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I admittedly have a pretty weird system progression
Nintendo -> Game Gear (lol) -> SNES -> PS -> Dreamcast -> ... -> PS2 -> (large time lapse) PSP -> -> PS3 -> PS4

kind of drops off and then I just keep buying Sony crap

I feel you: Master System > Game Boy > Genesis > ...... late-period PS1 > late-period PS2 > late-period PS3 & Vita (> late-period PS4 probably sometime in like 2020).

PSX -> N64 -> Dreamcast -> PS2 -> Gamecube -> Wii -> WiiU

Lots over overlaps between contemporary systems of course.

I'm still enjoying Battleborn. It suffers in comparison to the thematically-similar Overwatch in terms of gameplay and art design, of course, but there are plenty of good ideas and fun moments.

2600->colecovision->nes->snes->n64->dreamcast->xbox->360

I was in grad school, getting married, having kids in the ps/ps2 years, kinda was in a cave

we all have our video game dark times in life

trs80 -> 2600 -> intellivision -> nes -> snes -> ps1 -> ps2 -> dreamcast -> gba -> PC ->gamecube -> ps3 -> wii -> xbox -> psp -> android -> iphone -> ipad -> ouya -> mac -> ps4 -> vita

nes + pc (90s - early 00s) -> nothing -> ps2 -> 360 -> nothing ( -> maybe ps4 in future?)

i think i missed a few on mine tbh

All I remember about my first console was that it played Buck Rogers and I think it had a keyboard. It might have been the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, or maybe the VIC-20?

After that:
NES > Gameboy > SNES ... ... ... > PS2 > XBOX360 > PS3 > PS4

can't remember if the 360 or the nds was first, whichever was first marks the first one i bought "as a professional."

2600 - game boy - snes - ps1 - gba - ps2 - (nds/360?) - psp - vita - ps3 - ps4

always been mostly a pc gamer and consolewise was a nintendo loyalist until buying a used ps2 in college, so my progression is lame:

nes - snes - n64 - wii - ps2 - ps3 (mostly as a blu-ray player)

i think it's way more important to have a used ps2 in college than it is to have a laptop

Ingersoll XK-410C >
Dragon 32 >
Acorn Archimedes >
PC only from about 1991 to 1997 >
N64 >
(shared a house with a PSX owner so never bought one) >
Dreamcast >
Gamecube >
(shared a house with a PS2 owner so never bought one) >
(swung back towards PC for a couple of years) >
Xbox 360 >
PS3 >
Wii U >
Ouya lol >
PS4

Handhelds um I've had one of everything Nintendo have made since the Gameboy Colour but I'm not sure where the purchases slot into that timeline. Plus a Vita. Oh and I paid £10 for a virtual boy in 1999.

Shit, I don't know how I left 2600 > Commodore 64 off the beginning of my timeline. Essential, those.

(I know it isn't a console but I probably played more C64 games than I did on all of my previous gen consoles combined.)

Did no one else have a Master System? We still have that thing hooked up at my grandma's house (along with the 2600 iirc).

I think mine is something like
BBC micro
Acorn Electron
Atari ST
SNES x2
N64
PS1
Dreamcast
PS2
Wii
360
Also a bunch of desktop and laptop PCs over the years.

Oh yeah and a Gamecube in there somewhere too!

I've never touched a Microsoft console, and aside from minimal time spent with a friend's SNES and playing some Just Dance on my sister's Wii, I've had hardly any Nintendo interaction since the NES/Game Boy days.

Oh yeah I was taking the PC as read (do we take the PC as read here)? PC from about the time of the PS2, Mobile from about the time of the Wii. Also a Mac before that (lol, except for Marathon and its sequel)

this is reminding me that sometime soon i need to kick off the 4th gen ILX poll

Then our work is done.

I picked up Cities: Skylines via Steam's current sale and am pretty into it so far.

C64 > ZX Speccy > Amiga > Megadrive > PC > Saturn > PS1 > Dreamcast > PS2 > Xbox > PS3 > Xbox360 > PC

Found a sci-fi pointy clickie thing on Dosbox called "Frederik Pohl's Gateway", and really enjoying it.

