what's your age. and how did you get at cotw.

[wubbelflup]

if you don't want to say precisely it's alright.

i'm 21, wonder if i'm one of the youngest players of cotw...

i found cotw because i wondered if this new thing called hunting that i just found out about was ever captured in a game. and if you look for hunting games this is the only serious one.

also looked for a relaxing game i could play when really tired. still one of my best buys.

[wubbelflup]

Originally posted by Dr. Wigglespank:

Are these questions you've been asking the last few days for a Psychology 101 course? I don't have a problem with it, but I have seen this sort of thing on other forums.

Perhaps writing about gamers with Paranoid Personality Disorder might get you a solid A on that paper.

ye good idea. got the data already.

Originally posted by RIPDixie1865:

I'm just a measly 19. You're not the only young'un around here.

a phew good to hear! how did you get to playing cotw?

[Wild]

I'm 67: Have been playing the hunting games since first deer hunter series: use to make models and maps: love the hunter classic: so i got cotw when it first came out:

[wubbelflup]

Originally posted by Wild:

I'm 67: Have been playing the hunting games since first deer hunter series: use to make models and maps: love the hunter classic: so i got cotw when it first came out:

ah too bad you can't make maps in this game. but tbh the maps would completly remove the point of DLC lol.

i'm supprised how many older people game. most 40+ people i know don't play games at all.. maybe they just don't talk about it..

[CaptainNebulous]

I'm 36. I got into COTW because I played classic for a while and loved the concept, but didn't love the payment model. I remember the graphics seemed epic when classic first came out but they quickly became dated, to me anyway. So I quit. Years later I saw COTW was released to I bought it and the 3 DLC available at the time. While I'm not happy about the regressions in the game's performance, I still buy all the DLC that come out because the game is really strong at its base and I think it will turn into a fabulous game. It already is really good but needs work from a technical aspect. I can see how people get impatient with it but as long as the developers work on getting the game to run better on a much wider range on PC's and get rid of the bugs I think most of those complaints and doubts will go away.

[Furley]

Originally posted by epicpotato:

Originally posted by Wild:

I'm 67: Have been playing the hunting games since first deer hunter series: use to make models and maps: love the hunter classic: so i got cotw when it first came out:

ah too bad you can't make maps in this game. but tbh the maps would completly remove the point of DLC lol.

i'm supprised how many older people game. most 40+ people i know don't play games at all.. maybe they just don't talk about it..

They probably just don't talk about it, 40+ grew up with ataris and lived in arcades.

[❄️The Last Frontier 😊]

Originally posted by RIPDixie1865:

I'm just a measly 19. You're not the only young'un around here.

OK who let this teen in here HA HA just Kidding!

my case will hit the big 50 end of the year. And was mainly into the Tomb Raider styles of games until I started playing Ghost Recon Phantoms about 5 years ago and still play some games of this nature. About same time I dabbled briefly with Classic but being a pay to play game mainly just never really perked my interest then saw this advertised in class forums and got it a few months after it was released though it was set for Summer came out earlier then I thought.

[Crbn46]

13 from the netherlands. cant exactly pin down what i find fun about COTW. I saw some youtubers playing the hunter classic, but it was riddled with DLC's. I've been thinking about buying this for a while, decided to get it together with a friend on the summer sale, i guess this game just helps me chill out, its a really calm game. anyway, im rambling at this point

[GamingB4UWereBorn]

Originally posted by Furley:

Originally posted by epicpotato:

ah too bad you can't make maps in this game. but tbh the maps would completly remove the point of DLC lol.

i'm supprised how many older people game. most 40+ people i know don't play games at all.. maybe they just don't talk about it..

They probably just don't talk about it, 40+ grew up with ataris and lived in arcades.

Back when a quarter provided entertainment for a while!!

57 been gaming since my late 20’s on PC
Not crazy about the new FPS out nowadays as everything seems to be RPG which I can’t stand. Picked this up last year and love it. 570 hrs in the game level 60 and having a ball. Will continue to support the game for new content.

