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ping ohgrant. don't know what he plays but I know he does.

I just finished Killzone 3 in 4 hours. VERY disappointed in that game. They hyped it up like the best FPS ever and I just rolled right through it. Good thing it was a free rental from my local vid store or I would have been pissed. I don't buy any PS3 games. Why when I can rent them from my local vid store for @ $6.99 for 5 days? If I would bought Killzone 3 for $60 I would have been furious.

I would have to say the best FPS of all time has to be a tie between Far Cry 2 and Red Dead Redemption. Bioshock comes in 3rd. I was disappointed with Bioshock 2. Took me 2 solid weeks to finish Red Dead and 2 months to finish Far Cry 2 and both never really end. You could keep playing forever (Far Cry 2 also as long as you don't jump off the final cliff of no return). Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare was very good too, but didn't come close to the original.

Did you hear Duke Nukem Forever is coming out in a couple months for the PS3! YAY!! I hope I'm still out of work then [LOL] (and my wife is gone on one of her work trips). I'll get a case of regular Coke (cant do diet, need the sugar and caffeine when doing a gaming marathon hehe), 10 family sized bags of tortilla chips, make a 5 gallon pot of home made chilli, and not move off the couch until I'm finished with Duke. Being forced in to retirement at such an early age does have it's benefits. :)

Yeah, I'm a bit of an FPS gamer. :) I also like old 2D side scroller's on PC. Monster Bash 1 ~ 3, Xargon 1 ~ 3, Vinyl Goddess, Duke Nukem (Original series), Commander Keen 1 ~ 5, Diamond Dave. Castlevania was awesome too. I don't have the console anymore so thank God for emulators ;).

Then 3D came along. Best game ever on PC was/is Quake (the original game). I have all of the expansion packs, official and 3rd party. The expansion packs are very rare and hard to find. I made backup DVD of Quake 1 and 2 with all expansion packs, on-line mods, and Open GL support. Just pop it in and away you go right off the DVD. I still play it after all these years once in a while.

Did I mention Duke Nukem Forever is coming out for PS3 soon? Oh yeah, I did. Yay! We've only been waiting 12 years! :)

My son is really into LRP... Live Role Play or Larpping..... He's been playing the same character in Xanodria for a number of years now with a number of his friends. His best friends Dad was one of the story writters.

If you've ever seen the Movie Role Models, I guess it's kind of like that.

About once a week, sometimes twice, I play Call of Duty:Black Ops in a private match with my family.  Using headsets it is fun to chat while playing.

My top games of all time though:

Gran Turismo Series
Armored Core Series (Is there a new release?)
Metal Gear Series

Civilization is nice! There's nothing lame about that.

(You're avatar keeps transforming Bubba)

Jonbouy


I'm a simmer me.

Anything that models real-life scenarios without any of the nasty consequences is OK in my kindle book.

Are you referring to "The Sims" series?
 
Which volume/number/whatever-you-call-it do you play?

SeveredVesper

Jonbouy


I'm a simmer me.

Anything that models real-life scenarios without any of the nasty consequences is OK in my kindle book.

Are you referring to "The Sims" series?
 
Which volume/number/whatever-you-call-it do you play?

Well yeah, stuff like that, Championship Manager, Flight Sims, Trainz etc. etc.

I even went through a patch of developing 3D planes for MS Flight Sim and had a paper published by MS on using their modelling tools once.

It's all quite awhile ago now so I don't have any current games.

I don't seem to be able to make enough time to do a much music as I'd like now let alone play games much although I do still enjoy the occasional 'flight' around the neighbourhood.

craigb


In what seems like a previous lifetime, I was once ranked in the top-25 for Quake I (out of over 400,000 gamers tracked).  My CounterStrike team also made it to the #1 place in one of the online gaming leagues as well (I used to run the second-most popular servers on the west coast back then - 'twas fun playing with a 7 ping and stomping punks half my age...  ).
 
Of course, these accomplishments tend to get weird looks from prospective employers when they see them listed on my resume...

7 ping - That's like playing on Lan! Wow Craig! Never got pro at CS, i'm really not a great FPS player. I excel at driving games, even at arcades, i always pawn haha!
 
I never got to play Quake I. The Quake that i started playing was III, and that was also the time when there was a competition of Quake III Arena on tv (The same TV that hosts Game Sauce), although the first Quake III i played was in the Dreamcast, so it was like playing FPS on xbox.

I'm old school.
On occasion I'll check into my old Final Fantasy XI. I still keep the account paid up for some reason.
No time to play much because everything in that game requires at least 4 hours attention.

Mike 

craigb

SeveredVesper

craigb


In what seems like a previous lifetime, I was once ranked in the top-25 for Quake I (out of over 400,000 gamers tracked).  My CounterStrike team also made it to the #1 place in one of the online gaming leagues as well (I used to run the second-most popular servers on the west coast back then - 'twas fun playing with a 7 ping and stomping punks half my age...  ).
 
Of course, these accomplishments tend to get weird looks from prospective employers when they see them listed on my resume...

7 ping - That's like playing on Lan! Wow Craig! Never got pro at CS, i'm really not a great FPS player. I excel at driving games, even at arcades, i always pawn haha!
 
I never got to play Quake I. The Quake that i started playing was III, and that was also the time when there was a competition of Quake III Arena on tv (The same TV that hosts Game Sauce), although the first Quake III i played was in the Dreamcast, so it was like playing FPS on xbox.

7 ping is what you get when your PC is sitting right next to the server on a T1 line.  Hehe...
 
As for racing games, this is what I have:
 
http://www.nwdreamer.com/Pics/GamingPC/
 
Now that monitors have gotten so cheap I want to add a few (six is the dream, three is more likely).  5.1 surround sound built in and a TSW wheel with pedals - very fun!

(Melts in awe)

I got pretty handy at Space Invaders, rubbish at Asteroids though. I liked Myst. That's about it for gaming.

I like to play solitaire on line.  

SeveredVesper


I mean, it could have been better IMO. Graphics-wise to be specific, but the engine's good!

 
Assuming that you are talking about SC2, agreed.
 
The graphics are ok, but nothing amazing (the cut scenes are though).   Game play for sure is where it really shines.
 
So much more depth than say C&C (especially the latest one which sucked).