Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/3/2024
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 11/3/2024
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
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Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
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I don't play many games these days. I'll go weeks without playing any, but it's more a priority thing. I get 1, maybe 2 hours in the evening to myself. I often try to use another half hour at lunch as well.
With that time I can read, watch TV, play games, work on lemmy stuff, etc.
In the past year or so I've played through Ryse: Son of Rome to the end, and also played some small amounts of Oxygen Not Included, Morrowind, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrouds, but I didn't get too far in any of those ones. I tend to play everything on the easiest difficulty these days, so as to make more progress with my time.
I'd say I play less than 1 hour a week. Even 10 years ago that number was a lot higher, a couple of hours most days, but different priorities now 🙂
I loved Morrowind. Re tv when you're pressed for time some of those series of really short episodes are great. Eg Rose Matafeo's Star Struck.
I played one of the Elder Scrolls games (can't remember which, but I think not Morrowind) on a disk that I borrowed from a friend a couple of decades back. I didn't understand what I was supposed to do, so didn't play it much.
It wasn't until Skyrim had the Game of the year edition with all the DLC for $15 that I finally played it. I loved it and spent 100+ hours playing it (I know, amateur numbers).
I only recently tried Morrowind, which was only a few dollars so I thought I'd give it a go. I enjoyed what I played, having had a better casual intro to the series via Skyrim so I knew how things worked, but the problem is I didn't get a chance to play for a few weeks and now I have no idea what I was doing. No quest markers and now I can't be bothered spending the time to work it out, so now it's been months 😆
Having played Morrowind obsessively when it first came out, I downloaded it on Steam and ... geez it makes you work hard now that we're usef to quest journals and maps. Also you're in a potato world. But I still have amazing crystal clear memories of flying around netch farms at night and stuff. I think maybe it offloaded a lot of the image processing onto our brains or something!
I don't mind so much the maps and quest journals if I'm in the moment, but it's a problem when I suddenly need to save and quit, then don't pick it up again for weeks.
Oh in terms of graphics, I can remember how awesome games looks. Quake 2 was so detailed compared to the first. Need for Speed was basically photo realistic. Age of Empires had such detailed units and AoE2 was amazing!
Unfortunately I didn't play Half Life until a decade or so after it came out, but that was apparently revolutionary (and I still really enjoyed it even though it was a decade old).
Carmageddon is the one I remember thinking was amazing. The one with the humans not the zmbies. Also, Quake ha ha ha.
I never got into FPS though.
I don't think I ever played carmageddon, though I know of it.
Before those amazing graphics games came out I used to play shareware games like Commander Keen or Crystal Caves. Only the first episode of course 😆
Omg Crystal Caves, haven't heard that name in a long time! Jump Man was my jam.
Never heard of it! It was definitely the 90s before I knew anyone with a computer, and I'm pretty sure it was the 2000s before I knew anyone with a console 😆. I've personally never owned a console!
Late 80s I knew a couple of kids with Ataris, hence Jump Man. But it was the 90s before I got to really interact with any computers myself.
Late 90s we all used to rent consoles from Video stores though.
My first computer was a 686 built to my specs by a computer shop and to my frustration people kept dissing it for not being "a Pentium" ( the i586) 😅.
Haha wow, you ran with a very different crowd than I did! I didn't know many people who would know one type of computer from another.
I don't remember if our video store didn't have consoles, or my parents just never let us hire them. By the time I was an adult I was into computers and didn't really have an interest in consoles. Still don't! If I want to play a console game, I'll emulate it. Though we do have a suite of Xbox controllers and a PC plugged into the TV so we pretty much have a console without a console.