Your Gamer Refinement

Edelweiss

Edelweiss

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I'm interested to find out how all of the mygaming folk started out gaming (what type of genres you played) and through all the years of gaming how have you refined your gaming taste. Have you transitioned from pc to console or the other way round? Did you first enjoy FPS's and now prefer RPG's? Single player games to Online experiences only?

I would like to know!

Your gaming taste is obviously moulded by how you've matured over the years and the ever changing evolution in gaming trends..

For instance I first played whatever I got my hands on during the ps1 days.. Those times I'd probably say that JRPG's were my favourite genre, followed by survival horror and third person stealth games never really liked racing games, even though I played the legendary GT2.

I then got a pc and tried out RTS games and it proved too technical for my young brain and then I got hooked on FPS games for a long while until recently, got a ps2 and fell in love with Team ICO games (still love those kinds of games). Then I got hooked on Nintendo games and became a devout fanboy.. became disillusioned by them and now recently returned to the arms of survival horror, online moba's,action rpg's and action-adventure style games and the odd indie metroidvania style game.

Please share how you've matured/refined your gaming tastes!
 
Warcraft 1 & kinda branched out from there (all the popular RTS, FPS). Recently ventured into some RPGs too (TES).

Can't say there is much maturing evident per se...more like expanding a bit. Maturing to me implies that one is better than the other which seems a bit of a bold view seeing how its very much a personal preference.

I don't touch MMOs though...that won't end well for me.
 
Started on console. Mostly 3rd person games. Then to FPS. Then to PC FPS, then to MMO's. lol.

Been a long and enjoyable journey.
 
I started out with Age of Empires 2 on my very first PC. I loved it. This is what led me to play more RTS titles like C&C, Warcraft 3 and such.

I then started moving to RPG's, which is my favoured Genre. As the years went by, I could not keep up with demand of upgrading a PC to keep up with the games, and so the console was born in my life.

I now don't have any specific genre I like, I like to try them all. I follow game reviews and trailers, and if it looks good I'll try it. If it doesn't, well I'll avoid it.

One genre I hate though is the Sports Genre. I just can't get into. Unless playing for fun with friends, I don't see the appeal.

And it seems I am slowly moving to mobile games like Clash of Clans/Dungeon Keeper etc.

I have also delved into the infamous MMO called WoW (on a local server) for about 2 years of my life. 2 years, I will never... never get back.
 
My gaming started very young (SNES) but it became my number 1 hobby following Christmas 2008 when my dad purchased a PS1 for us kids.

I started with games like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot etc (games primarily aimed at kids) but used to watch with a jealous eye as my dad played games like Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid. Eventually I convinced him to allow me to play these titles even though they had age restrictions, and thus began my gaming obsession :p.

I have always preferred third person games and usually avoid first person like the plague, mostly due to my preference for story-orientated games (something that is usually lacking in FPS's). I've slowly started getting into certain story-heavy first person games so I can definitely see myself enjoying the genre a lot more in future.

I've never been a console fanboy and am happy to play games on PC, and I did go through a phase where I mostly played on PC (usually simulation games like The Sims, SimCity, Theme Hospital etc).

For genres my favourite would be survival horror, but that has been severely lacking since the PS2 era, so action adventure would be my favourite at the moment. As I already said, any game with a good story and a heavy emphasis on the story is usually my cup of tea. So I enjoy all genres as long as there is a good story, interesting characters, fun gameplay and I am a sucker for exciting cutscenes.
 
Started on the fam com played games like contra,mario brothers 2,goonies,sky destroyer and the list goes on,then I got a game gear only had a few games for it,taz lost in space,lion king,streets of rage and wonderboy.

Then I got a sega genisis and my first game was tail spin I broke it bec I didn't switch off the console and just pulled the game out. But I also had mk 3(the original mk 3 the one without scorpion.) then I had a mate who also had a sega and we lent each other games like he had earthworm jim 1 and jurrasic park and mk 2. I eventually got earthworm jim 2 had a region cartridge for it. Oh nearly forgot the classics played all the sonics.

Then I got my first pc. My first pc game I owned was unreal but it scared the crap out of me I was 11 at the time and the graphics were so real. I remember my mother said its like a movie :p I swapped it heart of darkness. Got tomb raider 3, g-police,tiberian sun, heroes of might and magic 3(still play it to this day) and so on. My first real rpg experaince was pool of radiance ruins of mythdranor.

