[Mezza]

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!

[Mezza]

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!

[SiZeMaTTeRs]

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!

[Lovestoned412]

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.

[nirvAnA]

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

http://tcpm.mrlazyinc.com/files/imag...y_pc_games.jpg
check out that massive list of the best games over the last 10 years

[iceiceice]

that o2jam kid was probably tofu LOL

[deL]

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.

[ubersio]

Played Team fortress classic, followed by counter-strike, DotA, WoW, a bit of cabal then SC2. Yes, this is my first RTS.

[ShinyDark]

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.

[Brultze]

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.

[QuestionMark]

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.

[Melchsee]

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 =/

[nirvAnA]

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

[Mezza]

Originally Posted by Brultze

... 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.

[Melchsee]

Originally Posted by mezza

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 !

[Mezza]

i have afterburner on the 16bit, that was an awesome game!

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cottonmouth.891:

Afterburner on commodore 64 haha

[weeA]

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...

[nard]

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...


That's about it...

[Stroggos]

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.

[ManCannon]

**** 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.