Did you suck when you were a noob?

[Asknoone]

There was a time when I cursed and screamed at the screen everytime I slipped into another pit or ran into an oncoming boulder in Crash Bandicoot.

 

[Remus]

There was a time when I cursed and screamed at the screen.

LOL, I still do that.

 

[Asus]

I played mostly adventure games when younger. If you suck at those then you don't get anywhere but you don't necessarily die either. hehe

Of course I sucked when playing CS for the very first time. I think HL/CS was when I first picked up WASD+Mouse. When I first started playing CS I would often crouch jump around corners or out of doors at the enemy. Usually with a M3 or MP5. I did die a ton. But it didn't matter to me, it was fun. After a few weeks I started to play with my roommates on the LAN. My friend and I were on the same team and played against the other roommate who had CS experience. That's where I learned the advantage of listening for footsteps, using distractions and just being sneaky in general. Use my head instead of running into a medium-long range situation with a shotgun or throwing a random grenade which does not effect the enemy BUT lets them know where I'm coming from! :x

 

[ríomhaire]

Was I the only person who hated playing games against friends and what not, because when you did, you would rape them hardcore, and they would get pissed and quit?

That is what my High School years comprised of. Was depressing. I had to stop playing good now and then so I could actually have a little bit of fun.

I used to play against my brother a good bit, Siphon Filter, Red Faction, Halo and a few racing and soccer games. It was great, because we were always about the same skill level.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I remember my first online game for the PC. (other than tonka trunks... da*n, I beat that game in an hour. Heh, pitifully some of it was fun... like the design your own car biatch!) Starcraft! Pre-Broodwar. I sucked. I would play online in UMS most of the time.. course, that was before people got smart and made FUN maps. Most of it was Tower Defence and evolves.. heh. I won like... 1 game without cheating? but da*n, it was one good win. (Pwnt by a n00b.)

 

[Angry Lawyer]

I remember when Doom was new.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[TCfromBN]

Men wanted me.
Women wanted to be me.

i lol'd

 

[VirusType2]

I remember when Doom was new.

-Angry Lawyer

Yeah man, me too. That's why this thread kind of made me laugh. Believe it or not people, video games existed before Counter-Strike.

I remember when Ms.Pac-Man, Galaga, Pole Position II, etc., etc., etc., was new. I guess High scores were 'rankings'

 

[Sheepo]

All noobs suck. When you stop sucking you're not a noob. Just updating your noobcabulary. But when I was NEW AT VIDEOGAMES I sucked, still kinda do at some.

 

[Kyorisu]

There are noobs and newbies. Newbies are the ones that eventually learn and become more skilled. Noobs are just retarded.

 

[Acepilotf14]

(And are most likely griefers)<<Noobs!

 

[Tagaziel]

No. I blew.

 

[Darkside55]

I was never a noob. When I was 3 years old in preschool they sat me in front of a computer and I f*cking ROCKED Sesame Street Counting Kitchen. I was matching numbers so fast the Count didn't know what the f*ck.

I generally pick up games pretty fast. I did ask a lot of questions when I first started playing games online, though (started out with Half-Life). "What does ping mean?" "How do I rocket jump?" Things like that.

 

[Tagaziel]

I also catch up pretty fast, though often I need to consult the manuals when it comes to older games (Wasteland) or vivid interfaces.

 

[CrazyHarij]

I pretty much sucked alot more but I had more fun I think, partly because the feeling of being new at a game (especially multiplayer games) has a lot of fun to it, focusing less on getting the highest score and just having fun, and partly because it seems to me like multiplayer games like the early CS and DOD versions were more social, people were more friendly. I remember just asking if someone wanted to go teamwork on dod_charlie (the omaha map) and suddenly we're 4-5 people working as a team helping eachother out and waiting for eachother. Nowadays you rarely get a "gg" at the end of the match, and people can't be arsed to discuss anything.

 

[Lucid]

When I started online gaming with, Iirc, the Starsiege : Tribes demo... I used the arrow key set-up for moving and the like, and I sucked donkey cock.
It wasn't until like 2 years later that I adopted the WASD format and proceeded to rule ass in Counter-Strike.

 

[Wanted Bob]

I only started online play about 6 years ago or so, playing Half Life, Deus Ex and Warcraft 3 later on (I sucked pretty bad, and the only two games that I can do very well in today are Halo and HL2: DM), but the first game I can remember playing was Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Gawd that was a good time, watching hunks of mech blow up and float around the atmosphere.

 

[Zephos]

I was a quite a noob when playing online when it came to knowledge and skill.

Now I'm only noob skill-wise, but only in some games. BF2, COD2 and some others I excel at whilst I get my ass handed to me in CS.

 

[Pulse]

I owned at HL1 DoD, TFC and was fairly good at CS- was a lot more fun during the beta stages, VIP maps!

Those were the days

 

[Cole]

I was never really a newb....
I never really ask what things mean, but I am incredibly fast at figuring things out. Things like ping for instance, I never asked wtf ping was. Someone just said, "You have a high amount of ping", and I figured it out really quickly.

 

[The Brick]

Then he must not have understood it himself, or he doesn't understand the difference between much ping, many ping and high ping.

 

[gowiththefl0w]

Noobs are just retarded.

Speaking of which... im pretty pumped for the 2008 Noob Olympics.

 

[dream431ca]

I was never a noob, I was born to dominate. I dominated you just last week. I also dominate this thread with my pixelated writing on this pixelated forum with pixelated people. Remember, none of you are real, only me.

 

[gowiththefl0w]

gasp.