My best friend in college was playing Everquest when it came out, and I thought it was ridiculous. I had a very low opinion of MMO's during their early years.
Skip forward to 2003 and one of my good friends at DLI was playing Planetside 1. I ran into him at the PX and he just started spilling his guts to me about how awesome this new game was and I should come back to his room and play it. So I did. For some reason, PS1 was different. I just wanted to get in a Reaver and shoot people from the sky. Yes, I know it's more of an MMOFPS.
After that I joined EVE in 2005, but then again, that's not really an MMORPG either. It's more of an MMOG. Even though there's literally a quest called "Damsel in Distress", there's not that many RPG elements to it.
So in the purest sense of the word, Tabula Rasa would be the first MMORPG that I played. How depressing is that?
It depends what you are calling an mmorpg these days. Graphical muds might have been called mmorpgs if the term had been invented back then.
Nah, 'cause then you're stretching it back to BBS's and door games like LORD.
Did you just invoke Legend of the Red Dragon... you sir, are OLD! BRE and SRE! My first MMO was UO the first week it was released.. when was that? 97ish?
Think the first i ever played was Legends of Kesmai, discovered it through using AOL at the time, back when using a 33k modem was cutting edge, and the nearest thing to broadband was having an ISDN line at 64k. long time ago tbh, probably way back around 1997'ish O.o
So in the purest sense of the word, Tabula Rasa would be the first MMORPG that I played. How depressing is that?
Tabula Rasa was a great game to be your first MMORPG. I liked that one a lot, but the friends I was playing it with left to play some whatchawhozit game that I didn't want to try. So for a while I stuck it out in TR, but eventually I went back to CoH. Too damn bad it closed, I was thinking about giving it another try.
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Grr I had to edit because of a grammar error...
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
Skip forward to 2003 and one of my good friends at DLI was playing Planetside 1. I ran into him at the PX and he just started spilling his guts to me about how awesome this new game was and I should come back to his room and play it. So I did. For some reason, PS1 was different. I just wanted to get in a Reaver and shoot people from the sky. Yes, I know it's more of an MMOFPS.
Skip forward to 2003 and one of my good friends at DLI was playing Planetside 1. I ran into him at the PX and he just started spilling his guts to me about how awesome this new game was and I should come back to his room and play it. So I did. For some reason, PS1 was different. I just wanted to get in a Reaver and shoot people from the sky. Yes, I know it's more of an MMOFPS.
Dude, I was at DLI in 2003. In ME2. Small world.
I was Alpha Company. We must have seen and walked past each other a dozen times at least. What a small world.
Did you do hang out at The Game Habitat back then?
So in the purest sense of the word, Tabula Rasa would be the first MMORPG that I played. How depressing is that?
Tabula Rasa was a great game to be your first MMORPG. I liked that one a lot, but the friends I was playing it with left to play some whatchawhozit game that I didn't want to try. So for a while I stuck it out in TR, but eventually I went back to CoH. Too damn bad it closed, I was thinking about giving it another try.
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Grr I had to edit because of a grammar error...
Oh, I agree. TR was a really fun game. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I left for the same reasons you did... my friends all quit playing and went back to EVE until AoC came out.
City of Heroes which I liked and played for a few months. Then a little dab into FFXI which I hated. Then Warcraft which was the first one I really took to end game and beyond.
A friend at work couldn't stop talking about Asherons Call so I asked him a lot of questions. I noticed it was not anything near what I hoped based on the answers I got. At that time I wanted something like a pen and paper kind of roleplaying game but in the computer World. But I tried it out and the only fun thing about it was when you got killed you dropped your stuff and it was hard to get back to your corpse. Atleast for me at that time, newbie as I was. I got an uber bow from my much higher level friend and of course I lost it by dying and not been able to come back. I liked that risk in a game but I didn't like the game at all. I only played it for a week or so because he wanted me to play.
Then I played Anarchy Online. I liked the concept but never really got into it. I remember I met a player that gave all her stuff to me because she was leaving for Dark Age Of Camelot.
