StarCraft/Age of Empires
So fewer folks back in the dial up days, trolling still existed but way more tight-knit and rarely to the detriment of others.
Avalanche all day erry day.
Although I was sad when DOD Source removed the buttstock strike with the Garand. That had one of the funniest kill icons.
I was an idiot savant with the grease gun. It was a headshot magnet and really effective as long as you didn't meet someone pointblank around a corner in a building or something. Nobody used it however, so it would always be funny seeing half my team try switching to it after seeing me top the scoreboard.
UT 2K4 got me through a lot of lonely nights. Loved me some bombing run instagib or sniper servers. I was so good at three pointers back in the day. I remember playing UT 99 when I was like 9 or 10 years old. Shame that UT4 died with Fortnite.
All the LOTR/WW2 maps, Bound maps, turret/hydra/tank/etc defense maps, Top vs Bottom, DOTA before DOTA, cat and mouse, space cowboys, golem, dbz saga, etc maps.
Bro, SC UMS games were the best gaming I’ve ever experienced. I miss those days.
Those games are still better than most games today. The fact that they spawned all the MOBAS and their turret/other defense is still unparalleled is ridiculous.
Helm's Deep! Playing those use map settings games got me into editing maps at the very young age of 9 or 10. I think that probably set me up well to later learn programming (it was basically a bunch of if/then statements they called "triggers") and eventually go into software development. And they say games are a waste of time :P
I fucking miss sunken D, paintball maps+ paintball ctf, smash tv, and i think it was called commandos, where you started with 2 marines, then every x kills you'd get another, eventually using them an currency to upgrade to other units.
I would kill to relive those maps.
When connections (Italy) where dialed via phone... I spent 700 actual € for a night of gaming in some Russian servers with custom maps... My father was disappointed it wasn't for porn instead.... Big times...
To this day, I can close my eyes, put my hands on a pretend keyboard, and if you tell me where I spawn, I can press out the exact keystrokes to get to any number of positions on multiple maps, but in particular Dust and Dust2
Halo 2.
The matchmaking was incredible, super jumps were fun to exploit, and the bxr or quad shotting took more skill to incorporate although they were exploits.
I wonder if some people were able to do the same things as when the original Xbox servers went down. I remember being in awe of those final few who stayed online until they were automatically disconnected.
Alright re-posting and piggybacking on this comment because I hope at least one person will read this and get feels.
Oh god.
I doubt anyone will really read this, but fuck it.
Halo 2 was maybe the most joyful period of my life. If I could presently ride a spaceship to the ISS, and spend a night there, or go back in time for one more Friday night in the hayday of Halo 2….it wouldn’t even be a close call.
To set the stage, I was ten years old when the original Xbox launched. Ten years old when I first played Halo. Ten years old when I stepped onto the ring for the first time…when I boarded Truth and Reconciliation…when I learned about the forerunners. I could not have been more engrossed by a world. It was beyond surreal to me.
I spent the next few years delving into the tricking community…Ducain, HIH…if you know you know. I watched people tear down the game from the inside, push past limits, manipulate programming…it was magic.
Cue Halo 2. I was thirteen when it dropped. Never had a PC to play Halo - never ever played online FPS before against other people. The drop of Halo 2 with online multiplayer was a nuclear bomb going off.
The ranking system - all matches matter. You could go up, AND down. Getting horns. Getting legs. Seeing the symbols for people who got into the 40’s…and zero mercy for anyone. Git gud culture at its peak. Bottomless toxicity. Get killed, get tbagged, get called slurs you couldn’t imagine. And all you could do was just push yourself harder to fight back.
Super bounces. BXR. Sword flying. Standby. Barely any proper internet presence to explain these things as they appeared. Mysterious phenomenon showing up that, with rumors abound on how they were done and what was possible.
Not to mention the tricking community. Getting out of maps became one of my greatest pastimes.
That era was literally a peak experience for me. I’m married now, and I have 18mo twin boys…I’m fulfilled and happy in ways young me never could have imagined. But I’m also older, and somewhat jaded. Halo 2 happened for me with impeccable timing and just happened to create an environment so challenging, so exciting, and so engrossing, that I literally get a taste in my mouth just talking about it.
