But honestly, I am less good at fps games than I was 10-12 years ago. Simple fact. I’m probably a bit better strategically, and in wisdom, but that’s a slightly different matter.

Heh, someday I’ll tell of the tale of me playing some variant of Rainbow Six as the counter-tango sniper… (My reflexes were not the problem.)

(MMO)RPGs are what’s fun for me; ditto grand strategy games.

If we both wind up playing vanguard, that’ll be cool.
-wolfe

What a horrible and incorrect thing to say about yourself. There are plenty of ‘old’ dudes (up to 60 years old even) who play fps games and own as hard as a teenager. Age is only in the mind; you’re setting rather low standards for yourself by using such labels as ‘old and slow.’

Heh, I tend to rant at anyone who sells themselves short… But yes if I do play that new game I will let you know.

Dick has a particularly clever approach; he doesn’t date his posts, and he tends to shy away from lots of “current events” posts. Even when he does post on a current event, he often puts a spin on it that will render his views equally relevant (or irrelevant, depending upon your perspective) over the passage of time. e.g., instead of “Steve Irwin has died, how sad” it’s “Germaine Greer is a C—”. (I despise the language use, but I applaud the general approach).

In my case, I tend to comment on semi-current events — often delayed up to a week for a variety of reasons.

But comment away on any post that catches your eye; feel free to email me if there’s something you’d like me to post on that you think would be interesting.

Alas I don’t play Call of Duty 2. I’m simply not that great at fps games compared to people your age. Yeah, I’m old and slow.

I am familiar with CoD2; I do occasional play (singleplayer only, sorry) Brothers In Arms — Earned in Blood as a friend gave it to me for my birthday.

The only WW2 simulation I’m playing at the moment is Hearts of Iron 2: Doomsday. It’s the antithesis of Call of Duty. You basically run a country — its diplomatic, technological, intelligence, finance policies over the course of many years. And of course, you are the Supreme Commander of your country’s forces, but you don’t directly deploy any forces smaller than a division!

I used to be a pretty mean Starcraft player, though probably not gosu ^^. I played EQ (Everquest) and World of Warcraft, and was reasonably accomplished at both (possibly the best player of my class on my server; generally the best equipped).

But really, grand strategy games, (’god games’ — like Civ) MMORPG’s like EQ/WoW are my cup of tea.

I’ll probably play Sigil’s new game, Vanguard when it comes out. So if you play that, let me know.

-wolfe

There have been a few ‘wolfe’ players, even though it’s a rather slight possibility.

Rather funny how on MABTW I mentioned that I played CoD and someone replied in a way that suggested I wished I was experiancing the ‘real’ thing. Hah. No sir! Playing a simulation of WW2 does not mean I wish to be upon the battlefield with men dying and suffering and all that all round me. Anyway… Yeah, what I said before.

Video games rule.

You might want to try next door. That little white house with a monkey on the porch. Yes, that’s it. They’re sure to fix you right up with funding and red tape round all your machiavelic schemings.