some point, most recently MMOs (EVE Online mostly).

I'm looking forward to Sim City 5 although I'll let the dust settle a little following EAs usual nonsense.


The other one I just head about today is Ni no Kuni - I'm a big fan of Studio Ghibli animation and the game looks wonderful, unfortunately though it's PS3 only and I've always ever been a PC man (or before than an Atari ST).

EDIT: How could I forget command and conquer series!

EDIT: And I've had occasional addictions to tower defence games too

EDIT: And Battlefield!

Andy