Keep in mind I had a friend with a pc and played doom when it was first released and other games

My pc eventually got old and slow and my mom gave me an option to get a ps 2 or gamers windows(the IT guy tried to trick my mom and I knew he was talking crap) so I got the ps 2. First game my mom got was resident evil 3 but I said lets take it back bec its an old game and got red faction first. I also then got quake 3 and silent hill 2.

I then down the line upgraded my pc and then kept on upgrading it

I got the net found mygaming a year later I won an xbox 360 from them :p gave it to my little brother and he still plays it to this day :p

I am mainly a pc gamer and a old school console player. I like fighting and platform games on console.
 
My first "real" game was Rise of Nations, and I was hooked to base-building games after that. Since then I have evolved to playing FPS's, MMO's and most recently MOBA's.
 
In order of playing basically:

  • Snake|Bolo|Gorillas
  • Wolf 3D|OpWolf|Blake Stone|Heretic|Hexen|Doom
  • SNES and SEGA Classics - ExciteBike|Contra|Sonic|Outrun|Mario|Alien 3|Streets of Rage 2
  • Duke 3D|Shadow Warrior|Age of Empires|Quake/2
  • PS1 and the CS|DoD|Warcraft 3|UT and Quake Eras
  • ISDN in ZA allowed plenty of Quake and CS
  • ADSL Opened me up to more Quake 3|UT|BF2/2142
  • NG Console got me a 360 and about 200 games later, I'm back on PC.
 
i started out on an ancient 286 playing Martian Memorandum :-) after a few years, i got a swanky 486SX (which cost my poor dad about 10k at the time) . Used to play XCOM and Terror From The Deep until the wee hours of the morning on that ancient thing.

i then migrated to PS1 and eventually PS2, drifting away from PC gaming. The PS3 never really gripped me but the XBOX did andhas been my number 1 gaming platform until sometime last year. then i made the plunge and bought a decent PC and begin to dabble in some PC gaming. I still hate playing FPS's with keyboard and mouse as i've gotten too used to the ergonomic xbox controller. my next purchase is more likely to be a PS4 than an xbone
 
brendanvb said:
I started with games like Spyro, Crash Bandicoot etc (games primarily aimed at kids) but used to watch with a jealous eye as my dad played games like Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Silent Hill and Metal Gear Solid. Eventually I convinced him to allow me to play these titles even though they had age restrictions, and thus began my gaming obsession :p.
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Spyro! OH MY WORD! How did I forget about this one!? This was my very first PS1 game. Crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot Racing. Abes Odyssey! These games were boss.

I think I started liking the whole RPG scene with Dark Cloud on PS2. Was a lekker game to play.
 
Iam3G said:
Spyro! OH MY WORD! How did I forget about this one!? This was my very first PS1 game. Crash Bandicoot. Crash Bandicoot Racing. Abes Odyssey! These games were boss.

I think I started liking the whole RPG scene with Dark Cloud on PS2. Was a lekker game to play.
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dude! Abes Odyssey and Crash and Tomb Raider 1 :love:
 
I remember the first video game I played; I played Contra at a friend's house, and I almost instantly fell in love with gaming. I got that year for my birthday a console with a couple of cartridges, and so my gaming life started.

I mostly played games like Top Gun, Paper Boy, Super Mario 3, Contra, Bomber Man and the like. It wasn't until a while later that my father brought a PC home from work. I remember it didn't have Windows on it at the time, but was running DOS 3.0 if I recall correctly. It had 1MB of hard drive space, both a floppy and a stiffy drive, I think a 10MHz processor and 64KB RAM. There was something about this machine that was appealing to me. I was very young when we got it, so I wasn't allowed on it alone, but I can remember playing Space Quest on it with my dad.

Later on we got a 486, and my father loaded a couple of games on there. By this time I really enjoyed playing on the PC. I played games like Micro Machines, TFX, T.I.M. and various others. It was also my first introduction to Windows 3.1. We had this machine for a very long time, and as my friends got better and better PC's, so did they get better and better games.

After a few months of begging, we finally got a new PC with a CD drive. I was so happy, because it meant that I could play the same games as my friends. The first game I bought with my own money was Flight Simulator 95. It was absolutely awesome. I remember drawing flight plans in an atlas we had, just to plan out routes of how I am going to fly. I once woke up early on a Saturday morning (because it was a early morning flight, hahaha) and I flew in real time, with the auto pilot of course, from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Fond memories.

This was the point that I would say I started being a true gamer.
 
It started with my grandfather letting my brother and I play on his Commodore 64 in the 80s. Trying all of the strange and wonderful titles. Played games that were still recorded onto tapes, loaded up many titles only to find most of them being unplayable. I remember a cricket game we were so excited about, loaded it up with the normal commands and took 20 mins to figure out we could not control anything. Was just a demo playing in a loop.

