The first ever game I had ever played was Robo Cop on the Nintendo. Followed by that I got into Double Dragon (I go so addicted to this game), Zelda, Space Invaders and Mario Bros.
I always remember when the Sega Mega Drive was released, wow was I in heaven! Games that come to mind here was Street Fighter (addicted to this game the most), the first Command and Conquer and Mortal Kombat!
I then moved onto the orginal Playstation, all I can say is "Tekken 2." I really spent way too much time on this game it was quiet rediculous! Hmmm, all those memories of my dad going Yoshimistu and kicking my ass! I used to play either Law or Jack all the time!
When the PS1 started to phase out and good friend of mine (who I grew up with), introduced me to Counter-strike. It was so long ago I can't even remember what version it was then, 1.3 or 1.4 maybe? But what I do remember were the lanning days during the 1.5 period, wow great times were had. I will always say CS 1.5 were the best days for Counter-Strike, for me personally anyway. I was an avid HeaTon fan yup! :P
From here I pretty much stuck with Counter-Strike for YEARS! Like 8 years I think??? Maybe more? Played all the way up into Counter - Strike source. Given between the CS gaming I also played games such as Quake, Doom, Soldier of Fortune, Total Annilhilation and Mech Warrior was pretty cool as well iirc. During this time I also bought an X-Box 360 and PS3, but ummm just realising now... the PC pretty much ended my relationship with console gaming ><.
Now, I pretty much play SC2 only and "sometimes" League of Legends.
I love my first person shooter games, but in the current day and age FPS games are just utter crap. It seems like game developers have lost touch with what people love about FPS games.... Call of Duty? What a joke that game is.
-Gameboy (pokemon mostly) at an early age
- Nintendo64 (zelda ocarina of time, Starcraft [yes on the N64] thats when i fell inlove with playing it)
-Xbox (mainly played Halo and NFS games)
-Computer ( started on vanilla wow and fell in love with playing games on the computer)
-xbox 360 (played alot of Call of Duty games here.)
- SC2 was released so back to computer (with my collectors edition pre-ordered of course:P)
stopped sc2 after all my noobie cheeses were failing. back to WoW. then about 6 months ago. ive worked my way from bronze to diamond! woot.
thats pretty much my gaming life.
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this is mostly in order i think but i've been playing games since i was about 6, so kinda hard to remember them all :P
first game i ever played was dungeons and dragons: blood and magic
- pokemon red
- warcraft 1
- warcraft 2
- warcraft 3
- brood war
- empire earth 1, 2, and 3
- Age of Empires 1, 2 and 3
- Medieval II total war
- Roller Coast Tycoon (WOOT!)
- Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Diablo I, Diablo II (Lord of Destruction)
- and StarCraft II ^_^
probably missed heaps, but that's what i can remember off the top of my head
oh my ganesh! how could i forget one of the greatest games i've ever played?!
Sonic 3 And Knuckles! such a great game!
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Reason: forgot a game LOL?!
I've played a whole lot of games, my favourite genre being RPG and MMO's mostly but recently liking the RTS
- On the original ps, playing games like final fantasy 7/8/9, Gran Turismo, Metal gear solid, Resident evil, tekken etc... Final fantasy was my favourite series ever the stories are so good i finished those games multiple times
- The first game I played through on the PC was age of mythology and then the age of empires games, then i got into counter strike and after playing warcraft 3 started playing wow and tried a few other MMO's after wow became trash swtor etc... played through the mass effect series, all the cod's, gta's, elder scrolls and also got into starcraft 2 and LoL last year
- I also own a xbox360 and play games like fifa on it but I prefer my gaming on PC
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Great thread! I always enjoy reflecting on the past. The good ol' days.
Started out casually playing video games when the NES came out. My dad used to crush my dreams in Tecmo Bowl. I was just a child, but he would absolutely crush me. Haha! I continued to play through the SNES, Genesis, PSX, N64, yadda yadda... I did the entire console circuit, but I just played occasionally with my friends.
