I assume most of us are 90's kids... so we grew up with similar games... I'd be interested to know what games everyone enjoyed and what they grew up on that got them to this point here: playing starcraft 2.
Here's my memorable games in order of time (I probably forgot a lot):
Super Nintendo: Mario Kart, Donkey Kong 1+, and other games which I forget now because I was stupid and sold this console years ago.
Gameboy: Various crap and Pokemon red/blue.
N64: Goldeneye, Banjo & Kazooie, Zelda, Perfect Dark, Mario Party/Kart/64 etc., I forget the rest because my sister left my N64 somewhere and forgot about it... sigh.
Gamecube: Pikmin and some other game... I stopped buying consoles/console games after this... played Halo and various other stuff at friends houses but that was it lol. GG Nintendo.
PC part 1: Diablo 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Starcraft, No One Lives Forever, Sims (everyone played the original).
PC part 2: Warcraft 3/TFT + mapping, Dungeon Siege, Counter Strike: Source, Halflife 2, World of Warcraft + TBC,
PC part 3: Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Zombie Panic Source, and Starcraft 2 Beta.
lol my console life was primarily Rareware, and PC primarly Blizz/Valve.
Edit: omg i forgot unreal tournament, doom, red alert.
PC Strategy: Dune II (HOLY CRAP WTF BEST GAME EVAR!), Warcraft II, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo I, StarCraft, GTA 2, Quake 2, Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Sims, Diablo II, Half Life 2, Counter Strike:Source, GTA 3, Portal, Team Fortress 2, SC2 Beta
PS1: Crash Bandicoot
Gameboy: Pokemon Red
XBox: GTA 4
I played other games, but these were the ones I got into. I owned WC3+TFT, but never got into it and ended up giving it away. SC2 seems a lot more up my alley. I've stayed away from WoW like the plague.
Pong
Philips G7000
2x c64
Amiga 600
Amiga 1200
Amiga cd32
Gameboy Classic
486
Playstation 1
Various pentium systems
Playstation 2
too much pc shizzle
Gameboy ds
nintendo Wii
im with you alcoholix. started with pong, qbert / original mario & duck hunt. super nintendo to mario kart and street fighter. then straight into pc blizz gaming with warcraft orcs & humans, the lost vikings, warcraft 2 tides of darkness (back then on kali.net), etc.... very few periods of goldeneye etc... (mostly after the first blizzard games i played, everyhting console was just a matter of 'party gaming' or now its pregaming with friends before going out). hard to pregame with friends while playing a pc game as usually theyre more intensive.
i do notice were different on that you like PS.... i never got into PS and still am not, it just seems not as fun to me. the controller? i would love to see god of war and a few others on xbox though.... and id like to see blizz back into consoles.... they could make a game that was like WoW only it was ONLY PVP (battleground/arenas) for xbox. that would be fun / casual gaming id possibly play with. and for that matter why the hell dont consoles allow a mouse??? there should be a option for mouse / keypad or controller. sorry didnt mean to siderail this, continue with everyones gaming roots... :)
Well, got the Playstations primarily to play Final Fantasy games :) Did get addicted to SnowStorm on the ps1 tho, a racing game with snowscooters and also Tony Hawks on the ps1 was great
well thats progress my friend! haha, now if only xbox would do the same.... but maybe all in all i dont care as im getting to a point where console gaming doesnt excite me anymore. but maybe my kids will get to enjoy better console gaming...
Right now it seems like more mature gamers play PC... while newer players play console (as a main gaming system that is, because PC gamers do play console too)...
I was big into the SNES back in the day... Mario, Zelda, Street Fighter... I even played Lost Vikings back then, before I knew what Blizzard was, :P. Then of course, played Mario 64 when the N64 came out... Golden Eye... Of course, I'm pretty sure everyone had a GameBoy and played Pokemon as well.
Though, back in 1996, I wasn't even 5 yet, my dad introduced me to Diablo I. Changed my life and it barely started. Then played everything since then, as soon as it came out.
Of course, I'm pretty sure everyone had a GameBoy and played Pokemon as well.
Doh, I hadn't. My parents didn't allow me to have another game "console" apart from the PC. If I wanted a game boy, they said, I'd have to get rid of the computer.
Choice was clear then, obviously - I kept the computer and regulary borrowed the game boy from friends :D
At that also made my a computer-only. I don't own any console and I haven't played much on them.
The second computer I got was a P1 166Mhz. That was at the time where games like Knights&Merchants and Command&Conquer 1 popped up (about 1995). My rig was too weak to play them with :/
But I've had a demo CD with a more than a hundred game demos on it - including Lost Vikings! I loved that game and played it a lot.
