What inspired you to become a PC gamer?

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I was pretty much just thinking about what had actually inspired me to become a PC gamer, for me the answer was to play Guild Wars one with more than 15fps on my FX5200.

The first upgrade I did was a free 6600GT in 2009. That GPU allowed me to max out Guild Wars 60FPS, but once I had achieved that I only wanted to do so much more, the next game I tried to play was COD4, which didn't run very well on my 6600GT, so naturally the upgrading process continued. I'll stop here, to keep this brief, but I am really interested as to what it actually was that either inspired or motivated you to become a PC gamer?

I'm probably expecting a lot of Minecraft stories here, but I'm intrigued, so if you can, why don't you tell us 'what inspired you to become a PC gamer?'

11/05/2012

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M@ndyz

Morrowind years ago.. But I Have been playing a PC since the old duke nukem 2D and disc world.. I love using mouse and keyboard but still being able to use a controller if I wish.. I'm old school :P

11/05/2012

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Silence

Duke 2, Chips Challenge, all those classic DOS games. But what really sealed the deal was Unreal Tournament 2004, and later Steam.

11/05/2012

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Doyl

Stupid question.
Having a pc inspired me to be a pc gamer.

11/05/2012

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Frazerc83

Doyl said: Stupid question.
Having a pc inspired me to be a pc gamer.

It's not a stupid question, I had a PC for a long time and hadn't used it for games, there's a reason people would buy a dedicated GPU. Party pooper [heartbreak]

11/05/2012

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OllyEbbz

Doyl said: Stupid question.
Having a pc inspired me to be a pc gamer.

Pretty much what he said

11/05/2012

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Kenni

I absolutely had no interest in PC gaming until my folks bought a slightly newer one. Thinking it could run some games well, I tried out an episode of Sam and Max. However, it barely ran it so it would lag every now and then. Being noob at the time, I didn't know how to down the resolution or anything like that so I didn't bother.

Wasn't until my folks stopped being jew and bought a brand, spanking new computer in 2009. Right around the time L4D2 almost came out, I tried out the demo, got hooked right away and it was the only game I played for a year and a half. Up till now, I've experienced CSS, TF2, Portal, L4D, HL2, Borderlands, LoL, Minecraft, and Tribes.

11/05/2012

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Skarteh

Red Alert and Half-Life. Red Alert was the early days before I had a GPU and Half-Life made me learn how to get one. Shortly after it was CS and from there I was hooked. I never really saw myself as a PC gamer until after the Gamecube released and it just couldnt do what the N64 did so I just sort of moved...

Happier times back then.

12/05/2012

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GreenThumb

Never been much of a PC gamer, But i did play games frequent on some PC's i have had when i was younger (always preferred consoles) but those games are Age Of Empires, Warcraft, Medal Of Honor Allied Assault and the original CoD.

Might have been a few others but i don't really remember [MOG]

12/05/2012

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Toki

Pokemon Yellow

12/05/2012

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Desi

Ah, now here's an excellent question.

For me it started when I discovered Abandonia . I was drawn by the more complex games that have always been on PC, compared to the games on console. Back when I was a NES/SNES/Playstation/Gamecube console gamer, all I had was a shitty Pentium 1 computer with a non-working floppy drive and 96MB RAM (and that was around 2001, no joke!). So when I wasn't playing console, I'd boot my ancient PC into DOS or run DOSBox and play text adventures like A Mind Forever Voyaging, or classic old video games like Lemmings , Colonization , Fallout 1 and 2 and Tactics , Master of Orion , Ultima 7 , and One Unit Whole Blood . The I started playing Unreal Tournament '99 (ten minutes to load one level!), then started playing Morrowind around the time I got a new computer (a Dell, heh). Morrowind is what really cinched it for me, because it had the complexity and openness that I like in PC games, plus the extendability via mods and two amazing expansions.

12/05/2012

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SevenII

RotT. I borrowed my cousins PC on a whim one weekend and ended up keeping it for half a year so I bought it off him.

That was a long time ago and I wouldn't have really considered myself a PC gamer at the time either.

More recently, Fallout 3 and Bethesda games in general. I made sure I could max out the frames when I built my first PC. Haven't looked back since then.

12/05/2012

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A2ra3l

I really got into pc gaming when I bought my first computer, an IBM aptiva 14A. It was a beast of a thing, lol. I can't remember the full specs now something like AMD k6-2 MMX, 256mb or 512mb ram 4Gb HDD Windows 98 S/E and no video card. But It came with Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear and Half-Life GOTY.

That little grey box played everything I threw at it for 3 years or more, baldurs gate, all the rainbow six games, delta force, age of empires 2, fallout, etc. I tried to put a video card in it (3D cards they were known as at the time, or at least thats what they were all labelled as lol) but the design of the system needed a specific shape card and I couldn't afford the one I needed. I even got to play alien vs predator on it before I bought Rainbow six 3 and soldier of fortune 2 and they wouldn't play because of the lack of dedicated video :'@

So I built myself a new pc from the ground up with the knowledge I had gained from pulling my Aptiva apart and putting it back together and have been building new ones every couple of years since. I love playing games no matter what system they are on but there is a certain satisfaction in playing them on a system you researched and put together yourself.

