shortylickens
No Lifer
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Yeah to me Mount Rushmore implies OLD games, stuff thats historic in its importance.
In that sense it would be Oregon Trail, Pacman, Mario Brothers, and maybe Pole Position.
Actually I think I'd need a special list for computer, arcade, and home console.
Console:
Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Super Mario Brothers, Gradius.
Plenty of better games since, but those are historically important.
Arcade:
Mario brothers, Pacman, Pole Position, Asteroids
Computer:
Gorillas.bas, Zork, Oregon Trail, Wolfenstein 3D.
Again, more and better since then, but those are important titles.
amish
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1. x-wing; I still remember the first time I killed a Nebulon Frigate B in my x-wing.
2. doom; Wolfenstein was great, but doom was just amazing.
3. warcraft II; I had never played Dune or the original warcraft. when I got my hands on WC2 I cracked out on it for many many years...then starcraft came out...
4. Daggerfall; it was horribly buggy, basically unplayable. the game was so big though and there were so many options. I'd never seen anything like it. the naked dancing girls helped to. Diablo was a much better game, and I played that one more, but Daggerfall showed me what a game could be.
5. America's Army; ok, so I'll probably catch flak for this, but I thought this game was outstanding. it was free! it was the first game that I played "competitively". My first experience with a clan.
2. doom; Wolfenstein was great, but doom was just amazing.
3. warcraft II; I had never played Dune or the original warcraft. when I got my hands on WC2 I cracked out on it for many many years...then starcraft came out...
4. Daggerfall; it was horribly buggy, basically unplayable. the game was so big though and there were so many options. I'd never seen anything like it. the naked dancing girls helped to. Diablo was a much better game, and I played that one more, but Daggerfall showed me what a game could be.
5. America's Army; ok, so I'll probably catch flak for this, but I thought this game was outstanding. it was free! it was the first game that I played "competitively". My first experience with a clan.
n7
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- Jan 4, 2004
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I got into gaming way later than most people my age for various reasons i won't go into.
First one is easily UT2004.
But i remember playing the UT2004 ONS-Torlan demo basically all day one Sunday and finally around 10pm realizing how long i'd been playing.
Thousands of hours followed in that game, which will always be my favorite game of all time.
L4D. Hundreds of hours of fun. Easily the most enjoyable game i've ever played for the co-op experience.
Borderlands.
1300+ hours of madness, many of those spent farming for that ultimate weapon. Another great co-op game.
And my present addiction that won't go away.
Civ5.
First one is easily UT2004.
But i remember playing the UT2004 ONS-Torlan demo basically all day one Sunday and finally around 10pm realizing how long i'd been playing.
Thousands of hours followed in that game, which will always be my favorite game of all time.
L4D. Hundreds of hours of fun. Easily the most enjoyable game i've ever played for the co-op experience.
Borderlands.
1300+ hours of madness, many of those spent farming for that ultimate weapon. Another great co-op game.
And my present addiction that won't go away.
Civ5.
amish
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wow, you must have dedication to that game. Deus Ex came out almost a year and a half before Halo.
shortylickens
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TallBill
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We used to network 4 Xbox together to play 16 player Halo. That was epic, and by far the best multiplayer I've ever played.
shortylickens
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tracerbullet
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Half Life 2 had a mod, "toy soldier" I think (?) that set you in a kid's bedroom, where you were the size of a little plastic army man. After umpteen hours of jungles and towns and whatever, it was a huge and very welcome change.
Any of the Rogue Spear games, at a geekfest / lanfest, where we'd have 1/2 of the house fighting the other 1/2 of the house (about 10 -12 of us together), and restrict play to pistols only. Nothing long range, you had to go toe-to-toe.
Both of these were great in that once you got pretty good at something, it changed it completely on you.
Any of the Rogue Spear games, at a geekfest / lanfest, where we'd have 1/2 of the house fighting the other 1/2 of the house (about 10 -12 of us together), and restrict play to pistols only. Nothing long range, you had to go toe-to-toe.
Both of these were great in that once you got pretty good at something, it changed it completely on you.
I loved that freaking game, and played WAY WAY WAY to much... Camping houses that were about to decay was some of the most epic all nighters I can remember. Would have 3-4 friends all with 2-3 characters logged out in the area if we knew a specific time for the collapse we'd all log on 5 mins before it was going to happen and kill everyone there then place our own small house and drop all the loot inside... If we DIDNT know a time frame it was hours of camping and fighting everyone else around.
Then after Trammel came along it wasn't as much fun, except for using a boat exploit that let me steal ore from bots mining on their boats with massive piles of ore sitting there.