The first serious game I ever played was Counter-Strike. My parents moved right in the middle of my high school days and it devastated me. I didn't have any friends at the new school and found myself playing Counter-Strike a lot more. I used to play baseball all of my life, but I quit once we moved because I didn't know anyone and I was nervous. Haha! So funny looking back on this... Anyway, Counter-Strike became my competitive outlet and I was pretty successful at it. My teams won several LAN tournaments and our most notable accomplishment was an 8th place finish at the CPL in Dallas, that's 8th in the world.
I joined the military and I stopped playing Counter-Strike since I didn't have the time to dedicate to it. This is where I found WoW. I never played an MMO before so WoW was an entirely new game to me. I remember the very first character I made was a Dwarf Priest. I didn't understand classes has specific roles and professions, all I knew was this Priest was hard to level. So I switched to a Rogue. From that point forward I was hooked. I played WoW for a long time. It was perfect because at this time I was competing in Jiu Jitsu, which was my competitive outlet, worked my ass off in the military, so WoW was my "Time to relax" game. I loved it!
Then SC2 came out. I watched probably 100 matches before I even bought the game. I never played Brood War, but I appreciated the game. I saw SC2 take off in popularity much like the CS scene did back in the day, so here I am. While I feel like I still don't have time to play SC2 as much as I would like I enjoy the game a lot.
So, in short...
Console games as a child
Counter-Strike Competitively
World of Warcraft for fun
SC2 for I don't know. lol
I'm in a reminiscing mood, prepare for a WALL OF TEXT
I first started writing this in reply to the "your gaming history" thread, but decided it deserved it's own blog (also posted in the thread). :http://www.sc2sea.com/blogs/showentry.php?e=382
Basically I'm going to go through most of the games I remember playing and the good impressions they left me with!
-Command and Conquer original
- Warcraft 2 then Warcraft 1
-Red alert 1
-Playstation: FF7, FF8, Gran Turismo 2 and Tekken 3 were the 4 main games I owned. Played a few other adventure/rpg PS games but these 4 were played to death.
I think I finished about 70% of GT2 which is about 9000 hours of playtime if anyone remembers the endurance races where it's like 200 2 minute laps etc... haha great way to spend a saturday. I absolutely loved the Laguna Seca track in my ol' Honda S2000 or for a challenge using my stupidly suped up Dodge Viper that would spin out at every turn. American cars... erk.
FF7 was one of the best RPGs of all time... so much feeling and atmosphere in this game. Even when I was like 10 years old I lol'd at the graphics at first, but within a few minutes was engrossed. Anyone that didn't cry when Aeris died is a monster.
Tekken was just an awesome social fighting game with hundreds of moves to memorise. Xiaoyu was really hard to use but friggin ridiculous once you figured her out.
Started getting back into PC with SC campaign. Man I loved that first hold-out till the dropships arrive level. It was just like the second Aliens movie. Also as it seems with all old games, the music, voice acting and sound effects just seems to suit the scene so damn well. Sorry SC2 but whenever I hear original SC terran I'll always feel more baller then listening to sc2 scvs and marines.
I never played SC online but did play multiplayer at lan with my brother a little bit. Never really understood the entire tech tree or how to spend resources/expand. Don't think I'd ever really heard of macro till sc2 came out so was pretty bad. Thought I was a genius for dropping zealots in his main to avoid his seige tanks and bunkers!
I remember before that we used to play warcraft 2 and redalert through direct IP link and get d/c whenever someone rang the phone lol. Our (me and my older brother's) parents kept getting annoyed at us for leaving the phone off the hook on weekends :P.
