Frag Gab: What's your favorite online gaming memory?

[ArrrCee]

Hey everyone! I'm starting up a new weekly post called Frag Gab! Being pretty new here myself, I want to get to know you all better, for you all to get to know each other better and to just start some fun discussion overall!

I'm going to start out the first week easily with:

What is your favorite online gaming memory?

We've all been playing games for quite a while and I'm sure we all have a favorite game that we play online. It could be Quake (I'm sure it is, considering where we are ), or it could be Starcraft, or it could even be a brand new game like Rocket League! Please feel free to share as many heroic, funny, entertaining or trolling stories you have from your online adventures in games.

Thanks for reading and posting! In the future, if you have any ideas for a Frag Gab, please PM me and let me know! I would love to hear from you.

[Zop]

I'm usually one tier above mincemeat in CAx, but there were a few memorial times I saved the team. Don't ask me how many times I failed my team!

Outside of Quake, I recall the day I quit Diablo II, I did a quiz show sort of thing to give away some good items, and everyone had fun.

[ArrrCee]

Back in the early Quake days, I remember when I was making the jump from using just a keyboard to using both keyboard and mouse. This looked so cool, especially with the new MLook that ID created within Quake, but this concept was completely foreign to me at the time.

I was resisting moving to using a mouse as it seemed so odd to me, but a friend of mine was really showing off with it. He was bragging about how much easier it was to control and that he was really rocking it in deathmatch. He told me I had to learn it, as it just made more sense.

So when I was at this odd controlling crossroad, I remember one night I was playing a few deathmatches on Heat.net and this same friend came online to play too. He ended up joining the other team. I remember fretting that he was just going to obliterate me with his new control style and I wouldn't be able to keep up.

During the match though, I had one of the best games I ever played, fragging my friend a ton of times. I can't speak for the talent within the game besides us, but I came out on top as a keyboard player and it felt really good knowing that I was able to take my friend out who was bragging so much! Good times!

[ArrrCee]

I'm usually one tier above mincemeat in CAx, but there were a few memorial times I saved the team. Don't ask me how many times I failed my team!

Outside of Quake, I recall the day I quit Diablo II, I did a quiz show sort of thing to give away some good items, and everyone had fun.

Ha! I love the quiz show idea. I remember playing Diablo II only a little bit because the game gave me motion sickness! I've never experienced that in any other game! Weird.

[Polarite]

My favorite game memory was when I started playing doom multiplayer with my friend
over dial-up (modem 14.4k) , no internet hehe.
The first time we connected we played for like 12 hours non stop lol.
That was the best moment ever
I was like wooow, now we can kill the monsters with two

[talisa]

while technically not really online, but....


many years ago when i for the first (and sadly last time) did a lan-party with a group of close friends at the place of a friend of a friend,
who had 8 computers hooked up to each other in his basement for lan-parties and we played an unreal deathmatch tourney with friends

im normally not a competitive player at all, but everyone being there with you in the same room just made it so much fun.
it was so much fun to be able to actually hear your friends laugh when they killed you, or growl when you murdered them

[ArrrCee]

My favorite game memory was when I started playing doom multiplayer with my friend
over dial-up (modem 14.4k) , no internet hehe.
The first time we connected we played for like 12 hours non stop lol.
That was the best moment ever
I was like wooow, now we can kill the monsters with two

Oh wow, some times I forget that in the 90's we were dialing up every single time we wanted to play. I don't think I remember the first time I technically played online, but I do remember the first time I connected with an actual friend from school to play Quake for the first time and it was almost unbelievable that we were together in the game. So fun!

while technically not really online, but....


many years ago when i for the first (and sadly last time) did a lan-party with a group of close friends at the place of a friend of a friend,
who had 8 computers hooked up to each other in his basement for lan-parties and we played an unreal deathmatch tourney with friends

im normally not a competitive player at all, but everyone being there with you in the same room just made it so much fun.
it was so much fun to be able to actually hear your friends laugh when they killed you, or growl when you murdered them

I miss lan parties! I agree, it was awesome just playing in the same room being able to trash talk with them right next to you. I didn't get to do a ton of them growing up but my first was at a tech school that we used to go to. We went during the summer when school was off and our teacher didn't mind us coming in and playing Warcraft 2 together. That was awesome!

