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out of all the games you've played weather you're young or old, what do you remember the best?

ones that stick out for me:

playing red alert 1 over dial with a friend down the highway a few mins drive away

playing big LAN games of quake 2 at high school. we hid a copy on the server and i railed them like the bitches they were. a few kicks and smacks were soon to follow. then our keyboarding teacher joined in.

stalking snipers as a spy in TFC. kept pretending to be one and then stabbed them good when they weren't looking.

the first pc game i ever picked out for myself: privateer 2. RIP origin.

attempting a nuke rush in starcraft for the hell of it. the guy freaked out when he had a dozen nukes coming at him at once ha ha. i lost but it was worth it.

and last but not least my first time playing system shock 2. i played in the dark with a pair of headphones on. bastard monkeys!
 
twinsen's odyssey :D

need for speed 2

FF7 and FFX

mafia

. man those were the good days.
 
Playing Actionquake 2 with my best friend. Pulling off ridiculous stunts and actually winning. We actually met over a dial-up game of Starcraft even though we were in the same school. Then CS Beta 1 came out and we just rolled over everyone. We were both good, but together we were great.

After playing together for so many years, we could identify each other in the opposing team even though we're all using just the stock game models. Just the movement and fire patterns were instantly recognizable. Even when there's a whole team pouring out from a corner I can tell which one is him without the name indicator. We know how the other thinks so that we can predict where the other is going to be and identify each other through walls just because the footsteps match up with with what he would most likely be doing.

It sounds outlandish, but really, if a teammate dies and you know where he was, you know the start point the enemy is leaving from. The distance from that point is the seconds that passed, times the running speed in that game, so the only prediction part is which direction he's heading out from that circle. If you have a start point, a distance, and a direction, you can find the end-point. You can get a pretty decent estimate of where enemies are on the map this way, and the better you know the opponent, the more consistent you'll be.
 
not one memory in particular but every weekend at the honors dorm at drexel you would find games of mario kart on wall via a projector from the drexels a/v dept. All night games of tribes and cs beta followed by pancakes and waffles for breakfast at the mess hall.
 
Playing System Shock 2 in the dark and scaring the crap out of myself is very high up on the list.

Playing a direct connect game of Warcraft 2 over my 2400 baud modem with a friend only to have his brother pick up another line and disconnect us right as I was about to victoriously end our titanic 2-hour struggle.

Playing TFC for 12 hours straight at a friend's house while listening to The Bloodhound Gang's Hooray for Boobies album on repeat. TFC bingo was quite a challenging experience.

Good times, good times.
 
Playing Starcraft with my original LAN crew. The first time I ever played, the other 3 guys playing decided to take it easy on me. I had no idea what I was doing, so I built carrier after carrier. They had no idea. After they had a battle, I swooped in with my fleet of carriers and won. They were never easy on me again. :D

When I bought EverQuest. I will never remember customizing my first character, a troll named Goonak. The fun times I had with my pal in EverQuest back in its glory days (before Luclin) was the funnest gaming time of my life.

Also - going to my friend's house to play Mario Kart and Goldeneye on the N64.
 
Good lord, I have lots of good memories... a few
  • Playing Quake with my buddy for hours on end over a modem. We played some levels so much we'd have zero problems running them completely backwards.
  • Playing Quake 2 with a cable connection after school. I believe I've deathmatched in that game more than any other.
  • System Shock 2 in co-op... we started over in that game I don't know how many times. We'd get so far, stop playing for a while, lose the save game, then have to start over. 6th time's the charm...
  • PvP in Diablo II (playing *LEGIT*) and just raping people with my two buddies. You'd be very surprised what you could do when you put 2 or 3 good players in the same room, even when everyone else is cheating. Of course, then Blizzard butchered PvP (and the game in general) with 1.10 and later banned our accounts for no reason...

Those are a few... man, I wish I had time like I did back then to do that kind of stuff now.
 
mine was playing command and conquer all hours of the night with my dad, he would call off of work and let me stay home from school to play that game with him, but now I'm 27 and we tried to recreate that and it just don't feel the same.

and 2. would be lan parties I love them, but the one I used to run people stopped coming and
basicly everyone says that Lan is over nowadays since broadband has came out.




old memories > new memories
 
Finishing Final Fantasy 4. I can not remember how many times I tried to kill Zeromous.

