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[TheBeau]

Hmm, well I have played a lot of 'free' games where you can choose to buy your advantage but I soon lost interest in all the free fps/mmos out there. I read a lot of reviews about team fortress 2 and one of my friends had it and said it was the stuff.

Usually i am reluctant to spend money on games because i can just scrounge of my brother and friends for single player games, but because I had heard so much about tf2 i was interested. I played games online for a good while, but only free ones because I never had any money. I had played tf2 at my friend's and thought it was awesome, so i decided to buy it.

My PC spec at the time of buying:

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
AMD 2.0ghz (equivalent to 2.8 or something because of some reason)
512mb DDR2 RAM

I got about 50fps with nothing happening, 9fps on goldrush. I attempted to play scout because it was my favourite class, I loved the idea of being a class which avoided death by avoiding damage entirely. Then I realised after 20hours that I can't shoot things when I am watching a slideshow. This leant me towards demoman and soldier, classes anyone can pickup. Then I realised how much Soldiers beat the toss out of people and I decided to get better. This led me to spend hours in tr_rocketshooting and ctf_bball2. After a while I realised I had really improved. I could airshot consistently and after a little research my RJ's improved dramatically. Being a pubstar, however, was very boring for me. I was fed up of killing W+M1 pyros, and beating on crappy demomen. This was when I found WDG. I found the skill level much better here, and that was the main reason I stayed but of course the personalities involved contributed to me becoming active on the server. People on the server were a challenge, not a huge uncomfortable one, but one worth playing. Admittedly, sometimes I get a little bored of playing soldier in pubs, so I attempt to play scout or give Medic a go.

Currently, I am looking to get into the competitive scene, although WDG is still a lot of fun, 12 v 12 is just not as intense and interesting as 6 v 6. There are only a few tactics involved in pubs and the ones that are used usually involve less than half of the team. (ie. two people Ubering to take out a sentry then moaning at everyone else to pushkin the cart). However, until I am part of a decent team it's WDG for me.

PS. My computer is better now. Barely

[Millicent Bystander]

2Gb RAM £18
ATi Radeon 4650 512Mb £37

Phixed

[Teatime]

im trying to be good with all classes rather than be perfect with one of them.

Any higher power in the universe prevent you should become perfect on a class. You are scary enough just being good.

[Brahms]

But learning stuff like rocket jumping and then using it sucessfull (ocasionally) is why I've put more hours into tf2 than any other game.

It's those moments that keep me coming back, I'm trying to get pyro rocketjumping down now!

Pyro rocket jumps are like, the most pressing reason to get good at airshots.

Is there anything worse than landing the airshot on a pyro, only to have them REFLECT THE *&*^&* ROCKET?

[Junta]

I'm going to post again.. because I'm old and we like to repeat ourselves lots

I started gaming on the Sinclair Spectrum.. heady days.. 48k Ram and no hard drives in sight. Tapes had all the games and they were some of the best games I played. Obviously, looking back things don't age that well but at the time I remember a level of addiction and a love for many great games: Chuckie Egg, Batman, Joe Blade but to name a few. I loved Microprose's Gunship.. and was one of the few people I knew who could play the game on "Realistic" mode.. R-Type was another great game..

Then things got serious.. an Atari ST ... great at games (but sneered at by Commodore Amiga owners - a club I soon joined after my ST) - tonnes of awesome games like Carrier Command, Lotus Challenge, SuperCars, Strider.... Stunning wide range of games from Arcade through to simulation and strategy. I found R-Type on this too...

Even MORE serious now.. managed to get a second hand Amiga. Wow.. even more games.. Shadow of the Beast, Supercars (again), It Came From The Desert (simply amazing), Turrican. My love for platform games grew as well as the odd simulator. Laser squad was always fun too.

Moved on to be one of the first people to get a 16-bit (cutting edge!) Sega Megadrive! My love of platform games was well fed with Revenge of Shinobi and Batman. For the first time, the home entertainment system had graphics close to the arcade machines! It was great, but I'd managed to spend all my schoolboy wages on the bugger and had very few games to start with. Took me a long time to build up a decent collection, and it was great eventually. Favourites were: Strider, Streets of Rage, Ghosts n' Goblins, Afterburner etc.

Eventually I moved on to college to pursue an IT development education. Pascal programming on an Intel 286/386 meant that a home computer was needed for educational purposes. I obviously wasn't going to just get a boring old office PC, so I stretched my budget as far as I could and got a cutting edge 486sx 25 computer. It was brilliant.. I had to install MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. And, apart from some boring Pascal and C/C++ Borland tools I stuck as many games as I could on the bugger. The spec was (don't laugh.. this is for real):

Intel 486sx (the 'dx' version had the maths co-processor that we all take for granted these days)
Ran at an amazing 25Mhz (yes Mhz)
4MB ram (yes MB)
100mb hard drive (quickly used it up)

This spec was revised by several upgrades.. Soundblaster and a VESA Graphics card (big step up) - some of the BEST games I ever played on this machine:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Alone in the dark
Doom 1 and 2
Dark Forces (star wars)
X-Wing and Tie Fighter
Tomb Raider
Sim City 2000

Pause there.. Doom.. this led to Quake.. and my wallet being emptied again as I went to uni. I stepped up to AMD processors then Intel processors adding more RAM, bigger hard drives etc. I was also one of the first people to grab hold of a dedicated 3D card - the Voodoo 3DFX... wow... glad I did. The GL version of Quake was awesome and I got into death matches over a serial cable with my mates.