[talisa]

yeah sadly it was the first and immediately the last time since it was a one-time opportunity,
and i never got the experience the joy of being in a lan-party again.....


but i do from time to time play on wii u together with my little nephew&neice and my sis and her boyfriend,
which is also just as much fun, playing a game together with 4 or 5 people on same screen

but of course its different from a lan-party, as you all share the same screen instead of everyone having their own screen
and the amount of players is very limited while lan-parties can go up to 8 or 16people even.

[Adam]

The first time I played online was with Warcraft 2,
then a few months later Starcraft.
It was both wonderful and terrible at the same time,
mainly due to the fact that we kept losing connection over dial up and then we would call each other up on our (like a brick) mobiles,
waking everybody else up in the house because the only free time we could grab to play was after midnight.

I have fond memories of Starcrafts map maker and those awesome siege tanks.



Then the next cool memories are from Rainbow Six and a game called Hidden & Dangerous.
Mostly lans, dial was always a bit dodgy but you could sometimes play H&D coop and it not be too bad, enemies sometimes appearing to possess the Blink ability from Dishonored...

Around the time of unreliable dialup, if we didn't feel like carrying our hot beige boxes around, then the best multiplayer gaming to be had was throwing these things at each other :





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[ArrrCee]

The first time I played online was with Warcraft 2,
then a few months later Starcraft.
It was both wonderful and terrible at the same time,
mainly due to the fact that we kept losing connection over dial up and then we would call each other up on our (like a brick) mobiles,
waking everybody else up in the house because the only free time we could grab to play was after midnight.

I have fond memories of Starcrafts map maker and those awesome siege tanks.

Then the next cool memories are from Rainbow Six and a game called Hidden & Dangerous.
Mostly lans, dial was always a bit dodgy but you could sometimes play H&D coop and it not be too bad, enemies sometimes appearing to possess the Blink ability from Dishonored...

Around the time of unreliable dialup, if we didn't feel like carrying our hot beige boxes around, then the best multiplayer gaming to be had was throwing these things at each other :

...

Dial-up was indeed a cherished time but I'm so glad we have advanced passed it. Logging on late night, hoping my parents didn't hear the connection sound to play late night Quake DM... It was tense but I remember it fondly.

We loved playing 4 player splitscreen battle in Mario Kart 64 back in the day! Damn that was fun! It's odd because if I go back to anything 4 player splitscreen on the N64 now-a-days, it's awful. I can't deal with it.

it's really too bad that Nintendo dropped the ball with the battle mode in Mario Kart Wii U. The racing is so fun online, but the battle mode is really lame. It could've been amazing!

[Gem]

Really, great and interesting topic. I really like visual things, makes me think of being there, or at least while walking around in the real world some fragments of this and that (relating to gaming) may flash into my mind from time to time (maybe when boredom would strike lol)

So therefore, some of my fav. gaming memories, have to do with levels or locations from games. Having played, like everyone else, the Quake maps extensively. Some of the levels I quickly remember, are e1m1 and 2, with the ambient sounds of the torches and wind rustling and waters moving.. there are probably more.

