@OP

20 Here,
I've always liked a pretty wide variety of video games, first person shooters are fun and all but I've started to shy away from Call of Duty and it's clones, never really got into them too much in the first place, it was always small maps, and either you ran in circles or sat in one place waiting for people, neither of which I found fun, but then I started played Battlefield 2, where the maps were huge and you wouldn't run into someone every .2 seconds, and you could plan your steps ahead of time, I was also a big player of Diablo 2 and other various role playing games, I usually play in streaks of one or the other however, and fallout 3 (new vegas soon) is usually my transitioning game when I switch over from one to the other.

At the moment I'm playing Fallout 3,(New Vegas soon), (waiting on D3), Battlefield: Bad Company 2 which has decent sized maps and destructible environments, set down Mass Effect a while back which is another good rpg/fps you could look into, and recently tried out Bioshock 1 which was good but I've heard that Bioshock 2 doesn't really expand upon anything, and the new Bioshock coming out isn't related.

Puzzle games I find a bit boring but if they have other elements in them, say like (when I was younger) Sly Cooper or other adventure/puzzle games were fun, now it's more like God of War's puzzles or Dark Siders, Some of the puzzles are pretty easy, but until they release a decent Zelda remake They'll do.

Here's to hoping that Uncharted gets released on the 360 or PC because that games looks to be like a lot of fun. Hate exclusives :/ The Halo series is ok offline but online it's just pre-teens screaming at eachother and more small maps and circle running gameplay.

Anyways, sorry for the randomness and all but I thought I'd let ya know, also I think it's cool that you're still playing games into your 40's and I find it entertaining, not in a bad way mind you, that you're excited for a video game release.

If there was an achievement for manually purchasing 50 potions in "Final Fantasy" (not using the cheater's method of placing something heavy on top of the NES Advantage's "A" button and waiting 20 minutes), I would qualify for six of them.

Just thinking those NES controller buttons makes my thumbs hurt. And the Wii controller makes my wrists hurt, Nintendo must like hurting people :lmao: (But the Gamecube controller is perfect )

You mean that purple thing made out of legos? forget that noise, the 360 controller is def the best comfort wise, in my opinion anyways.

Hey it is good to see so many 40+ year old gits (like me) But it is also quite heartening to see so many younger gamers that have got some good taste in games, maybe you guys are not so bad. (smiles then draws the double hammer back on the shotgun but seriously "git off my lawn".


Kidding aside sure seems like a good game is a good game no matter how or when you get there

It looks weird, but fits in hand pretty nicely. I prefer the Dual Shock myself, though i've never held any Xbox controller.

Oh ya and happy B-day Op if thats what you ment by Exactly

i am quite possibly the opposite of you VA. by the way, great forum name!!!

i grew up playing the tabletop D&D games and would play ANY computer or console RPG i could get my hands on because they were so rare. now theres a sprinkle of RPG in everything, and i can dig that. but it took me a while to get into games that WERENT RPG, or didnt at least have some features like zelda or the earlier metroid prime games. you know stuff that would take eye hand coordination but would have RPG like rewards and gear. eventually i would give every genre a chance, (i'm 33 now) and when i did open up all doors it was exciting when i found that there were so many games to explore that i wouldnt have touched before. i'm guessing the same is true for you, theres probably a bunch of stuff you may not have given a chance before that might blow your mind now.

another game u might want to check out is Borderlands!!! its the perfect marriage of RPG and FPS...

anyways, i enjoyed reading your post, i'm glad you have found new genres to sink your teeth into, good luck with Fallout new vegas, i think its going to be a blast!!!

Thanks for all the responses everyone

I'm 34 years old and RPGs have always been my favourite genre.

well Im 27 I remember playin DOOM having a blast never liked QUAKE, UNREAL TOURNAMENT for me got into RPG's when FF7 came out been hooked ever since then I love RPG's and FPS mixed is priceless u get the best of both worlds

I am 18 and have two older brothers one is 24 and the other is 30 (yeah were all exactly six years apart) and we are all gamers but with slightly different tastes. I didn't really get into video games until my middle brother got GTA III for the ps2 in 01 (yeah I was in the 5th grade, my mom was never big into censorship) and that really gave me my first taste of the open world experience. But it wasn't until I got a Xbox and a copy of KOTOR for Christmas that I got into RPG's. I was also the first person in my family (extended family included) to beat San Andreas without codes and then went back and bought Vice City and III and beat them without codes (which my family thought impossible especially III) just for bragging rights.

No, I'm the opposite. I grew up with RPGs, and I came to Fallout because it is an RPG. While I don't mind the FPS elements creeping in, I don't play it like that so much. I'd rather talk/sneak/plot my way out of trouble.

I'm 25, I started playing about 15 years ago, mostly shooters - Duke Nukem 3D, Quake etc. I remember that (long ago) MDK was my favorite game for a few years. When I played Vice City (2002.) for the first time, I became a fan of open-world games. Eventhough I played Diablo many years ago, Fallout 2 was my first hardcoe RPG. Today, I play open world games, RPGs and FPS/RPG hybrids.

