Was over at a friends house back in 1998 and he showed me this cool new online game that he had been playing called UO.
Being an old Dungeons and Dragons fanatic, I loved what I saw and immediately ran out and bought not only a copy of UO, but a computer to go with it. lol. I didn't even own a computer at the time....
i was sifting through the computer section at my local con event (big gaming convention for boardgames/cardgames/pen and paper games) and found SWG. I was enthralled at the text on the back that told me i could be playing with thousands of other players and make a diverse and unique character. Of course things never went well and i only got to play for a week (total of about 8 hours) before the NGE hit. Man that sucked hard.
After that it was WoW because it was always on the shelf at my local game shop and i had heard so much praise for it.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds -Solid non level based game -Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
I was about 13 years old and saw it in stores and it was like my prayers were answered sort of deal since I was playing a MUD at the time since I was 11 years old. So what would of been better than a MUD back in the day, if it had graphics and it more of a dream and didn't think it would even happen until I saw the box for Ultima Online. I remembered in my mind, I was like "No way in hell did this just happen..." and I slapped myself twice and realized I was still alive in a real world and got the game and made my Dad pay for it =x No thinking twice about a subscription especially when it was a "dream come true" moment for me
Two answers really to satisfy both myself and what you're probably asking...
1) MUDs, my first MMO, I found out about while I was in highschool I was looking at some hardcopy book about this "internet" thing, and in it was a section on games including some telnet addresses. Once I finally convinced my dad that $30/month for a dialup shell account was a worthy expense, I was hooked... like... bad!
this lead to
2) in 98 I was working at an ISP as many of us probably were, and a friend of mine there who knew I was a MUD addict suggested we get UO when it released and play together from the LAN during and after hours. We played a TON on the slow weekend shifts. Interestingly enough, and kind of sad actually, I had only a PowerMac at home at the time... and now, as a Mac user, I must say that the biggest joke in that name was "Power". I ran UO on the OLDSCHOOL VirtualPC which was then an Intel emulator running on a 100mhz 604e processor. I think I got about 1-3 fps at best. And yet, I still kept on chopping wood and making shields.
Good times. im' now actually full circle getting back into text muds, which are significantly deeper in many respects than the glut of caca that has been pushed out recently.
How dare you present him with logic! Don't you understand? He fights epic fights, in epic games, with epic toons....eats epic food and takes epic dumps! He has more e..pic..icity...ness in his little finger than you have in your whole unepic body! - ChicagoCub
Good times. im' now actually full circle getting back into text muds, which are significantly deeper in many respects than the glut of caca that has been pushed out recently.
Yeah I hear ya. Older games didn't have powerful graphics to wow people, so the games had to have great storylines.
Well... I have two answers to this.. cause it kinda happened twice....
The second.. the one that caught.... My girlfriend and I saw a commercial for Everquest at the beginning of a rented videocassette of "A Knights Tale" with Heath Ledger.... lol. The commercial was pretty good and she and I were hooked on the idea right away... Bought a copy of the Everquest "Trilogy" a day or two after.
I had actually played a little bit of EQ1 once before that.... maybe 6 months earlier I was living in Texas and my first room mate was an EQ player... I saw a tiny bit of the game, and he let me create a character. I never found my way out of Qeynos so it wasn't a very exciting experience and I forgot about it till after I started playing myself.
Grymm
Grymm MMO addict in recovery! EQ,SWG preCU,L2,EQ2,GW,CoH/CoV,V:SOH, Aion,AoC,TR,WAR,EVE,BP,RIFT,WoW and others... no more!
i first heard about mmo's back in 2001 when i overheard two people talking about everquest, at the time i was only in 8th grade and didnt own any pc's except an old mac without internet but i always wanted to try in 2006 i finally lbuilt my own pc and decided to look for an mmo after school and i found shadowbane many good times in there i miss the fear of being ganked at any time by someone invisible wich it was still around since then ive been hooked.
thnx for reading
Kaze: The Wind Blows Through Every one of us But only A Select Few Can Soar in the Sky
Kaze is thy name, and flying high in the sky is where ill remain with the wind blowing though my wings i shall bring swift justice upon this world
Heard about it from friends on a text-based game I played back in the 90s, they got into UO and I went to try it out because I was getting bored with what I was doing.
