Starting a thread to discuss our community's gaming background! So tell us what you did before StarCraft II. Were you a BroodWar Veteran returning to SC2? Or were you too young to play BW !
What genres did you enjoy the most? What was your gaming timeline, what did you play and when? Did you play competitively? Did you win anything notable? Tell us!
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My gaming timeline, looooong post. Because I'm old :D
So I'll kick off by writing a super long essay to summarize the list of games I've played. I don't think its complete, I'm sure I left out some here and there.
I've been gaming since the time of 386s. When you need boot disks which came in floppies, when you had to squirt liquid cleaner to clean out a drive cos of fungus buildup. Heh. Those were the days of frogger and alley cat.
Then there was console games, like SEGA 16-bit with stuff like Afterburner and Sonic. But PC games were just too cool. Went on to Command and Conquer, then SC1 came out and changed everyone's lives forever. My friends and I played SC1 in the com labs in school, we cannoned in and carrier rushed each other, until someone discovered that scouts >>> carriers. And that Valkryies >> scouts. We only knew how to use permutations of "12" units cos that was the max control group size? I think. In between here somewhere was the 56k modem era and dialups where you can call your friend on his home phone to play FIFA 97/98 soccer. When "ctrl" + dribble was too overpowered.
I also vaguely remembered playing some FPS called Outlaws on the same LAN in school where I installed Starcraft 1. Outlaws was by Lucasarts and was WAYYY cool. Probably one of the first FPS to adopt the mouselook and WASD commands. We started off using WASD + arrow keys to navigate, then once we discovered the mouse to do commands, the level of play skyrocketed! Shortly after Outlaws, there was also Half-life 1, and that changed everything. HL spawned 2 damn solid mods which ran off the original valve engine, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress. Both were AWESOME, AWESOME games.
Between then there were a ton of not so notable games, but somewhere in 2003? There was WarCraft 3, where I went for the midnight launch, it wasn't even half as cool as the SC2 launch, but it was at midnight! But War3 was short-lived and gave way to dota, where I played with a bunch of uni schoolmates for 2 years for leisure, until we realised we could play competitions We took part in some intra-unis and won some rather funny stuff like speakers and creative mp3 players and a UPS (uninterruptible power supply, that died 6 years later, it served me well, ensuring that my cable modem and computer stayed online during lighting storms and trips!) My most memorable match was at some lanshop in selegie, where they had shuttle PCs. We thought we were pretty damn big hotshots for winning some intra-university shit, so we decided to go to some lanshop to do a pickup game 5v5. We tapped some kid playing O2Jam on the shoulder and asked him if he'd like to play a 5v5 with his friends, and he picked up his phone and called his kakis. The logged into the LAN game and their nicknames were - Tofu, Ice, Lux, Ant and Musica. 4/5 of Team mVp then, soon to become Team Zenith.
Our facial expressions were priceless. Pickup game vs what we thought to be some bulliable sec school kids became the biggest raping of our lives. F***. We lost 56-14. Tofu's veno monsterkilling by 20 minutes. Never again did we ever just wander into a lanshop to get pickupgames.
Then after that, the next big thing came the MMORPGs, I played Guild Wars, and WOW. Guild Wars undoubtedly being imho the BEST RPG 8v8 player vs player experience ON EARTH. I used to skip lectures to stay at home to join a US team to climb the Guild vs Guild ladder. Obviously the Koreans were pwning everyone at Guild Wars too, until they had to enter the army. Burnt out after GW, one of my guildwar guildmates gave me a WOW trial account 2 weeks before WOTLK. I was hooked and ended up raiding 25Naxx 2-3 weeks after WOTLK was released and that went on until the SG guild fizzled out and died doing 25Ulduar. Always wanted to do ICC but after SC2 came out, I guess there's just not enough time!
I must have missed out a ton of games, but there's just too much shit to list out. Right now, I'm working, and still gaming, and looking forward to Gran Turismo 5's launch in November! And more funky Playstation Move titles And yeah, damn I'm old, but I still love gaming. So share your story!
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I have been into gaming many years back ... was playing Brood War but pick it up kinda late, so i did not go into the competitive scene.
Then later on i took the competitive scene when Warcraft 3 came out. Join my 1st WCG in the year 2003, played all races except Orc, i was an active Warcraft 3 player then college and work came along and i do not have sufficient time for training but still attend local tournaments if im able to. My favorite tactics for humans are tower rushing my opponent base in Warcraft 3, it was hilarious.
I game back to WCG in 2007 and played C&C but did not make it passed round 3. Revenant was still the best C&C player at that time.
Due to my shift work, i quit competitive gaming shortly after that until now. Starcraft 2 made me come back to it. Starcraft 2 is new and many new player will surely try to master it. Well ... it takes only few minutes to learn but take years to master.
That's all about my gaming life. Nothing great about it but im loving it. GL HF GG!
gameboy>playstation> diablo2> wc3 > maplestory > dota > cabal(quite into this) and now sc2 ^^. never been good at any of them until cabal hahaha. still love that game if there wasnt any hacks or bots.
love your tofu boy story mezza, haha what are the odds of that happening?
sizematters i think u meant ravana not revenant
i started my gaming history with super mario on the NES when i was 7 years old. my dad bought it for me and i am so happy he did that coz i would never have gone down the gaming path and had all these epic years of fun if not for him. later he bought me a sega and super nintendo. my favourite games on these were golden axe, RTKIII, sonic, herzog zwei, pele, uncharterd waters 1/2, and a very primitve version of wining 11 which was insanely more fun then the current ones.
when i got my PC i never went back to consloe games cause pc games were soooo much better. i got a playstation but barely played it. had the whole rock band /gh world tour set up too but never liked as much as pc games
im super open minded and love trying new stuff so i basically played every decent game which came out in the last 10 years. sadly, after a few days of trying new games i end up gravitating back towards the blizzard games coz they are sooooo much better. ie 90% of my gaming time was spent on sc1BW, ROC, TFT/SC2, WoW D2 D1 in that order.
notable non blizzard games i enjoyed briefly (probably under 2 weeks of play before im done with it):
theme park, theme hospital, dungeon keeper, heroes of might and magic 3, the sims, rollar coaster tycoon, c&c, worms, civilzation, half life, cs, rainbow6
fav non blizz games with more than 2 weeks of play:
GTA san andreas/gta 4 (this was probably best non blizz game i played), monkey island series, sam and max, day of the tentacle, unchartered waters II, romance of the three kingdoms 3, fallout1/2, dragon age, fable
Started playing SNES etc. but then moved on to PC games at like 14-15ish years old when a mate hosted some LAN parties and I loved games like WC3, SC1, Tribes, CS, UT, NetStorm, Dark Reign.
Most of my play time would be on CS:S and then WC3 before I moved on to Guild War for a long time and then SC:BW relatively recently like 2 years ago.
Started on an old 286 way back when, early games were digdug and moonbugs.
Many a game since then, some notables include, Paganitzu, Pod, TimeLapse, Tie Fighter...
I was always a little slow to upgrade my pc so generally i'm a PC generation behind on my games.
Mainly PC game but took a couple of detours (Populas, Civ2, Dune2000 on Playstation).
Somewhere along the line I missed most of the Blizzard games, I had demo of an early version of diablo but that was about it, then a about 2yrs ago my girlfriend introduced me to starcraft 1 and broodwar. I've played mainly starcraft in it various forms since then.
I started gaming when i was about 6y/o(yes young i know) and played the classics like sonic as well as sc1 and BW. After that i started playing Halo for quite a while and have played all of them except for Reach(too busy playing sc2 to go buy/play it). I then started to play random free internet games like Maplestory/Combat Arms. When Diablo 2 came out i also went and played that as well as wc3. Ive also played a few other RTS like Red Alert 3 and Yuri's revenge. Then i went on to play tons of xbox 360 games of which are too numerous to list. And now im playing SC2 . But of all the games ive played ,except for the free ones, i played all of them offline and only with friends who came to my house. These are just some of the more notable games which i played at home, but i would also go to the arcade once in a while.
Started my first game experience with Nintendo's Captain Tsubasa. Which was probably 12 years back? When I was 9 years old. As years went by, technology advanced.
