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I’m sure that this topic has been posted before, but as I’m new around here I thought I'd find out what your favourite computer game of all time would be and for what reason?
Being a bit old school when it comes to games I would have to say that my favourite would be Elite on the C64. Blimey that’s ages ago he's mad I hear you cry, but at the time it kept it’s side of the game agreement very well for me.
Graphically speaking it is of course ancient, though Vector graphics were a fantastic new innovation then so it seemed wondrous. The sound was three channels of strange zapping noises which added nothing to the game by today’s high expectations for a software title, but then what could you expect from the mid eighties, the pop music around then was about the same.
No it was the simplicity of the game combined with a strange addictive quality that held me in throng, days flew by moving my Cobra MkIII from system to system selling anything and everything. I seem to remember that it mostly ended up as running furs from rich agricultural planets to Rich Industrial planets. Then buying computers to go back the other way.
Then spending your hard earned cash on increasing the offensive and defensive capabilities of my plucky ship to blow other ships out of the vacuum as my rating climbed higher until finally becoming Elite.
So what’s your favourite game?
It doesn’t have to be the best game ever, just your favourite one……
Being a bit old school when it comes to games I would have to say that my favourite would be Elite on the C64. Blimey that’s ages ago he's mad I hear you cry, but at the time it kept it’s side of the game agreement very well for me.
Graphically speaking it is of course ancient, though Vector graphics were a fantastic new innovation then so it seemed wondrous. The sound was three channels of strange zapping noises which added nothing to the game by today’s high expectations for a software title, but then what could you expect from the mid eighties, the pop music around then was about the same.
No it was the simplicity of the game combined with a strange addictive quality that held me in throng, days flew by moving my Cobra MkIII from system to system selling anything and everything. I seem to remember that it mostly ended up as running furs from rich agricultural planets to Rich Industrial planets. Then buying computers to go back the other way.
Then spending your hard earned cash on increasing the offensive and defensive capabilities of my plucky ship to blow other ships out of the vacuum as my rating climbed higher until finally becoming Elite.
So what’s your favourite game?
It doesn’t have to be the best game ever, just your favourite one……
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Proffesor Tamaral :D <<<<<
Hehehehehehe, FM, your tagline should be "Chancellor of the ex-checker" :-DDD
The oldies were the best for me.
Your Honour wrote:
> FM, how do you get into games like that? I find them too slow and
> hard to get into. Whenever i read a preview of an RPG i think it
> looks good and that it might be the thing for me. However, when it
> comes out and i read the review they all have all these different
> levels and spells and stats that just do my head in!
Are there
> any kind of basic RPG's you could recommend that might help me get
> into the genre?
Buy a ZX Spectrum. Play 'The Hobbit', a text based RPG as in:
GET SWORD
you've got the sword
DESTROY OGRE
i do not know how to destroy
KILL OGRE
you've killed the ogre
there is a ring
GET RING
etc.....
Next, buy a SEGA Megadrive. Play Phantasy Star IV, a graphical RPG.
NEXT buy a Sony Playstation. Play Final Fantasy 7.
In between, grab a few Ian Livinstone Fighting Fantasy books from your local Waterstones Bookseller, and if you can join your local Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying community that sets you in good stead for what is to come.
Then, you'll be ready to play ANY RPG that comes your way.
(That's how I started, anyway).
> FM, how do you get into games like that? I find them too slow and
> hard to get into. Whenever i read a preview of an RPG i think it
> looks good and that it might be the thing for me. However, when it
> comes out and i read the review they all have all these different
> levels and spells and stats that just do my head in!
Are there
> any kind of basic RPG's you could recommend that might help me get
> into the genre?
Buy a ZX Spectrum. Play 'The Hobbit', a text based RPG as in:
GET SWORD
you've got the sword
DESTROY OGRE
i do not know how to destroy
KILL OGRE
you've killed the ogre
there is a ring
GET RING
etc.....
Next, buy a SEGA Megadrive. Play Phantasy Star IV, a graphical RPG.
NEXT buy a Sony Playstation. Play Final Fantasy 7.
In between, grab a few Ian Livinstone Fighting Fantasy books from your local Waterstones Bookseller, and if you can join your local Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying community that sets you in good stead for what is to come.
Then, you'll be ready to play ANY RPG that comes your way.
(That's how I started, anyway).
Shocktrooper wrote:
> Come on...the Zelda series are the best ever.
You’re not wrong there! The Ocarina of Time was a great game, with loads to do and a very good storyline behind it. I’ve not played the newest incarnation so I can’t comment on that. Can’t see why it wouldn’t be as good as the rest though!
> Come on...the Zelda series are the best ever.
You’re not wrong there! The Ocarina of Time was a great game, with loads to do and a very good storyline behind it. I’ve not played the newest incarnation so I can’t comment on that. Can’t see why it wouldn’t be as good as the rest though!
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