I was reading this Romanian game magazine called Level and they had an article talking about the betatest of an MMO called Asheron's Call. It looked so cool with shiny spells and swords
In 2000 I moved to the United States and bought a computer, and saw the Original box for AC, bought it. Took couple months after that to actualy use a credit card for it, since I had originaly thought it was F2P after you bought the box.
Saw my roommate loading up EQ. I was playing FFVII or Panzer Dragoon Saga I think. Looked at the screen and said, holy crap that looks like crap=) Wondered why he was standing around after every fight and called him a loser for wasting his time. He said, but the other guys in my group are actual people. I thought, "interesting". Then I read what they were saying and said, damn they're nerdier then you, hehe.
Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast would have to be the first MMO I REALLY played/enjoyed, which led me to AO then DAOC, and on and on.
Years ago when I bought my first computer, I also purchased a game called Morrowind - The Elder Scrolls. I became active in the game Community Forums helping other players with their questions and remember thinking to myself that it would be easier to help them IN - game. When I finally became bored with Morrowind, I started searching online for new RPG games and came across MMORPG.com... Needless to say, I've been hooked on MMOs ever since.
It was 2001, I finally got a cable modem installed, so I felt i was prepared for online gaming. (refused to do it using a modem)
So I went to a retail store (Egghead, and they actually carried a lot of PC games back then) and asked what did they have.
Clerk sold me EQ1 for some bargin price, and on the way out, tossed in a free trial disk for Lineage 1.
Well, my video card wasn't capable of running EQ 1 (didn't realize that at the time, thought it was the game's fault or something) so I uninstalled it and loaded up Lineage 1.
Well, L1 had very low graphic req's so it ran great on my Hercules graphic card (anyone remember them?) and I got started on my first MMO.
I only lasted about 6 months there, so I bought DAOC, ran into the video issue, but...this time their support told me what the issue was so I upgraded to one of their approved cards and I was on my way for a 2.5+ year ride.
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I grew up playing a lot of single player games and never got really involved in any MMO's because I didnt even know about them...
Until one fateful day when I bought Dungeon Siege out of curiosity then found out that it was playable online..that's how I found out about MMO and all about it...
Since then, I've been playing/testing/trying out all kinds of MMOS out there...espcially mmorpgs cuz those are the kinds that I tend to enjoy the most!
Played: like at least 3/4 of the games that are on the game list right now =p
I co-ran an AD&D group that met and played together weekly for many years. One day I showed up at my friend's house (he and I shared DM'ing duties and rotated on-and-off every 3 or 4 weeks) and he had his computer fired up beta-testing the original EQ (actually, I think it may have been Alpha at this point).
Well, to say the least he and I were both extremely anal about "attention to detail" type stuff. After a few weeks he had gained a reputation with the devs as someone who provided excellent feedback and was a valuable tester. When they thanked him, he suggested they invite me to test as well, which they did. Bingo... I was hooked. Tested EQ until release and played it for 6 years thereafter.
No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem. -Glen Cook
I was friends with the editor of a gaming magazine back in the 90s. He said, "Hey, you know the Ultima series? There's a beta online version right now, we're having fun."
I said, "Uh, I don't know, I don't much like the Ultima series... I'm more of a Bioware / Black Isle kinda gamer."
So he went on to say, "Doesn't matter, man, give it a go! Didn't you like MUDs, way back when you were running a 286 or some such? Think of this as a next-gen graphical version of them, with more freedom and a load of stuff going on."
It was in the fall of 1996 and I was doing the MUDs back then when someone said check out this new type of graphical MUD called Ultimate Online that was due to be released in the fall of 1997. I was a college student and what little time I had between work, my job and partying was spent gaming - a few stolen hours a week back then. Before UO though I did play games like Gemstone III, back when everything was text based and we had no graphics. We had the words on the screen and our imagination to create the worlds we played in. One thing about a text based game. You learned to type really super fast! LOL!
Heard about my first mmo in magazine years before launch. my first mmo was star wars galaxies in july 2004. i'm glad to have played pre-cu days. sad though years of reading and then enjoyed swg for 5 years and now i see it dying. it's like watching your kids be born and die you ask your self why did it have to end this way.