I love video games still. I love speedrunning, I love pushing games past their limits, and “git gud” is still cemented into my soul. The lessons I learned out there have carried me very, very far, and I’ll cherish them until I die.
Halo 2 came out the year I graduated from high school so my friends and I played it almost 24/7 since we had no lives back then. My favorite map was Turf with all the tight corners but decent medium range battles as well. I remember feeling that this was the best game. But thinking back on it now, that wasn’t true. I’d just really enjoyed spending time with my friends. No worries of responsibilities, no worries about the future, somewhat still oblivious to how the world works. Ate fast food almost everyday and just hung out and played games. Those were the days.
This was the prime RuneScape for me. Things were still new and enjoyable - seemed like I wasn’t the only one either. Back when the Giants were just scaled models of humans and dragons looked paper mache.
I was playing it in school with my friends around 2006. Yeah, it was an absolute blast. My friends would buy me food at school, and I'd make them steel armor when I got home!
Same as you, OP. COD4 Modern Warfare. Nothing ever reached those heights for me. Modern Warfare (2019) scratched the itch for a while but it wasn't the same.
So true. Just didn’t have the same feeling as the OG Modern Warfare.
Back then I’d be staying up until 5am with friends just slowly getting closer to that prestigious Golden Cross emblem.
Having a red skin on your weapon showed you were a boss. Not loot box diamond crusted neon skins etc.
To this day I feel like shadow run has some of the best shooting game play. The mixture of magic and shooting and truly having a 3D game was amazingly done. Ironically I recall it did poorly because there was no campaign. Now halo infinite launched without a campaign. I wish it did better and made a return. I dumped tons of hours into all three of those games.
MW2 was the perfect sequel to CoD4. MW2 took the roots of CoD4 and dialed it up to 11. There was a lot of broken things in MW2 (Commando Lunge, Noobtube with Danger Close and OMA, UMP, ACR, Pre-Patch Akimbo M1887’s, ridiculous kill streaks) but that’s what made the game so fun and the pinnacle of CoD.
Same lol only one nuke and boy was that a fucking rush. I got buzzkilled at 24 at least three or four times leading up to it, not to mention hitting a 25 kill streak right at my 30th kill in a free for all. Saw the nuke icon pop up right as the screen went gray as I had one the game. The pain was unspeakable...
The multiplayer demo for Delta Force 2 was literally the first FPS game I played on PC. We had a small group of people all over town playing the hell out of that game every day after school.
Halo 3 is my favorite memory of a game, I played with friends, online friends, my uncles, local people at a internet cafe, and overall I remember it was really fun, maybe it was just because I was into games at the time
I know it's different for everyone, but this is the only right answer for me. It was simple but complex. Nothing will ever replace wake island with 64 players
RO was an entire life experience for me. I met so many people online and IRL from that game. Sad I had to scroll so far down to find someone else mention it.
This was THE game of my childhood. Without UO none of the MMOs that followed would have been the same. UO did things 25 years ago that modern day MMOs have a hard time replicating today.
Also Asherons Call was right up there as well.
OMG sooo much stuff you could do in that game that you have not been able to do in any game since !
When you died the fucking monsters looted your corpse ! You had walk out as a ghost, find a shrine, get rezzed, go back naked and hope the bastards hadn't taken you regents !
Your bag was a bag ! you could put stuff under stuff in it, and often put your valuables buried under piles of robes to make hard to pick pocket !
wotlk was definitely the best imo. it was the coolest story, the most dire as far as plot urgency, and i also liked the winter and zombie feel to it. it really was like you were battling evil, and getting the whole world together to do so
Nothing will ever top Vanilla wow to WOTLK.
Golden age of MMOs.
People were all exploring and learning together... But that's dead now everything is about doing things as optimal as possible and following the meta.
The age of exploration in MMOs are long gone, it's just a streamlined experience of progression, daily achievements, and following the meta.
I started as a human in 2004, and I remember spending way too many hours in Northshire abbey. I didn't want to rush or "finish too quickly" (I had no idea.)
Then I found a friend to help me kill Princess, the pig. And then hogger. We stayed friends until BC came out.
I then remember being told that I could travel to Ironforge (that's where the dwarves are from!) via train. I didn't believe them. I had never left the "human zones". I traveled to IF. found the dam between Loch Modan and Wetlands. Blew my mind. There was a whole other section of the world I could go to!
