Mapping; where doth lie the root for interest?

[Nineaxis]

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I quite enjoyed Legos. But my parents never bought the cool sets so I could have an awesome Lego city. So I was stuck with makeshift multicolor homes and the like.

And yeah, it's hard to make a good car without it all set up for you out-of-a-box.

 

[RavenStryker]

I played with Legos they were fun and kept you thinking. I remember when I first made a farm combine that held prisoners...

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>.>

 

[BagOfChips]

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I quite enjoyed Legos. But my parents never bought the cool sets so I could have an awesome Lego city. So I was stuck with makeshift multicolor homes and the like.

And yeah, it's hard to make a good car without it all set up for you out-of-a-box.

I made a kick ass custom jeep. All the colors matched, it had good proportions, and all the right pieces.

I think it's the only good thing I made from scratch.

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

It's a... "new age" thing to call them Legos.

It's sort of how lots of members of this forum have their names shortened when someone is talking to or about them. Boojum is Booj/Snark/etc, Nineaxis is Nine, The Magic Potato is Potato...

... You get the idea.

And sometimes we call people buy a short name because their name is long as fuck. ie <----- ;-)

 

[Rasputin]

I have yet to meet a man who has never played with any sort of Lego brick, Lincoln log type product.

 

[TheBladeRoden]

I played with Lego(s) and K'nex back in the day. But I think a lot of interest came from me actually drawing maps. Like those "every possible climate all on one island" maps, to Zelda-type dungeons. And buying strategy guides just for the maps, and being saddened when they didn't have any

 

[RavenStryker]

that reminds me back when I was in the first years of highschool when I was really into Metal Gear Solid and wanted to make a game exactly along the same lines with Gnome soldiers and everything of the likes. So I filled an entire notebook full trying to accomplish the deal. In the end, it went nowhere and now sits full of story line and levels in a binder in my closet... Ah, I miss those days...

 

[cornontheCoD]

I'll be honest, I have never heard anyone say it is *not* "Legos".

And I wasn't serious about the Runescape and pokemon statement. Those two things were so popular, though, that as a little kid, I thought the whole world was obsessed with them.

 

[munkey]

I was crazy about Lego's and K'nex when I was a kid.

My old house had like 20ft ceilings in the formal living room, my friend and I spent the hole summer once building a huge tower out of K'nex that scraped the top of the ceiling. We had to build it in sections on the ground then lift it up and connect it since we were short.

And my friends and I built a big castle out of Lego's another summer.

I was always big on Sim and RTS games as well.

 

[Nineaxis]

And sometimes we call people buy a short name because their name is long as fuck. ie <----- ;-)

You mean e.g., surely...
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abbreviations/f/ievseg.htm

To add something better than grammatical correction to this post, I'll add in that I love Sim games, especially SimCity.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

Lego, Sim(ulator)s, Clay, Duplo, little cars, many "game-worldbuilders" like cossacks, bfme, elder scrolls, ... I used to play with those a lot when I was younger.
My new toy is hammer

 

[YM]

Yeah I was very very into age of empires 1 and 2, then bfme but I was always dissapointed with bfme's total lack of freedom in building placement. I never went for knex but I did have znap (lego's alternative) (people a few posts back were using "lego's" :O an apostrophe when pluralising? who taught you English?? They didn't do a good job!)
I'd like to get back into RTS games but all the current generation seem to have lost the good things that made AOE so unbelievably brilliant.

 

[Zeewier]

I'd like to get back into RTS games but all the current generation seem to have lost the good things that made AOE so unbelievably brilliant.

I2ndzat

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

Heh, fair enough Nine. Though I could have just uses ex. ;-)

 

[HeaH]

Age of Empires is the best game evar

 

[kwagner]

Anyone remember the game 'Populus?'

I wasn't thinking about it this way at the time, but it now occurs to me that the major game mechanic was using displacements to create and destroy the land you subjects were trying to build on. Hmmmm.

 

[MangyCarface]

I declare this fastest growing thread

 

[uma plata]

Age of Empires is the best game evar

Starcraft all the way!

And a sequel this year, probably:woot:

Come to think of it, the first maps I ever did were for SC, followed by WC3

 

[TheDarkerSideofYourShadow]

And a sequel this year, probably:woot:

Remember, Blizzard and Valve are kindred spirits when it comes to doing things promptly.

 

[Vigilante212]

I loved playing with legos when I was younger, hell I probably would still play with them if I knew where they went.

I do remember seeing an article that said most people who played with legos grew up to do jobs that required thier hands. I consider map making a job like that. Heck im a Machinist everything i do at work requires my hands.

I know my neighbors kid never played with legos of course his whole family was a complete bore, ive never met a family that strange before or since.