Hopped on the Playstation, Final Fantasy 7, Final Fantasy 8, Tactics, Metal Gear Solid, Xenogear.. bla bla bla, could go on for who knows how long.
Here comes the more exciting part, MMOs.
From 13 years old until recently, I have been playing MMOs like crazy.
Games I played for some time (more than a few months):-
Dark Ages, Renewal Online, Conquer Online, Priston Tale, Silkroad, Shattered Galaxy, WoW and Pirate King Online.
I couldn't list everything I have played based on memory unless I pull out my gaming resume. (Used to apply for jobs relating to gaming) Yes I've been a Game Master for 2(Twelve Sky 2 & PKO) and could have been 3(Asiasoft offered, rejected due to current job) companies. Lol.
I started my first game when i was 8 years old. Been hooked ever since. I still remember my very first strategy game was "Z" or Zed. Man that was a classic! After that i went on to play C&C and a whole bunch of other games. I played CS joined SadistiC for awhile before i left to play with friends as a clan.
Then when WOW came out played hardcore for a few years in between the expansions i stopped playing due to commitments (exams,gf,etc) then i started Maplestory which was boring imo, LOTRO, Guildwars, but i didnt like any still so i continued WOW till WOTLK raiding naxx25 getting my shadowmourne, then now im playing SC2 and whenever i feel too stressed i play Dragonica to kill time.
Never touched a playstation nor a nintendo in my entire life. which makes me think i should get one now since i can afford it =/
hahaha Melchsee i rmb Z too, was pretty fun and lots of singaporeans played it!
omg yea im sure MMOs are a big part of every true gamers life for a phase or so. i was sucked into WoW too, played the blizzard alpha for like a year when the game was still undevelopment (lucky i was on blizzards friends list!) and then i never bought the retail cause i just knew i would be too addicted to it and it would harm my life lol
... and played the classics like sonic as well as sc1 and BW...
He calls Sonic a classic. Man I'm old. Classic to me is Test Drive, alley cat, tapper, pac man and all those monochromatic/4 color monitors, boot disks and Macs that looked the same as a PC exteriorly and a cool PC was one which had a black coloured case instead of the nondescript offwhite/pale/beige coloring.
F*** i'm old.
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He calls Sonic a classic. Man I'm old. Classic to me is Test Drive, alley cat, tapper, pac man and all those monochromatic/4 color monitors, boot disks and Macs that looked the same as a PC exteriorly and a cool PC was one which had a black coloured case instead of the nondescript offwhite/pale/beige coloring.
F*** i'm old.
actually if people remember sonic, i can say golden axe, metal slug, pac man all time favourite on sega.. i still have my old sega setup stored somewhere LOL ! and it works !
i started playing with atari first console dont remember the name .. then got a ps1 when i was in 8th grade and since then i never looked back.. started playing counter strike but was never really good at so i quit and started my first rts Age of Mythology..i got pretty good and won quite a few tournaments including WCG India..then started playin wc3 ... sifted to dota pretty soon but it got boring very fast. Started World of warcraft, my frnds always did pve which was never interesting to me, got boring after my 2nd or 3rd raid so i left my guild and joined a pvp guild ..it took me around 5 months to learn my class and every other class in the game .. i got my first glad nick in season 4 actually my only glad nick lol. then my arena team quit gaming to find a real job and i did the same ... since i could not get away from gaming i decided to choose a career in gaming and now in singapore doing a course in game development and i play sc2 in my free time...
Hmm started out with snap, and then old maid and donkey... Then I discovered the joys of UNO!! Omg so much fun....
Seriously though... Ignoring all the old console games I started out on sc:bw and graduated to Cs very shortly after, screwing up my o lvls in the process... Then when all my poly classmates are playing d2 I screwed up my first two poly years. My 3rd year was screwed up by wow and I continued on all it's related expansions.... Never excelling in any of those games.. Then I got sc2... And not excelling in it either... In between dabbled with various games like civ, dod (which is the only game I excelled in), shattered galaxy...
played offline games as a kid, starcraft/red alert/TA/, was amazed by fps games too like half life, deus ex. Went into multiplayer gaming with SC, which i suffered at for a long time heh. Played WoW for like 3 years until wotlk came out, then played some more sc, then poker, then sc2 came out and been playing that.
**** so many good games, first games i played were Blood and Dungeon Keeper.
-Blood
-Duke 3d
-Doom
-Dungeon Keeper
-Carmageddon
-The Curse of Monkey Island
-Grim Fandango
-Planescape: Torment (play this motherfuckers)
-Omikron: The Nomad Soul (Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain are dumbed down 'sequels' to this)
-Deus Ex (aged a lot needs fan remake\update but cracked huge boners in it's day)
-Half Life
-Max Payne
-Black & White
-Shenmue
-Stalker
Many more games, i'm doing a massive playthrough of old games at the moment starting with Omikron and Planescape: Torment.
PC games are the best, i owned consoles for a bit but got rid of them, this last generation has been shit, everybody cracking boners over Mass Effect and Fable butt poo **** that.
Seriously they can't even make a simple fps lately, it's all set piece bullshit, Duke might come back to rock some balls though.
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My first game I remember playing was digger on atari! and then it was space invaders, followed by super mario bros. After Nintendo, I played civilization and I was pretty crazy about turn-based strategy. Played a bit of D&D, then Warcraft: Orcs vs. Humans came out. Followed almost all Blizzard games from then on. Played WC2, Diablo, SC, Diablo 2, WC3, WoW and now SC2. Casually, of course. I didn't even know that pro-gaming existed until this year! That's kinda sad. Always been too afraid to enter tournaments, and now I don't even have time to practice. Will try help out with the publicity of SEA e-games too. I'm really interested in that.
I started off with Simcity 2000 in primary school (it was on every school computer. Played a few other Sim- games, up to the Sims 2.
Played AoE - only played multiplayer a couple of times against friends, same with Age of Mythology. Got the expansion, The Titans, which I played for I dunno, 6 years? I made it into the top 25 at one stage when I was a fairly solid 1800, but mostly played around the 1750 mark. I didn't buy AoE3 because I didn't like the demo at all. It's such a change from a game that hasn't had a patch for 4 years or cheat bannings for 3.
I played Borderlands for a bit when TT got old, which was fun. I also like the Halo series, but don't own a 360, but I get my fix at mates' places.
I have played a LOT of games in my time and all blizzard games at least a decent period of time. I played a lot of warcraft 3 when I was about 14-15 I believe and attended some tournaments in the city at that time. At my peak I made it into the quarter finals of some big tournament and then lost to the guy who would end up winning it, remember.west. All blizzard games have been amazing and i've been addicted at some stage to them all.
The best game I ever played though and the one I spent most time playing was by far Quake 2. More specifically the mods Action Quake and Jump. No games will EVER compare.
I used to play WoW a lot 2-3 years ago and playing it for about 2 years, raiding everynight in a very good raiding guild. I then switched to console (Xbox) playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 competitively, ranked top 15 in Australia on the most active and most played competitive gaming website in Australia (www.cybergamer.com.au) I then moved to Call of Duty: Black Ops also on Xbox and getting into a very good team when I was on holidays practising up to 15 hours a day and ranking quite high in the cybergamer ladder beating many top teams. I picked up Starcraft 2 to play extremely casually with a friend back in about November and loving it so much I quit competitive Xbox to play SC2. I started taking SC2 seriously wanting to get better and better at it at the end of Janurary playing about 900 games from then to now.
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Play Brood War as a kid, but only the campaign. Played a few RTS's over the years, but SC2 was the first I went online with.
Was mainly a console gamer as a kid and teenager. Still basically am, except I only play SC2 these days. Might change when all the bland stops coming out on consoles. But then Porotal 2 is soon, so that probably won't change.
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Played my first game 2 RTS, red alert and wc1 when i was primary 3. started playing sc1 when i was primary 5 but back then, I only have 56k so i don't play bnet often. Sec 1 started playing diablo 2 at a insane rate for 5 years ( started wc3 when i was sec 4). Diablo 2 is the game I put played the most hardcore and was earning big bucks from selling high runes and build the prolly most geared barb and sorc in singapore at that time.
