What is your first experience to games online services

[historia]

My first experience with games online services, unfortunately, is the PSN. Holy shit that was bad, really unforgettable experience.

So I got a copy of Resistence along with my PS3 at launch, after I played through the singleplayer I wanted to play the multiplayer.

Welp, turn out you need an PSN account. So just enter your username and password to sign up, after that it asked for either your phone or email to confirm. Easy right?

But it asked for the phone-line, while here back then we used email address for messages, and phone lines for voiceover, both attached to each other.

Except when you choose to enter email they say that email provider is not valid because fuck know why.

How did Sony not acknowledge this in their home region was beyond me. And they didn't fix that shit until 2-3 months later. In the end, I still never got to play Resistence multiplayer...

 

[RE4-City]

I remember playing Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS around 2006 - 2007 but can't say for sure if that was the first?
I got a wii in early 2007 (maybe it was very very late 2006 , like December 30th - 31st, I can't remember) and bought some N64 games on the Wii VC but in terms of online play I think Super Smash bros brawl was the first game I played online on the Wii.

Also I played Resistance online for a little bit but resistance 2 was an amazing online experience

 

[anonpuffs]

Gemstone 3 on AOL. I was a kid so I wasn't able to afford the monthly sub but it was a free game when you paid for AOL dialup. But my parents didn't want to pay for AOL so I would hoard the discs they sent people in the mail to get a free month trial of AOL.

 

[Mild Conviction]

Dark Age of Camelot, early 2000s. My older sister and her then-boyfriend played, and let me make my own character. Being a kid, I couldn't pay a subscription myself, so opportunities to play were limited, but that was my first ever experience with online gaming. Otherwise, I was a console kid and my first actual SERVICE experience was PSN, then Xbox Live, then I made a Steam account later.

I actually kinda liked PSN in the early days with that bright blue menu/UI. Just felt simpler to navigate and stuff. Granted, I only ever cared about demos and never played online.

 

[Danja]

It was Resistance Fall of Man though to be honest I didn't play it much as I was still stuck on playing PS2 games even on PS3 way into 2007...

But it was Warhawk that truly converted me

 

[Kokoloko]

Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast

Me and my friends bought it at launch, played till the 3rd level. Then got on a 3way call to talk about how amazing it was playing online. We were hooked

I do believe I played Unreal Tournament and Ultima online but it was quick bursts at a family friends house

 

[Johnic]

PSN. Tried a bit of GTA online, for 10 minutes, to test the connection then jumped into Metal Gear Online 2, which I played constantly for years.

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

PSN with a demo for Resident Evil 5. I remember being nervous when people would talk over their mic (my inglish b bad). One guy showed me how to throw a grenade at a sign where it bounced of and destroyed the chain on a door at the ground floor on the building we were in, it also prevented a wawe of enemies from spawning.

 

[Nimrota]

Playing Runescape with friends/online more generally in 2004.

 

[Batzy]

Quake 2 in 1998. Amazing time.

 

[FatKaz]

Probably some flash based free multiplayer game or Runescape on the pc in the early 2000s.

On psn it was fight night round 4.

 

[laynelane]

Demon's Souls on PS3. I really liked reading the messages left by players and seeing what others were up to in the areas I was exploring. Wasn't a huge fan of being invaded, though lol.

 

[Vertigo]

We used to play counterstrike in pc cafes for $3 an hour but…

Halo 2. Played the pirated Brazilian copy pre-release… hated it. Halo 2 campaign sucks don’t give a shit it’s true…

Loved PvP. Still playing bungie PvP because of it. XBL was game changing at the time. Fell in love with online games thereafter and ditched playing single player games as heavily as I used to.

2nd gen of online gaming for me was SF4’s release and the rebirth of fighters. Thousands of hours online.

3rd gen was destiny’s vault of glass… that was as revolutionary as Super Mario 64 for me at the time.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Grew up playing on PC so multiplayer was always a thing, free and with dedicated servers. First one I tried was probably Quake but the first one I remember playing regularly was Half-Life and later CS.

CS was an absolute phenomenon in Brazil, pretty much unparalleled to anything else. For a few years, anywhere you went there would be a LAN-house close by where you could play it.

 

[Bryank75]

I think it was Quake 3 Arena...

It was definitely PC where I played online first. Wasn't until 360 that I started online games on console... GRAW was big for me then.

 

[Sloane_Ranger]

PC used to be my thing waaaay back - Quake and Half-Life baby!

For console it would have to be PS2 with the network adaptor that let me play Burnout and SOCOM! Man I loved those games!

 

[flaccidsnake]

I used to play Starcraft over direct modem->modem connection.

 

[Nomen_Nescio]

CS was an absolute phenomenon in Brazil, pretty much unparalleled to anything else. For a few years, anywhere you went there would be a LAN-house close by where you could play it.

I was thinking more along the lines of systems that I owned, but I also spent a ton of times in internet clubs playing CS. Good times.

 

[Sircaw]

Master dungeon on the Atari ST with a friend around 1988

He used to handle the navigation and me the fighting and inventory.

After that master system then mega drive then branched on to quake, duke, red alert, blood etc

Best gaming years of my life.

 

[Darth Vader]

Master dungeon on the Atari ST with a friend around 1988

He used to handle the navigation and me the fighting and inventory.

After that master system then mega drive then branched on to quake, duke, red alert, blood etc

Best gaming years of my life.

Lies, your first game was leisure suite Larry