early 80's and 90's games. post your toughest arcade games

[foxytaur (imported)]

NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you opened a can of worms, battletoads is super hard.

the stupid racing level with the speedboats.

Curse you cheetaking , curse you!!!!!!!!

But seriously that game is so hard it's even worse with a second player in on the action

[foxytaur (imported)]

it counts if its anything up to n64 as far as old school goes.

ps1 and fowards was when modern gaming started to kick in. at least thats what i felt

[gunnutz (imported)]

I keep looking for something to replace WOW but its still the best game out there today. With the add-on's Naga and Nostromo its a good game, without them I would not play.

River

As for replacing wow, if you like PVE try Guildwars 2, its a visually stunning game with a wonderful system for questing gathering and leveling, when I played I did not even notice I was leveling. I was just exploring a beutiful world killing a few things, chopping down some trees, mining some ore, picking some vegetables and BAM another level gained,

Also platforming, oh hmm how do I get up on that rock, spend 15 minuted figuring it out because I'm to stubborn to look it up.

If you are a PVPer I don't know, the reason I stopped playing guildwars was the unimpressive PVP.

[foxytaur (imported)]

my next door neighbor mentioned guildwars 2 to me.

He says he enjoys it even more than WOW.

I do wonder is WOW starting to loose ground?

[Riverwind (imported)]

My son also told me to try guildwars which I just might do.

As for wow, it was loosing ground and does with each new release of a new game, then after a few months it seems to get the people back. with the newest release the Mists of Pandaria the one realm I play on is so full some days its a wait time just to get in the game. So like any gamer I started a new toon on a different less crowded realm.

To answer your question, wow does not have 11 million players world wide like it did a few years ago, it still has about 4 to 5 million players world wide which is still more then most.

River

[BossTamsin (imported)]

I know quite a number of people who have actually dropped WOW altogether over one of their new 'features', which was introduced just before Pandaria hit. 'Cross-Realm Zones'. If you play the game you've probably seen a lot of people around from different servers. Most of them are there as a result of CRZ. Essentialy they took 5-10 instances of, say, Felwood, from different servers and smooshed them all together onto one big server. So, you're now questing with the populations of 5-10 different servers at any one point in time. And if they act up, you can't /ignore them, you can't report them, you're SOL. In some cases, they're even merging PVP with PVE with RP. There have been at least a dozen threads about it on their message boards, potentially well over 20,000 posts in total, complaining about it.

If that doesn't say 'we need to cut back as we're losing money', nothing does.

[Eunuchorn (imported)]

I play WOW, Diablo III, StarCraft II, and would have played the old republic if the people who serviced the game had there head out so I own the game and have and will never play it. Diablo III was just like II - hack and slash and once you have won the first level it repeats, boring. StarCraft II has a great story line but to finish it I guess were going to need to wait another 3 or 4 years for the second install then 5 more for the final, I guess I am over it. I keep looking for something to replace WOW but its still the best game out there today. With the add-on's Naga and Nostromo its a good game, without them I would not play.

River

I have Starcraft 2, and the last windows game I will probably buy from a store is Portal 2. the rise of the MMO has reached out and captured me too, though I understand that what I am playing is a "Freemium" style of game. free to log in and play, but the really good items cost you real money. The game is World of Tanks.

[foxytaur (imported)]

I wish I had my old PC up and running. I played a lot of never winter nights both 1 and 2.

[foxytaur (imported)]

though before I got into MMRPG's and RPG's alike I had a bit of a shooter phase.

Use to play Call of duty series and battlefield shooters like crazy. But.....got tired of all the damn camper's.

I don't condone people who camp.It's just it's very boring to play on servers and ruins the fun element when they do shit like that.

That and both series by my humble view have already been milked dry.

I do expect not many of you will agree with me on this but yeah, shooter's kinda bore me now.

Though was wondering, any of you guyswatched the battlefield friend's web videos

pretty darn hilarious

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJgqc9h2jV ... Jgqc9h2jV4

[foxytaur (imported)]

though getting back to old classics. Do any of you guys especially the older gen folk play DOS games?

There was roger Wilco and police quest 5 and amiga games when I was just barely 5. My pops had an old amiga desktop and belive it or not some of the games weren't actually that bad.Also from the looks of it and the era in which the amiga computer system really took off. (name 1984-91)

What happened?......

Honestly it was a system ahead of it's time, what led to it's demise. Maybe this is more your field River?