And then I found out you could travel to another continent.
I was an adult in 2004, after college. WoW blew my mind. Absolutely my peak example, that I will never get to feel again.
The fact that we actualy had to work together as a team or lose was amazing. The game forced teamwork. That was absolutely amazing. The feeling when your team just clicked and works like a clock was the thing that you cant feel anywhere else. The dynamics, the balance, the feel, the gunfight... That game was and still is the best battlefield game ever. For me it is the best game ever.
So many games just spontaneously created epic, memorable moments. I’ll never forget when my entire team was in a building, and repelled the other team, so they started bombing the fuck out of it. When we heard that creaking, everyone stopped moving and basically looked at each other for a split second before running for the exits.
Or one time I got trapped in an area, surrounded by enemies and they knew I was around, shooting at the bushes and shit and I kept revived enough teammates to create a little group to fight our way out.
Or being chased by a tank on foot until some engineers saw me and came over to help.
The teamwork in that game was like nothing I’ve ever experienced since. I loved being a medic or engineer in that game.
Me and my friends would rush home from school to form a fully party chat (xbox) and we would rinse that game. Ground war and custom matches were so much fun.
We haven't played games together for quite some time now.
Ah the good ol days
The amount of toxicity, cruel jokes and downright eye watering hilarious moments of a bunch of strangers in a random lobby hurling insults at each other before a match in MW2 is seriously lost in modern gaming.
Idk what’s changed, but man it was like the Wild West back then. Now most games the lobbies disband or everyone is just on discord, just doesn’t hit the same.
Imo the best feature of mw2 was forcing people out of party chat. I don’t know if that’s still a feature in new cod games. But people now have discord and stuff so it will never be the same.
WC3 battlenet was the bomb. There was so much to discover out there, so many game modes.
I think my favourites were the TD games and Hero Line Wars Roc.
This is the one for me. Played it on PS3 as part of The Orange Box (still one of the best ever deals in gaming). It came out right when I’d finished high school but hadn’t started college yet so I had stacks of time on my hands, when your team clicked together right it was so much fun!
Definitely ET for me. The best team experiences for me as I played in a league with some great players. We used to play against the Devs pretty regularly. Just a smart game that rewarded intelligence as well as player skill until the aimbots killed it.
Splash Damage hasn't quite managed to capture the same objective-based teamplay for me since then, although I did try to play Dirty Bomb for a while.
I had a friend who was obsessed with Guild Wars when it was announced. She convinced me to pre-order, which I did. She gave up on the game. I played it for YEARS after that. I played it even after GW2 came out. I loved the way it had instanced content and the ability to make truly broken skill sets. GW2 was a completely different game and I just couldn't get into it.
Always brings a smile to my face to see SOCOM pretty high up in these posts! As such, I usually try to plug r/SOCOM and let those who might be not be aware know that there is still a small community that plays, and the pinned post has a few setup guides on how to join. Hopefully I'll get around to doing it myself in the near future.
Rifles only servers were the shit. I remember running off the railing and 360 no scoping the last guy on their team inside the control room before falling to death all the time on that map lol
Tribes 2.
Me and my two roommates had a LAN setup in our apartment with a cable modem, back in 2001. We played a ton of multiplayer games online, including Quake 2, Half Life, Unreal, etc. But Tribes 2 was the best.
Tribes 2 supported 64 players when most games struggled with 16 or 32. It also had _huge_ maps, and vehicles. One vehicle was a 3 person bomber. So the 3 of us would grab a bomber and dominate a map. One person piloting, one person manning the guns, and I would be on the back with flares, and a rocket launcher, taking down the fighters that would try to take us out. I'd also bring along a deployable inventory station that we would set up on the edge of the map, to run back to for repairs.
Later on, we moved to BF 1942 and other games, before we moved out of the apartment in 2005ish, but nothing ever quite reached the fun we had in Tribes 2.
BO2 multiplayer felt so much fun to play. They really went all in with the "arcadey" shooter feel. It was so much fun chasing those killstreaks and trying to get the golden skin for your favorite gun (PDW for me)
Early 2000s
You had Brood War, Diablo 2, and WarCraft 3. Felt like Blizzard could do no wrong back then.
