Prodigal
Shitlord, Offender of the Universe
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Turtle Beach - had one in a Dell prebuilt - grabbed the Trinitron 20” monitor with that build, still have that damn thing and it works. Think that was a P3 500 mhz.
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DOOM: The Dark Ages
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Turtle Beach - had one in a Dell prebuilt - grabbed the Trinitron 20” monitor with that build, still have that damn thing and it works. Think that was a P3 500 mhz.
Fadaar
That guy
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giving me sweaty flashbacks. is this what PTSD feels like?
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Phazael
Confirmed Beta Shitlord, Fat Bastard
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I was in a clan called The Fighting Amish back in my X-Wing vs Tie Fighter period. Flew Z95s, A Wings, and Interceptors mostly (they did scaled kills so if you could fly something fast worth a shit you were not worth much to kill and could rack up huge scores taking down the fancier shit) and also a lot of Quake in a LAN environment, maybe Quake 2 as well. I made a good chuck of change building custom PCs for people back in the day, because what you used to get charged for gaming rigs was flat out outrageous back then compared to what it was if you did it yourself.
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Rajaah
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My geezer experience: My first computer, as a wee boy, was a 1993 IBM with Windows 3.1 on it. Friends kept sending me Midi files and I couldn't get the sound to work. Eventually it turned out the computer didn't even have a sound card, was too primitive. Got a new one in 1998 that had Win 95 and a sound card, and could suddenly listen to midis and emulate NES/SNES games (which I mostly missed out on / couldn't afford in the decade before that). That was freaking amazing for a few months.
Kithani
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Noodleface
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Played this last night. It plays decent. Runs insane on my new rig. Couple thoughts.
The music is good but definitely a downgrade from 2016 and eternal. It's missing some power behind it or something.
Graphically it looks amazing of course. I kind of hate how the game slows down when you melee. Just takes me out of it.
Story is wtf. Some text, some weird ass shit and summon the doom slayer. Not much to the story there lol.
For my part of the geezer chain,.Wolfenstein 3d and Doom 1 were the first PC games I ever played. Our PC was 33MHz at the time, a Packard bell. We also got Doom II a little later by sharing floppies amongst friends.
The music is good but definitely a downgrade from 2016 and eternal. It's missing some power behind it or something.
Graphically it looks amazing of course. I kind of hate how the game slows down when you melee. Just takes me out of it.
Story is wtf. Some text, some weird ass shit and summon the doom slayer. Not much to the story there lol.
For my part of the geezer chain,.Wolfenstein 3d and Doom 1 were the first PC games I ever played. Our PC was 33MHz at the time, a Packard bell. We also got Doom II a little later by sharing floppies amongst friends.
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Utnayan
F16 patrolling Rajaah until he plays DS3
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Let's go true geezer.
Played my first video game at a friend's house on an old pong home video system 1978-79 or so. I still keep in touch with him from time to time.
First PC foray was the original Apple II with Oregon Trail and Odell Lake (1980 basic game)
From there, the beast was released. Atari 2600, Intellivision and Intellivoice with B-17 Bomber and Utopia (Damn hurricanes taking out my crops), NFL football and I still remember the bomb - (9-2-2-9 was the play code). NHL Hockey where if you tripped the guy with the puck you didn't get a penalty, if they didn't have the puck and dumped him you went to the sin bin. From there, graduated to Nintendo, Apple 2 GS and Mac. Mac games like PT-109, Deja Vu, Shadowgate and Uninvited. Apple 2 GS with AD&D gold box games, Sierra games (King's quest, Space quest, Police quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Freddy Pharkas and the Pharmacy.) Wings of Fury. First online experience BBS's and trade wars and Operation Overkilkl II. Kali, The Sierra Network/Imagination Network and Red Baron Online and Shadows of Yserbius, AOL's Neverwinter nights. Running "Warez" for The Humble Guys and INC because I had a high speed modem at 14.4k (First game I ran was Comanche - 4 megs - 24 hours per meg at 2400 baud before the new modem came lol).
Then video games took a back seat in college except Tecmo bowl, NHL, Super Tecmo Bowl. Finally got a computer towards the time I graduated and played Diablo and was introduced to the townkill hack and blasting everyone in town after we all came back from the bar (This was the first TRUE drunk gaming weekend)
Man I am old. I guess I should be happy I can still remember all this
Played my first video game at a friend's house on an old pong home video system 1978-79 or so. I still keep in touch with him from time to time.
