Not as much as I used to, and sadly since I wish I had more time to play some of the stuff today. The earliest games I would play were on the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64.

I would agree though, I picked up Mass Effect now that its only $20 on Steam despite already having it on the 360... because I cannot stand playing a game like that with a controller. I have played just about every fps game from even before Wolfenstein 3D (Catacombs of the Abyss anyone?) to whats available now with a mouse and keyboard.

My Steam username is *cough* Croccydile but I have not really played Left4Dead since it got boring to me. I can only get a decent group for Expert with people I know at LANs.

Oh yeah, um, we do try to get in WC3 play at lans with most of what everyone likes to play... mostly tower defense maps and I think one called Seven Heroes?

GTA4 is worth the price of an Xbox in my opinion.

I'm a big PC gaming fan. Huge nerd.

At the moment, I'm hooked on Lord of the Rings Online. That's right, huge nerd. Not ashamed, not at all.

PC gamer all the way.

Not been playing much this summer though, but before summer I played Demigod a bunch, tried to start in Warcraft 3, but that game just angers me. Played l4d too, haven't played much in a while though.

Can't wait for D3. I still got D2X too, with a lvl 40ish Barbarian.

Ha! I just might be the most hardcorest PC-gamer on the Sift. Can't stand consoles. I feel it's the same thing as with the Macs vs. PCs debate - most folks that choose the former do so out of desire for simplicity but at the cost of (potential!) quality. That, and there's just no debate between the console controller vs mouse+keyboard killer combo.

That said, I'm a big fan of games in general. Even got involved in the industry because of this. I could go on and on about my history with gaming, but let's just concentrate on the now and say that until recently I was a big fan of TF2 (until Valve went nuts and introduced the ABSOLUTELY MORONIC item-drop system). I also finished Trine a couple days ago, a gorgeous physics-based puzzle-platformer - highly recommended Other games that I'm struggling to find time for at the moment are SF4 for the PC and Fallout 3 DLCs.

PC Gamer here too. I was playing Lord of the Rings online as well Knives. Played on Landroval for about a year, the RP there was the best I've seen in an MMO anywhere. I'm back to WoW for now though due to an old friend coming back. I found my break made that game incredibly fun to come back to.

I've always been a PC gamer. I owned a Nintendo 64 for Goldeneye, then later got into Mario Kart. And a Sega Genesis, Sonic was the bomb, but that's about it for consoles.

I play just about every type of game... well.. till MMO's came along now they eat my life. Oh god.. Old Republic.. my soul is lost 4ever....aaaaaaaah

Fanboy of: Half-Life series from the moment Half-Life: Day One got leaked to the net a few weeks before it hit retail. Total Annihilation (Oh the LAN matches we had.. ). Baldur's Gate series. System Shock / Bioshock. Etc, etc...

Jigga my son and I play Diablo-2 LOD every few nights right now. We're level 78 amazons and necro ready to fight Mephisto on Hell difficulty right now.

When not doing that, we play Battlefield-2 a lot.

ex evercrack addict here.
had to stop when it became apparent i was slowly becoming allergic to sunlight.
that and my girlfriend was ready to kill me.
i mean really,she had a point..
you cant avoid social engagements because your guild is raiding qvic.
i have been EQ clean for about 4 years now.
/holds up 4 yr chip

I was playing arcade cabs before I could walk.

My rig is old and dated, but still plays some fun games. The main obstacle is Win2k. I'm still running it. And I've had to hack at some games to get them to work, but for the most part it does work.

I never really enjoyed the RTS genre until I played Homeworld, and Homeworld 2 is really good. I've also dug back to Black and White 2 (between crashes, its a wicked awesome game). Awesome stuff from the folks who brought you Fable and Populus (Peter Molyneaux and Lionhead).

I played FFXI online for over 2 years, and at the time, was one of the better white mages on the server (IMHO). I tried WoW for a while, but grew weary of the grind. I haven't played an MMORPG for years, now.

I also have a Wii. I <3 my Wii. I've had it since just a couple weeks after it launched. Can't wait to get Wii Sports Resort. I still play a bunch of the original Wii Sports My girlfriend and I used to play a ton of SSBB together (2v2 vs the cpu is always a blast), but lately we've been playing a bunch of Rock Band 2. Okami is a great PS2 port, awesome on the Wii.

Alright, brace yourself. This is gonna be long.

I've had a handheld almost as long as I can remember, we'd have SEGA Gamegears, little portable things..well, technically not little, it was like 8 inches wide and took 8 AA Batteries to power if you weren't using an AC cord.

From there I got a PSX for Christmas when I was 7, and started off playing Tomba and Jersey devil, eventually graduating to better known games like Tenchu and FFVII+

A year later, I got an N64 and Zelda OOT, had those for years and amounted a fairly impressive collection of games.

