Tell me about your gaming experiences with PCs and consoles.
Tell me about your gaming experiences with PCs and consoles.
M RP server) decided to help me learn the game. Started playing it again, and now when i knew how to do stuff, it got REALLY fun. Me and my best friend (since pre-school/grade 0 to current) both enjoyed it. Shared maps and all that stuff. I decided to host a server, wich went pretty bad. Pop over to early 2011, i asked my father if i could get a better PC, one that is powerfull. Says i have to save up for it. Okay, no biggie. Weeks pass, as i save up money, and my father buys me a case-psu combo for some 50€ i saved up. Managed to save up 100-150€ afterwards, thanks to some work at home. We reach summer, so i got a 3-month summer holiday from school (every summer, any school/class in sweden). Family decides to go to Denmark for a week in July and celebrate my bday there (20th july). On boat to get there, see that i have 4 SEK (0.5$) in coins, so i waddle up to the slot machines. Put in first coin (1 SEK), and the characteristic luck i have kicked in: won 100€ (1000 SEK). Few days later, bday happens. Got a mobo and 8gb ram as a gift. All missing is now a GPU and CPU. Back home, i decide on a i7 CPU. Didnt know model, performance or the difference between an i5 and i7. Just the GPU left, decide on buying a shitty 30€ card to get the system working. And so, 2 weeks later (father was lazy), my new PC was done! HOWEVER: since i was only able to use wireless in my room at that time, and having no wireless reciever compatible witn Win7, no internets. So i installed my games that i had on CD, and had fun non-the-less. Few weeks later, got a wireless reciever. Time to go get minecraft! Actually paid for it this time, and i pirated Crysis 2 to test the PC (bought it since then, im a "try-it-before-you-buy-it" person). Got 20-30 FPS, but i considered it playable. Enjoyed the game. GPU held up with everything. Untill... October, in the great store Ullared, me and father look around game shelfs, he picks up a copy of Battlefield 3. "Ooh, me want." He said that, litterally in english, despite us being swedish. Having seen the game a day or two at my neighbour on his 360 and liking it, i asked him: "If im without weekly allowance for a few weeks, can i have it?". And he said yes. Got pretty happy, about to finally play a real AAA MP game. We get home, i install it during the night, and try the campaign in the morning. 20-25 FPS, playable in my eyes. Tried MP. Holy f**k. i got 5-10 FPS, or litterally unplayable to anyone. Cant play it, got a bit sad. However, 2 weeks later... My good lad, who at the time was 20 yrs old, gives me his old GTS 250 card. Still have that thing. Managed to play BF3 MP on low, but 40-60 FPS. Got so happy one would imagine ive used cocaine. Tell my friends on fb, and one of them says they also have BF3, and that we could play. From that day, for about 1.5 years, we played BF3 pretty much everyday. I loved the game SO FREAKIN' MUCH. Christmas 2011, family gives me a new GPU, they got me a PNY GTX 460 "Enthusiast Edition". Got happy af, went to plug it in myself the day after. Aaaand i managed to power the GTS 250 with a 2x Molex-to-PCIE cable. Wich meant, since the 460 wants 2 PCIE cables, i couldnt use it. Father dug up a 500w Fractal Design PSU with 2 cables. Got everything plugged in, drivers installed, and went to check what NVIDIA said my GPU could handle. Website spreadsheet said Ultra on everything, got happy. However i settled for Medium-High to get a stable 60 FPS. B2K gets released, friend have Limited Edition and gets it free. I couldnt affoard it, he got it for me. Some time later, this Premium stuff together with Close Quarters gets released. He gets Premium, i save up for it. Got premium, started playing the CQ DLC and i liked it alot. But, disaster was waiting to happen... Some time later, at the launch of the Armored Kill DLC, PC stops performing. 5-10 FPS all over again. Contact NVIDIA customer support, no solution. Drivers, game settings and PC settings? Nope. Dissappointed, i settle for lighter games. However... ~1-3 days after the release of the End Game DLC, i decide to clean my PC. Take off CPU cooler and its fan (stock intel, yuck). Notice 3-5cm layer of SOLID DUST covering the heatsink. Clean that, clean the mobo, clean the GPU, RAM? Clean that, too. Fire up BF3 for fun. And it works perfectly, bloody CPU been thermal throttling this whole time. Play through all DLC's, and im happy af again. Skip to early 2013, some subtle BF4 hints gets released. Then-Fanboy-Me reacts by going: "Holy crap, this will be the best game ever! BF3, but Better!". See some screenshots in-game, got pretty happy when i saw that there would be a 4th