Game chronicle of life h.6: The first era PC (1999-2006)

I am 14 years old. In 2002 he graduated from the 7th grade of the school and moved to 8.

The beginning of the two thousandth, among other things, was the popularity of Demo versions of games. Basically, we took them from the disks that came complete with game magazines. But just like that, from the computer to the computer, demos often wandered. This was the time when to live with content, I took out a hard drive from my computer, wrapped it in a jacket, put it in a bag and went to friends who also had computers. There were only two of them – Ilyukha (you all should now know it) and Lech (after a long break, I don’t remember if I mentioned it before). Connect the disk to the friend’s computer and download the content. Only the words “content” we did not know then. In addition to games, films with music, as well as a separate type of “video prison” mainly downloaded from the PizDec website, were also wandering in this way.NET, where the jokes were understood not very cool, in fact, video. I will not go into details, if interesting, you can google.

On one of these campaigns to friends for content, in the stairwell entrance, the hard drive slipped out of the jacket, into which he was wound up, and rolled down the stairs counting all the steps. It happened on the way home. Когда я пришел домой и с замиранием сердца подключил его обратно в комп, то комп благополучно включился. I exhaled. But the next day the computer was no longer turned on. The hard drive is an breath. It was as if with all his strength to turn on after falling the last time, giving me the opportunity to save information from him, but I did not understand this.

But back to the demons. It often happened that the demo of some game was so fascinated that the time was spent on reprising the demo no less than to pass a full-fledged game. One of these games was Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast

(162) Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast

We play for Kyla Qatarna. Not an expert in Laura of Star Wars, but it seems that this character was invented for this game. But it was made so organically that in 2002 I was sure that he was one of the canonical characters of this universe.

Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast

Star Wars: Jedi Knight II – Jedi Outcast

The demo began with landing at some kind of space station. Then it was necessary to run around this station, shooting imperial cosmessions, and at the end we were waiting for a duel with a sitch on light swords. And it was this duel that forced to pass the demo 100 times. And precisely because of the battle on light swords. In childhood, we called them laser swords. I have not yet met the Games in the Star Wars Universe, where it would be cooler than in the Jedi Knight series that battles on these swords were implemented.

In those years when we launched a new game, to understand which button answers for what, we did not go into the settings, but simply pressed all the buttons in turn on the keyboard. And at the very beginning of the demo, the old chipper from the far begins to shoot at you immediately. And of course past. And I stand at this time and check what buttons are responsible for what. I will never forget the delight that I experienced when I took out a light sword and Kyle automatically reflected a laser shot back to the space marine.

(163) Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos

I have a stupid feature-if most people like some kind of thing and hype rises around it, I automatically begin to treat this thing negatively. So it was with the film “Avatar”, it was and sometimes happens with Apple technology, so it happened with Warcraft 3. I saw that everyone around was playing with rapture, but I myself did not want to play at myself. First of all, it was precisely because of this character trait, in the second due to the fact that the game of the RTS genre, whose representatives looked gorgeous to 2D, transferred to some clumsy triangular 3D. I did not understand why to do ugly 3D, if you can make a beautiful 2D?

Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos

Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos

But some time later, much later, I still went through this game and realized what they love for it. Naturally, first of all (for me personally), this is a gorgeous single company that immerses you into the atmosphere of an epic fairy tale. Secondly, it is Blizzard RTS with a verified balance and interesting mechanics. And I ended up with triangular 3D too. There is some of its own charm in it.

(164) WWE RAW

The beginning of the two thousandth. Day off (in https://stonevegas.uk my opinion, it was on Sundays). Bret Hard, Sting, Goldberg, Fart Dallas Page, Hulk Hogan. TNT Resling with comments Nikolai Fomenko. It was legendary. It’s true what was our disappointment with friends when we learned that these are not real battles, but staging. Our hearts were broken.

WWE RAW

But just it was interesting to play the game, because everything was truly there. No script. You go out to the duel and try to win. In the game itself it was possible to create your own fighters, configure their appearance, animation of movements and pools of techniques. This made the game incredibly reached. We have played it periodically for a dozen years.

The first I always created in the editor of the fighters was Sting, since he was my favorite fighter, and he was not brought in the game. But in general, we probably went through all possible combinations of the appearance and techniques of fighters. There were so many of them that I could not remember any particular.

(165) Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy

Wrote in the previous parts of the blog that the heroes did not come in to me. I understand why people like them so much, but I myself do not have love for them, if I may say so. But with Disciples 2 is a completely different matter. In them I play periodically so far. Yes, I have them installed on my computer right now. Yes, at the depths of the mechanic, they will not compare to the heroes, but I like it in them – more understandable, less time -free. Well, stylistically, I like them more. Gloom, cold and hopelessness is the very thing to pleasantly pass the evening for a mug of tea.

Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy

Disciples 2: Dark Prophecy

(166) FIFA Football 2003

Disk with this game was bought by my parents. Pirate disc with added mod to the Russian football league (I don’t remember how it was called correctly in 2003). The mod was made crookedly. The menu included logos, forms and compositions of Russian teams that rolled over the Bundesliga. Accordingly, in the game itself, the logos of the name and forms of the teams were German. And I, not knowing that this is a mod, could not understand why I choose Spartak, but I play for some Leipzig.

FIFA Football 2003

FIFA Football 2003

But otherwise the game was amazing. Firstly, now the ball did not stick to the feet of the players, as in version 2001, but quite realistically bounced ahead of the leg. Secondly, the graphics seemed to be a photorealistic. I just liked to turn on the match on the maximum complexity, without choosing the side, and watch football.