I played wc3 frm sec 4 until my ITE days ( and lots of dota ). Wc3 gave me the most memories. I still rmb meeting iceiceice at compass point and i was like WTF tis guy is so tall. Still rmb meeting ppl like mi2-ownu etc. The days when everyone will hang out at clan chns like DsD,mVp etc to look for friend 1v1 match, observers. Also rmb IRC when everyone spam IP and playing ladder match wid ppl like sagara and a human player whom i rmb was 1 of the best non-bnet player i ever since but cant rmb the name. Started with Z something...always use pink
During my dota days, I rmb hanging out at those irc channels looking for clan wars and getting a group of randoms kicking noobs ass everywhere ( unless we suay kana zenith den we tio trash ). Rmb winning clans like DN* and they went raging at us lol
After all tis, I played maple in between, again selling mesos earning money and that is the reason why I don't work part time last time. During my NS days in army I played WoW. When I ORD, I signed on and met friends who played SC2 and WoW. Recently I quit WoW and will focus on SC2 once again hoping to find the long loss community of wc3
I used to play Quake 1 competitively for a while and have really enjoyed way too many games in my time to remember. What I DO remember though is that all those games are basically "filler" in between Blizzard titles :P
SC:BW, SC2, War3 even WoW etc are all games that I enjoy more than any other. Quit WoW shortly after Cataclysm though. I really enjoyed playing SC:BW and War3 online, but have really got into SC2 as my first serious competitive RTS (as in I play it every day and attend tournaments).
I'm in that category of "**** I'm old", my first Blizzard game was Lost Vikings :P Have played and loved every single one since. Oh, also XCOM was for sale as a package on Steam so playing that a bit in between SC2 laddering
Hmmm If i were to name all the games in my cupboard, my hand would hurt.. But i think from a really young age i started to play Racing games etc.. (who doesnt love cars when they are a young boy!)
transitioning into rts started with the first command and conquer, to red alert, to starcraft and warcraft.. i remember very little as all these games where just for a bit of fun once and a while as kid.
I really got hooked on gaming when war3 and aoe3 came out..
Was ranked top 1st-10th for the last few years on aoe3 untill/as it died.. (think im still ranked around 20th rofl).
But yeh other than the odd fps (bf2, bfbc2, cod, CSS, etc.)
I really loved my RTS which consisted of:
(in the last few years)
C&C Generals ZH
Age of Empires 3
Dawn of War 1 & 2
Company of Heroes: O.F
Total Wars: Rome, Medieval 2, Empire
Starcraft 2!
But since aoe3 Died and i started to watch the GSL , i have been really hooked on sc2 wooT! ahha
OH and still play League of Legends for a break from sc2 when im having a bad time laddering XD
- Doom
- Raptor
- Wacky Wheels
- Duke Nukem 2/3D
- Command And Conquer (Red Alert 1,2,3, Tiberian Dawn/Sun/Renegade/Wars)
- StarCraft 1, Retribution, Brood War, but I was too young and I have absolutely no idea what was multiplayer.
- Final Fantasy 1,2,3,4,5,6,X
- COD 3, 4 (MW1), 5 (World at War), MW2, Black Ops - MW2 was the only FPS game I got into Multiplaying
- WarCraft 2 and 3 (Still play that regularly)
- Halo 1 and 2, don't have 3 because of no 360.
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Core i7 2600k @ 4.4 GHz. 16 GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 780.
Website: http://youtube.com/MusicHaven2012 - Painfully below average gamer.
Wonder if anyone remembers these.
My favorite once were Fragile Allegiance and M.A.X. (Mechanized Assault & Exploration)
I also played the Mechwarrior series a lot, including the original 1987 game, but mostly MW4 of course.
Of the recent apart from SC2 I liked Apache Air Assault - helicopter sim.
I also like Supreme Commander and its predecessor - Total Annihilation, and the original Starcraft for the marvelous plot and delivery.
Age- 7:
-Started with nintendo famicom-played mario and b-wings.
-Played arcade games in malls like puzzle bubble and mortal kombat and got watched at..(love the bragging rights)
this went on for about 2 years, while my mom was constantly hiding my famicom coz I was starting to get addicted. but I still had good grades back then tho.
Age 10-
-Got my first SNES, still played mario and donkey kong..
-played mortal kombat on my console this time..kicked my brother off a double deck bed for owning me.
- had so much fun with SNES.can't remember the lot of games I played with it..
Age 11-
-Got a sega dreamcast, now playing SNES and sega at the same time, getting more addicted this time..
- played shenmue, DOA (gotta love the characters.especially the girl characters).
- still playing mario..
Went on a 3 year hiatus coz I had to catch up with my schooling.
Age 15- Computer age started..
- played MDK, streetfighter, max payne, civilizations- bashed my first keyboard..
Age 17- golden age..
- Got my PS1, internet was already stating to bloom, threw my SNES, sega dreamcast and famicom..
- Played MGS, crash bandi, twisted metal, all final fantasy games 7-9 and whole lot more..starting to decline with my grades in school, but no fails and still managed to finish with out back subjects or summer classes.
- Starcraft started..played it eversince, moderately good at it tho.
Age 18-20-
-Still playing SC and counter strike
- still playing PS1 this and got my PS2 because of MGS2 and FF10
- played GoW and GTA, RE4
- played dance dance revo at malls
- Threw my PS1, coz i killed it playing.. R.I.P baby. T_T
- Playing competitively with Red alert
Age 21-present.
- graduated from college after 4 years
- got my first job
- played still the usual consoles and games
- MMORPG started with ragnarok here in the PH-Got addicted then killed it due to bots
- played SF, gunbound,half life and still competitively playing counter strike..stopped SC coz I started to suck and I got lesser practice from working
- got my PS3, played MG4, GTA, GoW, FF12, FEAR, deadspace, Littlebigplanet, modern warfare, RE5
- Buffed up my PC with 30 thousand PHP worth of buffs, played crisis 1-2, generals,WOW and anticipating SC2.
- playing SC2 now..silver league..stopped all my games, even sold my PS3 (i miss her T_T) for this game..and I still suck to date.. lol.
thats all folks.
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I'm a hardcore FPS competitive gamer.
I started playing competitively when I was 12, with games such as DooM 2 (only FPS I could play competitively at 300+ ping :P), Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, QuakeWorld and Counter-Strike: Source. I've also played competitively in Quake Live until recently.
Aside from that, other games I've played competitively are Pokemon (what of it) and Tekken 4/5. I lost interest around the age of 10 in games that didn't provide me with the ability to defeat someone or a high score ^_^
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Started out on a Commodore 64 with games like Stunt Car Racer & Speedball 2.
Had a period without much gaming till we got a PSX. Played it to death before graduating to an Xbox then a 360. Played all sorts of game, though none competitively.
Played and enjoyed all sorts of games from every genre.
Finally bought my own computer, since Dad wouldn't let us have games on his. :/
Got into AoE 2 & Starcraft: BW. I've always enjoyed RTS games, but have also been terrible at all of them until I started with SC2. Loving SC2 and playing it when I can. Trying to enter a few tourney's here and might even find some local ones to enter at some point.
Started with an amstrad cpc6128 tape drive where you had to write your own games and save them one screen at a time or it was lost. played rambo on that alot then inherited a disk version of the same machine, various other things like tandy, c64, amiga 500, sega, then a 486dx 33 that was state of the art, played robocop and a game called epic on that. Saved some lunch money and purchased c&c and wc2 which i played over a modem with a friend of mine when we were in high school, upgraded the pc with a bnc network card and lugged that thing all over the country "mummy im going to my mates place, you are taking me and im taking the computer" played way to much quake "used to dream about it" and then got into ultima online which lasted me a couple of years. then psx ps2 and ps3 fps and now back too pc and sc2, doing a job i like and playing as much Sc2 as i can till the missus gets annoyed and tells me to go to bed.
this is almost always when in the middle of something crucial.
My history of gaming started when I was at the age of ten. A family friend who at that time was a somewhat computer technichan arranged my own personal computer. That pc was fast at that time and it was a 386 and during that time I first learned the game of Warcraft Orcs and Humans. As I was playing the game I first noticed that multiplayer can be played with a modem and through dialing with another person's computer, but then I was too young to understand that concept of multiplayer.