weapon customization slot and camos for ALL guns. Decide to pre-order Digital Deluxe variant when im able to. I later got to see the reveal, got even more hyped (EA knows their hyping-shit, ill tell ya that). Fast forward some time, Closed Beta for pre-orderers gets released. Only Siege of Shanghai, mostly Domination. Think the beta is pretty good, got a feel for all of the classes as well as some other mechanics like the PLD-Zeroing strat for Recon. Launch day! Beta was good, what could possibly go wrong? Well, everything! If you dont know how the BF4 launch was, take every issue possible in a game and cram it into BF4. I deal with it, though. Got better eventually. Enjoyed the game, actually started to prefer it over BF3. And then, welcome! Dreamhack Winter 2013, me and my Battlefield-friend go there, and we play BF3, CS:CZ, amongst other games. Surprise him on day 1 with a copy of BF4 (as a "return-the-favor" for B2K), we began playing that together too, now. He got happy, i got happy, we wreckt people in the chopper like we did in BF3 days (we were godlike back then). DH is over, i get home, keep playing BF4 for a long while. China Rising gets "released" (game files, equipment obtainable). Got the L115, MP7, RPK and SUAV easily. The UCAV... oh dear. Nightmares. Faced probably a top-10-world pilot in Air Superiority 10 times in a row. Unlocked it eventually, got happy. Was shit at using it, still shit at using it now. Kept playing BF4 untill a game called theHunter and BF3 got my fancy over BF4. Pretty much never wanted to play it again after all super-frustrating things that happened. PC gaming keeps on. I pre-ordered CS:GO back in 2012, didnt play it alot. Untill 2014 struck. Played CS:GO, theHunter together with other things i had for a while, with CS:GO being played 70% of the time. Other than that, i also had a PS3 with GTA V, so i played that with a friend every now and then. Also went to Dreamhack Summer in 2014, became a bit of a nightmare for me when i got home. Later in 2014, i hear that GTA V will be released on PC, so i save up for a pre-order. Fast forward to January 2015, i pre-order GTA V. Was a little unsure if my 460 would hold up to it or not. 1 day away from GTA V release, i was pretty much almost pissing myself with excitement. It gets released, and im home from school aswell (suffered depression since i was 13) due to <-- that stuff, so i took my time and played it. Alot. 460 held up pretty good. While not being able to play at 1080p (played 1366x768) due to VRAM, it played fluent and was pretty. Summer 2015. Had quite alot of money saved up, decided to buy me an additional 8gb of ram, aswell as a 970. Rest of that is stored for a firearm that ill buy in a few months. 970 and 16gb ram together with my 2600K played ridiculously well. I also pre-ordered Fallout 4 during this time. Some time pass, and Fallout 4 gets released. I was home, ready to play it due to, you guessed it, the stuff previously mentioned. Love the game, and on the same time depresses the living shit out of me. But, psychologically strong me sucks it up and stuff turn normal again. And i went to Dreamhack Winter 2015, wich turned out to go pretty well if i exclude the knee surgery i had 2 days before. In late 2014 (jumping back a bit), i kinda planned to build a new PC during 2015. The plan was a NZXT Switch 810 tower, with an Msi Z97 mobo, a 4790K and a 960 4gb. That build didnt happen, i instead settled on the 970 due recommendation of my lad who gave me the GTS 250. Anyway, started planning a new build during the entirety of october to early december. Idea got stuck at. 6700K, x2 SLI 970, only SSD in the PC, Z170 Pro Gaming mobo. On Dec 13 (i think) i got the parts ordered. Arrived ~1 week later. Since the store had a campaign on the 970 to get a game (either Assassins Creed or Rainbow Six: Siege), i also got something new to play. On christmas (24th for us in sweden/most of the world), i got my case and PSU. And so i assembled the PC i have now. I knew Skylake was going to make Win 10 a must in the future, but i didnt expect it to flip out completly using Win7. So i got Win 10 installed and games play excellent. I also started with BF4 again during this time. Finally got premium in late february/early march, and i fell in love with Final Stand. I love me the Rorsch and snowy maps. And nothing interesting gaming/pc related has happened for me since. Now, if you read the whole thing: Thanks, and, do you not have anything to do? It may have taken me 2 hours to write this, but today was a short day anyway. Otherwise, TL;DR: One heck of a PC Gaming rollercoaster. Now, tell me your stories. I got nothing to do for 10 hours so i need something besides imgur and Fallout Shelter to occupy me.
