That One Game

[cHyperspeed]

i play easy red 2 very ... it is awesome and a ww2 simulator and you can set the amount of ki bots!!

 

soon will be the ww2 stalingrad (soviet addon) available.

[TeaTime]

On 3/16/2018 at 5:49 AM, Luk said:

Warcraft 3. I'm still waiting for some of the custom maps from that game to make their way into standalones like League of Legends.

„Defence of the ancients” but 1.0, not 2.0, check it, cant believe you did not hear about it
https://www.google.pl/search?q=defence+of+the+ancients&client=safari&hl=pl-pl&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjghvrtoOH5AhVynf0HHS0TCHUQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=629&dpr=3

 

[Luk]

9 hours ago, TeaTime said:

„Defence of the ancients” but 1.0, not 2.0, check it, cant believe you did not hear about it
https://www.google.pl/search?q=defence+of+the+ancients&client=safari&hl=pl-pl&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjghvrtoOH5AhVynf0HHS0TCHUQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=629&dpr=3

 

lol I have played Dota 2! Dota Allstars was never really my favorite AoS  (or moba as they call it nowadays) tho. I loved Age of Myths, EotA, and Advent of the Zenith though. And Dark Deeds was a lot of fun.

[Ирина Красеч]

On 8/25/2022 at 8:34 AM, TeaTime said:

„Defence of the ancients” but 1.0, not 2.0, check it, cant believe you did not hear about it
https://www.google.pl/search?q=defence+of+the+ancients&client=safari&hl=pl-pl&prmd=isvn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjghvrtoOH5AhVynf0HHS0TCHUQ_AUoAXoECAIQAQ&biw=375&bih=629&dpr=3https://www.ziuanews.ro/stiri/exper-ii-au-identificat-3-tendin-e-n-industria-de-mbr-c-minte-care-continu-i-n-2022-1571068

thank you

[1Joachim1]

for me, the recurring games or games i put a heck ton of hours were: Neverwinter Nights, Chrono Cross, half life 2 death match,  Minecraft (allways heavily modded), World of Warcraft, Tera Rising, Avalon Code and all the Monster Hunter games and castlevania (up to the lords of shadow ones, that i didn't like, sorry). also, honorable mentions were Empire Earth II and Team Fortress 2 thanks to my cousin, i used to go to his house to play them vs every friday for two years.


Also, one of the best  games i got to play (and i really love to play no matter how much times i've done the same) is Graveyard keeper, i just love his dark humor too much

on the other hand, i played all the classics (all marios, donkey kongs, tales of, the legend of zelda, (having a bit too much fun with ToTK right now) WARIO LAND, golden sun) and made sure to 100% them just for the pleasure to do so (i don't really like the achievement system, for me it hurts more than motivates)

Edited June 5, 2023 by 1Joachim1
how in hell i forgot about GK?

[BavarianViking]

Albion (by blue byte) - the inofficial scifi Ambermoon "continuation".

or maybe

Vampire - The Masquerade Redemption (my mother laughed 'cause it's only in english language and there's no german version like in Bloodlines)


By "boardgames" it's also D&D4 or 5. Or the "german D&D" called Das schwarze Auge V4.1 (the dark eye)

Edited July 11, 2023 by BavarianViking

[Devkrin]

On 3/16/2018 at 5:49 AM, Luk said:

Warcraft 3. I'm still waiting for some of the custom maps from that game to make their way into standalones like League of Legends.

Oof, I remember making my own shitty maps to play in single player, swapping models of weapons and characters (adding or deleting bones to fit the weapons) with special convertor tools and writing small editor codes. I remember having to conert one file to another extract something convert convert convert and then edir and do the whole process again backwards.

Had great fun.

[Brandybuck]

On 3/15/2018 at 1:03 PM, Soloquendi said:

Dungeons and Dragons was the one for me back in '79.

Hah! I did start with D&D that same year. It was fun. But the One Game that hooked me MERP. It was the realization that not every RPG had to be D&D/AD&D. Holy shit! An RPG with skills! Then I discovered RuneQuest (again, skills!). and the industry started exploding with great games. But someone everything thought the only game was D&D, just like they think the only beer is Bud/Coors. Uck. But the heyday of tabletop RPGs was the 90s. Nowadays everyone is back to thinking D&D is the legal and official definition of Roleplaying. Ugh.

 

[ZanyScum]

Daggerfall.

Played it in a dark room with a candle. Instead of studying.