I played on the Great Lakes shard had a couple characters that were semi well known. in the guild "Guild of Friends" on my main "blue" and in PK R US for my "red"
Hopefully I'm not being rude by resurrecting this 9 month-old post, but this is the only way I can get ahold of Tha Shiznit and Sphinx??, since I don't have the required 25 posts to be able to PM them. They both mentioned in this thread that they were really big into Quake 2, and more specifically the LMCTF mod.
Just wanted to let them know that since 2011, there's a group of us that have been playing LMCTF again regularly. If they see this or anyone can point my post out to them, here are a couple links to sites with game files/info, competition league info, and our facebook group. Thanks guys, and I apologize if this clutters up the front page with an old thread.
http://www.lmctf.com/
http://www.lmctf.com/beatdown/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/q2lmctf/
**thank you zinfamous
Just wanted to let them know that since 2011, there's a group of us that have been playing LMCTF again regularly. If they see this or anyone can point my post out to them, here are a couple links to sites with game files/info, competition league info, and our facebook group. Thanks guys, and I apologize if this clutters up the front page with an old thread.
http://www.lmctf.com/
http://www.lmctf.com/beatdown/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/q2lmctf/
**thank you zinfamous
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Dungeon keeper and DK2 was probably one of the most addictive.
Fallout series, 1 and 2 and ever 3 and NewVegas
Jagged Alliance
Although First person perspective is more visually appealing, they never seem to capture the strategy of controlling an entire team in 3rd person perspective esp turnbased for combat
Fallout series, 1 and 2 and ever 3 and NewVegas
Jagged Alliance
Although First person perspective is more visually appealing, they never seem to capture the strategy of controlling an entire team in 3rd person perspective esp turnbased for combat
monkeydelmagico
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As someone who has primarily (read: almost exclusively) played console games, this is a bit of a tougher task for me. I grew up watching my dad play Unreal and Quake on his PC, and I played a little of the latter (and some other games) on there myself. I've started buying a good chunk of games for my PC now (given the Holiday Sale and all), and I'm planning to get something closer to a 50-50 split on my gaming medium now. That said, this would probably be my 4:
1. Urban Terror: IT started as a Quake III Team Arena mod, but it's the only part of that game I actually played. I still say things like the variable breath for jumping (based on remaining health) and the need to bandage at times are still some of my favorite things a shooter has ever done.
2. Unreal Tournament/Unreal Tournament 2003: I don't remember which I watched my dad play, but I loved it, and it's why I got Unreal Championship as my first Xbox LIVE game. It's also why I was SUPER disappointed in the Xbox LIVE community when it didn't flock to Quake 4 and Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 like I wanted them to, because it meant nearly-barren servers I could never play games on.
3. World of Warcraft: Didn't actually touch this until I got to college in 2008 (roommate showed me it), and I never played it in long stretched (4-6 months, with breaks of roughly 6 months). I don't play it now, but I'm still impressed at how it can suck your time away through many different things (raiding, PvP, or even something like Pet Battles), and the fact that it's considered to be in a terrible state at 7 million+ members really says a lot about a game that was peaking around 12 million paid subscribers, given the fact that almost every alternative is free-to-play.
4. Portal/Portal2: I'm still impressed by the hilarity of these games. I love Cave Johnson, loved the way you get around the levels, loved everything about the series.
1. Urban Terror: IT started as a Quake III Team Arena mod, but it's the only part of that game I actually played. I still say things like the variable breath for jumping (based on remaining health) and the need to bandage at times are still some of my favorite things a shooter has ever done.
2. Unreal Tournament/Unreal Tournament 2003: I don't remember which I watched my dad play, but I loved it, and it's why I got Unreal Championship as my first Xbox LIVE game. It's also why I was SUPER disappointed in the Xbox LIVE community when it didn't flock to Quake 4 and Unreal Tournament III on Xbox 360 like I wanted them to, because it meant nearly-barren servers I could never play games on.
3. World of Warcraft: Didn't actually touch this until I got to college in 2008 (roommate showed me it), and I never played it in long stretched (4-6 months, with breaks of roughly 6 months). I don't play it now, but I'm still impressed at how it can suck your time away through many different things (raiding, PvP, or even something like Pet Battles), and the fact that it's considered to be in a terrible state at 7 million+ members really says a lot about a game that was peaking around 12 million paid subscribers, given the fact that almost every alternative is free-to-play.
4. Portal/Portal2: I'm still impressed by the hilarity of these games. I love Cave Johnson, loved the way you get around the levels, loved everything about the series.
Wolfenstein 3D, I was 9 years old when this game was released and invented the first person shooter genre. Perfect timing, really.
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