Allright y'all, settle in 'cause its friggin story time. I think. Id like to know how the community got into PC gaming, write your history down in the comments. Be sure not to write any sensitive/revealing info. And, to follow thread, ill write my own history. So, my gaming history. *ahem* It begins in 2001, where my father gave me my first PC (was 2yr old back then). It was some sort of COMPAQ running i believe Win98/2K (unsure wich). I used it to play some kind of muppets game, and the classical swedish child game(series): Mulle Meck. The game i had was "Mulle Meck Bygger Bilar" (Mulle Meck Builds Cars), and i absolutely loved it. Kept playing that untill christmas 2002 we got a PS2 with the first Ratchet & Clank. Boy oh boy did i love R&C, i turned into a nolifer for a game at the age of 3. Gave up on the PC completly untill my father took the PS2 away, as i had aggression issues back then. Plan B was basically to go back to Mulle Meck. Anyway, aggression issues fixed enough for the PS2 to be plugged in again, AND my father bought R&C 2 and 3! So i played through R&C 2, to later switch to R&C 3, wich remains my currently most nolifed game. Anyway, i also got a new PC around this time, some (probably 486/early pentium) XP machine. Kind of switched between PC and PS2, untill i found my inner completionist and decided to nolife R&C 3. Got all Platinum Bolts, skins, weapons and upgrades, items and most of the skillpoints. I also reset the game over 20 times and gained >1'000'000'000 bolts. After this, around 2006-2007, got another new computer. this one also an WinXP machine. Probably used some AMD CPU this time, it was pretty loud and somewhat weak at the time. Also only had 2Gb RAM (fucked it up to 1.5). Play some things on it like NFS Carbon, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, EDMW (Empires: Dawn of the Modern World). Couldnt handle AoE though, so ive never played any AoE game. Years passed to 2009, when i bought the Counter-Strike: Anthology pack. Played the living hell out of CS:CZ, also tried 1.6 every now and then. Racked up >500 hours on CS:CZ, got pretty good at it (for someone my age). Around early 2010, everyone at school was constantly blabbing of this "Minecraft" game. Didnt know what it was at the time. People said it was a sandbox-building game. Since i had GMod, i thought that was better, even though i havent tried MC yet at the time. Decided to try it out, and i had no idea how to do anything, so i thought the game was bad. German friend (whom i met on a HL2M RP server) decided to help me learn the game. Started playing it again, and now when i knew how to do stuff, it got REALLY fun. Me and my best friend (since pre-school/grade 0 to current) both enjoyed it. Shared maps and all that stuff. I decided to host a server, wich went pretty bad. Pop over to early 2011, i asked my father if i could get a better PC, one that is powerfull. Says i have to save up for it. Okay, no biggie. Weeks pass, as i save up money, and my father buys me a case-psu combo for some 50€ i saved up. Managed to save up 100-150€ afterwards, thanks to some work at home. We reach summer, so i got a 3-month summer holiday from school (every summer, any school/class in sweden). Family decides to go to Denmark for a week in July and celebrate my bday there (20th july). On boat to get there, see that i have 4 SEK (0.5$) in coins, so i waddle up to the slot machines. Put in first coin (1 SEK), and the characteristic luck i have kicked in: won 100€ (1000 SEK). Few days later, bday happens. Got a mobo and 8gb ram as a gift. All missing is now a GPU and CPU. Back home, i decide on a i7 CPU. Didnt know model, performance or the difference between an i5 and i7. Just the GPU left, decide on buying a shitty 30€ card to get the system working. And so, 2 weeks later (father was lazy), my new PC was done! HOWEVER: since i was only able to use wireless in my room at that time, and having no wireless reciever compatible witn Win7, no internets. So i installed my games that i had on CD, and had fun non-the-less. Few weeks later, got a wireless reciever. Time to go get minecraft! Actually paid for it this time, and i pirated Crysis 2 to test the PC (bought it since then, im a "try-it-before-you-buy-it" person). Got 20-30 FPS, but i considered it playable. Enjoyed the game. GPU held up with everything. Untill... October, in the great store Ullared, me and father look around game shelfs, he picks up a copy of Battlefield 3. "Ooh, me want." He said that, litterally in english, despite us being swedish. Having seen the game a day or two at my neighbour on his 360 and liking it, i asked him: "If im without weekly allowance for a few weeks, can i have it?". And he said yes. Got pretty happy, about to finally play a real AAA MP game. We get home, i install it during the night, and try the campaign in the morning. 