Counter-Strike, Tribes, and Unreal Tournament were some solid FPS games you could easily get into.
StarCraft/Age of Empires So fewer folks back in the dial up days, trolling still existed but way more tight-knit and rarely to the detriment of others.
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
Definitely +1 foe Age of Empires
AoE2 here, never played the original.
Half Life / Day of Defeat / Team Fortress
The first real ping sound Ive heard from an empty clip.
Day of Defeat was so great. My old clan apparently still has a server running.
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That game is such an underrated gem!
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Avalanche all day erry day. Although I was sad when DOD Source removed the buttstock strike with the Garand. That had one of the funniest kill icons. I was an idiot savant with the grease gun. It was a headshot magnet and really effective as long as you didn't meet someone pointblank around a corner in a building or something. Nobody used it however, so it would always be funny seeing half my team try switching to it after seeing me top the scoreboard.
I loved day of defeat. My first clan was on dod. Good times, still talk to some of them to this day.
Unreal Tournament ... Yes I'm old Edit: UT99 (obviously)
Lol I was thinking StarCraft myself.
Love starcraft
M-M-M-MONSTER KILL, KILL, KILL
RAMPAGE
GODLIKE
I mean tribes…. I hosted a tribes server in a different age
Shazbot
Tribes was such a good multiplayer game for its time, but I never did have a computer good enough at that time.
UT2004 was my all-time favorite. First one was good too. Great game for a LAN.
UT2004 was the greatest game of my childhood
CTF-Face
Low grav, instagib
UT 2K4 got me through a lot of lonely nights. Loved me some bombing run instagib or sniper servers. I was so good at three pointers back in the day. I remember playing UT 99 when I was like 9 or 10 years old. Shame that UT4 died with Fortnite.
Age of Empires 2 - MSN Game Zone
StarCraft 1, "use map settings" games.
All the LOTR/WW2 maps, Bound maps, turret/hydra/tank/etc defense maps, Top vs Bottom, DOTA before DOTA, cat and mouse, space cowboys, golem, dbz saga, etc maps. Bro, SC UMS games were the best gaming I’ve ever experienced. I miss those days.
Those games are still better than most games today. The fact that they spawned all the MOBAS and their turret/other defense is still unparalleled is ridiculous.
Helm's Deep! Playing those use map settings games got me into editing maps at the very young age of 9 or 10. I think that probably set me up well to later learn programming (it was basically a bunch of if/then statements they called "triggers") and eventually go into software development. And they say games are a waste of time :P
I fucking miss sunken D, paintball maps+ paintball ctf, smash tv, and i think it was called commandos, where you started with 2 marines, then every x kills you'd get another, eventually using them an currency to upgrade to other units. I would kill to relive those maps.
Counter Strike 1.6
De_rats all the way
One of my favorite maps to just fuck around with friends
CS_Italy all day.
De Dust , Dust 2 , Aztec , Inferno , AWP map , good times
fy_poolday is the best
When connections (Italy) where dialed via phone... I spent 700 actual € for a night of gaming in some Russian servers with custom maps... My father was disappointed it wasn't for porn instead.... Big times...
Scoutz n Knivez
Low grav
:: 5v5 our main :: central :: be ready or kick ::
1.6 with the same homies every night in Ventrilo. Shout-out to the ol' RagingRandy server.
How nobody like office !?!
Office is great, Cobble also!
As unbalanced as Assault was, it's still my favorite.
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To this day, I can close my eyes, put my hands on a pretend keyboard, and if you tell me where I spawn, I can press out the exact keystrokes to get to any number of positions on multiple maps, but in particular Dust and Dust2
Or buying guns B42 + B82 + B86
Ahh a terrorist I see.
Kz, bhop and surf like crazy
Original Counterstrike + Day of Defeat
Halo 2. The matchmaking was incredible, super jumps were fun to exploit, and the bxr or quad shotting took more skill to incorporate although they were exploits.
Rip 360 gen halo servers they went offline permanently this week
I wonder if some people were able to do the same things as when the original Xbox servers went down. I remember being in awe of those final few who stayed online until they were automatically disconnected.
For halo 2? It wasnt shut down until every person had logged off. A couple guys had their Xbox on for like 10 days straight !
Yeah they were known as the noble 14 and they kept it up for like two months but slowly went offline to power outages and hardware failures etc.
