Up All Night Computer Games

anonymous_joe

Galvasean wrote: »

As it turns out DBZ4 IS coming. Not much info as of yet.
Whats gonna be new in FM09?

Sort of vaguely 3D. And fixing regens, confidence and transfer system. And a dramatically increased assistant manager type feature to help you understand tactics better.

And hurrah for new Dragonball Z game I'm sure.

Gummy Panda

Thaedydal wrote: »

Dungeon Keeper 2 had different sayings which were tied into the pc clock, from tis the witching hour and all curses are half price, to askinging if you had no lair to go to at 2am and other such taunts, it was a lot of fun to play.

Oblivion was pants in comparison to Morrowwind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54GRN4mg1_A

I loved Dungeon Keeper. I think one my friends kept playing it for years even though he completed it several times (he also did the same with fallout/2)

I miss having to keep horny locked up as he was a wrecking ball to you and the enemy.

Sarky

Morrowind frequently had me sinking 16-18 hours straight into it overnight and heading straight into work after. Oblivion was prettier, but dead inside, like the corpse of a supermodel or something, I could never manage more than a couple of hours at a time.

Syndicate Wars took up frankly embarrassing amounts of my time and sleep back in the 90's.

tribulus

I downloaded dosbox and figured it out and am now happily playing CM97/98 again
Hoping to take Zwolle to Dutch glory! (it's quite a pretty place in reality).

Eirebear

I've only recently discovered Oblivion after getting my PS3 a couple of weeks ago....my oh my what a frigging game!

Although i have a feeling Fallout 3 may take over from it next week,,,

Foxhound38

The original Fallout series took up frankly too much of my childhood (and I'm more than a little excited to see what this new one is like). Others included Morrowind, Final Fantasy 7, and a little-known gem called Romance of the Three Kingdoms 8 (historical turn-based strategy set in ancient China. Obscure premise I know but more addictive than crack!). Dont play too many video games these days but some of the more recent stuff to keep me occupied include Mass Effect and Neverwinter Nights. Anything long and wordy will generally get me going...

Zangetsu

Final fantasy 7: addiction, keep going back. Finish it maybe 4/5 times a year. Far too good for this world! God help us if that PS3 tech demo ever becomes a reality.

ROSE Online: Worst mmorpg EVER but insanely addictive. I spent 100+ hours in 1 week trying to get butterfly wings, not gay at all...

Silkroad Online: Amazing game, many an hour killing tigers and robbing tradesmen. Pitty about the servers being so damn laggy...

CS 1.6: used to play 15+hrs a day during 4th year. Clans, matches, tournies, kz, bh, aim, fy, de, everything you ever needed to keep yourself entertained. Played a few reputable teams and beat a few, ATR and NIP jr. Good times

Haven't played computer games in over a year now. Feels good to have my life back lol...

Raze_them_all

Fable too is way to short:( only a day of gaming
Bring on the new FF series...*looking forward to 5 days without sleep and bloodshot eyes*

rainbow kirby

If they do a PS3 remake of FF7 I may have to break my vow of not giving Sony any more console money... >.>

evad_lhorg

master league. the main reason I sucked at college and the main reason im still awake now. its just so hard to not play "one more game" until you realise being tired is making you lose games. Oblivion as well. used to go to bed when I saw the sun coming up got soe sucked into that game.

have had fallout since wednesday but have failed to get into it. think Im goin to restart it on saturday morning when Im fresh, assuming I go ahead with my plan of staying away from drink this week:rolleyes: I have failed for the last 3 weekends though :cool:

Foxhound38

Its the same with me. I don't play video games all that often anymore but when I get totally engrossed in something I can do nothing else until its finished.

And I don't think that they will create a tech-demoesque remake of FF7. Why? Because it would most likely shut down the worlds economy as people would just stop turning up to work on release week to play it. I know if it came down to it thats what I would do!

Also the problem of bread-line like rioting and looting outside Game stores worldwide on the day of release :pac:

Teutorix

I can play civilisation4 for 16 hours nonstop through night and day.
Fall from Heaven mod FTW!

anonymous_joe

My ex played WoW an average of 12 hours a day over the summer...

faceman

final fantasy 7 and 10 were all nighters for me as were silent hill 2 and 4. I picked up age of empires III for the mac and civ revolution for the xbox recently but neither have me up all nite

Teutorix

anonymous_joe wrote: »

My ex played WoW an average of 12 hours a day over the summer...