I also bought my first SNES, but I played almost all family computer games back then. Warcraft was the first game that I ever tried to play with a serious intent. I would repeat missions over and over. I still remember there were icons of conjurer and cleric, and that the fog of war was silly.
After some time I got used to warcraft and command and conquer: Red Alert was in hail. I played that game through my middle school (Grade 7 to first year high school). At that time I already had a 486 and the computer was powerful enough to run good games. I also played some Doom and Heretic too. But I was really fond of strategic games. I would skip club activities and then would go to the internet cafe by learning to take jeepney or a bus on my own (which my parents didn't allow).
During my second year of high school, Counterstrike and Starcraft was first introduced. I still remember the countless times I had to really skip my clubs / class to save seats in the internet cafe for usually eight to ten people. We would then play counterstrike and starcraft. I was zerg that time and I thought building a mighty all hydralisk force was already godlike. But it was eaten by one group of battlecruisers that time. We were still quite kids and didn't know more about strategies.
I skipped warcraft 2 and then during my fourth year in high school through maybe second year in college I played a lot of warcraft 3. I played with some good players from the Philippines ex: Jaczie and the like. I entered into small time tournaments in cafes as well and made a good tower rushing strategy. Well Tower rush was famous during that time. It was good to last , then when reality hit me when I was in third year of college, I was forced to resign in gaming for a good number of years.
Now I am already 28, I would like to make a comeback by playing some starcraft 2. I am still noobish at this game with only a platinum league rank. I still consider myself a bit noob because I always feel I get supply blocked a lot.
I also am playing Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion and would be playing Tekken Tag 2 when it comes out.
My favorite players of all time would still be SlayerS BoxeR for his endurance and resiliency and perseverance in starcraft as well as gaming world.
I play most of blizzard games just for fun. The most relax and fun I have is World of Warcraft and for me star craft is like a quick and intelligence type with quick response.
I started off with Command and Conquer, some of the orignal Final Fantasy games ( I've finished FF1,4 and 6) and I used to play SC:BW a bit when I was younger, but i could never get the hang of it. Now I play SC2 and a few other games such as Oblivion and Team Fortress.
Dune2 (now abandonware, I'm replaying it right now )
Z (best RTS of all time, "google for bitmap brothers")
Total Annihilation
Command and Conquer (all of them including Red Alerts)
Warcraft (all)
Supreme Commander 1 & 2
Dawn of War 1 & 2
Starcraft 2
Soooo... Couldn't help but notice you left 7 out. Please explain? Que pasa?
I have nothing against FF7. I just don't have the game when I was young till date. Neither do I have a PS1 during that time. I would definitely play it because i know it's an awesome good game. I'm playing Crisis Core because of that. I'll definitely play FF7 if it is released for HD Blu Ray for PS3.
Anyway, this is how FF7's story progresses:
Crisis Core, FF7 then Advent Children. - to get the best from the storyline.
Tio Boh? (Now you know?)
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Core i7 2600k @ 4.4 GHz. 16 GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 780.
Website: http://youtube.com/MusicHaven2012 - Painfully below average gamer.
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Started out on a Commodore 64 with games like Stunt Car Racer & Speedball 2.
Stunt car racer and speedball ftw!
My parents thought 'pc games' were just a phase I was going through.. fkn bought me a 386 laptop though (at the time kewl). Pentium 133mhz was my first 'fast' pc though, 2mb graphics card! I'm so old now T___T
Where to begin??
Well, from the beginning the very first game I played was FF7 on PS1 when i was 4, to this date it is my favourite game of all time (No hate please). Continuing on from there I proceeded to play FF8 and FF9 along with my GameBoy Colour games Pokemon Yellow FTW. Then I got PS2 and played FF10 pretty much, Xbox came along and played the shit out of Halo, Halo 2 Dead or Alive 3 Timesplitters 2 and 3. Then, there was the 360 that awesome sick as white box of goodness. Halo 3 Halo Reach CoD 2,3,4,5,6,7 Street Fighter 4 Lost Odyssey the list goes on...
It wasn't until recently my friend introduced me to the Resident Evil series which I love now, as well as Dino Crisis on PS1. I also have a PSP which I spend ages on Monster Hunter Freedom Unite looking forward to localised Portable 3rd (The next one in the series) so far only in Japan But with that said, SC2 is the ONLY computer game I play, I have Supreme Commander 2 but that sucks. As far as RTSs go, SC2 is my favourite, although I have played a lot of the Command and Conquer series as well as WC3 which I played at LANs a bit with some friends. Formerly known as Games Village, then known as 1Frog Gamesworld and now it's something else...
I only played games casually until about 2007 where I went to eGames expo in melbourne with some mates and destroyed a CoD5 LAN, from there I joined CG and got pretty good at CoD. Now I watch eSports pretty much every day and aspire to having some form of career in eSports
Grew up in Korea watching Brood War then came to Singapore when I was 4 and played some Halo: Combat Evolved then it was BroodWar, Maplestory, CS 1.6, Warcraft 3, Dota, CoD:MW2, Black Ops, CSS,TF2 then Starcraft 2 & MW3.
I started playing BW and sucked so bad haha, people BM'ed me for being so bad... It was my first time playing multiplayer online :'(
A few weeks later I bough supreme commander forged alliance, which was pre awesome to play and got right into it. Managed to get to the top 300 ranked players before having to give it up for university, and funny enough my hero was TLO, and his partner TBO (the big one).
Then coming back from my break I find out he is pro SC2 and im 3 years out of high end gaming
Talk about sucks haha
Im coming for you TLO!!!!! I challenge you to sc2 and SC:FA
I only played games casually until about 2007 where I went to eGames expo in melbourne with some mates and destroyed a CoD5 LAN, from there I joined CG and got pretty good at CoD. Now I watch eSports pretty much every day and aspire to having some form of career in eSports
I went there! There were so many comps dedicated to CoD5 and Quantam of Solace.
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The Chad is great!
My first agme I ever played was, LYLAT WARS (worth the caps), then I went onto playing battle realms with my primary school bf, we were like fully sick at it, it wasnt long after primary school that I got into xbox live halo, I played that for 3 years maybe, got semi good at it, got bored of xbox though, so I thought I would give WoW a go since one of my mates was all like "yeah man its pretty sweet ey" so I got the battlechest, lol best 80 bucks ever spent, I got a trial for sc2 in the case which made it worth it, I played WoW for like 2 days and I was doing nothing but greiving dungeons lol. now its me and sc2 for a long time
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well I started playing pacman and stuff as a kid which eventually evolved to me getting a PS1 and playing final fantasy 7, 8 and 9 which then moved on to pc games my first pc game ended up being Starcraft although I did only play it offline and in LAN eventually I got to warcraft 3 although I can say I wasn't exactly decent at the game and then came dawn of war all the way to soulstorm and pretty much took a break from RTS until a year after SC2 came ( got the game after my friend invited me to play it and I've been hooked ever since) oh I've been playing Skyrim a bit too much now I'm trying to get back into SC2 :P
Ahhhh the old days.....An Atari 800XL was the first console, if you can call it that, it took cartridges, and we had all the usual stuff, Donkey Kong, Pac Man.
Then I moved on to the Nintondo, the first one, with Mario Brothers. Played that to death.
After that it was the Sega Master System with the ever lovable Alex the Kid, picked up a few games from that, but nothnig really stood out.
The PS1 was a big step up, but again didn't play a lot of games on it.
It wasn't until I started playing Quake that I really enjoyed gaming. That (obviously) moved on to Unreal, and Unreal Tournament, and the joys of online gaming with a 300 ping.....hahah
From there I played a lot of Red Faction online, we even had our own clan, and probably the 2nd or 3rd best team in NZ. After this it was Red Alert and into BW.
The rest is history. Don't play as much as I'd like anymore, but I'm old and married, and work full time.
