Curse

RagingBison · Apr 03, 2005, 08:17 PM // 20:17

Diablo 2: LoD and Warcraft III for PC.

Halo 1 and 2 and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for XBOX.

Chaser · Apr 03, 2005, 08:28 PM // 20:28

i was big into xbox live (and i still am, but not as much). Rainbow six 3, and RS3:BA, halo 2, Dance Dance Revolution mechassult and mechassult 2

for RPG's, FF:crystal chronicals, Baldurs gate 2: shodows of Amn, and runescape

Didymus C. Corax · Apr 03, 2005, 08:39 PM // 20:39

I won't bore you with my sordid hitsory, but I'll hit a couple highlights...Lesse here...uh, I remember being completely jazzed about my first game...PONG!

Skipping ahead to my days of banging out BASIC code for a chance to play Defender on the TSR80 ("trash" 80) back in high school...

Ye Olde Nintendo 64...Q-bert and Donky-Kong...

Cranking out quarter after quarter into Joust, Centipede and Bosconian (oh, and Dig Dug)...(circa 1985)

Moving ahaed to the PC...whew!...some favs from the past: Nocturn, Messiah, Omikron: Nomad Soul, FAKK2, American McGee's Alice, Return to Castle Wolfestein, The Unreal series (yeah, all of 'em...I'm guilty...Including Devastation)...LOVED the Morrowind series and look forward to #4, Arx Fatalis (another good RPG), the Half Life franchise (including Counter Strike, which I outgrew in about three weeks..oh, yeah...STEAM SUX), and lastly: Vampire Bloodlines...buggy, but good.

I skipped quite a bit, but those are what I remember as having the greatest appeal for the longest time...I know some aren't that great, but little things about them (like the ability to re-skin characters) made them fun for a while...

I won't dwell on the highly overrated dissapointments that have plagued my past, except to say: DOOM3...*yawns* yeah, played it...whatever

cc.pyro · Apr 03, 2005, 08:49 PM // 20:49

Mostly the halo's and racing/fps games. The occasional CnC game. This is a big move for me since ive never plaed many RPG's and I was trying to get into one. WoW was going to be my last resort until I found GW. Now im on a crusade to get my friends get GW and convince the only one of my WoW friends to play GW. Im going to give him my friends pass for the BWE on the 15.

CheopisIV · Apr 04, 2005, 04:45 AM // 04:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by FireMarshal

Ah yeah I remember those times.

I remember when the first Legend of Zelda came out for the NES. Man, now THAT was a game worth waiting for. One of my all time favorite games. Soooooo Obsolete now...but man, good times, good times.

I just saw that it was re-released on GBA...got me all excited as I played it for weeks on Nintendo. Anybody ever complete the second stage? 2nd stage being after defeating Gannon and the world and all areas change....

Recently, I'ts been Neverwinter Nights for me...soooo much replayability

especially after finding http://nwnprc.netgamers.co.uk/ ..adds soo much extra content

Auh · Apr 04, 2005, 04:52 AM // 04:52

Well, I haven't played GW yet, But I used to play Asheron's Call 2.

John TrickKnee · Apr 04, 2005, 05:40 AM // 05:40

Ultima Online. How can you not like a game that has cow tipping? The Renaissance release killed it for me. Split the game into PvP areas (where only huge bands of murders played) and non-PvP areas (Care Bear Land). What fun is mining when you know you can't be jumped by a murderous archer? And what fun is mining when you KNOW you'll be jumped by a murderous archer?

Diablo 2. It's an excellent game if you: 1. Don't cheat and 2. Presume that everyone else in public games DOES cheat. Nothing more fun than letting (hardcore) PKs get close then going to town and laughing at their ineptitude. It's a shame that Blizzard didn't do much more than make laughably empty threats to control cheating.

Never owned a console. Never wanted to.

Auh · Apr 04, 2005, 05:58 AM // 05:58

Heheheh... Asheron's Call had cow tipping in it

William the Silent · Apr 04, 2005, 05:59 AM // 05:59

Well I'll stay out of all the console games because that would just get tedious but in the PC world I have a few titles to put out there.

Back in 2001 or so I was addicted to Utopia

mainly just because it was free and my friends played it. Now that I have at least some money to spend I've mainly invested it into Guild Wars and CounterStrike: Source (HL2 as well obviously).