Destroying the Sa-Matra in Star Control 2 (which I believe to be the greatest PC game of all time) and then getting to see the ending movie and credits.
Panasonic 3DO ending: 3DO Ending

PC Ending: PC Ending

and the hillarious credit scenes: Credits
 
Running around the final base in "Wasteland" on my C64, trying to get out before it blew up and killed my team. Got jumped by a Silver Strangler that ate up a few precious seconds.

In the end I had to abandon Covenant, one of the NPCs I'd picked up much earlier in the ruins of Las Vegas. The base blew and there was a nice little graphic showing poor Covenant getting shredded.

I still feel a little guilty for leaving him behind. :)

//One of the first and last games I actually completed
 
Wow so many memories,

1. Playing Doom II on my new Mac Quadro and telling my buddy it would be cool to plug in my big ass headphones (there were two headphone ports on it) in and play in the dark. Well with it being late and all it was pitch black in my room and suddenly running around a corner to have a fucking imp scream at us bout sent me into cardiac arrest. He (my buddy) got the shit scared out of him and topple backward out of my other rolling desk chair. I was laughing for a good two hours later as he would not turn the lights off and refused to sit in the chair. :D

2. Coming home completely drunk ass from a TKE party and playing Mario Kart 64 and GoldenEye on my roommates N64. All my bitch roommates hated that I knew the levels well and knew how to screen watch (Golden Gun + Screen watching = PUR PWNAGE!!)

3. Playing MOH:AA/SH so much when they first came out and playing with my guild so much that my fiance said that I used to yell "SHIT!!! SNIPER!!!!" in my sleep..... good times
 
There have been a lot but,

-Defeating the Sorceror Furor playing Wolfenstein 3D on our first custom build PC :D

-I dont mean to copy but, Goldeneye MP!
 
1st time through:

Tie Fighter
Jedi Outcast
Doom 3
FEAR
Call of Duty
MOH: Allied Assault

All very memorable!
 
lemme' see. . .

I always remember the Multi-player Bots in Duke3D. . .can't remember if they were added in later or if it was a third party thing. But anyway, they were hilarious in that there favorite tactic was to bum rush you with the shotgun and then use the ~ kick at the same time. It was absolutely hilarious watching a Duke model running around screaming and kicking and shooting.

Another memorable time is playing TFC as an engineer. I had a knack for cramming those turrets in places that one would think that they shouldn't be able to fit. Aside from that, I had a lot of fun with rigging one of the extra buttons on my mouse to explode the ammo bin so that whenever the message that an enemy was using my bin popped up I could nuke it with minimal delay.
 
2 moments in Starseige Tribes. The first one was when I learned to ski effectively.

The second was when I learned to "talk" effectively.

After that point, I'd have to say I've never seen anything quite as funny, no comedy movie that can compare to late night Tribes shit talking blending the hilarous voice overs to say ridiculous things to eachother while dueling.

What a game.
 
Playing Theme Park, The original Simcity, rebel assault, Leisure Suit Larry, Syndicate, and Civilization.
 
- 1972 and pong. it all started there
- living in an arcade from 1980-85
- countless hours with war2 on bnc/coax, dos drivers with < p90's. where multiplay excelled. don't forget rott =P
- ~1994 my basement. 17 pc lan action quake, 2 were mac's. what a weekend :D

edit/add: finally beating garden of war with a buddy against 6 computers + beating plains of snow by myself vs 6 computers
 
Teknikallysekure said:
2 moments in Starseige Tribes. The first one was when I learned to ski effectively.

The second was when I learned to "talk" effectively.

After that point, I'd have to say I've never seen anything quite as funny, no comedy movie that can compare to late night Tribes shit talking blending the hilarous voice overs to say ridiculous things to eachother while dueling.

What a game.
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LMAO.. I never really played the game, but I watched my roomate progress in skill over the year.. In the beginning, we used to watch him and heckle him for being useless.. By the end of the school year, he was insanely good. Too bad he then dropped out of school that year!
 
Playing quake 2 with the various mods. Weapons factory was great, Action quake 2 was fun because the sniper was accurate as hell even if you were moving, and the dual pistols were fun.

Regular CTF and the base CTF maps were fun.

