what made yall fall in love with pc gaming?

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#1 mestizoman
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for me it was HL 1, it just felt so engaging to me at the time
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#2 BloodMist
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Adventure games, Doom, and Wing Commander 3, mostly.
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#3 Ace_V0rn
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The quote "BOOM HEADSHOT!"

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#4 hoola
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DOOM 3 I wanted this game for a LONG time before i got it.  Then i got it and got 20 fps on lowest settings.  havn't played it since.  but it got me into computer gaming even though i don't play too many new games lately.
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#5 Taijiquan
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The Mouse and Keyboard, the customization.
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#6 svkf50
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Secret of Monkey Island... on my old 286
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#7 Hate_Squad
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Baldur's Gate 2:Shadows of Amn
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#8 jorbo76
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Age of Empires
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#9 shockwave04
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Battlefield 1942.
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#10 bobstrife
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This hecka old Star Wars game. Dont remem what it is called though. It was like 5 years ago.
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#11 Pete5506
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The Mouse and Keyboard, the customization.Taijiquan
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#12 Factor-Zer0
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Jedi Knight maid me go nuts for it, Quake and Doom confirmed it.
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#13 patacak
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The Curse of Monkey Island!!, most fascinating experience I ever had and never left PC again in my short life (17 years)
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#14 ElectricNZ
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mouse and keyboard, modding, fps.
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#15 Hot_Potato
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Half Life 2. I asked my parents for a computer for my birthday just to play it. It was 2 years after the game came out. I still have the comp of course but me and my dad are building a computer like next week.
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#16 Mrniceguy_War
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RTS games, the only reason for playing pc
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#17 cnlst8
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Although I been playing PC games since my old commodore 64 was around, I really didn't get involve in them until I played Duke Nukem 3D.






... sigh


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#18 ncderek
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joint ops and doom3, when those came out after playing joint ops at a friends and doom3 came out, i went out and bought a pc that weekend
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#19 User10293
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Civilization 1 but Battlefield 1942 was what turned me away from consoles and made me a full PC gamer.
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#20 therealFrek
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The original X-COM game by Microprose. Been addicted ever since.
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#21 darkfox101
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starcraft..... and its FREE online ability... then i noticed PC's awesome gameplay..
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#22 LuffyTubby
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pc gaming is a way of life.

Open source? The abillity to be a part of other peoples creativity... just the way that people build their mods, they way they make their clan websites, how they host their tournaments...

consoles are these little closed of enviorments. there is not left much to the imagination, I think.

particularly 360. they make a big deal out of being able to download trailers... and paying to download screenshots. + the nice addition of a monthly fee, like the P2P service that it is, actually needed it

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#23 Captain-Seal
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I felt that there were more in depth gameplay to PC games so I just stuck with them. First game I played for PC was Outlaw and really started to get into it with the original Rainbow Six.
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#25 AlbertE-
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Things that got me into it:  Keyboard/mouse, improved gameplay over consoles, superior games, Starcraft, mods.

Things that make me want to quit:  12 year olds that think "BOOM HEADSHOT" is funny, and crappy ports that should be made first and foremost on PC and not ones that can barely run on PC (yes, I'm looking at you Ubisoft).
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#26 deactivated-59d151f079814
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  When I first played Wingcommander series and Populus 2 at a friends house.
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#27 PoppinHobbit
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Duke Nukem 3D and Tie Fighter got me interested. I got totally addicted starting with starcraft.
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#28 rshake20
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Pc gaming is fun.I just love playing with the mouse and keyboard and online play.
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#29 indzman
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I saw Max Payne playing on my cousins P.C , and i fell in love with P.C gaming .Few days later my P.C arrived .

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#30 Makari
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The Monkey Island games, Wolfenstein 3D, and Falcon 3.0. Actually.. the other old Microprose sims too. F-117A Nighthawk, F-19 Stealth Fighter, F-15 Strike Eagle II... and Tie Fighter. When I first started playing, it was basically exclusively adventure games and flight sims of one sort or another.
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#31 ufopuller
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Wolfenstein 3D
Best friend says, "So you think you can shot to kill?"
I say, "yes"
Rest is history!

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#32 edgeofforever
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Need For Speed 3. The fact that it was possible to download your own cars and stuff, I'd been playing PC games years before that, but that's when it hit me.
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#33 accord100
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The first PC game that caught my attention was Dune 2. At that time it was so different then anything that I had ever seen and made me crave for more RTS games...Also Duke Nukem did the same. At that time you just couldn't find games that offer anything like that on consoles.
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#34 gamergeek
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three letters "css"
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#35 Sir_lenoir
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For me it was good ol' Star Craft.  
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#36 arronax2003
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good old commander keen, he just kept finding pogo sticks to get to the hidden doors.... Tie fighter was a gooder too
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#37 rustyboarding
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the original warcraft
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#38 aceoaces
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Wing Commander 1.  My first love...of gaming.
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#39 buckfush311
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Wolf3d Warcraft 2 modem games DooM Starcraft HL
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#40 singher
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John Romero's head on a stick

It started there...

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#41 ric_3000x
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Blizzards STARCRAFT

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#42 FrozeN__54
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Microsoft Paint :love:
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#43 hyrulianpriest
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LBA2, borrowed it off a mate and found it a great game, still have the CD somewhere, oh yeah and total annihilation, great games:D
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#44 harrisi17
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i just started around the time of half life 2 and far cry, so it was pretty much the graphics, plus i had never really played an FPS before, i only played sports and action adventure games on my ps1/lps2....
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#45 deactivated-5c20477a5e387
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The original Prince of Persia; it was the first game that really got me into gaming.
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#46 BigDoherz
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FPS's in General but Soldier of Fortune 2: Double helix was the one that made me me uprgrade my rig.

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#47 Lance_C
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It was Age of Mythology, I can still remember the day...
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#48 geitenvla
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I kindda grew up with them... Started out with the C64 and climbed my way up, all to this point. I feel naked without a keyboard.