How YOU doin'?

Evening all,

Thought I'f pop in and say hello and see if I could be an Ally since most of you are on my friends list anyway

Firstly, good luck with the site and I like the look, kind of Bioshock Infinite-like.

So....intro.....Well I'm 42 and have been playing consoles since about 1980 I think. It all started with the Atari VCS which was like having an arcade. IN YOUR HOUSE!!! That's what it felt like anyway. Loved Missile Command, Adventure, Defender and, bizarrely, Chess. Wasn't so keen on E.T. Upgraded to a TI-99/4A which added the pleasure of a keyboard and the truly horrible TI BASIC. It did, however, also boast Parsec a really awesome side scrolling shoot 'em up.

It was a Commodore 64 after that (Impossible Mission, Bruce Lee, International Karate, Boulderdash) and then a first - I actually spent my own money on buying an Amiga 500 - a seminal machine which I spent lots of time and money on over the years upgrading to "proper" monitor, second floppy drive, external hard drive, printer and even a whopping 3MB of RAM. Oh yes, it was pretty well a super computer! It played games too, especially Elite, Cannon Fodder, SWOS, Lemmings and frankly far too many others.

I had a SNES after that but to be honest the mid-90s seemed to be a bit crap for videogames since it was all side scrolling bloody beat 'em ups which I hated. However all that was forgotten about when I visited a friend and saw a shiny Playstation under his telly. 3 hours of "Worms" later and I was seriously back into my gaming, much to the disgust of my then girlfriend (now wife). If only she'd known then....

The Playstation was incredible. Games like Tomb Raider, Gran Turismo, and the amazing Tony Hawks Skateboarding meant I was fully back into the gaming groove. A Playstion 2 inevitably followed and the great games continued: Timesplitters, GTA, Ico. But as I had grown older it had become increasingly difficult to pay with your mates.

Reading an article about the upcoming online capabilities of the PS2 seemed very exciting. Eventually I got hooked up with a network adaptor and copy of Hardware: Online Arenas and I realised this was the way to play. It was amazing. my wife was even more disgusted and rather embarrassed. Again: If only she'd known then...

So, 8 years and who knows how many hours online later here I am! As most if not all of you know I am a member of OAP and heard about this site because nearly all of you are on my friends list! In fact the really lucky ones amongst you have even met me in real life.

I'm currently playing mostly BF3, and Mass Effect 2 and I'm really looking forward to the release of Borderlands 2.

OK, I'm going to stop now as I've just realised how much crap I've just typed. Catch you online soon people!

Boba.

 

Hi peeps and thanks for the welcome.

Ruth has long since accepted the gaming and while she'll never really "get" console gaming she doesn't mind at all. She even knows now you're all normal. Errr....some of you are fairly normal.

Sorry but I'm not looking at anything on the internet about either game until I've played them so as not to spoil any storylines. Did you have multiple saves? (i.e. if you lost your final save did you have one from a couple of hours before the end).

Oh and after having read all the intros after posting mine I'd better say Hi to Halo:

 

I play at fairly random times for fairly random amounts of time so it's quite difficult to get to specific events or whatever at the moment. Things will get a bit more steady later on in the year I imagine, so I'll just try to keep my eye in in the meantime.

Actually I think that was the same day! Ruth and Hope went off home slightly earlier and you two dropped me off on your way home. Is that right? Although I also think I've met both of you more than once in RL. Damn brain! Work!

 

Hi Roger

Yes I've had a funny old time on BF3. Got it at launch and played lots. Then didn't play many games at all for quite a while. Then broke my ankle so was playing loads, but mostly offline games (LA Noire and Skyrim). Now recently got back into BF3 so should be able to catch up with some old friends and make some new ones too since BF3 still seems to be the most popular online game around.

Tried to join the OAP server yesterday but I think it had a Close Quarters map on and I don't have that DLC.

 

I think you came on just as I was logging off (and no, these two things were not connected )

Nice one - I shall add it to my favourites.