20-25 FPS, playable in my eyes. Tried MP. Holy f**k. i got 5-10 FPS, or litterally unplayable to anyone. Cant play it, got a bit sad. However, 2 weeks later... My good lad, who at the time was 20 yrs old, gives me his old GTS 250 card. Still have that thing. Managed to play BF3 MP on low, but 40-60 FPS. Got so happy one would imagine ive used cocaine. Tell my friends on fb, and one of them says they also have BF3, and that we could play. From that day, for about 1.5 years, we played BF3 pretty much everyday. I loved the game SO FREAKIN' MUCH. Christmas 2011, family gives me a new GPU, they got me a PNY GTX 460 "Enthusiast Edition". Got happy af, went to plug it in myself the day after. Aaaand i managed to power the GTS 250 with a 2x Molex-to-PCIE cable. Wich meant, since the 460 wants 2 PCIE cables, i couldnt use it. Father dug up a 500w Fractal Design PSU with 2 cables. Got everything plugged in, drivers installed, and went to check what NVIDIA said my GPU could handle. Website spreadsheet said Ultra on everything, got happy. However i settled for Medium-High to get a stable 60 FPS. B2K gets released, friend have Limited Edition and gets it free. I couldnt affoard it, he got it for me. Some time later, this Premium stuff together with Close Quarters gets released. He gets Premium, i save up for it. Got premium, started playing the CQ DLC and i liked it alot. But, disaster was waiting to happen... Some time later, at the launch of the Armored Kill DLC, PC stops performing. 5-10 FPS all over again. Contact NVIDIA customer support, no solution. Drivers, game settings and PC settings? Nope. Dissappointed, i settle for lighter games. However... ~1-3 days after the release of the End Game DLC, i decide to clean my PC. Take off CPU cooler and its fan (stock intel, yuck). Notice 3-5cm layer of SOLID DUST covering the heatsink. Clean that, clean the mobo, clean the GPU, RAM? Clean that, too. Fire up BF3 for fun. And it works perfectly, bloody CPU been thermal throttling this whole time. Play through all DLC's, and im happy af again. Skip to early 2013, some subtle BF4 hints gets released. Then-Fanboy-Me reacts by going: "Holy crap, this will be the best game ever! BF3, but Better!". See some screenshots in-game, got pretty happy when i saw that there would be a 4th weapon customization slot and camos for ALL guns. Decide to pre-order Digital Deluxe variant when im able to. I later got to see the reveal, got even more hyped (EA knows their hyping-shit, ill tell ya that). Fast forward some time, Closed Beta for pre-orderers gets released. Only Siege of Shanghai, mostly Domination. Think the beta is pretty good, got a feel for all of the classes as well as some other mechanics like the PLD-Zeroing strat for Recon. Launch day! Beta was good, what could possibly go wrong? Well, everything! If you dont know how the BF4 launch was, take every issue possible in a game and cram it into BF4. I deal with it, though. Got better eventually. Enjoyed the game, actually started to prefer it over BF3. And then, welcome! Dreamhack Winter 2013, me and my Battlefield-friend go there, and we play BF3, CS:CZ, amongst other games. Surprise him on day 1 with a copy of BF4 (as a "return-the-favor" for B2K), we began playing that together too, now. He got happy, i got happy, we wreckt people in the chopper like we did in BF3 days (we were godlike back then). DH is over, i get home, keep playing BF4 for a long while. China Rising gets "released" (game files, equipment obtainable). Got the L115, MP7, RPK and SUAV easily. The UCAV... oh dear. Nightmares. Faced probably a top-10-world pilot in Air Superiority 