Martyn, 28, living in middle England. Happily married, no kids (yet). Qualified aero engineer, but ended up working in IT. No, I don't understand either.
Long time gamer, starting out on a Spectrum then an Amiga. SH3 was my first proper subsim, and despite spending more hours on that game than possibly any other, I never managed to play a career beyond 1940. Consequently, I never received a real good depth charging, and also never died. Hurrah! I'm simply a victim of my own self-inflicted insistence to do things properly and avoid cutting corners, so it takes me forever to make one patrol. Then, with each incarnation of GWX I restarted my career, before 1941 ever came into view.
I skipped SH4 completely - my old PC wouldn't have coped.
Primarily a flight simmer, I use FSX at the moment. Currently hauling freight around Australia with Air Hauler. Used to play IL-2 online in a squadron for many years before moving onto more relaxed flying duties, not involving gunfire (yes, I'm an old man now). Real planes have propellers, btw
Also play strategy games and action/adventure/RPG types. Recently got back into playing Oblivion and chanced across links to realism mods in another thread on this board yesterday - fancy that!
Alas, soon it shall be abandoned once again when SH5 arrives...
I play guitar, although somewhat poorly (who can find time to practise with so many games to play???), so in an undignified effort to boost my ego I picked up a second-hand PS3 with Guitar Hero so now I can really rock
(or so I pretend!). Can't condone consoles otherwise - they're for girls
(just kidding). Like to listen to Dream Theater, Metallica, Symphony X, Iron Maiden, and loads more besides. Distorted guitar makes the world go round
That, and a good cup of tea, of course.
I tend to drift to and from communities such as this one. I get too involved in reading all the threads and end up spending no time playing the games I'm reading about. So I drift away and get playing ... but then the desire to learn about mods brings me back, and I end up modding & reading forums till the cows come home, and actually stop playing again. It's a difficult struggle we face in life, isn't it...?