Are you a gamer or have a game system in your house?

I play quite a bit of games, although rarely the latest and greatest. PCs only, consoles are the devil.

I played a ton of Civ, Sim City, Harpoon, Pirates, and other great games in the '80s and 90's, sometimes semi-obsessively. I'm still convinced that getting games like Gunship and F19 to run on a C64 reflects skill at programming that has sadly been lost. Could you image how cool games would be now if they had the same density of information/fun that was packed into that 64kb of memory?

I've been playing a tactical WWII game called Combat Mission since 1999 (similar to Squad Leader for any old board gamers out there). I've been part of a gaming group for it since 2001 and have made many friends from across the globe through play-by-email games. We have also done campaign games where the strategy is managed like a board game (e.g. a Battle of the Bulge campaign), but the battles are decided by playing CM and then tracking the results.

Played a ton of flight sims over the years, with everything in the last 10 years being IL2. It's very easy to get into huge online dogfights which have had some amazing moments. Getting shot up and pursued low-level through factory smokestacks, running for home while your friends try to save you.

Played a lot of Mount & Blade, a medieval combat game. It has a good single player mode, and then online play as well.

Played a lot this year on a strategy game called Hearts of Iron 3. It is a WWII strategy game where you can control any country and do whatever you like. Mexico join the Axis and invade in 1942, sure! Try as Germany to build aircraft carriers while keeping the US out of the war by influencing the 1940 election (go Lindbergh).

Lately it has been the DayZ mod for the shooter Arma2. The engine is a bit clunky but the mod is excellent, if still in the early stages. Fight zombies and other players for loot, very spooky and tough decisions to help or hurt other humans. I very rarely play shooters online, since I suck at them. It is very frustrating to be killed at a distance by an enemy which may be only a single pixel on the screen, or may not be visible at all. So my online gaming is in flight sims or Mount & Blade where enemies have to be at least at a medium distance to get you. You'll still die to MG fire or an arrow in the face but at least you'll see it coming. In DayZ I can avoid other human players so the danger isn't too bad.

Source: http://www.cyburbia.org/forums/showthread.php?47125-Are-you-a-gamer-or-have-a-game-system-in-your-house

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