POLL: Player's Ages, Homebases - Page 17

Bad Mr. Frosty · 02-21-2002, 03:40 AM

Well i guess i will chime in on this too.

Name: Ruben
AKA: Bad Mr. Frosty, Ruven76, Carubmun, Pinche Ruben.
AGE: 25, Summer 1976
Location: Glendora, So. California, USA, 30 Min. Noreast Los Angeles

I have always preferred to play what i call a more "intellectual" type of computer/video game. Or as family and frieds would call them "boring ass games".

Like most kids my age in 1985, Christmas brought a NES.
So out went the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 i had played before.
And Super Mario was the shit, untill it got so easy i could beat it in les than 30 minutes.
At that point i was hoping for somthing more in my games. More depth.
Then i played Metroid, and damn that was the shit.
But i wanted even more adventure.
The Legend Of Zelda.
My first real RPG experiance, (although now i dont consider it a "real" RPG)
Now i was 12 and talking to my friends every day about the secret i had found in the graveyard...the mountain...the forrest..etc..
And one guy walked by and said "that game ain't no real RPG"
He said something about a real RPG lets you build your character however u choose, lets u go where uwant to go, lets u have control, lets you almost become that character.
I said YES!!!!!.. thats what ive been waiting for!!!
And he let me borrow Wizardry, Proving grounds of the mad overlord.
And damn!!! I played that game every day, once played it 20 hours straight just stopping to pee and eat my food in front of my TV.
This dude now became my new best friend, we would talk everyday about the game. He would help me here in there but not give out too much.
Well i played that game well into high school sometimes when i was bored. This game has never left me, I always have an old NES lying around just in case i get the urge to play OG WIZARDRY.

Ok, as you can see i love wizardry, but it isnt even my favorite all time game.
No, in Seventh grade i remember wanting a computer like the ones they had at school. My Wizardry friend said that with a computer u could play a bunch of games that were like wizardry.
So i looked but we were poor.
But one day i was at a friends house and her older brother had an old computer in a box in the garage.
Well we worked out a deal.
My NES and all my games (except WIZ) for the computer.
I knew nothing of computers.
His computer ended up not being what i thought a computer was.
It was Commodore 64.
But i was happy, there was like 3 hundred games on all these big floppies. Mostly games like california games, yie yar kung-fu, skate or die and the such.
But i found a game called Questron II
And it was so cool. But not as cool as wizardry.
I looked and looked but coudnt find any store that sold games for my commodore. Then one day i found a Toys R" Us that had a shelf in the back with a bunch of Commodore games they had as a closeout, 6 dollars a piece.
There I found DRAGON WARS
I thought maybe its like Dragon warrior i had on my NES.
Hell no was ia wrong.
This became my new obsession for a few years even.
It might be weird to most but that game was probably the reason i studied ancient mediterranean history and literature so much in college and even now.
Any way that game rocked and still rocks more that any other game ive ever played.

And I have played a lot of Rpg's over the years.
From my days ont the NES, Sega MS and Commodore 64
to SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx days,
then as an adult the Sony PS, Dreamcast, and My 300 MHZ Pentium 2 with a whole 8mb video card.
To now, ditched all consoles hopefully for ever. and now i have my mega super duper gaming machine i made myself,(funny thing is that i play Wiz8 90 percent of the time im on my PC, and i dont even need so much power).
But here is the specs, cuz i like to gloat,

1700XP AMD procesor
40 GB 72k RPM HD "Maxtor"
GeForce 3 Ti 200 "Winfast"
256Mb DDR RAM
SB Live Equivalent Audio "Generic" Will switch to an Audigy Mp3 soon
19 inch 25. Monitor
Win 2000

BTW
I play RPG's (Wiz8) and RTS (AOE, starcraft,EmpireEarth) mostly. Some sports games(EA NHL HOCKEY, FIFA) and for the first time i have liked a FPS, Counter-Strike.
I spend hours upon hours at my local Lan Center playing that damn game. I can't be;ieve i can be so addicted to a game not an RPG.
This from a person that has always disliked FPS for being nothing more than dumbed down shoot, strafe, kill games
But there is something to this whole Multiplayer thing.
Interactivity with humans is not so bad i see.

