Hah! I don’t have an issue with it called BG3, I even had huge hopes for it considering Illithids are my favourite villains. I appreciate it’s a very well made game, I just hate Larian’s way with combat.
Talking of BG and the era, I’d say that Planescape: Torment is an absolute masterpiece.
Somewhat similar vein, I bought Elden Ring on release and stopped playing after a few hours, every time I was trying to get back in was resulting in quitting in disgust. Took me more than 6 months of having the game installed to actually play it. I am STILL not super sold on the game even after finishing it three times + the DLC. For me it’s a clear case of less is more.
Define waste! Anything and nothing could be called a waste of time in the end, it’s all preferences. One of the few good things of being an adult is that as long as one is well within the limits of the law no explanations, excuses or fucks need to be given to anyone about anything.
If it means clearing your brain, or even allowing you to process work/family-related things in a more fundamental level then it’s not at all a waste. I often find myself processing important topics while shooting at monsters
I was pretty addicted to games as a kid and young adult and I’m still playing games to this date. There are several games that I played for hundreds of hours and some of them even for over 5’000 hours (Pokemon, Sim City 4, Guild Wars and Halo). I don’t want to make a complete list of all games that I enjoyed, because that would be over 200 for sure, so just my all-time favourite list (I probably forgot some):
In fact they very well created their chance with the Megadrive thanks to Sega of America who did a masterclass marketing-wise despite their huge handicap from starting from nowhere (the NES literally crushed the Master System in terms of market share) and from having very little support from third parties thanks to Nintendo monopolistic trickeries that literally grabbed them by their balls. The battle was kinda close until the ego from Sega of Japan came in and they managed to destroy everything with the shitshow that was the Mega-CD and 32X/Saturn era. It was very hard to make so many consecutive wrong decisions, but they very well succeed.
From this point, and with the coming of Sony, it was already game over for them.
I’ve seen the story and you’re right. Talking purely by having played Mega Drive and Master System in friends’ houses, and owning NES and SNES, I was always left with the feeling that Sega’s games were just less fun.
It’s a problem I’ve struggled with for a while. Where I have guilt for ‘wasting’ time. Whether it is watching a movie, playing games, or playing on the computer. I have the feeling I should be doing something more productive. Activities that don’t create guilt: working, exercise, socializing, playing music, learning, housework, biological functions (eating, sleeping, etc.).
I think it can be considered a waste if it takes too proheminent a place in one’s life or if loads of time get dedicated to gaming at the expense of sleep or other life interests.
I find that when I play the right games, it is a really good mean for me to get my mind off what it’s currently stuck on and just reset my current mindset or emotional state. I wouldn’t call that wasted time.
Other activities can fill that purpose for me, like longer walks/hiking. I find it’s all about life balance in the end.
I started with the C64 and went up to WoW and others. I am mostly a computer-player (c64,amiga,pc).
One of the first game I remember playing was Montezuma’s revenge in a “different form”.
Let’s see the italian-speaking-older-guys-and-gals around here… Attento Ettore. Here an explanation why the weird italian name (nostalgic italian website. To explain it: In Italy it was legal to sell games “renamed” at kiosk. I’m not talking of shady kiosk, there were magazines selling them)
On a side note: I have an Amiga 2000 to sell and maybe a 500 and 2 C64, old and new style)
The ancient Greeks had several words for fun, one of them literally translates to “throwing pieces around”, could be used for describing a catastrophic defeat, for example, but could also mean “casting sorrow/despair/worry away”. Gradually it made it to modern Greek as simply meaning “having fun”.
The antipode word for fun translates as “culturing the soul” and includes wholesome and square activities like arts and crafts, theatre, high class music etc whereas the former word refers to Bacchic bawdy fun
I’m from the same ‘side’ and share a similar computer experience.
Never been into consoles (considered to buy Megadrive only to play “Ken il guerriero” but sanity came back before pulling the trigger) but had Commodore 128 (always used to play in C64 mode) and then Amiga 500 before moving to PC (Pentium 90) with the “excuse” of university studies…
Always favored graphic adventures, especially from LucasFilm Games (Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken etc)…
Given up after marriage long time ago…
P.S. were you also buying Zzap / Tgm / K on a monthly basis? I think I still have plenty of them in my parents basement !
ooh memories. For some reasons it popped now into my mind “MA” (aka Marco Auletta).
I’m so old
Also you should play “The Dig”. It was a story that Spielberg wanted to direct in a Movie but I thought they considered too expensive and instead made a game. The music is fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8kBCO8x2JE
Yes I played all of them (from Loom to the various episodes of Monkey Island). The soundtrack of Loom was also nice (and by buying the game you could choose to have it either on tape or CD !)
Oh yes I remember that.
I should go and try to see if all my Fd are still working or not.
I should have a backup of all my amiga fd somewhere, but not c64.
(There was a trick to write pc fd using an amiga with two fd drives. quite useful for today’s emulators.)
Totally missed this thread. Mostly computer gamer here, just updated my rig since my old one came to its limit (after 10 y !, when dual graphic cards were still a thing and a hard drive was not looking like a USB stick).
Started with “simple” strategy like Age of Empires (1/2), Anno etc, than I discovered Civilisation (from III to VI, whereas the III and VI are the best ones for me). Now I am more into the paradox grand strategy. (EU IV, Victoria III and Hearts of Iron IV).
In between some games I found really fun or marked me through the story:
-Mass Effect series (until the 3rd- what a story but a miserable end)
-The first Assassin’s Creed, until the 3rd or 4th one (the Italian series - everything after was kind of meeh)
-TheTotal Wars series, especially Medieval 2, Shogun 2 and Rome 2
-Dragon Age originis captivated me totally.
-Frostpunk (the atmosphere!)
-Far Cry 2 was excellent
-Kerbal Space Program (okay, how do I get that stupid kerbonaut back ? And where the fuck is my old physics textbook).
-Counter Strike as long as it is with some “normal” people I know and not some supertrained guys on the internet
-On Baldur’s Gate III right now, I appreciate the craftmanship and especially the amount of options, but not completely sold to the story.
My biggest issue is that games I am into right now are too big for just launching it for an hour or two. You basically need a full night to really get it going.
I haven’t played games for a while. Can anyone recommend a non-FPS game that can be played socially e.g. one where multiple people can play together and hangout and chat at the same time?
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but sanity came back before pulling the trigger) but had Commodore 128 (always used to play in C64 mode) and then Amiga 500 before moving to PC (Pentium 90) with the “excuse” of university studies… 