What is the first video game you ever played and why do you like mmos

Zardayne

Tandor wrote: »

Ignoring the earlier "video" games like Pong, I bought my Spectrum in 1983 for the Hobbit by Melbourne House, and played assorted text adventures, followed by role-playing games (Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Lands of Lore, the Gold Box series etc) until the internet came along and then I played text MUDs followed by MMOs.

The first MMO was probably the Realm, although I dabbled unsuccessfully with UO and then got hooked on EQ. These days I play MMOs as a natural extension of everything I've played before, incorporating the quests of text adventures, the combat of role-playing games, and the involvement of other players and micro-management as with MUDs, all set in dynamic and constantly evolving game worlds.

Ah Bard's Tale and Bards Tale 2. Awesome games. The gold box series? Are we talking Pool of Radiance and the other D&D games like Azure Shards?

Azuramoonstar

Malacthulhu wrote: »

As the title says.
My first game was the pong on a console system dedicated to the one game with the paddles.
Ever since I was little and played river city ransom on nintendo I imagined how cool an mmo version would be. Always wanted to see it happen and one day it did, Ultima online was my first mmo.

atarii?

My first game was NES legend of zelda, I was 3 years old.

I git into MMo with watching, and playing .hack i liked the concept of logging into a latge world and ,meeting players from all over. My first MMo was final fantasy 11 on the ps2 NA launch.

Been playing MMO since.

Azuramoonstar

Katahdin wrote: »

Atari 2600

First MMO was Guild Wars 1

guild wars 1 was not an MMO it was an orpg. it was a hub world with instanced off quest areas. I tried playing it myself.

idk why ppl call it an mmo ^^;;

Saint314Louis1985

First game was the original Mario on Nintendo. First mmo was dransik iso later known as ashen empires on pc around 2001-2002. Somehow the ae servers are still running...

A_Silverius

Torin's Passage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocv2PF1ohWs

newtinmpls

vonScuzzman wrote: »

I played Oregon Trail on a teletype at the blazing speed of 12 characters per second.

I like most kinds of games; prefer story and gameplay over graphics, MMOs are just a portion of the games I like.

My first "computer" game was Lunar Lander, played on a clunky modem/typewriter thing my dad would bring home from work.

First video game was pong on a TV screen.

First computer game? Wizardry on a home computer.

Came to MMO's 'cause I wanted Morrowind with friends. Got it, pretty much, liking it.

Watchdog

We didn't have an easy access to Western world games while by then Czechoslovakia was still part of the Warsaw Pact.

My first games were the Soviet imported portable console games in the 80's:
Nu, Pogodi! (Just you wait!)
Tajny Okeana (Secrets of the ocean)
Veselyj Povar (Merry cook).

In the late 80's we got a Czechoslovak made desktop PMD85 and played many games, such as Manic Miner, Boulder Dash (the work of an absolute genius) and my then absolute favourite, Penetrator.

As for MMO's, I like those that take place in my favourite universes, such as Age of Conan, Elite: Dangerous and ESO. EVE Online didn't quite do it for me, and WoW universe has always had exactly zero appeal for me. I like co-operating with people, playing together, helping one another, having a chat and having fun together. I am not into PvP at all, though.

ArchMikem

No idea. I only remember early ones, but not my very first experience. Mario? C&C Red Alert?

ReachHalo

Ultima 5. I still sometimes play it on pc just because...
The Elder Scrolls series became what i think the ultima series was trying to do, but failed at. But still, Ultima 5 really excelled at being its own kind of open world rpg, and has a special place up there with the best

dan958

I do not remember the exact first game I played, but the game I remember playing a lot when I was younger was an MS DOS game called Biomenace.

I enjoy mmos mainly for the social aspect. It is always great fun to chill out in a world with everyone doing their own thing. I can run around collecting crafting materials while listening to the nice music. When I'm done with that, jump onto some dungeon or PVP action. All while talking to the public and guild friends.

You also get a level of friendless in mmos that you do not get in other games. I always see people just helping other people out in zone chat, whereas on a game like Rainbow Six Siege I got abuse and kicked from the game because I wasn't playing a new character properly, a character that came out THAT DAY on the test server.

shauny.gibbsb16_ESO

Subterranean, a great little game.

