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[Valish]

Hi all :biggrin:

A question I ask on most forums since some people like to take a walk down memory lane. I know some ppl are new to these games and don't actually have any back stories. But what was it that got you started on the road to these games. Guess I should start.

I played many games early on and enjoy alot but I would say the ones that really caught me and started me solidly on the rpg road was Shining Force for the genesis and Secret of Mana for the SNES. I started playing both around 1997(ish). From there I started on the internet soon after and while searching for rpg games I came across mmorpg's. I have never looked back since.

Of course there were many many others but these 2 games I put down to setting me on the rpg path fully.

Valish

[Beta]

"A Computer and Broadband connection"
got me started
:tongue:

GOT MILK?

Edited by Beta, 06 July 2009 - 06:20 PM.

[greymain]

Guess started with D&D in 1960's. My first multiplayer game was snipes on a network, first game star wars on Univac mainframe terminal in 1970's closely followed by rogue. stir in a few muds like Colossal cave and Runequest. Best early home computer game Dungeon master on VIC20 if memory serves..gave me nightmares. Stand alone Games of 70's and 80's, 20 odd where mazes used same bitmap on all dungeon walls. Then Diablo, Balders gate and Neverwinter nights then finally to MMORPGs in late 1990's.

[Diageous]

I played another game for around 2 years and eventually I got sick of it as I watched it get progressively worse. I never had a very good computer utnil a few weeks ago, so I haven't played any of the games people mention around here. I was looking for a game I could play from the start so that I can beat most of the competition. An early start is a main reason I was drawn to Alganon, along with all the great features that are planned.

[iamurmom]

... followed by rogue.

OMG I'm not the only person to remember rogue. And hack and larn. hehe


I started my path to MMOs at Risk with wooden pieces. Computer - rogue, many rts (hated the *Craft series so probably why i never played wow). 10 years with no computer and right back into age of empire again and dungeon seige. First MMO was eq2 - stuck on the Accursed Isle of Refuge for 7 days till I could get off the trial.

[Copenhagen]

Well, if we are going back down memory lane...

I guess I should admit that I was really in to Dragon Warrior on the NES and Final Fantasy...the first Final Fantasy on NES. The really old school stuff...yeah I was there.

Then I got into the Sony Play-Station, where I played Legend of the Dragoon. I've always been a Fantasy Buff, ever since I was little and read the book "King Author and the Knights of the Round Table".

I quit Play-Station after Resident Evil 3 and got into computer gaming. Oddly enough the game that got me playing online MMO's was Planet Side. Then I got into Everquest, Everquest 2, Lineage 2, DAOC, Shadow Bane, Ultima Online, Then I got into World of Warcraft, I put it off for about 6 months though, as I was playing EQ2 because it came out first. But eventually succumbed to my buddies and joined them in the Adventures what was called WoW.

Then when I finally got tired of WoW, I started playing F2P games, MU Online, 9 Dragons, Last Chaos, Rapplez, Arch Lord, yada yada Can't even remember them all really. Then I did Lord of the Rings Online, Because I was already a fan of Middle Earth from the Books. I must say, they did a good job with it IMHO.

Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars, Anarchy Online, Neo Cron, Neo Cron 2, Eve Online, Warhammer Online, are some other MMO's that I've just remembered that I've played.

I've been recently playing Runes of Magic and Battle Field Heros, oh and Farm Town on Face Book!


Anyway, that's my condensed "Spill".

[iamurmom]

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[Therian]

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now to the point...

I first got started on computers in the late 70's in school, bought my first computer in 81 or 82 (ti99/4a), and I think they pulled it from the market a few days later... on to a c64, c128, and after reading as much as I could about computers I eventually scraped up the parts to build my first xt (8086 I think, then 8088).. and so on and so forth.

I ran a bbs with my c64, and co-sysop'd a 6 line bbs (on pc's) after I got a bit more into building & networking them, thats where I first got into multiplayer games. (tradewars anyone?)

I really was hooked with the ti99/4a though. tape drive & text adventures ftw!

I could go on and on about my life with computers, but I'd bore you all to tears. :wink:

[Stalvos]

I'm happy that I'm not the only one here to remember what a BBS or a sysop was. Those were the days, eh? I had a 2400 baud modem that we used as a speakerphone at times. I had a girlfriend that had a voice so high pitched that the first time she spoke it thought she was a carrier wave and it started trying to connect! We all broke out in hysterics but she wasn't a pc nerd like us so she didn't get the joke. :tongue:

[Therian]

I'm happy that I'm not the only one here to remember what a BBS or a sysop was. Those were the days, eh? I had a 2400 baud modem that we used as a speakerphone at times.