When DAOC came out, I left AO, and I have never been so hooked on a game like I was in DAOC. The first PVP I did I was so I excited that it was actually hard to play. I remember me and my friend fired our bows at the same time at a sitting troll in a battleground and the troll died in a second. Then we ran to not be noticed all the way back to our portal keep. My heart was pounding like crazy. Such noobs back then but it was fun. I loved all the classes and I tried out all the realms. In the end I noticed I was actually good at PVP and I was invited to several "gankgroups".
So Asherons Call was my first MMORPG, but DAOC was the first one I liked and eventually got hooked on.
Skip forward to 2003 and one of my good friends at DLI was playing Planetside 1. I ran into him at the PX and he just started spilling his guts to me about how awesome this new game was and I should come back to his room and play it. So I did. For some reason, PS1 was different. I just wanted to get in a Reaver and shoot people from the sky. Yes, I know it's more of an MMOFPS.
Dude, I was at DLI in 2003. In ME2. Small world.
I was Alpha Company. We must have seen and walked past each other a dozen times at least. What a small world.
Did you do hang out at The Game Habitat back then?
I was in the Navy back then and at DLI I was what was called a "Fleet Returnee". I lived in the Careerists barracks next to Foxtrot for a few months, which I think was across the street from the Game Habitat? Or at least some building where you could play xbox and playstation games I think. I only went in there once though. However, I moved off post shortly after arriving at DLI. I still miss Monterey and Santa Cruz
Was supposed to be EQ1, but I was a poor college student that couldn't afford a PC. When I finally did get a Gaming PC, EQ2 was just about to come out, so I gave it a go. I actually loved it but a month or so after release people started leaving to go play WOW, so I hopped on the bandwagon, and well you know the rest.
I was in the Navy back then and at DLI I was what was called a "Fleet Returnee". I lived in the Careerists barracks next to Foxtrot for a few months, which I think was across the street from the Game Habitat? Or at least some building where you could play xbox and playstation games I think. I only went in there once though. However, I moved off post shortly after arriving at DLI. I still miss Monterey and Santa Cruz
I'm still friends with two of the three Navy personnel in my Korean class, they were fun ladies to be around. I took one look at the Navy Whites and decided it wasn't the service for me. :awesome: I lived on Fort Ord cause I was married when I joined the service; 211 Okinawa Rd. I miss Monterey, the beach the weather and San Jose, but I don't miss California as a state, I like my guns too much.
The Game Habitat was a gaming store down off of Franklin Street. We used to play Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and M:tG there all weekend.
Getting back on topic, however, I guess my first real MMORPG was Tradewars 2002, or does that count? I used to play this game on Prodigy where you started a company, created products, marketed them and ran production lines. The player who had the most success with their company won after a couple of weeks.
I found some screen caps of the prodigy site a few days ago and showed them to my kids; they were shocked with horror at how bad the internet looked. Then I told them that it ran on the phone lines and if someone called, then it would disconnect the internet. My oldest daughter faux fainted on the floor. lol, that kid.
Asheron's Call 2. Game has a bad rep because it was nothing like the original and was unfinished and didn't have much content but I didn't know any better. I absolutely loved it. Them Tumeroks banging away on their djembes to cast spells...Awesome !
I randomly made characters to find one I really liked. Started out a dark elf and got totally lost in the dark elf city & gave up. Next tried a barbarian & tried running as far as I could to explore and got killed by bears so I quit. Then I tried a troll.
That was it. I met some cool other trolls and we worked together to kill some frogluks and made it all the way to Guk. I was sold at this point.