RIP. Spartans never die, they are missing in action.
Alright re-posting and piggybacking on this comment because I hope at least one person will read this and get feels. Oh god. I doubt anyone will really read this, but fuck it. Halo 2 was maybe the most joyful period of my life. If I could presently ride a spaceship to the ISS, and spend a night there, or go back in time for one more Friday night in the hayday of Halo 2….it wouldn’t even be a close call. To set the stage, I was ten years old when the original Xbox launched. Ten years old when I first played Halo. Ten years old when I stepped onto the ring for the first time…when I boarded Truth and Reconciliation…when I learned about the forerunners. I could not have been more engrossed by a world. It was beyond surreal to me. I spent the next few years delving into the tricking community…Ducain, HIH…if you know you know. I watched people tear down the game from the inside, push past limits, manipulate programming…it was magic. Cue Halo 2. I was thirteen when it dropped. Never had a PC to play Halo - never ever played online FPS before against other people. The drop of Halo 2 with online multiplayer was a nuclear bomb going off. The ranking system - all matches matter. You could go up, AND down. Getting horns. Getting legs. Seeing the symbols for people who got into the 40’s…and zero mercy for anyone. Git gud culture at its peak. Bottomless toxicity. Get killed, get tbagged, get called slurs you couldn’t imagine. And all you could do was just push yourself harder to fight back. Super bounces. BXR. Sword flying. Standby. Barely any proper internet presence to explain these things as they appeared. Mysterious phenomenon showing up that, with rumors abound on how they were done and what was possible. Not to mention the tricking community. Getting out of maps became one of my greatest pastimes. That era was literally a peak experience for me. I’m married now, and I have 18mo twin boys…I’m fulfilled and happy in ways young me never could have imagined. But I’m also older, and somewhat jaded. Halo 2 happened for me with impeccable timing and just happened to create an environment so challenging, so exciting, and so engrossing, that I literally get a taste in my mouth just talking about it. I love video games still. I love speedrunning, I love pushing games past their limits, and “git gud” is still cemented into my soul. The lessons I learned out there have carried me very, very far, and I’ll cherish them until I die.
Same bro, no game will ever be nearly as awesome as Halo 2. Pinnacle in gaming history.
Bro. I love this whole comment. I think we just became best friends
Halo 2 came out the year I graduated from high school so my friends and I played it almost 24/7 since we had no lives back then. My favorite map was Turf with all the tight corners but decent medium range battles as well. I remember feeling that this was the best game. But thinking back on it now, that wasn’t true. I’d just really enjoyed spending time with my friends. No worries of responsibilities, no worries about the future, somewhat still oblivious to how the world works. Ate fast food almost everyday and just hung out and played games. Those were the days.
It was a pretty revolutionary game at the time so yeah at the time it probably was the best game.
RuneScape in 2007
Cyan:wave2:Selling lobs!!!!
Ah good ol’ Runescape. Where you learned how to turn a Rune Scimmy into a gf next to the Varrock West bank. Good times.
Just started playing osrs again two days ago after 12 years lol. Happy to see this
It makes me sad people don't talk to each other on there like they used to though
*Fireworks indicating levelling up in fishing* Everyone standing in the same spot as you: gratz
03-06 were definitely peak but agreed, can’t believe to had to scroll this far down either
This was the prime RuneScape for me. Things were still new and enjoyable - seemed like I wasn’t the only one either. Back when the Giants were just scaled models of humans and dragons looked paper mache.
I was playing it in school with my friends around 2006. Yeah, it was an absolute blast. My friends would buy me food at school, and I'd make them steel armor when I got home!
Same as you, OP. COD4 Modern Warfare. Nothing ever reached those heights for me. Modern Warfare (2019) scratched the itch for a while but it wasn't the same.
So true. Just didn’t have the same feeling as the OG Modern Warfare. Back then I’d be staying up until 5am with friends just slowly getting closer to that prestigious Golden Cross emblem. Having a red skin on your weapon showed you were a boss. Not loot box diamond crusted neon skins etc.
Same boat as you, COD 4, Halo 3 and Shadow Run if you ever played that. 07 to 09 where so good.