I think we played a lot of other games that were pretty awesome like Dungeon Keeper and Dungeon Keeper 2. I recently replayed these and wow, they are such awesome games. Really nice graphics for their time too. I remember playing a whole host of tech games. I recall my brother replaying over and over some hex-simulation of The Ardennes offensive (battle of the bulge, WWII). I preferred the Fantasy ones though and some were pretty epic. Sometime around here Warcraft 3 came out, goodbye the next 5 years of my life! This was the first online ladder I encountered and after learning how to do the basics in team games I got addicted to 1v1 as well, despite being pretty bad. I was never anything special but I got good at cheesy strats and timings. I always just used FE builds, hidden expansions and tried to win with unit compositions. I don't think I ever realised I was so slow and that if I put in more effort I could creep faster, anticipate their movements and creepjack them etc etc. But hey I was in school and doing standard High school stuff hanging around with friends and stuff so I always had breaks from playing and never really had a Day9 or anything to learn from. I pretty much just found some written up FE builds, as well as some Tillerman replays and copied what they did. Oh also I played random for the most part though my orc and human were strongest.
Best achievement in war3 was staying top 50 in 2v2 AT on US west with my mate. He had never been too strong at the game so after many frustrated team games I told him were gunna bloody well go double Nightelf, double KOTG. We ended up refining this to the point where both KOTGs would go straight to 1 player and kill the hero, we'd run back to 1 of our shops to get clarity pots and drink from our moon wells cos it took all our mana to do that. We'd then harass either seperately or together and pick off a unit here and there until one of us transitioned into glaivethrowers, (oh tier 1 seige how I love you!) and the other would bring 5 wisps and start building Ancient protectors outside one of their mains. This one us pretty much every game we played I remember we had like a 40-60 Win:loss and it went up to like 120-90 once we refined this build. I tell ya, people hated us, ALOT. It felt good to get raged at so much back then lol. We'd always be winning tourneys too then my mate would have to go pick up his gf or get her lunch or some bullshit and we'd barely drop out of the top 16 cos we were 2 matches less played then everyone else it didn't matter we won them all. Damn pussywhipped bastard.
Other games that now come to mind:
-Dark Reign: amazing RTS in terms of AI, terran, mechanics. It was just a sick game. I'm sure multiplayer sucked but I just played campaign and it friggin rocked.
-Age of Empires: this was on all my primary school's pcs and we got to play it all the time and I'd always pwn everyone by being the only one who understood constant villager production lol. I'd end up with iron age Hoplites massacring dozens of axemen.
Oh and I almost forgot. Morrowind
The best game ever made and my favourite game. Where I could disappear into it and play for 12 hours straight without wanting to stop exploring and finishing quests. An RPG where there was actual mystery and atmosphere in a free-roam game. It allowed you to go to places where the enemy were simply too strong for your level so you'd just get killed. And SOMEHOW having not every bad guy being easily beatable made the game seem more REALISTIC and FUN?? Wow I wonder who figured that out.
Oh and my equally favourite RPG is Exile 3. You can download it it's like 3 megabytes and find a crack easily enough for the free shareware version. Tiny game made by a lone programmer but it has a long amount of playtime and is actually an amazing RPG once you get comfy with the interface. Replayed dozens of times, same as morrowind.
Finally: FPS.
CS1.3-1.5 + LAN cafe. Year 7-9 was spent mainly doing these two activities. It's all kind of a blur but I do remember killing 9 people on minidust with a single m4 colt clip. That was pretty baller. Got pretty good at this game but never liked doing the camping/lining up sights with walls/flashbang stuff. Sure if you played as an organised team all that stuff is probably fun. But I just played with random nubs at a net cafe and played for adrenaline and glory. I wanted to charge their fkn asses and shame people by knifing them.
Wallhacks got particularly popular at my net cafe for about 6 months where all the "hard" kids would use them so everyone stopped complaining. Whenever another dickhead would complain they'd just claim everyone was using it so it was only fair... of course most kids all started doing it and I remember being one of the few who straight up refused to. I took it as just another challenge to shame these useless fuckers. So I would usually in a game with 3-4 wallhackers end up first or second and then call them all ******* retards who can't win even with hacks.
