You know you're addicted to PC gaming when....

[Prussian to the Iron]

self-explanatory. name yours

mine:
-...you go to sleep and dream about finding Star Maps and fighting Darth Malak (KotOR)
-...you hear the word "cliff", and shiver, remembering horrible memories of the cliff racers (TES3: Morrowind)

[Centurion1]

I hate cliff racers so much.

You know your addicted to pc games when your at football practice and you say in the pre game pep talk, "let's beat the **** out of these fetchers!" And your dead serious.

And then you know your a boss when no one questions you and the word becomes a fad....... I'm going to miss high school

[Gregoshi]

...when you wake up your wife when you are sleeping because your feet are still working the gas/brake/clutch pedals long after your evening of playing NASCAR Racing 3. (true) :driver:

[Veho Nex]

...when you hear about a game you've been waiting for ever to hear about (STW2 anyone) and are so giddy you cant goto sleep.

...when you look out your window and go pfffffft Ive seen better graphics.

[Centurion1]

OK this one is really realty terrible and happened like last night. Lately I have been playing a lot of online diplomacy and its obviously affecting me. I was talking to a girl at a party and in short I asked her to support move me to her friend

[Prussian to the Iron]

...when you have flashbacks of your best killstreaks in Modern Warfare 2 (last night was my recent 33 killstreak, no nuke unfortunately) at the worst times (shouldnt elaborate further)
...when you have very serious and long deliberations about whether to play KOTOR 2, Morrowind, or Fallout 2
...when you start to wish trees could talk like Harold (FO1,2,3)

[Beskar]

When you wish real-life was like San Andreas/Sims where you go to the gym for the day and you come out looking like the Terminator.

When you type "up down left right left right a b select call" on your phone wanting to unlock the real-life versions of the cheat console.

[gaelic cowboy]

When your walking in the countryside and your scouting for a good position for your cavalry.

[Martok]

For me, it's definitely when a game starts appearing in my dreams that I know I'm addicted to it. I don't know how many times that's happened to me, but it's gotta be in the hundreds for sure. :sweatdrop:

[A Nerd]

When time stops and night and day become one, transfixed by a flickering unreality (video game)

[Vladimir]

Cliff Racers are easy; just keep a bow primed and your eyes pealed.

You know you're addicted to PC gaming when you have a dream about Italian Spear Militia holding the line (MTW).

[edyzmedieval]

...when you wake up your wife when you are sleeping because your feet are still working the gas/brake/clutch pedals long after your evening of playing NASCAR Racing 3. (true) :driver:

Wow. NASCAR Racing 3. I still have it here, full packaging and everything.
And once I was so crazy I've completed a full race, something like 400 laps.

[Hooahguy]

When your walking in the countryside and your scouting for a good position for your cavalry.
i have something similar: whenever you walk down the street you are constantly looking around for cover and the best vantage points to shoot from, and are on the alert for snipers.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Cliff Racers are easy; just keep a bow primed and your eyes pealed.

oh i kinow theyre easy, just really annoying and make me angry; i'm a little OCD, and when my health is full except for that tiny little maybe 5 HP gone, it drives me insane!!!


i have something similar: whenever you walk down the street you are constantly looking around for cover and the best vantage points to shoot from, and are on the alert for snipers.

oh god, guilty


...when you start to quote Sheogorath from the Shivering Isles; "Who puts cats in bags anyway? They don't like to be in bags you know." (Oblivion)

[Lemur]

When a burned-out motherboard ruins your plans for the entire weekend. (Dang, no virtual activities for me, purely analog reality!) And here I was just getting into Europa Universalis: Rome Gold.

-edit-

I could buy the OS X version for the laptop, but somehow I can't see paying for the game again.

[Meneldil]

When you can't find sleep because you're trying to plan the loot distribution of the boss your WoW guild is trying to defeat.
"Should I spend my DKP on this staff or on the T4 chest piece?" or "I didn't get the dagger this week, but I can still get the gloves on that boss. I'll get the pointy weapon next week"

Most horrible time in my life. Ever.

[Subotan]

When people are shocked when you tell them how you relax (With strategy games a la TOAW and Vicky)

[johnhughthom]

When you are walking the dog and see a plant, then wonder where the keyboard went as you try to pick up that nirnroot...