[ifoz]

A few years back I used to be a huge fan of Starbound, though I always played it with a million mods on.
About a year ago I learned that the devs were kinda scummy, though by then I had already mostly stopped playing it already.
I had played it since it's alpha, but by now it's basically dead for all purposes, as it's last and likely final update was many years ago.
Still, that game made me get into sprite art, which is something I really enjoy doing.

To be honest I think that Vintage Story is my latest addition to the list of favourite games of all time!
I really love this game, and have been obsessing over designing my little town and my character's lore and backstory lately.

Other favourite games of mine are Terraria, Rain World, Morrowind, all of the Souls games, Deltarune, the Mother series, Hylics, and many more.
(Can you tell I mostly like RPGs and sandbox games?)
I was also a huge Minecraft fan, though I think this game by far takes the cake as my favourite blocky sandbox game!  

[Thorfinn]

D&D, must have been '77, because what drew me in was the art on the cover of the just released Monster Manual. There were a few people who ran Basic so that got me started, and as the DMG and PH got released, got absolutely hooked. Enough that I coded a dungeon master assistant (Appendix A, C, J maybe) complete with all the attack rolls (including pummeling and overbearing) and psionics in character graphics so it was easier to run if there were only 3 or 4 of us. On a state-of-the-art Commodore Superpet with 32k, so involved lots of page swapping.

Later, Bard's Tale (C-64), Commander Keen (PC), Might and Magic(PC), and then Wolfenstein, Doom, Warcraft II, Heretic, AoE and similar ended any pretense of a real life.

Edited June 11, 2024 by Thorfinn

[LadyWYT]

12 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

AoE

Age of Empires was definitely the first game that really captured my attention like the thread suggests, though for me II and III were my jam rather than the original due to the setting and QoL features. They also helped me develop my art skills as I would spend a lot of time doodling various units from the games. I think I even have  some of my old strategies written done somewhere. For the Playstation though it was Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. I also ended up playing a lot of Gallop Racer(a Japanese horse racing game, for those who don't know) and Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. The setting of Ecco reminds me somewhat of Vintage Story, actually, and I wonder if the devs took any inspiration from those titles.

When I went off to college I picked up Skyrim for the first time on a whim. I didn't know what an RPG was, so the fact that I actually got to make my own character and then choose how to play them boggled my mind! I think I must've spent a couple of hours at least just creating my first character--a calico Khajiit.

I also ended up getting into Minecraft around the same time; I think I jumped in shortly after the Adventure Update launched and have played ever since(although I don't play it nearly as often as I used to). I wouldn't say that Vintage Story has quite replaced it, as the two have different things to offer, but Vintage Story tends to win more than Minecraft these days when I'm deciding which I want to play.

To a lesser extent, I've racked up quite a bit of time in Planet Zoo as well. It took everything that was great about Zoo Tycoon and bumped it up to the next level, although it can get a little irritating when dealing with the protestors. They tend to show up because guests stressed an animal, and then stand next to said animal and scream, which only makes the problem worse. It's not so bad in franchise mode, where I have everything unlocked, but in challenge mode or scenarios it can make things more difficult.

[Thorfinn]

19 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

though for me II and III were my jam

Cool. I won the draw to be one of the community beta testers for Age of Kings. Still have the Beta CD around somewhere. Stumbled across the release CDs we bought the other day, and might have talked the wife into giving it another go. Fun times.

[sekelsta]

My first one? KQ, an obscure linux game released 2001. It used to have a website titled "KQ Lives".

[Prissy Young]

My First Game was  Pokemon Gold. It kick started every game that came after for me. 

[DatDot1337]

My first game and game console were given to me by my dad, as he wanted someone to play with, so when I was maybe 5, possibly six, I played Mech Assault 1, and it became one of my favorite games. i am still upset that there isn't anymore Mech Assault games anymore, as they are now Mech Warrior, I think. 

The other, more weird games I got hooked on was The Spiderwick Chronicles (Xbox360) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (OG Xbox). And Bioshock 2, Cause it's great.

[7embre]

For me, that was probably the other block game... Can't even say how much time did I spend there in singleplayer creative, just building stuff - recreating builds of others or just having fun with rails. That probably was a few thousand hours. Remember organizing blocks in my head into shapes, when I didn't have the opportunity to play it, or just some simple drawings on a grid paper 

After that, I got into terraria, in which I (surprise-surprise) also build things for the most part, this time on a server and, as the time passed, as a stuff member. So basically I have extensive building experience (more than 10 years) and experience as a moderator for 3.5 years, lol. In the end, building scene become too competitive for both of them (yeah, I somewhat contributed to the popularity of cutting furniture pieces in terraria with world edit, sorry........) Not sure I have the same feelings towards it, however, as I do towards TOBG. I just feel.. nothing. It's not like I didn't enjoy that time though, more like - I moved on on a good note.