First PC foray was the original Apple II with Oregon Trail and Odell Lake (1980 basic game)
From there, the beast was released. Atari 2600, Intellivision and Intellivoice with B-17 Bomber and Utopia (Damn hurricanes taking out my crops), NFL football and I still remember the bomb - (9-2-2-9 was the play code). NHL Hockey where if you tripped the guy with the puck you didn't get a penalty, if they didn't have the puck and dumped him you went to the sin bin. From there, graduated to Nintendo, Apple 2 GS and Mac. Mac games like PT-109, Deja Vu, Shadowgate and Uninvited. Apple 2 GS with AD&D gold box games, Sierra games (King's quest, Space quest, Police quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Freddy Pharkas and the Pharmacy.) Wings of Fury. First online experience BBS's and trade wars and Operation Overkilkl II. Kali, The Sierra Network/Imagination Network and Red Baron Online and Shadows of Yserbius, AOL's Neverwinter nights. Running "Warez" for The Humble Guys and INC because I had a high speed modem at 14.4k (First game I ran was Comanche - 4 megs - 24 hours per meg at 2400 baud before the new modem came lol).
Then video games took a back seat in college except Tecmo bowl, NHL, Super Tecmo Bowl. Finally got a computer towards the time I graduated and played Diablo and was introduced to the townkill hack and blasting everyone in town after we all came back from the bar
(This was the first TRUE drunk gaming weekend)Man I am old. I guess I should be happy I can still remember all this
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INTHEMIDSTOFLIONS
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Biggest difference is 40K lore is actually hella interesting and rich.
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ShakyJake
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Here we go!
Played a friend's Atari VCS sometime in the very late 70s. Probably 79, maybe 80. Parents bought me one shortly after that. Got a ColecoVision the year it was released.
As a kid, used to go to Sears and K-Mart to play on the Commodore computers they had on demo. I found them so magical. As the 80s progressed, I went from a Commodore VIC-20 => Commodore 64 => Commodore 128 => Atari 520ST => Commodore Amiga 500 => Packard Bell 386SX => built my PCs at this point.
Became a manager of a Babbage's around 1992, so lived through the retail age of the 16-bit consoles and 32-bit systems. Was there when the original Playstation launched 9-9-95.
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This was the best modem I ever had before cable became available in my area in mid 2000. Only ever had issues with Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior over IPX for some reason. Been so long I forgot why.
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Pemulis
Not Woke
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In 1994, I deleted something windows 3.1 required in order to free up enough disk space or RAM (I had no idea what was doing) in order to run Doom from DOS. My dad wanted to know why I was writing papers in the school computer lab when he bought me a PC for my dorm room…
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Bald Brah
Trakanon Raider
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Did doom have a big multiplayer following? Can't remember it ever being on the level of quake or half-life. I never liked any of the doom or halo stuff. It always seemed watered down and derivative. Gears of War is the only Xbox exclusive I ever liked. And even that had no real multiplayer so it didn't have any legs.
Noodleface
A Mod Real Quick
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Some vague attempt.at it, but I was moreso joking you saying you didn't understand the allure of pve shooters in the thread for a series that pioneered the genre.
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Cutlery
Kill All the White People
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Doom was just too early for that. We played Doom on Dwango and some other shit back in the day, both in co-op and death match, but the death match shit didn't really take off until Quake, when decent Internet was a little more common.
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Slaanesh69
Millie's Staff Member
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We had some serious LAN parties, getting stoned and playing Doom in the 90s on custom maps. Loved the rocket and chainsaw only maps. Maybe that was Doom II, can't remember. I still giggle at the way the doom guy reacted when you hit him with the chainsaw, always hit my funnybone.
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Lanx
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anyone remember 3com x2 vs (other modem guys) k56flex tech? you had to talk to another computer/server w/ the same chip to get 56k so many providers like aol gave out x2 and k56flex numbers
also when 3com released x2, you can "upgrade" your old modem for $60 to x2
i found an old article on cnet it sorta
USR fills in 56-kbps upgrade gaps
U.S. Robotics expands its upgrade program for 56-kbps modems, but users say they aren't impressed with the company's service so far.
www.cnet.com
it was just a firmware upgrade, imagine having to pirate firmware to get 56k, shitty 3com
(of course it was pirating for me, whose gonna be stupid enough to pay $60 for a firmware flash, lulz)
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Jovec
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Going a little further, Quake was built for Internet support in the sense that even the single player ran a local server that the game client connected to - users just loaded the game and played, but internally it was client/server. Doom multiplayer couldn't scale because each player's game state had to stay in complete sync with everyone elses and this was neigh impossible on dial-up with dropped packets. LAN was better, but Doom still capped out at 4 player. In addition, one player on a slower connection/computer would force everyone else to run at that same slow speed (in turns of game updates, player movement, shots fired, etc). Client/server quake didn't have this issue as the server's game state was authoritative. Quake (well, John Carmack) later worked on improving client-side prediction and other tricks to help mask latency in online gaming.
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