Funny how I find this thread after I was just sharing with some friends something similar. My first RTS games were probably Ancient Art of War at Sea and Dune 2. But before that my brother and I played Atari games and other smaller simple PC games. Then moved on to warcraft, c&c, sc1, master of magic, heroes of might and magic etc etc. Bought this super long cable to lan up between my brother's comp and mine across 2 bedrooms so that we can play broodwars... tried games such as diablo and descent but much prefer RTS games... though descent is pretty cool
I played dota dota dota , and only dota is my history , after heard of starcraft 2 , i got the game and start playing team game.. always scare to play 1v1.
well that's all i can tell for my history , whenever i get stressed from sc2 , i play dota.
Played WoW Pre-BC then BC for a little - Narkan: Night Elf Hunter on Aman' Thul
Played in a top 6 in Aus/NZ Battlefield 2 team as a Commander - Team Renegade
Played in a top 6 Battlefield Bad Company 2 team as a Tank driver for 8v8 (Top 4 of the tank crews in Aus) - Team 7
Played in a #1 team in Battlefield Bad Company 2: 4v4 Squad Rush as a medic - Team 7 (#1 on the only ladder for a while then quit)
Currently playing Counter Strike Source and SC2 Silver (mainly with mates and some prac games against mates).
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
I went along a natural line of progress I guess and I think I transitioned slowly but well, I didn't start PC Gaming for quite a while but I enjoyed my time as a COMPLETE Nintendo fanboy.
Started with:
- Pokemon
- Banjo Kazooie - Banjo Tooie
- Smash Brothers Tournaments
- Super Smash Bros Melee Tournaments
- PC - Diablo 2
- PC - Runescape
- PC - Silkroad Online
- PC - World of Warcraft
- PC - CS 1.6
- PC - League of Legends
- PC - Starcraft 2.
Took me a while to find my way but I finally did and I am happy, also happy Diablo 3 is finally out as that is where I started playing my PC and taking it as seriously as I did Super Smash Brothers Melee. At the moment now just D3, Starcraft and League of Legends with some World of Warcraft mixed into the solution whenever I have time due to having the Annual Pass for free diablo.
Well, my first real 'venture' into video games was Kingdom Hearts.. This is going to be a long post because... well, video games have really impacted who I am as a person and how I think.
Alright, so I began my gaming career in 1999-2000 with a Ps1, I was 4-5 at the time. I can't recall what my first ever game was, but I remember Hercules and Technu were one of the first. I would wake up at around 5-6 each morning to play Hercules, hear that nostalgic ps1 opening sound, and just play.
2001 came around, and I was introduced to Kingdom Hearts and Harry Potter, the first being a titular and important part of my gaming career. I have spent around 200+Hours playing Kingdom Hearts, and I imagine I'll probably spend another 200+ when I have the chance, haha.
So, predominately I'm playing Kingdom Hearts and Harry Potter, then I enter my first foray into RTS's, and PC games in general, with Warcraft III. It's 2002 and my father sends down games like Quake, Alice In Wonderland (the lovecraftian version, there's a ps3 sequel to it which I plan on buying soon) and Clive Barkers Undying. All great games, and I was a little bit too young to understand what they were all about, haha.
Around two years passed, so now it's 2004. I've played Kingdom Hearts all the way through, got frustrated and rage-quite LoTr with Legolas as my main character because I couldn't kill that ******* boss (the giant troll dude), lots of rage ensued. For my birthday, I am given Aladdin on the PC, but I only have a laptop to play it with. Around now I also grew my long infatuation with sport and football (tennis, afl largely). With this, I grew that urge to be better than 'Good' at something, I would kick a football and play against my imagination in the backyard, set up targets.. I remember Port Adelaide won the premiership that year, I was pretty happy it wasn't Brisbane (haha).
However, throughout all of this, I couldn't play through many other games besides Kingdom Hearts. Hell, I even cried when the game ended. it was so good. I can't pick up the game now without getting kind of sad that I'm 17 now.
So, let's skip ahead to 2005... Around this time I am introduced into World Of Warcraft through my father (people may know him as Sp4mfilter, if so, hello! I'm his son!) who played Mage and basically said 'Hey son! Try this game out!'. So.... I did. And I played, and played.. I would contest with my older brother to be the first to play it.. I had a Tauren Warrior I named 'Heta' (named after Heater, geddit? geddit?) and my brother Alex played a Gnome Warlock. We would play around an hour each. I never wanted to leave Melbourne, but unfortunately I had to go home. The following years, I would hunger for games like WoW, I would spend many hours looking for that feeling, but was never able to find it.
So, it's early 2007 now, I haven't played WoW like I used to for two years, and I've never gone past lvl 12. I've played GTA III to death, I nearly completed Rachet & Clank, I nearly completed Spongebob Squarepants.. (All of which I got in 2003-2005, but haven't really left a lasting impression on me like WoW has). I wanted that similar feeling for ages. Eventually, after a long night of youtubing', I come across a video entitled 'God Of War Intro Cutscene'. I used to collect Horrible History Magazines back in 2003-2004, but dropped it after issue 23? 24? Couldn't keep up with it. That magazine itself developed my massive interest and excellence in History, but that's another story, haha.
I watched a lot of God Of War videos, but never really played the game. I was back in Melbourne, and my father was in a very bad financial position in Batman Ave, so me and my brother watched 'Black Books' (which I cannot suggest enough) and played Video Games.
Here, I was introduced to Steam, and with that Tf2. This is around a month or two after it's release, and my brother is on the other laptop playing Bioshock (which was new to everyone, Dad was raving how it was 'influential') while I also took my first foray into lan gaming by playing a German copy of Metroid: Prime Hunters with Alex on the DS 1v1. Needless to say, I won, and during this time he was also in High School and I was in... I think year 5? There's a 3 year age gap between us, go figure. haha.
I think that this was also the first time I ever played the Xbox, I cannot recollect completely, but I remember I played a game where your character transforms into a lot of things to complete a puzzle.. whether it be a bear or any animal of any sort.
So, after my short stint with Tf2, it's late 2007, and my father promises to give me WoW for 6 months.
Needless to say, I am pumped. I get to go back to where I was most comfortable, I was always an awkward child, haha. I rolled a Dwarf, then an Undead, Then a Dwarf again... In comes the crime of indecision. I couldn't decide what race/class to role! Every one had *that* feel to it, I would stay up every night just playing everything, experimenting, exploring with every race/class... but I just couldn't decide. I would re-roll and re-roll.. Eventually I settled on a Dwarf named Lingua on NA (If anyone remembers that, Hihi!).. Around now I develop my handle of 'JungleNed' from a farside comic, and it's stuck since then.
So, I get to level 24 and my foray into High School comes around. I have asperges, and I came from a school of 16 into a school of 300+.. Pretty small in comparison to a lot of others out there, but to someone like me it was rather daunting. I was friendless, and around now is when Video Games really emotionally hit me. Sora, Donald and Goofy were my friends, That kid from Bully was me.. I was just terribly lonely in my first year of high school. Haha. I also get interested in a mixture of music, namely Disturbed and Metallica, but my music tastes have changed drastically since then (for instance, I'm currently listening to Joanna Newsom right now, LOL). I don't like talking about year 7 at all, but if anyone out there is depressed or lonely, then I'm more than happy to talk to you guys out there! PM me on Battlenet @Junglened.629 if you want to talk, about anything, I will listen. Thought I may as well say that.
I digress, so I've 'grown' out of World Of Warcraft, and I get back into TF2 through Steam. My steam handle was 'Sp4m' for a time, because it was my Dad's account, but then I changed it to JungleNed. I donated... 700?+ hours playing Tf2, and it went into 2009. I was Year 8, and I grew more 'social' and developed a 'small' circle of friends. Two of which remain my friends, the other one is an absolutely sociopathic git. However, I couldn't stop talking to my friends about this game, and everyone was starting to 'ease' up to me, I became more social around my friends, because of the community/ethics of Tf2. I played Spy, and at first I was a very angry gamer, but I grew more and more to be calm, analyze what I did wrong, and realize that we all make mistakes.
This is also the time I discover my favorite game of all time, Deus Ex.
Now, I have limited money, and it usually takes me two weeks to earn $20, but Christmas came around... I played that game to death and back, even now I can tell you the location of anything and everything. I also got an xbox w/codmw2, which I played with my dickhead ex-friend and a few others acquittances I met at school. I remember I had to join a game through the games they were playing, they got really pissed off that I would join a private game they set up between their online friends, haha. I was such a troll :P.
