The first online game you ever played?
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Diablo 1 I think, not entirely sure.
Played loads of TFC and Counterstrike (1.2C or something, I know the Colt Carabine could still zoom and the auto sniper rifles were not yet invented) over a 14.4K modem.
I remember switching to 56K and my ping dropping to below 200 for the first time ever. Oh how fluid the game suddenly ran in comparison. How I despised those buggers that whined about having 100+ ping, I shot the lot to pieces without fail. And now I can't even play decently with a ping of 70...
On LAN my earliest game was Warcraft 1.
Played loads of TFC and Counterstrike (1.2C or something, I know the Colt Carabine could still zoom and the auto sniper rifles were not yet invented) over a 14.4K modem.
I remember switching to 56K and my ping dropping to below 200 for the first time ever. Oh how fluid the game suddenly ran in comparison. How I despised those buggers that whined about having 100+ ping, I shot the lot to pieces without fail. And now I can't even play decently with a ping of 70...
On LAN my earliest game was Warcraft 1.
I played LoRD (Legend of the Red Dragon) on BBS's somewhere around 1991. It was a fun game. Text based RPG where you could perform X amount of operations during one day, and then wait until tomorrow to do things again.
This was followed by Doom and Descent on serial cable (old school
First three player LAN game was with Command & Conquer, we got few cards and cable for coaxical network.
At this point I can't remember anymore details on newer games.
EDIT. There was at some point some games played with a dial-up. Some text games on old Nokia modem, something like 3400 baud. Later playing C&C on 14,4K modem
This was followed by Doom and Descent on serial cable (old school
First three player LAN game was with Command & Conquer, we got few cards and cable for coaxical network.
At this point I can't remember anymore details on newer games.
EDIT. There was at some point some games played with a dial-up. Some text games on old Nokia modem, something like 3400 baud. Later playing C&C on 14,4K modem
VERY first was probably a tie between Diablo and Quake
Battle.net was a brand new concept back then, and Quake was always a pain to find good games on, you had to use a third party program like Gamespy, the posted game data like IP addresses, because everything was just TCP/IP back then (or IPX/LAN, if you were with a bunch of friends). The lag was horrendous because everyone was using dialup.
Online gaming kind of sucked back then.
Another major early Online game I played was a small MUD called "Darkover". There was never more then about 50 people playing the game (and I mean that there were 50 active people, rarely was there more then 20-30 on at any given time, usually there was 5-15), but we managed to have 3 major guilds, who actually competed with one another (I was in all 3 at some points of my playing), and for a while, we had RP Immortal Worship.
I was Dirkin, a gnome mage who remorted Faerie, and I worshipped Vash, the god of poetry and rhyme.
I don't even think that game runs anymore.. but I played it for 8 years.
Battle.net was a brand new concept back then, and Quake was always a pain to find good games on, you had to use a third party program like Gamespy, the posted game data like IP addresses, because everything was just TCP/IP back then (or IPX/LAN, if you were with a bunch of friends). The lag was horrendous because everyone was using dialup.
Online gaming kind of sucked back then.
Another major early Online game I played was a small MUD called "Darkover". There was never more then about 50 people playing the game (and I mean that there were 50 active people, rarely was there more then 20-30 on at any given time, usually there was 5-15), but we managed to have 3 major guilds, who actually competed with one another (I was in all 3 at some points of my playing), and for a while, we had RP Immortal Worship.
I was Dirkin, a gnome mage who remorted Faerie, and I worshipped Vash, the god of poetry and rhyme.
I don't even think that game runs anymore.. but I played it for 8 years.
If we're counting LAN/IPX, then Warcraft 2 for me as well. I was going by Online meaning on the internetmtk2a post=9.73305.792160 said:
I think it was Starwars Battlefront, when I was 14ish. 1st Lan game was possibly Warlords (could you even play that over a lan? I can't remember).
1st post by the way, hello to you all. /waves
1st post by the way, hello to you all. /waves
If that was a predecessor to Warlords Battlecry, I cheer a mighty cheerRobMalfunktion post=9.73305.793662 said:
I loved Warlords Battlecry. Something about blending an RPG with an RTS, and before Warcraft 3 did it, was terrific. I still prefer WLB to WC3
Hello, and welcome to The Escapist. We're glad to have you. Always nice to get some new blood. Or, as my foreman at my construction job used to call me, young blood.RobMalfunktion post=9.73305.793662 said:
Diablo II. Well, I did play Doom 3 on a LAN once, but first on the world wide web was Diablo II.
Starcraft for me- I was young at the time, and it was insanely cool to play. The only problem was that the friend I was playing with was tons better than me, so I either relied on him constantly or was being blown up by him (constantly).
Unreal Tournament GOTY, back in the days when it was the pride of the UT series. Man did that game kick ass.