I think my most fun in that game was chaos DM, now that was a crazy mod.
Lets not forget all the hours spent at q2dm1 "The edge" and "Main gate"

That was the most fun ive ever had with multiplayer, in the 56k days, in the cable modem days, despite the graphics, it was the best, and I have yet to see a game live up to it.
 
ynnek888 said:
LMAO.. I never really played the game, but I watched my roomate progress in skill over the year.. In the beginning, we used to watch him and heckle him for being useless.. By the end of the school year, he was insanely good. Too bad he then dropped out of school that year!
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That is to bad, sadly one of my roommates dropped out of college playing tribes.

The learning curve on that game was so damned difficult that I think people who didn't initially give up and hate it got obsessive over it, he used to play all day and night for hours and hours.

I loved the hell outta that game, but it never held me back from anything.

Man it was fun though, and the variety of characters that played that game I dunno, just seemed to really bring out all the hilarious gamers back in the day.

Still, without a doubt best voiceovers in gaming history. I love how insanely frantic some of the character voices were. :D
 
when i was little playing donkey kong country super nes i got so into i was jumpin up when i wanted donkey kong to jump. i didint notice untell my dad sayd wtf r u doin?
 
i love how everyone is mentioning quake 2. that game is the shit of online DM. i firied it up again last week for the hell of it.

i thought ground zero was fun. quad damage the nuke and clear the map:)

and then there were all the infinite ammo maps on heat.net while it was still around. i remember grabbing the chaingun and taping down my fire key just to piss everyone off!

something tells me that TFC 2 with its candy ass cartoon graphics are just going to piss me off to no end.

P.S. if anyone wants to do a co-op of System Shock 2 sometime, PM me!
 
For me, some of my personal memories I enjoyed where playing DOOM via modem with my buddies. Also, when games started being developed on CD, the were a tons of new ideas and gameplay techniques being used ala - The 7th Guest, Under a Killing Moon, etc...
 
Playing Warcraft II GoW map via Kali (anyone remember or use it?)

Playing Q2 CTF with coworkers against one of our vendors and wiping them out

NFS:SE and watching the replays of the race on my TV and laughing at the awesome crashes (Damn you EA for consolizing an awesome PC game)

All night campaign of X-Wing Vs. TieFighter addon pack (dang what was it called, but you could have 8 players on a side and we all did Rebel Alliance vs. computer) Pain in the ass keeping the damn Y Fighters alive to take the shields down!

Total Annihilation (nuff said)

Syndicate multiplayer, and getting all panicky when the music changed when another agent was near.

that's off the top of my head. Gaming for me started with Computer Space and Pong, so kept it within the last couple of decades.
 
Total Annihilation LAN deathmatch with friends that lasted 8 hours

FF7, the entire game

WoW, a horde char was doing an escort quest and the NPC just happened to be hostile to alliance so I killed it, forcing the horde char to wait for it to respawn to restart the quest... well I did it 5 times in a row, running away and hiding each time so that they thought I had left. Then the horde player got on an aliance alt and bitched at me for about 50 lines of text... so funny.
 
I think the best memory I have was when I saw and played Super Mario World (snes) for the first time at the store. It was something magical feeling, that's for sure!

Also, maybe second best, was the first time I saw and played Doom, which was on a school computer. Just looked and fealt TONS better then wolf...
 
Playing goldeneye split screen on the N64

First ever multiplayer LAN games on the PC was Die by the Sword which was amazing fun as the orgre, smashing people across the map with a huge club.

Probably watching a friend playing through HL which at the time was quite new out, the first ever FPS game I saw being played on a PC.

Playing though Fallout 2, it was my first real RPG on a PC and I fell in love with it.

All time best memory is probably having my girlfriend under the desk while playing CS :D
 
When I was 13, which I'm 25 now, playing Street Fighter II at the local skating rink, suckering people in to play me for money, then beating them with 2 buttons with Chun Li. :D :D :D
 
most memorable single player experiences were playing half-life for the first time, then deus ex.

Multiplayer...RTCW and then Wolf: ET when it came out.
 
Driving over 4 hours to the beach at Galveston just to sit in the hotel room for 3 days straight playing starcraft with my friend.
 
