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my best fps moments are from call4 and mw2...
i love it when the enemy team is getting owed by me with numbers like 100 kills and 20 deaths and then the second in my team has 20 kills . i also like when they start calling me a cheateer because i kill them with the most freaking annoying-unexpected-hard ways there are like quick scope headshots, 360 no scope kills etc...



oh god i wish i was that good in trackmania...




in rpg i have played a lot of oblivion and morrowind and i love the moments where i get attacks from meny opponents and still survive

in racing games my best moments are those of trackmania and the ET competitions! i just love it when i race against three opponents which were better a few weeks ago and now i can race with them on equal footing.


all in all the bets moments in gaming for me are the ones when the difficulty reaches a peak i haven't seen before .

Ah, good gaming memories... I can of course mention that time in that one free TF2 weekend where I got the heavy, turned a corner with a med by my side and went "EAT LEED MUTHAF*CKAZZZZZZZ" "Achievement: Take up to 1000 damage in a single life"

My RPG experience is short, but I think there was an epic moment when, Emulating a Sega Genesis and playing Phantasy Star IV on it, I finally beat the final boss with epicz0r luckz. I was down to 1 and the boss had around 350/23k, but the one I had wasn't strong enough to make 350 damage in 1 hit... Then she made 2 critic hits and the boss got like 351 damage Shw333t save hehe.

On the other hand, I've always been a racer, and I think I got this feeling of "I'M SO FRIGGN AWZOM!!11!" when I was playing BurnOut Paradise and literally owned one of the burning routes (the Watson 25W16 one) with an average speed of around 325km/h, or (BurnOut Paradise too) when I made a road rage with over 45 takedowns on Carson Annihilator Phoenix at night with no headlights... I also took a "WTF?!" when I made the quarter mile in 7.88 in Pro Street with a Dodge Viper... Then there was this epic moment back in NFS:MW when I finished my first "Condition 5" pursuit in a non-maxed-out Cayman S ...
The most epic of all of them tho, was in NFS:MW when, in a "Condition 4" pursuit in the M3 GTR with 2 heavy rhinos heading my way, I crashed against a traffic car. First I was like "now I'm doomed, it slowed me down too much" and then the traffic car hit the rhinos and there you could see 2 heavy Range Rovers doing 720 barrel rolls

FPS
Doom/Doom II and making wads. This was pre-internet time for me and i recall being hugely excited by a magazine cover CD with 501 wads on it. That seemed like all the wads in the world ...
In terms of actually playing a FPS, i never really have, other than a few months of Counter Strike when it was in beta and you could load your weapons real fast at the end of each round by assigning short keys. There was very little in the way of menus, the text you needed to see between rounds was 50% transparent white over the outer parts of the screen. Matches were quick and simple, terrorist vs counter terrorist and ghost/float mode when you were killed. You got credits which you could save up for a better gun, so once in every few rounds you could start with your favourite gun, although I would usually lose it after about 15 seconds ^_^ ... I stopped playing when they neared the end of the beta and started building a full menu system between rounds, the quick simple key presses were best with no need to enter menus... As you might gather, I dont do much FPS

RPG
Never played anything other than Diablo II... does that count? Never in my own experience have i wasted so much time collecting pretend gear and hoarding pretend gold that I never wanted to spend on anything. I only played Diablo II in single player mode too. One of the most annoying things with that was that i never really knew what I should be converting my XP points into. And what you picked early on made a huge difference later. I had a dual weilding barbarian which becuase i put so much into the 2 weapons mastery early on ment i was hopelessly under defended later on and I pretty much had to give the character up... So then I played a Sorcerous (spelling?) and got to about level 80, but even then by the time I was in Hell, I just couldnt withstand the hits, so I guess I built that character wrong too. Quite how Im meant to know how to build a character Ive no idea. I never really played it much after that. As you might gather, I dont do much RPG

Racing
Stunt Car Racer on the amiga, that was awesome but it was limited by being mostly single player. I played enough to win Division 1, after which you got to restart in Super Division 4 where the boost could continue avoe 100%, that was neat, I think I got to about Super Division 2. Any attempts at multiple player via serial link was just spoiled by collisions. There was another amiga game, 4D Sports Driving which had an editor, I used to play that quite alot, I would would build maps and my brother would drive them. I was quite happy building then watching them be raced. I never really played racing games since then until Trackmania. (oh, other than TestDrive I and II on the amiga)... As you might gather, I dont play any (other) racing games than TM ^_^

I guess you really need people posting here who actually played some more modern games
This is more a kind of looking back on old times post than a big insight

