SO TELL ME...WHAT MADE YOU ALL START PLAYING A WWII BASED... - Page 2

Drew · 09-18-2003, 01:00 AM

I used to play AWIII allllllllllllllllll the time. Woot. rock:

[GDC]_Polemarcus · 09-18-2003, 02:00 AM

Hehe, nothin like the good ol' days of PJ's and a spitty or two turnin it out at 1k.... oh i never did like those B&Z 190 pilots

ping, ping BOOM

mineraltype1234 · 09-21-2003, 06:16 AM

The first time I played MoH:Frontline because my friend showed me that Medal of Honor had that Omaha Beach scene (turns out he had Allied Assault biggrin: ) So I bought Frontline for PS2 and really liked it, however, after playing it for the 15th time, I wanted a different version, so on came Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

I got intrested in WWII games after seeing a lot of movies about WWII such as Saving Private Ryan, A Bridge too Far (or was it near?), The Longest Day, and Patton.

Short Hand · 09-21-2003, 01:13 PM

ALways had an interest for history. I feel games like mohaa cod keep the memory alive. This keeps or generations from forgetting what they did. I to often see pasavists going on about how it glorfies war. In fact it doesn't. It only makes us remember that ultimate sacrafice they took .

quickfist

i have no idea but for a reason i only like WWII games

roman_legion · **G.I. Joe and WWII History -** 10-07-2003, 10:12 AM

I have always love war stuff.... playin jeeps, tanks, g.i. joe.....and then video games... they just remind me of my relatives trials and tribulation....there isnt a day in my life thinking about them.....wwI, wwII, korea ..and vietnam...

andy

p.s. funny thing.. i dont think any of them knew english ;o)

rolleyes:

snipes · 10-11-2003, 02:32 AM

I started for a pretty simple reason...I watched Saving Private Ryan when I was younger, then, I borrowed C&C Renegade from my friend, then noticed this MOHAA demo, so, I installed, it blew me away, I bought the full game.

10-12-2003, 02:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Bane

I rented the original for PlayStation and have played it in all of it's incarnations since. My interest has nothing to do with WWII... I'm just a gamer.

I played the 1st moh a long time ago and got a likeing for there games and played tell i found out about mohaa in a egm ad but i dont follow moh much any more bt i do like ww2 games still like BF1942

Moff Hissa · 10-12-2003, 11:58 AM

Don't know when I started playing MOHAA, but I liked it so I got the expansion, SH

PS. i hope to get "Breakthrough" soon

comegetsome:

Merlin122 · 10-12-2003, 12:37 PM

well. i started playing WW2 FPSs back in wolfenstien days. when i wuz little that wuz my fav game. I dont know y but for some reason butchering hordes of the worst ppl on earth is fun to me. I had bought most T rated first person shooters cuz my mother doesnt like M rated games. then MOH came out i was so excited i had beat the original 3 times. then i got underground and then AA. I loved the multiplayer in it. soon i started looking on the internet for mods to it. so far it has led me to a job at mohfiles and started making my own mods.... so thats the story of my lifr. sadly i quit mohfiles. but i know this site in particular since the LEON days. he was and still is one of my fav modders.

Wilko · 10-16-2003, 09:39 AM

I've always been thoroughly interested in WW2. Speaking purely existentially, the Second world war had it all. The hardships, the heroes, the the most effective Bad guys in History, and a come-from-behind victory in the end. Both my grandfathers served (one in the RAF, the other in the Australian Imperial Force, or AIF), and so i've always had an interest. Gaming-wise, it was 'Commandos - Behind Enemy Lines' that got me started on WW2 Gaming. MOHAA was the pinnacle of that genre, and, even with CoD and BF1942 around, I still think that it is biggrin:

10-20-2003, 11:25 PM

Lots of good replys there , good topic. I hope I do not offend with mine.

I have always despised Vidio games , outdoor type ya know. Never owned a Nintindo , Sega , or Playstation. Always considered it a waste of time.

I was U.S. Army like my father and his and his and so on.

So serving in Germany I learned the language , and by the way Germany is an awsome place if you have never been. Apon my return to the U.S. I began collecting war memorbillia. I managed to get ahold of some WWII Nazi stuff , I was hooked! I began seeking all sorts of military historic items.

Now the transition is interesting , My wife bought the game for me for my birthday. She said " Its about WWII , you may like it." It sat on the desk for 2 weeks before I even looked at it. 3AM , couldnt sleep , decided I would pop it in and see.

If the EA guys had not spent the time to make this vidio game Historically acurate , I would have taken it back the next day and got my money back. Yet when I played it the Germans yelled at me and to each other in German , the uniforms and weapons were as I had been reserching , and.......well you get the point.

I find it very entertaining now and have even commited my time to a clan. I became adicted if you will and have even changed my college plans from Archeology to Grafics and Information Technology.

Strange what life brings us........

Lt_Data1 · 10-21-2003, 10:30 AM

Well, I have liked FPS games since DOOM and the original Wolfenstein, though I played neither very well, or very far. When Return to Castle Wolfenstein came out I got it and played through the entire single player in a few days and loved it. So when I saw MOH:AA, I knew I wanted it to. I bought it the day it hit the shelves in my area and worked my way through single player in a a few days and then went online. I played the objective maps up until Spearhead. Since Spearhead neglected to include any true objective maps I ended up playing mostly Team Death Match. I tried the Tug-of-War maps, but I got horrible lag on most that made them unplayable, so I stuck with TDM. Eventually I got my own server and formed a clan, mainly so I could disable rockets. The clan I was in had a server admin who called me when he wanted to do something and some days realism would be on and other days it would be off. Some days map rotation would be 5 minutes and other days it would be 30. I wanted a more stable playing environment.

I have been interested in WWII since I was a 11-12 and played Axis and Allies board game. My friends and I spent many a weekend playing that game. Too bad the computer version had the net code cobbled together from a Commodore 64 and a TRS80.

Throughout my teen years I watched war movies, such as Kelly's Hero's and the Dirty Dozen or The Great Escape. Saving Private Ryan was an amazing theatrical experience and while I think it may be entertaining to watch these movies, I am glad war is something I do not have to endure. Just this past year, I received Band of Brothers on DVD from my wife and I ended up watching all 10 episodes back to back in a marathon viewing session. This series opened my eyes more than anything I have ever seen to the horrors of war. Sometimes it was hard to realize it was just a movie...albeit one based on fact.

I bought Breakthrough and played through single player in 4-5 hours and had planned to take my server to it until I hit the no LINUX server brick wall. I cancelled my upgrade request and am awaiting Call of Duty now.