Played a few other consoles at friends, NES and the likes. Finally got our own SNES and played games like Mappy, Excite Bike, Blades of Steel (My brother hated this game), 1944 and 1942, Battle City, Contra, Ghosts and Goblins and the list goes on. It was a time before genres were clearly defined. A simpler time when you played games to play games, we played everything we could. I remember loving the 200 in 1 game cartridges my parents bought for us. 200 GAMES! We were in heaven.

A while after that our mother brought home a 286 with DOS on it, played games like Commander Keen and Wolf 3D. I remember the 10 discs it came on, spent an hour installing it with my bro. No DRM issues back then. Upgraded to 386 and 486 playing classics like Doom and Space/ Police Quest and Test Drive, never did play Leisure Suit Larry. Switched to P1 and started playing games like Red Alert, Need for Speed, Diablo, Quake, MK1 and Monster Truck Madness. Moved to P2 and then P3 playing Counter Strike and Red Alert 2, Half life and many more. Still I was not stuck on a genre. Played BG2 and that changed me. Since then I love playing RPG games, was heart broken when Black Isles studios vanished. I remember the lans and lan parties with these games. Also rented SEGA consoles from our local video shop and jammed MK and Sonic on that.

During the P3 time I pruchased a PS and got bitten by that bug as well, crash, MGS, GT 1 and 2, spyro, point blank, time crisis. Even had the first generation PS light guns. I remember games like Neverwinter and Icewind Dale as well.

Upgraded to AMD athlon cpus after that, those thunderbirds that ran hotter than the surface of the sun. Still played PS until I got the PS2, played final fantasy and more MGS. Finished MGS2 in ONE sitting, started playing 6pm ended the next morning at 9am. Never slept just sat there playing, what a game that was. And who couldn't see that guy was Snake from the start?

Kept upgrading from there, playing anything I could get my hands on. So many titles to list I cannot remember them all. Eventually we came to this generation. Got sponsored a full gaming PC, played on that while playing Xbox 360. Again no real genre I loved the most, but the Fable games really helped the RPG addiction.

Eventually I received another PC, played anything and everything. BC2 and Crysis and all of those memorable titles. Finally got a PS3 and played non stop for weeks on that.

Then I hit the gaming wall, where current games just aren't holding my attention any more. Formatted my gaming rig and gave it to my GF,soon to be fiance, who is even more of a gamer than I am, bought a laptop for work. I still game but I quit the PC gaming scene, mostly the multiplayer scene. I still game co-op with the GF and play older SP titles. Most of the time I am sitting around waiting for more titles to release on the PS4 and then I will move back to the console for at least a while.
 
Throughout my life gaming was a vice I came across through friends, acquaintances, and family, this was essentially a theme throughout my early years as a gamer. My very 1st gaming experience at the age of 6 was through a family friend who would allow me to play Asteroids on his PC whenever we visited (which I loved to no end) and some other platformer I can't recall, and through this experience, a gamer was born (oh, the wonder that was in my eyes that day *.*).

A gamer may have been born but he was definitely underdeveloped because his gaming experience was inconsistent and really in short supply. At the age of 9 I'd moved to a different town and through some new friends I had my 1st NES experience (Telegamestation, if anyone remembers those things) with an old school Lion King game and Super Mario Bros, this could easily be likened to a baby's 1st words.

Soon thereafter, my aunt got herself a Windows 98 PC, and yet again another gamer friend of mine lent me some baseball game which I'd play to aunt's dismay (who'd want a 9 or 10 year old taking over their PC, right?), baby's 1st steps. As a result of my fascination with gaming and computing in general, my mother decided it was time to take some action, she went and got something called a PC 2000/ Educom, which was essentially an NES clone spliced with a kiddies computer. By the end of that I'd played games ranging from Contra to Tiny Toons, and pretty much every NES game you can think of (good or bad), and I was also learning how to put together sprites (never really amounted to anything :p), along with word processing, and other PC related things.

Fast Forward to a few years and another move later, the "console" was long dead, no PC in sight, it pretty much seemed like the gamer would die into dormancy, but once again a friend introduced me to this awesome internet cafe (friends, salt of the earth, they are :)). They had a range of games, but I was only really captured by 3 games, namely FIFA 2003, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, and NFS: Underground. This was also my 1st LAN experience, a gamer's puberty if you will. Once I got my 1st real PC, the 1st game I played was NFS: Most Wanted, followed by The Thing, Call of Duty 2, and FIFA 2005.