[Centurion1]

When during class out draw a derailed Mediterranean map and unit rosters so you can lay out a perfectcampaign idea.

And when you print out screen shots if every single battle map you can get so you can precisely lay outbattles to minimize casualties.

When in midgame out start talking to your troops

[pevergreen]

When you post in this thread?
When you get a physical ache after not playing them for a period of time?
When you push away loved ones to play games?
When you have nearly ten thousand posts on a video game forum?
When you have a shirt that says: "I don't need a life, I'm a gamer, I have many lives"?

[Beskar]

When you have a shirt that says: "I don't need a life, I'm a gamer, I have many lives"?

Hah!

[Meneldil]

"I'm not a geek. I am a level 10 Paladin"

[pevergreen]

"I'm not a geek. I am a level 10 Paladin Vice President"

Fixed. :wink:

[Lemur]

Week two with no gaming PC. I catch myself walking through the Xbox 360 aisle at the box stores. I'm jonesing, man.

[Hooahguy]

I feel your pain bro, i once went two months without PC gaming, and after my senior year of high school itll be a full year.

[Fragony]

when you realize it's never going to be the same and buy a console

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

when you realize it's never going to be the same and buy a console
When you call this man a heretic

/where's my torch

[Beskar]

I went through a period where I lost my addiction to computer games. My flatmates used to comment how I was a perfectionist, in having the tidiest room, always up on time, went to be early, always on schelude, cooking, cleaning, etc.

Then I got Rome: Total War.

[Caesar the IIIV]

You know your addicted to PC games when your ass hurts from sitting on the computer chair to long( I have a wooden one )

[Lemur]

I think I'm entering week 3 with no gaming PC. Waiting on warrantied power supply to arrive. I gotta say, I really appreciate Valve bringing some game to OS X, 'cause I would be completely high and dry without this laptop. At least I can do some Portal, some Half-Life 2, some Team Fortress. It's better than absolutely nothing.

But come on, Thermaltake, get me that PS!

[Veho Nex]

I went through a period where I lost my addiction to computer games. My flatmates used to comment how I was a perfectionist, in having the tidiest room, always up on time, went to be early, always on schelude, cooking, cleaning, etc.

Then I got Rome: Total War.

:laugh4:

... You really want to play a game that no one is playing yet you still put off schoolwork just in case someone does respond to your pleas for help.

[Double A]

OK this one is really realty terrible and happened like last night. Lately I have been playing a lot of online diplomacy and its obviously affecting me. I was talking to a girl at a party and in short I asked her to support move me to her friend

BWAHAHAHA

I'd say when you're playing and someone starts talking to you, when they are finished you intergrate stuff from your game into your response.

Or when you actually can't go to sleep and think about how cool you just pulled something off for THIRTY MINUTES TO AN HOUR. Happens to me all the time...

[Beskar]

:laugh4:

Yeah, it is pretty bad. Four years later, I still haven't recovered and ended up returning to "gaming". Though, I have absolutely no addictions to MMORPG's.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Or when you actually can't go to sleep and think about how cool you just pulled something off for THIRTY MINUTES TO AN HOUR. Happens to me all the time...

happens all the time. i often have recollections of my best game on MW2 that night before i can sleep, for around an hour or so.

[aimlesswanderer]

Often when I am playing an interesting new game I will think about my game and map out strategies for when I play the next time before/while going to sleep. They are normally quite successful too.

My dad say he does his best thinking while he is asleep, so perhaps it's genetic.

[Centurion1]

Ok this diplomacy thing is ridiculous.............

this is another girl anecdote.

when your dancing with this girl my cousin introdices to me from california at a party and you seriously take a moment in the song to check your internet capable phone to see how the last phase went.

im disgusted with myself.

[pevergreen]

Ok this diplomacy thing is ridiculous.............

this is another girl anecdote.

when your dancing with this girl my cousin introdices to me from california at a party and you seriously take a moment in the song to check your internet capable phone to see how the last phase went.

im disgusted with myself.

Either get help, or find a girl that games.

I'm going to dinner with a girl next week whose plans for the holidays are: Oblivion and Fallout 3.

[Centurion1]

im enough of a stud that they dont care :wink: and she probably thought i was texting. but still cmon its a bit ridiculous.