So, I buy Mass Effect and I nearly complete it before it screws up completely. I go to get it clean, it won't start anymore. I give up, and I'm quite sad. Even still, I'd love to replay through it. I heard the second and third pale in comparison. It was a great game, I really enjoyed it.
So, we're into 2010, my favorite game is Deus Ex but I still hungered for 'that feel'... even though I own Fable TLC and Starwars KOTOR I couldn't really dictate what 'that feel' was. It was special, it was unique, it was something.
I go through 2010 searching, playing TF2 and Deus Ex, and despite the latter's excellence and overall fun, to me, I felt a bit hollow. Something was missing, I couldn't dictate what. I would watch many TF2 frag videos (notably OMFGNinja, check it out, it was amazing to watch) trying to emulate that, but I just couldn't, I didn't have the skill, I didn't have the willpower..
I come across Starcraft BW, per chance because my School issued Macbooks. My friends had abandoned me, and I was -kind- of hanging out with new ones who I thought were my friends, I'd hang out with them, but eventually they grew tired of me, and I moved on. I grew a fancy for a girl, listened to Radiohead, Devin Townsend and Porcupine Tree, but she eventually dated another guy, I found solace in Deus Ex, STALKER: SHOC etc. Unfortunately, my brother installed Windows 7 on my PC and with that my PC totally wrecked. I've used a macbook ever since. The screens even cracked once, but I got that shit repaired.
So, I haven't played Deus Ex or Stalker SHOC since. I was stuck with a Ps2 and a Macbook, that alone gave me the incentive to play SC:BW. I remember I wanted something to emulate that nostalgic feel of Warcrarft III that I felt 8 years previous, but what I found was much, much, more.
I showed my friend at random, I played so damn slowly.. I used the touchpad and would click on the SCV... Oh god! It was criminal :O.
Eventually, I settled on Zerg. The first real time I got into Starcraft was when we flooded, and I had to go to my friends place. I figured there was nothing better to do, so I decided to just play against the Ai as Protoss.. That's when I felt it, that feel, that indescribable feel (I know, that feel, lol). THIS was what I've been looking for, this is what I spent so long waiting for! Finally! I lost that match, but I remember I went for a standard 2 gateway mass zealot 22 minute push and was killed off by mass marine medic firebat in around 2 seconds, lol. Argh! **** it, I give up. Games too hard, no one plays online.. but I want more.
I learned of the existence of Starcraft II via Reddit, when I posted asking why no one plays online.. 'We all play Starcraft II now, just released'.
My father bought it and sent me and Alex down two beta keys. Alex never really gained an interest in it, and dropped it. I loved every minute of it, and would play it constantly for the 7 hours which I got to play it for, lol. Eventually the trial closed, and I had to wait two more months until my father excitedly called me up and said 'Guess what I'm holding in my hands right now?'. This was early last year, and I'd watched a few Day[9] daily videos and I really wanted to get right into Starcraft II..
So, here I am now. from virtually no RTS experience into Gold League at Starcraft II. I keep on talking about how brilliant it is to my friends, but they all play Minecraft, LOL.
I imagine I'll be playing for a long time, I hope to go far, and I'm excited to play against you guys!
gg's.
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Previously known as Posijuice
JungleNed.629
I started off playing free-to-play games such as Combat Arms and got to the top ladders of the game and played nearly everyday just to keep the spot, until i saw my brother play a boss looking game named SC2.i dropped every game i was playing and focused on Starcraft since it was so fun and even now im nerding it out on Starcraft 2
My first gaming experience was with a Famicom (what the NES was released as in Japan and most of Asia) that one of my friend's parents had brought over from travels. I was about 5 years old and got to play some random racing game when I went to visit, and that was it, the first time I ever played a video game in my life. About a year or two after that we got our first home PC and I experienced minesweeper. I completely misunderstood it and thought I was pro for clicking once or twice on the grid and then putting flags on all the blocks. Other games that I really enjoyed at the time included -
And then Age of Empires 1 came out. The game blew my mind and I remember it causing quite a hype throughout my whole family. My parents played it and all my uncles would play it. Eventually 1 of my uncles got a 2nd PC and setup a local network at his house for playing multiplayer. I was just the little kid and was sentenced to perpetual watching, but even back then I could watch RTS for hours and hours. ^^ Gaming was strictly limited for me over these years and so it was never really a massive part of my life back then, but it was something I really enjoyed when I got the chance to.
I also remember revisiting the family friends at whose house I had played the Famicom and one of their older sons let me play GTA 1. I was too young to event notice any innapropriate stuff anyway, the main feature to me was driving cars and then being able to get out and take another car. Naively I told my parents about the game in the car on the way home. Needless to say they weren't too impressed with it. Eventually my uncle got into fps games like the original Rainbow Six and copied his disk for us originally so my dad could practice and not get pwned when we went over to visit, but it wasn't long before I got to play that and became obssessed. I'd dress up in camo and run around with toy guns pretending I was on missions much to my mother's dismay. She really didn't like me playing violent games, but she hoped I'd get bored with it eventually. I didn't and so we can fast forward about 6 or so years of playing any FPS I could get my hands on. During this period the only other games I fell back onto were some of the original Need for Speed games particularly for the splitscreen play with friends. Cramming ourselves next to eachother infront of a tiny 15" CRT monitor and trying to both use 1 keyboard for playing, those were the days.
In 2007 I moved from South Africa to Australia and that was a pretty drastic and chaotic change in my life. With no longer having a PC that could remotely game I bought a PS2, just before the PS3 came out (lol). For about a year I played classic PS2 games, again being drawn to Need for Speed, but my new favourites were the Splinter Cell games. Hitting the later years of high school I really wanted to get into online PC gaming though so I got a summer job and saved up for my first PC of my own. I managed to scrape together a new PC using an old CRT someone gave me, cheap peripherals and $1000 worth of parts. It was great, I could finally play any game on the shelf without having to look at the system requirements even if it was on Low-Medium settings. I went through a series of shooter games such as Farcry 2, a few Call of Duty games, Battlefield as well as the staple Counter Strike. Being new to online FPS, I got seriously demolished for about 2 years and didn't even know how bad I was. I did eventually get into some semi-competitive teams for CoD and Battlefield Bad Company 2 before I found out about proper competitive play with prize money and all. I wanted in on this, but I had no name or any reputation in these circles to join an existing team and I was having trouble finding other committed people to start a team with to get to that level and build our own reputation. Around this time I had been aware of Starcraft 2, I'd watched the HDH invitational on Husky's youtube channel and I'd played a couple of games thanks to a trial pass from a friend. But the game didn't stick with me at first because it seemed overly complex. By now though I was fed up with FPS and wanted to be able to play and train by myself without being let down by unreliable teammates who wouldn't show for matches. So I have Starcraft 2 a second chance and immersed myself in it for 2 months playing 40 hours a week and watching tons of streams and tournaments and began to like it. At that time I still held the foolish thought that I could be a pro gamer and wanted to hit that level in 6 months. I soon learned that it wasn't going to be that easy, but now no matter how hard I try, I can't stop enjoying SC2. And it's the only game I really ever feel like playing for any extended period of time.
I started gaming when I was very young, starting with one of those Formula1 Grand Prix games on the PC when I was around the age of 6. I have fond memories of trying to race an F1 at speeds of around 250 using only a joy stick. I slowly progressed to widen my gaming 'vocabulary' moving onto the Nintendo 64 to play games such as DonkeyKong and SuperMario.
By the age of 12 I was stuck right into Star Wars: Battlefront II, 2 years after it's release on the PS2. This is where most of my gaming knowledge regarding the FPS genera came from and is basically where my gaming roots lie, even today. FPS was really the only genera that had a strong point interest in gaming for me at this time. But, as computers started to come to the forefront regarding a their level of competitive play, I migrated from console to PC, but I didn't have any want or need to buy any new games. So I bought pc versions of almost all the games I previously had and set off on a new path, the path of the PC Gamer.
