[Jediferret]

I'm in the same boat denizen. lol I have no one to play board games with, but I always lose anyway. XD

I do have Fallout Monopoly though! I'm taking it to Ohio with me as I'm meeting some of my friends out there after the holiday's. I've been bribed with food...

[denizen]

Sounds like fun, Jedi. I still have a few board games in my closet but they just sit there. Maybe in a few years we will be able to take them out again.

[Jediferret]

My Dad was ruthless at Monopoly. SHOW NO MERCY!!!

[denizen]

Monopoly has been outlawed in my house.

Nobody likes it. I ask why and they just look at me. Whatever it was, it must have been bad.

Anyone remember this? It is my favourite board game. Called Movie Maker, played this when I was a kid back in the 80's. Originally released back in the 60's became a sensation and then disappeared after Parker Games was bought out. They are still available on eBay and places but they're not cheap. I got one a few year ago. You play the role of a producer that has to make a movie. You can choose which movie to make depending on the cards you get to play with. Epic, Horror, Musical, Western etc..

Then you get location cards, actor / actress cards and if you're lucky your movie can become a hit and you get an Oscar. If not, it becomes a flop and you lose money.

[Jediferret]

Haha! I love Monopoly, but I'm terrible at it. I can't say I remember Movie Maker though. Looks like fun!

I'm hoping to get a Haunted Mansion version of Clue that Disney is selling. I never get to play Clue, and I was always a big fan of it, and the movie of course.

I really haven't had time lately for games, but I've been watching my friend play Fallout 4 via Twitch. Watching someone else play a game like Fallout just isn't the same as playing it yourself.

[denizen]

Apparently there was a study which showed a 10% drop in traffic the day Fallout 4 was released.

That's scary. What is even more scary is how they came to that conclusion.

I love the Clue movie. Have it at home. Tim Curry is great in that.

I was actually playing some Gears of War on the weekend which was great fun. Its kinda cool that I missed out on all these titles and I'm only exploring them now. Its definitely the cheaper route as most titles are found in bargain bins here.

By the time I get to Xbox One or PS4, it will be sitting in bargain bins too.

[Jediferret]

Bethesda even released a sick note for fans to use to stay home and play Fallout 4. I'm pretty sure half of my friends are playing Fallout 4 right now. I haven't heard a peep out of any of them in about a week. XD

Facebook is nothing but "Fallout 4 is awesome!" or "I found a bug in Fallout 4!". *sadface*

By the time I get around to getting an Xbox One, it'll be half off at this rate. I got bigger fish to fry though.

[denizen]

That is hilarious!

Jedi, I might have given you incorrect info a while ago. I could swear I mentioned that they had planned a 360 release of Fallout 4. Well that is certainly not the case. Not sure where I read it because after checking this recently, there was no evidence of it.

Next week, I might be placing an order for a few games to see me through the holiday. Might end up getting Alien Isolation, Metal Gear Solid & the Back to the Future game (Even though I have already finished it on my iPad, its nice to have on console)

This weekend? Well that all depends on the time I have but yes. Some more of my top 3 at the moment.
Doom 3, Aliens: Colonial Marines & Gears of War.

[denizen]

Managed to play some more Doom & Gears of War on the weekend but now I'm at the berserker & have no idea how to get outside without being crushed by him.

[Jediferret]

I know what part you're talking about... the part where it comes around the corner and just runs you over? I went through that multiple times before I finally got through it. I actually forgot how I got past that... I'll ask my friend Kat. She knows. She knows everything.

I broke down and bought an Xbox One so I could play Fallout 4. It was a bundle, so I got that and Fallout 3 for free.

The One is stream ready, so I've been streaming on Twitch.tv. However, apparently if you're not connected to the internet, you can't log into your profile to play games. If you not online, the Xbox One is useless. I didn't find that out until last night when I went to play some more Fallout 4 and got kicked offline because of a cut wire. I was mad as a hornet.

Apparently, there is a way around it, but I haven't been able to find out how yet. I'll be talking to Kat later today to fix that.

Oh, if you wanna check out any of the gameplay, I can be found here: http://www.twitch.tv/jediferret/profile

[denizen]

Thanks Jedi but I actually got it last night!

I'm further in now. Hey congrats on the Xbox. Very cool indeed.

Thinking about getting Fallout 3 for mine. I think you've convinced me.

I heard about the whole Xbox One Online fiasco. Sounds like a pain.

Eagerly awaiting your opinion on the Fallout games. Did you play Fallout 3? I know you were playing New Vegas.

