[off topic] The multiplayer game that got you hooked

Do you remember when you found yourself immersed in a multiplayer game for the first time? Hope you are able to share where this journey started for you :)

For me it was playing the original Doom on PC with a friend in the early 90's. We played mostly at night because it required a dial up modem connection that would tie up the home phone line. We played on average around 8 hours a night for several months, until our girlfriends finally gave us a stern ultimatum. We complied with their wishes, but by then it was too late. I was firmly hooked on multiplayer games from that point on.

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  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    I'd played other online games before but my gateway MMO was The Realm. Not so much massive, but I discovered my place there. I play lots of games now but MMOs are where I still spend most of my gaming time and maintain friendships that have lasted years.



  • Played a lot of Counterstrike in LAN game shops in my youth. I don't play much multiplayer games outside of FPS. 
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    It was Doom for me too, and the games that it lead in it's wake:  Rise of the Triad, Blood, Hexen, etc. 

    The friend I played these games with back in high school knew that I had a slightly unusual hardware setup: my internal modem routed it's sound directly through my Soundblaster 16 card.  When I dialed out, the modem sounds came out of my system speakers instead of a small modem output speaker. 

    So when I dialed up his home phone on friday night to play one of these games, and if he wasn't ready, he picked up the phone and (while hearing a modem screech on his end) said, "I'm not ready yet!" knowing that I'd hear him through my computer. 

    I'd wait five minutes and then try dialing him up again. 

    The things geeks did for amusement in the days of TCP/IP gaming. 
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    It was Doom for me too, and the games that it lead in it's wake:  Rise of the Triad, Blood, Hexen, etc. 

    The friend I played these games with back in high school knew that I had a slightly unusual hardware setup: my internal modem routed it's sound directly through my Soundblaster 16 card.  When I dialed out, the modem sounds came out of my system speakers instead of a small modem output speaker. 

    So when I dialed up his home phone on friday night to play one of these games, and if he wasn't ready, he picked up the phone and (while hearing a modem screech on his end) said, "I'm not ready yet!" knowing that I'd hear him through my computer. 

    I'd wait five minutes and then try dialing him up again. 

    The things geeks did for amusement in the days of TCP/IP gaming. 
    The nostalgia meter went off the charts reading your post <3<3

    Playing Rise of the Triads, Hexen, Heretic, Unreal Tournament, on my 66MHz Pentium. Soundblaster 16 ... omg. :bawling:
  • lexmax said:
    It was Doom for me too, and the games that it lead in it's wake:  Rise of the Triad, Blood, Hexen, etc. 

    The friend I played these games with back in high school knew that I had a slightly unusual hardware setup: my internal modem routed it's sound directly through my Soundblaster 16 card.  When I dialed out, the modem sounds came out of my system speakers instead of a small modem output speaker. 

    So when I dialed up his home phone on friday night to play one of these games, and if he wasn't ready, he picked up the phone and (while hearing a modem screech on his end) said, "I'm not ready yet!" knowing that I'd hear him through my computer. 

    I'd wait five minutes and then try dialing him up again. 

    The things geeks did for amusement in the days of TCP/IP gaming. 
    The nostalgia meter went off the charts reading your post <3<3

    Playing Rise of the Triads, Hexen, Heretic, Unreal Tournament, on my 66MHz Pentium. Soundblaster 16 ... omg. :bawling:
    Those were the days man, those were the days.

    That's same processor speed I started multiplayer gaming on too!
    I was using a AST Advantage 486 DX/2 66MHz , Cyrix Processor system.  Passively cooled baby, no fan yet on those processor heatsinks!  

    Of course, it cost us $400 to upgrade from 8MB to 16MB of ram back then..... so yeah, some things have improved over time.  ;)

    That was also the same computer I played my (THE?) first 3d MMORPG game, Meridian 59.   I had to upgrade the computer from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95. 
    That was my sole reason for upgrading the operating system, a online game.