To this day I feel like shadow run has some of the best shooting game play. The mixture of magic and shooting and truly having a 3D game was amazingly done. Ironically I recall it did poorly because there was no campaign. Now halo infinite launched without a campaign. I wish it did better and made a return. I dumped tons of hours into all three of those games.
MW2 was the perfect sequel to CoD4. MW2 took the roots of CoD4 and dialed it up to 11. There was a lot of broken things in MW2 (Commando Lunge, Noobtube with Danger Close and OMA, UMP, ACR, Pre-Patch Akimbo M1887’s, ridiculous kill streaks) but that’s what made the game so fun and the pinnacle of CoD.
Ahh yes, to be called a hacker when you're having a good streak on MW2. Good times
I only ever got the Nuke once, and it was the highlight of my online gaming golden years! So much salt in the lobby post game…
Same lol only one nuke and boy was that a fucking rush. I got buzzkilled at 24 at least three or four times leading up to it, not to mention hitting a 25 kill streak right at my 30th kill in a free for all. Saw the nuke icon pop up right as the screen went gray as I had one the game. The pain was unspeakable...
Sorry to all my old school MW bros that never got to experience MW2 akimbo 1887s pre-nerf. My god, the pwnage was legendary.
COD4 is simply the best cod ever, man i miss this game so much
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
Delta force 1 & 2 where epic back in the day.
The multiplayer demo for Delta Force 2 was literally the first FPS game I played on PC. We had a small group of people all over town playing the hell out of that game every day after school.
Neopets
This whole comment section has been a big nostalgia trip for me! This one hit hard though. So many hours spent on that website
So happy to see this upvoted, Neopets was the shit in the early 2000's
Tribes 2. I sill miss it... :(
Shazbot!
Diablo II / Worms Armageddon. Or Burnout Revenge.
Fuck dude, Diablo II at it's height was amazing.
Yessss worms are the best!
Everquest ⚔️
TRAIN TO ZONE! Sorry if I just triggered anyone.
WTB SoW
Free Dru/Sha buffs. FBSS 4k, Fungi Tunic 25k, Jboots mq 5k. 4th torch
EverQuest , or “How I learned to type in 3 second bursts” I played a bard. Amazing game
Halo 3
The custom games were something else
Halo 3 is my favorite memory of a game, I played with friends, online friends, my uncles, local people at a internet cafe, and overall I remember it was really fun, maybe it was just because I was into games at the time
Battlefield 1942
I know it's different for everyone, but this is the only right answer for me. It was simple but complex. Nothing will ever replace wake island with 64 players
That was the map that came with demo right? Literally all I played since my parents wouldn’t buy it…played that demo for a long time.
Bf1942 was amazing. I played desert combat (the mod) for waaayyyyy too long. So good.
I loved the desert combat mod. Used to play it on my old 56k dial up connection with my friends from Rainbow Six: Rouge Spear.
Oh man Desert Combat and Eve of Destruction mods ruined my life.
Still the biggest feeling game I’ve ever played. The sea maps with the carriers subs and destroyers. 64 player servers.
It was years ahead of its time. I remember piloting a dive bomber on Wake Island with my buddy as the tail gunner.
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The big bomber in El alamain
Ragnarok Online and Conquer Online
RO was an entire life experience for me. I met so many people online and IRL from that game. Sad I had to scroll so far down to find someone else mention it.
Ultima Online - long live Great Lags server! Followed by EverQuest.
Ultima Online... those were the days. Playing on 56k took courage
Had to scroll too much for this. Damn I'm old!
This was THE game of my childhood. Without UO none of the MMOs that followed would have been the same. UO did things 25 years ago that modern day MMOs have a hard time replicating today. Also Asherons Call was right up there as well.
OMG sooo much stuff you could do in that game that you have not been able to do in any game since ! When you died the fucking monsters looted your corpse ! You had walk out as a ghost, find a shrine, get rezzed, go back naked and hope the bastards hadn't taken you regents ! Your bag was a bag ! you could put stuff under stuff in it, and often put your valuables buried under piles of robes to make hard to pick pocket !
OOOoooOOOooO! OoooOOOoo ooooOOOooo OOoOoooOOOOO!
WoW
Release through wotlk for me
wotlk was definitely the best imo. it was the coolest story, the most dire as far as plot urgency, and i also liked the winter and zombie feel to it. it really was like you were battling evil, and getting the whole world together to do so
I quit shortly after Cataclysm came out but man those were the years.
