Gaming online is becoming like computer home invasion!

simpletom · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:26

I kind of see where the OP is coming from. It can be tedious installing a shed load of crap just to play a game. The most irritating part is patching though. Finding the current version you are using, finding the right US/EU version, wondering if you need the 'Gold Edition' or the 'Game of the Year' edition patch, whether it is .07a - .09a or whatever. This is what I went though with the original OFP.

Auto update is the answer.

EDC · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:26

wordy said:
Yorkie, It's not for girls.

Sorry.

Real men only eat Yorkies and Gingster meat pies, they also think that Ann Widdecombe looks like Angelina Jolie after 15 pints

div0 · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:43

Life these days is sooooooo hard!

How quickly people forget the days of having to swap floppy disks and the like just to play a game.

And if anything did go wrong with either the game or the computer, you then spent the best part of a day just figuring out the fix for yourself, as you couldn't just 'google it n00b'.

:rolleyes:

DooMeR · 2 Oct 2009 at 11:49

I remeber my commandor 64 the games been on tape, they would take at least 5 mins to load, even then it was a lucky dip if it would work or not.

iviv · 2 Oct 2009 at 12:13

My main pet hate about games lands squarely on Relic's shoulders. With their incrimental patches, each a couple of hundred Mb large. No big overall 'from 1.0 to the current version' patch. You have to go the long slow route via at least 10 different versions. Had this with Dawn of War, and then with something else, I can't remember which, so I must have blotted it out of my memory!

Venares · 2 Oct 2009 at 13:23

Haha, I remeber back in the day when you had to have an army of boot disks (1 for each game) and trying to free up that last 2k of ram to make the damn thing work

And as div0 said, no google kiddies :eek:

nin9abadga · 2 Oct 2009 at 13:26

i agree, it's a right pita. the worst thing is when you forget all your passwords to everything

Lanz · 2 Oct 2009 at 13:35

Football Manager on the C64 took 20 mins to load, no graphics, no fuzzy lines, just a blue screen. Then 50% of the time the tape just reached the end and clicked stop, so you just had to rewind and start again.

DooMeR · 2 Oct 2009 at 13:46

c64 wasnt all bad when you got it working it had some good games i remeber haivng bubble bobble and rainbow island on it which was one of my fave games back in the day and games i used to play in the arcade which to have at home was awesome. oh oh and new zeland story. i also remember some ninja game that i used to think was awesoem but could never do.

Briton · 2 Oct 2009 at 15:26

div0 said:
Life these days is sooooooo hard!

How quickly people forget the days of having to swap floppy disks and the like just to play a game.

And if anything did go wrong with either the game or the computer, you then spent the best part of a day just figuring out the fix for yourself, as you couldn't just 'google it n00b'.

That's nothing...we used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

bunga_aj · 2 Oct 2009 at 15:29

Briton said:
That's nothing...we used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

ahahaha

EDC · 2 Oct 2009 at 20:26

Briton said:
That's nothing...we used to live in a shoebox in the middle of the road.

wot, no room for the tin bath,