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xiphrex said:
The original doom was a demo, it was released as shareware
Those 'Sad Days' in your Computer Owning/Gaming Life.
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The original doom was a demo, it was released as shareware
Some memorable Wing Commander moments.
Travelling home (50 miles) to get the speach pack for WC2. Shooting my first skipper missile. At the end of WC3 leaving with Ginger Lynne Alan rather than the 'posh' bird. Realising a friend who also finsihed the game left with neither girl.
The same friend formatting C thinking he'd taken C out and left the old D in the PC, which he hadn't.
Andi.
Travelling home (50 miles) to get the speach pack for WC2. Shooting my first skipper missile. At the end of WC3 leaving with Ginger Lynne Alan rather than the 'posh' bird. Realising a friend who also finsihed the game left with neither girl.
The same friend formatting C thinking he'd taken C out and left the old D in the PC, which he hadn't.
Andi.
When my Mum took away my Carmageddon CD after seeing how violent it was. I was only 11 mind you, and the press hadn't got onto parents too much about games and age restrictions etc lol.
Fortunately, i ended up finding about NoCD Patches, and that was probably the best day in my Gaming life lol.
I remember upgrading my GFX card to a Voodoo3 3000 then i could play the enchanced mode, which was even sweeter than the original lol.
Fortunately, i ended up finding about NoCD Patches, and that was probably the best day in my Gaming life lol.
I remember upgrading my GFX card to a Voodoo3 3000 then i could play the enchanced mode, which was even sweeter than the original lol.
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The day I realised that all those games I gathered in the early 90s on floppy disks were mysteriously corrupted and refused to work. Stray magnetic field? Solar flare? Gremlins? John Prescott? Who knows.... was a sad day though.
Dammit you've got me wanting to play sim tower now
Dammit you've got me wanting to play sim tower now
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drunkenmaster said:biggest on the list i guess would be GTA, out and out PC game, all their money made off us. then the next games of the series are appalling ports that run like crap
The first time I played GTA (the original) was on the playstation....I think it's always been cross platform.
The day my amiga 500 died
then buying a ps1 and getting addicted to FF7... staying up for hours to get the gold chocobo without saving for my mum to come in and turn the ps1 off
getting all psyched up for wow to find it really isnt my cup of tea and quiting at lvl 18... twice!!
then buying a ps1 and getting addicted to FF7... staying up for hours to get the gold chocobo without saving for my mum to come in and turn the ps1 off
getting all psyched up for wow to find it really isnt my cup of tea and quiting at lvl 18... twice!!
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Blimey! This thread's been running quite well. Time for me to kill it.
I suppose my second 'saddest day', but undoubtedly the most bitterly memorable was the release of the Rome: Total War demo.
Back in the late 80's I had spend an unhealthy percentage of my teenage years on an old Amstrad CPC game called Ancient Battles. I can clearly remember back in 1989 thinking a 3D version of this would be well wicked (or some other equally embarrassing 80's exclamation
) and tried to imagine how such a thing would look. But of course back then the computing power required for this was the stuff of a mad mans dream.
Time passed (a lot of time in fact!), and then one day, from nowhere, a game called Shogun: Total War came along, and blew my socks off! Then came a sequel, Medieval, and things just got even better. And then the news I had been waiting so long for... PC Zone previews a new title, Rome: Total War. The realisation of a dream! But I had to wait a further 18 months for it and go through the torture of Time Commanders tantalising me every week (the first series was excellent btw! The second... no comment).
Then the day came. Demo day. Oh my... so much expectation. I had even upgraded to an ATI x800 for this. And then I saw what Creative had done... It was too fast, too gimmicky, not enough care in the presentation and the voice acting was utterly horrendous. No amount of phalanx's and Roman legions beating seven bells out of each other could drag me out of my misery.
Sure there are dedicated modding teams out there and I have tried to love the game since then, but the damage had been done. Ever since, I've always kept my gaming dreams in perspective.
I feel the pain in many of your posts too. Nice to know I'm not the only person to have felt such misery over a silly game
I suppose my second 'saddest day', but undoubtedly the most bitterly memorable was the release of the Rome: Total War demo.
Back in the late 80's I had spend an unhealthy percentage of my teenage years on an old Amstrad CPC game called Ancient Battles. I can clearly remember back in 1989 thinking a 3D version of this would be well wicked (or some other equally embarrassing 80's exclamation
) and tried to imagine how such a thing would look. But of course back then the computing power required for this was the stuff of a mad mans dream. Time passed (a lot of time in fact!), and then one day, from nowhere, a game called Shogun: Total War came along, and blew my socks off! Then came a sequel, Medieval, and things just got even better. And then the news I had been waiting so long for... PC Zone previews a new title, Rome: Total War. The realisation of a dream! But I had to wait a further 18 months for it and go through the torture of Time Commanders tantalising me every week (the first series was excellent btw! The second... no comment).
