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Well, anyone who started playing MMOs with WoW (even beta) is not old school, thats for sure.

AHHHH Atari... I forgot all about that.

Interesting how we were so facinated by those games ... compare them to the ones now.

But, all great things must first be born, crawel, stumble, walk, run and ... so where do you think we are now?

Think we hit 'soar' yet?

Deb.

Getting back on track.... defining an old school "gamer" and an old school "mmo gamer" is what this post is really about. MMO's have nothing to do with pen and paper rpg's... so what if they are using some of the ideas from older genres of RPG's., it's a different industry.

It would be legal to say that an mmorpg player from the late 90's to early 00's is an old school "MMO Gamer", not an old school "gamer". Some of you are taking the whole idea of this post out of context.

Originally posted by nethervoid

Seriously.  Gamers who've played since WoW but think they know everything there is to know about the industry.  Act like they've played all the games that have ever came out because they logged in once 8 years after the game went gold.

You weren't there when it came out; therefore, please STFU about game mechanics you've never experienced.

Housing is NOT a hardcore only activity.

Raiding is NOT a hardcore only activity.

Crafting as a profession is NOT a hardcore activity.

Developers are making multiplayer versions of single player games and calling them MMOs because that's what the new gamers want; NOT because it's what is casual friendly.

If you weren't there to play within at least the first six months of a game, just STFU, sit back, and let the old schoolers discuss old school sh**.  Don't talk like you've played it when it was prime.  Cause we all know you didn't.

 

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Originally posted by Terranah

I thought old school gamers were the ones that played pong when it originally launched.  The guys that saw pinball give rise to arcade, give rise to console. 

 

Most mmo players today weren't even embryos when I was dropping quarters into Space Invaders, Asteroids, Pacman, Galaga, Centipede, Red Baron, and Tempest arcades. 

 

I spent all nighters playing Misslecommand and Pitfall on Atari 2600.  On PC I was determined to beat Oregon Trail and some text based dungeon crawl I can't remember the name of, till I got banned from the computer.

 Thanks Terranah,
 

    I remember when pong was initially refered to as T.V. Tennis/Hockey and the pinball to arcade transition.  Lol, the memories of saving my allowance up to blow on the quarter eaters.  Good times.

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 Rofl, you guys and the C64 while I was stuck with Vic20 and casette Chuck Norris martial arts stick man game.  The hero white stick man kicked from his knee down and ..got'em!, the red stick man went *poof*.

 Original atari breakout was lots of fun, too. 

 Oh, the IBM PC with the 3.5 inch green and black vga that had the keybord that would snap into place over the drives and screen.  I was playing some type of WW1 flight sim and I can't remember it's name.  God that Pc was heavy for a young kid.

Originally posted by krikeel

My age in RL keeps telling me how old school I am. I dont have to pretend lol. Kinda sucks LOL

There are kids gaming today that weren't alive when I started. 

But honestly, doesn't every generation of teenager think they 'know it all'?

Anyone who paid to play a game by the hour would probably be 'old school' by my standards.  But that's just me.

Originally posted by tempestormer

Getting back on track.... defining an old school "gamer" and an old school "mmo gamer" is what this post is really about. MMO's have nothing to do with pen and paper rpg's... so what if they are using some of the ideas from older genres of RPG's., it's a different industry.

It would be legal to say that an mmorpg player from the late 90's to early 00's is an old school "MMO Gamer", not an old school "gamer". Some of you are taking the whole idea of this post out of context.

Not sure who mentioned pnp games, but if you really want to look at "old school" mmo's, you need to start in the late 70's or early 80's with Mud's. The old bbs's had multi player stuff going way back.

Originally posted by maxx028

Originally posted by tempestormer

Getting back on track.... defining an old school "gamer" and an old school "mmo gamer" is what this post is really about. MMO's have nothing to do with pen and paper rpg's... so what if they are using some of the ideas from older genres of RPG's., it's a different industry.

It would be legal to say that an mmorpg player from the late 90's to early 00's is an old school "MMO Gamer", not an old school "gamer". Some of you are taking the whole idea of this post out of context.

Not sure who mentioned pnp games, but if you really want to look at "old school" mmo's, you need to start in the late 70's or early 80's with Mud's. The old bbs's had multi player stuff going way back.

I guess what I was referring to were the BB's and MUD's. The mechanics of those two were somewhatt similar to the pnp RPG's in the aspect of having to create your own storyline, and actually roleplay your toon. The difference being that it was online instead of at a table.

Originally posted by BlackWatch

 

Originally posted by krikeel

My age in RL keeps telling me how old school I am. I dont have to pretend lol. Kinda sucks LOL

I have to agree with that statement. 

 

There are kids gaming today that weren't alive when I started. 

But honestly, doesn't every generation of teenager think they 'know it all'?

Anyone who paid to play a game by the hour would probably be 'old school' by my standards.  But that's just me.

QFT