The reason for break-up by any chance?

Gavin "shels"

Call of Duty 4 (PS3) online atm, used to be Football Manager 07 and Zoo Tycoon.

Teutorix

Gavin shels wrote: »

Call of Duty 4 (PS3) online atm, used to be Football Manager 07 and Zoo Tycoon.

zoo tycoon is teh shixXors!

anonymous_joe

Teutorix wrote: »

The reason for break-up by any chance?

As far as I can work out, it was her way of coping... Things kind of fell apart on her after she went psycho and ended it.

Teutorix

anonymous_joe wrote: »

As far as I can work out, it was her way of coping... Things kind of fell apart on her after she went psycho and ended it.

WOW is a worse addiction than alcohol! im tellin ya. i got hooked on it once.

AlmightyCushion

evad_lhorg wrote: »

Oblivion as well. used to go to bed when I saw the sun coming up got soe sucked into that game.

Oblivion fúcked up my sleep patterns for a long time. Fell asleep on the couch one day after a mammoth session and while asleep I started yapping on about some sword and kept saying "reference it on the map". Got a ripping for ages over that one.

Recovered

Sarky wrote: »

Syndicate Wars took up frankly embarrassing amounts of my time and sleep back in the 90's.

OMG! Syndicate Wars FTW !!11!!1ONE!!ELEVEN!

Teutorix

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Oblivion fúcked up my sleep patterns for a long time. Fell asleep on the couch one day after a mammoth session and while asleep I started yapping on about some sword and kept saying "reference it on the map". Got a ripping for ages over that one.

Umbra by any chance? that sword is shockingly powerfull.

anonymous_joe

Teutorix wrote: »

WOW is a worse addiction than alcohol! im tellin ya. i got hooked on it once.

Aye. And she like a lot of people I know is still hooked, and it costs you so much in terms of your life...

Teutorix

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Aye. And she like a lot of people I know is still hooked, and it costs you so much in terms of your life...

i am lucky enough to have the staying power of a suicidal chipmunk. got bored eventually :pac:

anonymous_joe

Teutorix wrote: »

i am lucky enough to have the staying power of a suicidal chipmunk. got bored eventually :pac:

It didn't help that while I wasn't bored per sé I'd started losing the love of it. I'd have quit but I was playing with her basically. But it certainly cost me a scary amount of time.

AlmightyCushion

Teutorix wrote: »

Umbra by any chance? that sword is shockingly powerfull.

I'm pretty sure it was, one of the lads was starting off and I kept telling him to get that sword when ever he was playing it. I managed to get that fairly early on by mistake, was delighted with it.

tman

Got stuck into Fable 2 the other night when I was getting ready to start on night shifts, it's pretty much ideal for bleary eyed gaming at 4am.

WoW used to keep me up until all hours even when I had work the next morning... So many wasted hours:(

anonymous_joe

tman wrote: »

Got stuck into Fable 2 the other night when I was getting ready to start on night shifts, it's pretty much ideal for bleary eyed gaming at 4am.

WoW used to keep me up until all hours even when I had work the next morning... So many wasted hours:(

Fúcking WoW. Cost me a relationship and a year of college. :pac:

tman

Yep, even after deleting my character and swearing that I'd never waste another minute of my life playing it, I still get the occasional craving to start playing again.
I turned down a date so that I could play it, turned down countless offers from friends to go out, sacrificed sleep just so that I could grind a bit more... The game absolutely ruled my life and I hate looking back on those times.
I hate seeing a good friend still playing it incessantly as well, wish he'd cop on and leave it like I did:(

WoW is the scourge of gaming imo, but most people that play don't even realise what they're doing to themselves... It should be a controlled substance or just plain banned!

3am rants ftw!

anonymous_joe

tman wrote: »

Yep, even after deleting my character and swearing that I'd never waste another minute of my life playing it, I still get the occasional craving to start playing again.
I turned down a date so that I could play it, turned down countless offers from friends to go out, sacrificed sleep just so that I could grind a bit more... The game absolutely ruled my life and I hate looking back on those times.
I hate seeing a good friend still playing it incessantly as well, wish he'd cop on and leave it like I did:(

WoW is the scourge of gaming imo, but most people that play don't even realise what they're doing to themselves... It should be a controlled substance or just plain banned!

3am rants ftw!