Eventually actually played the original Half-life and Half-life 2 single players. And omg half-life 2 is amazing and new and beautiful... but it still has nothing on the original. That game is just the perfect single player FPS.
Favourite things about half-life: the mods!
Obviously CS was most popular half-life mod. But does anyone remember playing with warcraft 3 mod? In this mod you would level up as you got kills and get abilities.
Some of my favourites:
Invisibility - with each level you'd become hard to see until almost invisible completely.
Mass teleport - you could teleport to any of your teammates, hence rendering the "need backup!" command actually useful.
Chain lightning - just do a shitload of damage
Entangling roots - root a person in spot for rest of the level
-cluster grenades - suddenly a frag becomes alot better lol
Even better then the W3 mod for CS though, was Natural Selection. This is one of my favourite games to this day (though I haven't played it in over 5 years).
It's an RTS AND FPS COMBINED!!! Holy shit so good. Basically the levels are always like inside a spaceship/spacestation/mining facility or whatever and its the standard aliens vs marines. Except that you're all workers in an RTS game. The human side get 1 player to hop in the "command chair" and basically give everyone orders and allocate resources. The other players get orders popping up on their HUD such as "go build turret that way" "here's a gun and a big suit of armour" etc etc.
The aliens on the other hand didn't have a commander and had to have better teamwork where you all started as essentially drones and could evolve into all sorts of different aliens. My favourite was one of the most basic fighting aliens that could walk on walls and ceilings and were really small so you'd basically wait above doorways to drop onto marines. I remember one time doing this to two marines in the biggest armour you could get with miniguns. My lil teeth were pretty much just scratching their armour but I was so small and fast moving hopping around biting their faces that it took them a solid 2 minutes to actually hit me with their minigun spray.
Basically Natural Selection combined my 2 favourite genres and was really focused on teamwork. It was a bloody fantastic game that I really miss. Supposedly they've been working on reworking it for half
life 2 for years, dunno if it'll ever happen!
Anyway guys, think I'll leave it at that, I had loads of fun reminiscing!
I started my gaming experience playing the original Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt on the NES, collected only a few games such as Legend of Zelda and Excitebike and Terminator 2 ( which I still have horded somewhere) had at one point had a Commodore 64 which was my first computer, played Wolfenstein on that. I then owned a Sega Master System 2, Sonic 2 was my favourite game for a couple years; would play co-op with my brother. My next system was probably what made me came the gamer I am today which was the Nintendo 64, I absolutely loved Mario Cart, Ocarina of Time, Golden Eye, Conkers Bad Fur Day and so many other awesome games, I was hooked on them all and finished all them multiple times.
During that time I made a discovery on the PC, it was sometime in 1995 when I came across a little demo of a game called Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. It was that game that not only made me be a fan of Blizzard games but also kick started me into the genre of RTS gaming. The demo was only 3 levels but I think I played that through at least 40 times. I eventually got Warcraft 2 and its expansion and loved that along with the original Starcraft and Broodwar and even Diablo.
I lost possesion of a computer for a while so bought a PS2 and played a few games on that, mostly the Final Fantasy series. When I had possession of a computer again I played a lot of RTS games, had all the Blizzard games from 1994 to 2000 and played them pretty regularily. Then I would say around June of 2008 my brother got me hooked into playing World of Warcraft which I still play every now and then to this day, I was obsessed with it for a while losing interest in the game every 6 months, disappearing for a month then going back.
I heard about SC2 coming out and I plsanned on getting it straight away, bought the game online on release date and played through the campaign a couple times. At that time I was playing Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and WoW around the same time.
So thats my long story short of my gaming history, at the moment I am playing a lot of SC2, started playing LoL about a month ago and play Wow every now and then. Looking forward to HoTS and D3 when they come out.
So games that influenced my gaming life today would have to be:
I swear I replied to this thread already... apparently not.
First computer we had was when I was about 9, it had Windows 3.1 and we got it second hand from a friend. I played Duke Nukem, Prince of Persia and things like that... oh and Lemmings (poor little explodey ones!), Battle Chess, whatever was on there really!
