Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • @DaveOPMA
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    23 months ago

    I played one of the Elder Scrolls games (can’t remember which, but I think not Morrowind) on a disk that I borrowed from a friend a couple of decades back. I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do, so didn’t play it much.

    It wasn’t until Skyrim had the Game of the year edition with all the DLC for $15 that I finally played it. I loved it and spent 100+ hours playing it (I know, amateur numbers).

    I only recently tried Morrowind, which was only a few dollars so I thought I’d give it a go. I enjoyed what I played, having had a better casual intro to the series via Skyrim so I knew how things worked, but the problem is I didn’t get a chance to play for a few weeks and now I have no idea what I was doing. No quest markers and now I can’t be bothered spending the time to work it out, so now it’s been months 😆

    • @liv
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      23 months ago

      Having played Morrowind obsessively when it first came out, I downloaded it on Steam and … geez it makes you work hard now that we’re usef to quest journals and maps. Also you’re in a potato world. But I still have amazing crystal clear memories of flying around netch farms at night and stuff. I think maybe it offloaded a lot of the image processing onto our brains or something!

      • @DaveOPMA
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        23 months ago

        I don’t mind so much the maps and quest journals if I’m in the moment, but it’s a problem when I suddenly need to save and quit, then don’t pick it up again for weeks.

        Oh in terms of graphics, I can remember how awesome games looks. Quake 2 was so detailed compared to the first. Need for Speed was basically photo realistic. Age of Empires had such detailed units and AoE2 was amazing!

        Unfortunately I didn’t play Half Life until a decade or so after it came out, but that was apparently revolutionary (and I still really enjoyed it even though it was a decade old).

        • @liv
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          23 months ago

          Carmageddon is the one I remember thinking was amazing. The one with the humans not the zmbies. Also, Quake ha ha ha.

          I never got into FPS though.

          • @DaveOPMA
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            23 months ago

            I don’t think I ever played carmageddon, though I know of it.

            Before those amazing graphics games came out I used to play shareware games like Commander Keen or Crystal Caves. Only the first episode of course 😆

            • @liv
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              23 months ago

              Omg Crystal Caves, haven’t heard that name in a long time! Jump Man was my jam.

              • @DaveOPMA
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                23 months ago

                Never heard of it! It was definitely the 90s before I knew anyone with a computer, and I’m pretty sure it was the 2000s before I knew anyone with a console 😆. I’ve personally never owned a console!

                • @liv
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                  23 months ago

                  Late 80s I knew a couple of kids with Ataris, hence Jump Man. But it was the 90s before I got to really interact with any computers myself.

                  Late 90s we all used to rent consoles from Video stores though.

                  My first computer was a 686 built to my specs by a computer shop and to my frustration people kept dissing it for not being “a Pentium” ( the i586) 😅.

                  • @DaveOPMA
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                    23 months ago

                    Haha wow, you ran with a very different crowd than I did! I didn’t know many people who would know one type of computer from another.

                    I don’t remember if our video store didn’t have consoles, or my parents just never let us hire them. By the time I was an adult I was into computers and didn’t really have an interest in consoles. Still don’t! If I want to play a console game, I’ll emulate it. Though we do have a suite of Xbox controllers and a PC plugged into the TV so we pretty much have a console without a console.