Your first memories of online gaming?

weisses

MOHAA ... The Hunt demo on a 28.8k modem..

Time flies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8e-CdBhBfg

When leaning was an art

PickledLime

Playing with randomers over the internet didn't happen until 2009 with Uncharted 2 (surprisingly good multiplayer).

Used to attend many a LAN party round at a mate's back in the day - mostly Unreal Tournament, the original Far Cry and CoD, where the pros and cons of detail vs. framerate was argue almost as much as the games were played.

Gehad_JoyRider

started out on counter strike in 2004/5. When i bought half life2, my lap top was HPzd8000 thing was a beast back then. lasted me about till 2010.

Sonics2k

I can't be positive, but I'm fairly certain it was WarCraft 2 for PC back in the late 90's. I think it was 97 or 98?

I remember playing Diablo and StarCraft online as well.

vladicaris

f-16 with modem 56k

strangel00p

Sir_Badshot wrote: »

Windows 98
56k
1998

Utterly blew me away.

Then Day of Defeat for 5 years....

Exactly the same for me!! :eek:

PirateShampoo

I was a late arrival to online gaming, mostly because I couldn't afford a pc.

So my first experience was with UT2004. I joined a clan and everything. Then I feel into a life sucking hole that was Eve online for 4 years.

Although I did manage to sell the later on eBay for 800 euro.

krudler

If you had to show the xbox live kids what we put up with back in the 90's and early 00's connection wise they'd be shocked. I remember getting Half Life 2 on launch day and it took hours, might have been 3-4 to install from Steam on a 56k modem. Everyone was cursing Steam back then but look at it now.

briany

krudler wrote: »

If you had to show the xbox live kids what we put up with back in the 90's and early 00's connection wise they'd be shocked. I remember getting Half Life 2 on launch day and it took hours, might have been 3-4 to install from Steam on a 56k modem. Everyone was cursing Steam back then but look at it now.

Got that game in '04 for Christmas, ended up having to send it back because I just couldn't be doing with that Steam updating stuff over a dial up connection at 3-4 KB/s. Worked out OK because I played Half Life 1 in '05 and I got a free* copy of HL2 the following year from the Steam account I registered from the initial purchase, after BB came in.


*Legal grey area, probably.

Sonics2k

krudler wrote: »

If you had to show the xbox live kids what we put up with back in the 90's and early 00's connection wise they'd be shocked. I remember getting Half Life 2 on launch day and it took hours, might have been 3-4 to install from Steam on a 56k modem. Everyone was cursing Steam back then but look at it now.

Steam was awful when it first came out. I completely despised using it and even lost my original account due to a complete lack of using it.

It's so much better these days, I just wish Big Picture looked a bit better and was less clunky.

nesf

krudler wrote: »

If you had to show the xbox live kids what we put up with back in the 90's and early 00's connection wise they'd be shocked. I remember getting Half Life 2 on launch day and it took hours, might have been 3-4 to install from Steam on a 56k modem. Everyone was cursing Steam back then but look at it now.

Steam was horrible at launch, I avoided using it where possible for years.

MadYaker

Counter Strike about 10 years ago.

Vicxas

I remember having to ask my mam if I could go on the dial up internet to play Starcraft with my friend from Athlone,

That was my first experience of lunatic Koreans....

Chairman Meow

First ever multiplayer gaming was probalby on a LAN for me too. Did a PLC course in my school in 1997, and we managed to get DOOM and Quake1 runnign on our lan and that was that. Spent most of the classes just shooting the crap out of each other.
After that i think my next foray into online was probably on PC in 2003 or so. Trying to play BF1942 on 56K dial up...good god.
Broadband in 2004 meant actual real online gaming was possible without crippling lag, and did the whole clan thing with some epic rivalries on here between TIG and NRG...probably the best time ive ever had online gaming.
But more or less gave it up nowadays, im jsut burned out on it. Its all more or less the same **** in a different package. Every now and then ill have a game of Red Orchestra 2, but thats about it.

Nerdkiller1991

Really late to the party since I didn't get broadband until 2007, but the first online game I played was Sega Rally '06. Yeah, kind of an odd choice there, but it was fun as hell. Didn't really get into online gaming until I got Warhawk. And boy was that something.

Mark26

Resistance Fall Of Man which came out at PS3 Launch. Capture the Flag in Somerset is still the best fun I've had with online gaming, mostly because of the clans and the banter in which only a few hundred people played online so you kind of knew everyone. People still play it today....