So you are referring to the PVP aspect of the game only? The PVE parts can be thoroughly enjoyed with a variety of builds to great effect as can exploration. Also, as your ship and equipment don't lose points for being docked, a player focussed on PVP can stil remain competitive without the need for a constant grind. the need to min max for PVP builds is a little bit of a flaw (in my opinion) only in so much as most builds for strict PVP restrict your success in PVE content and vice versa.
Is Elite Dangerous a Dad's Game Played mainly by "non-gamers"?
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hmmmm , wifie , girl things.... like PLAY BATLEFIELD $ SKY RIM and ... SC...and a bit of CQC in EDH.......hhhmmm wifie things...[/COLOR] suppose that mum gamer with tape version,5 inch floppy and double sided cassette with lenslock anti pirate device to hold up to screen...... or is it old bat gamer , V old dad gamer........ Bloody cheek!
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["""middle aged" contingent who game whilst "the wife" does what ever it is women get up to""
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hmmmm , wifie , girl things.... like PLAY BATLEFIELD $ SKY RIM and ... SC...and a bit of CQC in EDH.......hhhmmm wifie things...[/COLOR] suppose that mum gamer with tape version,5 inch floppy and double sided cassette with lenslock anti pirate device to hold up to screen...... or is it old bat gamer , V old dad gamer........ Bloody cheek!
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no we used a machine language editor to input the free games shared in the computer magazines like Run and Compute.
I used to have a subscription to those.. LOL
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They very rarely did ... but that's not the point !
Get the cable too close to the TV/Monitor... Corrupt data load... Grumble, grumble.
I guess you could say I'm a dadgamer to be 
I'm 32, expecting a kid. I used to play a lot of games in high school but not so much anymore. I picked up Destiny when it came out, but got bored quickly because it was too grindy with the exact same things over and over. In college I was awesome at the original Halo (4 xboxes, 4 players each on splitscreen... yell down the hall... freakin' reload!)
Maybe my thumbs are just slow these days. Most recently played Halo 5 but once I beat the campaign on heroic I got bored of that too. Feels like there is nothing to be gained from PvP in Halo. No "progress" if you will.
According to Steam, my ED in-game time is 409 hours...Far more than any other game I've played... ever. Picked it up because it reminded me of Freelancer, which I played a lot. But of course that one didn't have much of a multiplayer aspect to it.
However, I am old enough to have played the original nintendo, and before that, on a black and white Apple Macintosh. You know, Oregon trail... and the one where you had to drop the stick figure from the helicopter and try and get him to land in the horse cart. I'm not lucky enough to have played games on tape cartridges though!
I'm 32, expecting a kid. I used to play a lot of games in high school but not so much anymore. I picked up Destiny when it came out, but got bored quickly because it was too grindy with the exact same things over and over. In college I was awesome at the original Halo (4 xboxes, 4 players each on splitscreen... yell down the hall... freakin' reload!)Maybe my thumbs are just slow these days. Most recently played Halo 5 but once I beat the campaign on heroic I got bored of that too. Feels like there is nothing to be gained from PvP in Halo. No "progress" if you will.
According to Steam, my ED in-game time is 409 hours...Far more than any other game I've played... ever. Picked it up because it reminded me of Freelancer, which I played a lot. But of course that one didn't have much of a multiplayer aspect to it.
However, I am old enough to have played the original nintendo, and before that, on a black and white Apple Macintosh. You know, Oregon trail... and the one where you had to drop the stick figure from the helicopter and try and get him to land in the horse cart. I'm not lucky enough to have played games on tape cartridges though!
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Try buying a game (And Elite comes to mind) and your tape player chews up the tape first time out ... fun and games .. great times
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After reading the entire thread, I'm so confused. I don't know where I belong anymore. lol. I guess I could be a dad gamer, as I am a grandfather which necessitates being a father at some point. I play the 12 year COD games online, Battlefront, Witcher series (all of them), Dragon age (all), Skyrim, Arkham (all), Starcraft, and scores that I won't even bother to mention. I get the feeling that the OP sees gamer games as DOTA, League and the like, none of which I cared for.
Try buying a game (And Elite comes to mind) and your tape player chews up the tape first time out ... fun and games .. great times
That was the best part about having discs. Used CopyII+ to clone it, then used the copy to play with, and kept the original safely in it's box.
That was the best part about having discs. Used CopyII+ to clone it, then used the copy to play with, and kept the original safely in it's box.
See you never lived .. all this back up nonsense ... it's why the world is at war I tell ya!
Starcraft falls into the same category as DOTA and LoL ( league of legends ). Insanely competitive game with a skill ceiling reaching to the gods.
Clearly - Zerging must be an art or something.
And here I thought gamers were just gamers.
(43. Playing since Pong)
(43. Playing since Pong)
I still have my original Sears Atari Pong in storage.
That's pretty hardcore! I especially like the PvP battery eliminator. What's it's Kill/Death Ratio? Have you Min/Maxed it?
Min/Max is for n00bs. Any real gamer will play with what he has available and use skill, knowledge, experience and probably $$$$$ of kit
Isn't that by definition exactly what min/maxing is?
The term 'gamer' is very misleading. Hell I can be categorized as a 'boy racer' because I have a twin turbo Subaru.
We are all gamers in one way or another, be it casual gamers, hardcore gamers or somewhere in between. I think what the OP was intending to say is that the community here is more Mature than say, Call of Duty where only the dankest memes get attention. In comparison you can have proper conversations about things, mistakes are corrected without abuse, and that's just the way it is.
I'm 25, I play Elite Dangerous because lol star citizen 2 years overdue and it's the only space sim out there really. Also Spaceship PvP that has a variety of builds is fun.
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Absolutely not. I remember old PvP Baldur's Gate multiplayer - sometimes you'd be given a character save and had NO clue whatsoever what it would be - just had to make do with what you were given.
Proper emergent gameplay back then - BG had NO PvP multiplayer, and it was asynchronous as well - just had to make sure you didn't toast CHARNAME with an accidental fireball
Absolutely not. I remember old PvP Baldur's Gate multiplayer - sometimes you'd be given a character save and had NO clue whatsoever what it would be - just had to make do with what you were given.
Proper emergent gameplay back then - BG had NO PvP multiplayer, and it was asynchronous as well - just had to make sure you didn't toast CHARNAME with an accidental fireball
God I remember that game, not the content in it though.