Those two games pretty much fill my online gaming needs mainly because they're both so addictive and fun to play so I don't have time for anything else.

P.S. In CS I go by the name of Scaglietti(Ferrari 612

) so feel free to hang out and play with me if you ever see me; I'm a hardcore addict to Scoutzknivez

so you'll probably find me there almost whenever I'm playing.

fritz300 · May 04, 2005, 04:06 PM // 16:06

FFXI, L2, WoW, SWG, RO.

Skult · May 04, 2005, 04:25 PM // 16:25

etowiosee · May 04, 2005, 04:28 PM // 16:28

Most recently up until a few days before release of GW I have been playing SWG (Star Wars Galaxies).

Had 4 Accounts. With the latest intoiduction of bugs though in what was supposed to fix other bugs jintriduced over the last 2 years I along with two other guilds I was involved with pretty well decided to call it quits and we started up here in GW and we are LOVING every minute of it.

DysonT · May 04, 2005, 04:31 PM // 16:31

I started out with a Vic 20 computer. Hook it up to the TV and use cassette tapes instead of disks.

Played a lot of Apple games on the Apple IIE. Including Oregon Trail on the black and green screens, lol.

Finally, into civilized PC times, played Simcity original and a game called Deathtrak. Loved that one.

Betrayal at Krondor, X-wing, X-com, Dune, Quake II, Half-life, CS mod before it was for sale, Quake III, Unreal Tournament, Anarchy Online, GTA, Star Wars Galaxies (for like a year and a half), Half-life 2 (and Counterstrike Source of course

), Matrix Online (not worth my time IMO), and finally Guild Wars.

I still play CS in my off time from GW.

Wolfstagen · May 04, 2005, 04:31 PM // 16:31

Well its nice to see there are some other people that are old enough to remember playing Pong. I will just list the ones that I have played online.

Doom (dial-up against friends)
UO
Everquest (for about one week)
Asheron's Call (Leafcull TSC/Brell) 5 years
AO (For about two weeks)
DAoC (For about 2 months)
Shadowbane (For one month)
Asherons Call 2 (Beta, didnt bother with live)
SWG (one agonizing week)
CoH (3 months)
WOW (Since live, quit for GW)
GW (now)

Harlas Kije · May 04, 2005, 04:36 PM // 16:36

I started on the old Tandy/TRS-80 and CoCo..some of the games--umm rogue
The hobbit
The old zork and the rest of those text only games.

jump into the present and recent past--UO from beta/EQ from Beta/DAOC from beta

Took a 2 year retirement and went back to consoles. GW is my first time back on PC online gaming--works well for me since I now have 4 kids and very little time to game. I think I am done with the 12-36 hour campfest/raids for awhile

Aethyr · May 04, 2005, 04:38 PM // 16:38

Started out playing Zork. I used to play UT2k4. Now I am here, I like GW the best.

Epinephrine · May 04, 2005, 04:44 PM // 16:44

Tunnels of Doom on my TI99/4a

Marcus · May 04, 2005, 04:52 PM // 16:52

Runescape, played it for about 2 years at like average of 4 hours a day.. Quite a lot of play time :P
Offline, I played some game called neverwinter nights.. is quite good
Now I have played GW, I know there is no going back to the terrible gameplay of games like runescape..
Also c&c generals a lot =)

Redcell · May 04, 2005, 05:10 PM // 17:10

My dad has his still working commadore 64 in storage. he said in another 50 years it will be worth its weight in gold. (they are heavy too) But as for games, Diablo2 lod is great, Dawn of War WH40k is sweet too great graphics and lots of carnage, Played KOTOR1 and 2 but felt very let down by 2

. Have a xbox and ps2 but the kids get more use out of them.Halo2 is cool on live.

Ranja123 · May 04, 2005, 05:15 PM // 17:15

UO for 3 years
EQ1 for 5+ years
DAOC 2 months hated it, convinced by friends to buy again and lasted 2 weeks...
Asherons call 2 weeks
Anarchy Online 12-15 mins not sure exactly
Earth and Beyond Till E.A. kicked us to Iceland
Eve I lasted 2 days
SWG since launch (current)
COH 8 months
EQ2 4 months