Somewhere in between those 10k hours I spent in terraria, lies Skyrim, which I really enjoyed despite the fact that this game is broken as hell. Coming towards it's grand finale, I was level 245 and a master of all possible traits and guilds. That dialogue with Tsun was surely a funny moment.

As for now, my game of passion is definitely Vintage Story, as evident by the fact that I'm working on a single build for about four months.

[Facethief]

On 5/24/2024 at 9:36 PM, ifoz said:

A few years back I used to be a huge fan of Starbound, though I always played it with a million mods on.

Starbound was the first big game for me too, but I liked some of the others you listed later on (RW, Terraria, TOBG, and more recently Deltarune). TOBG was one of the first games I played, but I never liked it as much as other games; but generalists are survivors.

Another oddity of note; Scrap Mechanic was my first Steam game by a LONG shot, but the first computer I had to play it on was a Mac… It didn’t work, so basically didn’t play it until after the survival update 6-8 years later. Starbound did work, and the rest is history.

[Maelstrom]

On 3/15/2018 at 2:03 PM, Soloquendi said:

The one that got you hooked.  Where you would play it for hours and would think about it even when you weren't playing it. 

Dungeons and Dragons was the one for me back in '79.   The base was snowed in and we were stuck in the barracks, and somebody broke out the dice and books and 14 hours later 3/4 of our characters were dead, but we didn't care. 

What was yours? 

I got you beat by a year.   My older bro introduced me to AD&D in '78 when I was but a child in 2nd grade.  As someone else mentioned, MERP changed RPGs and I continued to prefer the Iron Crown line of RPGs (Rolemaster and then HARP) for my preferred RPG desires.   Computer games?   Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the D&D alternative.

Following up with Bard's Tale then Realmz (indie game from Fantasoft, now abandonware), Maelstrom (awesome asteroid reboot from AmbrosiaSW and guilty of my choice of userID), Civ3, TOBG and then I found Vintage Story!

[Krougal]

Well I am not quite as old as some of you I guess

I started playing D&D, AD&D and Traveler in...early 80s?

Someone said Daggerfall...ahhh, not my first game of course, but it still holds a special place in my heart.

Sure it was the usual bug ridden mess that we've come to expect from Bethsoft, but the the atmosphere and gameplay were amazing for their time.

Some of it is still unmatched, the way the towns felt populated even though they were just sprites, how the weather subtly changed like fog or snow and the music changed to set the mood.

[Maelstrom]

Daggerfall.   Played that on a friend's box.   Loved how you could get a lockpick spell on the cheap during character creation, wait for the first night, enter the shop and rob the poor sod blind.   Come back in the morning and sell the... unwanted purloined goods back to the shopkeeper for an obscenely OP amount of starting cash and near end game gear.  Good times abusing the game like that.

[hstone32]

when I was a kid I loved all games no matter what. As an adult, I only play games I can get hooked on for months or even years. Games with depth. Games that I can grind at for hours and hours.

I think the first game that began transitioning my tastes in their current direction was Terraria.  I remember browsing the wiki in between play sessions to plan out what I'd grind for next.

[majestik]

When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to have console in the house, and the only computer games we could play was educational ones. And one day, my parents offered me my first pc game, Pharaoh, and my love for gaming and city builders was born. Even today I look fondly at that game, I still have the box, and I think somewhere a notebook with plans and cheatcodes for it 

[CastIronFabric]

Well I changed my career to get into programming because of scripting in Never Winter Nights 2, so there is that

[myenemies]

some of these replies are making me feel like a baby... the first "Real Game(s)" i got my hands on was the orange box in 2012, and i still think about portal and half-life constantly to this day. valve went extremely hard with their worldbuilding and storytelling and i still deeply adore their franchises

but in more recent years i've been down bad for final fantasy 14 and project zomboid. ffxiv has been so much fun with how expansive and complex the main and side stories are; it is so so so much fun to play through the main story and recognize characters from side content, or play through side content and see main story characters that haven't shown up in a while. on the total opposite hand i adore project zomboid for the fact that there is no story aside from what you live through. there is something so uniquely delightful about making your zomboid survivor and conceptualizing who they were before the apocalypse when choosing their occupation and skills and expanding on that idea through your gameplay

(and honestly... i've brought a lot of that zomboid energy over to VS, too! it is so much fun to play through the story and read up on the lore and start imagining who your seraph might have been before the rot...)