(167) Medieval: Total War

I loved RTS. Starcraft, Age of Empires, Warcraft there is everyone. And everywhere it was possible to accumulate a huge crowd of units and go to defeat the opponent. And in general, then it seemed to me that this is the only true way to win. I did not know then, and there was nowhere to find out that there are a bunch of different tricky ways to achieve victory in these games without accumulating a huge army. But they were called strategies. And what I understood by the strategy at that time? From the lessons of history, I knew that it was possible to correctly place my troops regarding the opponent’s troops in order to get an advantage in the battle. There is also this in the above games, but it is not so clearly expressed that I can notice it at that age. Especially when I have a huge army of battleships spreads everything in its path, regardless of which side, and who approached them.

Medieval: Total War

Medieval: Total War

And once I expressed my claims about this Ilyukha. Like why they call the strategies of the game, where there is no strategies as such? And what would be fun to play such a strategy where the location of the troops on the battlefield would play a decisive role, as in real battles. And Ilyukha said that there is such a game and this is Medieval: Total War. So I learned about the Total War series, in different parts of which I still play. My beloved is Empire: Total War.

As for the game in Total War then, it really turned out to be exactly the strategy that I wanted to contrast ordinary RTS. But, in spite of this, my favorite entertainment was to create a battle with an equal number of swordsmen on both sides, to build them even rows against each other and just observe how they for months the wall on the wall.

(168) Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix

After the chic first part, which we “played to the holes” really wanted to play in continuation. But the frail computer did not allow it to do it. I installed it several times in the hope that she suddenly would work normally this time. I tried to play despite performance in about 6 fps. I ran at the first level, tried to shoot. But in the end I understood that it was pointless. By the way, you need to close Gestalt. Now my computer will pull.

Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix

Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix

(169) Hard Truck: 18 Wheels of Steel

After the masterpieces of the second truckers, I really wanted to continue. And many of my friends considered 18 steel wheels such a continuation. And they even tried to convince me of this. But, although not without interest, I played a couple of hours with hacked money, it was definitely clear that this was a completely different game. And it was not clear how it could be played without hacking money.

(170) Medal of Honor Allied Assault

For some reason there were no specific memories of this game. Although I remember exactly that I liked the game very much.

But I well remember how in the summer in Kazakhstan, where I went to my grandmother every year on the holidays, the boys led me to one entrepreneurial “comrade” to play a medal for courage on PlayStation 1. I remember that I experienced physical discomfort, even just watching how someone played a shooter on a gamepad without analog sticks. I myself did not even dare to try so as not to die in an epileptic seizure. This is despite the fact that he himself at one time played at Zero Tolerance on Sega or Doom on the keyboard without a mouse. But having played a shown under the mouse in a shooter, looking at the shooter on the gamepad, it was hard. Yes, I am now experiencing some strange discomfort throughout the body, if I have to aim at the gamepad.

About enterprising “comrades”

As I said earlier, my childhood passed in a quickly perishing village. A city -forming enterprise closed, a large mass of people, having lost their jobs, began to move to other settlements. And further along the chain: the city -forming enterprise closed, the smaller organizations that served this enterprise stopped earned;A large number of people left, they began to earn less organizations providing services to the population;As a result, the jobs began to lose other residents of the settlement. Thus, pensioners remained in this place to live in this place. They do not need work, and where to run in old age?

And now we get a situation when there is an empty settlement in which there is a bunch of all sorts of Nishtyakov. For example, the club of the picture, from which the most valuable things were taken away, and a bunch of all sorts of spare parts and other junk were left. Hanged on the windows of the bars, the doors were sealed. Enterprising guys drove the Ural motorcycle, attached one of the sieves on the windows to him and pulled off. Took everything out from there. It turned out that from the available glands you can collect whole cards. Only without engine and wheels. Enterprising guys adapted the engine from the motorcycle there, but it was not possible to pick up the wheels. And this cards went to scrap metal.

Or take many different workshops, large and small, in which the bulk of the values ​​were also taken away, but some stainless steel vat was left, since it is large and not so valuable compared to everything else. And for those who later found this vat, it will fit to pass it by a denyuzhka

And we, being boys 12-15 years old, also did not miss the opportunity to earn extra money. They rummaged through various abandans in search of non -ferrous metal, and then handed it over to my uncle for money. And this uncle, having accumulated color. Meta truck, this truck drove somewhere, where this metal was taken in large volumes for big money. And this uncle lived, due to people like us, quite good in a large two -story house.

And this uncle had a son. I will not tell him exactly how many years old he was, but he was older than us. About 18 years about him should have been. And he had PlayStation 1. This is at a time when the bulk of the boys continued to admire the graphics on Sega. There were a couple of people like me. And here PS1! Naturally, the boys wanted to play it. And the “comrades” were not against. On the contrary, they were even for. But for money. And here we have a situation where Guryba Patsanov rents out scrap uncle for money in one room, and then goes to spend this money to his son’s uncle in the next room. Here is such a cunning scheme, how to collect non -ferrous metal in the district, almost free, without leaving home (without registration and SMS).

In 2002, there were not many games in which I played – only 9. But each of them was beautiful and many I still play (Disciples 2 or the Total War series) or continued to play for many years (FIFA series). If you make a traditional counting of cult games in which I played in a year, then this is only Warcraft 3. The rest, as far as I know, are not considered cult. If not so, I will be glad to read your opinion about this in the comments.