One could say I was groomed by shooters, racers, and sports sims because I played those primarily throughout my gaming life, but there was a shift when I got my 1st gaming spec PC, because that was round about the same time I joined mygaming (I joined 4 months after getting it), and as a result of recommendations by this awesome community (once again guys, friends are the salt of the earth ;)), I had my 1st RPG experiences, played a lot more platformers, actually played an MMO, and played some other obscure titles that I thoroughly enjoyed, and of course I was introduced to addiction; Dota 2.

Long story short, I started out as a gamer through friends, grew as a gamer through friends , and I live as a gamer independently but gain some great experiences as a gamer through friends.
 
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For me it started when I was about 5. I remember playing on my brother's Atari (that wooden looking one) and played tanks and pong. From there it moved to those consoles which had cartridges containing 101 games on them etc. I remember games like excite bike and Ducktales quite vividly. If I have to be honest - I think gaming has been a part of me since I can remember. Even games like sopwith and those crappy "learn to spell a word" games on those ooooold computers still stand out in my memory.

I started my real gaming life back in 1990 - 1991. I remember playing a LOT of Street Fighter 2 at the local "porra shop" with a bunch of 20cent coins. But my first real "wow" moment came in the early 90's when I saw Mortal Kombat for the first time. That's where I became hooked. My genre of choice, for many years after that was Fighting games - specifically the mortal kombat franchise. There was a brief stint with Killer Instinct - but it didn't last long.

As the years moved on and arcades became a "thing of the past". I started playing a lot of console games. Playing on my own, fighting games didn't really cut it anymore and I moved on to more single player oriented games such as platformers and racing games. When high-school came around and PC gaming took flight (it was about 1996 if I remember correctly) - I started playing a lot of FPS games such as quake. I actually liked that a lot.

Today - many years on, I play a lot of FPS games like Battlefield and I really enjoy the multiplayer aspect of it. I played a bunch of RTS games as well, but it never really grabbed my attention like FPS and Fighting games did. Still - Mortal Kombat holds a special place in my heart.
 
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It really started in the arcades with street fighter and from then on I have owned almost every gaming console and of course a pc.I play every game genre but really love jrpg's and nothing beats Metal Gear.
 
Edelweiss said:
I'm interested to find out how all of the mygaming folk started out gaming (what type of genres you played) and through all the years of gaming how have you refined your gaming taste. Have you transitioned from pc to console or the other way round? Did you first enjoy FPS's and now prefer RPG's? Single player games to Online experiences only?

I would like to know!

Your gaming taste is obviously moulded by how you've matured over the years and the ever changing evolution in gaming trends..

For instance I first played whatever I got my hands on during the ps1 days.. Those times I'd probably say that JRPG's were my favourite genre, followed by survival horror and third person stealth games never really liked racing games, even though I played the legendary GT2.

I then got a pc and tried out RTS games and it proved too technical for my young brain and then I got hooked on FPS games for a long while until recently, got a ps2 and fell in love with Team ICO games (still love those kinds of games). Then I got hooked on Nintendo games and became a devout fanboy.. became disillusioned by them and now recently returned to the arms of survival horror, online moba's,action rpg's and action-adventure style games and the odd indie metroidvania style game.

Please share how you've matured/refined your gaming tastes!
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Under 20 years ago I started with the Nintendo Donkey kong handhelds/8 bit game console then went onto DOS/Windows PC games then After that I went to the Gameboy Consoles and been playing Pokemon ever since.

I did play Blizzard games on pc inbetween when I got bored.
 
We started out with tv games when we were little in the 90's and then we got a 286 pc, which was eventually upgraded to a 386 then a 486 and eventually a pentium. as there were 3 of us we eventually also got a ps1. our game choices depended on what our step dad bought and got from other people to play but it was basically a lot of car /driving games and third person games. the first game i truly enjoyed playing was Kings Quest. was a lot of fun typing stuff for the char to do.

now i play most genres of gaming but mostly enjoy FPS and RPG's. oh and we own an xbox, ps4 and the bf and i both have our own gaming pc's
 
Started out on the Golden China 8 bit when I was 6yrs old,then got a sega(didnt have that for long as there was no sound).

Then used my fathers pc to play games,at 21yrs old I finally built my own PC,got an xbox and Ps3 last year.

So yeah got onto the console scene kinda late.

I love my Xbox as its a ltd edition,hoping to get a ps4 one day....sigh.
My pc just cant run todays games,specs are too hectic.
 
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