My first MMO was runescape. I had previously been a pretty big console gamer and never really played any games on PC until some friends of mine introduced me to RS, and this was way back when it was still 2d. I acctually played RS for quite a few years, even becomming a member and all, and then i realized that there were better MMO's out there. My search then began for a high quality MMO with minimal monthly fees if possible. At the time, WoW had been calling my name for a while, but i just couldn't justify the $15 monthly fee back then. I also looked a bit at Dungeons & Dragons, but monthly fees kept me from purchasing it. I soon found Guild Wars and have been a steady player and big fan of GW for over 4 years now and still play it some to this day. My experience with GW led me to try out other MMO's, even the ones with monthly fees. So i have now played WoW, WAR, AoC, and am now trying out DDO (not to mention other countless--and horrible--f2p mmos). Enjoying DDO as of now, but its really just a way for me to waste time until Guild Wars 2 comes along. Still hop on gw now and then for some of that PvP fun though.
Leg3nd4ry1: Many people couldn't justify paying a monthly fee of $15 to play online, but now its more of an industry standard. Kind of like how people are hesitant about F2P games, when we finally start getting more high quality F2P games we can start seeing a trend of people becoming less and less against the payment system.
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Was over at a friends house back in 1998 and he showed me this cool new online game that he had been playing called UO.
Being an old Dungeons and Dragons fanatic, I loved what I saw and immediately ran out and bought not only a copy of UO, but a computer to go with it. lol. I didn't even own a computer at the time....
Currently Playing: DAOC Uthgard
Previously Played: UO, DAOC, Shadowbane, AC2, SWG, Horizons, COX, WOW, EQ2, LOTRO, AOC, WAR, Vanguard, Rift, SWTOR, ESO, GW2.
i was sifting through the computer section at my local con event (big gaming convention for boardgames/cardgames/pen and paper games) and found SWG. I was enthralled at the text on the back that told me i could be playing with thousands of other players and make a diverse and unique character. Of course things never went well and i only got to play for a week (total of about 8 hours) before the NGE hit. Man that sucked hard.
After that it was WoW because it was always on the shelf at my local game shop and i had heard so much praise for it.
MMO wish list:
-Changeable worlds
-Solid non level based game
-Sharks with lasers attached to their heads
I was about 13 years old and saw it in stores and it was like my prayers were answered sort of deal since I was playing a MUD at the time since I was 11 years old. So what would of been better than a MUD back in the day, if it had graphics and it more of a dream and didn't think it would even happen until I saw the box for Ultima Online. I remembered in my mind, I was like "No way in hell did this just happen..." and I slapped myself twice and realized I was still alive in a real world and got the game and made my Dad pay for it =x No thinking twice about a subscription especially when it was a "dream come true" moment for me
Two answers really to satisfy both myself and what you're probably asking...
1) MUDs, my first MMO, I found out about while I was in highschool I was looking at some hardcopy book about this "internet" thing, and in it was a section on games including some telnet addresses. Once I finally convinced my dad that $30/month for a dialup shell account was a worthy expense, I was hooked... like... bad!
this lead to
2) in 98 I was working at an ISP as many of us probably were, and a friend of mine there who knew I was a MUD addict suggested we get UO when it released and play together from the LAN during and after hours. We played a TON on the slow weekend shifts. Interestingly enough, and kind of sad actually, I had only a PowerMac at home at the time... and now, as a Mac user, I must say that the biggest joke in that name was "Power". I ran UO on the OLDSCHOOL VirtualPC which was then an Intel emulator running on a 100mhz 604e processor. I think I got about 1-3 fps at best. And yet, I still kept on chopping wood and making shields.
Good times. im' now actually full circle getting back into text muds, which are significantly deeper in many respects than the glut of caca that has been pushed out recently.
How dare you present him with logic! Don't you understand? He fights epic fights, in epic games, with epic toons....eats epic food and takes epic dumps! He has more e..pic..icity...ness in his little finger than you have in your whole unepic body! - ChicagoCub
Yeah I hear ya. Older games didn't have powerful graphics to wow people, so the games had to have great storylines.
