Games Consols..... Too old?

[Guest]

Fallout 3 and 4 and all add ons, any WW2 first person shooter and road racing.

[Mr Bowcat]

+1 for the Fallout franchise, just finished my 3rd run through of F4 with all the DLC's.

I've now started Red Dead Redemption 2, so thats the next few months sorted out.

[Guest]

Never too old! I’m 72 and still fly sims on my iPad Pro.

I used to play World of Warcraft until about 3–4 years ago, and one of the other players in the guild I was in, was the same age as my mother. So yes, you’re never too old to play video games.

[Guest]

I've now started Red Dead Redemption 2, so thats the next few months sorted out.

+1

[Guest]

Ha. At 70 I was playing against my eldest Grandson. GTA, loved it, driving a big rig along the high way knocking cars out of the way. Or holed up in garage blasting at the Police.
Still have all the kit, but gathering dust as he's moved a way.:crying: We had some great times together, this thread has brought back some great memories.
John.

[Gauge1TrainsDK]

I've played games since I was a little kid, but as I remember the time I stopped was around when I got my employment just before finishing uni. I havn't been bored with my work since, but I still find games interesting - just not able to compete with my work, which is very time consuming by choice, and models (trains and kits).

Started with an old Atari 2600, which I had many, many hours of fun with, and did not care if it was new. It was entertaining! Space Invaders, Combat, Missile Command, Ms. Pacman.

Then moved on to Commodore 64 which I got for christmas one year, and I played for days on end: Batman, Midnight Resistance, Donald Duck's Playground, Mega Apocalypse, Silkworm, International Karate, Borrowed Time, Golden Axe, E-Swat, etc., etc., etc.

Around age 14, I bought a pc, and a new world opened up: Warlords, Under A Killing Moon, MegaRace, Civilization II (I think this is the game I played the most during my life), Command & Conquer (got it for my birthday, it had just come out), HOMM 3, Fantasy General, Master of Orion 1 and 2, Carmageddon, Total Annihilation, Worms, Rogue Squadron, Incubation, Subculture, internet porn, etc., etc., etc.

Continued with PC, and played Civ II multiplayer WWII with my friend through many years, Battlefield 1942 (I still play that!), Rome: Total War (probably some of the best single and multiplayer fun I've had!), Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, Q3, Theme Park, Raptor, Transport Tycoon, internet porn, etc., etc., etc.

Bought an Xbox at some point, and played that some. Fifa and Forza Motorsport multiplayer with beer and lots of laughs. Simple! Dead or Alive 4. Great graphics and body physics engine :-)

My C64 broke, but in the last few years, I've bought an Atari 2600, Amiga 500 (Pinball Dreams!!! Golden Axe some), Sega Master System v2, Spectrum 128k disc, Spectrum 128k tape, and Sega Saturn. So, I too was bitten by the retro goat.

Nowadays, I still play occasionally. Completed Return to Castle Wolfenstein until the end boss, at which point the GOG-release crashes during the fight, and I can't be bothered. Civilization IV, but it's not the same as II. Carmageddon: Max Damage! Internet porn, maybe. Medieval 2: Total War. Panzer General and Order of Battle with an old friend.

It's been an incredible and fun ride! Not sure how much I will do it in the future, but the memories will still make me feel good.

It was FUN!

[Guest]

...Battlefield 1942 (I still play that!)...

Good man!!
Did you play Desert Combat (I think it was called)...a mod from BF 1942? Hours & hours of fun playing that. Back when it was all a bit easier :smiling:

I gave up a bit after 50. Battlefield 4 & a few COD variants. I just couldn't keep up with the teenagers any more and well sadly it just became...not fun any more! Also my PC needed an upgrade to play BF1 so I threw in the towel.
I do miss it sometimes, but then again I don't really apart from the camaraderie of being in a clan for 15 years!