[Jediferret]

Yeah, I've played Fallout 3. New Vegas is MUCH better. But they're both fun. Fallout 4 you can actually grown crops, build houses and defenses. I spent a LOT of time just trying to learn how to do that. Took me about a half a day... mostly because I have OCD and Fallout is an OCD nightmare.

lol So far I'm loving the game though! I've got my dog companion, his name is Dog (you can't change it). He follows you around and acts cute.

[denizen]

Well my delivery has finally arrived. Received Alien: Isolation, Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes & Fallout 3.

Lottsa fun to be had this weekend. Or when I get a chance!

Pity I can't buy time.

[denizen]

It's quite bad. All I have been doing is playing Doom 1&2 ever since I bought Doom 3 with the two older games included.

I have a feast of new ones and haven't even bothered to put them in.

I did play a little of Fallout 3 though and it was weird taking control of the character since his birth into the world.

I am only at age 16 at the moment so haven't really played much yet.

[Jediferret]

Did you notice that in Fallout 3 that Liam Neeson is your Dad. XD

I think you'll enjoy Fallout... it's got this old B-movie feel to it, but at the same time it's really creepy.

I'm still playing Fallout 4. They have a new enemy called Synths. Synths are the stuff of nightmares.

[denizen]

I knew I recognized that voice!!! And yet in my head I was, "Nah!"

Yea, its pretty cool. I will definitely have more time over the holidays.

Synths sound pretty creepy. Even googled them and they look pretty creepy too.

[Jediferret]

I've been playing the crap out of Fallout 4... which is why you guys haven't seen me very much. See? I told you... goodbye social life! XD So, my companion of choice has been Paladin Danse, who is a tank. I just give him all the powerful weapons and he goes to town.

I found this that not long ago and had a pretty good laugh. It's a mod for Danse. XD

How are your games coming denizen?

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[denizen]

Very cool!

Well, ive finished Doom. Again. So i guess ill be forced to start playing the newer games.

[denizen]

Well i played some Fallout 3 last night and ive finally left the shelter but to be quite honest, dont really know how to play this infernal game very well.

Dont even know how to hold weapons!

[Jediferret]

HAHA! I didn't either. In fact, I hated Fallout 3 the first time I played it because it just frustrated me so much... especially VATS. Fallout 4 is much more improved... though, I kinda raged when I used a very powerful weapon to take out a powerful enemy with a 95% chance of hitting, and it flew passed him.

In other words, I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn...

I raged so much that it cracked up my friend... there was some colorful language at that point. XD

Also, if you haven't checked it out yet, Bioshock is another great franchise. It's kinda like Disney's ideology gone wrong... underwater.

[denizen]

Sounds interesting. Will check it out. Thanks Jedi.

[Jediferret]

Got Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare on the Xbox One from a friend. We've been playing it all day today. Had some major lag issues, but I was able to get some gameplay recorded. The lag, we think, is that my friend who lives in Hawaii was hosting... she doesn't always have the best connection, which we've dubbed the "pineapple connection". We have fun though! Enjoy some post-holiday plant on zombie violence.

[denizen]

Looks awesome, Jedi.

Im impressed with the Xbox One's 3D rendering. I should have bought an Xbox One at the time. But it will have to wait for now.

[denizen]

Sheesh, looking for a hard drive for the Xbox is harder than I thought. They just so darn expensive. Unable to play a few games as they need the installation space. And I cant go smaller than 250gb as I want to emulate Xbox (First console) games too.

[Mr Duct Tape]

I have a PS3, and I don't play too much games these days, but lately I've been playing GTA V online, it can be a lot of fun.

I usually use the PS3 for blu-rays and dvd's.

[MacGyverGod]

So do I, but I love the play games every once in a while too.

[denizen]

I have always been a gamer. Since the very early 80's.

Terlefunken, Atari, Nintendo, Commodore, Spectrum, you name it! Then around 1991/1992 I went off them till I saw Tomb Raider on the Playstation back in 96. I fell in love and bought my own PS1. Then i got a PS2 after witnessing the awe of Metal Gear Solid 2 on a friends PS2 and everything was cool till around the time the PS3 and Xbox 360 came out. Then I went off them again! This was mostly due to the cost of the consoles / games.

THEN! I decided to get back into it again at the beginning of last year. But they had a super special on the 360 which I couldn't resist, so instead of going PS4 / Xbox One, decided to get the 360. Games were dirt cheap in a lot of places so it was actually a bargain to get. Now, I'm playing catch-up whilst others are playing on the latest next-gen consoles. But its still a boost for me. I missed out on this so I've been having a lot of fun.