10 times in a row. Unlocked it eventually, got happy. Was shit at using it, still shit at using it now. Kept playing BF4 untill a game called theHunter and BF3 got my fancy over BF4. Pretty much never wanted to play it again after all super-frustrating things that happened. PC gaming keeps on. I pre-ordered CS:GO back in 2012, didnt play it alot. Untill 2014 struck. Played CS:GO, theHunter together with other things i had for a while, with CS:GO being played 70% of the time. Other than that, i also had a PS3 with GTA V, so i played that with a friend every now and then. Also went to Dreamhack Summer in 2014, became a bit of a nightmare for me when i got home. Later in 2014, i hear that GTA V will be released on PC, so i save up for a pre-order. Fast forward to January 2015, i pre-order GTA V. Was a little unsure if my 460 would hold up to it or not. 1 day away from GTA V release, i was pretty much almost pissing myself with excitement. It gets released, and im home from school aswell (suffered depression since i was 13) due to <-- that stuff, so i took my time and played it. Alot. 460 held up pretty good. While not being able to play at 1080p (played 1366x768) due to VRAM, it played fluent and was pretty. Summer 2015. Had quite alot of money saved up, decided to buy me an additional 8gb of ram, aswell as a 970. Rest of that is stored for a firearm that ill buy in a few months. 970 and 16gb ram together with my 2600K played ridiculously well. I also pre-ordered Fallout 4 during this time. Some time pass, and Fallout 4 gets released. I was home, ready to play it due to, you guessed it, the stuff previously mentioned. Love the game, and on the same time depresses the living shit out of me. But, psychologically strong me sucks it up and stuff turn normal again. And i went to Dreamhack Winter 2015, wich turned out to go pretty well if i exclude the knee surgery i had 2 days before. In late 2014 (jumping back a bit), i kinda planned to build a new PC during 2015. The plan was a NZXT Switch 810 tower, with an Msi Z97 mobo, a 4790K and a 960 4gb. That build didnt happen, i instead settled on the 970 due recommendation of my lad who gave me the GTS 250. Anyway, started planning a new build during the entirety of october to early december. Idea got stuck at. 6700K, x2 SLI 970, only SSD in the PC, Z170 Pro Gaming mobo. On Dec 13 (i think) i got the parts ordered. Arrived ~1 week later. Since the store had a campaign on the 970 to get a game (either Assassins Creed or Rainbow Six: Siege), i also got something new to play. On christmas (24th for us in sweden/most of the world), i got my case and PSU. And so i assembled the PC i have now. I knew Skylake was going to make Win 10 a must in the future, but i didnt expect it to flip out completly using Win7. So i got Win 10 installed and games play excellent. I also started with BF4 again during this time. Finally got premium in late february/early march, and i fell in love with Final Stand. I love me the Rorsch and snowy maps. And nothing interesting gaming/pc related has happened for me since. Now, if you read the whole thing: Thanks, and, do you not have anything to do? It may have taken me 2 hours to write this, but today was a short day anyway. Otherwise, TL;DR: One heck of a PC Gaming rollercoaster. Now, tell me your stories. I got nothing to do for 10 hours so i need something besides imgur and Fallout Shelter to occupy me.
Daantjeplays
08-13-2020, 11:24 PM #2This period was quite long and not very engaging, especially since I didn’t have any potatoes. My gaming timeline spans from around 1999 to 2016, with a mix of classic and modern titles. Early on, I played Pokémon Yellow/Gold and Mario games on the Gameboy Color. Later, around 2000–2003, I tried some educational PC games my parents bought me. From 2003 to 2005, Neopets became popular. Around 2006–2010, I explored MMO titles like Tales of Pirate and Final Fantasy X. The PS1 era brought games such as Genso Suikoden and Crash Bandicoot, though not many kid-friendly options existed. Between 2010 and 2012, I played Finding Neverland Online and other MMO games. From 2013 to 2015, Dragon Nest SEA was my focus. After that, I mostly stopped gaming, with only brief periods on platforms like Portal.
