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Ya know, thumb blisters, carpal tunnel, destroyed relationships, broken controllers, and an endless fascination with collecting everything you can get your greedy little hands on.

For the love of the game indeed.

I am a child of the 80's, my parents were TV/HBO and video games. I tell ya, its a wonder I'm not 300 pounds.

But with the rate of change in technology, following the life and evolution of video games has been fairly consistently exciting.

I personally love all different kinds of games, from sports to MMORPG's, what I play tends more to depend on whats out and how many friends I have at the time that play.

What are your favorite games and experiences, what sticks out and what made you want to kill.

How many times have something happened to make you look like this

and this

I didn't see a video game thread so here is this.

Right now, I'm looking forward to Halo 2, Half Life 2, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, and lots more really

I'm playing an MMORPG Called city of heroes, its pretty good.

I most recently enjoyed Psy-Ops the mindgate conspiracy

So what can I claim to probably be the most fun I've ever had playing, probably have to say Goldeneye right now, the multi player concept is so much fun.

So what about you?

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

The original Civilization is my favourite game of all time.

Street Fighter 2 (the original and/or turbo) and Super Mario Kart on the SNES are my most competitive games (ie, I have yet to meet anyone who can come close to challenging me...i've even won lots and lots of tournaments )

Starcraft is probably up there with civilization as one of the best games ever made.

If you have not played Sacrifice, go out and buy it. It's an AWESOME game, totally original, wicked graphics and sounds and the gameplay is spectacular. An experience everyone should have.

The best console game I have played is Link on the SNES.

I've run out of interest in games nowadays, however I am looking forward to Half Life 2. Doom 3 was pretty boring to me.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

What kind of game is sacrifice?

I loved mario kart but goldeneye trampled it eventually for my top multiplayer, and ya I really like starcraft and some command and conquer types. once again for multiplayer, star wars galactic battle grounds was fun and is a good choice for fans.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/sacrifice/review.html

Just check out the screen shots and the synopsis on the game. Whatever they say is bad is nitpicking. I found it to be flawless.

"Hating everyone protects me from elitism."

took a look, thanks I think I'm gonna have to check that out.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

recently i have been playing Star Wars Battlefront. as far as one player goes, it is lacking quite a bit. the AI never knows what the hell its doing, you pretty much have to take on half an army by yourself (no exaggeration). but the galactic conquests are fun (especially with a friend). and although i havent played it online, i would venture to guess that that is where this game truly shines.

the whole GTA series is great. i am a fan of Virtua Fighter and Mortal Kombat myself (cant wait for Deception!). also Resident Evil 4 is looking pretty sweet, theyve revamped it so it looks like a whole new game almost. and then there is Final Fantasy 12 coming soon... games have been lacking lately, but i think we will see some great stuff pretty soon.

oh and later on down the road there is the Zelda game which looks badass.

i was never a fan of Halo, but Halo 2 looks absolutely beautiful.

i will also be playing The Matrix Online as soon as that comes out, wish i could have been a Beta tester

"UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. ~Peter H. Coffin"

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Super Mario Kart on the SNES are my most competitive games (ie, I have yet to meet anyone who can come close to challenging me...i've even won lots and lots of tournaments )

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"The Restless Mind - The curiosity of intellectual infancy"
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ah, i love a good internal power struggle.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

Aaaah, days of the Sega MegaDrive and the MasterSystem with Alex the Kid in Wonderland built into the machine. those were the days

The days when you could never save the game, it was so hardcore, you had to complete it in the first go, or you lost, and even if you did win, it gave you a rubbish ending

It really was crap, but I do miss those days

My favourite game would probably either be Lemmings, Alex the Kid or the incredible Chuck Rock

Amazing.

"Ég gaf ykkur von varš aš vonbrigšum.... Petta er įgętis byrjun"

oh man... Lemmings was so cool!

*builds a massive ladder into oblivion*

"UNIX is an operating system, OS/2 is half an operating system, Windows is a shell, and DOS is a boot partition virus. ~Peter H. Coffin"

I remember having a 3-D application to my Sega Master system that was kinda fancy, run on wires and what not, and haven't seen the like since, I had a kina maze/platform game and even a light gun shoot the 3-D missiles shooting towards earth game.

And I was jelous of my uncle's genesis and Altered beast. Which I originally played in the local bowling alley. Ah nostalgia, you are the smell stale beer foot spray and greasy food, not to mention my grandma and her bowling league, yikes.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

Altered Beast !!! i still have that somewhere as a cartridge for my MegaDrive

Incredible.

Was the Genesis the same thing as the MegaDrive ? I cant remember.

"Ég gaf ykkur von varš aš vonbrigšum.... Petta er įgętis byrjun"

Dunno, not familiar with mega drive.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"

Yes, Starcraft is incredible...so well made and perfectly balanced no matter what race you choose...I play it constantly

"My drum skills > Your drum skills"

I'm sure most of you have played soul calibur, for a lot of you that means that you own or did own at one time a sega dreamcast, what I ask is if anyone you remember or even played Power Stone? A 3D fighter, that you if you collected three power stones in the midst of the fight you beome a super version of your self, and they had one character that I swear turned into a supersayin, and had a giant energy ball for a a special attack and everything, I still love that game, wish I hadn't sold my system for some other crap new game thats long since come and gone.

"The Greatest Enemy of Knowledge is Not Ignorance, It is the ILLUSION of Knowledge. Stephen Hawking"