Article maps out games difficulty v. exclting

[Josephus]

Interesting article I saw the other day

http://quanticfoundry.com/2016/01/20/game-genre-map-the-cognitive-threshold-in-strategy-games/

[MadImmortalMan]

[katmai]

Oh yeah Low Strategy, Low Excitement, FM baby.

[MadImmortalMan]

I am: Two dimensional gamer.

Your Gaming Style :
Calm, Proficient, Relaxed, Independent, Grounded, and Creative

[Syt]

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/

[Valmy]

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

[Syt]

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.

[Jaron]

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.

[celedhring]

I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it 

I was a teenager and I found it pretty boring anyway, so I didn't get too far.

[mongers]

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. 

[Josquius]

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.

[Syt]

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.

[garbon]

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.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it 

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.

[Josephus]

I don't think I got past the few first screens of Myst when I got it 

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