As I matured, my gaming skill also grew with me. Aided by the growth of my brothers gaming collection, I delved into other games such as Age of Empires II & III, and is where I started to really get a feel for RTS games. I decided to stick to a select few games and I aimed to try reach some 'professional' level within these. My choice here saw me reaching #1 in Australia for SWBF2 on the PC around the age of 15 as the most elite player in the country. At this point I played under the alias, SW_elite.
With the reputation I now had, I decided to start entering competitions, most of which were hosted by the *AUS* clan. I went on to win a lot of awards and my recognition as a top notch play spread across to various American servers. Unfortunately SWBF2 was never considered a great game regarding tournaments and other forms of competitive play, and as a result, there were never any major comps or prize pools on offer. Back then I was an *AUS* member, but these days I run my own clan.
Phwoah. Started with age of empires when I was around 5..played it with my dad very fun times, I can just about remember the first time we set up a lan with some friends who lived close by.
Got a dreamcast when I was 8 or so; Hydro thunder was the best game ever then. My best friend also had a ps1 so we would play crash tag team racing, crash bandicoot, time splitters 1/2, and loads of other games; he also had gta vice city, so we massacred people under bridges in that cause fuckthepolice.
Moving on, I got introduced to runescape when I was 11ish, and that basically took up a lot of my time, all my friends played and we'd do everything together, questing ect.
Then I got an xbox360 for my 14th birthday I think? xboxlive when I was 15? So I started playing halo 3, cod mw2 -> then reach when it came out. I was playing those at a fairly high level competing on gamebattles which is basically a subset tournament site of MLG.
Then September 2011 came along and I started watching Husky, fell madly in love with Starcraft, and got gm 5 months or so after that..
Somewhere around when I was 10 I got my hands on a ps2 aswell, basically just timesplitters and stuff with friends, few racing games, some dodgy tennis game, very fun times.
Side note: I moved to singapore from England when I was 10 and I remember my first summer coming back to England I stayed up with a friend all night just playing nfs1, and we practically completed the game. Was awesome.
Edit: shit how could i forget pokemon....gb colour when I was 7, think i got yellow, not sure, but yea pokemon was massive at my primary school, everyone played it.
I remeber I had gold and my friend had silver and we'd just spend hours trying to find the mystery dudes.
I played almost every game there was. I had NES, SNES, Gameboy color/advanced/DS, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, PC.
Best games I played include:
PS2: Star Ocean 3, FF10, FF12, Valkyrie Profile 2, Tales series, Persona series, DMC series... (JRPGs were so good back then)
Gameboy: Mainly pokemon
PS3: Assassin's Creed, FF13, ...
PC: Starcraft, Warcraft 3, AoE, Gunbound, Heroes: Of might and Magic,...
The first game that I played competitive was CS1.6 and I moved on to CSS, then when BFBC2 came out, I play it and then move on to BF3. BF3 was the main game that I concentrated on to play competitively, since then I improved and I saw HuskyStarCraft casting SC2 games, that made me interested in playing SC2 hence I bought it and start training.
Started off playing PC, Starcraft, C&C:Red Alert 2, CS, Mortal Kombat and all these other random games when I was really young.
As I got older I was a huge fan of PES, and when I was in grade 6 I bought CS:S and played that ever since. I also used to love MMO's especially Maplestory but retired from that.
In highschool I started playing DOTA
I got SC2 a little bit after its release and have been playing that since
also still playing Counter Strike and now LoL with my friends, I am much better at FPS then I am at strategy >.<
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Previously known as PiPoGevy
Single player games, I have played my entire life.. Early days of Mario, Zelda, Metroid and so on. The first competitive multiplayer I played was the first Call of Duty release on PC, and its expansion pack "United Offensive".
Since then it was strictly First Person Shooters, until Starcraft 2, which I got this summer. I've always been well above average in the Halo's, having versed pros and stuff, but never good enough to compete -.-
I hope I have a future in SC as the community is way better than any I've found in the past.
Also I plan on going into game design (im a graphic designer) so I'm into games for the long run!!
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"I am here, doing what I do because I have promised my God greatness."
This is gonna be a VERY LONG kind of post, just warning ya. :P
Gaming consoles did exist at my house since I was born (NES, SNES and GameBoy), but since I was a baby-toddler my first three years of my life involved me ..trying to play them but they all broke. OTL
Then when I was 4 dad brought a PS1 home with Gran Turismo and some other jazz. They were really fun despite the fact that I didn't know how to play, and I got really committed to doing good in GT that in the end I actually managed to start beating everyone I played against.
Then Tekken 3 and Tomorrow Never Dies came around. Tomorrow Never dies was probably the first shooter game experience of my life, and I found the game to be really good. Tekken 3 was the same story as GT; I sucked at it at the start, then started to win more often. Especially Tekken Ball; no one could beat me in Tekken Ball.
I've played plenty of PS1 games in between those, but those three were the highlights of my first few years of gaming; I pretty much went with the practice makes perfect route and yes I know there are no Final Fantasy games there isn't there but we'll get on that later.
I was 7 when we got the first computer for the house; dad worked at intel and he got one for free.. FREE. It was pretty high end at the time too if I wasn't mistaken. I wasn't really aware PC games existed until I went to a net cafe near my house and saw people playing CS; I tried and miserably did bad, and also because of how internet was back then I didn't bother getting it for home. So I tried to find alternatives; my brother gave me a disc of Starcraft, and my God did that game blow my mind. I just loved it to bits, and when I found out he just borrowed it I was pretty disappointed, so I got dad to buy me the game. I got Brood War at that time as well, and I never really played online, but I played single player a lot (mind you, dial-up internet was the only thing that prevented me from going online). Starcraft was one of the very few PC games that I installed and played the hell out of on every computer I have gotten since I played it. I got Warcraft 3 as well, and that was really good for me too, but I never got into it as much as Starcraft. Then the Sims also came in the picture and I also had a really fun experience with that; oh the fun times toying with the sim LOL.
Okay so 2002 comes in, and I was 9 years old at this stage and I moved to Adelaide from Manila. I had no PC; again, for the first year but I did have my PS1 so I just played PS1 games like a nut; mainly GT, Tekken 3, Crash Team Racing and Tony Hawk's ProSkater 3. CTR I was decent at, and in ProSkater 3 I didn't even know how to play the damn thing but someone taught me and in the end I was doing the 900 all over the place (he was a really good player and good teacher, so glad about that lol). When I got the PC I still played pretty much exactly the same games. I got a GameBoy pocket around 10ish, and played Pokemon Red and Blue on it; made me fall in love with Pokemon and I wish I never got rid of any of these (I gave them away to a friend who just arrived in Adelaide in 04). But at the end of 03 I got a GBASP and Pokemon Sapphire, and Metroid Fusion with it. OH MAN. Between 03 and 07, there was not a day where you won't see me with my GBASP and not playing a game on it. Metroid Fusion was probably my absolute favourite, the story-line was good, the gameplay was just about perfect and it was fun messing around at times. I proceeded to get Zero Mission later on and Pokemon Ruby which I also played like there's no tomorrow.. I think I clocked over 200 hours on Ruby.. then the effing battery broke so I lost it; but lucky I transferred my Pokemon over to Leaf Green beforehand. I had Pokemon Silver as well in between; and I clocked over 200 hours there as well, played with friends after-school often and those were tones of fun linking the cables ahaha.
The PS2 was another highlight of my life; Only played Ratchet and Clank 2 until I rented FF-X. Next day I bought the game lol. FF-X was the first Final Fantasy game I played and I fell in love with it.. the game changed pretty much how I look at things; I never thought a game can change people until this came out. Personally my all time favourite game, hands down.
I've played a lot since then, FF12, Dirge of Cerberus FF7, Kingdom Hearts (1 and 2), GT4, Underground 2 and San Andreas were the ones I played most. San Andreas is just absolutely hilarious and fun to play, and the storyline is amazing. ..Honestly can't find a fault to the game asides from the glitches.
Around 09 is when my friend invited me in to play DotA. I was REALLY bad at the start; made everyone rage lol. But with practice, comes perfect. I eventually got pretty decent at it; but I was best with carries. When games go well, I do very well but when it doesn't then I don't; I was pretty inconsistent in DotA. But when I do well it's mainly with Phantom Assassin and Anti-Mage (obvious reasons). I've played COD4 at net cafe but my comp at the time had an Intel GPU and well that sucked.. LOL.