I've used every speed from 300 up... ahh those were the days....


thank god for broadband.

[blueturtle]

Started with The Bard's Tale and Zork. Bard's Tale just enchanted me to no end.
a bit of time after that I worked at a Pizza Hut to save for the money to get a 386 computer so I could play the TSR D&D games and might and magic and Ultima. It was so magical for me to see what I had only imagined before in pen and paper from my D&D games. Been a hardcore fantasy game player ever since. Still read fantasy almost exclusively. Some Horror thrown in. Everquest was my first real MMO. Cant wait for Alganon.

Edited by blueturtle, 16 July 2009 - 12:06 PM.

[Thallo]

As i think back, the original Might and Magic on a Commodore 64 was my first rpg and I have played every M&M since then.

[Lessi]

I don't know if I'm too young to have a past or not. All I do know is that table top games got me into MMO's somehow. All I can remember is sitting around with a bunch of my guy friends (cause no teenage girl is gonna wanna hang out with a chick who dresses like a dwarf to play a game) in the back of the comic store drinkin way to much soda and fighting about who gets the ripped card when my friend brought his laptop and shows us a bunch of sites with all kinds of new mmo titles. Sadly Rune scape was one of my firsts. Hey t was free and at the time was heaven sent. From then on it was retty much a different game every week. From the grand to the not so. I'm sure if I cleaned out my only desktop a bit I would find some stray files from the past. Maybe some screenies.

A love for anime and cons didn't hurt eather.

Edited by Lessi, 17 July 2009 - 09:43 AM.

[Hamarhand]

I'm another who got my start on the Bard's Tale. Wow, I loved that game (even more than its sequels...) Thanks for starting the thread; I hadn't thought about it for a while. Good memories. On the MMO side, I got my start with WoW, though I've played CoH and GW a bit and tried others.

[Dura]

Gosh, I don't remember the name of the game atm, but when I was a wee little lad, my mom would drop me and the brothers off at a babysitters house, who I thought was the coolest fellow in the world with his computer. There was just a simple RPG that used symbols for enemies, I think one of them being a snake.

From there I grew up into the RPGs of the NES and Super NES. I hit the Square series hard... any game by them was gold to me.

Right about the time AOL was in the midst of starting up their all out blitz with 3.5" and CDs I started getting into the 'chat room' games. I bring up my first ever MMO game in a MUD called Gemstone. Man, that game was sooo much fun and truelly addictive for me. Hell, I even ponied up the money to continue playing it even after the advent of EQ.

My first graphic based MMO came in SWG, and yes, I liked the game, bugs and all. I actually had the foresite (luck) to leave the game before the CU and NGE, so I'm not a bitter vet. From there, it was to FFXI, WOW, DDO, WOW, Vanguard, WOW, FFXI, WOW. I always end up back to that silly game. Something having to do with moving around and friends =p.

Hopefully, there is someone out that that has played one them MUDs from AOL days, and more specifically Gemstone!

[Zianix]

Well, i've always loved the Fantasy and magic kind of theme. The first computer game, that I actually bought myself was Warcraft 2 (before that I only played videogames). I got my first computer (well the families computer at age 13-14,quite late I guess) Then followed Might and magic series, Thief and so on. I loved Zelda on videogame as well. So from there.... I've just always loved the theme of magic, armours, swords and such. The epic music. Everything.

I played Diablo 2 a lot ofcourse, and me and some friends from school were hyping WoW like hell, years before it came out. Making our own guild and so on.
Got into WoW beta, played and loved it. I guess what really got me into MMORPG's was the social thing. You could play with your friends, meet new people from different parts of the world and such. That just made everything so much more fun! So that's it basically. Since then I've just been looking for a new MMORPG to play that will give me the same feeling that WoW did. Exploring an unknown world, pvp, unknown encounters... meeting new friends, and arch enemies Just having fun!

To me... to take a freshly brewed cup of coffee and then sit back and play a really good MMORPG with some friends, talk ###### and explore the world is one of lifes better moments


Zianix

[Liliun]

My first real gaming experience was with a c64. I remember playing Below the Root for hours. After that I lost interest for a time, but got back into it with games like Baldurs Gate and the Might and Magic series. I started to lose interest in these when it was taking me a couple of weeks to complete them, and all there was left to do was start over from scratch.

It is around that time that I discovered EQ, and got my first taste of mmorgs. That was my game of choice for a very long time, but soon began to lose interest because so many of my online friends had moved on to new things. So I took a break from online games for a while, until my brother moved away and told me he was playing WoW. So I started playing as a means to "hang out" with him. I have been playing that ever since, but have been looking for a something new in the past month. I stumbled on Alganon completely by chance, and for the first time in a long while I feel excited about a game.