Big Phoenix
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Halo is remember fondly because it was one of the first mainstream "cool" games.
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My high school buddy who got me into playing UO had an apartment at one point in Brenham, and that summer between I guess my freshman and sophomore year of college, I got my old job at Taco Bell. I would get off work and go to his place and would play UO lan party style. I'd bring a bunch of tostadas and tacos and Hitting Deceit farming liches with silver weapons and pvping was some peak early MMO awesomeness.
He got a second phone line so he could run multiple accounts at the same time, and with it being the early hours of the morning, no connection disruption.
Dedicated landlines for gaming was definitely a thing, and necessary.
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The original PlanetSide to me is still probably the best. Vanu Sovereignty, Emerald server, dual mag riders and jump jet Maxx builds for base assault. We had it dialed in, and it really was some of the best PVP MMO related stuff that I remember playing.
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Needless
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I've been playing Black Mesa and hearing the old HL sounds and shit makes me miss TFC so much, between EQ and that game its about all i did for a good handful of years before WoW lol
I was lucky and never had to deal with dial up afterlike ~97 though, having an uncle in IBM with connections got everybody cable modems pretty easily back then lol
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Cybsled
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I used to play this mod in Quake called Super CTF. You could pick up power runes. Like subzero rune let you freeze people or leave an ice clone, Superman rune gave you flight, damage resist, and quad damage (fucking OP with a rocket launcher).
My ping on dialup was dogshit though - constant 700-900ms at best, I have no clue where the hell the server was located, although everyone complained about LPB (low ping bastards) back then
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Kuro
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I was really lucky when I was a kid, my dad was a Financial Backend Auditor and basically cyber-security before that was a term, so we had a separate business line for the house, so never had to worry about phone calls interrupting Internet access. Still hated the college kids with t1 lines zoning into places like four times faster than me.
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I mean if you could get a 250 ping on dialup, you were rocking it. Think about just how much better you probably were having to compensate for the lag back in the day.
Kids these days now have 18ms pings and shit, and you used to have to play quake in the dark before school during the winter uphill.
At least everybody was suffering from the same connection speed, but then every now and then you would get some college dude who had access to a T1 on campus and would just obliterate everybody.
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Penance
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I used to play the wc3 mod on cs. Fucking modception.
We're never getting the golden age of gaming back fellas.
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Cybsled
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Its true - with shit ping you basically had to get really good at predicting where the guy would be vs where he appeared to be
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Tarisk
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And now the people on the shit connections are favored and getting kills on people who went behind a wall 10 seconds prior. Who knew we'd go backwards with better tech available to more people. I did feel spoiled to have a big Quake community local here though so we had servers running on the local dial-up ISP's, and if you were lucky, you could get almost down to 100ms on a 33.6. Then within a couple of years we were having 100+ person LAN parties at the University and access to the backbone server they had running through there.
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I got into uni dorms around 94/95/96 with ethernet. We had around a year of doom2 on ifrag (sort of a doom specific predecessor to kali). Lots of legendary players on there.
Just a few short years later I was working for one of the creators, and watched a kid win one of Carmack's Ferraris at E3 in atlanta. He was a fair player but his opponents were shite. I think the ifrag community would have wiped the floor with the dwango one.
Just a few short years later I was working for one of the creators, and watched a kid win one of Carmack's Ferraris at E3 in atlanta. He was a fair player but his opponents were shite. I think the ifrag community would have wiped the floor with the dwango one.
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You really had to get good. I guess it was 98 and I was playing Quake 2 all the time, on dial-up with a 56k modem, and got pretty good.
I was on campus one day waiting for a class and a buddy ran into me and said hey there's a quake tournament being held at one of the buildings. I went over there after my next class, and I guess it was the first time I think I ever played LAN, and I smoked them. Had to show up a handful hours later for the final battle, and it was that stupid map Pipe, my most hated of all Quake 2 maps.
The winner ended up getting a Voodoo 2 card. I got third and got a mouse pad or something stupid, but having to play on dial-up really does hone your abilities.
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I always had 2 phone lines. I knew how to do the wiring inside and would get the phone co to pull 2 circuits to the terminal box. That's until ASDL/Cable/ISDN was a thing.
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M Power
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Quake 3 Arena was peak FPS gaming. Everything after was a downgrade. I do remember when Planetside came out before they nerfed it I would rage my teammates by suiciding the air planes into enemy buildings taking out the enemy and every passenger while yelling Allah Akbar. Eventually the way Planetside worked my account got spawn timed out so long I basically couldn't play ever again due to killing teammates.
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