Coalition of Healthy Geeks and Gamers Thread
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i love mmorpgs....tried wow out but wasnt cute enough then i found maple story....im an archer ^_^ and i have a pet panda called spooky....yes....im lame, but its too cute0
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Just about all of the above at one time or another.0
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I treat myself like my mom treated me as a teenager. For every 30 min I spend working out is 1 hour I can play. Every 30 min I spend writing in my books is 1 hour I can play.
I no longer have school to worry about but I am an author.
Work is a work out as I'm waiting tables and it's all hours on my feet.0 -
Ooo ooo experience for me too! I'm mostly on the PS2, PS3, DS, and a little Wii. Definitely RPGs. I'm not really into MMOs, tried WoW but I guess I'm not willing to eternally pay for a game... Right now I'm playing Dragon Age: Awakening on PS3, Grandia II on PS2, and DQXIV on DS. I'm trying to use gaming as a reward for being good.
If I get all of my workouts in this week, I get some multiplayer Borderlands with the hubby. Once I hit the 5 pound mini-goal, some DLC will be in order.
I'm probably the biggest geek I know, so I'm glad there are more of us on here!0 -
I treat myself like my mom treated me as a teenager. For every 30 min I spend working out is 1 hour I can play. Every 30 min I spend writing in my books is 1 hour I can play.
I no longer have school to worry about but I am an author.
Work is a work out as I'm waiting tables and it's all hours on my feet.
Wow youre an author :O amazing What you desribed sounds like a great idea Ill try this one out! 0 -
So, I've found one other gamer on these boards and I'm wondering if there are any others out there. The same goes for total geeks. I'm looking for freaks like me.
Table RPGs
Text-based
PC
PS
X-Box *bleh*
RPG
FPS
MMO
Wii *cringes slightly*
You name your favorite escape hatch. Non-gamers are welcome too! And the just plain geeky and weird!
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Yay! What a great topic! I especially love seeing so many ladies here- so rare to find them in-game!
For me, well, I have a few. PC (love the Sims and basic strategy games like Risk II), Xbox (particularly COD MW 1 & 2, Fable (1 & 2), Alan Wake, GTA), PS3 (Assassin's Creed, Heavy Rain (which is probably my favorite game of all time)), and the Wii (basically, the Wii Fit!! LOL). I also play online games- a cat breeding game (which is sort of my guilty pleasure, lol), and other strategy games (Diplomacy, Risk).
I think it is hilarious when I play GTA and have my character set up as a girl. Eeeeeeeeeverybody picks me up! It cracks me up!
My husband is actually much more of a gamer than I am, but he really got me into it. Imagine his surprise when he came home from work one day a few years ago and I was sitting there intensely playing COD MW! I don't think he's ever loved me more than that moment, LOL
For those of you that have multiple consoles (and the Wii Fit)- you know how on the Wii you can set up the basic step and do it while doing something else (like watching tv)? Well, I set that up once and did it while playing multi-player (domination, my fave) COD MW2. It was pretty interesting, to say the least!!0 -
heh, big gamer here.
Also big geek.
Lets see, Degree in Info Systems, 15 years of being a geek.
my career goes as follows:
help desk 2 years
jr sys admin 3 years
SQL admin (officially about 6 years, but overall about 11 years)
Owned my own business computer support business for 5 years
network engineer 4 years
systems consultant 3 years
Manager of an enterprise Application network 3 years and counting
As to gaming. Well, pretty much any RPG or RTS MMO going that's any good.
Really loved City of Heroes and City of Villains (but got bored after about 4 years)
Played WoW for a while, got pretty good at it.
Love and still play Eve Online
But my true game love (always was, and still is) is the Starcraft series, I was absolutely addicted to SC I and am now playing SC II, so far so good.0 -
I mainly just play Perfect World, my mom got me into it she's a big gamer, I used to play D&D till school started but stopped because all the ppl i played with were out of school and we played at 7 in the morning so sadly thats gone
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Just a thought...
MFP should institute Achievements.
Lol, excellent idea.
