Game that got you into PC gaming

[MrTiC]

Duke Nukem 3D and UT2004

[Snickerzz]

GTA San Andreas. I remeber being on a cheat code site where i was looking at the PS2 cheat codes for GTA SA where there was an advertisement for a superman mod for SA. I HAD to figure out how to get that but after an hour or so of googling I figured out it was only for the PC version. So further googling eventually got me into PC gaming

[hawthorne]

Every game in my stream library, prior I only has a PS2 with need for speed on it.

[AHaskin14]

Star wars empire at war on a pentium 4.

[Nosfy]

I think mine was Witcher 1. I really liked the look of it at the time and really wanted to play it.

[Blebekblebek]

Road Rash

Crusader no Regret

Heroes Might & Magic II
WarCraft II

 

annnnnnnnnnd.... the last one... which is not even included in any genre (at that time)

 

H-Games (I don't think anyone remember 3 sisters)

[gabbdogg]

Star Defender 2 and 3, CSGO and Civ 5

 

I used to play Star Defender in the break room where my dad worked. I used to complain to my dad that we never had those games. In '07 i think, my dad brought home one of the unused PC's in the break room. Was hooked until i bought a PS3. Then my friends had consoles, and I wanted to play online with them, so I stopped it

 

Fast forward last year, when I really started to really PC game, my friend showed me CSGO, a game which I was unaware of at the time. Got hooked. Then I saw Civ 5 on sale, all DLC for a cheap a** price, got it, got hooked again, bought more on sale games. Then I built a PC. //

 

Fin. 

[Majorllama]

Unreal tournament was my drug. The flak cannon was my favorite gun by far. There were many a night up late playing heroes on might and magic 3 runs. Oh God... Diablo 2. I played that game so much. So many bale runs. So much cheating. The good ol days.

[slay english]

BF3!

 

I played it on PS3 (yes I played on PS3 before I saw the light) for about a half a year, and when I noticed that there were tons of things I was missing out on, besides graphics, I had to look into PC.

 

I didn't know anything about PCs or PC gaming at the time!

Played it on 360 and had to get the full experience so I looked into building a pc. 

[Ryoku]

I was at Best Buy in the year 2001 I think and I saw an Alienware computer hooked up to Klipsch 2.1 THX speakers running Medal of Honor Allied Assault.  I played the Normandy Invasion stage and my jaw dropped.  The store associate literally was trying to indirectly tell me to get off the computer since I was on it for almost an hour.

 

I saw similar console versions and they were total crap.  Horrible controls, poor sound and ugly graphics.

 

The following summer I saved up and built myself a PC.  It was a 600mhz Celeron with 256mb ram, 120gb hd and are you ready for this?  CD burner!  LOL!  I was still ignorant at the time so I was using on board graphics.  I didn't care because it was leagues above the PSOne and better than the PS2.

 

I knew that I would never be able to buy that $3,000 Alienware computer.  But I knew that PC gaming was a league on its own.  After Christmas I bought my first video card.  Nvidia Ti 4200.  I popped in the bundled game Comanche 4 and my mind was blown.

 

 

The following years I got busy with hanging out with friends, ricing out cars , women... and nitro rc cars so I stopped gaming for a while.  Then I saw Crysis and it was a 2002 all over again.  The rest is history.

 

For me it was Diablo, first multiplayer game I ever played. Made my dad switch from dial up to cable because our dial up bill was more then the cost of cable internet (thanks blizzard ;D)

[KenobiWanObi]

Dangerous Dave 3 got me into gaming.

[gill2k]

Jedi Knight 2.  Also got the PC builder thing going for me because that game forced me to buy my first video card.

[fir_nev]

1997 - Command & Conquer. Still remember playing it on dial-up connection.

1999 - I got hooked to NovaLogic's 'Delta Force' and 'MiG-29 Fulcrum'. The flight simulator has a friendly community, taught us how to be better pilots in a dogfight.

[SkilledRebuilds]

1995 - Destruction Derby (PC)

[GBELILREESE]

For me it was minesweeper. 

[Clyne]

Need For Speed Pro Street

[Lethal Seraph]

Mines a mixture of games. Quake 3, Half-Life, Starcraft: Broodwar and Rainbow 6. Couldn't afford to build or buy my own pc back then, I'd just save my school lunch and go play on the computer cafe.

[Misanthrope]

This little number:

 

I used to use my PC to emulate SNES games and such before until a friend told me about this demo he got and that he somehow managed to remove the timer on it, I tried to look for it myself and 2 years later I was ready to buy my first major rig which was an Athlon + Geforce 2 MX

[Roddy189]

First started by playing day of defeat, battlefield 2142 and mount&ablade. Didn't take it seriously until dayz mod where I went and bought the computer I have now. Used to struggle along and play battlefield bad company on my old Sony vaio at around 5-10 fps haha

Although first PC in 95/6 with command and conquer and Fifa that stuck whenever I scored for an unknown reason lol

[skibum]

Battlefield 2.

[shadowblitz3]

GTA 3

[marianoproduce]

For me it was killing floor. Played on consoles most of my life. But as soon as I picked up a mouse and keyboard I was hooked.

[Wenty]

[xAcid9]

Dune 2000, around year 98/99 iinm.

 

 

Totally hooked up to the game and ditched my console. By console i mean this.

[FaZe Booce]

Half Life or Counter Strike.