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I didn't start playing real video games until fairly late in my childhood. There are many reasons for that, but the main one was that my parents didn't like video games (I also never got into Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh etc despite growing up with these things. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad) I was allowed to play more "kid friendly" games, so the first game I ever played was Spy Fox:In Dry Cereal
To the young me, these games were super fun, but really difficult. I remember spending something like two weeks trying to figure out how to get a diode. After I beat it I would play the game over and over again, and eventually I could beat the entire game in 30 minutes. Eventually I was given Spy Fox:Operation Ozone, and I loved that too.
Then, I became interested in baseball when I was eight, and so received 3DO's High Heat Baseball (3DO also created one of the first ever MMORPGs).
I loved this game too, even though it was seriously outdated by the time I played it. Thinking back on it, I played the game in a rather eccentric manner. I would always have left-handed players at certain positions, only would draft players that were smiling in their pictures and traded Barry Bonds (one of the best players available in the game) for players like Turner Ward because I didn't like him. Anyway, then I entered into games that other people might recognize with
I would play this game secretly when I was supposed to be doing an online writing class. The meetings were boring as heck, so I distracted myself with Kougras and Peophins. My mom eventually would send my sisters up to spy on me to make sure I wasn't playing Neopets. Then, we moved, a crucial time in my gaming history. For, it was at that time that my cousin introduced me to true gaming in the form of Runescape.
I had a character with the great name of Hawkwizard2 (in fairness, Hawkwizard was taken).
I did all manner of stupid things in that game. Every so often, I would complete a quest and make some money, then try to fight a level 55 demon and lose it all. I would run at the edges of the free-2-play zone, convinced that the devs might have accidentally left a gap that would allow me to enter. After that I moved on to Runescape's sister game, Funorb. And after about 6 months of that, I moved on to Planeshift.
That's right. Planeshift. I don't know how I ended up playing this game. I think I may have googled "free mmorpg". Oh, it was terrible. Planeshift now is a bit better, but at the time it had no sound and nearly no animations. If you equipped weapons and armor, they wouldn't show up on your character. When you died, there was this complex process you had to go through just to get out of hell. I spent a week just trying to find my way to the main city. Then I googled "free mmorpg" again, and this time I had a bit better luck.
Runes of Magic was in open beta at that time. It's gone bad now, but at the time it had a robust population and was likely the best free game out there. Despite the epic lag, the random Chinese announcements, and the fact that I had no idea what I was doing, I enjoyed playing it. After that.....
I got my laptop taken away.
And after that....
Well, I somehow convinced my parents to let me buy Guild Wars. To this day, it is the best game I've ever played and I still have it on my computer. It blew me away. I had never played a game with voice acting before. The skills system, the storyline....I loved it all. I loved Guild Wars so much, that I would play Guild Wars instead of doing school. All I would talk about was Guild Wars. I drove my friends and my sisters nuts. Eventually, I became so obsessed that I had to quit.
After that, I whipped through many free MMORPG's Allods Online several times,DDO, LOTRO a few times, back to Runes of Magic. Then I came to League of Legends (though I went back and forth to other games a few times too.
And that's my strange gaming history.
To the young me, these games were super fun, but really difficult. I remember spending something like two weeks trying to figure out how to get a diode. After I beat it I would play the game over and over again, and eventually I could beat the entire game in 30 minutes. Eventually I was given Spy Fox:Operation Ozone, and I loved that too.
Then, I became interested in baseball when I was eight, and so received 3DO's High Heat Baseball (3DO also created one of the first ever MMORPGs).
I loved this game too, even though it was seriously outdated by the time I played it. Thinking back on it, I played the game in a rather eccentric manner. I would always have left-handed players at certain positions, only would draft players that were smiling in their pictures and traded Barry Bonds (one of the best players available in the game) for players like Turner Ward because I didn't like him. Anyway, then I entered into games that other people might recognize with
NEOPETS!!!!!
I would play this game secretly when I was supposed to be doing an online writing class. The meetings were boring as heck, so I distracted myself with Kougras and Peophins. My mom eventually would send my sisters up to spy on me to make sure I wasn't playing Neopets. Then, we moved, a crucial time in my gaming history. For, it was at that time that my cousin introduced me to true gaming in the form of Runescape.
I had a character with the great name of Hawkwizard2 (in fairness, Hawkwizard was taken).
I did all manner of stupid things in that game. Every so often, I would complete a quest and make some money, then try to fight a level 55 demon and lose it all. I would run at the edges of the free-2-play zone, convinced that the devs might have accidentally left a gap that would allow me to enter. After that I moved on to Runescape's sister game, Funorb. And after about 6 months of that, I moved on to Planeshift.
That's right. Planeshift. I don't know how I ended up playing this game. I think I may have googled "free mmorpg". Oh, it was terrible. Planeshift now is a bit better, but at the time it had no sound and nearly no animations. If you equipped weapons and armor, they wouldn't show up on your character. When you died, there was this complex process you had to go through just to get out of hell. I spent a week just trying to find my way to the main city. Then I googled "free mmorpg" again, and this time I had a bit better luck.
Runes of Magic was in open beta at that time. It's gone bad now, but at the time it had a robust population and was likely the best free game out there. Despite the epic lag, the random Chinese announcements, and the fact that I had no idea what I was doing, I enjoyed playing it. After that.....
I got my laptop taken away.
And after that....
Well, I somehow convinced my parents to let me buy Guild Wars. To this day, it is the best game I've ever played and I still have it on my computer. It blew me away. I had never played a game with voice acting before. The skills system, the storyline....I loved it all. I loved Guild Wars so much, that I would play Guild Wars instead of doing school. All I would talk about was Guild Wars. I drove my friends and my sisters nuts. Eventually, I became so obsessed that I had to quit.
After that, I whipped through many free MMORPG's Allods Online several times,DDO, LOTRO a few times, back to Runes of Magic. Then I came to League of Legends (though I went back and forth to other games a few times too.
And that's my strange gaming history.
1- age of empire 2 (still one of the best game evar :P imo)
2- rollercoaster tycoon 2 (found it in a box of cereal)
3- runescape was the turning point of my gaming history i discovered online gaming
4- i went to the playstation 2 meanwhile playing star wars battlefront 2 and all sort of games
5- i played runes of magic too but it was too laggy for the dinosaur i had so i went on the free game Gates of Andaron
6- my friend started playing WoW..... i became addicted to it,i played for around 1 year then cataclysm came out and i was disapointed by this game.
7- minecraft, dat game when you have nothing to do and no internet connection :P
8- LoL, i played really passively until i entered what we call Cegep (in quebec its between high school and university) there was sooo many LoL players i started to play almost everyday for around 5 months and today i still play a lot with my friends
that was my history of gaming :P