FPS:
One word. Halo. I know, I know, it's overdone...but IMO, they do a lot of things right in that game...fast-paced action, wide range of weapons and game-modes, and a real sense of teamplay (if done right) instead of the one for the glory type action you see alot in shooters. The only thing I would have changed/added in Halo would have been an addition of a 3rd player view...cept it wouldn't be an FPS, then, and then the ability to roll/diveroll into position behind cover or out of cover. Not like the Matrix by far...but just something a little more "actiony", I guess

RPG: I'm not a big RPG person, myself, but if Star Wars Jedi Knight counts as an RPG and not a TPS (third-person-shooter) then I'm a BIG fan of that type of game...just because of the huge story it encompassed...and of course the ability to go good or bad is a big thing for me...decide whether to save the world or conquer it, type of thing.
Oh and we can't forget co-op! That's for FPS too...but yeah, even just playin with one buddy over a split screen would be EPIC. I love goin' back and forth with one of my friends if we play like, co-op Battlefront or something (can you tell I'm a star wars fan?) and we're just mowing through opponents...He's a heavy, I'm a trooper, and we eat anything in our path

Racing: Come ON, would I really be posting here if TM wasn't my favorite game? Seriously. You guys do EVERYTHING right here and no improvements are necessary in my eyes...although I know you guys are gonna do some stuff that'll just blow us away as a community...The best moments though in racing games in general is that feeling of adrenaline when I race laps or rounds...you just don't get that in Time Attack. I know that's more suitable to the "drop-in drop-out" style of play that TM has...but when you're all lined up on a starting block all at the same time, and you're racing for the same finish, and it's do or die...that really gets me goin. I would love to see something that gave incentive to play more rounds or laps or "one-race" style of play...

I have had some fun moments in some shooters . .like battlefield 1942 (+vietnam, weapons of ww2 etc).. me and my friends used to play lan alot on that. And doom, quake with the wads .. i made a cathedral for quake with a graveyard level too . .was pretty fun

but really racing is allways where its been at for me ... from mariokart and fzero (nintendo), from the very first stunt car racing and gp1 , gp2, gp3, gp4 (geoff crammond games) through unbiofts MGPRS2 ... thats my start line ...

back in MGPRS2 i used to test the network latency issues with the main crowd .. and even got to race jaques villneuve on that game .. and also was my very first league races (we used to mirror the f1 championship and "schumi" from california allways used to win -.- (a very nice bloke, sent me a thrustmaster II steering wheel cause my controller broke mid season)).

Also colin mcrae was another enjoyment, i fixed the force feedback running on colin mcrae for PC based on immersion devices ... i asked by email load and loads for a fix (some run on the "other" FF camp at the time there were two main strings) so i ended up registering as "joe bloggs developers" on immersion to get the pack for dev and bodged the game up myself (funny thing was it was as simple as loading the effects up in the latest build of the dev kit and saving with the newer app.. that was all ) so i sent them the fixed force feedback effects.

so generally i have allways enjoyed LAN with friends and racing on PC in general ... i remember my awe when i had a dx2 66mhz and my friend went on holiday and loaned me his p120 (pentium 1) ...i booted up geoff crammonds grand prix (2 i think at the time) and turned the detail up to two tone grass (yes thats right, two colour .. .aka texture) o.O ...i was amazed, just as much as when i upgraded the atari 2600 to a 7800 as a young boy and the asteroids game built in had two greys on the asteroids ...

...allways love the gaming and watching the pretty graphics evolve ...tm has been my main home since 2005 first on sunrise offline onto united not too long after release, started team GBR, then changed name to stop nationalist idiots wanting to join, then merged with the uk rockers for stadium strength a while back... loving ET all the way for their non corporate fun style of gamin (esl is ok but a bit beurocratic and ... less fun) plus the years of creating stuff making images, manialinks, websites, servers i have only to thank for teaching me alot over the years (allthough i wouldhave founf something to fiddle with regardless i am sure) .. i play alot of other games purely for the graphics ... soon i guess TM will be at the forefront, so a break from the others will ensue hehe.

so onto RPG ... there is only one for me ... zelda ...yes i know it's simple guys (before the flamebaites get on their high horse over hit points (i had dungeons and dragons on dice as a kid .. its nothing new y'know?) i have allways admired the fact it can put you in the same charachter .. same general story (bot grow up .. gets curious about a hero, opens the evil door the hero shut, wrecks the world splitting it into darl/light or some other contrast, saves it, gets the princess) but yet everytime the world and universe surrounding is completely different .. and the puzzles allways get you goinf for a while ... i love that game series ... i will buy a nintendo jsut for that and sell it once done ... for as long as they have them (fzero might make me keep it a bit longer, but i'll still sell it or give it away in the end lol). simple but genious "lifetimes in a bottle" i feel

nyway .. ramble over .. little bit on my background and how i got hooked on the computer, for anyone that's really bored ^^

