MY LITTLE ADHD

[Gestalt]

So me, Mr. Waffles, and a few other members we're talking about N64 games in the chatroom...when one guy complains about the reaction time on his old N64 controller...well maybe its just that the controls are shocked from old age, right? That seems like the plausible answer, yes?......NO-ho-ho-hoooo!!!

Mr. Waffles presented a much more intriguing theory...perhaps we have become so addicted to the thrill of hardcore gaming which requires increased precision, truckloads of awareness, and inhuman reaction times that the classics like SSB64 are no longer a real challenge....and that in turn has us finding ourselves breaking the joystick clear out of its socket whenever we do return to the classics.

I find myself completely zoned-out when playing hardcore vidoe games...the rush is ridiculous I usually take Mr. Waffles claims with a grain of salt...but this...this...is all to true. I've lost 2 N64 controllers due to the un-warranted stress i drag them through out of habit alone.

video games have become drugs

Thoughts??

[Vy'drach]

I play the Turok series and all sorts of other hullabaloo often enough on my N64, and I still use the original controller that came with it. Remember that the controller resets its deadzone every time you start the system up, so just center your stick before turning it on to maximize results.

Other than that, the games play fine for me. I find Turok 2 to be harder than any recent FPS, not counting the last level of Call of Duty: World at War with infinite Nazis and infinite grenades each.

[Xidphel]

I play the Turok series

*Goes into a destructive rampage due to not being able to complete LEVEL 1 in Turok 2*

[Vy'drach]

Turok 2's levels. Longer than most other games' campaigns.

[Cavemonkynick]

Hmm... personally I'm not sure. I'm a super story driven gamer. When I play I do get swept up in the story to the point where the world around sort of falls away. I'm the same with books, that being said, for me I still love and respect the classics that I teethed on as a kid. Super Mario 64, Paper Mario, Pokemon Snap, Donkey Kong 64, Kirby and the Crystal Shards, Rayman 2 the Great Escape, and that's just to name a few. I have no problem sinking into them and loosing hours on end that could have been productive.