[MacGyverGod]

To me it started in the early 90's. We had Hangman on the computer and a whole lots of other games on disks too like Aldo which was sort of a rip-off of Mario and Donkey Kong. Crawling up the ladders, avoid the barrels and get to the treasure. Than we had the Game Boy and the Sega Master System II with Alex Kidd in Miracle World. Later we had Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The 7th Guest, Kings Quest VII, Outlaws, Need For Speed II & III. I was hooked to Indiana Jones, you can't imagine how many times we got stuck in that game and there was no walkthrough. We even wrote our own. Than the time of the games with real actors came about: Phantasmagoria, Black Dahlia, X-Files. In those days, I never or hardly actually finished a game with exception of some like Indiana Jones, Outlaws, Need For Speed II & III and one of my alltime favourites Pink Panther Passport To Peril and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

Than in '98 Playstation 1 came along with in Tomb Raider as the most popular game in those days. It took me some getting used to and it had kinda the same problem we had with the Fate of Atlantis. You got stuck, in the end we used cheatcodes. In the meantime I finished Tomb Raider I & II multiple times. I think the biggest difference now is that you get tips during the game. Back than it was very simple: figure it out! I still never finished III, IV or V. Other games I enjoyed on PS1 was Tekken 2&3, WWF Warzone and Xena Warrior Princess.

PS2 we sort of skipped that. Just couldn't afford it and we also sorta grew out of it for a while. Than we got an Xbox about ten or twelve years ago. I only had one game on that. It was the Rocky game from 2002. That was I think the only game I ever finished in the three difficulty levels. Boy, did I enjoy that game. You could defeat Drago with Apollo or have Clubber face Apollo. Or you could play with Rocky IV against Apollo Creed of the first movie so they wore the same shorts. Afterwards my brother gave the Xbox away to our nephews. I wasn't too happy about that but he said he paid for it and did with it whatever he pleased. Than Xbox 360 came along, also on that one I had only one game on it: King Kong The Game. Also that one I enjoyed as much as the Rocky game. I think I sort of developed that... thing I have for games based on movies around than. But both Xbox as Xbox 360 had their moments they sort of crashed and had to be brought back to the store every now and than. When my brother got tired of that we bought the PS3 which now I own.

PS3 is great for it's multiple uses as dvdplayer. I have a lot more games on PS3 which I want to have played at least once. Than the idea is to sell the games that are also released on PS4 and buy PS4 maybe later this year. I actually got back into gaming regularly after I moved out of the house and I'm mostly alone. So I kinda took it as hobby. I don't game like a fanatic, sometimes there are few months in between. The last games I played were Terminator Salvation, Resistance Fall of Man, L.A. Noire (one of the best I ever played) and Game Of Thrones (also one of the best I ever played). I got to admit the gaming industry has greatly improved and I'm actually glad I got back into it and I pretty much intend to stay in it. In fact I sometimes ponder about opening some sort of bar where you could play games. Install consoles from the beginning of gaming until PS4 and maybe with some other arcade stuff, videogames, pinball machines and whatnot. That is my dream at this point, if I could ever afford it.

[Jediferret]

We had an Atari when I was a kid. I actually still have it and all the games. I don't think it works though... I believe the power cord needs to be replaced, or something like that. Kinda skipped the 90's consoles because of my parent's fear of it being a distraction since I was still in school.

We got our first computer in 1996, which started with computer games. We got games like Decent, Myst/Riven, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (which was my mother's favorite game) and SimCity.

In 1999, I got a PS1 so I could get Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles. I got into other games like Spyro the Dragon and Test Drive 6.

I worked for computer store for about a year and half, around the time the PS2 came out. My gamer co-workers talked me into getting the PS2, so I came home with one. I got into more games like Jak & Daxter and Themepark: Roller Coaster. Meanwhile on the PC, Roller Coaster Tycoon and SIMS came out.

By that time, we were all addicted to video games. I got into the online scene with mailing lists.

In 2002, my sister and I went and saw Resident Evil in theaters. We liked it so much, we rented Resident Evil: Code Veronica X. We loved it so much, we played all the other Resident Evil games. That got us into other games, such as Silent Hill (which was a recommendation), Metal Gear Solid and Devil May Cry.

My sister picked up a GameCube in 2002 (I think), which we got Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil REmake and Resident Evil 4. After Resident Evil 4 was released, I started posting on gaming forums where I met my best friend, and the rest is history. lol

[denizen]

Great stories guys!

I actually also uave the Atari Flashback 1&2.

MacGyverGod, i finished all the Tomb Raiders. My favourite was and still is no 2. In my opinion, the first 3 were the best.
Jedi, Silent Hill 2... Need i say more!