FPS:
Got different games which made me love the genre. As far, the best one is Project IGI, because auf the awesome story and the high degree of difficulty. There were so many different possibilities to finish one level.Juste awesome and the graphics worked great on my onboard gpu ^^
This is by far the best FPS i played for a long time.
The other one i played for a long time was Medal of honor on the PSX. Yeah, i know it sounds strange, but it's really possile to build a nice shooter and play it with a controller.
If it's about action and not only about story and singleplayer feeling, i love to play Unreal Tournament 2003 (bombing run and fighting bots or do a lan session just rocks) and Painkiller (yeah,i know this is one of the mos stupid shooters, but i love the praphics and the senseless shooting with crazy eapons "flock gun ftw" to chill out.)

RPG:
In the singleplayer i'm a total fan of PSX games (the FF series (played 5-9 on the psx), breath of fire III (here it's awesome to creat different dragon comibiantions)), SNES games (secret of mana, illusion of time and terranigma and many more).
If i go in the multiplayer section then there are also different games on different consoles.
SNES: again secret of mana
PSX: Blaze and Blade
PS2: champions of norrath
GC: Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles, Phantasy Star Online Episode 1&2
PC: WoW
So i conclude that i'm a bit into the roleplaying games Used also the possibility to do different tries on the RPGMaker, but i have to admit, i kind of sucked with that and because of that i really hope that the QM editor will give me a possibilty to get really violent ^^

Racing games:
I'm total into fun racers and played mario kart on the SNES, the N64 (which was the best version for doung multiplayer games (block park just rocks) compared to the GC version) and on the GC. Also played NfS III on the PS and NfS Underground 1+2 which were really nice due to the chasing (NfS III) and the different challenges and possibility to upgrade my car (Underground the race and drift mode).
Driver and demolotion racer on the PS1 is also great stuff to get you working over weeks.
But after discovering TM, i nearly stopped playing on my consoles, because of a more complicated RL nowadays and the possibilty of racing leagues (ET) and working with the editor.

FPS: Hm, that was a really long time ago. I guess it all started with Duke Nukem and Quake in the late 1990's, I remember Duke being such a funny game and on the other side Quake was quite scary sometimes. It's interesting that I still play Quake today (I played Arena and now Quake Live) and that I've never really enjoyed playing realistic FPS games. I played a bit of the SWAT series, but never liked COD or CS, they got quite boring after a short period of time.

Racing: If my memory is correct, Screamer 2 was my first racing game. I remember playing it for hours trying to beat the opponets and I was so happy when I won ^^ But besides that, I played Test Drive and Need For Speed. I don't really remember which versions they were but they can also be located somwhere in the late 1990's period. After that I remember playing Revolt and than TMO and TMN ESWC. And after I began playing TM, I haven't played many other racing games.

As for RPG - I don't recall playing any game of that genre.

By the way, I read all and it is always interesting. I invite you to focus less on your gamer history and more on great moments

another example is this:

dec wrote:As for RPG - I don't recall playing any game of that genre.

Tell us why !

Okay then I try to write my expieriences now...

RPG: I didn't played them very long. I tried some games, but it was always the same to me. After a while it gets really boring. The quest diversity is very low.(kill these enemys, bring this item to that npc..). You also need to go very often from place to place, what takes some time and is only boring...I also don't like it, when you klick an enemy and the character attacks them automatically und you only need to add some spells.
RPGs like Zelda are more interesting to me. It's more hack'n'slay and also the quest are really cool. But the best is the story of course. It is also better, because there is no stupid leveling. For me it's important, that the skill(I don't mean spells or special moves ingame ) counts, not the level. So that you can play the same good at every PC without having your own saved characters. (e.g. in TM ). But i also think, that the zeldastyle is not very good for multiplayer-onlinegames, because it's too story based.

FPS:
eeer...what should I write?... I hadn't played them very often. (most of them are for adults only and my parents don't want me to play these games. So I only played some games, that are not FSK18 rated.
But I really don't like the FPs-view. I hate it, if you can see only a little area and you don't know whats behind you. Also it's often the same. The maps are the same and the matches as well. At the beginning it's cool, because it's a new game and you want to discover all...But it's more based on curiosity, than on fun.