Ultima Online was my first MMO and I loved it, it made me a lover of mmo's and PvP, I'm an old gamer these days but I still love it.

phairdon

Medal of honor allied assault was my first game. Gw2 was my first taste of mmo's. Why do I like mmo's? more content.

sevomd69

I think my first one was Telengard...and I was hooked on RPG's for life...Vorpal blade +500 FTW!!!

Coatmagic

No idea now what the first one I ever got my hands on was but the pizza place we frequented as a kid had a line art combat game with a little green + sign you moved around to tell it where to fire (can't recall the name).
At arcades I was always on the Marble Madness (even tho I sucked at it lol).
At home when we got the Atari was always on Asteroids (remember being at Disneyland wishing I could go home and play asteroids gah!) thought I loved Adventure and figured soon enough how to accomplish goals without killing any of the three dragons (Yorgle, Rendle, and Grendle?).
First RPG on PC (Amiga) was Pool of Radiance series (back in late 80s).
Then a quite long hiatus from computers and Soulbringer on PC (late 90s) followed by Icewind Dale series.
In late 93(?) someone introduced me to Everquest, but it didn't stick until some new roommates got me fully into it not long after. Then it was EQ for days lol. Smattering of some LotRO with some various PC rpgs sprinkled in with Fallout4 and Skyrim being notable which of course led me to ESO.
Also play EQ2 but that didn't start til there was a major lull (for me) in ESO a couple years back.

yiasemi

Pong or some derivative in a motorway service station, cos when you were 10 it was only on holidays your parents let you anywhere near those infernal machines. I guess when they were about to wear swimsuits and holiday for two weeks they became morally lax. As for MMO's I don't. Only this one and probably Fallout69 or whatever it is called if and when it comes out on private servers.
In the home I knew a kid at school who was an heir to a medical equipment company, and his father's wife was someone he'd married in the Bahamas , which in those days we knew was a long way away. Anyway, they had been to America and had bought an Atari console before they came out in Europe, or at least at a price anyone where we lived could afford. So I played that with him in his mansion one day, soooo many cartridges, in return for him fondling my burgeoning breasts. I am pleased to say I have grown more discriminating as I got older and do not use the crown store.

Minyassa

Pong on the Sinclair ZX80 in 1980, and then a ton of little Basic games we tapped in out of magazines. The first fantasy game I played was King's Quest on the Tandy 1000 and that hooked me on fantasy computer games for good.

To be honest, I actually don't like MMOs. I only play them because my friends talk me into it and then I get hooked on some aspect of the game's aesthetics and get attached to my toons. I'd much rather play a multiplayer game with ESO's graphics and world setup but on my own private server with just my friends invited. I love how BIG these MMOs are, how much there is to do, and how the worlds look. I don't love that there are people in them that are allowed to spoil my playtime with their bad behavior. The ultimate game for me would be ESO but with that private server thing that NWN had going on (the original, not the MMO).

Davor

I take it Pinball machines don't count eh? Do you even know what a pinball machine is without looking it up? LOL After all it was the video games that replaced them. :P. Or maybe before madden it was Fusball. Last one, air hockey. :X

First video game I guess is pong like some people here. Now we know who the old farts are eh?

RoyalPink06

My first non-kid game was Diablo 2. I generally don’t like mmos but ESO meshed well with my playstyle, so I stuck with it.

Daedric_NB_187

Pong like everyone else. My first MMO was the original Neverwinter Nights on AOL. Then I went to Bioware's NWN, even though it was considered more of a persistent world. After that, SWG, WoW(for a very short stint), SWToR and now ESO and DCUO.

As for why I used to like MMO's. I grew up playing AD&D in school. Plus I was a fan of Rifts, Shadowrun and Mechwarrior/Battletech. I was looking for a game that I could get that Dungeonmaster ran group RPG feel in a video game. MMO's used to try to do that IMO. Nowadays, they are just hollow cash cows which are shadows of their former selves. I play ESO and DCUO because they are fun games to play solo. Not for the MMO aspect. Though I do miss the open world aspect of SWG.

rfennell_ESO

First game was probably the text based Adventure game. When I was a kid my father worked for Timelife and when he took me to work for the day he would find me a terminal (the old green text no graphics terminals) and fire up adventure for me (needless to say I required no supervision after that).

Soon it was pong, then the 2600.

First MMO was Everquest, brutal vanilla everquest where seeing a level 50 was unimaginable.

