My OperaMy gaming background
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:23:58 AM
I was lucky enough to be born into the beginning of the video game era. I was there when Ski or die was the coolest thing since Ice. My first gaming memory is playing Dig Dug on my dads old computer. I remember finding my way around the Internet back in 1994, all in the glorious search for games and tips. Back then I mostly played on my Super Nintendo, a console I still play from time to time.
Dig Dug, borrowed from Wikipedia
I've grown up on large variety of games. From Command and Conquer to Quakeworld on PC. On Nintendo I have fantastic memories from Zelda, Turtles in Time and Rock n' Roll Racing. My first real Online Experience with random people was through Diablo in 1997. Before that I tried Quakeworld a bit, but nothing large scale. I played a mix of games for a few years including the brilliant StarCraft from 1998, before I turned to FPS games.
My first "hardcore" Online gaming experience was like so many others Counter Strike. I know many many people say they started with Counter Strike, but either you where there in the early beta or you weren't. Through Counter Strike I really got to know several of my best friends to this date. And no mater what games we play today, we stick together both in-game and in real life. The somewhat fameous <The Axemen> World of Warcraft guild is in fact based on our old Counter Strike clan "Lumbago".
Counter Strike, still available through Steam
After playing Counter-Strike for a while I played some Diablo II, before I turned to my first real encounter with the Warcraft universe through Warcraft III. I had played some Warcraft II before, but I never really got into it. I keept thinking that the Command and Conquer series was just so much better. With Warcraft III though I found a diverse and awesome universe combined with a brilliant gameplay. In this period of time I also got really into web-design, and combined with lots and lots of school I had to take a step back from gaming for a while.
<The Axemen> kills Kil'jaeden.
When I was in the Army, I kept going back and forth between games. And when I came back home, I realized that everyone I knew was playing World of Warcraft. Not wanting to play alone I joined in the fray. This game revolutionized everything for me. The community of people I got to play with grew, and the people I've meet during the last five years are not only amazing people, but many of my closest friends today. In World of Warcraft I first started with some friends playing Horde on Daggerspine, but I had to crawl back to my Counter Strike friends in <The Axemen> on Ravencrest. There are many awesome events from the past five years, but I think I'll save them for a post later. Sufficient to say: This has been and is the best game I've ever played.
These days, while waiting for Cataclysm, the third World of Warcraft expansion I'm sticking to StarCraft II. It's another amazing game from Blizzard. In fact while writing this I realize that except for Warcraft I I've been through their entire gaming catalog!
The development in graphics and gameplay these last twenty years has been amazing, and I can't wait to see what gaming has in store in the future. Until that: Keep playing games!
As this post suggests I'll try to stick to more gaming related posts in the future. I'm sure I can relate whatever I want to games, but I'm all open for suggestions should you have any!
Artur „Jurgi” JurgawkaJurgi # Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:05:56 AM
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Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:37:47 PM
What you think of graphics of games over the years?
Dustin WilsonKhadgar # Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:05:00 PM
Through my choice of name on here it's rather obvious I'm a fan of WarCraft (but my favorite game of theirs is StarCraft). I never could get into C&C games because I mostly found them without character. The original was mostly Orcs & Humans with updated graphics. The game even included many of the original WarCraft's asinine limitations. It's a shame you didn't play WarCraft II much. It's by far the best of that series. WarCraft III in my opinion was absolutely awful. The story was interesting, but the limitations (such as the extremely low food cap) made the game not even remotely enjoyable to play. Battle.net was filled with mostly RPG maps using the new capabilities in the game's map editor because many players felt the RTS aspects of the game were mostly nonexistent. The game's popularity centered around how powerful and easy the editor was.
I was absolutely afraid Blizzard was going to do the same thing to StarCraft II, but I wasn't disappointed. The campaign in that game surely is the best I've ever seen, and it's quite a joy to play especially when I can use old tactics gained from playing the original. Only thing I found lacking in this particular campaign was that there wasn't a single mission where your goal was to wipe the other side out. It's always good to have one or two of those. I mostly had to improvise on that front and wipe the other side out anyway.
I played World of Warcraft. I was a beta tester, and I enjoyed it quite a bit for a while. I reached top level, and found I didn't have the time to go on all these raids all my friends were talking about. My guild mates were picking up better and better gear, and I simply couldn't catch up because I had a real life to live. It's an excellent game with an engrossing world, but they or someone else need to work out the end game. What made StarCraft so enduring was the fact that you could play a match for 30 minutes and go do something else. There wasn't a necessity to be stuck in front of the computer hours on end. I won't even mention the economics in the game with all the bastards' buying gold. At least it's not as bad as Diablo II having to trade items for SoJ's...
Aleksander AasAleksander # Thursday, August 26, 2010 11:31:05 AM
Originally posted by Jurgi:
That's the point of this post, to think about the awesome memories we all have with games!
Originally posted by Chas4:
This should be an awesome post, graphics development and my thoughts on the future of it!
Originally posted by Khadgar:
Thanks! Slightly inspired by your blog in fact. I loved your reply also. I agree with your thoughts on WC3, some of the custom RPG maps not to mention DOTA actually got more popular than the game itself. And the population limit limited the "epic" feel of the games.
Originally posted by Khadgar:
Gaming > RL! Or no.. Wait..
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Ahmad Firdaus Abdullah Firdaus496 # Tuesday, April 19, 2011 8:47:01 AM
seem that so many people waist their time just simply to playing a game. What i have seen that mostly many student and tennegers . If i were a student i'll use oppourtionity just to find out more important thing search as knowledge
for whatever it is.
Ahmad Firdaus Abdullah Firdaus496 # Tuesday, April 19, 2011 9:12:35 AM
game player but sometime i do playing game just whatever!.