Gamer here. Play them all. Console, PC and my tabletop experience involves Magic the Gathering.
Ever since my 3 month experience with WoW, where I started avoiding my friends just so I can stay home and play, I've avoided MMOs like the plague.
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I definitely am not a gamer mostly because I am ridiculously uncoordinated and someone usually snipes me before I can even aim...nonetheless...I fall into the geek realm. Has anyone tried the Serenity RPG? It is simply awesome.0
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Yay! What a great topic! I especially love seeing so many ladies here- so rare to find them in-game!
Oh, it seems like I run into a lot of other "women" in online games-- I just never trust that they're actually other women and not men who decided to run around as a female character in skimpy armor. =p0 -
Yay! What a great topic! I especially love seeing so many ladies here- so rare to find them in-game!
Oh, it seems like I run into a lot of other "women" in online games-- I just never trust that they're actually other women and not men who decided to run around as a female character in skimpy armor. =p
LOLOLOLOL ... too funny! Most of my games you don't have the choice to be a woman (like COD) and some of the ones you do I generally don't play online (like Fable), but I've definitely have come across that question in GTA when there is another "woman" in the game. If they talk, you know, but if they don't, it is pretty questionable! When I'm on the other games like COD, I never hear women talking (only pre-pubescent boys that sound like girls!), but then again, I don't really talk much either so I can't really say too much about that.
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Big gamer here, I play PC a lot (The Sims 3 mainly)
But,......
I have:
Super Nintendo
Nintendo DS
N64
Xbox 360
PS2
PS3
Just curiously, since you said geeks and gamers thread, anyone watch TBBT? (The Big Bang Theory) I LOVE that show!
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I've heard of TBBT but never watched it. My television experience is pretty limited.0
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I used to play WoW (i'm wearing a horde shirt in my display pic) a lot but got kind of bored with it and spending my money. Now my bf and i play LotR online and Dragonica. Woot, free games!
Besides the few games i'm just a huge geek, mostly for anything star wars. let's just say my bedroom doesn't look like that of an average 19 year old girls room. XD0 -
So this morning I stated I'm not a gamer, and I am still not, however I spent part of the evening at a game shack playing Modern Warfare and I can tell you the only other ladies in the joint were with me. I thought the whole concept of a game shack was super cool though...wish they had them when I was a teenager.0
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I love game-shacks! My sister and I keep saying we're going to start one around here.0
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So this morning I stated I'm not a gamer, and I am still not, however I spent part of the evening at a game shack playing Modern Warfare and I can tell you the only other ladies in the joint were with me. I thought the whole concept of a game shack was super cool though...wish they had them when I was a teenager.
By game shack, I assume you don't mean an arcade... We have something in town called a tech lounge, where basically they have a bunch of Wiis, PS3s, XBoxes, etc and you just hang out and play with people. Is that what you mean? I've never actually been there, but it sounds like it could be a lot of fun.0 -
Tech Lounge sounds so much better. Yes, this place had mostly gaming computers with several game choices. They also had a bunch of xbox systems but I didn't see anything else. It was called Howie's Game Shack and I think they only have them in Cali and AZ.
I had so much fun I'm thinking of going back later today to play. You should definitely check out your tech lounge. This was about $9 for 3 hours of play time.0 -
Hi another gamer here [and programmer]!
My PS3 is my pride and joy at the moment. I'm more of an RPG person but I'll try playing anything. The last game I successfully completed was GOW3. I Have a looooong list of games I want but I haven't been playing so much lately as I've been trying to learn how to program them. I'm the only girl game programmer in my computer science club
BTW I still love my original Xbox. Maybe one day I'll go for the 360 but for now all my money goes towards the PS30 -
I AM A MASSIVE GAMER HAHA.
only play world at war and MW2 on my ps3/xbox 360 though, i am totally addicted, especially to trash talking on the mic 0 -
Oh, I'm totally a gamer grrl and a geek, to boot!
