Glad to know I'm not the only one still playing a video game. At 58, I get blank stares when I talk of playing my golf game.
I dont have days of time to put in to gaming and I dont dare get online for anything interactive. Years ago I was addicted to Quake2 online play. Some of the best fun I have ever had with a game. The environments were customizable and people created their own very cool environments. As a host you could even tweak the power level of weapons. I hated rail-gunners because I could never get the hang of it and ran a little too much lag. Highly skilled rail-gunners would dominate and ruin the fun of battle. I would dial back the power of the rail gun for instance and increase the power of the simple machine gun. Watching the rail gunners snivel because they no longer dominated everyone was fun. Average players could actually enjoy the battle for a little while without getting snuffed immediately upon spawning.
I would find myself laughing out-loud at 3AM like a madman not even realizing how much whiskey I had drank...until I walked down the hall to finally go to bed! It was only moving away from high speed internet at the time that broke the addiction.
Now I play only one game, offline. Tiger Woods 2008. Been playing it for years and still love it. Just the straight-up game play. I've already beaten the entire game and there are no online activities for it but I still give myself one round an evening with a cocktail for "me time". I just love the graphics and the sort-of real nature of the game. I used to play actual golf and was addicted to that. I set the game up to where I can play a round in about 45 mins so it doesn't eat too much of my time. I've tried later versions of TW and other golf games and none of them compare to 2008 in my opinion.
My buddy gave me several other games, Call of Duty, Forza, etc. but they are just too hard for me and I'm not spending days upon days of failure to get good. I have too much other stuff to do. I thought for sure I would take to Forza, as I halve always loved racing games, but I cant even drive the easiest car on the easiest level of the game worth a darn!
TW '08 still provides the dopamine release in the brain for me for enjoyment, and its an old friend I can count on! It was a challenge to find and keep X-Box 360's. Every one I got from Ebay or Gamestop always failed (the disc drive). A good friend of mine had the Eliete version he never played anymore and used it as a DVD player. I bought him a Blue Ray DVD player and he gave me the Elite 360 and I've been happily playing without failure for years now!
