Subscribe RSS FeedAs a youngster I would spend hours and hours playing games. It got to the point where members of my family got so worried that, they started whispering behind my back words like addict and intervention. To be very fair to them, at points I did play so much of games. I’m talking pretty much 18 hours every day if there was an awesome new release.
I was never worried about the quantity of time that I spent playing games. After all I had it totally under control and could quit at any time or so I believed. Back in the glory days of personal computer games I played almost everything I could get my hands on. All genres of games were loved practically equally apart from time strategy games, which did and still do have a special location in my heart.
The game modifying game for me was Dune 2. Oh my god what a game! It blew my mind they way Starcraft 2 Protoss Build Order should blow teenagers minds now. I was given the game and initially was not pleased mainly because in the time I was much more into 1st individual shooter games like Doom and Duke Nukem. When I grudgingly gave Dune two a go, I did not back.
I couldn’t get adequate. I had to continually developing larger and better based with even more turrets. My favourite was to map out the angle of attack from the laptop and create two rows of turrets and rocket turrets on, which blew the hell out of almost everything that the enemy could throw at me. The AI of games like Starcraft 2 now prevent this from happening, creating games superior overall, but I do miss the satisfaction of building impassable turret walls and watching just about every enemy tank being blown to pieces, whilst I banked additional and more spice.
I do miss the very good old days of being have the ability to hole up in a space and play a top quality game back to back, until it has been completed in every feasible way. As soon as I completed Dune two i went back for the start off and completed it with the red family members and also the green family. I just had to acquire my hands on their particular and distinctive weapons.
Going back for the addiction problem. As I mentioned I was sure that I didn’t have a problem and that I was just a social gamer. This small bit of self illusion was shattered when my parents angrily, barged in to my space 1 Sunday night. It turns out I hadn’t reported for my weekend end job. I honestly believed it was still Friday night. Needless to say a period of game cold turkey followed.
*UPDATE*
Immediately after writing this original post, out of curiosity, I picked up a second hand copy of Startcraft 2. I used the famous Protoss Build Order and kicked some serious ass. Large mistake, I literally lost a whole week of my life. I popped it into the computer system on a rainy Thursday night and boom the next factor I remember is waking up on Wednesday in smelly clothes and having loads of angry messages on my blackberry wanting to know why I hadn’t submitted my travel write-up.
