D&D 4E 4E: The day the game ate the roleplayer?

[The Little Raven]

The young video gamer type is the demographic they want. There is lots of money there.

The largest and most profitable demographic in video games today is the 18-35 demographic (I know, my company targets this demographic nearly exclusively, as did Sony while I worked there), as it's the first generation to grow up with video games (the Nintendo Generation) as a matter of course.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

My friends and I were actually thinking about it, and we just realized a ton of kids now won't know about N64 or remember it coming out, that felt very odd... Since that was such a awesome game-system when we were kids (were 18 now).

 

[The Little Raven]

It is building itself to be a game where cool people do cooler stuff with cooler powers.

And that's the point of the game, in my mind. I don't play games where I can be a lame dude who can do lamer stuff with lamer powers. If I want that, I'll just get up in the morning and go to work. When I play D&D, I damn well want to be the cool guy.

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

My friends and I were actually thinking about it, and we just realized a ton of kids now won't know about N64 or remember it coming out, that felt very odd... Since that was such a awesome game-system when we were kids (were 18 now).

I started gaming on an Apple II+. It was an amazing system in its day, with its 48kB of system memory (upgraded to 64kB!). It totally blew away the TRS-80. I used to play a lot of Lode Runner. It blows my mind that the kids in the classes I tutor have probably never played the original Super Mario Bros.

 

[The Little Raven]

I started gaming on an Apple II+.

My first two computer games with Zork and The Hobbit, both of which I played on an Apple IIe at my elementary school's computer lab. *sigh* Those were the days.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Hmm... This shows how gamers now how old they are, not remembering historic events, but by what they were playing at the time

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

Hmm... This shows how gamers now how old they are, not remembering historic events, but by what they were playing at the time

Well, would you rather remember Super Mario, or Ronald Reagan?

I rest my case.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

Well, would you rather remember Super Mario, or Ronald Reagan?

I rest my case.

True say.

 

[Saishu_Heiki]

I remember being excited because the new-fangled Apple IIe had a 5.25 floppy drive built *into* the keyboard! Heady times, those were.

Oh, and Oregon Trail and the Incredible Machine rocked.

 

[The Little Raven]

Oh, and Oregon Trail and the Incredible Machine rocked.

Man, I swear Gygax (RIP!) had a hand in Oregon Trail, since it had stuff that was very much save-or-die (but without the save).

"You come to a ford."

"You cross the ford."

"Jake, Dan, and Sarah have died of dysentery."

The game that really ate up tons of my time when I was a tween was Quest for Glory. Man, I was like a dope-fiend playing those games constantly.