Wander around a space station, chat with people at the bar, go on artifact hunting missions in the day. My kind of pace.

Picked up MGS phantom pain second hand. Enjoyed the opening movie, have now remembered how useless I am at stealth games. Fun though!

Am about to embark on a Kingdom of Loathing adventure, anyone else know of this rather quirky thing?

yes, lots of fun. i did a bunch of ascensions a few years ago (including a bad moon one) and then got bored but played for a while

Xcom: Enemy Unknown on Vita. Yikes. Looks like another timesuck.

still playing Overwatch. at least its open-ended and stops me from buying other games.

Fired up the ps2 last night, and this morning.

San Andreas. Still amazing

2600 - ti-99 - Apple II clone - PC - NES - gameboy(barely) - Genesis - Ps1(both my brothers) - n64 - ps2 - GameCube - sold both to move to Portland - Nintendo DSlite - ps2 again - PSP - PS3 - 3ds XL - dsi XL.

But mainly PC for 30-odd years, occasionally with years-long inadequate equipment

I really want to get hold of Prison Architect at some point, it's had some nice updates over the months.

Love the way the workers build everything and move all the boxes around, putting things in storage when you don't need them.

has anyone played RimWorld? considering giving it a go.

left a bad taste in my mouth tbh

developers deserve a tongue lashing for going with that title

gross.

i'm about 2 hours in. so far it's fun! there's a bit of a learning curve at the beginning, just trying to figure out how to do basic things and how to assign tasks to certain people, but not too bad. i think i was extremely unlucky with one of my starting 3 people, whose skills/traits are randomized. one of my people hates doing pretty much anything except killing things, so he tends to just idle around and vomit all over the place (he's sickly by nature i think) while the other 2 busily construct buildings and tend to the garden.

gah, it's very addicting. it's been described as a kind of modernized, user-friendly version of dwarf fortress, but i only briefly dabbled in dwarf fortress so i can't say how accurate it is. regardless, it is very difficult to stop once you're settlement is up and running.

been brushing up on some new-to-me snes titles for the poll. UN Squadron, Space Megaforce, Super Turrican, Hagane... all fun

UN Squadron is going to be super high on my list. LOVE that game.

dwarf fortress + usability = you just sold me a copy of that, also

you might want to check out a youtube of it first, just to make sure. there are definitely aspects of it that weren't exactly intuitive*, but still, seems a lot easier to work with than dwarf fortress. i've been able to answer all of my questions within a minute or so by just alt-tabbing over to google and searching

if you (or anyone else) does start up a game, i'd recommend re-rolling for characters until you get a good mix (one for farming, one for building, one for mining is a good combo) and avoid characters that have terrible game-altering traits.

2 of my 3 characters (i just went with the initial 3 that were randomly generated for me) have zero social skills, which initially made for a very quiet, joyless squad, but then became amusing when the two anti-social people fell in love and decided to sleep with each other all the time, avoiding everyone else. one of my guys has some sort of "hates dumb labor" trait, which is really annoying because he refuses to help haul things around (which is crucial).

the two anti-social people fell in love and decided to sleep with each other all the time, avoiding everyone else

hahahahahaha this is great. i'll probably avoid this in my first play but this sounds like awesome shit for subsequent games?

yeah, i guess the counter-point is just that crazy situations and dying in unique catastrophic ways is all part of what makes the game fun, so it could make sense to just start with what's generated for you.

even if you start with a solid team, there's a good chance that fairly soon the game will introduce some chaos, so it probably doesn't matter much either way

one of my guys has some sort of "hates dumb labor" trait, which is really annoying because he refuses to help haul things around (which is crucial).

give him some sort of "starving" trait

Am about to embark on a Kingdom of Loathing adventure, anyone else know of this rather quirky thing?

― Drop soap, not bombs (Ste), Monday, July 11, 2016 1:13 AM (2 weeks ago)

This still exists??? I was deep in KoL for a few years, but probably approaching a decade ago...

Also I have been throwing a hissy fit for a week or so b/c I desperately want to play Inside but it's not available for mac yet.