2k? - Nintendo DS Lite 2k? - Nintendo DSi (my DS Lite ended up in the toilet on vacation, insurance paid for it and I opted to spend the extra 20 euros on the DSi, not by choice) 2k? - Nintendo Wii Black 2k12 - Macbook air 11" (in my mind) 2k15 - PC (in my thoughts) I haven’t owned an Xbox or PS and I’m proud lol I got my DS Lite for my birthday, but the 20 euros came from my pocket. I bought the Wii myself. The Macbook came from my parents because it was for school. I paid for my computer.
AyyLmaokai
08-13-2020, 11:24 PM #4I just checked out my first computer—my mom’s old workstation. It was a Sharp MZ-821. Occasionally it would download new games and programs via FM radio. Some stations even aired them for free. I recall having to wake up around 3 a.m. to record it onto a C-casette, and then in the morning I’d see what I’d captured before heading to school. More often than not, it was some clunky accounting software, but occasionally I’d get a full game. This one stands out clearly from those days in the early nineties.
Holy shit...uber long thread incoming Well this is my history : Well I started off with a prebuilt in 2004 (all I remember is it had an AMD CPU+GPU and it was pretty high end) where I played my favourite game of all time on...NFSMW (2005 edition, the new one can seriously fuck off) with other games like CSS and HTA (Hard truck apocalypse). And this is also when I was handed down my cousin's PS2, didn't play it very much cause PC master race!! The PSU blew up in 2005...rest in piece my first ever used computer... My second gaming related thing was a gameboy advance SP (2006)...it was absolutely awesome...still is...the long battery life meant on the 12 hour flights I was entertained for the whole time In 2007, I got my PS3 phat 60GB but didn't use it much as me and my family travel a lot...well to be precise, we have 3 homes in 3 different countries so...yeah, the GBA SP was still my main console Forward another 2 years and in 2008, I got my first very own computer, it was a HP DV3 with a C2D and a g105m! It was my first very own laptop/computer and yeah...it lasted me as my main computer till summer 2014 where it became my secondary computer/dedicated lappy and completely retired in 2015...also got a ds lite in this time frame...my sister constantly used it like she did with the PS3 (she used it a lot more than I did ) Then nothing interesting happened between 2009 till 2012 where I got 2 new consoles...a ps vita and a wii U, although I don't play them much, the PS vita finally retired my gameboy (yes 6 years of it ) and the wii U didn't replace/retire anything as I was just adding it to my collection In 2013, I got my limited edition Pikachu 3ds xl so...yeah, very pleased with it (well I can sell it for 300 pounds vs when I bought it for 150 so...profit) And in 2014, I got my currently dead PC (i5 3570k, dual 290x ect.) and yeah... in 2015 I built my game server where I multipurposed it as my NAS and secondary PC and this is where I got my asus vivobook with a i7 4500u and 840m This year? Probably upgrading my motherboard and CPU to the x99 platform so yeah... I guess if I laid it out like this, I may look a tad spoilt but you know 75% of the stuff I have is bought with my own money (I'm good at saving up loads of money then spending all of it in one go so...time to learn to save up a lot of money and not spend it...)
That's quite a long story! My gaming background isn't that impressive at all. I began playing on a PC back in 1998, equipped with a Pentium 4, a Geforce 8500, and 256 MB of memory. I enjoyed playing most of the popular titles from that era. My only console was a PSP, and I really pushed it to its limits. I connected it to my TV using component cables (dem CRTs) and played for about eight years until high school. I can't even recall many games, but I played FIFA frequently, using game-share technology over WLAN. Eventually, I upgraded to a laptop with an i7 2500HQ and Nvidia GeForce 510 (Dell N5110). It performed well and still works today for my dad. As high school demands grew, I started to cut back on gaming, partly due to the workload and partly because of budget concerns. I then upgraded to a G3258 and 750ti build, and now it's mostly idle. A newer laptop arrived with an i7 4510U and AMD Radeon M230, which handles college tasks fine. I'm saving up for a better build, hoping after some time the situation with new GPUs clears up and I can finally enjoy Battlefield 1 again.
ReinoudKeu
08-13-2020, 11:24 PM #9This message is clearly intended to be lengthy, but I don't understand why it feels that way. It seems like the writer is intentionally expanding their thoughts to make the post feel more detailed.