[Lemur]

I'm going to dinner with a girl next week whose plans for the holidays are: Oblivion and Fallout 3.
Ah, the girl geek. Although I know a couple, I wound up marrying a non-geek girl. Sometimes I wonder how it would have gone if I could talk RPG and FPS and RTS with the little woman ...

[Double A]

Either get help, or find a girl that games.

I'm going to dinner with a girl next week whose plans for the holidays are: Oblivion and Fallout 3.

I'm dissapointed pever.

Morrowind is a vastly superior game. (except in combat anyway)

[pevergreen]

I'm dissapointed pever.

Morrowind is a vastly superior game. (except in combat anyway)

Hey, I'll take what I can get. Though I won't be getting anything, because she'll be all like

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7120/816342-1227303237801_super.jpg

to my

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/7120/941549-gentlemen_super.jpg

Lemur: Don't worry, just train the lemurings and you'll have someone to discuss strategies with in 10 years. :wink:

[Prussian to the Iron]

Either get help, or find a girl that games.

I'm going to dinner with a girl next week whose plans for the holidays are: Oblivion and Fallout 3.

dang. i could only imagine...


I'm dissapointed pever.

Morrowind is a vastly superior game. (except in combat anyway)

including Combat, except maybe arrows and blocking. but i dont like blocking in Obliv anyway; it still takes down your own health. i hate accidently knocking arrows and then having to shoot them and have them be unrecoverable.

[Centurion1]

Oblivion combat was superb compared to morrowind

[Secura]

Either get help, or find a girl that games.

Thanks to stuff like the DS and Wii, it's not so socially reprehensible for girls to pick up a controller anymore! I've been on that wagon since 1991, but it's good that the rest of sisterhood's caught on at last. xD

In response to the topic, I now know I actually enjoy playing PC games because I'm doing something that I've never done before; modding. It's only editing text files for EU3 to make my own nation, but it's something that I've never done before and I like the end product... can't get that sort of satisfaction from my 360. :3

[Beskar]

Thanks to stuff like the DS and Wii, it's not so socially reprehensible for girls to pick up a controller anymore! I've been on that wagon since 1991, but it's good that the rest of sisterhood's caught on at last. xD

In response to the topic, I now know I actually enjoy playing PC games because I'm doing something that I've never done before; modding. It's only editing text files for EU3 to make my own nation, but it's something that I've never done before and I like the end product... can't get that sort of satisfaction from my 360. :3

and you wondered why I did PC gaming other than Console gaming. :tongue:

[Double A]

Because you can't have Total War on a console!

[pevergreen]

Thanks to stuff like the DS and Wii, it's not so socially reprehensible for girls to pick up a controller anymore! I've been on that wagon since 1991, but it's good that the rest of sisterhood's caught on at last. xD

In response to the topic, I now know I actually enjoy playing PC games because I'm doing something that I've never done before; modding. It's only editing text files for EU3 to make my own nation, but it's something that I've never done before and I like the end product... can't get that sort of satisfaction from my 360. :3

Yeees. Me, you Beskar. EU 3 multiplayer.

[Secura]

Yeees. Me, you Beskar. EU 3 multiplayer.

I've heard you're very good... alas, I am not. :P

[Prussian to the Iron]

Oblivion combat was superb compared to morrowind

how?

[pevergreen]

I've heard you're very good... alas, I am not. :P

Good is subjective. Also depends on the nation the person picks.

[Veho Nex]

OOOOH! Can I get in on an EU3 mp game?

[Secura]

Also depends on the nation the person picks.

I fail at 99.9% of them, and that's with stuff like inflation turned off and the difficulty on Very Easy as well; Beskar usually gives me a slight advantage in tech/ducats over my neighbours so that I'm not steamrollered within the first five years. Strategy isn't really my forte, but I enjoy the historical aspects of the game and seeing my country's name in big letters across the map... I can be so superficial when it comes to EU3. :laugh4:


OOOOH! Can I get in on an EU3 mp game?

'pends what your checksum thingy is, I guess; I've been tampering with files and mine's completely different to Beskar's now, so I might have to clean install to get the checksum back. :<

[Centurion1]

Prussian. Well they were basically identical and tbqh I'm not a good person to compare the two as i played oblivion ala 360 and morrowind computer. Both had advantages, morrowind being variety of weapons greater like spears and oblivion in graphics and I think ranged combat and deflection especially.