I don't know what I would do if PC gaming died, I wouldn't have a reason to build anymore computers, lol

12/05/2012

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nagleator

Wasn't inspired just grew up around PC's.
Dad always had a PC and I played this old puzzle games where ou pushed blocks around and put them in holes, yeh weird.
I did play some console games but the PC was always there and close at hand.
Nowdays I play PC gaming because better graphics and more games.

13/05/2012

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maxiboy

I've always gamed on a PC because my parents wouldn't ever let me have a console but I properly became a PC gamer in December 2005 when I got my first videocard, an ATI Radeon X700, that thing died like a year later and I got an Nvidia 7600GS.

13/05/2012

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W84NO1

Simple...
Diablo 2 + CounterStrike :P

13/05/2012

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yuh25

I always used to play really old PC games on the massive old machines dad brought home from work(mainly AoE and Diablo), and sometimes played modern games on his nice new PC. On my B'day I got money and decided to get a 360. I played that for a few months then I got a job and got myself a average laptop and it still plays todays games, so I don't really play my Xbox any more.

Also Minecraft helped alot :P

13/05/2012

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Ledski

We used to play Counter Strike at school in year 7 or 8. I got CSS for my birthday that year which introduced me to Steam and many games after that. *_*

13/05/2012

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Guyver

The fist PC I ordered for work I decided to make "future proof" and spec it right up. Well apart from a decent graphics cards. I thought to myself this thing could probably play games then I went out and bought some games only to be disappointed by the performance, I was then pointed towards a 9800GT which ran the games I had decently.. after that I wanted more performance, while at the same time I wanted my PC to look good. I figured out how to swap all the guts from that PC to another case then from then on I haven't stopped stuffing around with computers. I think PC gaming was just a by product of having the hardware available to play them. It took me a long time to get accurate with a keyboard and mouse, I was still in console mode. Now it's the other war around I can't play accurately with a controller.
Now that Steam games are so cheap and I have so many of them I use my PC as my main platform for gaming.

13/05/2012

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iamtom

When I was a kid (5 years old or so) we had Sonic 2 and Pokemon Red and Blue on PC (the Red and Blue were emulated on floppy discs lol).

So that.

13/05/2012

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Frazerc83

Guyver said: The fist PC I ordered for work I decided to make "future proof" and spec it right up. Well apart from a decent graphics cards. I thought to myself this thing could probably play games then I went out and bought some games only to be disappointed by the performance, I was then pointed towards a 9800GT which ran the games I had decently.. after that I wanted more performance, while at the same time I wanted my PC to look good. I figured out how to swap all the guts from that PC to another case then from then on I haven't stopped stuffing around with computers. I think PC gaming was just a by product of having the hardware available to play them. It took me a long time to get accurate with a keyboard and mouse, I was still in console mode. Now it's the other war around I can't play accurately with a controller.
Now that Steam games are so cheap and I have so many of them I use my PC as my main platform for gaming.

Very, very well said, I feel practically the same as you Guyver, I used to play COD:MW2 on 360, with a K/D of 1.6, 10 sensitivity and inverted Y axis, I played alot of other games like Halo, Rainbow Six etc. and I will admit my accuracy and aim on the controller was pretty darned good :P. Now I suck [Rage], every time I play with my mates on 360 I chuck my sensitivity straight to 10 and end up back on 4 or something by the end of the game. Loss of skills is quite depressing :'(

13/05/2012

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abuu91

Owning a PC and some defining games such as:

Lemmings, Mixed Up Mother Goose, Epic Pinball, Hocus Pocus, Marathon, Doom 2, MechWarrior.

Felt so good when I was so young on the first times I finished those games. I remember asking mum if I could call dad at work to let him know I finished Hocus Pocus.

Windows 95 was a major turning point in games as well. Fury 3, MS Flight Simulator 5, Return Fire, Marathon 2, and MechWarrior 2.

Getting a Pentium 3 system in 2000 and Unreal Tournament started me down the long years of twitch FPS gaming and Star Wars The Phantom Menace was a notable game that I finished back then. Like every other kid back then I also played a substantial amount of The Sims.

Never owned a console until the N64. Own a PS3 for GT5 and Ridge Racer 7 now. These days I'm enjoying loads of PS2 RPGs that I play in what small spare time I can find.

13/05/2012

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nagleator

Also playing Doom over the schools LAN network back when i was in junior school and this continued till we were in year 10 when they worked out what had been crashing the servers. That was the best part of school, in lunch time, IT class and after school, me and my mates got round and played Doom, that got us all into PC gaming, persay.

14/05/2012

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Guyver

^haha reminds me of when I first did work experience, there was heaps of down time when so the IT guy installed doom on one of the computers and let me go at it. Sure passed the time.

14/05/2012

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