The upgrade paths accelerated but I strangely stayed away from on-line gaming for a *very* long time. I preferred to play single player games... Deus Ex, Heroes of Might and Magic 3.. Tomb Raider 2... then... something happened. I grabbed a 512 broadband connection and bought HL2 in 2004. I played this stand alone and enjoyed it very much, but one of my mates kept nagging me to try something called CounterStrike: Source. I resisted for many, many months but then decided to give it a go. Instantly hooked. Shooting and stabbing your mates added hugely to the appeal and I've never looked back. I went to MoD clan then BSF, where I met Papa, Hex, Deadly and Gonk. BSF went strangely quiet because everyone eventually went to something called TF2. I resisted again, preferring to shoot at people and throw grenades in CSS.

My intro to TF2 was hard work.. I found it very hard work to learn after CSS (after all.. no real classes there). Then... hooked again, and off playing on NuB server with my old clan mates. I didn't join NuB straight away but had an excellent time with players on that server, I was in NuB for a few months then left to form WDG..

The rest as they say.. is history!

[egg]

I'm going to post again.. because I'm old and we like to repeat ourselves lots

I started gaming on the Sinclair Spectrum.. heady days.. 48k Ram and no hard drives in sight. Tapes had all the games and they were some of the best games I played. Obviously, looking back things don't age that well but at the time I remember a level of addiction and a love for many great games: Chuckie Egg, Batman, Joe Blade but to name a few. I loved Microprose's Gunship.. and was one of the few people I knew who could play the game on "Realistic" mode.. R-Type was another great game..

Then things got serious.. an Atari ST ... great at games (but sneered at by Commodore Amiga owners - a club I soon joined after my ST) - tonnes of awesome games like Carrier Command, Lotus Challenge, SuperCars, Strider.... Stunning wide range of games from Arcade through to simulation and strategy. I found R-Type on this too...

Even MORE serious now.. managed to get a second hand Amiga. Wow.. even more games.. Shadow of the Beast, Supercars (again), It Came From The Desert (simply amazing), Turrican. My love for platform games grew as well as the odd simulator. Laser squad was always fun too.

Moved on to be one of the first people to get a 16-bit (cutting edge!) Sega Megadrive! My love of platform games was well fed with Revenge of Shinobi and Batman. For the first time, the home entertainment system had graphics close to the arcade machines! It was great, but I'd managed to spend all my schoolboy wages on the bugger and had very few games to start with. Took me a long time to build up a decent collection, and it was great eventually. Favourites were: Strider, Streets of Rage, Ghosts n' Goblins, Afterburner etc.

Eventually I moved on to college to pursue an IT development education. Pascal programming on an Intel 286/386 meant that a home computer was needed for educational purposes. I obviously wasn't going to just get a boring old office PC, so I stretched my budget as far as I could and got a cutting edge 486sx 25 computer. It was brilliant.. I had to install MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. And, apart from some boring Pascal and C/C++ Borland tools I stuck as many games as I could on the bugger. The spec was (don't laugh.. this is for real):

Intel 486sx (the 'dx' version had the maths co-processor that we all take for granted these days)
Ran at an amazing 25Mhz (yes Mhz)
4MB ram (yes MB)
100mb hard drive (quickly used it up)

This spec was revised by several upgrades.. Soundblaster and a VESA Graphics card (big step up) - some of the BEST games I ever played on this machine:
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Alone in the dark
Doom 1 and 2
Dark Forces (star wars)
X-Wing and Tie Fighter
Tomb Raider
Sim City 2000

Pause there.. Doom.. this led to Quake.. and my wallet being emptied again as I went to uni. I stepped up to AMD processors then Intel processors adding more RAM, bigger hard drives etc. I was also one of the first people to grab hold of a dedicated 3D card - the Voodoo 3DFX... wow... glad I did. The GL version of Quake was awesome and I got into death matches over a serial cable with my mates.

The upgrade paths accelerated but I strangely stayed away from on-line gaming for a *very* long time. I preferred to play single player games... Deus Ex, Heroes of Might and Magic 3.. Tomb Raider 2... then... something happened. I grabbed a 512 broadband connection and bought HL2 in 2004. I played this stand alone and enjoyed it very much, but one of my mates kept nagging me to try something called CounterStrike: Source. I resisted for many, many months but then decided to give it a go. Instantly hooked. Shooting and stabbing your mates added hugely to the appeal and I've never looked back. I went to MoD clan then BSF, where I met Papa, Hex, Deadly and Gonk. BSF went strangely quiet because everyone eventually went to something called TF2. I resisted again, preferring to shoot at people and throw grenades in CSS.