Sometime in this period I also came across the GB, GB Colour, and eventually the GBA.

When the PS2/Xbox launch came years later, I asked for a PS2 for Christmas, and for whatever reason my mom convinced me to get an Xbox (No idea why) Got DoA3 and Amped as the two games for that...a month later for my birthday I got Max Payne and Silent hill 2..which scared the everloving shit out of me.
(I was the only person who had an Xbox out of all my friends, and we played the original halo so much I had to buy 4 different copies of it because of how scratched they got)


Year after that I got a PS2 for xmas, and FFX..and probably some other stuff that I actually don't remember.

Later in 2003ish, I bought FFXI and that's what started me down the road of MMo's, I bought it for PS2 and had a special Keyboard/controller thing that hooked into the USB slot for the console.

My xbox got moded because I rarely went on live, and the mod that was placed gave me a crapton of original NES and SNES games, as well as a few PSX rips.

I also got a gamecube, prettymuch for the sole reason of Smash bro's, but I also have a copy of fire emblem kicking around somewhere.

Acquired a PsP sometime in this timeframe aswell.

When the 360 was released in 2005, I bought the "Pro" console, and a copy of oblivion to go with it.

Some months down the road, my friend got interested in MMo's too, and wanted to try WoW, so we got the $2 demo disc and went our separate ways home to install it. Well, our family only had 1 shitty computer up til that point (it was bought in 2001) and didn't have a DvD drive, so I bought my own computer..can't remember the specs, but it was basically a piece of crap.

From there I played WoW consistantly for about 2 years, and off and on for another 3.

I also decided to upgrade my video card this year..Went and bought an ATI..something, got it home, installed it myself (Was the first time i'd ever opened my computer) and found out that my computer wouldn't turn on after that. Half hour later, went back to Futureshop and the guy told me that I needed to upgrade my power supply to a 450w to power the card.. wasn't happy, but I sprung for it.

After this, I installed and tried out Vanguard (to test the new video card with a brand new MMo) the day after, I uninstalled vanguard and set it on fire.

Nov 19, 2006. Actually lined up at a walmart to buy a Wii.. worst investment of my life.

In 2007 I bought a 60G Ps3 because they went on sale due to them only making the 20 and 80 after that.

2008 my 450w power supply died, and in attempting to fix it, I managed to fry a couple other aspects of my PC, and was forced to buy a new one.

I improved it to a 750w Supply and bought an extra 2 gigs of ram, and an Nvidia 8800 GTS 512mb, and tried AoC out when it launched, then WAR.

EvE, Richard Gariotts Tabula Rasa, CoH/CoV, FFXI(pc) Pirates of the Burning Sea, EQ2, and LoTRO all fit in there somewhere, too..but not sure where. So do NDS, NDSi, and an Ipod touch.

I've got a Pre-order for Aion (yay beta key!) and i'm currently working on Empire:Total War on my PC.

Overall..I'd have to say I actually prefer FPS' on console, I prefer twich shooting with my thumbs. RTS wins out PC, and some RPG's (Fallout, ect) are also on my PC..but the majority of my games fall onto my consoles.

..Overall, i've probably got over $10,000 worth of video game crap all in one room..

I'm a long time PC Gamer. While I cut my teeth on Colecovision and Atari, PC gaming still remains my favourite way to play.

Traditionally I've been mainly a FPS gamer, starting off on Wolfenstein 3D and moving on from there. Quake II multiplayer (and Action Quake 2) took up good amounts of my time in the late 90s. Even went to a couple competitions. Shit, has it been that long?

My library has gotten pretty big over the years: Doom (Ultimate, II and 3), Quake (original, II, III and 4), Unreal, System Shock 2 (one of my all-time favourites), Deus Ex (don't get the sequel, it sucks), Half-Life (original with expansions, 2 and both episodes), Team Fortress 2, FarCry, Crysis (which kinda sucked), S.T.A.L.K.E.R (one of the scariest games I've ever played), FEAR, Bioshock, No One Lives Forever 2 (fucking awesome, I hope a good sequel is eventually made), WoW with both expansions, Fallout 3, BF2, BF2142, RTCW, a bunch of Star Wars Games like Jedi Knight and X-Wing vs TIE Fighter... and that's just what I remember having and not merely what I have played =P I don't think I want to know how much I've spent on games over the years.

I'm an addict =)

I continue to build custom PCs for my gaming needs. My current system is a AMD 64 X2 4200 + 4GB DDR2 6400 + GeForce 8800GTS 640MB + RAID 0+1 array running Windows Vista (yes, all my games work, even the real old ones), soon to be Windows 7. I've calmed down on the upgrade front and mainly just build a new system instead when the time is right. In this case that might happen in the next year or so. Then again, I may just upgrade storage and video. Who knows?