I used to play Wolfenstein 3D with my dad, I sat on his lap and i pressed the 'fire' button, he did the rest of the controls.
Then for ages I played whatever we had, eventually Diablo 2 came out and I played the shit out of that, but not much else.
Then I moved out, had babies, and stopped gaming until about 2 years ago, when I started playing D2 again. Met DrGoose, was introduced to Starcraft Yayz!
My strategy roots came from Rome Total War ever since then its really been the only genre i enjoyed, got it back then because of the good graphics (for 2004) ended up joining clans; the community was so good and i can see a mirror in this one! , basically got me interested in strategy games today.
it all started with sega master system 2 and alex the kid and sonic. god that fun playing lemmings and all those old school games.. playing rock paper scissors boss battles.. lol
then on christmas day, when i was 8 years old i was introduced to a little purple box that named itself nintendo 64.
perfect dark
mario 64/karts
007 golden eye
concurs bad fur day
blast corps
starfox
i'm probably missing a tonne but playing these outright fantastic games while you were a kid was pure bliss... but there was one game that stood out from the crowd, a game i devoted hours and hours of playing with me and my friends.. a game so great it was crafted from the hands of god himself and will forever be imprinted in my brain as the highlight of my childhood.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
My god, my feeble child brain couldn't process the awesomeness of this game and i spent hours playing it trying to understand what a masterpiece of a game this was. This game coupled with majora's mask is, IMO one of the greatest games ever created.
I think it was when i was 10 when my family first got its family computer. i remember having these demo disks playing these games on it, just having a blast. i stumbled across a game called metal gear solid and thought that was the coolest game ever. it's a bit of a blur here but my dad, not knowing anything about games came home one day with a orange and black box and on the front it said...
Half-Life
again, my feeble brain couldn't process the awesomeness that was coursing through it as i played through half life.. the monorail intro... the everyday life of a scientist all going wrong.. playing only to survive from an alien invasion and then realising your own kind are trying to kill you aswell.. i've never played a game like that before and didn't know something like that could exist. this game, also, will be imprinted in my mind as one of the best games ever made.
the box also had half-life opposing force and blue shift which were completly awesome to play through.. but there was another game that was coupled with them aswell. little did i know this game was the greatest online shooter ever.
Counter-Strike
i remember playing through the tutorial and somehow found myself on gamespy playing against people in america with my 56k dail up (lol). ahh the times were bad but so good. after a while we got some good internet and 1.6 came out and pretty much fast forward 7-8 years i'm still playing it. counter strike is how i learnt what esports was.
after that it kind of died down. i didn't have the money to buy cool new consols and i was quite happy to play counter strike and sit on my ass 15 hours a day playing final fantasy mmorpg. but now i've decided to embrace gaming and esports again and i've recently built another computer and i bought starcraft2 2weeks ago so.. here we go again
also there are like 100+ games i haven't mentioned but these are pretty much the "pegs" (as day9 would put it) so far with my gaming experience
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I am disappointed with the lack of one of the best games ever being mentioned here. (i only read the first post and the last page though). RTS's helen of troy. RTS's mona lisa. RTS's Tom Selleck's moustache. The perfect game (in my opinion),
Total Annihilation
Loved that shit.
Moving on to my online gaming roots, i began by playing a game called Tribal Wars, a browser based strategy game, where after around 3 months of playing i was the top player in two different worlds and led the top tribe on another world. I was being given a free premium account every month, and was in charge of around 150 people all up. I quit that because of year 11 and 12 and I realised i was literally spending no time doing anything else, sometimes spending all day from 6am until 12midnight on the computer organising things. Still, it gave me great memories and met some cool people.
