Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I don’t mind so much the maps and quest journals if I’m in the moment, but it’s a problem when I suddenly need to save and quit, then don’t pick it up again for weeks.
Oh in terms of graphics, I can remember how awesome games looks. Quake 2 was so detailed compared to the first. Need for Speed was basically photo realistic. Age of Empires had such detailed units and AoE2 was amazing!
Unfortunately I didn’t play Half Life until a decade or so after it came out, but that was apparently revolutionary (and I still really enjoyed it even though it was a decade old).
Carmageddon is the one I remember thinking was amazing. The one with the humans not the zmbies. Also, Quake ha ha ha.
I never got into FPS though.
I don’t think I ever played carmageddon, though I know of it.
Before those amazing graphics games came out I used to play shareware games like Commander Keen or Crystal Caves. Only the first episode of course 😆
Omg Crystal Caves, haven’t heard that name in a long time! Jump Man was my jam.
Never heard of it! It was definitely the 90s before I knew anyone with a computer, and I’m pretty sure it was the 2000s before I knew anyone with a console 😆. I’ve personally never owned a console!
Late 80s I knew a couple of kids with Ataris, hence Jump Man. But it was the 90s before I got to really interact with any computers myself.
Late 90s we all used to rent consoles from Video stores though.
My first computer was a 686 built to my specs by a computer shop and to my frustration people kept dissing it for not being “a Pentium” ( the i586) 😅.
Haha wow, you ran with a very different crowd than I did! I didn’t know many people who would know one type of computer from another.
I don’t remember if our video store didn’t have consoles, or my parents just never let us hire them. By the time I was an adult I was into computers and didn’t really have an interest in consoles. Still don’t! If I want to play a console game, I’ll emulate it. Though we do have a suite of Xbox controllers and a PC plugged into the TV so we pretty much have a console without a console.
I think I’m just slightly older than you. I was in my late teens and flatting in Ak when I was renting consoles with flatmates.
Then I got into computers after using my bf’s ones. When I got my own computer the only reason people knew to say “Pentium” was because Intel had been marketing it like crazy, the irony was my Athlon processor was way faster and better than the i586.
A “console without a console” sounds like the way to go! I bet your kids love that! We have an old xbox someone gave us, which is quite good because I only have $ and space for a laptop. If I ever won lotto I’d get a pc.
Oh I remember Athlon processors, and the Athlon vs Pentium thing. I don’t think I was an adult then though, I think you’re right about being a bit older than me.
TBH we don’t do aot of screen time in my house, so you’re right my kids do love it when we play some games! Normally this is Stardew Valley, because myself and all three kids can play at once (to varying abilities).
We used to play the original Lego star wars (two player) but one day it stopped working. I got the new one (Skywalker Saga) but it’s very different, to the point that you have to navigate in 3d. One of the things I liked about the original is that you’re playing from a mostly fixed viewpoint, which made it easier to play at 3 or 4 years old. The older ones can handle it now but we haven’t played it as much as Stardew Valley, which is a lot less linear so everyone can do what they like.