Racing games:
I don't like games like need fo speed so much. As in RPG and FPS there is too less diversitiy for me... It also needs no creativity to play.
But I enjoyed playing more funbased racinggames like mariokart. I like it to play together or against your friends. So the best Mariokart for me is double dash for the gamecube, because you can drive together in one kart. I enjoyed it much to unlock all the characters and karts together with a friend. It didn't took long time until we reached the first place in the final cup But alone it is much lesser fun. That's the reason why I hadn't finished all the cups in mariokart wii until today, because you cannot drive together. I played lesser than the half of all cups
In TM I had the most Fun racing on tracks. Here is the diversity really high and also time-hunting is really cool. I remember when I played TM at the first time. I played the TMS demo for more than one month and I had only build tracks. Also later I focused more on building tracks then on racing. I like it to create some creative stuff. Sometimes I'm building some hours in the Editor and at the end I have only builded some blocks for the track. Then the half of the map is filled with blocks, that are just there and have got no use. And when I load the track next time, it can sometimes happen, that I find a better combination and so I erase all the blocks I build at the start of the track. It often happens that I don't build my maps till the end. So I just start a new map next time and my folder with half maps gets bigger and bigger. Currently there are 3 or 4 pages
All this time I spend in this tracks is kinda useless, but for me counts the fun. Some tracks, which I really like, I often pick up after some months laying on my hard disc and then I finish them.(ot try to do so, because then comes the part where the MT needs to be done and that's the most boring thing to me of creating tracks )

so I'm more into creating something and that's why I play more strategy games then others
I hope you can understand all what I wrote..

About my greatest moments:

In the rpg genre, i'm a big fan of playing multiplayer. I'm more the type of player that loves to skill the chacarcter to the maxima possible level and skills. The best example is secret of mana (SNES) and blaze and blade (PSX).
In secret of mana, there it was possible to play with 3 players the same time and go leveling. If one had to go, his charcater was simply done by the cpu and you could switch between your actual player and the cpu player. In this way it was possible to use the spells of all players (if you were alone you needed to switch between all three players to train each of them properly). And you needed to use the spells or the weapons (through using you were leveling them). There was only on thing i didn't like about this game. To get to a new level, you needed to find an update for you weapon (and they were distributed randomly in the game, you were not able to level all weapons up to the maximum). That's the reason why i played the game multiple times till the end, in the hope to get the updates for my weapons which i wasn't able to get in the other savegames.
In contrast to that, blaze and blade, is also a nice multiplayer game, which you can play offline with friends. And here you got better weapons by finding them after different fights. Additional to that, it was possible to get out of the dungeopn and play the same fight again to collect new weapons.
As a final statment:
I have most fun with rpgs if i can level my characters and take them to the maximum level (together with friends). My biggest wish for QM would be to play in splitscreen offline with friends and use the same character in offline play (to level a little bit for myself or with my friends) and to play online to (level with bigger amount of players and find better weapons or so).

About the shooter games. I love a high level of degree and multiple ways of solving a porblem. Here i have to gave Project IGI as my best game. You could play every level in many different ways in the style you wanne play it. It was very important to use the scope to check out where the guards are located, to check out how they work and which are they're ways. It was mostly a try and error system, because if the alert was activated new gueards came up (even through rooms which were empty before). Additional to that it wasn't possible to save during a mission, yo you were forced to remember which guard is where and when will appear at which place new guards and and and. This was a really challenge and made the game so awesome, because if you did a level you just thought "Damn, yeah, i rock". Sadly that this game had only 14 missions,but it took me over 1-2 month in cooperation with my friedn to get through them (after each death we switched roles "player" and "cooridnator". The coordinator was the one which told the palyer which turn, when to run or where there will be a respawn. To do this, we used for each level a big DinA3 paper where we draw the level, the alarm codes, where the enemies are respawning and and and).
About my other best fps game. Here we go with Painkiller. The best "no sense" shooting game i played for a long time. The bonus here was that you could splatter the enemies (big amnount of them) with such strange weapons (e.g. a flock gun, which shoots flocks and you could pin the enemyswith them into the wall or at the blanket. so there were 3-4 enemies with one flock hanging at the top of the room which looked really great). But i think this was only so funny, because the game had excellent grafics back then, which made the think look really realaistic.
So my final statement about FPS could be: I love the challenge (if the challenge is due to obeservation and not due to luck) and will try it again and again.

About racing games:
Here comes also the multiplayer effect into account. I played with my friends hours on blockpark on mariokart 64, because it was so much fun to chill out after a long day. Tried to play with friend in the coop mode and to win all cups without only losing one match. So we started at the highest difficult level and the one who won the first match had to asisst the other player as good as possible during all other matches. Unfortunately we never made it to win all cups, but we tried it over 6-7 months ^^