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My first encounter with an RTS

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Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10055 Posts
December 15 2013 15:37 GMT
#1
and it wasnt BW, it was this gem: Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness


dat sountrack!

It was the year 93/94 i was at the house of one of my brother friends when i heard some of the most epic music in my life, i aproached the room where it came from and there was this guy playing Warcraft 2, in that moment i knew i must had that game. some months later i went to a mall with all my savings and bought the game, best investment ever.


things cant get any better

that was the 1st cinematic i ever saw and i still have chills when i watch it, and the powerful music behind make its epicness go to the infinite and beyond. I played thousands of hours in all kinds of maps. Won all the missions and got amazed with more cinematics. Finding out new techpaths while playing was great! you didnt have all the little pictures of the buildings you could build, they just appeared when you got the right tech path, i didnt knew english in that time so it was like finding life outside earth, the
I used the map editor to creat my own maps and play differents new missions made by me, it was fucking amazing. I dont remember when i got the expansion Beyond the dark portal, but it was more of the great game ever! more cinematics. The times of no internet playing
Playing for the first time in the orc world terrain, watching for the first time the demos in the expansion missions or fighting the submarines/giant turtles in the sea fights, fuck son ... so good

Saddly one day my PC died, fucking windows wouldn load up and in that time reparing/ buy a new one was fucking expensive, i couldnt play more of WC2 for a lot of time T_T then one day in a LAN i saw the wc2 icon fuck yea! i played for the 1st time against my brother, in an epic result 1-1

Also in that place i watched for the very first time this:



i wet my pants. this came in the BW cd irrc and was shown to all the lan in one PC the guys there couldn believe it either, but it was a long time befor we could play it.

Warcraft 2 guys.... dem feelings


#warcraft4believe



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Leeoku
Profile Joined May 2010
1617 Posts
December 15 2013 17:31 GMT
#2
my first one (which didnt involve younger me having 0 clue what i was doing) was wc3. man that is and still is my childhood favourite game
TzaTzers
Profile Joined April 2009
United States589 Posts
December 15 2013 19:59 GMT
#3
Oh man I remember this... there was oil in this! lol. This was also my first RTS as well, I can't find my cd no matter how hard I look though.
"Why did the colossus fall over? because he was imbalanced..."
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
December 17 2013 03:59 GMT
#4
My first one was BW. Younger me thought Dragoons warped in at random locations and that the only reason they kept warping in through next to the same Gate Way they were made is because I broke the randomizer with my young "idk wtf I'm doing..uhh.. YAY BOOM!!!!" mind. I also thought that my brother had a friend named Terran. His real name was Tristan. To this day I still think of him as Terran.
"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
December 17 2013 04:24 GMT
#5
My first rts was age of empires 1. God I love rts games I really miss when good rts games came out and there were more (with base building, resource gathering, etc). :/.
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