hmmm maybe someone should come up with and RPG u can play with a bunch of people at the same time.
that would be kickass.
one can only hope.
hehe

Bad Mr. Frosty · 02-21-2002, 03:59 AM

damn i got to stop typing so much.
\

Madkow · 02-21-2002, 10:12 AM

I'm Luis, from Portugal (look it up in the map, it's there) .
I'm 35 and i am an advertising copywriter.
I'm new to Wizardry, and to these forums.

I play games for escapism, so the more i get immersed in them the better i find them. Than can happen in a CRPG (happened first with Ultima Underworld), but i also find it in a story driven FPS, like half-life, for example.

I'm also a heavy user of JA2 (from Sir-tech also), can't really explain why... i think it's the characters rich personality... or the silenced M4 from the DL mod (those initiated should know what i'm talking about... who knows...

Nice to meet all of you, although i didn't, too many pages on this thread to read...

Nordoki · 03-20-2002, 11:19 PM

bump

HammerHead · 03-21-2002, 07:25 AM

Hi
My name is Claus and I'm from Denmark.I'm 46 which surprisingly seems to be the around the average age here. I have played CRPG's for several years allthough this is my first Wiz. game. I think it's very good and I'm sorry to hear that it will be the last. Right now I'm looking foreward to M&M IX ( I have played the whole series ) and Morrowwind ( Hoping it will not be as buggy as Daggerfall ).

Claus

Nordoki · 03-23-2002, 06:11 PM

Time for a bump.

Ziggurat · 03-25-2002, 02:54 AM

This is a great forum. I started adventure games around 1982. But this is not a contest, right? I actually wrote a game or two in DOS but never published. RPGs, the good ones, encourage being creative and becoming the adventuring party. That is their strength. Good providence to all here. Hey, are we having fun yet?

Clea · 03-25-2002, 04:19 PM

Okay, I'll add myself to the long list

-- I'm Clea, a 51-yr old college English professor and long-time gamer, going back to Bard's Tale or even farther -- Anyone remember Rogue, where the little smiling face bumped into letters ("B" for bat) and so on? And the *original* Castle Wolfenstein?

I'm enjoying W8, and will be asking for help soon, I'm sure!

Knip Dyolf · 03-25-2002, 07:06 PM

Clea,

Quote:

Anyone remember Rogue, where the little smiling face bumped into letters ("B" for bat) and so on?

Yep Clea, I do remember Rogue. It was the beginning of computer games that go under the description of "Roguelike games".
For the uninformed roguelike games are where you generate a character and desend into a multi-level dungeon. Diablo was a blatant take off of rogue games IMHO.

Roguelike games are available in the public forum so they are freeware. There are many variants available, some which have quite good graphics and sound effects. ZAngbandTK and Nethack:The Falcons Eye being good examples. Many of the web sites are still maintained and there is a wealth of info on the net.
If you like CRPG's try a roguelike. You might be pleasently surprised and at least it only costs a download.

Knip

Sleipnir · 03-26-2002, 09:34 AM

Hi all,

I am Ulrich from East Germany, 33 this months, i live in England and do Software Support.

Did someone mention Bards Tale - yep i got hooked on to RPG's since then!

Wizardy, Eyer of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, M&M, Baldurs Gate and many others but one of the best ones was "Das Schwarze Auge" (never knew the english translation).

