Yes. Nice assumption though.


Where'd I say it was? Nowhere. all I said was that Fallout would have been another series I shrugged off, like CnC. As in, I shrugged off CnC. Never played it, never got interested in it, never cared for it. Did you read my post?

im 37 soon to be 38, and i like fps games and given a chance to camp ( as i dont have super quick reactions) im very good. i also like other types of games 3rd person shooters, sports, driving ect. But as get older im finding myself playing more rpg's. The first rpg what really grabbed me was kotor. i love most rpg's but i have to say fallout 3 is the game i have played the most. long live the wasteland lol.

hehe OP. You've chosen on helluva game franchise to enter the RPG world with. You probably couldn't have chosen a more deep and interesting universe.
That whole USA 1950's feel combined with advanced technology and the - quite realistic - major event in the form of a nuclear war between the great nations of the world, it all just adds up to an incredibly story.


and sidenote: 40 is not that old when talking gaming. It just means you've got more experience than others. I'm only 24 myself but my earliest gaming experience was my priceless Amiga 500.

Nope been playing RPGs since Moses wore short pants. Started with pen and paper stuff, also RPG books (anybody remember those?) and old Commodore 64 games like Ring-world. While Ive played shooters of course, a few that stick out; Rainbow Six series, Golden-eye, the original Perfect Dark, the original Brothers in Arms, the Battlefield series... etc. I have unfortunately grown out of shooters in a way. The only games that can really hold my attention is strategy games and RPGs, with some flight games, some sports games and a few sandbox games to round it out. I have become more picky with my gaming taste the older I get. Gradually becoming the grumpy, elitist gamer.

Got so fond memories of those RPG books. We used to spend hours in those me and my friends, after school.

Lovely quote btw Xarnac.

Awful decent of you old boy.

I thought it was proven video games improve hand eye coordination, maybe you're just not playing enough :confused:

Throughout all the years I have been playing video games, my hand eye coordination has skyrocketed - to the point where I can now catch things like almost the second they drop off a table. It may well be due to age differences as I am barely half your years, but honestly I don't think age has anything to do with it. For example, I started off the same as you, playing FPS's, eventually came across FO3. I was so taken by the fallout universe that I downloaded the first two fallouts and played them; something most people on this forum wouldn't expect someone that young would have the patience to do, especially AFTER playing fallout 3.
My point is one should look at the FO universe and the entire virtual world of video games as somewhere where you can go to be ageless - a representation of your persona and nothing more

It seems that I might be one of the oldest here
I played Pong when it came out

My favorite was ZORK, the entire series

all words and your imagination...
people today would not play games like this
I would call them adventure/RPG type games

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979

yes I also play FPS and still do
my favorites are RPG's


PS My hand and eye coordination has increased because I play games

I am older than you. I never got into FPS, was always a RPGer. I tried the FPS, but I guess guys like you kept me away since I svck and I kept dieing all the time, so stuck with Single Player games. :fallout:

I err.... started with Pokemon... I liked it started playing Diablo 1 & 2 with my brother, and kept it up. Played a few MMOs, I've always liked RPGs, though just within the past couple years got into the FPS genera. I picked up Fo3 after seeing so many good reviews. I knew nothing about it. Now it's my favourite game and I hope to continue.

Heh...I remember my very first game. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega Genesis. Used to play it while waiting for my mom at the babysitter's when I was 4...and my love for games just grew from there. I don't even play platformers now, my preference has changed a lot since then. I can play a FPS once in a while, but there's never that "Man I want to play some more of that right now" feeling after I've beaten the game once or twice (which only takes about 12 hours in most FPS's case). RPG's allow me to gear up my character however I want, and fight however I want. When the addition of "going wherever I want" is thrown in I get hooked.

Well, I'm 13 and the only FPS I play are Killzone, MAG, and Resistance. I've always been more of an RPG gamer myself.

My first game was either Tekken or Super Mario Bros. 3. My 5th or 6th game was FF XI, and thats when I fell in love with RPGs. Fallout was probably like my 7th game, FF VI my 6th. But anywho, I started out playing old a$$ games and I'm going to die playing the sequels to those old a$$ games.

I remember beating Ultima 1 for the original 64. Anybody else beat it? Worst ending ever. That game was brutal and all you got from the ending was a screen that said; Thanks for playing Ultima... what a rip off.

I'm 38, my first experience of gaming was the 48k speccie , then the c64. I cant remember too many fps's on those systems!! :laugh:

My first proper fps was goldeneye , followed by perfect dark , both are all time classics. B)

I was never interested in rpg's but read the reviews of FO3 and thought, "why not?"

I fell in love with the FO universe (its now my fave game of all time). I have no wish to buy any other rpg's , although i did buy oblivion after due to the fact it was by Bethesda (i love that too , but not as much!)

My reactions are still good so could get by without V.A.T.S but when i first played FO3 i thought , "how the hell did i play any fps's without this?"

I'll still be playing these games when i'm 70, unless we all suffer the same fate as the FO guys , i guess we'll have to see what 21/12/12 throws up for us!!! :nuke:

40 here, started out with FPS but switched years ago to RPG's. Don't mind third person action games either though.
Only FPS games I've still played was the ones from the Brothers in Arms series.

Played Oblivion mostly in first person as well as Fallout 3 but for Fallout: New Vegas I'm gonna stick to third person cause I prefer that.