My first addiction was PacMan, followed by Ms. PacMan. (Yes, I do mean the stand up machines in arcades and roller rinks.) I enjoy PnP games like AD&D, Gurps, and Vampire: the Masquerade, but I'm really a PC gamer at heart. From the first time I played Zork and then Leather Goddesses of Phobos, I was hooked. Then there was Mist, Diablo, StarCraft, Dungeon Keeper 2, Caesar IV, Indigo Prophecy, and EverQuest to name some faves. Currently I'm playing StarCraft 2, Sims 3, and some Dragon Age too. No console games, and no FPS- the first person perspective in those gives me motion sickness. =(
I *love* the games that keep me too busy to snack! It's so great that there are so many of us here.0 -
oooo i've seen no one mention counterstrike? and counterstrike source. Portal is one of my favourites, cant wait for portal 2.
ohh and for casual gaming, cant beat a bit of Plants vs. Zombies (one of the best games ever made) anything by popcap tends to be good anyway =]0 -
Oh, I'm totally a gamer grrl and a geek, to boot!
My first addiction was PacMan, followed by Ms. PacMan. (Yes, I do mean the stand up machines in arcades and roller rinks.) I enjoy PnP games like AD&D, Gurps, and Vampire: the Masquerade, but I'm really a PC gamer at heart. From the first time I played Zork and then Leather Goddesses of Phobos, I was hooked. Then there was Mist, Diablo, StarCraft, Dungeon Keeper 2, Caesar IV, Indigo Prophecy, and EverQuest to name some faves. Currently I'm playing StarCraft 2, Sims 3, and some Dragon Age too. No console games, and no FPS- the first person perspective in those gives me motion sickness. =(
I *love* the games that keep me too busy to snack! It's so great that there are so many of us here.
DK2 was awesome, so sad that they aren't putting out another one. Maybe someday someone will buy the franchise rights and make another one. Loved that game.0 -
I love that there are so many of us on here!
So, latest Metroid game-- anyone else feeling bothered that they made Samus seem more sensitive? She is supposed to be a badass!0 -
I have created a MONSTER!
*Laughs Wickedly*
Oh don't look so surprised.
You always knew bunnies were evil.
I haven't played Metroid but I'm always annoyed when they make characters more sensitive (See FFVII AC vs FFVII the Original).0 -
I watched an interview about metroid recently. They saw her as being sensitive since super NES. Apparently, they were just working on closing up the long term story. The interview with one of the game designers suggested that you had to master certain combination to get through the game and there were no other ways around certain obstacles. I don't like feeling like I am pigeon holed in any game. If you go to the Wii Nintendo channel there are some interesting things on there. Especially on Nintendo week.0
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I've been debating if I want to give the latest Metroid a try. I played the last one and enjoyed it, but it will probably be one of those where I wait for the price drop. Never pictured Samus as the sensitive type though... Whenever they decide to make a someone sensitive it usually ruins the entire character for me because it's so over the top. *See Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World ... Really??*0
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I play mostly xbox, followed by PC and wii, then we still have our PS2 and an FC3 (if we can find the cord for it!!)
Once we find/get the FC3 cord I'm going to replay Mario RPG, Nemo's Dreamland, and Beavis & Butthead. buahahaha
I'm in the middle of two playthroughs for Dragon Age: Origins (canNOT wait until March!) as well as FFXIII and the original Final Fantasy (downloaded on Wii). I also love to play some Harvest Moon when the mood strikes!
There are just so many games... Except for fighting games! I have anger issues and an attachment for my controllers (and TV) that don't allow me to play them. So, if you friend me on Xbox, you'll see all these Street Fighter achievements - yeah, they're my husbands! He's a pro at those games.
I love tabletop games eventhough I never get to play them!
I've started working on costumes for Cosplay, but I've never done LARP or anything like that.0 -
DK2 was awesome, so sad that they aren't putting out another one. Maybe someday someone will buy the franchise rights and make another one. Loved that game.
That was truly one of the most fun games I've ever played. I was very sad when they canceled DK3. I tried Overlord, and it was fun, but not as much fun... I wonder if anything will ever come of the rumours of a DK MMO. I might even get sucked back into an MMO if that were true. 0
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