First time I ever "published" anything online was screenshots of a spectre massacre in Oasis of Marr. Everquest had a habit of putting much higher level than the zone aggro mobs either as roamers or at a location. Mobs in everquest were untethered and would only go back to the spawn points if they had no aggro. So.... when they "trained" to a location, they tended to kill every single person within aggro range (which was quite large due to a big level gap).

Daedric_NB_187

Zardayne wrote: »

Tandor wrote: »

Ignoring the earlier "video" games like Pong, I bought my Spectrum in 1983 for the Hobbit by Melbourne House, and played assorted text adventures, followed by role-playing games (Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Might and Magic, Lands of Lore, the Gold Box series etc) until the internet came along and then I played text MUDs followed by MMOs.

The first MMO was probably the Realm, although I dabbled unsuccessfully with UO and then got hooked on EQ. These days I play MMOs as a natural extension of everything I've played before, incorporating the quests of text adventures, the combat of role-playing games, and the involvement of other players and micro-management as with MUDs, all set in dynamic and constantly evolving game worlds.

Ah Bard's Tale and Bards Tale 2. Awesome games. The gold box series? Are we talking Pool of Radiance and the other D&D games like Azure Shards?

I loved the TSR Gold Box series games. I still have them all. My favorite being Death Knights of Krynn. Mainly cause I'm a huge Lord Soth fan lol.

starkerealm

A racing game on the Apple IIe. That would have been 1985. I'm honestly not sure of the title now.

First MMO was probably Guild Wars or Anarchy Online. But, I'm not 100% sure.

Zardayne

I'm pretty jealous of some of you folks that got to play Anarchy Online. I always heard it was pretty cool. I had a friend of mine who tried to get me to come over and play but I was playing some other MMO at the time (possibly Ultima Online , Asheron's Call), or Daoc).

Sophocles1

Hmm...first game I ever really loved was wizardry. Obsessed by it.
‘MMOs are hard for me cuz I am too busy to coordinate really predictably with groups, so I love that this one is cool alone and has plenty of decent pug.

Hurbster

It was something I typed into a ZX81 from a computer magazine. First game I bought was Subspace Striker for the same system.

Why do I like MMO's ? Dunno really, never want to tank or heal after years of doing it in WoW, in fact I have been playing since Beta and the only dungeon I ever went in was the first Fungal Grotto, because I could solo it. Never done trials or PvP either. I just like them, I guess.

AsheronRealaidain

The first memory of a game I have is King's Quest III, played on my dad's Tandy 1000 SL. The game that got me into MMO's was Asheron's Call. RIP, sweet prince.

GrigorijMalahevich

First video game was Dizzy the Egg on PC then Battle City on my Hitech...

First MMO was Ultima Online - it was a total revolution for its time, hell, people still played UO even when WoW first came out. PvP was really hardcore and adrenaline was up. Miss that game so much

Didaco

Uhh... Maybe Sonic 2 on Sega MegaDrive, as Tails and my older brother as Sonic.

Or maybe some game on Commodore 64... But I don't really consider it playing as I basically didn't have any clue on what I was doing.

I like MMOs because of the multiplayer aspect (I like single player games too), the character customization, PvP, and theorycrafting fun set ups.

TheShadowScout

Malacthulhu wrote: »

What is the first video game you ever played and why do you like mmos

First video game?
Hmmm... I guess that would have been... Gauntlet, on an arcade machine, back when I was nine, ten or so. Later a bunch of games on a friends Atari 800xl... then I finally got my own computer a few years later, and the first ever game of my own would have been "The Bards Tale" (To cast the dreamspall say ZZGO!)...

As for MMOs... I love roleplaying games, and even tho I am a incorrigeable sociophobe, MMORPGs are just more interesting, since you can -actually- roleplay there instead of just play through a preset story and "barbie" your character with outfits and stuffs...

Zorgon_The_Revenged

Some vintage console with pong and duck hunt on it (I don't think we had the correct controller for dunk hunt, so it was just ducks or more accurately squares moving across the screen). The family then went through a couple of Orics , spectrums, I had a C64, then onto an Amiga and finally I bought my first PC when I left school. School friends had Atari 2600s and BBC's.

Hmm, MMO's....well I think it's more to do with longevity, solo offline games are made with a set number of hours played and not all have much replay value. Also it's nice being in a living virtual world, not just a simulation. ESO actually lacks some of my favourite "MMO things" but it's still enjoyable (even if it is the most unstable of all the MMO's I play, I've played indie games still in alpha that are less buggy and more stable).