Meh, lots of people love it because it's addictive. It's our own fault for playing it though.

wandatowell

tman wrote: »

turned down countless offers from friends to go out

Thank god Im not the only one who does this, thought I was the only one, turned my phone off all weekend last week, probably gonna do the same this weekend id say with Fallout being released

Teutorix

wandatowell wrote: »

Thank god Im not the only one who does this, thought I was the only one, turned my phone off all weekend last week, probably gonna do the same this weekend id say with Fallout being released

your certainly not alone, i do it all too much myself.

eVeNtInE

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monkeyfudge

Fable 2 has been keeping me up a good bit this week.

Fun game.... but so many fecking bugs in it.

I've come to terms with the fact today that I'll never get all 50 Gargoyles as one of the quests is bugged for me.

rainbow kirby

anonymous_joe wrote: »

Meh, lots of people love it because it's addictive. It's our own fault for playing it though.

Agreed, I don't even want to think about how much time I wasted playing. Played for just over 2 years, and that game caused so many sleepless nights, missed college assignment deadlines, exam struggles, sleeping late for work because I'd been playing late... And it's so easy to just keep playing for hours and hours.

All of that for a ****ing game. It's absolutely insane.

anonymous_joe

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Agreed, I don't even want to think about how much time I wasted playing. Played for just over 2 years, and that game caused so many sleepless nights, missed college assignment deadlines, exam struggles, sleeping late for work because I'd been playing late... And it's so easy to just keep playing for hours and hours.

All of that for a ****ing game. It's absolutely insane.

Preaching to the Choir.

Sarky

Okami had me up for the occasional 36 hour gaming session too, actually. The combination of amazing artwork and story was a potent one indeed.

faceman

Picked up Fallout 3 today. Looks like it will all nighter!

monkeyfudge

faceman wrote: »

Picked up Fallout 3 today. Looks like it will all nighter!

Picked it up today as well... 10 minutes in and I've already encountered a game breaking bug... who the hell playtests games these days?

Teutorix

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Picked it up today as well... 10 minutes in and I've already encountered a game breaking bug... who the hell playtests games these days?

Not Bethesda?

Gummy Panda

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Picked it up today as well... 10 minutes in and I've already encountered a game breaking bug... who the hell playtests games these days?

PC or 360?

I had a few crashes on the PC untill i rolled back my video drivers.

monkeyfudge

Gummy Panda wrote: »

PC or 360?

I had a few crashes on the PC untill i rolled back my video drivers.

PS3. It's when I sit down to take the GOAT exam... nothing happened and I couldn't stand back up... luckily going back to the autosave worked as it didn't happen the second time around.

faceman

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Picked it up today as well... 10 minutes in and I've already encountered a game breaking bug... who the hell playtests games these days?

I read online about a glitch during the GOAT exam but it didnt say which format. I was looking up something else at the time so didnt read the full article, sorry.

spoonbadger

The orignal AvP was brilliant for late night gaming.....

....the only true way to play it was at 2am on your own with a rubber mat under ya :pac:.

rainbow kirby

I remember playing that at 4am during an overnight LAN a few years ago.... that was awesome

Handsome Bob

spoonbadger wrote: »

The orignal AvP was brilliant for late night gaming.....

....the only true way to play it was at 2am on your own with a rubber mat under ya :pac:.

Jesus christ that game scared the **** out of me. Aliens just dropping out of nowhere on top of you. Tis' ****ed up!:pac:

Lockstep

Picke fallout up yesterday.

Fantastic game, I'm hooked. I'm especially impressed with the improvements over Oblivion in little things such as adding in barbers.

Cranking up the whiskey and PC. It'll be a long night.

callaway92

Manager Games..Metal Gear Sold Games..Gran Turismo 4..Went 18 hours finishing the license things..Only did around 5 races...the new Pro Evo..

spoonbadger

rainbow kirby wrote: »

I remember playing that at 4am during an overnight LAN a few years ago.... that was awesome

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Jesus christ that game scared the **** out of me. Aliens just dropping out of nowhere on top of you. Tis' ****ed up!:pac:

Hehe!. Yup!.

Especially the radar!. Whenever i heard it bleep in the dark, I'd be strafing up against the walls, staring up at the vents and trying not to go into cardiac arrest .

mmMMMmmm, AvP is brilliant for lans....unfortunately my graphics-obsessed friends wont lan anything that cant be used for benchmarking these days :rolleyes:.

ironictoaster

I got fallout as well. I'm not overly-impressed tbh, it's very hard to get into as well.