THRESHIN said:
out of all the games you've played weather you're young or old, what do you remember the best?

ones that stick out for me:

playing red alert 1 over dial with a friend down the highway a few mins drive away

playing big LAN games of quake 2 at high school. we hid a copy on the server and i railed them like the bitches they were. a few kicks and smacks were soon to follow. then our keyboarding teacher joined in.

stalking snipers as a spy in TFC. kept pretending to be one and then stabbed them good when they weren't looking.

the first pc game i ever picked out for myself: privateer 2. RIP origin.

attempting a nuke rush in starcraft for the hell of it. the guy freaked out when he had a dozen nukes coming at him at once ha ha. i lost but it was worth it.

and last but not least my first time playing system shock 2. i played in the dark with a pair of headphones on. bastard monkeys!
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Your name isn't Colter by chance is it lol? I played with a friend and this sounds exactly like us when we grew up.
 
My favorite had to be Everquest. It was my first MMORPG and there was no feeling like it. There was just an overwhelming feeling for me knowing that almost everyone around me was a human player. I used to love when it rained. To this day, that music and some of the sound effects incite nothing but joy.
 
fantome2024 said:
Driving over 4 hours to the beach at Galveston just to sit in the hotel room for 3 days straight playing starcraft with my friend.
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vacationed thier 2 summers ago. MTV was there and i was only sixteen. So lets just say it was a whole new experience. ;)

Anyway my favorite moments are:

Golden eye MP. (The "laboratory" I think it was, was the only level we played. :D) I was a pro with mines.

Seeing my brother expression after seeing that my little brother had torn the sticker off his "Gold edition" n64 Zelda.

FOW farming with my Fire Elementalist. And all of the Ring of fire island. (Guild Wars)

Farcry. First of the last generation of awesome FPS (hl2, doom 3, fear) i'd played and i was blown away.... Mostly because I didn't have a pc capable of playing previos games like Deus ex and others until 04'.

And laslty, All sega saturn games blew me away. Especially moments like getting tooled on in Virtual Fighter 64 by my older brother and crying repeatedly...
 
HAHA, YESS!

Playing all the old Sierra adventure games and alt tabbing when my father came in the room because he"didnt want video games on the 486.

Craftily persuading my father that the computer needed and extra 4 meg of ram "to make the computer run better." but really to run Doom 2 at the speed it deserved.

Killing mech-hitler in Return to castle wolfenstein and hearing him say "Sheist!"

Playing Diablo over and over for an entire summer


sighhhh the good old days, great thread by the way.
 
God I can't believe I forgot about this one!!!!!

Playing and all weekend long binge of Starcraft:Broodwars with my 3 buddies from morning 'til night. Then getting up on Monday to go to class and practically sleeping through that anatomy class. Ended up walking halfway across campus to my other class and at one point crossing a bridge. Right before I hit the other side of the bridge I see this brown leaf skitter across the walk (it was windy ass) and remember stopping dead in my tracks and thinking "OH SHIT AH LURKER!!!!"

Then realizing I was not IN the game.....:D
 
gregnash said:
... I see this brown leaf skitter across the walk...
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LOL, that has definately happened to me on more then one occasion, thinking a leaf, or some other object, is an enemy from a game... I think I pulled a double-all-nighter once and when walk up a steep hill to the apartment, got really woozy, then saw what appeared to be a goomba from mario and it scared the shit out of me thinking it would kill me! (no I was not on mushrooms)

to this day I'm not sure what the "goomba" imposter was, it was probably a paper bag or something...
 
Rel1c said:
My favorite had to be Everquest. It was my first MMORPG and there was no feeling like it. There was just an overwhelming feeling for me knowing that almost everyone around me was a human player. I used to love when it rained. To this day, that music and some of the sound effects incite nothing but joy.
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hell yes!... EQ1 was my first and greatest MMO love :) ... my friends got me hooked and I played it till far far after they had quit... god, it almost feels as if I threw 5 years of my life away...

let us not forget, however... that Quake 1 and Duke Nukem 3D were marvels... Quake 1: Team Fortress on M-Player and old GameSpy (before it had a gui and started to suck ass)... and Quake 2 and its mods, the original CS and going crazy with laser trip-mines in Duke Nukem in those fricken air-ducts... so awesome.. and the ice gun. Many many hours of Quake 1 TF... MANY!
 
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