Sleipnir

02-21-2002, 03:40 AM	#161
Bad Mr. Frosty The Magister Join Date: January 19, 2002 Location: So. Cal. Age: 49 Posts: 127	Well i guess i will chime in on this too. Name: Ruben AKA: Bad Mr. Frosty, Ruven76, Carubmun, Pinche Ruben. AGE: 25, Summer 1976 Location: Glendora, So. California, USA, 30 Min. Noreast Los Angeles I have always preferred to play what i call a more "intellectual" type of computer/video game. Or as family and frieds would call them "boring ass games". Like most kids my age in 1985, Christmas brought a NES. So out went the Atari 2600, 5200, and 7800 i had played before. And Super Mario was the shit, untill it got so easy i could beat it in les than 30 minutes. At that point i was hoping for somthing more in my games. More depth. Then i played Metroid, and damn that was the shit. But i wanted even more adventure. The Legend Of Zelda. My first real RPG experiance, (although now i dont consider it a "real" RPG) Now i was 12 and talking to my friends every day about the secret i had found in the graveyard...the mountain...the forrest..etc.. And one guy walked by and said "that game ain't no real RPG" He said something about a real RPG lets you build your character however u choose, lets u go where uwant to go, lets u have control, lets you almost become that character. I said YES!!!!!.. thats what ive been waiting for!!! And he let me borrow Wizardry, Proving grounds of the mad overlord. And damn!!! I played that game every day, once played it 20 hours straight just stopping to pee and eat my food in front of my TV. This dude now became my new best friend, we would talk everyday about the game. He would help me here in there but not give out too much. Well i played that game well into high school sometimes when i was bored. This game has never left me, I always have an old NES lying around just in case i get the urge to play OG WIZARDRY. Ok, as you can see i love wizardry, but it isnt even my favorite all time game. No, in Seventh grade i remember wanting a computer like the ones they had at school. My Wizardry friend said that with a computer u could play a bunch of games that were like wizardry. So i looked but we were poor. But one day i was at a friends house and her older brother had an old computer in a box in the garage. Well we worked out a deal. My NES and all my games (except WIZ) for the computer. I knew nothing of computers. His computer ended up not being what i thought a computer was. It was Commodore 64. But i was happy, there was like 3 hundred games on all these big floppies. Mostly games like california games, yie yar kung-fu, skate or die and the such. But i found a game called Questron II And it was so cool. But not as cool as wizardry. I looked and looked but coudnt find any store that sold games for my commodore. Then one day i found a Toys R" Us that had a shelf in the back with a bunch of Commodore games they had as a closeout, 6 dollars a piece. There I found DRAGON WARS I thought maybe its like Dragon warrior i had on my NES. Hell no was ia wrong. This became my new obsession for a few years even. It might be weird to most but that game was probably the reason i studied ancient mediterranean history and literature so much in college and even now. Any way that game rocked and still rocks more that any other game ive ever played. And I have played a lot of Rpg's over the years. From my days ont the NES, Sega MS and Commodore 64 to SNES, Genesis, TurboGrafx days, then as an adult the Sony PS, Dreamcast, and My 300 MHZ Pentium 2 with a whole 8mb video card. To now, ditched all consoles hopefully for ever. and now i have my mega super duper gaming machine i made myself,(funny thing is that i play Wiz8 90 percent of the time im on my PC, and i dont even need so much power). But here is the specs, cuz i like to gloat, 1700XP AMD procesor 40 GB 72k RPM HD "Maxtor" GeForce 3 Ti 200 "Winfast" 256Mb DDR RAM SB Live Equivalent Audio "Generic" Will switch to an Audigy Mp3 soon 19 inch 25. Monitor Win 2000 BTW I play RPG's (Wiz8) and RTS (AOE, starcraft,EmpireEarth) mostly. Some sports games(EA NHL HOCKEY, FIFA) and for the first time i have liked a FPS, Counter-Strike. I spend hours upon hours at my local Lan Center playing that damn game. I can't be;ieve i can be so addicted to a game not an RPG. This from a person that has always disliked FPS for being nothing more than dumbed down shoot, strafe, kill games But there is something to this whole Multiplayer thing. Interactivity with humans is not so bad i see. hmmm maybe someone should come up with and RPG u can play with a bunch of people at the same time. that would be kickass. one can only hope. hehe __________________ <img border=\"0\" alt=\"[skeleton1]\" title=\"\" src=\"graemlins/skeleton1.gif\" /> <br /><br />It\'s a dead man\'s party, how could you ask for more...It\'s a dead man\'s party, leave your body and soul at the door.