A little later I saw my brother playing Warcraft I and it absolutely fascinated me. I tried to buy it myself a little later and gathered all the money I could find to get it - I needed like 25DM ($10?) and thanks to my grand mother I got it together in time :D
I don't really remember how I got to know Diablo I+II and Starcraft.. it feels like I've known them since the beginning of times :D
But I played a lot of other games and got sucked in.
But I do remember that I got Warcraft 3 and wasn't a huge fan of it. Only after The Frozen Throne was out and a friend of mine got it as well started playing it. Then I finally got an internet connection ( very late :/ ) and started playing WC3 online - If I wasn't already, I became a fully fledged Blizzard fan at that point.
I'm still playing it. After so many years it still steals hours and hours of my time :D
When I first saw the Starcraft II trailer I fistpumped at how totally awesome that was!
And when I first saw this: I couldn't suppress tears of happiness. And I still can't. I have tears in my eyes right now.
I saved this video in my documents as a reminder of an emotional milestone in my gaming life :D
Starcraft > Counter Strike 1.5/1.6 ( never source ) > Half life 2 > Final Fantasy 11 > War3 > team fortress 2 > Sc2 beta
Console > Halo series > Final fantasy Series 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 13
Pokemon was the shit! ... Probably the game i played most. Started with Red and Blue of course… On blue i actually maxed out my 6 main characters without cheating! ( Never did this again lol )
PC games only for me. :) Started with a P1-120 (16 MB, 1 GB, S3, 95) in '96 which was decent but eventually succumbed to a lack of memory to run Win98 and the fact that I'd been introduced to Diablo 2 which it couldn't run.
Then came a P3-933 (128 MB, 20 GB, TNT2, ME) in '01 which ran Diablo 2 and uh... that was about it. Again too little memory and couldn't run Warcraft 3 properly or Windows XP at all. Even Diablo 2 filled up the memory and started thrashing after about 20 minutes, making it unplayable online. It did run PSX/N64 emulators and some older PC titles so I had a decent library of vintage games. Because it couldn't run much of anything else, I put an insane amount of time into a mod for Diablo 2 - pretty much half of my total free time from 2003-today.
(http://modsbylaz.hugelaser.com for those interested)
In '07 I got smarter and compiled a C2D (4 GB, 150 GB+500 GB, 8800 GTS, Vista) which so far runs everything I threw at it except possibly meaningless games like Crysis. Oh well. Exit Diablo 2, enter the galaxy editor. :)
I've never been much of a console man, but as for PC games... Lets see if I can recall them all in chronological order.
'93-'94
Several floppy-disk sports games which my brothers can probably recall better than me
Theme Park (the original game bitchez! Talk about old-school! =P)
'95-'96
Warcaft 1: Orcs & Humans
Settlers 2
Dungeon Keeper 1
Theme Hospital
Dune 2000
Command & Conquer: Red Alert
'96-'97
Doom
Age of Empires
'97-'98
Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness + Expansions (this is also where I did my first bit of mapping ever, I made sucky 'campaign-style' maps for myself)
Settlers 3, to a small extend
Knight & Merchants
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
'98-'99
Age of Empires 2
Magic & Mayhem (anybody here knows that game? I *LOVED* it back then, awesome concept, though very hard to play right)
Dungeon Keeper 2
Half-life (I played this all the way up to 2002, doing random, mostly tripmine-related stuff in LAN with a buddy)
2000
Nox (anyone by any chance knows this game? Loved it then, still love it - awesome storyline and game altogether)
Starcraft (yes, I was pretty late on that one)
Half-life: Opposing Force
2000-2001
Heroes of Might & Magic 3 (was a year late on this one too)
Half-life: Blue Shift
Emperor: Battle for Dune
2001
Stronghold
Max Payne
2002-2003
Warcraft 3 + TFT (played this quite intensively, completing all the campaigns, playing online in melee and custom maps and becoming a terrainer in the mapping community)
Max Payne 2
2004-2010
World of Warcraft (somewhere around level forty on my first non-beta character is when my 'affection' for Blizzard games started)
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
Aaand now Starcraft 2.
These are pretty much all the games that have had a magnificent impact on my life. The games in that list I know (or at least knew) inside out, completed multiple times in all possible directions and variations and could practically write a strategy guide for. The list up there has pretty much shaped me as a person, and has basically led to me ending up where I'm now, as a mapmaker/terrainer for Starcraft 2.
There's a bunch of other less genre-defining games I completed or 'dabbled in' (Oregon Trail, The Sims, Counterstrike, Metal Fatigue, Age of Mythology, Seven Kingdoms, Worms, Dark Colony, Stratosphere, Get Medieval, Stronghold 2, the list goes on), but these didn't have as much of an impact on me and I generally discarded them (or saved them for parties, in some cases) after completing them once.
