Your first online multiplayer experience? - The Bear and Badger

tigersgogrrr

Terris.

GooberTheHat

Escape wrote:

I always wanted to try Ultima Online, as I'm sure many of us did, but it came out in our penny-per-minute days. That's why I didn't get online until 2002, when BT offered a £5.99 evenings-and-weekend option. Else 1p per minute peak hours, but I avoided those.

I tried ultima online. It wasn't great.

MattyJ

I remember playing something on the original Xbox, not halo 2 but before then... But I can't remember what it was.

360 is what really turned it around for me. Gears and Modern Warfare

Facewon

Would have just about had to have been a ghost recon?

Paul the sparky

Mechwarrior?

Gremill

Halo 2, Ghost Recon and Battlefield 2 on the OG Xbox. Halo 2 was the one that really blew my mind though.

MattyJ

I've just had a google and reckon it could've been Unreal Championship. Came out in 2002!

FranticPea

Bollockoff wrote:

g.man wrote:

Then the phone bill arrived. That was even more mind blowing.

Sneaking out to midnight binge PSO stopped pretty quickly.

Heh. Mine was Wargasm and I was paying for cable TV and a phone line in my room at my parents with my weekend job wages. I shit when I got my first bill, and had to apply for a loan from the Bank of Mum and Dad. They were not impressed.

RamSteelwood

Possibly doom, or a similar game from that era, but that would have just been dial up against a mate.
First proper online game i can think off was a text based MMORPG thing on AOL online. I created my character, went in the city, went to the pub, bet all my money on the roulette table - and won. took my winnings to the bar and bought and drank lots of ale. got drunk and fell under a table. then got robbed while unconscious. Playing the game properly looked a bit dull though so I didn't bother much after that.
First console online play would have been with the xbox, i recall playing top spin tennis against some randoms with voice chat and thinking 'this is the future', then my mate had a go and unleashed a torrent of abuse against some scamps that were getting a bit cheeky on the voice chat, and it turned out that was actually the future of online gaming!

poprock

My first online multiplayer was Chu Chu Rocket on the Dreamcast. I wasn’t very good at it.

hunk

Halo with xbox connect was a revelation.
Then there was Halo2 with Live.
Lots of screaming cursing foul-mouthed 5 year olds

b0r1s

Quake III on DC. Even hunted around three local towns to find the keyboard and mouse which were very hard to get. Ended playing on sofa with keyboard resting on lap and mouse on an A4 folder. Wasn't a great experience as I'd built myself up to expect.

I didn't really touch online again until Modern Warefare 2. Always preferred same room gaming until logistics of mates getting together made it too difficult to play regularly.

Blue Swirl

Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

Highlights include:
- being asked if I was "hawt irl" because my avatar was female.
- being asked by a German player what "I'm so pants" means.
- counting the minutes I'd been online and paying my Dad back with the change in my wallet.
- joining a lobby for the first time and realising everyone around me was a real person.

The first online game that got serious time was WoW, during a summer while at uni. I gave up at about level 30-something, when I realised prepping was taking an hour or more before I could start actual quests. Capture the flag was stupidly fun, though.

Highlight of my online career will probably be Halo 3. Haters gonna hate when the B&B be riding dat Death Hog, yo.

stonechalice

Counterstrike then Halo 2. Struggling to see how we've moved on really.

g.man

We have a better selection of hats and gloves now...

afgavinstan

Sacking off school and going to an Internet cafe to play Unreal Tournament. Then it was Warhawk and Tekken Tag Tournament HD on the PS3! Missed out on DC online play cos I was poor lol

Boolitt

Unreal tournament for me too i reckon. 1999 or 2000. First time we had internet which was paid for by my sister in laws uni coz she was slydexic

nick_md

Diablo, then probably UT and Starcraft. Console wise it was killing time on R6 and PGR before Halo 2 came out.

Early LAN forays included Duke Nukem, Blood, Doom and Rise of the Triad.

Halo 2 & Gears 3 probably the best of times.

Eric

I think mine was DC Quake III (which I thought was pretty decent to be honest) but it equally could have been Chu Chu Rocket or PSO.

I didn't have a clue what I was supposed to be doing in PSO though so just walked around taking in the scenery with my floaty robot helper.

Chu Chu rocket is still decent, I'm surprised it hasn't been re-released on live or PSN.

TheDJR

Team Fortress, Counter-Strike and Sven Co-op.

Blue Swirl

stonechalice wrote:

Counterstrike then Halo 2. Struggling to see how we've moved on really.

g.man wrote:

We have a better selection of hats and gloves now...

Four quid for a pack of "cards", so you don't even get to pick your hats any more.

FUCK YEAH PROGRESS. *guitar solo*

Yossarian

Blue Swirl wrote:

Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

Highlights include:
- being asked if I was "hawt irl" because my avatar was female.

Answer the question, Swirl.

Skondo

F1 and Motorstorm with randoms on PS3. Former was an awful experience, the latter was great fun.

First online with Badgers/Edge Forumites was Wipeout HD on PS3 with Rock, Skade and Gav. Had a lot of fun and if I recall correctly Skade was and probably still is untouchable. This was closely followed by some Forza 2 action with the FNF boys. A very friendly welcome, great fun was had and then I was booted by Unlikely. Still love him though.

Tempy

I used to play a bit of Starcraft, Age of Empires 2, and C&C. Tiberian Sun online as a kid, all of which I was shit at.

The first thing I ever played via LAN was Total Annihilation, which could install quick enough on the PCs at school to play a match on advanced speed in our lunch break. It also didn't need a disk to run. Fond memories!

Halo 2 was the first game I really put a lot of time into.

Unlikely

Skondo wrote:

A very friendly welcome, great fun was had and then I was booted by Unlikely. Still love him though.

I probably thought you were Jim.

Escape

afgavinstan wrote:

Tekken Tag Tournament HD on the PS3!

It was Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection. That bunny-shoeing from Panda must've left you confused.

poprock

I have fond memories of playing Carmageddon over the studio LAN at a past company. It wasn’t a good game, but we had only just networked our Macs properly for the first time and the novelty of playing a game with the players on two separate floors of the building was more the point. Actually phoning them to chat while playing, too.

Blue Swirl

Yossarian wrote:

Blue Swirl wrote:

Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast.

Highlights include:
- being asked if I was "hawt irl" because my avatar was female.

Answer the question, Swirl.

I don't mean to brag, but my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.

mk64

Yahoo chess was my first online game. Didn't suffer from lag either. That would've been 95/96.

Then it would've been doom

poprock

Words With Friends on the iPhone was a quiet revolution. Slow online multiplayer in your pocket.

Also, it had a chat function which meant you could text for free when SMS still cost everyone quite a bit of money every month.

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