02-21-2002, 03:59 AM	#162
Bad Mr. Frosty The Magister Join Date: January 19, 2002 Location: So. Cal. Age: 49 Posts: 127	damn i got to stop typing so much. \ __________________ <img border=\"0\" alt=\"[skeleton1]\" title=\"\" src=\"graemlins/skeleton1.gif\" /> <br /><br />It\'s a dead man\'s party, how could you ask for more...It\'s a dead man\'s party, leave your body and soul at the door.

03-20-2002, 11:19 PM	#164
Nordoki Dungeon Master Join Date: February 10, 2002 Location: California, USA Posts: 77	bump __________________ \"You\'re just jealous because the little voices talk to me.\"

03-21-2002, 07:25 AM	#165
HammerHead Zhentarim Guard Join Date: January 11, 2002 Location: Denmark Age: 70 Posts: 333	Hi My name is Claus and I'm from Denmark.I'm 46 which surprisingly seems to be the around the average age here. I have played CRPG's for several years allthough this is my first Wiz. game. I think it's very good and I'm sorry to hear that it will be the last. Right now I'm looking foreward to M&M IX ( I have played the whole series ) and Morrowwind ( Hoping it will not be as buggy as Daggerfall ). Claus __________________ Those are my principles.<br />If you don\'t like them I have others.<br /><br />Groucho Marx 1890-1977

03-23-2002, 06:11 PM	#166
Nordoki Dungeon Master Join Date: February 10, 2002 Location: California, USA Posts: 77	Time for a bump. __________________ \"You\'re just jealous because the little voices talk to me.\"

02-21-2002, 10:12 AM	#163
Madkow Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: February 20, 2002 Location: Portugal Posts: 7	I'm Luis, from Portugal (look it up in the map, it's there) . I'm 35 and i am an advertising copywriter. I'm new to Wizardry, and to these forums. I play games for escapism, so the more i get immersed in them the better i find them. Than can happen in a CRPG (happened first with Ultima Underworld), but i also find it in a story driven FPS, like half-life, for example. I'm also a heavy user of JA2 (from Sir-tech also), can't really explain why... i think it's the characters rich personality... or the silenced M4 from the DL mod (those initiated should know what i'm talking about... who knows... Nice to meet all of you, although i didn't, too many pages on this thread to read...

03-25-2002, 02:54 AM	#167
Ziggurat Symbol of Cyric Join Date: November 4, 2001 Location: Baltimore, Md Age: 71 Posts: 1,106	This is a great forum. I started adventure games around 1982. But this is not a contest, right? I actually wrote a game or two in DOS but never published. RPGs, the good ones, encourage being creative and becoming the adventuring party. That is their strength. Good providence to all here. Hey, are we having fun yet? __________________ How are you today, Citizen?

03-25-2002, 04:19 PM	#168
Clea Welcomed New User Join Date: March 23, 2002 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2	Okay, I'll add myself to the long list -- I'm Clea, a 51-yr old college English professor and long-time gamer, going back to Bard's Tale or even farther -- Anyone remember Rogue, where the little smiling face bumped into letters ("B" for bat) and so on? And the original Castle Wolfenstein? I'm enjoying W8, and will be asking for help soon, I'm sure!

03-26-2002, 09:34 AM	#170
Sleipnir Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: February 28, 2002 Location: England Posts: 18	Hi all, I am Ulrich from East Germany, 33 this months, i live in England and do Software Support. Did someone mention Bards Tale - yep i got hooked on to RPG's since then! Wizardy, Eyer of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, M&M, Baldurs Gate and many others but one of the best ones was "Das Schwarze Auge" (never knew the english translation). Sleipnir

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