~Webby "This MMO needs more dead bird."
I saw the WoW battlechest at Walmart. I didn't know exactly what kind of game it was so I did some research, found the free trial and I was hooked.
Mr. Bagguns
Well... I have two answers to this.. cause it kinda happened twice....
The second.. the one that caught.... My girlfriend and I saw a commercial for Everquest at the beginning of a rented videocassette of "A Knights Tale" with Heath Ledger.... lol. The commercial was pretty good and she and I were hooked on the idea right away... Bought a copy of the Everquest "Trilogy" a day or two after.
I had actually played a little bit of EQ1 once before that.... maybe 6 months earlier I was living in Texas and my first room mate was an EQ player... I saw a tiny bit of the game, and he let me create a character. I never found my way out of Qeynos so it wasn't a very exciting experience and I forgot about it till after I started playing myself.
Grymm
Grymm
MMO addict in recovery!
EQ,SWG preCU,L2,EQ2,GW,CoH/CoV,V:SOH,
Aion,AoC,TR,WAR,EVE,BP,RIFT,WoW and others... no more!
i first heard about mmo's back in 2001 when i overheard two people talking about everquest, at the time i was only in 8th grade and didnt own any pc's except an old mac without internet but i always wanted to try in 2006 i finally lbuilt my own pc and decided to look for an mmo after school and i found shadowbane many good times in there i miss the fear of being ganked at any time by someone invisible wich it was still around since then ive been hooked.
thnx for reading
Kaze: The Wind Blows Through Every one of us But only A Select Few Can Soar in the Sky
Kaze is thy name, and flying high in the sky is where ill remain with the wind blowing though my wings i shall bring swift justice upon this world
I don't remember. It was 1999.. maybe in a game site I loved back than that was www.gamecenter.com.
I just want to know when I am going to get paid for taking part in these surveys.
Heard about it from friends on a text-based game I played back in the 90s, they got into UO and I went to try it out because I was getting bored with what I was doing.
Played: UO, EQ, WoW, DDO, SWG, AO, CoH, EvE, TR, AoC, GW, GA, Aion, Allods, lots more
Relatively Recently (Re)Played: HL2 (all), Halo (PC, all), Batman:AA; AC, ME, BS, DA, FO3, DS, Doom (all), LFD1&2, KOTOR, Portal 1&2, Blink, Elder Scrolls (all), lots more
Now Playing: None
Hope: None
I was reading this Romanian game magazine called Level and they had an article talking about the betatest of an MMO called Asheron's Call. It looked so cool with shiny spells and swords
In 2000 I moved to the United States and bought a computer, and saw the Original box for AC, bought it. Took couple months after that to actualy use a credit card for it, since I had originaly thought it was F2P after you bought the box.
Anyhow been owning (not really) ever since.
Saw my roommate loading up EQ. I was playing FFVII or Panzer Dragoon Saga I think. Looked at the screen and said, holy crap that looks like crap=) Wondered why he was standing around after every fight and called him a loser for wasting his time. He said, but the other guys in my group are actual people. I thought, "interesting". Then I read what they were saying and said, damn they're nerdier then you, hehe.
Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast would have to be the first MMO I REALLY played/enjoyed, which led me to AO then DAOC, and on and on.
Years ago when I bought my first computer, I also purchased a game called Morrowind - The Elder Scrolls. I became active in the game Community Forums helping other players with their questions and remember thinking to myself that it would be easier to help them IN - game. When I finally became bored with Morrowind, I started searching online for new RPG games and came across MMORPG.com... Needless to say, I've been hooked on MMOs ever since.
It was 2001, I finally got a cable modem installed, so I felt i was prepared for online gaming. (refused to do it using a modem)
So I went to a retail store (Egghead, and they actually carried a lot of PC games back then) and asked what did they have.
Clerk sold me EQ1 for some bargin price, and on the way out, tossed in a free trial disk for Lineage 1.
Well, my video card wasn't capable of running EQ 1 (didn't realize that at the time, thought it was the game's fault or something) so I uninstalled it and loaded up Lineage 1.
Well, L1 had very low graphic req's so it ran great on my Hercules graphic card (anyone remember them?) and I got started on my first MMO.
