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[Banjacked]

Yup, the one with the "special" tape deck. The one where, in the days before "turbo load" you would press start the game loading, go make a cup of tea or coffee, drink it, go make another one. 30 mins to load in a game was known...

 

[richykn]

Was never really a big gamer in my youth.i did get a bit adicted to lord of ultima for a year or so mmorp or something like that they mnown as.gta san andreas on ps2 5weeks sick 3 weeks holidays,and another month till i 100% no cheats.i know the map better than my own town.gta4 was pure piss gta5 was finished in 3 weeks,not 10% the game san andreas was.colin mcrae/gt3,4,5 steering wheel pedals thing on ps3.Aint looked at it in years.
Now with the talk of gaming im pondering a ps4,a pc may make more sense.
Keep er liit

Colin McRae rally is one of my all time favourite racing games

I'd go for the PS4 simply for the exclusives and you can pick one up pre-owned at a very reasonable price

 

[bushmasterar15]

Have a PS4 but with the slow internet connection can't play online.

 

[mcpd_refugee]

I am online on my PS4 every night playing Destiny 2. We’ll be playing Battlefield 5 in November. And then probably back to Destiny 2 in December.

 

[Banjacked]

For all you old farts out there, forget your mini SNES, PS, Megadrive, C64, ZX Spectrum, etc, reboots, or even the "upgraded" Atari VCS, Intellivision is rejoining the retro fray with it's own upgraded and remastered console filled with classic Atari and Intellivision classics.

When will the madness stop!!

Edit: Here's the link. There's "more than one" game listed there that brings a smile to my face...

https://www.intellivisionentertainment.com/

 

[Boradan]

Colin McRae rally is one of my all time favourite racing games

I'd go for the PS4 simply for the exclusives and you can pick one up pre-owned at a very reasonable price

Colin McRae Rally + Computer + Force-feedback steering wheel = WIN !!

 

[Boradan]

My computer game life went like this:

An uncle had a Vic 20 and then a Commodore 64 - played these all the time when we visited him.
Got a 48k Spectrum when I was about 15 - started off with Manic Miner etc. All other games stopped when I discovered the Lords of Midnight. Followed by it's sequel Doomdark's Revenge.
Once the spectrum died, I had nothing to do with computers for quite a few years.
Eventually bought a computer (with a Celeron 333a CPU, overclocked to about 550Hz). It had a rubbish graphics card, so I never played any games initially.
After a few months, I bought an Nvidia TNT 16MB graphics card and loaded a demo of Half-Life - the graphics blew me away (remember, the last game I had played was on a Spectrum) and this led to Counterstrike.
Counterstrike then led to Battlefield 1942 & Battlefield Vietnam, BF2, BF3 and BF4.
Then, in 2004, World of Warcraft came out, and that was then end of most of my social life outside of Saturdays (when combined with BF2, BF3 and BF4)...
In 2011, I moved to an area with rubbish internet (300ms+ latency), so could no longer play anything needing quick reactions. Did some searching to find an online MMO where latency wasn't as big of an issue, and discovered EVE Online.
Holy Moly, that game is INTENSE. Trying to describe playing it would need a book.
It is run from a single (cluster of) Server, so EVERYONE is playing the same game at the same time.
PvP is anything from 1v1 to 1000's fighting against each other.
If you do not like PvP, you can specialize in Industry and make the ships that people fly in (along with all of the additional modules/weapons used). (Or you can make Drugs for people to use)

Here is a promo video for it using voice communication from actual players:


It isn't ALWAYS like that though..
Here is the same video with recordings that someone else did - voice comms sounds like this more often:



This is the sort of shit that can happen in EVE. And it isn't a one-off

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

Eve came along just before i quit lord of ultima,having fought on 4 worlds and won each time.a server was set up so all the champions could fight to the death.technical issues then server was shut down.im glad i didnt beta test eve.

 

[Boradan]

Eve came along just before i quit lord of ultima,having fought on 4 worlds and won each time.a server was set up so all the champions could fight to the death.technical issues then server was shut down.im glad i didnt beta test eve.

EVE is nuts.
EVE isn't like you would expect from a Space MMO. It is NOT a space simulator. No cockpit view +joysticks in this game (that would be Star Citizen).
PvP is 'fairly' simple to do - Orbit/keep at range/follow a target and just press the fire button.
That is how it seems initially, but that is far from reality. Anyone flying like that will get shot to pieces fairly rapidly.

The thing that ramps up the intensity in PVP is that in-game items get destroyed when you lose your ship (the ship and all the modules you fitted to it plus everything in its' cargo hold). The ship is totally destroyed, and 35% (average) of the modules and cargo can drop as loot.
ALL of these items have a real-money value - you cannot buy the items for $$ in-game, but you can buy in-game currency (ISK) for $$ from the Eve website, so items can then (sort of) have a dollar value - it isn't really like that as you cannot sell in-game currency for $$ (legally).
The largest battle in EVE had thousands of players - a lot of whom were in VERY expensive (in-game) ships. Converting the $$ value of the currency to item values and back again gave a total of over $330,000 of equipment totally destroyed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodbath_of_B-R5RB

 

[Boradan]

Eve came along just before i quit lord of ultima,having fought on 4 worlds and won each time.a server was set up so all the champions could fight to the death.technical issues then server was shut down.im glad i didnt beta test eve.

The most expensive ship I lost was worth 42 billion ISK (in-game currency) - including the ship, modules fitted and stuff in my cargo hold..
Right now, 1 PLEX costs 3.08 Million ISK in-game, so the ship was worth approximately 13,636 PLEX
To buy 15,400 PLEX from the EVE store would be €499.99, so to Buy all of the PLEX necessary to purchase the ship and all fittings/modules/cargo hold items would cost €445.
When I lost it, it was gone - totally destroyed (although it DID drop 9 billion ISK worth of loot that the people who killed me just picked up)


I WOULD like to state though, that it didn't really cost me that as I did not purchase the ISK with real money, but obtained it in-game for no $$ outlay. There is no way to turn ISK back into real $$ without going to a dodgy website and running the risk of getting your accounts banned.
I have to admit that I DID use that type of site once - when I decided to quit eve, I sold my accounts and items on one for $1200