get out of my room im playing
... ahem excuse me...
It's so weird how many times people tried to get video games banned,
like sure some of them are violent, but how is that any different than other forms of media?
Are they just jealous that they don't find them fun?
I am what you would consider a pro gamer... ladies please, one at a time.
Nah, but seriously, I love gaming, not just playing them though, I love the history of gaming, the tech,
the community, everything! It's a beautiful art form.
If it wasn't already apparent from the lambdas moving around in the background, I almost entirely play on PC, see Figure 1-1, because it is the best way to play games, fight me console users, the only thing you guys got is affordability, and PC can have that too if you're willing to sacrifice some performance, not to mention... it's a PC, you can run any program you want on it.
Figure 1-1. Me praying to the great GabeN, asking him for when he will release HL3, and if my brother is a worthy sacrifice for HL3... he is not... I don't blame him.
Anyways, I do also play on "retro" consoles, I'm talking like the Wii and the PS2, so like ""retro"" retro. I do also play on older consoles (if the game is cool enough) I just don't own the consoles themself; I emulate them... although, I would love to own them. Anyways, I'ma use the rest of this page to talk about some of my favorite games, in no particular order of course.
At 696.9 hours (nice) of playtime as
of writing this, this
is by far the
most amount of time I
have spent in one game, Rookie numbers to most TF2 players, I know, but I have something that
other players don't have... a life.
In my humble opinion, this is THE best class based
shooter out there, theres no competition. It has some amazing (and often goofy) gameplay,
the classes are quite well desined, both from a gameplay and artistic standpoint, and has
survived the test of time, I mean, this game is older than me for crying out loud! One of the
things I love about it how insane some of the weapons are, we got a crossbow that heals
teammates, but hurts enemies and the damage is reversed from what it normally does, the farther
you are, the more damage you will take/give. Theres also a shovel that will do max damage only
if you're in the air, a rocket launcher that does no damage, a cannon that will stun you if you
get hit by its projectile twice, a knife that will turn you into ice, a pan that will turn you
into gold, a fucking fish, and many,
many more. TF2 also has some very unique tecs, like rocket/sticky jumping and air
strafing which can send a player to the other side of the map in no time, if they know what they
are doing. I really love
how they made the classes like it's a game of rock paper sizzors, spy beats engi, but pyro beats
spy (and any projectile thats coming at them tbh), and... well everything pretty much beats
pyro, but you see what I'm saying, right? It's all batshit insane, and yet, it all works
beautifully together (for the most
part at least). I'm very glad that the community for this game is
still going strong to this day, even with Valve largly neglecting it. Really friggin' good
game.
Oh, and I main engi btw.
There is no better game to play with the homiees than this one. You got all of the base models from Half-Life 2, which is like at least a good weeks worth of entertainment right there, and then you got the workshop, ooh boy the workshop. There are few things that are as fascinating as the GMod workshop. You got shit ranging from "oh hey this is actually pretty cool and useful" to "...what the fuck‽‽". Without the workshop, this game would've been popular for, idk, a year or two at most, but with the workshop, it suddenly transforms into an entirely new thing that can rage from a funny little sandbox game to a fully fledge stop-motion animation software. I could be trying to make a working car with random props and the toolgun while my friend is deploying 10 Freddy Fazbears that will kill onsite. This game is a homebrewers paradise right here. GabeN was a friggin' genius for making this into a separate game rather than just a HL2 mod. An absolute must-play (if you haven't already) for the creative and the mentally derragned.
War, War Never Changes.
Ok, before I start talking about this, let me just get one thing clear, FUCK BETHESDA, as you were.
When I say Fallout here, I'm talking about Fallout 3, New Vegas, and 4, because those are the only
ones I've played, (technically, I've also played Fallout 1, but I kinda got bored of it lol, I may
try and actually play it someday). New Vegas is my favorite, with 4 and 3 following behind. I'm the kinda homie that
will read everything and do every side quest, so the amount of detail they put into the story aspect
of the games is really appreciated. Absoululy love walking into a random building and learning
what
happened to some random ass people who worked there hundreds of years ago, while stealing everything
thats not
bolted down, then selling all the junk I don't need to a poor trader that happened to cross my path,
amazing gameplay experience.
The combat is alright. I kinda wish VATS wern't a thing, rather just go with a standard fps combat
system, but the ciematic shots are pretty cool, and hoping to get a mysterious stranger appearance
every time does like cancel it out, or something. Pretty cool franchise, wish Bethesda wasn't absolutely
delusional.
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