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[Steel Moon]

I started out with Neverwinter Nights in 2002, and I joined the forums on Oct. 21, 2002. I don't remember why I started playing. I probably just thought it looked cool. I think someone might have recommended it to me when I mentioned I was playing Betrayal in Antara.
I have the whole BG series but I just haven't been able to convince myself to play it yet. I'm a graphics snob I guess...

[Taritu]

Started with BG. Played every game since then that came out on the PC, liked every one except NWN. (Really tried to get into NWN, but something left me cold). Since I don't console, had to wait for the console games to come out on PC ports, but was worth it.

Favorite? Probably the original ME. Very immersive, great story, that's what I like (especially as I feel no compulsion to break games even when I know how since I come from a pen and paper background, and you learn there not to do it.)

Bioware is the only game company where I'll pre-order anything they publish, months before it comes out. Poor Black Isle used to be the same way (and created my all time favorite RPG: Torment, which is sadly, unreplayable because the story is everything.)

Modifié par Taritu, 27 février 2011 - 03:32 .

[thespianicism]

Mass Effect, but not until late 2008. But, since then, I've been steadily working through all of Bioware's games. Making up for lost time, and all.

[Noilly Prat]

My first was BGII, though I came to it a few years late, in 2003, I believe.  Then KOTOR, then Jade Empire, then I reached back to NWN, and then everything since then.

I began lurking around the forums without registering probably around 2004, and finally registered maybe two years ago.

That's my story.  I hope you liked it.  :happy:

[Veex]

NWN in 2002. Was what got me into PC gaming (aside from Oregon Trail of course!) in the first place.

[Shadow of Sparta]

i'm a newbie so 2010 and it was DA:O.caught up with mass effects but haven't had time for the rest of the backcatalogue ergo my opinion on anything bioware does not matter.i'm fine with that.i bow to all of you who have had the chance to do so.

[Taritu]

SgtElias wrote...

I started playing Bioware games a little over a year ago, with Dragon Age: Origins. I was perusing the internet and came across a scathing review by a very conservative source claiming Origins to be exactly what was wrong with the world, because it allowed same-sex romances.

I think I bought it a few days after that. What can I say? I thrive on controversy.

I was not prepared for the sort of game it was. I'd always considered myself a very "casual" gamer because I'd never found a game that could hold my interest for more than an hour or two at a time (except one, Mass Effect, that I never got a chance to finish because shortly after I bought it my apartment got broken into and the game stolen). But after I started playing Origins I could not stop playing. I played late late into the night when I was eight months pregnant and exhausted, because I was so caught up in the story I had to find out what happened. I played it for so long, and so exhaustively, that eventually my husband gave up ever finishing it and just let me go at it for hours and hours (with a new baby!).

And for the first time I thought to myself things like, holy crap, this is an art form, and you can tell stories with this, thoughts that had never occurred to me before Dragon Age. And all of a sudden, video games were totally different. They were fascinating, entertaining, thought-provoking, all these things I'd never considered they could be before, and it was as if someone had lit a fire under me. At first I wanted to play nearly everything, then I needed to know how games were made. And then, gods help me, I wanted to do it myself.

Then came the part where I had these silly things called "hopes," and "dreams" and "goals" and "aspirations," and high-school drop-out me enrolled in college and started getting a 4.0 . . .

Anyway, that's my Bioware story, and it's probably a lot more personal than the original poster was looking for. But it's what I wanted to say, so there you go.

/end rant

Very nice to hear.  Life is about finding whatever makes you really want to do something.

[Taritu]

sigh, repeat

Modifié par Taritu, 27 février 2011 - 03:21 .

[Wicknap]

ErichHartmann wrote...

1998, when Baldur's Gate was released.

^ This!

[Slyanius]

Wicknap wrote...

ErichHartmann wrote...

1998, when Baldur's Gate was released.

^ This!

^ That! 

[Haventh]

My first Bioware game was Neverwinter Nights, 2002.  I still love that game, freaking awesome. 

[SgtElias]

Taritu wrote...