This is a hobby I don't think I'll ever outgrow. It's cool how PC gaming has gone full circle and is getting back to it's indie roots (remember Apogee and Epic Megagames shareware?). Valve is helping this a ton with Steam, making easier for one-man operations to put out profitable games. I'm considering trying some game development of my own.

On and aside, WTF is with the comment system removing the plus symbol from comments? My system specs look like they were written by a retard =P

Edit: Fixed it. Still don't get what happened.

Wait, wait... there are other games?!
::closes WoW::
::opens Aion::
Ah, NOW I see.

I followed a similar path to JiggaJohnson, had a 2600, NES, SNES. After that I mostly ignored consoles, preferring PC games.

That lasted for a long time, until the buzz around God of War got so loud even the PC people were saying stuff about it. I bought a PS2, and then got totally sucked into what consoles had morphed into 2 generations past the SNES.

Now I'm back to a more balanced diet of games. Some PC, some console, they've all got great stuff to offer.

If you're a big PC shooter fan, you're depriving yourself by refusing to take Halo or Gears of War for a spin (or at least their latest incarnations). If you liked KOTOR, you need to play Mass Effect. If you liked Diablo, you should play God of War. To think someone would call them self a gamer without having tried Metal Gear Solid and then subsequently declared that they love or hate it with a passion...seems wrong to me. You're missing out if you've never played GTA, especially GTA4.

If anything games for the PC have become something of a niche market, mostly populated with shooters, MMO's, and RTS's (and all the shooters but Crysis are on the consoles too).

I also think anyone who's into gaming should look into Brutal Legend, and seriously consider picking up a 360.

I've always been a PC gamer too, but I've played a lot less since I started sifting. Go figure. I thoroughly enjoy the Half-Life series including Portal, but in my heart I'll always be a point-and-click adventure gamer. I've played most of what LucasArts published back when they were good, such as Full Throttle, The Dig and every Monkey Island game. I'm excited about the new Monkey Island game that's coming up, and the remake of the first game. And Grim Fandango is obviously a huge favourite, as you can tell from my avatar.

The last decade has been a sad period for the adventure genre, but Telltale Games has some good stuff going now, i.e. with the new Sam&Max episodes. I also loved The Longest Journey and its sequel Dreamfall, and am eagerly awaiting a new sequel. (Do you hear that, Funcom?) I'm a sucker for good storytelling, so I might expand my horizon to Mass Effect, which I've heard good stuff about.

Another good adventure game that I think has been overlooked is the Bladerunner game from 1997. It captures the mood from the movie brilliantly, and was very replayable due to the non-linear storyline.

A few years ago I bought a PS2 solely to be able to play Guitar Hero, and I got to be rather good at it. But I haven't played it since GH3 now, and I am a bit rusty. After I bought the console my flatmate pressured me into trying Final Fantasy 10, and I enjoyed it for a while until the grinding part became too pronounced. I might continue it some day though. I also bought Bioshock when it came out, but I haven't gotten very far, as I found the character building stuff annoying. I have promised myself to play through it, though.

Other highlights from my gaming career: Diablo 2 and the expansion, the single player campaign of Starcraft and the expansion, Jedi Knight (aka Dark Forces II) and its sequels, Tie Fighter, Carmageddon, Interstate '76, and Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.

>> ^Razor:
On and aside, WTF is with the comment system removing the plus symbol from comments? My system specs look like they were written by a retard =P
Edit: Fixed it. Still don't get what happened.


In the quick view thing, when you've just posted a comment, the plus sign is removed for some reason.. when you reload the page, they're back. Don't ask me why.

Sheppard et al, is aion any good?

^ I just played Halo 2 finally on my PC (I played PC Halo 1 ages ago), there's something very charming about that series.. maybe it's Cortana's purple butt (Now I seriously want a Halo 3 port).

BUT anyways, this just in. Force Unleashed coming to pc's >D
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=909

I know it didn't hit it off to well with the critics, but I still want to play it just for the story line sake if nothing else.

And yes, I still have Blade Runner for the PC. Great game for a slow, cold and rainy weekend.

>> ^gwiz665:
Sheppard et al, is aion any good?


Aion is still closed beta, but the system looks like WoW only prettier and more... Japanese. I should be playing in the event next weekend, so I'll see then if it will be worth putting time into. I'm stuck in a week-long meeting in Cornell until then, so no games for me. Fortunately they've provided us with internet access, and wow is it screaming fast here.

I didn't know this was going to (d)evolve into an E-Peen thread, but I love that game, so here goes:

My first gaming experiences were, of course, Atari-2600 related. I still have the console and ~80 carts in my closet.