And I'm ALWAYS an archer in rpgs so I feel qualified to speak on ranged combat. (Not sure why just don't like getting my hands dirty lol)

[pevergreen]

I fail at 99.9% of them, and that's with stuff like inflation turned off and the difficulty on Very Easy as well; Beskar usually gives me a slight advantage in tech/ducats over my neighbours so that I'm not steamrollered within the first five years. Strategy isn't really my forte, but I enjoy the historical aspects of the game and seeing my country's name in big letters across the map... I can be so superficial when it comes to EU3. :laugh4:



'pends what your checksum thingy is, I guess; I've been tampering with files and mine's completely different to Beskar's now, so I might have to clean install to get the checksum back. :<

You can just replace the decisions folder with a clean one, i've been tampering with mine as well, to suit the playstyles of my friends (halved infamy costs, 20 years for a core) We're not using the beta patches, and they non stop complain if its not on very easy with no inflation, so i've been playing plenty of that.

It took me about 60 hours, then a break for a year, then another 5 or 10, to be able to survive as a OPM (one province minor) Once I worked out the economy I was kind of ok.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Prussian. Well they were basically identical and tbqh I'm not a good person to compare the two as i played oblivion ala 360 and morrowind computer. Both had advantages, morrowind being variety of weapons greater like spears and oblivion in graphics and I think ranged combat and deflection especially.

And I'm ALWAYS an archer in rpgs so I feel qualified to speak on ranged combat. (Not sure why just don't like getting my hands dirty lol)

ah yes archery was far better in obliv. morriwnd archery is crazy, you shoot and it goes off at like a 45 degree angle from where it should haev gone, even when firing downward!

[ReluctantSamurai]

....... you look at any woman with hairpins in total dread........

[Centurion1]

Best morrowind combo?

Cuirass ofbthe Savior of magic absorption speed enhancers for normal clothes as well. Use the ring from the hollow stump in werewolf expansion. Custom enchanted bow for damage enhancements. Wakizashi custom enchanted to maximize damage and guarantee a single kill. Rock of opening for an amulet using the hlerbu amulet. And the most important thing? Boots of blinding speed baby.

Congratulations you are now invincible

[Prussian to the Iron]

Best morrowind combo?

Cuirass ofbthe Savior of magic absorption speed enhancers for normal clothes as well. Use the ring from the hollow stump in werewolf expansion. Custom enchanted bow for damage enhancements. Wakizashi custom enchanted to maximize damage and guarantee a single kill. Rock of opening for an amulet using the hlerbu amulet. And the most important thing? Boots of blinding speed baby.

Congratulations you are now invincible

right now, before i get my full daedric, I'm using an Ebony Cuirass, an enchanted Daedric Tower shield with lots of fortify strength, more than enough to cover its weight, and assorted clothing amounting up to somewhere around 80 points of fortify strength, giving me over 900 carry weight. Daedric Claymore enchanted with absorb health on strike 17-19 points for 3 seconds, which basically means health is never a problem, Auriels Bow for cliff racers, bound a Daedric Longsword for minor enemies when i dont want to waste claymore enchantment, with acrobatics at 100, athletics not far behind, and fortify speed about 10 points, i also move very fast and jump far. when i get full daedric i can afford more enchantments to fortify strength and restore magic, which will make me unstoppable with my restore health 55 points spell.

[Centurion1]

Heavy armor and melee is for the uncivilized.

I could run around that game in my skivvies boots of blinding speed and with a bow and at level one kill that insane guy in full ebony in the island place in the expansion pack.

Simply put, given enough arrows you are invincible

[Prussian to the Iron]

i do admit that i like to back-track and jump with my 100 acrobatics, while firing off arrows from Auriels bow. though with no marksman stores its difficult to buy arrows.

[ReluctantSamurai]

though with no marksman stores its difficult to buy arrows.

There is a mod that adds a shop in the Foreign Quarter Lower Waistworks, in Vivec. The proprietor is one, very cute elven lass by the name of Aradraen. She sells all kinds of area effect arrows and high-end bows including Daedric. She also has a spending limit of 7500, so it's a good place to do business.