Very first is a little tough, first one that I really remember is Matrix Online, got into the beta and spent all day downloading it over dial up and my comp could just barely run it... as long as there was no one else around. Then went on to SWG... post NGE.. and City of Heroes *sigh* I miss all those games.
i was introduced to wow when i was 19-20yo (32yo now) just starting working a new job and a Polish guy at work was going on about it and that evening i went and picked a copy up, i had the game for a month before actually playing it because my dad took a hammer to my pc because i was well erm... being disrespectful lol (yup he was a crazy bastard) i saved up for a new one and finally played what would be the game to literally change my life. I must of played it every day for atleast 10 years and i mean that, id even get up at 4am so i could get a couple of hours in before work (when i had work that was) i musta got sacked because of wow atleast 3 times lol....i wouldnt change it though i made some awesome friends some i still play with today. vanilla wow up to wotlk for me was more than a game it was a life experience , would i do it all again ?? HELL YEA ::proud:
as a sidenote ,only one other game has had such a influence on me and that was final fantasy 7 , here is hoping the remake will do it justice
Everquest 2 in 2004. I ended up playing it a total of 2+ years. Thing is I never really liked it much I just was not aware of other options that I felt were better until Darkfall and Xyson came along
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Skip forward to 2003 and one of my good friends at DLI was playing Planetside 1. I ran into him at the PX and he just started spilling his guts to me about how awesome this new game was and I should come back to his room and play it. So I did. For some reason, PS1 was different. I just wanted to get in a Reaver and shoot people from the sky. Yes, I know it's more of an MMOFPS.
After that I joined EVE in 2005, but then again, that's not really an MMORPG either. It's more of an MMOG. Even though there's literally a quest called "Damsel in Distress", there's not that many RPG elements to it.
So in the purest sense of the word, Tabula Rasa would be the first MMORPG that I played. How depressing is that?
My first MMO was UO the first week it was released.. when was that? 97ish?
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Grr I had to edit because of a grammar error...
The world is going to the dogs, which is just how I planned it!
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
Did you do hang out at The Game Habitat back then?
Oh, I agree. TR was a really fun game. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I left for the same reasons you did... my friends all quit playing and went back to EVE until AoC came out.
..because we're gamers, damn it!! - William Massachusetts (Log Horizon)
Then I played Anarchy Online. I liked the concept but never really got into it. I remember I met a player that gave all her stuff to me because she was leaving for Dark Age Of Camelot.
When DAOC came out, I left AO, and I have never been so hooked on a game like I was in DAOC. The first PVP I did I was so I excited that it was actually hard to play. I remember me and my friend fired our bows at the same time at a sitting troll in a battleground and the troll died in a second. Then we ran to not be noticed all the way back to our portal keep. My heart was pounding like crazy. Such noobs back then but it was fun. I loved all the classes and I tried out all the realms. In the end I noticed I was actually good at PVP and I was invited to several "gankgroups".
So Asherons Call was my first MMORPG, but DAOC was the first one I liked and eventually got hooked on.
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
The Game Habitat was a gaming store down off of Franklin Street. We used to play Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and M:tG there all weekend.
Getting back on topic, however, I guess my first real MMORPG was Tradewars 2002, or does that count? I used to play this game on Prodigy where you started a company, created products, marketed them and ran production lines. The player who had the most success with their company won after a couple of weeks.
I found some screen caps of the prodigy site a few days ago and showed them to my kids; they were shocked with horror at how bad the internet looked. Then I told them that it ran on the phone lines and if someone called, then it would disconnect the internet. My oldest daughter faux fainted on the floor. lol, that kid.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
I randomly made characters to find one I really liked. Started out a dark elf and got totally lost in the dark elf city & gave up. Next tried a barbarian & tried running as far as I could to explore and got killed by bears so I quit. Then I tried a troll.
That was it. I met some cool other trolls and we worked together to kill some frogluks and made it all the way to Guk. I was sold at this point.
I must of played it every day for atleast 10 years and i mean that, id even get up at 4am so i could get a couple of hours in before work (when i had work that was) i musta got sacked because of wow atleast 3 times lol....i wouldnt change it though i made some awesome friends some i still play with today.
vanilla wow up to wotlk for me was more than a game it was a life experience , would i do it all again ?? HELL YEA ::proud:
as a sidenote ,only one other game has had such a influence on me and that was final fantasy 7 , here is hoping the remake will do it justice
First EQ character... Barbarian Warrior... got to Blackburrow... saw the Gnoll pup in the log... the rest is history... never got my body back lol
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