Hi, my name is Ender, and I'm addicted...

[Ender]

...to holding on to games that I don't play and don't really plan on playing. Case in point: Starcraft and bw - not played since April of 2002, SoFII - not played since September of 2002, Warcraft II bnet edition - not played since Winter of 2001, Far Cry, not played since April LAN and HALO only played at the last LAn and a couple of random times online.

I liked all these games and had fun playing them and all, but I don't play them often at ALL, and don't really plan on playing them very much. So I'm going out of my comfort zone and trading them in. This also means that I'm not going to be trying very hard to get any of those played at a lan 'cause I wouldn't be able to play. ;)

Just FYI...anyone else have a tough time parting with old things?

[DiscoDave]

I still have the strategy guide to this game (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=4727).

[Expunge]

FeaR needs to do that too.

[Chuwawah]

I still have Darklands on its 12 or so 5 1/4 floppies :tup:

[Airstotle]

...Far Cry, not played since April LAN and HALO only played at the last LAn and a couple of random times online.


If parting is such sweet sorrow, I could ease the pain by keeping them for you. :tup: ;) :sly:

[Ender]

Actually I was thinking I wanted JK2 back so I could trade that in as well. ;)

[Airstotle]

JK2? What JK2? I have never seen JK2.

Holy Crap! Look over There!!!

*Flees with JK2 stuffed in coat pocket*

[Expunge]

*Tackles him for Ednar*

[Airstotle]

*Tackles him for Ednar*

*Hands FeaR jewel case, straps on running cleats and hauls butt with JK2 CD-Rom in other direction*

[Pineconeboy]

It never even occurs to me to get rid of my old games. Same thing with books. I have about 3 huge boxes worth of books gathering dust in my mom's attic.

[Shadow]

I have a few games that I haven't played in long time. Like....Nox and Flight Sim 98 and Diablo and Janes Fighter Plane pack.

[Ender]

It never even occurs to me to get rid of my old games. Same thing with books. I have about 3 huge boxes worth of books gathering dust in my mom's attic.

Books have re-read value. In time, some of the old games I have won't even be re-playable unless I keep an old computer hanging around...which I can't see doing unless I'm really feeling nostalgic or something. But not only that, I don't have the time to play the games I want to play, much less those I have that I don't really want to play anymore. :shrug: Books have a much higher value, they're more than just entertainment.

[ghrogels]

NDR, you will always be able to play your old game!
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox/ <-DOS
http://www.zsnes.com/ <-SNES
http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/ <-amiga
http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/ <-commodore64
stuff like this will always be coming out, so that people like you can play your old games!
now go get Monkey Island and play it through :haha:

[Ender]

oh yeah...Jon, you can have your TIE fighter discs back...



I found the Xwing/Tie Fighter CD Collectors disc at Eb the other day! :woot:

and yes, I picked them up. :)

[bloodseek]

i love older games... they seem to have more of a fun factor to them

i still have lords of the realm 2

[Pineconeboy]

I still play Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2, even though I've beaten BG twice and BG2 (plus the expansion) three times. I got through Knights of the Old Repulic once and I very much doubt I'll play it again. It just feels dumbed down compared to the BG series, and when I play it I'm sitting there thinking about how I could be having a more strategic, complex experience. :p The ONLY thing that's really gotten better in the last two or three years is graphics. And imho, the need to be on the cutting technological edge and make a game with incredibly detailed graphics has forced developers to move resources away from things like story and gameplay. There are, of course, exceptions.

[bloodseek]

anyone still play Fallout 1 or 2... I love Fallout 2!

[Ender]

i love older games... they seem to have more of a fun factor to them

i still have lords of the realm 2

LOTR 2 was a great game...I've been wanting to check out lotr 3 actually...but the problem isn't that the game is good or that I don't want to play it. Especially with that type of game - being turned based strategy, you're talking hours to play it. That's a lot of hours of fun to be sure, but they need to be pretty consistant, and I just don't have time for games like that anymore. :( It's worth money to other people, and to places like eb, and since I can't use them now and don't plan to, I would rather have the money I guess...or get something new. That's the redeeming virtue of fps games...you only need a half hour to go play for a bit. It's fun to play for a long time, but it's not like a turn based strat game where after a half hour you're just getting started...in a fps you start rather abruptly. :)

[ghrogels]

Dark Sun...++good times

[DiscoDave]

Dark Sun = the old D&D game?

[jinx666]

I still have shogo, anyone here ever play that? I also have my old quake 1&2 discs. (someone even suggested playing quake 2 at the last lan) I was thinking about loading all my old game onto my kids computer just for "vintage" fun. at the rate machines are going most things are becoming unplayable, I tend to save my old machine parts and make franken-puters outta them just to entertain myself on rainy days.

It's weird I was reading somthing a while back about how the library of congress was having problems with all their data backups being potentially un-readable because hardware technology is moving upward too rapidly.

[Chuwawah]

Rocket arena 2 for Q2 owns rocketeer(ut2k4 version) so hardcore.

[Chuwawah]

every lan I share my q2 folder (with ra2) but never see anyone copying it :stare:

[ghrogels]

Dark Sun = the old D&D game?
:yes:

[jinx666]

every lan I share my q2 folder (with ra2) but never see anyone copying it :stare:

I think you and I were the only ones who wanted to play it...

[Valusek]

Heroes of Might and Magic
Total Annihilation
GTA2

=/

[ghrogels]

Total Annihilation

Yes, I too think it should be played at the lan.

[bloodseek]

2 old games i want badly

The original dos version of Eye of the Beholder
and
Might and Magic: World of Xeen

if anyone has any of these (preferable M&M:WoX) might i have a copy?

[DiscoDave]

I think you and I were the only ones who wanted to play it...
I've been itching to try some Quake2. =D

[Expunge]

You know I'd be down ;>