P.S. Damn, I looked up the release dates of some of those games to get the chronological order right, and found I was right on pretty much all of them. I feel so awesome now. /flex
I assume most of us are 90's kids... so we grew up with similar games... I'd be interested to know what games everyone enjoyed and what they grew up on that got them to this point here: playing starcraft 2.
Here's my memorable games in order of time (I probably forgot a lot):
Super Nintendo: Mario Kart, Donkey Kong 1+, and other games which I forget now because I was stupid and sold this console years ago.
Gameboy: Various crap and Pokemon red/blue.
N64: Goldeneye, Banjo & Kazooie, Zelda, Perfect Dark, Mario Party/Kart/64 etc., I forget the rest because my sister left my N64 somewhere and forgot about it... sigh.
Gamecube: Pikmin and some other game... I stopped buying consoles/console games after this... played Halo and various other stuff at friends houses but that was it lol. GG Nintendo.
PC part 1: Diablo 2, Counter Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Starcraft, No One Lives Forever, Sims (everyone played the original).
PC part 2: Warcraft 3/TFT + mapping, Dungeon Siege, Counter Strike: Source, Halflife 2, World of Warcraft + TBC,
PC part 3: Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Zombie Panic Source, and Starcraft 2 Beta.
lol my console life was primarily Rareware, and PC primarly Blizz/Valve.
Edit: omg i forgot unreal tournament, doom, red alert.
Wasn't really a console guy, PC gaming ftw!
PC Strategy: Dune II (HOLY CRAP WTF BEST GAME EVAR!), Warcraft II, Doom II, Duke Nukem 3D, Diablo I, StarCraft, GTA 2, Quake 2, Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike, Sims, Diablo II, Half Life 2, Counter Strike:Source, GTA 3, Portal, Team Fortress 2, SC2 Beta
PS1: Crash Bandicoot
Gameboy: Pokemon Red
XBox: GTA 4
I played other games, but these were the ones I got into. I owned WC3+TFT, but never got into it and ended up giving it away. SC2 seems a lot more up my alley. I've stayed away from WoW like the plague.
I was an 80's kid...I feel so old now :(
Pong
Philips G7000
2x c64
Amiga 600
Amiga 1200
Amiga cd32
Gameboy Classic
486
Playstation 1
Various pentium systems
Playstation 2
too much pc shizzle
Gameboy ds
nintendo Wii
im with you alcoholix. started with pong, qbert / original mario & duck hunt. super nintendo to mario kart and street fighter. then straight into pc blizz gaming with warcraft orcs & humans, the lost vikings, warcraft 2 tides of darkness (back then on kali.net), etc.... very few periods of goldeneye etc... (mostly after the first blizzard games i played, everyhting console was just a matter of 'party gaming' or now its pregaming with friends before going out). hard to pregame with friends while playing a pc game as usually theyre more intensive.
i do notice were different on that you like PS.... i never got into PS and still am not, it just seems not as fun to me. the controller? i would love to see god of war and a few others on xbox though.... and id like to see blizz back into consoles.... they could make a game that was like WoW only it was ONLY PVP (battleground/arenas) for xbox. that would be fun / casual gaming id possibly play with. and for that matter why the hell dont consoles allow a mouse??? there should be a option for mouse / keypad or controller. sorry didnt mean to siderail this, continue with everyones gaming roots... :)
Well, got the Playstations primarily to play Final Fantasy games :) Did get addicted to SnowStorm on the ps1 tho, a racing game with snowscooters and also Tony Hawks on the ps1 was great
@ezbeats: Go
my ps3 uses a mouse and keyboard and some games allow their use in game play
well thats progress my friend! haha, now if only xbox would do the same.... but maybe all in all i dont care as im getting to a point where console gaming doesnt excite me anymore. but maybe my kids will get to enjoy better console gaming...
@ezbeats: Go
Right now it seems like more mature gamers play PC... while newer players play console (as a main gaming system that is, because PC gamers do play console too)...
I was big into the SNES back in the day... Mario, Zelda, Street Fighter... I even played Lost Vikings back then, before I knew what Blizzard was, :P. Then of course, played Mario 64 when the N64 came out... Golden Eye... Of course, I'm pretty sure everyone had a GameBoy and played Pokemon as well.
Though, back in 1996, I wasn't even 5 yet, my dad introduced me to Diablo I. Changed my life and it barely started. Then played everything since then, as soon as it came out.
Doh, I hadn't. My parents didn't allow me to have another game "console" apart from the PC. If I wanted a game boy, they said, I'd have to get rid of the computer.