I could have written that as my own, word for word. :foodndrink:

I was into RPG's first, then shooters, then RPGs again, and flip flop back and forth to this day (along with a serious liking of certain specific RTS series).

My first cRPG was EOB1 for the Amiga, my first shooter was Doom. Currently my favorite shooter is still "Blood".
(I am currently playing Painkiller, Serious Sam 1 & 2nd, VM Bloodlines, Disciples 2 & 3, Jedi Academy, and Psychonauts)

36 here. Always played all kinds of games but the d&d rpgs were always my favs. (comming from p&p) Although i can't tolerate the mindless cod type shooters, i like the tactical ones like Operation Flashpoint & Arma series. People should really check them out if your looking for a more realistic, slower, thinking mans shooter. Play on the hardest difficulty though because it removes the hud , and that's the "true" experience.

I have a friend that pretty much only plays MW2, and i convinced him to get NV. Hopefully he will see the light.

I'm a gamer. I can play Trials HD 'til my eyes bleed. Medieval 1 & 2, Rome, Empire, and Napoleon: Total Wars have stolen hundreds of hours of my time, I can miss sleep playing them. Roleplaying games can account I think for the most hours spent staring into a screen, closely followed by shooters, and then real-time strategy games. Dunno what survival horror ranks as, but it's pretty high.

I almost wish somebody had kepy a GTA-style statistics card on me, then I'd know what the hell. (While playing - Number of Cups of Tea Consumed: 1,000,364. Number of Hours Spent Aiming for Perfect Stats on GTA Franchise Games: 1,234,222,345) GTA VC and especially SA incidentally I've caned unto death. Hell, I've played the Sims and every EP to date, and all SimCity variants to death.

I've thought about it before and if I could only have one game for the rest of my life it would probably be one of the Total Wars. So I guess I'm an RTS gamer. :shrug:





... no, I'm just a gamer.

I wouldn't bet on it. Let's not compare ages in case I am older. Played all those games as well. Remember Planetfall?

I play RPGs because I have the hand eye coordination of Ray Charles. I can play tactical shooters like the Rainbow Six series and Counterstrike but eventually my team mates end up forbidding me to use grenades.

Fallout 3 with VATS allows me to have at least a small chance of hitting something. Glad to see they left in it FONV.



Edit: Hey you kids...GET OFF MY LAWN!

Throw in "Deus Ex," "Fallout," "Tribes 2," "Knights of the Old Republic," "Planescape: Torment," and "Halflife," and your training will be complete, my young apprentice.

I had some Ultima on C64, but i was too young to understand it, it didn't help that i didn't understand english too well then either. The first random battle always killed me :blush:

That game was a rage inducer, yes.

Much like trying to figure your way around the Great Underground Empire with only text input.

I remember having whole towns come after me because i tried to rob somone in Ultima. And you would get your own ships too. Not sure which one it was ( mid 80's ) I used to love trying to figure out those old scool rpgs back in the day. Good times.

I like any game that has a well developed and logical story told through gameplay. I got hooked on gaming when I played on my friend's Atari back in kindergarten. I chose to rent most games and rarely bought any.

II saved up for an NES and bought 2 games with it (probably 2 of the best NES games ever) The Legend of Zelda and Ninja Gaiden. Ninja Gaiden was so hard that I never beat it, but I loved every second of it (It also had super awesome cut scenes for 1987 ).

The next console I bought was an SNES with Zelda: A Link to the Past and the crack that was FFVI.

I got a N64 to play Mario3D and Goldeneye, and a Playstation for Tomb Raider and FFVII.

Then I graduated to the big boy's toy.... a PC. I have played and loved games from every genre, but RPG's seem to be what I play the most (Recently broke my WoW addiction though). The TFC mod for Half-life was incredible and I spent a year only playing that due to deceptively simple class system....then CS *yawn* came out and everyone stopped playing on the public servers. FPS games are too easy IMO and the multiplayer modes for them have never felt anywhere near as exciting as a good match of TFC. I have not tried TFC2 because I am on a satellite connection now....so I have no idea if it is as good as the original. I played Fallout 1 through once and thought it was pretty boring, but Fallout 2 blew my mind with its open-ended story and the fact that every time I played it I saw some new lines of dialogue.

FO3 was alright, but since it is a FPS hybrid it was super easy....(who needs VATS when you can headshot an NPC from outside the VATS target range). The bobbleheads and stuff made it a complete joke, because 1/2 way through the content I would be maxed in all of the secondary skills and my primary weapon skill. I loved the NPCs and all of the details left in nooks and crannies of the wasteland. Vault 106(?) just north of Megaton freaked me out the first time through (it was the first place outside Megaton that I found) and all of the vaults were enjoyably creepy. Hopefully FO3 will add some challenge, but as long as the story and details are top-notch I will enjoy it immensely!

36.

I played all of them really. Started with Asteroids, Pac Man, Centipede, etc. in the arcade, then got an Atari, then an NES, etc.

Castle Wolfenstein was my first shooter on the PC, though out of the post DOOM era of titles Hexxen was hands down my favorite.

RPG's were probably my favorites when I was younger though, I cant even imagine how many hours I blew on FF3/6 and Chrono Trigger. Literally in the thousands, most likely.

I'm more into the game than the genre really, I'd love an FPSRPG Survival/Horror though. Nothing beats fragging zombies. RE+FO would be so win.