@Th3solution You're all good. I heard through the grapevine that a few individuals of my reasons for leaving in the first place are no longer present, so I decided to join back up again. If those reasons return then I may depart again. We'll see.
Greetings fellow gamers
been snooping around this forum and webpage for some time now and wanted to say hello in an official way. I am a 48 year old dude from Norway, been playing games since the early 80ths. First game was Mario Bros and Donkey Kong on the Coleco and i was hooked on a feeling as the song goes. My first own gaming "computer" was the c64. I love Eye of the beholder, Last Ninja, Turrican, Ghosts and goblins, Pirates, Elite, IK+, Prince of Persia, Defender of the Crown, Impossible Mission and the list goes on. Since then i have been playing on and off for 40 years. I now have the ps5 and pc but i have surrendered to the ps5 and my big screen and i am never going back to the small screen.
For the moment i have too many games and not enough time, so i am working through my backlog patiently. I am now playing Final Fantasy 7 remake, Ghostrunner, Streets of Rage 4, Crusader Kings 3 and my online guilty pleasure Marvel Rivals. I dont know if i have a favourite game, there have been so many in the years i have played. I do love GTA and i just finished RDR2 and i loved it too or i loved Arthur Morgan (i didnt love that he died, almost quit). I think that i love alot of games and its hard to pick between things that you love.
My other hobbies includes books, music and training. I even have a job or a part time job as an archaeologist. Here in Norway excavations are held between april/may to nov/dec. I have or i am building my own amateur library so i do alot of reading. I like Knut Hamsun, Brandon Sanderson, Karl Ove Knausgård, Tolkien, Haruki Murakami, Fjodor Dostojevskij, John Connolly, Boris Akunin, Agatha Christie, Patrick O Brian, Orhan Pamuk and many more. I also read alot of comics. Music has been my first and biggest love and i listen to everything that has some kind of soul and passion. My favourites are Bruce Springsteen, Emperor, Death, Huun Huur Tu, Grant Lee Buffalo, Wu Tang Clan, Ol Dirty, GZA, Judas Priest, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Armin Van Buuren, Alania, Biosphere, Miles Davies and again many more and more.
I do some training, mostly running, strength at home and some martial arts. Bruce Lee made me do it. I do like a nice martial art movie. Fist of Fury kicks ass. Well, thx for reading and read you around
@Skarasny welcome aboard, pretty much all of your interests will correlate to someone or another around here… and certainly the ‘having too many games and not enough time to play them’, that’s a common concern for sure 😁
I rarely visit the welcome page, don't know why, probably because I never did my own intro here, and thus still feel like an outsider of the forum 😅
But you know what, I did today, and I see you mention Crusader Kings and thought it's worth a shout out. Also, the fact you do archeology is really cool, history and historical fiction are some of my own biggest interests. So welcome aboard, and I'd love to hear about your best CK3 antics. So feel free to tag @Ravix if you want to chat about CK3
I Recently finished Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 myself, and started Assassin's Creed Shadows, but the lure of medieval Bohemia was too strong so I actually picked up playing CK3 again this past week or so so I could start as a nothing Count in Plzen and then see what happens trying to play tall with no real goal other than to see Czech history unfold in front of me, and to try and keep some form of power while doing so. Needless to say, I now hold more land than the current king of Bohemia, and recently managed to capture Prague and Kutna Hora for my own Duchy, as I also acquired the title of Duke of Bohemia while I was at it. 4 generations in, and I'm calling it the Bohemian Schism. For reasons that may be clear based on these screenshots
Not bad considering I'm not attempting to grow beyond Bohemia myself, and am focusing on development and internal growth, rather than empire building.
At one point I actually fought one King for independence and deposed him. But within a few time skips I guess the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire meddled, as he ended up back on the Throne (I assume because Bohemia has House Seniority and his replacement must have died) and I was suddenly back with this same King as my Liege, so all I can assume is the Emperor granted me as a vassal back to the guy 😅 I had the last laugh, anyway, by cornering his Kingdom, moving to his previous capital and taking his silver mines, and so he finally left his mortal coil.
Now I just have to maybe depose another king so I can become Culture head, but I want to try and do it through politics rather than war. But it might not work out that way 😂
@Ravix @MightyDemon82 thx
Yupp, will be posting about books and games. I just love Ck3 and Ck2, have put alot of time in those games. I am doing a viking/anglo saxon conquest of England at the moment, starting in Jorvik county and i have just become the King of England atleast. I am just fooling around with culture and the game in general. Great fun. Not so fun being Heathen in England after some time. Well, got to do some easter fun. Happy easter to the believers
I am new to this part of the family of sites as I was introduced to NL after getting a Switch and more recently to PX as this Gen I decided to go first for a Series X (because of GP and backwards compatibility).
As a bit of a wider background I am now in the 40s club... My first system was a Mega Drive (and sonic club) but dabbled also with SNES, PSOne and N64 at friends. Said so most of my gaming growing up was on PC. On the start of the millennium my gaming lowered considerable, for over 15 years, apart from some quick periods of finishing a game I was really looking forward to (GTA IV, Tomb raider 2013, StarCraft 2, etc) and ocasionaly PES/FIFA with friends.
All that changed when I saw the Switch commercial prior lo launch and I ended up pre-orderering a gaming system for the time. Since then I got also a GBA SP, 3DS, PS2, SERIES X and Wii U (just to play xenoblade...) and a collection of 200+ physical games.
And that is the reason I am now with a PS5, as it is clear by this point Microsoft does not care about physical media o the point it does not print their own games.
On PlayStation I have plenty of series I am new to or only played 1 game (GoW, jak, ratched, horizon, etc).
The first game I am tackling is FF VII remake
Also I am very much looking forward to death stranding sequel next month.
@AgentCooper I thought you were on "vacation" hahaha. I will but for the foreseeable future I am not going to subscribe to anything online (not sure if that makes a difference on friends list)
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