    And thus started a long history (addiction?) of upgrading for games.... 
    *sigh*

    You had to have played Duke Nukem 3D too, right?  I mean, that was another must have game of the era... 
  • ArchivedUserArchivedUser Guest
    edited June 2017
    Medal of honour:allied assault in 2002. Before this it was just single player games and mainly console. I tried the game at a friends house on his PC and was hooked. I was in staples that Saturday Buying a off the shelf PC that came with a 19" colour monitor mouse and keyboard  and i bought a video card but cant remember which, i bought a desk and a chair.. i went all out.  I had my dialup internet from bell Canada hooked up on Monday and its all history. 

    and yes i was able to play a single player shooter on dial up .. worked pretty good actually. in a year i had my fist highspeed(ish) dsl and built my own pc with a ....geforce 5200x ultra gpu. man i thought i was stylin.. Medal of Honour ..all highest settings. lol

  • Diablo II !!

    First game that I really remember experiencing in a multiplayer setting, and I was hooked forever after :)
  • I played Doom, but it didn't hook me...and I'm not sure I played it multiplayer.

    Probably the first multiplayer online game I enjoyed playing is the first game I worked on for Activision - MechWarrior II: NetMech.
  • Those were the days man, those were the days.

    That's same processor speed I started multiplayer gaming on too!
    I was using a AST Advantage 486 DX/2 66MHz , Cyrix Processor system.  Passively cooled baby, no fan yet on those processor heatsinks!  

    Of course, it cost us $400 to upgrade from 8MB to 16MB of ram back then..... so yeah, some things have improved over time.  ;)

    That was also the same computer I played my (THE?) first 3d MMORPG game, Meridian 59.   I had to upgrade the computer from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95. 
    That was my sole reason for upgrading the operating system, a online game.

    And thus started a long history (addiction?) of upgrading for games.... 
    *sigh*

    You had to have played Duke Nukem 3D too, right?  I mean, that was another must have game of the era... 
    So fancy with all your DX2 16MB bling! :astonished: Duke Nukem 3d was awesome, but around that time I got into the competitive Quake scene which I played for a few years and missed out on the early MMOs :disappointed:
  • Dygz said:
    I played Doom, but it didn't hook me...and I'm not sure I played it multiplayer.

    Probably the first multiplayer online game I enjoyed playing is the first game I worked on for Activision - MechWarrior II: NetMech.
    I never played MW2, but I played the hell out of MW3 in college with a bunch of guys on my floor.  I played a murdering machine in the form of a Nova class mech with 3 Gauss rifles (which I think was technically illegal with MW rules.).

    The guy I paired up with on teams lived a few rooms down the hall, and we'd be yelling at each other across that expanse when one of us was out of ammo, so we could kill each other and deny our enemies any points for killing us. 

    Good times....

    I actually didn't like playing MW4, because they didn't allow 3 gauss rifle setups anymore.  ;)
  • Lan civ 3
  • Hot spot civ2
     But as for online, XWing Alliance. 
    ( Long live the New Republic Navy- which is still going as a clan all these 20 some years later...)
  • Allods Online. The most blatantly p2W game of all time, power accumulated at the swipe at the wallet and teh downfall of teenage me's wallet but it introduced me feet first into the world of mmos and from then I was hooked. Walking across the snow blasted fields of siveria and seeing a high level player rush past me on a gryphon made me addicted to games where you could attain power and wealth and share and show that off to others. Sometimes I yearn to go back but I just stare at the launcher wistfully
  • lexmax said:
    Do you remember when you found yourself immersed in a multiplayer game for the first time? Hope you are able to share where this journey started for you :)

    For me it was playing the original Doom on PC with a friend in the early 90's. We played mostly at night because it required a dial up modem connection that would tie up the home phone line. We played on average around 8 hours a night for several months, until our girlfriends finally gave us a stern ultimatum. We complied with their wishes, but by then it was too late. I was firmly hooked on multiplayer games from that point on.
    Doom just got me hooked on games, not so much multiplayer. I still have the cheat codes stuck in my head :joy: For multiplayer the one that got me hooked was much later, the first unreal tournament, which turned to counter-strike... Then L2 was released and the MMO addiction exploded
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