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Bioshock Infinite |OT| No Gods, Kings, or Irrational Games
- Thread starter Cystm
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I played both. Friend had the ps3 version first for some reason.
Goddamn it, you just had to come in and take my crown.
I envy you. I miss my teens.
18 was a good year for video games for me. The fabled 2004. Then I decided to join the military instead of going to college. Wanted to be a hero and shit.
ArisenDragon
Member
Speaking of PS3 there is a new system update no idea what it does but after I installed it my PS3 fans sped up again not jet engine but kinda like the 360 ones.
Raitosaito
Member
Whippersnapper.
I actually pity you. That means you were 10/11 when this generation started and 5/6 when the ps2 gen started. You missed out on so many great moments in gaming that you may have caught up on through emulation or backwards compatibility, but that can never match the original amazement those games provided in their times.
At least he'll live well past some of you guys!
Miss your teens? That was 4 months ago!
So you weren't joking about "re-enlisting" in the Bullshot thread, damn. Mad respect, my man. Thank you. (I just going to go ahead and assume you're American)
I'm living the dream right now, it's good time.
Wait, Bioshock?
4 years Marine Corps Infantry, 2 of them in Iraq.
With the way the economy is today, I am considering possibly re-enlisting in the Army and trying to go Rangers. The Marines aren't taking back veterans due to budget cuts.
Or there's always the private military... Army of Two, baby. Who wants to go with me?
23 isn't considered old? I don't feel so bad at 22, then.
Of course. I actually played quite a bit back in the Cube/PS2 days and hopped on this gen in April 2008. Obviously I've missed classics and for example, never experienced Halo in its LAN hay day, but I don't pity myself for that, lol.
You should pity yourself for missing Quake. :>
Not at all. Apart from a 3 seconds difference in the load times of areas, the game remains the same.
It frightens me that there is a new generation of competitive shooter fans being raised on Call of Duty instead of Counter-Strike and Quake 3.
MuddyDonut
Member
I played System Shock 2 when I was 19 as well!
this was 2 weeks ago
ArisenDragon
Member
Poimandres
Member
I fixed that for you.
Well, Quake as well of course, but nothing quite like seeing the birth of a genre. See also: Dune 2.
As long as we get to wear hockey masks and can get dudebro call signs, I'm in. I'll rip up my -redacted- university acceptance letter and take back my maltriculation fees.
In another life, maybe.
BluePigGanon
Member
38 - am I the old man here? : /
Being a 38 year old gamer is actually pretty sweet to tell the truth. Clear memories of the NES era onward, actually got to enjoy the rise and fall of arcades, etc.
Being a 38 year old gamer is actually pretty sweet to tell the truth. Clear memories of the NES era onward, actually got to enjoy the rise and fall of arcades, etc.
Incendiary
Banned
Same here.
I finished college before the first Bioshock even came out. Ugh.
Yes, you are. You deserve my avatar far more than I do.
Yep, Doom as well as Wolf3D. The 90s in general were home to a number of genre-defining classics.
Shit...I remember using my student loan refund to purchase my day 1 PS2. Good times.
ArisenDragon
Member
I go as far back as the SNES.
bodyofanamerican
Member
33 next month.
Poimandres
Member
Yeah, games that were literally genre-defining. When was the last time a truly new genre was born?
BluePigGanon
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I moved into my first dorm room with my clothes, a small TV and my Sega Saturn.
thetrin
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You missed out on the height of arcades, the SNES, and Quake!
Your teens are basically the worst years of your life. Everything after that is cake.
MOBAs are an actual genre.
I'm still thinking about how to bring gaming with me when I move in this fall. I fear it might be just me and my Vita until next gen launches.
BluePigGanon
Member
I feel bad for gamers who missed out on Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat at the local arcade, thick with cigarette smoke and adolescent B.O., setting up their quarters and entering local tournaments. Or the excitement of a new cabinet appearing!
You don't know what it was like! *single tear*
Truth.
You don't know what it was like! *single tear*
Truth.
haha...yeah, ps2 was my junior-senior year...so couple years on me, but that's awesome.
Incendiary
Banned
I brought my PS2. My roommate had a Gamecube. It was a match made in heaven.
bodyofanamerican
Member
Or losing said quarter down the front of an old or beat up machine!
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Or just arcades, period
ArisenDragon
Member
I slightly remember arcades I was more apart of the internet cafe craze playing pc games.
Oh, and if Shawn Elliot is still reading, I used to keep GFW Radio podcasts on my iPod and listen to them during patrol (along with the other 1UP staples).
I do remember having one earbud in during the middle of a firefight and listening to a 'Heroes of the Web' at the same time. Didn't seem so weird to me at the time, but now looking back it seems rather laughably absurd.
I do remember having one earbud in during the middle of a firefight and listening to a 'Heroes of the Web' at the same time. Didn't seem so weird to me at the time, but now looking back it seems rather laughably absurd.