TTK12G3 on 26/11/2008 at 02:17
Quote Posted by fett
Wow - Halflife was the first shooter game I ever played on a PC. I remember being so frustrated with the giant whatever it was with the beak killing me over and over as I tried to make it around that pit. A friend said, "go look at a walkthrough."
A what?
That's when I discovered the gaming community on the internet. My life went downhill from there. ;)
Know that someone, somewhere is pulling their hair out over that same beast.
Trance on 26/11/2008 at 02:18
Quote Posted by Laser Eyes
1988. My first PC. Don't they sell games for these things? Hmmm. I wonder if I'd like doing that. Oh there's a games shop in that shopping centre (mall) that I've walked past about, oh, a million times. I must go in there next time I go shopping.
Wow all these big boxes. I wonder what's so big inside them? But what do I buy? What's this? Half-Life Game of the Year Edition. So it must be good right? I mean if they won some game of the year competition. Buy that.
What's this one. Oh what a cool cover. Dark and mysterious. Name's kind of hard to read though. Let me see now. System Shock 2. Well I've got enough money for one more. Might as well get this one...
All in 1988?
Laser Eyes on 26/11/2008 at 02:20
Ooops. I mean 1998.
june gloom on 26/11/2008 at 04:09
Quote Posted by TTK12G3
Know that someone, somewhere is pulling their hair out over that same beast.
Yeah I had to help my non-gamer friend (HL1 is her very first FPS 'cuz it was a dollar, and she's doing pretty well so far!) figure that bit out.
Melan on 26/11/2008 at 07:13
Quote Posted by doctorfrog
I played Half-Life 1 in software mode about halfway through.
I played TDP in software mode and only got a 3d card in order to be able to play TMA. :laff: Truth to tell, I kinda like TDP's graphics in software mode... or maybe that's just nostalgia.
DDL on 26/11/2008 at 12:37
Quote:
Wow - Halflife was the first shooter game I ever played on a PC. I remember being so frustrated with the giant whatever it was with the beak killing me over and over as I tried to make it around that pit. A friend said, "go look at a walkthrough."
I didn't even figure out it was finding me by
sound until my second playthrough.:(
I did it the first time by flinging grenades at it (to make it hide temporarily...as I later realised was due to the fucking NOISE) and sprinting from ladder to ladder.
I was a slow learner.
Volitions Advocate on 26/11/2008 at 14:05
actually I just thought of something.Half Life very profoundly influenced the FPS gaming scene for me by being the very first game ever to use the WASD + Mouselook configuration as a default. I never played any of the quake games this way before HL.. and the only game I can think of that really did the same thing well back in the day was UT99.
It might not be the first game to ever do it. but I remember downloading Uplink and really having to get used to shooting with the mouse button instead of Ctrl and turning with the mouse instead of the keyboard. But once I got the hang of it, obviously It was the better control scheme.
I think It deserves revolutionary status regardless, but that was a breakthrough either way.
Thirith on 26/11/2008 at 14:43
My first mouse + keys shooter was the Terminator: Future Shock demo. I think it used the arrow keys rather than WASD, but having analog aiming was great.
Rogue Keeper on 26/11/2008 at 14:52
IIRC it also used mouse for movement, not only for looking around, depending on how you configured it. But it was so highly impractical, as you can imagine.
Thirith on 26/11/2008 at 14:55
I could imagine that with the right kind of device and game having an analog stick for moving and a mouse for aiming could be very effective - and quite possibly great fun. :) I can imagine a mech-type action simulator with that sort of input setup.