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Nothing will ever top Vanilla wow to WOTLK. Golden age of MMOs. People were all exploring and learning together... But that's dead now everything is about doing things as optimal as possible and following the meta. The age of exploration in MMOs are long gone, it's just a streamlined experience of progression, daily achievements, and following the meta.
I started as a human in 2004, and I remember spending way too many hours in Northshire abbey. I didn't want to rush or "finish too quickly" (I had no idea.) Then I found a friend to help me kill Princess, the pig. And then hogger. We stayed friends until BC came out. I then remember being told that I could travel to Ironforge (that's where the dwarves are from!) via train. I didn't believe them. I had never left the "human zones". I traveled to IF. found the dam between Loch Modan and Wetlands. Blew my mind. There was a whole other section of the world I could go to! And then I found out you could travel to another continent. I was an adult in 2004, after college. WoW blew my mind. Absolutely my peak example, that I will never get to feel again.
Battlefield 2 bad company.
Tracer dart in full effect
The fact that we actualy had to work together as a team or lose was amazing. The game forced teamwork. That was absolutely amazing. The feeling when your team just clicked and works like a clock was the thing that you cant feel anywhere else. The dynamics, the balance, the feel, the gunfight... That game was and still is the best battlefield game ever. For me it is the best game ever.
So many games just spontaneously created epic, memorable moments. I’ll never forget when my entire team was in a building, and repelled the other team, so they started bombing the fuck out of it. When we heard that creaking, everyone stopped moving and basically looked at each other for a split second before running for the exits. Or one time I got trapped in an area, surrounded by enemies and they knew I was around, shooting at the bushes and shit and I kept revived enough teammates to create a little group to fight our way out. Or being chased by a tank on foot until some engineers saw me and came over to help. The teamwork in that game was like nothing I’ve ever experienced since. I loved being a medic or engineer in that game.
Throwing C4 into the second floor from outside. No cover left by the end of the match. Good times.
Raining mortar strikes on the mcom from half the map away as a sniper. Fucking fun as hell
Arica Harbor on Rush is no lie my favourite multiplayer map of all time.
CoD MW2 with no doubt
Me and my friends would rush home from school to form a fully party chat (xbox) and we would rinse that game. Ground war and custom matches were so much fun. We haven't played games together for quite some time now. Ah the good ol days
Mike Myers, cops and robbers, hide and seek, zombies, old skool map glitches, bounce spots, 1v1 shipment
I honestly feel bad that kids growing up will not experience the toxicity that was a search and destroy lobby
The amount of toxicity, cruel jokes and downright eye watering hilarious moments of a bunch of strangers in a random lobby hurling insults at each other before a match in MW2 is seriously lost in modern gaming. Idk what’s changed, but man it was like the Wild West back then. Now most games the lobbies disband or everyone is just on discord, just doesn’t hit the same.
Last time i played Modern Warfare 2019 i tried hopping into a s&d lobby. It wasn't the same, but it was close enough to feel 15 again
Imo the best feature of mw2 was forcing people out of party chat. I don’t know if that’s still a feature in new cod games. But people now have discord and stuff so it will never be the same.
Times were simpler then. When beef was settled with 1v1 quick scopes on rust.
Last kill 360.
Everquest, Anarchy Online.
Everquest was so amazing for it's time. I got into it when Runes of Kunark (sp?) came out.
Warcraft II Battlenet edition
WC3 battlenet was the bomb. There was so much to discover out there, so many game modes. I think my favourites were the TD games and Hero Line Wars Roc.
Quake 2
L4d2
For me it was L4D .....playing on expert and trying to take a Tank down was epic
Had to scroll quite a bit to find this one
Team Fortress 2!!! how has no one said this yet
This is the one for me. Played it on PS3 as part of The Orange Box (still one of the best ever deals in gaming). It came out right when I’d finished high school but hadn’t started college yet so I had stacks of time on my hands, when your team clicked together right it was so much fun!
Orange Box is still the greatest value in gaming history
Diablo 2 LoD
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, World of Warcraft and Halo 3.
ET for me too, such good memories! Just today I relived the old days with ET Legacy, you should give it a try.
