Ahh, this thread is right up my alley. I've played almost every major videogame ever released. I started in 1989 at the age of four with the Atari and Colecovision, then I moved up to the NES, and then the Sega Genesis and SNES, and so on. To date, I have owned every major console and handheld that has EVER been released in North America (except for the PS3, that's the only one I haven't had yet) and since 1997 I have always had a custom-built gaming rig. Suffice it to say, gaming has been a very big part of my life.
Right now I'm not playing much. Spring is here and I'd rather be outside during the day. Over the next few weeks I'm gonna get the garage cleaned up and the pool table leveled so I can start the parties again.
However, on PC, in the evenings I've been playing small three and four-player Unreal Tournament (the original from 1999) deathmatches on-line with friends. I run my own UT DM server at home, if you're interested in that and you play UT you can check it out at
http://fraghouse.sinedeviance.co.cc/ and join us sometime. Besides UT, I've been playing some Open Arena bot match off-line, to keep up my Quake skill. Open Area is an open-source clone of Quake 3 Arena / Team Arena built on the ioQuake3 engine (this is the Q3A engine that id Software open-sourced years back, it's the same engine Urban Terror and many other open-source games are built on.) And last but not least, OpenTTD on the side when bored. OpenTTD is a wonderful open-source re-write of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe engine, and it adds a shit-ton of new features and optimizations. Like Open Arena and Urban Terror, it is also free and available for any operating system. Nowadays there are also open-source graphic and sound packs so you don't even need the original TTD data files to play it. And whenever those get boring, I have ePSXe (Playstation emulator) and ZSNES (SNES emulator) with a crapload of games in .ISO and ROM to fall back on.
On the Wii front ... seriously, who the hell still plays Wii anyways? The only reasons to own the system in the first place are the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil games (just like with the Gamecube before it
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On the X360, I've been dicking around with GTA IV. I don't have a Live Gold account so I play off-line. I've long-since finished the story mode but I found that sometimes it's fun to just drive around and run people over and play with the vehicle damage model. GTA IV has the most advanced and realistic aesthetic damage model I've ever seen. I can literally spend hours just ramming different cars into a brick wall at different angles just to see how they deform, and in fact, I have
Mass Effect II, Bioshock II, Assassin's Creed II and Final Fantasy XIII are all out now and I plan to play them at some point. Chances are I'll wait until Winter before I start with any of those. I never did get around to Borderlands, either.