[Gauge1TrainsDK]

Good man!!
Did you play Desert Combat (I think it was called)...a mod from BF 1942? Hours & hours of fun playing that. Back when it was all a bit easier :smiling:

I gave up a bit after 50. Battlefield 4 & a few COD variants. I just couldn't keep up with the teenagers any more and well sadly it just became...not fun any more! Also my PC needed an upgrade to play BF1 so I threw in the towel.
I do miss it sometimes, but then again I don't really apart from the camaraderie of being in a clan for 15 years!

I have not tried Desert Combat. I also do find online play to be a bit discouraging sometimes, but not with BF 1942, even though lots of people will continually wipe my ass with my entrails. I was never in a clan, because I could not find the time for that as such. I needed it to be unobligatory, also.

[spanner570]

I'm still trying to finish PS4 Ghost Recon - Wildlands which my son bought me for my birthday earlier this year.
Like some others on here me, along with my then very young sons. were in at the start of it all too. I well remember my wife laboriously typing out a whole A4 page of computer nonsense from a magazine only to have a black silhouette of a tank march across the T.V. screen...end of programme! Wonderful stuff at the time though.

I still enjoy playing games ( Too old-Grow up? why?)

Here's me still playing big boys games with my Airsoft Assault Rifle.... My two sons bought me the sweat shirt for my 60th. That's 10 years ago. I still go and have a blast now and then, but now I have to let the enemy come to me rather than chase around the woods as I used to. I wait until I see the whites of their eyes. You can't intentionally shoot at faces, so I aim for their bo****ks.....:tears-of-joy: This also gives me a chance to grab a drink of Ovaltine from my flask...:hungry:

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.....so, as long as you are able, do what you can whilst you can. Who cares what others think or say, it's your life and it's not a rehearsal either!

Cheers.
Oliver Hardy

[Ian M]

Another senior delinquent her. Love my relaxing at the pc. Rather annoyed that Windows 10 no longer supports all the controllers I have. Driving an articulated lory or a tractor with a keyboard is not the same.
Used to play a lot of Battlefield, ghost recon but they to are to old to run on my PC. i might buy one of the new shoot em up games but have better things to use my pocket money on these days....

[Guest]

You can try installing an older version of the OS in a virtual machine to run things that no longer work under your current one. Results aren’t guaranteed, but it might just work, depending on the machine or OS the older games need (and how powerful your current computer is).

[Ian M]

I have thought of that Jakko, Something about make a partition on the hard disk and have a duel boot system If I am not mistaken....?
The computer is more that powerful enough for even newer games to run with everything set to high! I might see if I can still find my win8 disc and have a go.
What could possibly go wrong. LOL

[Guest]

Not quite: a virtual machine is a program that pretends to be a computer, so that you can install other operating systems “inside” of that. Basically, you tell the program how powerful a computer the virtual machine should be (how many processor cores it can use, how much memory it has, how big a hard drive, etc.) and then you take your operating system installation disk (or ISO) and install it onto that virtual machine. After that, you start up the virtual machine and you get a window on your desktop with another desktop on it.

In short, you’ll have a second computer running on your actual computer. What’s more, you can have as many as you want — for example, if you have a game that needs Windows 95 but nothing later, just make a Windows 95 VM for it, while if another game needs Windows 7, make a second VM with that. If you need a program that only works under Linux but you run Windows on your PC, make a VM with some Linux version in it; and so on. This saves you the bother of having to shut down and restart the real computer to change operating systems.

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For example, that’s macOS 10.14 under which I’m running Windows 3.0 (the small window at top left) and Windows XP (the big one with the Teletubbies landscape).

Cheapest way to try: https://www.virtualbox.org — not as polished as some of the alternatives (VMWare and Parallels) but those aren’t free-as-in-beer

[Ian M]

Cheers Jakko, I will have a look into that.

[Mickc1440]

I have PS4 and still play regularly, keeps the hand eye coordination up to speed, these youngsters aren’t all that