I only lasted about 6 months there, so I bought DAOC, ran into the video issue, but...this time their support told me what the issue was so I upgraded to one of their approved cards and I was on my way for a 2.5+ year ride.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. Pvbs 18:2, NIV
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
I grew up playing a lot of single player games and never got really involved in any MMO's because I didnt even know about them...
Until one fateful day when I bought Dungeon Siege out of curiosity then found out that it was playable online..that's how I found out about MMO and all about it...
Since then, I've been playing/testing/trying out all kinds of MMOS out there...espcially mmorpgs cuz those are the kinds that I tend to enjoy the most!
Played: like at least 3/4 of the games that are on the game list right now =p
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I co-ran an AD&D group that met and played together weekly for many years. One day I showed up at my friend's house (he and I shared DM'ing duties and rotated on-and-off every 3 or 4 weeks) and he had his computer fired up beta-testing the original EQ (actually, I think it may have been Alpha at this point).
Well, to say the least he and I were both extremely anal about "attention to detail" type stuff. After a few weeks he had gained a reputation with the devs as someone who provided excellent feedback and was a valuable tester. When they thanked him, he suggested they invite me to test as well, which they did. Bingo... I was hooked. Tested EQ until release and played it for 6 years thereafter.
No godless person can comprehend those minute distinctions
in doctrine that provide true believers excuse for mayhem.
-Glen Cook
I was friends with the editor of a gaming magazine back in the 90s. He said, "Hey, you know the Ultima series? There's a beta online version right now, we're having fun."
I said, "Uh, I don't know, I don't much like the Ultima series... I'm more of a Bioware / Black Isle kinda gamer."
So he went on to say, "Doesn't matter, man, give it a go! Didn't you like MUDs, way back when you were running a 286 or some such? Think of this as a next-gen graphical version of them, with more freedom and a load of stuff going on."
Yeah, I guess that sums it up
It was in the fall of 1996 and I was doing the MUDs back then when someone said check out this new type of graphical MUD called Ultimate Online that was due to be released in the fall of 1997. I was a college student and what little time I had between work, my job and partying was spent gaming - a few stolen hours a week back then. Before UO though I did play games like Gemstone III, back when everything was text based and we had no graphics. We had the words on the screen and our imagination to create the worlds we played in. One thing about a text based game. You learned to type really super fast! LOL!
So true! Haha... Go left, jump over log, look at trash....look trash...look at trash can.... Dammit what is that thing!
~Webby "This MMO needs more dead bird."
Heard about my first mmo in magazine years before launch. my first mmo was star wars galaxies in july 2004. i'm glad to have played pre-cu days. sad though years of reading and then enjoyed swg for 5 years and now i see it dying. it's like watching your kids be born and die you ask your self why did it have to end this way.
My first MMO was runescape. I had previously been a pretty big console gamer and never really played any games on PC until some friends of mine introduced me to RS, and this was way back when it was still 2d. I acctually played RS for quite a few years, even becomming a member and all, and then i realized that there were better MMO's out there. My search then began for a high quality MMO with minimal monthly fees if possible. At the time, WoW had been calling my name for a while, but i just couldn't justify the $15 monthly fee back then. I also looked a bit at Dungeons & Dragons, but monthly fees kept me from purchasing it. I soon found Guild Wars and have been a steady player and big fan of GW for over 4 years now and still play it some to this day. My experience with GW led me to try out other MMO's, even the ones with monthly fees. So i have now played WoW, WAR, AoC, and am now trying out DDO (not to mention other countless--and horrible--f2p mmos). Enjoying DDO as of now, but its really just a way for me to waste time until Guild Wars 2 comes along. Still hop on gw now and then for some of that PvP fun though.
There was a tiny two inch by 4 inch article in pc gamer on uo way back in the day about the alpha test. I signed up for beta and never looked back.
----ITS A TRAP!!!----
Leg3nd4ry1: Many people couldn't justify paying a monthly fee of $15 to play online, but now its more of an industry standard. Kind of like how people are hesitant about F2P games, when we finally start getting more high quality F2P games we can start seeing a trend of people becoming less and less against the payment system.
~Webby "This MMO needs more dead bird."