My folks bought their first computer, an Atari 4800 (lol.) I have fond memories of hand-entering the BASIC code for games, debugging them manually, and saving them to cassette tapes. We also actually purchased a phenomenal game called Lode Runner that is still emulated today.

First official console: Sega Genesis. I was unhappy with the palette "warmth", so I traded it up for a SNES. I still have that console as well. My wife and I resolved many disputes with Doctor Mario and Mortal Kombat Trilogy.

After I got out of the military, I bought my first PC, a CompuAdd 486, with which I happily played Doom, Doom2, Duke Nukem, Interstate '76, Mechwarrior (1,2), Tie Fighter, X-Wing, Warcraft, Populous, the list goes on.

It wasn't long after that my wife and I invested in a Nintendo 64, which I wasn't very pleased with. The games that we enjoyed were great, but the variety wasn't so much. We got a lot of mileage out of Mario Kart 64, Mario 64, and of course Ocarina of Time.

Disappointed with the 64, we bought a Playstation. There were a few games that became marital aides, primarily Tekken 3 and Super Puzzle Fighter. However, the console's primary purpose quickly became Spyro. I think my wife may have had a thing for that little dragon. Syro's 1-3 are still near to our hearts (I'm glad that they were all released on the PSN.)

Subsequently, we purchased a Dreamcast, primarily because of how easy it was to boot-leg games for the system. Other than the Sonic games, only Jet Set Radio stands out as a mentionable Dreamcast game. Simply fantastic.

After that, we dove into the PS2. Gran Turismo 3, 4, Jak&Daxter, Ratchet and Clank, Final Fantasy XII, ICO, Shadow of the Colossus were the highlights. Oh yeah, also Odin Sphere, great game. Ew, and Shin Megami Tensei 3, that too.

Back to the PC, I had purchased a beefed up system in 2006, primarily for Half-Life 2, but also fell back in love with Team Fortress and Counter Strike. That's also when I began my on-again off-again love affair with MMO games. Final Fantasy XI, the first I'd tried, was a bitch-lover, more a 2nd job than a "fun game". Since, I've played City of Heroes, World of Warcraft, Lineage2, EVE, and (most recently) Lord of the Rings Online. In between multi-player gaming, I've spent solo-time on Oblivion, Overlord, Sims3, Bioshock, and the fantastic Fallout 3.

On the mobile front, what started out as travel-toys for my son have turned into nice gaming distractions as well. We have Nintendo DS's, and a PSP. I've put a shameful amount of time into Pokemon Pearl (played through twice fully, on third play now.) On the PSP, Patapon was a nice distraction, as was Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology.

Year before last we bought a PS3. Stand-outs are: Little Big Planet, all of the PixelJunk games, Flower, and Infamous.

That's it for my gamer's resume. Hope I get the job.

Sorry I missed this thread. PC Gamer only here, since the SNES days when i first got my own computer. Mostly FPS and action RPG. Lately I've gotten back into BF2 bigtime. No other game offers such a mix of clear goals, open-endedness, and approachability. I used to mess around with clans a bit but over the years I've found many pub BF2 servers where you can have a damn good teamplay experience without all the rigors of clan membership.

I'm also a few hours into a second playthrough of Mass Effect, being a total ruthless bastard this time. As much attention as this game got, I still think it's underrated.

PC games, although lately I find it hard to justify the waste of time. Not because I'm particularly busy, but simply because games nowadays seem too boring to play. I loved old-style western RPGs - started with Baldur's gate, but I think Planescape was my favourite, and I really liked Arcanum as well, despite its flaws. Played the usual Quakes etc. of course, but around Quake II it started to get a bit old and I never got into the Unreal Tournament and quake III side of things. I think the last game I really got into was Battlefield 2, but that kind of died down after a while - the gameplay got repetitive, people got routines, it just got boring. Played TF2 a bit, appreciate the design, and it's fun, but somehow I can't bring myself to start the game up. I liked Oblivion, although the writing is terrible, the art is uninspired and the gameplay is somewhat clunky. It was free enough. Mostly I play Armed Assault 2 now, or a heavily modded version anyway, in co-op with a bunch of people.

Mass Effect was mentioned here, I played it, hated it. The story is something dug up out of a pile of discarded B-scifi scripts, the gameplay is repetitive and the design is generic. I thought Bioshock looked ugly, they butchered the art nouveau aesthetic by making it too clunky and thick-set. Crysis was actually surprisingly fun for what it was, although too long considering the gameplay remained the same throughout.

I've really enjoyed the Telltale episodics - Sam & Max started out quite good and got brilliant on the 2nd season. The Monkey Island games look promising, the first episode was decent enough. New ep should be out soon...