So for Christmas I got a new laptop; which had a decent graphics card. I did play COD4 but only with friends during LANs, I don't play outside of that. I got a PS3 at the same time and bought MW2 on it without hesitation; it was a rage fest.. but I got decent at it. I got FF13 during year 12 and played it a lot; bad idea. Made me fail Term 1 and never touched it again until last year. GTAIV and Uncharted 2 were among the other games I played; good experience!
Then Starcraft II came out during year 12; I went... nearly freaking everywhere to find a copy for 70 dollars LOL. Managed to price-match (WIN). Played the story mode first of course, then I started to go online.. I was really bad actually; I only won because of turtling, was bronze league and whatnot. Had to stop for a while cos of exams and I never really got back to it until some time later last year. In between that I was playing Black Ops on PS3 and tons of games here and there on PC (mainly DotA and LoL). MW3 came out but I never got it until February this year when I got my computer finished up. I was only gonna play casually with friends but they got me into playing on Cybergamer and I did pretty bad there, but there were some good things. I just quit because of how corrupted the whole admin stuff is.. This is COD-wise I don't know about other games.
Right now I don't really play much; was playing LoL recently but that's just a game on the side to play for me now.. I've just decided to stick to Starcraft II as my main game because of uni; and now that I've finished I got three months to practice to get as good as I can!
If anyone starts to say "Y U NO PLAY FF7 YET" and whatnot along those lines; I have and am trying to get those games some time in the future (I have to get a PS1 again first) and play them till the end. I know I can just emulator/download it all, but I feel like that'd ruin the experience of playing with a controller and changing discs.
Sorry about the very long post, but it's hard for me to not write an essay when posting. T___T
4-5 started off playing gba and snes emulators on my old family pc
6-7 got a gameboy pocket with pokmeon blue and played some broodwar campaign and wc2.
8-9 played pokmemon crater online got a gameboy advanced sp with pokmeon emerald
10-11 got a ds lite and played pokemon and mario games, got an xbox 360 played halo3, played wc3
12-13 got a macbook from school and played CoD 4 and wc3 customs sc2 released
14-15 build a gaming pc played sc2 week after launch, played d3 and Dota 2 started playing some LoL.
man my first gaming experience was a mega drive awesome sonic, streets of rage, golden axe etc. then came final fantasy 7 ps1 witch i fell in love with and my love for gaming has stemmed from there.
I have not long converted to pc/RTS gaming and i will never look back
also i have a BSc in computer game development so gaming has had a massive influence on my life
nice thread guys
Zak
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'I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you
I started off at the age of 5 playing Tactical ops (FPS shooter) on my old laptop that always shocks me on the right wrist (till the point where i had to tape up the entire section of the laptop. Was stuck playing games on the PC, the same game for many years till was about 10
At 10 years of age I started to play MMORPGs such as Maplestory (which i rage quit after playing it for a mere 2 weeks as the EXP bar boost meant you had to kill more stuff to level) and Cabal where it occupied me for the rest of my 10 year old life.
Then at 11 I got my original Xbox and started playing all sorts of games. Most prominently Serious Sam, Halo 1 and 2, Conker. This kept me on till the Xbox 360 was released.
When the Xbox 360 was out, I got it and bought Halo 3 and Forza motorsport 2. Played those for a long long time till I got COD mw2 then black ops, then halo ODST, then MW3 (which i gave it away after a month). Soon around the time where I got around to watching Starcraft 2 from Husky and all that, I wanted to play it so bad and be good at it.
Now here I am, still gaming alot on the Xbox with Halo 4 and playing SC2 with my team! Its been a blast and i'll never forget the good times and the classic games i used to play
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Admin head of Team Oandlig Spektrum (OS)
When there's a will, there's a way and there's a wall
First game i ever played was Pokemon Red on the GameBoy Colour when i was about 3 clocked it when i was 4
Then my older brother got a N64 so i started playing Mario 64, Donkey Kong Racing, Mario Cart
After that we got a PS2 and i played games like harry Potter Quid itch, AFL 2004-2006, Rachet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Capcom arcade game, Crash Bandicoot.
Then we got a Xbox and by this time i was 9-10, i played games like Halo, Fable, Starwars KOTOR, StarWars Jedi Academy, James bond series, NFS series, Splinter Cell Series. This is when i first started playing online.
Then i got a Xbox 360 and i have like 60 games and play heaps.
Throughout this whole time i have owned a PC but never really played PC games except for Sims, Sim City, WC3, World Of Warcraft, Diablo, LoL, Fiesta.
With competitive i only got into competitive about a year ago but played Cod and Halo on xbox i was alright in Halo Reach finishing third in a season but other then that i haven't had many achievements. Oh and i Killed the best GOW3 player in Australia to win the map during a Group stage. That was massive/
Started playing Z some robot game when i was just in primary school. soon i was into pokemon red yellow blue whatever color you name it!
My brother introduced me to World of warcraft and boy was i hooked onto it. grinding and questing for hours on. I liked games like Red Alert 3, Command and Conquer, Call of Duty, and when i played Starcraft II for the first time, wow MINDBLOWN. haha, ever since then been honing my sc2 skills!
With the introduction of HoTS, i was kinda sad that the sc2 community in Singapore was decreasing, so with that in mind, started organizing tournaments among friends, but now i'm taking it one step higher by organizing tourneys in public. Esports FTW!
Started playing sm64, life goal was to finish it, finished it. didn't know what to do in life, bought pokemon sapphire, entered the world of pokemon, 10 years later still in it.
C64. tape decks, 5" floppy disks, and cartridges you plugged into the back of the keyboard. noteable games, Load Runner, Commando, Zork, Double Dragon. Games are essentially hard as hell.. no saves 3 lives.
Various PC's from my dads work. noteable games. Dune 2 (first RTS I ever played), Tie Fighter, Xwing, Doom, Wolfenstein, Syndicate, Quake.
Around this time, Street Fighter 2 appears. makes going to the arcade cool again.
buy my first console after getting my first job, its a Playstation 1. the old grey brick.
Games.. G Police, Bushido Blade, Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill, Soul Blade. Z (still got most of these).
Mate ha N6. Goldeneye is the only game worth mentioning
PC's come back briefly. Half Life, Counter strike.
Buy PS2. Kingdom Hearts, Project Zero (scariest game ever), Ico, SOTC, so many games bought and traded and cant remember. PC = Dead (I didnt have one haha).
Buy Xbox for Halo/Doom 3/Fable. Been a M$ fan ever since.
Buy, CoD MW1 is fantastic. then I discover Gears of War, then Battlefield 2. Halo 3 comes and go's and I'm Back on Gears.
Gears is the one game that shaped me. Its brutal unforgiving nature. I love it.
Still have 360, (up to my 4th now I think, 2 died, 1 stolen, 1 giving to me by friend on live), BF3 is the only game I play on it now.
Bought AW laptop for SC2 to play at work. that was a year and a half ago.. play on/off. Eternally Bronze (silver is the new bronze now).
i'd liek to get better, and get quite frustrated with it, I'm pretty mindset in my builds.. I know my losses are my fault, but it still makes me angry.. That said. I enjoy it
Well it all started back in 2010 when I bought Counter Strike: Source, I played competitive Counter strike since then and I still am to this day. Late 2011 my friend introduced me to Starcraft and taught be the basics. Late 2012 I bought starcraft (WoL) myself and have played it since. And now I'm hoping to have a successful sc2 career just like my counter strik career so far. Well that's basically it.
i played playstation 1 when i was so little, its been so long since. had some great fun with fifa 97 where you can score a goal all the time from half way lol. Then had some good fun with xbox, had a free copy of halo 1 with the xbox i bought and i remembered getting frustrated with playing it at first but eventually enjoyed it. Then after xbox i started to play pc games and believe it or not i started playing dota 1 with my friends at first. I truly enjoyed it but when my friend introduced me to starcraft 2 i was amazed by how much skill is needed to play starcraft 2 so i quit dota and started playing starcraft 2 more and enjoy watching it. And that is how i began playing a great RTS game
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Wilson "StoicWilly" Mun
Previously known as FlyingBanana
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