[Snail Rancher]

I'm in my early 50s. I started playing CotW on the Xbox about 2 years ago when it was on sale, and I was instantly hooked. I wanted a slower game, but find fishing games way too slow. I like FPS games, but they are far too fast for me, esp. on Xbox. I ended up getting a PC about a year ago just to play CotW, and mostly play on that now.

I love CotW because it is as challenging as you want to make it for yourself, and as fast or slow as you want (for the most part). The biggest thing for me, though, is that it reminds me of home (Colorado) and my adopted home (Belgium), now I am in the UK.

[Guts]

29, Canada. I've always wanted to hunt but could never afford a firearms license, a rifle, and transport to get the kill out of the wild. I used to play Deer Hunter back when Atari still made it and loved the game. For a long time there was a drought on non arcade style hunting games. Most of them kept just putting animals near you and would tell you to shoot a certain animal out of the bunch then give you a score. I wanted a game where you actually hunt. I do prefer calling from a stand as opposed to stalking, but I'd still like to have to find where the animals will be and call them in from there.

This is the best hunting game on the market. I learned about it because I was looking at theHunter: Primal since I bought it on sale a few years ago and wanted to see if there were any good updates.

[Rayframe]

26, I played cotw way back when it had a very restricted free to play mode that only allowed hunting deer on a small island. I liked the concept of it back then but didn't really have the money for it. Recently I found it again and after a lot of thinking finally decided to take the leap.

This last year I fell in love with The Long Dark, a survival game in northern Canada where you try to stay alive, hunt for food and fur pelts while not freezing to death. CotW turned out to be a way more advanced hunting game with the survival elements stripped away and I love it. I haven't played a whole lot yet but it's a very relaxing experience for me and so satisfying now that I'm starting to learn how to not spook animals and get that one-shot kill!

[Silky]

29, Minnesota. I've been hunting since I was 12 and have been in the woods even younger. I remember one hunting game back in 2003 on the Playstation 2 but what brought me to COTW, I have no idea, it was random. Saw a bunch of friends play it on initial release and it still took me a year later to get it.

What I do miss in the beginning is feeling so small and intimidated by such a large map, it almost felt like bigfoot was going to jump out and get you. In the beginning the game was truly fascinating. I remember I was on the quad and a herd of elk ran next to me and I was starstruck.

But sadly after 640 hours I've learned how everything works and it's not as fun as it used to be.

[McSqurl Nugget]

47 here, been gaming since the early 80's when dad got the first family computer, was right after the earthquake here in '83, so it'll be 36 years this coming November that i've been gaming.

back then it was games likes Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest. Loved those. Also console gamed, started with the Intellivision and Atari, then moved up to NES, then SNES, then my bro got the Sega MS, then the Saturn, then on and on. Only console i didn't own was the Dreamcast.

Hunting games, guess you could say i started with Duck Hunt on the NES, or whatever the Sega version of that was, we had both. Played Duck Hunt so much my brother and I could get to level 0 almost every game before we moved on. On PC i started hunting games with the original Deer Hunter. Played all the cabella games for PC and for the different consoles, PS1 - 3 and Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox one.

[❄️The Last Frontier 😊]

Originally posted by Snail Rancher:

I'm in my early 50s. I started playing CotW on the Xbox about 2 years ago when it was on sale, and I was instantly hooked. I wanted a slower game, but find fishing games way too slow. I like FPS games, but they are far too fast for me, esp. on Xbox. I ended up getting a PC about a year ago just to play CotW, and mostly play on that now.

I love CotW because it is as challenging as you want to make it for yourself, and as fast or slow as you want (for the most part). The biggest thing for me, though, is that it reminds me of home (Colorado) and my adopted home (Belgium), now I am in the UK.

Oh good lord how did you wind up in the UK with their strict gun laws???? You need to get home where we have 2A HA HA

[Mille]

Im 41 here, and started playing videogames since i was 4 year old (the coin op era). I love COTW cause i love all the good games, especially the ones with great immersion.
And i really love the slow pace of this one, i like to take long walks when i hunt, explore the maps and take pictures. For the records i don't approve killing animals for sport (don't know if i'm the only one here), but it's a videogame and the virtual hunt experience is very exciting and relaxing at the same time.