Not really sure on how a "hardcoe" experience is defined. But one of my earliest memories of a long gaming session was back on my Amiga 500, playing Civilisation 1(!) for 13 hours straight because i didn't know how to save progress on the Amiga

I'm glad to see there's at least SOME people who work their way from the slimy murky pool of generic shooters to games with substance and options other than "if it moves, kill it"

I'm 41 and started out with RPG's. I tried the FPS's back in the day but would get bored in minutes. I have evolved into the middle ground and enjoy the FPS/RPG style games, RPS if you will. I don't just like endless killing for no point, like back stories, consequences, building a character, feeling like you are in a world. Guess that's why I like MMO's too.

Will be interesting to see where RPS's go in the future as technology improves and designers push the limits of creativity.

does this game haz shotgun lik in halo reech?

Shotguns are in Fallout 3, so I wouldn't be surprised if they're also in New Vegas. Quite enjoyed using the combat shotgun at times.

lol i troll failed

Oh yeah, the good old days. First game I ever played was Fruity Frank on a CPC 464 by Schneider. Afterwards I started playing games on PC (33Mhz^^)with simulators like Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, Tie Fighter series and Mechwarrior back in he 1990s. Aside I played the classical RPGs such as Eye of the Beholder, Menoberranzan and all the other classical AD&D stuff. And for sure I've played Fallout 1+2 back in the 90s.

It was later, of of the year 2000 when games like Quake, Unreal Tournament and Half Life emerged and this was the time where I also began to play Ego-Shooters. Counting from the Millenium there weren't good simulators up until today and so I stayed with the ego-shooters, but I never lost my passion for playing RPG games. I believe I've played them all. Gothic, Ice Wind Dale, Planescape Torment and yes finally also Morrowind, which, besides Unreal Torunament 2004 stayed my absolute favourit game of all times. I'm sure I've spend more then 600 hours+ in Morrowind since 2003 and I play it until today.

I frequently spend my spare time in Unreal Torunament 2004, ARMA2 and sometimes in COD4 MW. I need a good multiplayer match from time to time. Besides this I spend at least 40€ a month for a new game that I play through in a month. Latest games where "The Void", "Call of Chtuhlu", "Amnesia the dark descent", booth of the Mass Effect franchise and not to forget my next "can't wait to get my hands on the sequel"-game "Dead Space. DS and FONV are absolutely must have for me. I'm also waiting for Half Life Episode 3, but it's written in the stars when it sees it's release.

Besides the ego-shooters and the monthly game, I constantly play either Morrowind, Oblivion or Fallout, simply because this are the only games I know, besides the modded version of Stalker, that can be played without ending the game and not get boring. Having filled MW with more then 200 mods, Oblivion with more then 100 and FO with about 50 mods, there probably never will be an end to thoose games. And yeah, if there ever should be the day that I can't decide what to play, I open my drawer and get me one of the more then 3.000 games I own... :hubbahubba:

And yes, you're allowed to name me a freakin game nerd, despite I also have a job and other hobbys that fill my days...I'm also a well passioned musician...play drum, guitar, bass, keyboards and sing and on top of everything create my own music... :bolt:

Edit: Oh and I forgot...I'm 34^^

An ancient 69 years here. Does that make me the oldest in the thread so far? nm.

It's hard to recall all the computer games I've played. However I reckon the oldest really memorable game I played was Wizardry on Apple ][+ with those stick figures, heheh, moving in white-on-black line drawings ... my first 3D game, my first RPG. lol. There were the forgettable C64 games... I had hundreds of those.

I lost many hours playing all the Zorks. Loved those adventures. I played that sidescrolling Dark Crystal on the Mac before anything graphical ever appeared on IBM compatibles. But gaming was never something Apple was interested in so I built my first PC and started my FPS career with Wolf 3D. "Halt !" heheh

The FPSs came one after another, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, and stacks of the more obscure ones built on the same Doom engine. Quake of course, Unreal ... but a pattern was developing. HalfLife? That was boring, or maybe I just got dead too often. I never ever finished one FPS! I got bored with them long before the end. I would buy another hoping that these games would get better and hold my interest. More recently, Crysis and several other recent arrivals. They all bored me.

But I had had a taste of RPG and wanted more. Came Diablo and Diablo II with the expansions. I think half my life went into those!! Fantastic.

Ta-dah... Morrowind, YAY! Morrowind is still the best and most immersive of all RPGs IMHO. Got into heavy modding of Morrowind, never finished the expansions because I kept restarting the game to try the latest mods. Geeze, I loved that game.

And Oblivion and Fallout 3. Fallout 3 was too much of a FPS and lacking as an RPG. Fallout 3 with all the addons was fun but not as good as Morrowind and Oblivion. Oblivion? I am still playing it. Unmodded, Oblivion is very basic and has many shortcomings. With the mods, I just can't get enough of Oblivion. I am about halfway through a heavily modded version with all the addons and expansions with about 1300 hours racked up. I abso-bloody-lutely love Oblivion! Take the time to smell the roses. Can 3D game scenery get any better? And I plan to play it right through to the end before I start Fallout New Vegas. Often it is about the experience and the environments, not just the quests in Oblivion that svck me in. I am finally discovering serious role-play and that consumes a lot of time. Rushing through the quests is to short change the value in this game. I think Oblivion is giving me my money's worth.