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How many of you played these games?
Ahh, days gone by. Some of my favorites. I know, I am showing my age, but wow, they sure were fun in those days. Multiplayer in Doom and Duke Nukem was a nightmare setting up in windows 3.1 to play against a friend.
Wolfenstein
Doom
Duke Nukem
Hexen
Descent
Serious Sam
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I've got Descent and Doom on the same disk with Heretic and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, weird I know. I played them when I was about 5, so I don't remember anything.
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Wolfenstein was the game that started it all
,i believe we were running DOS 6.2?
Doom was an amazing advancement,and the aformentioned Heretic i thought was a real cool game ,for it's time of course,it is pixelated and aged by nowadays standards.
I found Quake another huge step in gaming ,the one expansion pack had all the sounds/music done by Nine Inch Nails and was an incredible experience to play.
Unreal was IMO the first big advancement in PVP/FPS the skill and stratedgy was amazing.Of course in about the 2 year of it's inception,more and more users began to pay for high speed bandwidth,it sort of ruined FPS's as far as i am concerned.
Other than EQ2 using 3D graphics ,we have really been stifled in the MMO industry for advancement,VG tried to go one step further but fell just short in their efforts,lack of money was probably the deciding blow.
I am not sure if it can be Square Enix ,i somehow doubt it,it will probably be SOE that once again makes the next big advancment in the MMORPG industry.The reason i say this is because SOE is kinda falling by the way side,they have big CEO's who i am sure are looking at some new idea to break back into the spotlight.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
Hell yeah great list. I used to skip school to play doom coop and hexen.
omg wow...
I've played ALL of those except the serious sam (did play Sam and max though! HEHE)....wow I feel old.
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Aye found those game alot of fun, although I think SS is a bit too new, isn't it?
I played Worlfestein much, but the real fun started with Doom and Warcraft 1 when we start playing against eachother (First through a home made parallell cable and later networks)
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Leemeg.
OMG remember Syndicate (from dos) ?
The Syndicate series was awesome.
*EDIT* - OR MAGIC CARPET! I thought (till this day) that magic carpet games were Ultima series. I guess somewhere along the lines my young childhood memories mixed them up together. Either way....those were stepping stones for me to get used to games of that nature, eventually pushing me into Ultima Online in the end of 96' beta and I've never looked back since (MMO wise).
*EDIT* Oh it was ultima....7 I think!
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I played, and loved them all, and you're right, me and my friend used to play Duke Nukem 3D over our shitty dialup connections and it was a bitch. You actually had to have your modem dial their number and all sorts of crap. Course that also started my love of map making since Duke Nukem I think was one of the first games that shipped with a level editor. I don't remember Doom having one, though Quake of course would later come and really start the whole modding scene. I also loved and still have the Magic Carpet series, course one of my favorite games from around that time was Little Big Adventure or Relentless: Twinsen's Adventure.
Think I made a few maps in Doom1, it may have been in Doom2 though.
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Leemeg.