Interesting article I saw the other day
http://quanticfoundry.com/2016/01/20/game-genre-map-the-cognitive-threshold-in-strategy-games/
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Oh yeah Low Strategy, Low Excitement, FM baby.
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PC Gamer recently had a list of the 50 most important PC Games. As such lists go, it's a pretty good one:
http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games/
Quote from: Syt on January 24, 2016, 12:45:59 AM
PC Gamer recently had a list of the 50 most important PC Games. As such lists go, it's a pretty good one:
http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games/
So many of those early ones I played and loved as a kid:
The Oregon Trail, so many dead buffalo between Independence Missouri and Oregon...
Zork, though I never really did get into this my best friend loved it and I played it alot when I was at his house
Wizardry: Oh wow I was so obsessed with this game but it was way above my capability as a third grader to get very far in it. I would forever go too deep in and get my party wiped but damn I kept trying. Because I could never beat the first one I never played the sequels since they were supposed to be so much harder...until Wizardry 8.
King's Quest: Started many years of loving adventure games I would become so attached to my blocky little sprite who never said anything.
SimCity
The Secret of Monkey Island: I am embarrassed about how many times I played this game. The fact Governor Marley looked kind of like a girl I was totally obsessed with didn't help.
Civilization
Dune II
Ultima Underworld
Wolfenstein 3D
Myst...well I played it, everybody did, but I kind of thought it sucked.
Wing Commander III (actually did not play it that much because I could not afford to get a 486 so I had to play it at my friend's house. But I was totally obsessed with the first two)
After this I became an adult (sort of...) and stopped being able to play everything so from then it is just:
Baldur's Gate: Christmas vacation 1998 will forever be a treasured memory
Everquest
Morrowind
WoW of course. Though I kind of wish I had never played MMOs despite really enjoying alot of my time there. I have not really played them since 2007.
Broken Age...meh but I understand why it was on there
Quote from: Valmy on January 24, 2016, 01:41:01 AM
Broken Age...meh but I understand why it was on there
I watched Jesse Cox' playthrough of that one. The first half seemed really good in story, setting, and puzzles. The second seemed rushed and bland - which was probably no surprise given the mishandled production on Double Fine's part.
Myst did not suck!
But when it came out -- early 90s I think -- I can't imagine how many people couldn't finish it because of lack of guides. I kinda remember that era being you either figured it out, had a friend or bought a magazine. The game was also incredibly lonely.
I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it :Embarrass:
I was a teenager and I found it pretty boring anyway, so I didn't get too far.
Quote from: Syt on January 24, 2016, 12:45:59 AM
PC Gamer recently had a list of the 50 most important PC Games. As such lists go, it's a pretty good one:
http://www.pcgamer.com/most-important-pc-games/
Thanks, nice link; my interest in games seems to have started around end of page three, continued through page four and largely ended part way down pag five. :hmm:
I tried Zork many times. Never really got anywhere. The best I got was randomly stumbling around in the dark to a dam...and that was that. I did used to be fascinated by these text based games though. Tried many a generic MUD in Midgard.
As a kid the PC games for me- Sim City 2000, Civ 2, Frontier Elite, Baldurs Gate, and later on Counterstrike and a tonne of SNES emulated games.
Probably forgetting something really obvious.
C64 and Commodore Amiga during childhood and early teens. PC gaming didn't become popular in my group of friends till the early/mid 90s when we were 16 and up.
I know I saved up allowance/birthday-christmas money to buy all the early Maxis titles before my family moved to Massachusetts, so that probably puts me at having played SimCity somewhere between 6-8. I remember when SimCity2000 came out it seemed much more difficult...which only makes sense given how young I was in '95. :D
Quote from: celedhring on January 24, 2016, 05:32:45 AM
I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it :Embarrass:
I was a teenager and I found it pretty boring anyway, so I didn't get too far.
It was a boring game that spawned a boring genre.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on January 25, 2016, 01:26:36 PM
Quote from: celedhring on January 24, 2016, 05:32:45 AM
I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it :Embarrass:
I was a teenager and I found it pretty boring anyway, so I didn't get too far.
It was a boring game that spawned a boring genre.
Said anybody who never got past the first level :D
Scanning the monitor is not my idea of a good time.