Very nice to hear.  Life is about finding whatever makes you really want to do something.

I mean, not that my life was horrible, or anything. Just that I didn't particularly feel like applying myself to anything until then. I told myself that I was being notional for several months wanting to "make video games," and that it'd pass, but after a year it hadn't, so I decided to go back to school.

And wow, you quoted my post all the way back on page nine. Didn't think anyone would really read it, but I guess I was wrong.

[Drayco21]

I really started with Knights of the Old Republic. I had played the first Baldur's Gate before that, but it was KOTOR that made me relize who Bioware was and why I should care- and I've played every game they've made since.

[wulf3n]

Baldur's gate 2, but never really got into it.
then KoToR, but mainly like that because it was star wars.
But Mass Effect turned me into a Bioware fan, i've bought every bioware game since then, (and some older ones, to varying degrees of enjoyment).

[mhendon]

Oh geez I'm not sure. It was back before I payed attention to who developed the games but I'm pretty sure my first Bioware experience was Neverwinter Nights. I got to play like the first 2 minutes of my bro's game before the comp crashed, and being an inexperienced little kid I had no idea how to fix it. Years later, I picked up another copy and fired it up and realized it was a Bioware game...and THEN my mom threw away the key code, so I have the disc and no way to play it.

I joined the forums sometime after ME2 came out because I felt so meh about it and wanted to see how others felt. *shudders* It was like a war zone...

Hence, I am Mass Effect refugee, and I am NOT going back to those forums. Dragon Age is my new home.

So now that you know my life story...

[Katreyn]

I guess you can say I got acquainted with them when I first played Planescape Torment, but I was young then and took me till a few years ago after I went back and played most of the Black Isle games I had stored away that I learned they were generally the same people.

But really, I mostly started playing them with KOTOR, but I guess I didn't start those till 2006 I believe. Then played Jade Empire, and all the rest since. I admit I've never finished a BG game, but I will eventually.

Mass Effect was my last of Bioware games to pick up, being I didn't have the proper computer to play it back in the day. So when I got one to play Dragon Age I knew I could play ME.

[foil-]

Its unfortunate not everyone got to play Baldur's Gate when it first came out and was graphically pleasing for the time. Not cutting edge, but the hand painted art work/backgrounds was good enough to carry it past the sprites. Spells were also nicely created.

Everything came together in that game. Story, graphics, characters, humour, locations, music, and beautiful narration to pull it all together. After the gold box games and the dry spell that followed, Baldur's Gate was nothing short of a resurrection of the D&D CRPG genre. Where these characters came from is beyond my wildest imagination. How a small "studio" managed to get everything to click on one of their first games is beyond me.

Baldur's Gate is no longer cutting edge today, but will always be the most vivid and enjoyable "childhood" memory I will have. A childhood memory shaped in my mid 20s. Odd that.

[StarkeyKing]

Baldur's Gate ...1999...and have been a faithful fan ever since

[Taleroth]

I dated a girl who was into Baldur's Gate 2. I thought it looked too much like Diablo at the time.

[Colma]

BGII...still to this day my most played and favorite game ever.
Go for the eyes, Boo, go for the eyes!

NWN was the first online game that I really played and no other game's PvP has entertained me as much. (Bastions of War, anybody?) So sad that NWN2 was a multiplayer abortion.

[Hexadecimal]

Baldur's Gate 2 Shadows of-Freaking-Amn.
I was seven-almost-eight.
I had watched my parents pour hours into it, I decided it was my turn.
Awwwww - Yeeaaaah.

[gangly369]

KOTOR for me. Then every game since that point. (I'm still secretly hoping for either an HK-47 cameo in the mass effect world, or the Black Whirlwind in dragon age)

[Takeva_]

LOL I had no idea I was playing Bioware games until Dragon Age.
I played Baldur's Gate (never got to finish this), Star Wars, Jade Dynasty, and Mass Effect before my brother bought me Dragon Age for Christmas this year. It was a game I wanted but was broke and had forgotten about it after a while.

[ColdbringeR]

Baldur's Gate in 1998. Best year in gaming history.