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?
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!
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).
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.
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 😆
Omg Crystal Caves, haven’t heard that name in a long time! Jump Man was my jam.
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!
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) 😅.
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.
I think I’m just slightly older than you. I was in my late teens and flatting in Ak when I was renting consoles with flatmates.
Then I got into computers after using my bf’s ones. When I got my own computer the only reason people knew to say “Pentium” was because Intel had been marketing it like crazy, the irony was my Athlon processor was way faster and better than the i586.
A “console without a console” sounds like the way to go! I bet your kids love that! We have an old xbox someone gave us, which is quite good because I only have $ and space for a laptop. If I ever won lotto I’d get a pc.