My intro to TF2 was hard work.. I found it very hard work to learn after CSS (after all.. no real classes there). Then... hooked again, and off playing on NuB server with my old clan mates. I didn't join NuB straight away but had an excellent time with players on that server, I was in NuB for a few months then left to form WDG..

The rest as they say.. is history!

MODS PLEASE DELETE POST ON GROUNDS OF SPAM!!!!

No one will read that much text anyway

lol

[Junta]

You love me Egg. Admit it 

[Guilt is a rope... etc]

I bought a voodoo 3dfx as well £140!! I think a 16mb ram stick was about £80 as well bilinear filtering ftw!!!

Stuff was may more expensive back then even for consoles, think I bought super mario bros 3 for £75.

That pc is still at my parents in the attic, might have dig it out next time I'm up north.

[egg]

You love curry, beer, fast cars, tf2... Egg. Admit it 

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[Junta]

You love men who like curry, beer, fast cars, tf2... Egg. Admit it 

fixed

Phixed moar

[Millicent Bystander]

My dad showed me the other day a quote he got for a 386SX 25 with 4Mb RAM, Windows 3.1 and a colour monitor for nearly £1700. 

I got my first PC from Epsom for £1500, a Pentium 100 with 16Mb RAM, 14" Monitor and a 1Gb hard drive with the shiny new Windows 95 operating system.  It also came with the original Civilisation and Elite on.  A year later it got nicked and my insurance company gave me a 200Mhz Pentium with 32Mb RAM.  I sold that PC a year later and built my first PC, a AMD 300 K6-2, never looked back since.

[Teatime]

The first PC I layed hand on was at school. We had a - dramatic pause - Commodore PC with 48K RAM, no harddrive (way too expensive in those days), the OS was loaded from 5.25 floppies and data could be stored on tapes.
The first computer I owned was an Atari ST, though I didn't use it primarily for games but to make music (the built-in MIDI Interface made it the premiere music computer in those days, even up to a professional level).
Those were also the days when games for PCs were called "IBM compatible"

Then, years later, I saw the son of a friend playing DOOM on his PC and immediately got hooked. It was actually playing this game which urged me to buy a PC. And I went all out and bought a Pentium60 with a 540MB HD (don't remember the RAM). One year later I bought a 1GB HD which I considered to be immensely huge (and fit to last a long time). Yesterday I bought myself a 1TB HD which will upgrade my total storage to approx. 2.5TB .
And similar to Milli that was the only PC I ever bought complete. Have built my computers ever since.

[Power]

EDIT (now new! before you read the actual post!!!!): Reading a couple of posts back there, I realized that every time I referenced C64 in my post, I actually meant a ZX Spectrum clone (called Elite SCX or something).

Now here I am, jumping over the last 3 pages, expecting to find some gentlemannly discussion of bottoms, but instead it's all about how you started to play computer games! Fricking awesome.

Well as for me, living in the socialist russia back in the days, I probably was lagging behind a bit. Among the first things I've played on some bootleg-commodore clone were snake, pong, tetris and the game, which name I forgot, but it was like this:

You are in a "room" which is basically empty space filled with some dots who are flying around, bouncing of the walls of that room. Your task is to fill the room with walls, for that you had to cross the room from one side to the other, dragging the walls behind you, getting to the sides of the room, before one of the flying thingies touches the wall that is currently being built. If that happened you died, if not, the part where no flying thingies were, got solid and you had another try. Once you got all of the flying thingies locked up in a small space (I think about 95% of the room needed to be solid to win), there were some kind of BLEEP-BLEEP-BLOOP sounds and you got transferred to the next level, with more flying thingies in it. Anyone knows what I mean?

Anyway, we didn't have any of those fancy-shmancy original hardware, instead we had a construction kit for those commodore clones available, which you actually had to put together YOURSELF (that's soviet LEGO for you). Then you had a choice of either loading games from cassettes, which was my first audio addiction, long before any of those trance bullshit (I love trance!). Just remember how it always started with a long high pitched beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep, which then followed by a cluster of random sounds, just like when you tossed a refridgerator with your grandma in it down a flight of stairs. Just awesome.
After about 10 minutes of those noises, the game started (if you were lucky) or more commonly, nothing at all happened, at which point you had to start again or the computer just restarted, which was awesome as well.

Another way, was to fucking type in the code for the game yourself. There were actually books, with 10-50 sites full of frickin machine code, either in basic or if you were crazy in plain assembler. After your spent DAYS of typing that shit up, if there weren't any typos (or if the code printed was actually error free, which wasn't a given) you had yourself a nice river raid or something like that. How is that for piracy!? Good thing, you could actually record the code you just typed up on the tape with a special software, which was next to useless, considering the quality of my stereo equipment in those days.

Wow what a flashback! In the next episode: my first docking with no autopilot in Elite on that C64-clone and how we watched porn with those C64 routines, that were used to print the game title screen during the loading from the casette deck (one of the greatest features of C64 if you ask me).

[egg]

You like Junta for loving men who like curry, beer, fast cars, tf2... Egg. Admit it 

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Fixed some more

[Junta]

Nope. That is indeed BROKEN now Egg