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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 17:24:49 GMT -5
Time for another personal history thread! ;D Tell everyone about what games got you started, funny things that you still remember! I'll have to wait to see if leiter shows up so we can recount tales of our escapades simultaneously.
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Shuuto
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Post by Shuuto on Apr 12, 2006 18:02:09 GMT -5
My first video game was Pokemon Blue Version with the amazing graphics found only on the Nintendo GameBoy Color. This got me interested in the world of gaming, and so for my 10th birthday I received a Nintendo 64 and a game I still play today, Star Wars Episode I: Racer. I also had a growing interest in PC gaming, and got Star Wars X-Wing Alliance, which I also still play today as certain mods have improved on the old blocky graphics, bringing it up to, nay, above the standards of today's games. This game's flight engine beats the ever-living crap out of that of BF2. I also got Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds, establishing one of the Three Pillars of Shuuto's Gaming, the real-time strategy. I stayed offline though.
My first online game was the one and only Runescape (w00t). Multiplayer sort of scared me when I was younger, as my intraversion was far more prominent than it is today. Runescape I picked up; it was a fun game and it showed me that online multiplayer was fun, even though at first I did not know that it was an MMO. And thus was established the second of the Three Pillars, MMORPGs (which has gone into hiding as of late) Runescape cleared the way for Maple Story, a surprisingly excellent 2d side-scrolling MMO, and then a short dance with Phantasy Star Online on the Nintendo GameCube.
By now we are at the fall of last year. I had heard of the popularity of Star Wars Battlefront, and by then it was quite cheap so I picked it up, hence the third and mightiest Pillar, the FPS. My unrivaled happy place became a concealed spot overlooking a high-traffic patch of battlefield. I played for about a week, loving every minute, and then encountered eXistence. Yaddayaddayadda we're here.
As for the future, I am saving up for a video card upgrade so I can play Battlefield 2. By the time I really get settled into it, 2142 will probably be out, but I know that many people will still want to play a present-day FPS, and BF2 blows Counter-Strike and in my humble opinion F.E.A.R. out of the water. I'd also like to pic up Guild Wars, as I like MMORPGs but monthly fees scare me.
So yeah, hope you liked the wall of text.
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Post by Mobius 1 on Apr 12, 2006 18:41:25 GMT -5
My first game was the one and only Crash Bandicoot. At the time, i recieved it with my Playstation for my 5th birthday. My 2 best friends at the time lived in the same cul-de-sac and we would all gather at my place and play it, striving for the infamous 100%. Of course at that age, beating the final boss was difficult enough I played console games until about 6th grade, when i played Call of Duty at Leiter's birthday. This set me on the course for PC gaming. My previous 2 PC's sucked crap and PC gaming was currently out of the question. Then, roughly 1 year ago, we got the computer we have now, being a Sony Vaio: RB45GX having roughly 200GB of memory. Now I am here typing all of this to you guys. Currently on consoles, i am awaiting the release of Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War (beats me why its zero). I am also playing Kingdom Hearts, so i can catch up on the story before i rent KH2. I also am striving to get the Handcannon in RE4, so i can go buss'n a cap in dem foo's.
I also had a big collection of handhelds, starting with Game Boy Color. then i progressed to the Advance and Advance SP. Now i have a PSP, quietly waiting for the 3.0 update, so it can enable me to use the rumored PlayStation emulator.
For the future, i do plan to get a PS3. I also (aside from gaming) have picked up a pretty big interest in airsofting. As for games, Ace Combat Zero and KH2 like i mentioned earlier, Resident Evil 5 will be due on PS3 and i will be wanting to own that.
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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 18:45:31 GMT -5
I remember that birthday party at leiters.... That was a LONG time ago...
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Post by Mobius 1 on Apr 12, 2006 18:55:22 GMT -5
yea. I brought Driv3r didn't I? cuz i remember that 75% of the guys were huddled up around the TV. and Knight do you remember this? www.happytreefriends.com
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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 19:00:40 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I remember... We watched those, then you glued yourself to the PC and the rest of us did stupid stuff in Driv3r.
