Hi, I'm Andrew. I'm a heavy metal musician and booze nerd. My primary focus in systems is on NES, SNES, and Game Boy. Also N64 and XBOX to a lesser extent, but I adapted poorly to the 3d era of gaming for the most part. I went to boarding school for my last two years of high school around when the N64 came out and I didn't have much time for gaming until after leaving college, at which point the entire landscape had passed me by. Now I pretty much wait to get game systems until they're replaced by a new generation.
Side scrolling platformers/ run-and-gun games are where I'm happiest. I like turning on a game and just playing, and not having to sit through an hour of cut-scenes and tutorials.
Welcome to the site, themeliorist. 3D may have passed you by, but based on your band, there's definitely a few 3D games I think you should check out, like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Alone in the Dark, and Eternal Darkness. You'd probably also be interested in adventure games like Darkseed and Shadow of the Comet.
Ack wrote:Welcome to the site, themeliorist. 3D may have passed you by, but based on your band, there's definitely a few 3D games I think you should check out, like Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Alone in the Dark, and Eternal Darkness. You'd probably also be interested in adventure games like Darkseed and Shadow of the Comet.
themeliorist wrote:I like turning on a game and just playing, and not having to sit through an hour of cut-scenes and tutorials.
Those were the days.
And install screens.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.