#4480421 - 06/28/19 04:37 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Pooch
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"Run up a hill... pah! I'm 57 years old, I don't run up hills!"
I'm 67 years old. If the only bathroom, around, is up there...I'm running up that friggin hill! Okay...back on subject.
"From our orbital vantage point, we observe an earth without borders, full of peace, beauty and magnificence, and we pray that humanity as a whole can imagine a borderless world as we see it, and strive to live as one in peace." Astronaut William C. McCool RIP, January 29, 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia
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#4480459 - 06/28/19 06:59 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: Crane Hunter]
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PanzerMeyer
Pro-Consul of Florida
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Pro-Consul of Florida
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I find myself trying to tap an invisible button to try to skip through a longwinded conversation, as it reminds me of being forced to endure a tedious game cutscene sequence. LOL! I still remember some people complaining about the 10-15 minute long conversations you could have with NPC's in Knights of the Old Republic.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4480464 - 06/28/19 07:17 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Coot
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Pilgrim
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These United States of America
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Boy I recognized #3 instantly but I can't think of exact examples of games that I've played where that is the case. Probably some sort of third person shooter game where simultaneously depressing the up and right arrow key gets my character moving faster than the default forward speed. Good one Panzer. I've used this before but: When you open your door and walk outside, you spin around once or twice to let the world load so your performance improves. When you imagine what kind of trade you would like to have in a fantasy rpg world. When you have a bizarre dream of Red Dead Redemption II, which you haven't played for a month, and in the dream you are griping because you can tell that Rockstar disabled ambient occlusion. When more often than not, after watching a movie, you have a sense or thought of, "Now what game can I play to satisfy the need to play out what I just saw". And if its a good day, you succeeded at being a fighter pilot, a knight, a monster slayer, a sub captain, a mafia gangster, a SWAT member, an adventurer, a builder of empires, a slayer of aliens, a post apocalyptic hero, a destroyer of Nazi occult weapons, an ancient Greek hero, a light saber wielding Jedi, a stealthy thief, an unexpected hero of Middle Earth, an augmented dsytopian antihero, a raider of tombs, an investigator of the supernatural, a WW2 commando and Batman!
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John 10:1-30 Romans 10:1-13
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#4480863 - 07/01/19 12:18 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Dart
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Measured in Llamathrusts
Lifer
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Alabaster, AL USA
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You go to the store with a TrackIR dot in the middle of your forehead.
(btw, you're really old if you laughed at that)
You look at a partly cloudy sky with similar looking small clouds and think "lazy cut and paste developers."
When someone talks about Mark Hamill and you think his work in Wing Commander 3 was the best of his resume.
You question the flight and damage model of the airplane you're in after a particularly bouncy landing (on a commercial flight).
You look at a current satellite map of any place in the Former Soviet Union and think "wow, that place sure has changed since WWII."
The opinions of this poster are largely based on facts and portray a possible version of the actual events. More dumb stuff at http://www.darts-page.comFrom Laser: "The forum is the place where combat (real time) flight simulator fans come to play turn based strategy combat."
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#4480932 - 07/01/19 08:10 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: Dart]
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DaBBQ
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Bug Stompe....Quisling
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You declare yourself an aviator but don't have any real life flight hours. When someone talks about Mark Hamill and you think his work in Wing Commander 3 was the best of his resume. When you see Thomas Wilson, you're not seeing Biff but Maniac. Any boardroom meeting is a day dream of an Ultima from FF7 smiting, just as long and as much as dull. When you twitch when going to the deep part of the pool without your survival knife, oxy tank and an acid pod.
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#4480933 - 07/01/19 08:41 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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Haggart
I Fought Diablo
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I Fought Diablo
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The Lone Star State
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..........You use headsets or forms of voice activated communication to communicate with a small and specialized team that always plays together like skilled assassins and usually wins
"everything lives by a law, a central balance sustains all"
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#4480934 - 07/01/19 08:44 PM
Re: You know you're a hardcore gamer when...
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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MigBuster
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You go to the store with a TrackIR dot in the middle of your forehead.
(btw, you're really old if you laughed at that)
I didn't laugh because my old and obsolete brain had totally forgotten that they used to come with a sheet of silver dots!
'Crashing and Burning since 1987'
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