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Post by Mobius 1 on Apr 12, 2006 19:01:22 GMT -5
hehehehehe Flippy rules hehehehehe
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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 19:36:56 GMT -5
Anyway, since leiter doesnt seem to be showing up.. and i want to tell funny stories... Ill go ahead and tell you all. My very first game was back in.. like 2nd grade or something. Age of Empires 1.... It came free with a computer my family bought, and i put it in... and became a gamer. From there, I got AoE2. And the expansion. Thus ensuring my love for RTS games. The next chapter begins shortly thereafter when my brother brings home an RPG called Icewind Dale. Love at first sight. I still remember my first party... instead of the 6 members possible, I only used 4 slots, to prove my |_337|\|355... even though I didnt know |_337 existed back then. My party: Half-elf Ranger/Cleric, Half-elf Fighter/Thief, half-elf Fighter/Druid, and a human Mage/Cleric. Note my love for dual classes and half elves FPS first comes into my life with good old Jedi Knight 1... I was totally into the whole lightsaber thing. Next game was Baldur's Gate 1&2, the ORIGINAL RPG. Even though you were supposed to build up a party of NPCs as you go through the game, I found a way around that. By starting a multiplayer game, I could create every member of my group, instead of relying on silly premade NPCs. I dont really remember my group, except that it was led by a sorcerer. My first REAL spellcaster... And if any of you know D&D2 rule setup, spellcasters own. Also, this was the site of many of me and Leiters more amusing escapades. For example: Me and him are playing together on LAN, me with some katana-wielding warrior, him with a rogue. I find a super-magical katana that lets me launch lightning bolts, so what do I do? I test it out on Leiter! It nails him, bounces off a wall, and procedes to slaughter several dozen nearby NPCs (it was in the middle of the main city), dropping our reputation to 0 and cauzing city guards and magic-law enforcement wizards to port in around us... You see why I say "escapade". Starting here, and continuing intermitently till the present, I played an old squad-based tactics game called X-Com: UFO Defense. I advise you to never, ever play this game. It is ADDICTIVE. Also, it is IMPOSSIBLE. I could probably count every person who has finished the game on my fingers and toes alone. To this day, it still haunts my thoughts. Hey Shuuto! What was your favorite podracer? JK2! Yeah baby! This is some REAL lightsaber combat, forget the crap in JK1. Still not playing online at all... Didnt know what I was missing... Hehe... My brother brought home a CD-burned copy of FF7... Great fun... My first sight of Sephiroth... Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds: AoE in Starwars. Fun, but me and leiter still prefered AoE. Neverwinter Nights... set in the same fantasy world as IWD and BG, I had to get this RPG. Completely miserable single-player, great character creation and scenario builder. The second expansion has a great story, and I still play it from time to time. Jedi Academy... More happy saber fighting and SWOOPS!! Man I love just using debug to spawn those on all the single-player maps and going crazy... Kinda dangerous on coruscant though... Age of Mythology- one of my very favorite RTS games... The gameplay was pretty good, but there was SOOO MUCH you could do with the scenario creator, and it was SOO easy to use... Star Wars Battlefront... I was wandering a video game store, playing hookey from school for my birthday (yay for sympathetic mothers) and I spotted this. In the mood for wasting money, I bought it, and behold! I loved it! Summer last year my parents finally got a cable connection installed so they could convince my brother to come home for the summer, and I finally got around to playing online. Started with Age of Mythology for the entire summer, playing with Leiter and some other friends (including one of the rare female gamerz). Around my birthday (november) and Christmas, things really got going for my gaming career. I got AoE3, which I didnt play much at the time, but do now... And FAR more importantly, I bought Battlefront 2... And while wandering from server to server in search of space maps, I came across the eX recruiting server. After Christmas, I bought Guild wars, and in January, I followed Ryan when we split from eX. There you go, everyone! My life story of gaming, all wrapped up in a ball! (Spanning half my life, too) Hope you enjoy reading!
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Shuuto
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Post by Shuuto on Apr 12, 2006 19:43:08 GMT -5
Bullseye Navoir for the win.
That pod does what I tell it to, when I want it to.
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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 20:40:40 GMT -5
BULLSEYE!!!! The same, man, the same. My brother always used Quadrinaros and beat me on any track with a straightaway.
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Post by Sparty on Apr 12, 2006 21:24:15 GMT -5
Well, I got started in serious online gaming when I got Halo PC. I had played a few games with JA and JO before, but I never got in depth. I grew my first clan out of Halo. Poison and Armouroth (if some of you eX guys remember him) were both in that clan.
On the other hand, my first video game? Like Shuuto, Pokemon Blue. I remember exactly when and where I got it. That memory is stuck in my head.
However, unlike you guys, I am not going to write an essay about it.
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Post by Vaelen on Apr 12, 2006 21:28:29 GMT -5
I'm writing a book, the whole thing comes naturally to me.
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Post by (>FSB<)Frugs!!! =D on Apr 12, 2006 22:34:41 GMT -5
the game that got me hooked to video games was
SUPER MARIO 64 for Nintendo
i loved that game, it was my first...
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Post by (FSB)scissor on Apr 13, 2006 17:02:17 GMT -5
Wow I kinda feel old now I started out about 5 years after the first nintendo came out with mario and duck hunt thats what hooked me into gaming.
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Post by leiter2012 on Apr 13, 2006 17:58:02 GMT -5
sweet, knight, has really been the main catalyst to my gaming career. It all started a long time ago, before that I had been playing little games on consoles like the ps1 and stuff. Then Knight got me addicted to awesome games like:
Baldur's Gate II: Like Knight said, "the original RPG" and yes that particular escapade was hilarious. Good times.. Then he got me into RTS and I fell in love with Age of Empires II, in my opinion the best RTS to ever be created. I played this for a long time and then I started getting intosome FPS on computer like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Call of Duty. Then sometime last spring I got my beloved XBox and the endowed Halo 2. In my opinion, the greatest FPS in human history. It was incredible and still brings me much enjoyment. Throughout this time, Knight still supports me in my gaming and we have continued to have many "escapades" (especially in RTS's) and now I've started playing Guild Wars, and Knights of the Old Republic II again. And Age of Empires III, lot's of Age of Empires III.
But yeah, that's about it on the surface. (writing it all would take too long.)
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