Moving on to the next genre i got into, FPS's. Being a cheap-ass uni student, I didn't want to pay for CSS or COD, so I started playing a game Byrnsy got me into, called Combat Arms. Brilliant game (or it was back then at least, it's shit now), and again, after spending WAY too much time playing the game, i was one of the best players on the server. Going 1:1 kdr with some of the legends of the game that i happened to be introduced to, I joined a professional clan called -Fusion and was going through the process of joining their starting line up when I failed my first few units at uni and again because of other commitments had to quit.
Now i'm into starcraft, and I am sure that I'll get too heavily into this as well :P
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If we're Terran, let's fly our CC's away! If we're Zerg, let's MASS QUEENS! If we're protoss, let's MASS SENTRIES! EPIC MINDGAMES!
Some Ling-Roach-All-in-Fake-Expo-10-pooling from Jerry there - Dox's bauss casting
As far as online gaming goes, as a kid growing up I was really into MUDs - did heaps of time on the Discworld MUD before they removed experience points from quests, then played another called Legends of Cosrin. About two weeks ago I actually went on a MUD binge and it was amazing, but Legends of Cosrin was completely empty and it was hard to find another MUD that sparked my imagination as such. Probably just getting older, but whenever I get time I'm going to grind the shit out of some MUDs. Any other MUD-players need to get onto me so we can find a server!
From there, I found Diablo 2, and well, it's basically a MUD with graphics and I sunk a huge chunk of my teenage years into it.
Then came Return to Castle Wolfenstein, which had a small yet incredibly close community not unlike this one. I shoutcasted for GameStah! when they first began and led into it's free expansion Enemy Territory which was good but not as good. I quit playing it after a few GA ladder seasons and picked up WC3 and eventually WoW, bands and girlfriends stopped me from playing competitively. I was in a few CoD1+2 clans but nothing after.
Now SC2!
Also - I saw heaps of mentions of the Monkey Island series, I got this done about a year ago! There's more done to it but don't have any other pictures, **** yeah LucasArts
I used to play Age of Empires 2 lan with my brother and lots of starcraft 1 campaign as a young kid but then moved to xbox titles, mainly due to the fact my computer couldn't handle the latest pc titles
From there I turned to FPS titles. Mainly Halo which I have played every single edition religiously (I still play Halo Reach to this day). Modern Warfare 2 took over the number 1 game title for one year as halo 3's use by date expired, but then as Halo Reach came out and black ops destroyed cod, I moved back to halo.
As this happened i regularly watched MLG Halo live streams and started to notice Starcraft 2 getting very big. As a fan of the original Starcraft (only as an avid campaign player), i was determined to get to a decent level at SC2. Only a few weeks ago I reached my goal of making the master league. Starcraft has now taken the current standing as being my number 1 game. Halo: Reach and FIFA 12(Division 1 online, Get around me) now get played when I lose too many games of SC and need a break.
Other games which have affected me include:
-FIFA
-Splinter Cell
-Warcraft 3
-Guitar Hero
-Football Manager
First game I remember playing is Mario 1 and Tetris shortly after that we moved to Queensland and got a SNES and a Megadrive at some point not sure when but I remember playing pretty much all the rpg's including:
-Phantasy Star IV
-Breathe Of Fire 2
-Secret of Evermore
-Secret of Mana
-That game that used a bazooka looking thing
Then came the N64 with the usual Mario 64, Lylat wars, Turok and I think Gauntlet legends.
Its around this time I finally got a PC and had some catching up to do so I got stuck into the oldies but goodies Duke 3d, Quake, Diablo 1, Command and Conquer series. Around this time I went to tafe dragged my now 3 years old shit box pc with me to a tafe student village (my god blue lan cables hanging outside windows every where) where all they played on lan was counterstrike 1.5 and I would only get about 16 fps so I grabbed an advance from centrelink and built a pc for about $700 with bastardised parts out of my old pc eventually joined a local lan team and stomped some local lans for about a year during 1.6 and then wow came out and well yeah game over man wasted so much time on that game ><.
Now I'm in silver league sc2 and spend more time watching then playing hehe
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