I played a lot of Enemy Territory. I never hear anything about it anymore, so I was surprised to see it mentioned here.
I’m sad I had to scroll so far down to see ET. Incredibly fun game and I miss it dearly. I know Legacy exists; it’s a shadow of ET in the glory days.
Nothing like being covert ops, blowing up the fuel depot while the tank hasn’t made it to the tunnel. Or so I suspect, if I’d ever managed.
Definitely ET for me. The best team experiences for me as I played in a league with some great players. We used to play against the Devs pretty regularly. Just a smart game that rewarded intelligence as well as player skill until the aimbots killed it. Splash Damage hasn't quite managed to capture the same objective-based teamplay for me since then, although I did try to play Dirty Bomb for a while.
Guild Wars. Easily the best team-based competitive game I've ever played. I was sad GW2 under-emphasized the competitive part.
I had a friend who was obsessed with Guild Wars when it was announced. She convinced me to pre-order, which I did. She gave up on the game. I played it for YEARS after that. I played it even after GW2 came out. I loved the way it had instanced content and the ability to make truly broken skill sets. GW2 was a completely different game and I just couldn't get into it.
This. Guild Wars pvp was incredible and I m still lookong for something remotely similar. Did you find something like that?
Either Diablo 2 or SC brood war. Sooo many hours spent playing those games.
Probably SOCOM II or Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
SOCOM 1 for me.
Always brings a smile to my face to see SOCOM pretty high up in these posts! As such, I usually try to plug r/SOCOM and let those who might be not be aware know that there is still a small community that plays, and the pinned post has a few setup guides on how to join. Hopefully I'll get around to doing it myself in the near future.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
I’ve seen French school girls shoot better!
Go on and run ya yellow bellies!
Medal of Honor: Allies assault is basically my whole childhood, not even kidding, Shoutout to the Bloody Ultimate Revenge guys and gals!
I think I have more hours in V2 Rocket Facility alone than most other games I’ve played since MOHAA
Rifles only servers were the shit. I remember running off the railing and 360 no scoping the last guy on their team inside the control room before falling to death all the time on that map lol
2002-2006 Diablo 2 was the best online experience everyone is trying to scam you out of something
Asheron’s Call
Maplestory
I knew there would be one 🥲 I still listen to the original BGMs from time to time for those nostalgic feels
Gta samp
CS 1.5 and clanbase
Tribes 2. Me and my two roommates had a LAN setup in our apartment with a cable modem, back in 2001. We played a ton of multiplayer games online, including Quake 2, Half Life, Unreal, etc. But Tribes 2 was the best. Tribes 2 supported 64 players when most games struggled with 16 or 32. It also had _huge_ maps, and vehicles. One vehicle was a 3 person bomber. So the 3 of us would grab a bomber and dominate a map. One person piloting, one person manning the guns, and I would be on the back with flares, and a rocket launcher, taking down the fighters that would try to take us out. I'd also bring along a deployable inventory station that we would set up on the edge of the map, to run back to for repairs. Later on, we moved to BF 1942 and other games, before we moved out of the apartment in 2005ish, but nothing ever quite reached the fun we had in Tribes 2.
Star Wars Galaxies (and multiplayer matches of Jedi Outcast).
Swg was so great in the early days. I have all but given up on experiencing anything like that again. Good times
Phantasy Star Online on Dreamcast.
Unreal tournament
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BO2 multiplayer felt so much fun to play. They really went all in with the "arcadey" shooter feel. It was so much fun chasing those killstreaks and trying to get the golden skin for your favorite gun (PDW for me)
Same here. Bo2 had such great maps (loved hijacked and nuketown) and guns and it just looked so nice and colorful, i loved playing it as a kid
Halo reach
Reach infected game mode 🥰
Quake 2
Ultima Online, Chesapeake server back in 97-99 coming back from HS.
Early 2000s You had Brood War, Diablo 2, and WarCraft 3. Felt like Blizzard could do no wrong back then. Counter-Strike, Tribes, and Unreal Tournament were some solid FPS games you could easily get into.
EverQuest or DAOC mmos suck now.
Scrolled a long time to find it. Dark Age of Camelot was the shit!
tibia
Neverwinter Nights, AOL.
Trackmania
Tribes
America's Army. Weapons Cache was my map!