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John Wick said:
Spot on, it's a generational thing. Megadrive was like nothing ever seen and when the Playstation came out, mind blown. I've spent teenagers summers at a mates house watching a 1 player Tombrader, having a laugh, helping spot stuff in the game that have now become the good old days. We still went out but now and then it would end up an all day thing. Ps, me and the same mate loved watching Bottom.... Mr 55p, class way to spend a Friday night watching BBC2. Hope your Anxiety is as well as it can be mate
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With my mates? Highlights for me were entire days playing Sensi World of Soccer, popping outside for a kick about whilst waiting for the next season to load in.
Also watching my mate playing the first Resident Evil. When that first zombie turns around and looks at you! Aaaarrggghhhh!! Oh how we laughed when his limited knowledge of the controls totally left his panicking head. DEAD! 'Fancy a go?'.......'Errmmmm....no.'

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Nacho said:
It gives you experiences that you can't get anywhere else too. I was always fascinated by the stories of Ancient Greece as a kid and in Assassins Creed Odyssey I've got a faithful recreation of a huge chunk of Greece to explore.

If there's another way I can wander around Athens and Olympia in their prime in 422 BC, discuss philosophy with Sokrates and give advice to a young Plato I'd like to hear it.
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That doesn't sound like an intellectual pursuit. At all.
 
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Mr 55p said:
I'm 40. I suffer from extreme anxiety. Im at my most carefree and relaxed whilst on my X-Box. Does more for me than any medication.
I'm of a generation when we were younger we played on our Commadore 64's, then Amigas, then Megadrives, then Playstations. We have getting great enjoyment out of playing them. Rather like those supporting a football club. The passion from football is generated as a kid, and for a lot of those kids it carries on through to adult life. Whether its football or computer games, for those who have never been sucked into it from an early age I could fully understand them questioning the absurdity of fully grown adults still getting enjoyment from such 'childish' things.
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Ahh the Amiga man, what a machine that was!
 
Mr 55p said:
Championship Manager - waiting hours for the new season to load in - the excitement when it did - have I any quality youth players? - how well have my players improved?

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Speedball 2...now that was a game!
 
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This thread is bringing up memories from the good old days. I remember seeing football manager on the zx spectrum. Putting your name in the team was mind blowing. Then, when we weren't playing out, we would play matchday 2 on spectrum. Thinking chronologically here. Played golf on the mega drive after a sesh. Still havnt enjoyed a golf game more since. At university it was my mates SWOS which would entail loads of us and a good drink. Then fifa and a racing game I cant think the name of. Then wife and kids. I'm lucky if I even get any of my tv before 10 never mind gaming.
 
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Nacho said:
It'd be interesting to hear your verdict on it as someone who knows his stuff.
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Curiosity has led me to read up on it. Apparently, its accurate in terms of costumes, objects, buildings etc but takes some liberties in order to make the storyline work. Some of those are to do with the mythological elements so its not like they're historical fact. They are (obviously) long established stories though so I feel little bit uneasy about those changes. Still sounds like a great game though!

Edit- that's not to say that I'd allow historical inaccuracy to spoil my enjoyment of something.
 
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This was state of the art in my day Pong on some box that plugged into the TV <laugh>

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I studied computer science at Uni and we didn't even have a monitor, just a teletype machine with streams of paper printouts.
Those were the days - well maybe not.
 
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The Norton Cat said:
Curiosity has led me to read up on it. Apparently, its accurate in terms of costumes, objects, buildings etc but takes some liberties in order to make the storyline work. Some of those are to do with the mythological elements so its not like they're historical fact. They are (obviously) long established stories though so I feel little bit uneasy about those changes. Still sounds like a great game though!

Edit- that's not to say that I'd allow historical inaccuracy to spoil my enjoyment of something.
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Yeah that's about right, the storylines aren't necessarily accurate but they make sense in the context of the time and fit into the world created in a realistic way. It's more the recreation of the buildings, statues and cities that are authentic as you say and they are genuinely stunning.

I did wonder how you'd feel about it as a historian I'd be the same I reckon haha, still a great game regardless of the glorious vistas anyway.
 
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SAFCDRUM said:
This thread is bringing up memories from the good old days. I remember seeing football manager on the zx spectrum. Putting your name in the team was mind blowing. Then, when we weren't playing out, we would play matchday 2 on spectrum. Thinking chronologically here. Played golf on the mega drive after a sesh. Still havnt enjoyed a golf game more since. At university it was my mates SWOS which would entail loads of us and a good drink. Then fifa and a racing game I cant think the name of. Then wife and kids. I'm lucky if I even get any of my tv before 10 never mind gaming.
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There was a game on the Spectrum ‘Emily’s Hughes Football’, first game with diving keepers. Rocked my world that.

They never saved owt but looked like they tried.
 
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Nacho said:
Yeah that's about right, the storylines aren't necessarily accurate but they make sense in the context of the time and fit into the world created in a realistic way. It's more the recreation of the buildings, statues and cities that are authentic as you say and they are genuinely stunning.

I did wonder how you'd feel about it as a historian I'd be the same I reckon haha, still a great game regardless of the glorious vistas anyway.
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I try not to let things like that affect my enjoyment of stuff. A lot of the time there's probably stuff that I don't notice. Sometimes there's something that I find irritating but not often. It sounds like AC Odyssey is pretty good though, so I'll give it a try, when I get the chance.
 
The Norton Cat said:
I try not to let things like that affect my enjoyment of stuff. A lot of the time there's probably stuff that I don't notice in films and stuff. Sometimes there's something that I find irritating but not often. It sounds like AC Odyssey is pretty good though, so I'll give it a try, when I get the chance.
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