I stopped playing Dungeon Lords Completly

[Xyyth]

That's the thing Xyyth, we're not kids anymore =\, guess those Toys 'R' Us commercials were a lie afterall, oh the humanity .

Have you noticed there are no more quality adventure games created these days? I used to love to play all the Sierra and Lucasarts adventures (before the 3D, move with the WSAD key stuff and the Myst stuff). Now, you can't find anything to remotely resemble a true adventure game. It's really sad.

I want games like Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Sam & Max, King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Freddie Pharkus (remember that one?), and even Microprose came out with a few good ones like Phantom of the Opera and Westwood Studios with the Kyrandia series.

Sigh.

[Xyyth]

I also wish someone would start up the D&D Gold Box games again. I would love to play the new Eberron stuff in a gold box game.

[LordFess]

Welp here goes I have been playen games almost 30 years and i am probably older than anyone on this forum I its funny I feel like computer gaming is just coming into it's own....I guess I just love computer gaming and will always get a thrill out of what our technology continues to bring to the gaming industry. I don't dwell on the past to much. I just try to keep an open mind and focus on the good parts and not the negitive end. I don't think I will ever cool down from computer gaming.

[dommiel74]

the only thing the gaming industry has going for them is the graphics. it seems as the graphics get better the quality, length, and overall fun of the game goes to ****.
people can OOHHH and AHHHH over graphics all they want, but if the game sucks whats the point?

[Thoros]

I've been going through the "I'm growing out of games" syndrome for several years now. Trust me...you will come back if you were a hardcore/addicted gamer before.

I spent about 4 months playing no games at all then I starting playing totally different genres of games that I would never try before like hex based games, old classics and stuff & had a blast. Now I'm back to RPGs again which is what I've been playing for many years.

I still love gaming. I just don't do 5,6,7+ hour gaming sessions anymore

[Thalavon]

Well yeah I don't mean I'm giving them up completely, I just don't feel the need, like some of you mentioned, to play on and on and on like I used to anymore.

I do, however, find fewer and fewer games that truly grab me anymore. I do miss the oldschool fun games like Monkey Island 2 (didn't really play the first one, but man the 2nd was so funny ). I also had the old gold box games. Curse of the Azure Bonds, the Silver whatever one? (forgot the name lol), the one set in Krynn (don't remember the name of that one either!), and the others that came in that. Was a lot of fun and WOW those were so hard . Does anyone remember Realmz? Made by Fantasoft, was a shareware type game that was very similar to D&D goldbox but even better IMO. Had all kinds of little expansion campaigns you could get also, was a great game =). Of course I couldn't forget all the King's Quests either, those were some very awesome games.

Part of the big problem is that in trying to reel in all the "other" people that didn't play games as much to make extra cash, they have somewhat alienated the true gamers, or at least the ones that are the reason the companies got to be so big in the first place. Guess it's like that first line in Braveheart in a way eh "History is written by those that have hanged heroes." Not saying they're hanging us old diehard fans but we're definitely getting left out in the storm most of the time these days , or at least it seems that way. Now I guess I know how some of you older people felt when they started coming out with NES/Sega Mastersystem after playing stuff like pong/c64/the first atari.

And who could forget Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the Apple IIE? bwahah.

[CallOfKtulu]

I was thinking back to those old Gold Box games a few days ago... realized I had a lot more free time and drive to complete games back then.

I must have killed like 2000 Frost Giants in Secret of the Silver Blades, and yet I can't for the life of me remember anything particularily fun about the game.. just that I spent 50 - 60 hours and beat it. Back then I beat games and didn't quit or buy another game until I beat the one I was on.

I've bought games now that I've never even took out of the package! I guess getting older and getting a job with lots of disposable income and having a diminishing attention span does that to ya.

Ah well

[Cresho]

30 years plus here. computer gaming took the place of watching tv. I also jog and work out

Games will always be apart of my life. TV sucks...Music sucks......Games are really good if you know were to find it.....hint gothic 2

[armpit]

30 years plus here. computer gaming took the place of watching tv. I also jog and work out

Seems like there are more old-timers here than I thought!

I go back to the very beginning of computer gaming. Before that, I got hooked on pen-and-paper D&D (but had a hard time finding people to play with on a consistent basis, so I was really glad when computer RPGs came along).

I've gone through the cycle over and over. Felt compelled to play for a while, then just wore out and started to think I was wasting my life and pretty much quit gaming altogether, then I would feel a compulsion to return, etc. I'm in my "playing" cycle now and have been immersed in Morrowind, NWN, Gothic, DL, etc. Am just starting to sort of feel burned out again (might have something to do with college football season coming up, which I'm also addicted to), so I'll probably stop obsessing with games again for awhile. But I'm sure I'll eventually be back trying to find out what I've been missing.

So you young guys who think you're about to grow up and leave gaming behind: you may be right, but don't put any money on it. Take it from a 56 year old retired engineer who's been addicted since, well, almost forever. Once the notion of leaving reality behind for a few hours a week and immersing yourself in a fantasy world where anything is possible takes hold of you, it tends to be a hard notion to rid yourself of. You'll probably be back.......or not. Maybe it's just me who can't seem to shake the habit for good

[Visigoth]

I go back to the very beginning of computer gaming. Before that, I got hooked on pen-and-paper D&D (but had a hard time finding people to play with on a consistent basis, so I was really glad when computer RPGs came along).

Likewise... but fortunately I was able to continue PnP up until about four years ago... sadly all my buddies scattered to the Four Winds. We managed to take a crack at the d20 system DnD.... liked it and hated it at the same time. Made using miniatures more fun and intuitive though!

OH! Gary Gygax! Wherefore art thou???


P.S. 41 years old here.... once a Software Analyst, now a Massage Therapist.... go figure