Then the day came. Demo day. Oh my... so much expectation. I had even upgraded to an ATI x800 for this. And then I saw what Creative had done... It was too fast, too gimmicky, not enough care in the presentation and the voice acting was utterly horrendous. No amount of phalanx's and Roman legions beating seven bells out of each other could drag me out of my misery.
Sure there are dedicated modding teams out there and I have tried to love the game since then, but the damage had been done. Ever since, I've always kept my gaming dreams in perspective.
I feel the pain in many of your posts too. Nice to know I'm not the only person to have felt such misery over a silly game
I know exactly how you feel Lunatic Dreyfus....on Time Commanders RTW looked so amazing. Little were we to know about the useless AI, the downgraded (but prettier) campaign map, the ridiculously easy battles and endless sieges.
Then how foolish most of us were to go through it all again with M2TW. Another heartless rehash.
Then how foolish most of us were to go through it all again with M2TW. Another heartless rehash.
I'd say probably the release of Quake 3 Arena and the subsequent detrimental effect it had on the UK Quakeworld community over the following months. It basically snowballed into a situation where clans and players were moving over to Quake3, despite believing that QW was a better game, "because everyone else is". It was almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy, and if all the people who quit QW because of a dwindling community had stayed, then it wouldn't really have been dwindling that much.
Another big disappointment was when I travelled to Sweden to play in a LAN, but most of the big clans didn't attend. Normally that LAN is attended by nearly all the top european clans but because that year they decided to make it part of a larger gaming event, coupled with some 'progressive' rules in terms of maps etc I think some people were scared off (QW players being very conservative in general). I don't regret going but it could have been so much better.
Outside of multiplayer gaming, the day I tried to play Unreal was very frustrating. Basically the game wouldn't run on Cyrix processors, and I had to phone up GTi to get support. After being on hold for over an hour (I was revising for A-levels at the time!) I finally got through to an operator who told me I needed to download a patch:
"But I don't have an internet connection. Can't you send it out to me on a disk."
"Sorry, we don't do that. Maybe you could get a friend to download it?"
"None of my friends have the internet either. The game doesn't work, surely you could send out the patch?"
"Well... you could maybe try and get on the internet somehow or wait for it to appear on a magazine coverdisk"
So, I then ended up paying £5/hour at an internet cafe to download the patch at around 2k/sec (shared ISDN line), split it into bits and copied onto floppy disks.
What with the phone calls (I'd previously given up on one after 25mins) as well I probably ended up spending almost as much money getting the game working as I did on buying it!
In the meantime I wrote a letter to PC Zone Watchdog. It was eventually published a few months later, October 1998 iirc in case anyone still has a copy in the loft and wants to look it up!
Another big disappointment was when I travelled to Sweden to play in a LAN, but most of the big clans didn't attend. Normally that LAN is attended by nearly all the top european clans but because that year they decided to make it part of a larger gaming event, coupled with some 'progressive' rules in terms of maps etc I think some people were scared off (QW players being very conservative in general). I don't regret going but it could have been so much better.
Outside of multiplayer gaming, the day I tried to play Unreal was very frustrating. Basically the game wouldn't run on Cyrix processors, and I had to phone up GTi to get support. After being on hold for over an hour (I was revising for A-levels at the time!) I finally got through to an operator who told me I needed to download a patch:
"But I don't have an internet connection. Can't you send it out to me on a disk."
"Sorry, we don't do that. Maybe you could get a friend to download it?"
"None of my friends have the internet either. The game doesn't work, surely you could send out the patch?"
"Well... you could maybe try and get on the internet somehow or wait for it to appear on a magazine coverdisk"
So, I then ended up paying £5/hour at an internet cafe to download the patch at around 2k/sec (shared ISDN line), split it into bits and copied onto floppy disks.
What with the phone calls (I'd previously given up on one after 25mins) as well I probably ended up spending almost as much money getting the game working as I did on buying it!
In the meantime I wrote a letter to PC Zone Watchdog. It was eventually published a few months later, October 1998 iirc in case anyone still has a copy in the loft and wants to look it up!
unde4d said:I gave my mate a loan of my copy of Yoshi's Island. My 100% complete profile was deleted by his little brother.
AHAHAHAHA
Had that happen to me once too (Although with a much more masculine game). Might wanna star out that last word btw!A bit offtopic but can anyone actually fill me in on what the combat upgrade did to SWG? Since a few people here have mentioned it. I played that game for 2years, but I was casual and a noob I didnt really understand what it did back then.
Thx
Thx