Choice was clear then, obviously - I kept the computer and regulary borrowed the game boy from friends :D
At that also made my a computer-only. I don't own any console and I haven't played much on them.
The second computer I got was a P1 166Mhz. That was at the time where games like Knights&Merchants and Command&Conquer 1 popped up (about 1995). My rig was too weak to play them with :/
But I've had a demo CD with a more than a hundred game demos on it - including Lost Vikings! I loved that game and played it a lot.
A little later I saw my brother playing Warcraft I and it absolutely fascinated me. I tried to buy it myself a little later and gathered all the money I could find to get it - I needed like 25DM ($10?) and thanks to my grand mother I got it together in time :D
I don't really remember how I got to know Diablo I+II and Starcraft.. it feels like I've known them since the beginning of times :D
But I played a lot of other games and got sucked in.
But I do remember that I got Warcraft 3 and wasn't a huge fan of it. Only after The Frozen Throne was out and a friend of mine got it as well started playing it. Then I finally got an internet connection ( very late :/ ) and started playing WC3 online - If I wasn't already, I became a fully fledged Blizzard fan at that point.
I'm still playing it. After so many years it still steals hours and hours of my time :D
When I first saw the Starcraft II trailer I fistpumped at how totally awesome that was!
And when I first saw this: I couldn't suppress tears of happiness. And I still can't. I have tears in my eyes right now.
I saved this video in my documents as a reminder of an emotional milestone in my gaming life :D
Oh God, this is so awesome.
You nerd.
:D
When I was a kid I didnt have PC, so I played it at my friend :P . Diablo 1,2 SC1 Wc3,Wc2... discovered those games there.
SC1 is a big hit, so everyone heard about SC2...
youre all nerds. talking about nerd games on a nerd forum. nerds-
They are making a golden Eye remake!!!!!!
Starcraft > Counter Strike 1.5/1.6 ( never source ) > Half life 2 > Final Fantasy 11 > War3 > team fortress 2 > Sc2 beta
Console > Halo series > Final fantasy Series 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 13
Pokemon was the shit! ... Probably the game i played most. Started with Red and Blue of course… On blue i actually maxed out my 6 main characters without cheating! ( Never did this again lol )
PC games only for me. :) Started with a P1-120 (16 MB, 1 GB, S3, 95) in '96 which was decent but eventually succumbed to a lack of memory to run Win98 and the fact that I'd been introduced to Diablo 2 which it couldn't run.
Then came a P3-933 (128 MB, 20 GB, TNT2, ME) in '01 which ran Diablo 2 and uh... that was about it. Again too little memory and couldn't run Warcraft 3 properly or Windows XP at all. Even Diablo 2 filled up the memory and started thrashing after about 20 minutes, making it unplayable online. It did run PSX/N64 emulators and some older PC titles so I had a decent library of vintage games. Because it couldn't run much of anything else, I put an insane amount of time into a mod for Diablo 2 - pretty much half of my total free time from 2003-today.
(http://modsbylaz.hugelaser.com for those interested)
In '07 I got smarter and compiled a C2D (4 GB, 150 GB+500 GB, 8800 GTS, Vista) which so far runs everything I threw at it except possibly meaningless games like Crysis. Oh well. Exit Diablo 2, enter the galaxy editor. :)
I've never been much of a console man, but as for PC games... Lets see if I can recall them all in chronological order.
'93-'94
'95-'96
'96-'97
'97-'98
'98-'99
2000
2000-2001
2001
2002-2003
2004-2010
Aaand now Starcraft 2.
These are pretty much all the games that have had a magnificent impact on my life. The games in that list I know (or at least knew) inside out, completed multiple times in all possible directions and variations and could practically write a strategy guide for. The list up there has pretty much shaped me as a person, and has basically led to me ending up where I'm now, as a mapmaker/terrainer for Starcraft 2.
There's a bunch of other less genre-defining games I completed or 'dabbled in' (Oregon Trail, The Sims, Counterstrike, Metal Fatigue, Age of Mythology, Seven Kingdoms, Worms, Dark Colony, Stratosphere, Get Medieval, Stronghold 2, the list goes on), but these didn't have as much of an impact on me and I generally discarded them (or saved them for parties, in some cases) after completing them once.
P.S. Damn, I looked up the release dates of some of those games to get the chronological order right, and found I was right on pretty much all of them. I feel so awesome now. /flex
Although I've been gaming for years, I usually only play one game at a time and spend hundreds and hundreds of hours on it. Haha.
PC: Warcraft 2 > Diablo > Starcraft > Warcraft 3 > WoW
Console: Super Mario 3 > Goldeneye > Perfect Dark > OgreBattle 64 > Knights of the Old Republic > Mass Effect
Handheld: Pokemon Red/Blue/Gold