Also some of the starting maps from Duke3D, they were really amazing and none so far as other games I have seen, have a city or movie theater and the secret apartment you use your jetpack to reach hehe. I played the shareware a lot and I think those were some of the best more fun levels ever created. Why now, with all this technology , nothing was created (design wise) such as those shareware levels from duke3d and the classic quake levels with so much fun-oriented-thought put into them

but maybe such things will make a return but maybe they need classic gamers to design these things because I havent seen anything compared to that lately, or maybe I missed it, dunno. Something fun, location wise, would be the places from the gta games, but nothing Quake-ish or Duke3d-ish lol

[ArrrCee]

Really, great and interesting topic. I really like visual things, makes me think of being there, or at least while walking around in the real world some fragments of this and that (relating to gaming) may flash into my mind from time to time (maybe when boredom would strike lol)

So therefore, some of my fav. gaming memories, have to do with levels or locations from games. Having played, like everyone else, the Quake maps extensively. Some of the levels I quickly remember, are e1m1 and 2, with the ambient sounds of the torches and wind rustling and waters moving.. there are probably more.

Also some of the starting maps from Duke3D, they were really amazing and none so far as other games I have seen, have a city or movie theater and the secret apartment you use your jetpack to reach hehe. I played the shareware a lot and I think those were some of the best more fun levels ever created. Why now, with all this technology , nothing was created (design wise) such as those shareware levels from duke3d and the classic quake levels with so much fun-oriented-thought put into them

but maybe such things will make a return but maybe they need classic gamers to design these things because I havent seen anything compared to that lately, or maybe I missed it, dunno. Something fun, location wise, would be the places from the gta games, but nothing Quake-ish or Duke3d-ish lol

That's an interesting aspect of gaming you brought up: Ambient noises, sounds and animations. If done right, most gamers don't even notice these things, which I think is kind of the point?

Quake 2 definitely had that effect with me. At times in those levels, I felt so alone and secluded. You would hear those base noises and once in a while you'd hear a radio message come in, but over all when there were no enemies around, maybe just a body with flies around it, I just felt lonely and detached. It was strange. Because of this, I observed more of the sounds and such in some of the levels.

What about you favorite online gaming moment Gem?

[DeadTenor]

Playing Monolith's Blood coop over dial-up modems using PC Anywhere software in 1997 with my highschool buddies through our phone line. Following that, playing Quake deathmatch over T.E.N. before I had to get rid of it (too much $$$).

[ezzetabi]

First and foremost:
Dozen of evenings playing point and click games with my friends. We meet at one house, crack a beer or two, and start puzzle solving. Some games are indeed great, just one for all: Primordia.


Besides, in no particular order:

Playing Serious Sam 3 BFE: in one level I had an annoying Arachnoid somewhere shooting me with its hitscan weapon. After a little while I saw it while he was hiding beyond a wall.

A nice thing of SS3 are the destructible walls, so I used the Cannon to blast wall and monster in one shot. The satisfaction was immense.


Seven stating he played iq (my mod) and stating that e1m7 (The House of Chthon) was great.


Playing Quake DM online before it become an insane rocket jump fest.


Playing SP Quake, even nowadays. Thanks Spirit for Quaddicted.


Playing Serious Sam in general, but I noticed a lack of re-playability. The first time is awesome, but for some reason the re-playing not so much.


Playing various arcades in the '90. I spent quite a bit in Hammerin' Harry and many other games.

[Syluxguy28O3]

i have quite a few fond quake related gaming memories. when i was still in high school, me and half of my comp engineering class would quake with a like 12 computer lan. because i was the only quake nut in the group, i always came out on top, although i had a few defeats and close encounters that stung my young pride LOL. online, i really enjoyed cax with many regulars here, specifically i remember what a blast it was when R00k first unveiled freeze tag.

as for non quake, i have one specific memory. I am a metroid junkie. i was introduced with, ironically, the last game chronologically, metroid:fusion. i remember being at the end boss, and omega metroid. he reduces your energy to 1 unit with one mighty swipe. now, my child brain thought "well, i guess i didnt figure out how to beat him in time", due to the fact that no weapon or ability you had by that point would hurt him. then, to my shock, the main villian appears AND SACRIFICES ITSELF TO HELP YOU FOR NO REASON:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eyJZvranSc[/ame]