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April 30th, 2004, 03:29 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
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Originally posted by Dubrok:
and because i cannot list any pcgames i didn't play i "list" 1 boardgame: Diplomacy - never found enough players :-(
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There is a great community of Diplomacy players who play via e-mail. Just do a search on-line to find them. I followed a few games about 7 years ago, but never played.
Some of these games Lasted more than a year and the players became good friends. Even an observer(me)was accepted into the community. I still have three 2" binders full of information and strategy articles I copied from the web. Should really get them out and think about playing again...
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April 30th, 2004, 05:54 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
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Originally posted by Atrocities:
Any one interested in buying some old star wars crap? (Its either sell it or give it to my nephews who will promptly destroy it. )
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Talk about painful SW memories, I made a scale model of the Millenium Falcon. (from blueprints and made it out of Balsa wood) and gave it a very good paint job to closely match the movie look. It was a labour of love and it was to die for. My nephew was young (8 years old) and would always tell me how much he loved the model and used to sit and examine it to his hearts content. Being his godfather, I decided that he would be able to take good care of it and decided to give it to him for his 9th birthday. He was overjoyed and very grateful that I would give him my prized possesion.
Well, that model didn't Last more than two weeks before it was totally destroyed. I haven't made any models since, and still don't have the will to get back into modeling.
To make a long story short, sell the stuff, only give it away if the alternate choice is to place it in the trash. It will be less painfull that way.
nuf said, cheers! 
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April 30th, 2004, 10:27 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
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Originally posted by Kamog:
I still have some of my old game cartridges for the Sega Genesis. The game console itself is broken. There's also several games I got for the Playstation 1. These work but some of them I have never played, or played only once or twice.
The reasons that I don't play these games is because of one or more of:
1. I started playing and quicky discovered that the game isn't very fun
2. The controls and features are complicated and difficult to use, and I didn't feel like spending a long time learning all the special button combinations, and practicing until I get used to it.
3. There's some other game that I like, that I would rather spend my time playing, so I always end up playing those instead.
4. A friend gave me the game as a birthday present or Christmas present, but it's not the genre that I like.
5. I started playing and at some point I got stuck at a difficult place that I couldn't get past. I tried several times and gave up.
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I got another one to add to your list. Try having a kid. Spare time?? What spare time? If you're not running after him/her, you're trying to feed, bathe or trying to get the brat (oh, I mean that pure bundle of joy from heaven ) to go to bed. Then, at least in my case, after about 2 hours, he'll go to sleep, then you can concentrate on playing games. But by then, it's late, and I don't feel like going on the internet or inserting a game disk into the computer, so I just double click on my SEIVG launcher and play a game until I almost bash my head into my monitor when I start getting sleepy.
That's the main reason I don't play too many games. I used to love playing RPG's, but most of them take 100+ hours to play, and I just don't have that kind of time to try that right now. Thank goodness I can least surf the net at work in my spare time.
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April 30th, 2004, 10:56 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
A possible option is to donate them to the Library or some other place. Then you can get a tax deduction for them at least.
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May 1st, 2004, 02:00 AM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
Really? You can get a tax deduction by donating old games to the library?  Does anybody know if this is possible in Canada?
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May 3rd, 2004, 02:58 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
SFC I and III were both good games, but they didn't have any staying power with me, and I lost interest after a month or so. Not sure why. It's funny, especially since I was a star fleet battles *fanatic*.
I'm more than happy to unload them to you or anyone else who might want them. I'd have to find them, they're deep in the closet IIRC...
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Originally posted by geoschmo:
I was going to offer to trade you my copy of Rise of Nations for your copy of Star Fleet Commnd, but I reread the list and I see you already have that one. You buy a lot of games dude.
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May 3rd, 2004, 10:23 PM
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Re: OT: Game You Have But Never Play
'Kay, first of all, you're wasting some very good games by letting them rot. Who cares how dated they are? You are missing out on some games that I still play today (though you misspelled most of them.) I bet I buy more old games than new ones. With that being said...
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Originally posted by Atrocities:
I am going through my games and noticed that I have a lot of them that I have never played, or only played once or twice. What to do with them now is the question on my mind. I would hate to give them up or away like I have in the past only to find out that they were worth a lot of money anc could not be easily replaced.
Freespace 2
Imperium Galactica 2
Civilization 3
Call to Power
Call to Power 2
Elite Force 2
Diablo 2
Space Empires (original disk)
Alien vs Preditor
Soldier of Fortune
Blade
Medal of Honor
Armada 2
Star Fleet Command
Baldur's Gate
Dungeon Siege
Deus Ex Invisible War
Knights of the Old Republic
Jedi Knight 2
Rise of Nations
Hearts of Iron
Europa Universalis
Risk
Unreal
Half Life
Masters of Orion 2
Masters of Orion 3*
Rebellion (loved this game)
many many more.
All semi good games that I paid top dollar for and only played once or twice. (Some more)
* Utter crap game
I guess I could just keep them and someday play them, but games like Imperium Galatica 2 are interesting, but very dated.
I could auction them, but I would loose money and there is no garrentee they would sell and then I would still have to pay the auction costs. (God Ebay has become expensive)
All of this leaves me with one question, why, why did I buy them in the first place if I wasn't going to play them that much?
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I'll give you $70 (negotiable, plus shipping) for the ones in bold. PM me if you're interested. And host an Aliens vs. Predator LAN party; it's one of the only FPSs I enjoy.
[ May 03, 2004, 21:24: Message edited by: Nocturnal ]
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