Of course, area effect arrows are just a tad bit cheesy, but after you've played the game a bazillion times, it's fun to levitate to the top of a building in a town and blast the population into oblivion:laugh4: and they make toasting cliff racers so much easier.........

Just for the fun of it, mind you. I reload my game after I'm through......

[Centurion1]

What about the natural, arrows of slaying lol. 5000 points of damage each. Only problem is I never use them

[ReluctantSamurai]

The other problem with them is that there aren't many of them....period. Aradraen has every kind of area effect arrow/bolt imaginable. Fireball, poison, lightning, frost.....you name it. And she has a huge inventory, so you can keep going back:evilgrin:

[Double A]

Best morrowind combo?

Cuirass ofbthe Savior of magic absorption speed enhancers for normal clothes as well. Use the ring from the hollow stump in werewolf expansion. Custom enchanted bow for damage enhancements. Wakizashi custom enchanted to maximize damage and guarantee a single kill. Rock of opening for an amulet using the hlerbu amulet. And the most important thing? Boots of blinding speed baby.

Congratulations you are now invincible

The Boots kick ass.

However, if you just want to maximize exploits, all you have to do is craft a 100% chameleon set of armor and clothing.


Heavy armor and melee is for the uncivilized.

I could run around that game in my skivvies boots of blinding speed and with a bow and at level one kill that insane guy in full ebony in the island place in the expansion pack.

Simply put, given enough arrows you are invincible

No, you can't. He has überluck (this is actually grammatically correct, since his luck is OVER the PC limit) and super fast regeneration. He'd heal twice the damage you do. And he'd probably catch you, because you can't levitate, and I doubt a level 1 character would have enough money to craft magicka resistance armor for the boots of awesomeness.

[Centurion1]

But you don't know about the exploit? You take like a few spells that give you enough resistance (potions best) then before it runs out equip the botts. It then never ever runs out. Mwahahahaha

[Lemur]

It is possible, just slightly possible that I will get my gaming PC back this week. It's been a strange month without gaming (well, except for a little bit of Valve on the MacBook, but that doesn't really count, does it?).

[Gregoshi]

That's gotta be rough Lemur. Of course, having an ancient PC is almost as bad. Oblivion is the most recent game I have. My gaming shelf looks like I'm stuck in 2005. :laugh4: When I finally get a new PC, I'm sure the game technology will be a shock to me. :shame:

[Prussian to the Iron]

really? Oblivion is the latest? daaaang. need to update that soon buddy!

[Centurion1]

Rome total war is my newest game chaps. After that? Morrowind or aoe 2

[Lemur]

PC's finally back, mostly in once piece. Managed to get everything fixed under warranty, which took forever but saved me a bundle. Yay, I can PC game again!

[Skullheadhq]

You know your addicted to PC games when you cried a little when CA said S2TW has no mod supports, but find confidence in the fact that the PS3 has no games.

[johnhughthom]

but find confidence in the fact that the PS3 has no games.

Valkyria Chronicles and Red Dead Redemption alone more than justify the cost of the console.

[Prussian to the Iron]

PS3 has most of the same games as Xbox, the biggest exceptions being Gears of War and Halo. Battlefield and CoD are on both, and it's so mucch trouble to renew Xbox LIVE I like to just play the PS3.

[Centurion1]

psn network blows compared to xbox live

[Hooahguy]

But at least its free.

[Prussian to the Iron]

how does it blow? i dont see any difference, except maybe easier downloading, which i very rarely do anyway. PSN you also get more for your money; $20.00 gets you $20.00 on PSN. $20.00 gets you 1600 points in XBL. easier to think of too; I couldnt name off the top of my head the XBL point price for the MW2 maps. $15.00 in PSN money.


TBH, I think the only reason PS3 isn't insanely more popular than XB360 is because PS3 was reeeeealy expensive when it came out, mine was around 600 bucks. same memory on Xbox was like 300 bucks.

[Skullheadhq]

http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/remember_no_games.jpg

[pevergreen]

Didn't work mate.

[Prussian to the Iron]

http://static.funnyjunk.com/pictures/remember_no_games.jpg

oh he has a picture in there. yah didnt work.