earliest game that got you hooked?

kola said:
yeah I remember see'ing my ping at 350 and saying thats not bad :D as I can remember It was actually very playable
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yep even then i was hooked on being a sniper and taking people out a long was over on other hills.

I might even dig it out again woooot.
 
Psypher5 said:
What you mean by this? care to elaborate?
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I'm saying Doom and Doom II for that matter imo have the best level design compared to any other FPS game ever created, the levels in these two games are just amazing, the balance of open and tight areas, the actual layout of the levels themselves including the secret areas and the genius of how you unlock some of those areas, the key system for doors for level progression that was balanced just right to incite exploration rather than frustration.

From a design perspective the levels were often very clever intricate mazes that are geometrical beauties to look at in the form of a map, but actually playing in these self-contained mazes I never really felt 'confined', I always felt very free in the environments, they felt open which is odd considering their maze-like structure but I think that is a testament to how well they were created with a good balance of open areas that often connected the maze-like routes together and also sometimes acted as a hub for the map and gave the player a breathing space.

When it comes to a straight up FPS (in the truest sense of the acronym) I still think nothing can beat Doom/II, it just does what it does so well.
 
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lowrider007 said:
Doom
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I must also add, that Doom64 on the N64 was very much for me, giving me the very same feeling that the original Doom did on the PC.

Of course very different visually and controls, but the gameplay I felt was identical in every way including the puzzleness of the game

( puzzleness? )
 
Ive always been a massive gamer but never really got hugely hooked on games until i played Final Fantasy 7. That i can play over and over and over again and still enjoy it, even now i like playing it.

Then Unreal Tournament came out and since then im a massive FPS gamer. I used to play in some of the top clans for UT and my brother was ranked one of the best players on clanbase and in the UT world. I wasnt to far behind him :)
 
I played quite a few games since I got my first pc but the first game that had me properly hooked on it was Resident Evil 2 and then Knights of the old Republic. The countless hours of I wasted on those games was unbelievable and let's not even start with Oblivion after mods.
The game that first got me hooked on multiplayer was AvP 2 and I eventually had to take a year out from gaming to save my marriage and job!
 
First game to get me properly hooked was Planetside, played that constantly for a good couple of years.

After that was Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising
 
VonScar said:
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Oh and my other fave game of the time Renegade, on the Spetrum 128, you got a whole extra level over the 48 k version of the Spectrum. I loved that machine but boy tapes took ages to load a game. Psst I got finger ache from doing flying kicks to all the enemies!
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Level 1 in the subway = Grab, knee, knee, throw onto traintracks.
Level 2 = Big fat hooker mama charging at you.:D

Target Renegade was multiplayer gaming at it's finest as well.
 
I've been hooked on games since my uncle gave me his Atari 2600 back in 1983 but the game that got me hooked on PC gaming was Unreal Tournament.
 
Delta Force 1 on 28k multiplayer with its html server browser which only successfully loaded into a game about 1 in 20 attempts. Even though it was laggy as hell and full of people using trainers, it was great fun.

Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 was good fun too, and Red Alert.
 
Virtually every old 8bit cassette game on my Amstrad hooked me. How did I ever have the time?!

In terms of the PC... The first big addiction was Elite 2: Frontier. :cool: Taking off from Ross 154 for the first time and looking out the back window just blew me away. :o So many hours, so many slaves... Such a lousy rating. :D
 
Sim City 2000!!!
I think it was released for the PC in 1995. I used to spend days building up cities.
My first gaming was on a C64 (used to spend hours on Flimbo's Quest) then a master system, but Sim City on the PC had me locked away for hours at a time!!! :)
 
D.Roberts said:
If I must be honest the earliest games that got me hooked was

"Look north"

You see nothing

"Look west"

You see a man sitting in a chair

"Punch man"

Sorry I dont understand

"Have sex with man"

Now theres no need to say that

And so on :)
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I must say this was the first kinda game that made me hooked iirc it was a text adventure on my m8s c64 called Dracula :)

Edit: I know it's rather sad but i was playing RedMoon text adventure on my spectrum emulator 2 weeks back,i have the original and never completed it so i thought i give it another go :D
 
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D.Roberts said:
If I must be honest the earliest games that got me hooked was

"Look north"

You see nothing

"Look west"

You see a man sitting in a chair

"Punch man"

Sorry I dont understand

"Have sex with man"

Now theres no need to say that

And so on :)
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Damn i remember something like that on BBC at school. I think it was the start of the game where you said look north. I seem to recall a game on Acorn called 'Lady Bug' that was really good
 
City of Heroes when it first came out.

I wasn't much of a gamer until then, i'd tried had a couple of consoles before then but never got hooked on the format/games, they'd be something i would play for an hour every 2 or 3 weeks. Once i played City of Heroes i was hooked on both online and oflline games for the PC.

About the closest i came to being hooked before then would have been the Dizzy games on the Amstrad CPC464, i absolutely loved those. Thankfully i was too busy being a kid at the time and spending most of my time outside :p
 
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