What Games Were You Playing 10 Years Ago?

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2002 was my golden age of gaming. I was deep into PC gaming, and for the first time, I finally owned a custom built PC with Pentium 4 processor and modded out with neon blue lights. I loved the hell ouf that thing. It was a display model at Compusa and they sold it to me.

For the first time ever, I had a rig that could handle new PC releases with no problem. I bought the game SOF2, and it displayed the game in all its bloody bloody gory. I quickly became addicted to the multiplayer game.

Sadly, I've never been able to reproduce the experience I had in SOF2. I suck so bad at console multiplayer in shooters. I put in countless hours, and memorized the maps. I became an expert at sniping, and it was so much fun to blow someone's head off. I would still play this game today if the community hadn't died out.

But then I discovered BF1942. It provided endless entertainment. I loved the wide variety of battles and sniping Nazis. I logged so much time into these two games that I neglected the other PC releases and ended up with a pretty big PC game backlog.

Alas, times change. I lost my job, moved back home and there went my broadband access. Half Life 2 came out and my PC would barely run it. I got more into console gaming. I built a new PC in 2007, but it was never powerful enough. The lack of strategy games, flood of MOOs and DRM crap turned me off even more. Bioschock was the last game I played to completion on a PC.


I was so excited when BF1943 was announced. I could relive that game again with HD graphics. Sadly, the game was downscaled majorly and they wouldn't release any more maps!! I would have paid in a heart beat for more maps.

The modern stuff never grabbed me. I miss good on BF WW2 era.
 
Not much. I barely played games in college and for a few years after. I did play through Final Fantasy X on a friend's PS2 and a fair amount of Soul Calibur on Dreamcast.
 
Probably something on the Gamecube and lots of Pokemon on the GBA, breeding for stats was incredibly fun. I guarantee you I have over 999 hours on Pokemon Sapphire.
 
Circa 2002 I was the undefeated champion at Crash Team Racing on the PSOne. I'm still confident I can hold that title, over a decade later.
 
I wasn't playing games a whole lot around this time 10 years ago. Were Metal Gear Solid 2 and GTA Vice City out yet? Those are the only games I can recall playing. And now I'm depressed when I realize that was 10 friggin' years ago, thanks alot OP.
 
[quote name='panzerfaust']Dungeon Siege[/QUOTE]

Yep, definitely was playing that. I owned Morrowind, but didn't really start playing it until later. Grand Theft Auto III I definitely played. Probably was still playing Baldurs Gate II.
 
[quote name='iamsmart']I wasn't playing games a whole lot around this time 10 years ago. Were Metal Gear Solid 2 and GTA Vice City out yet? Those are the only games I can recall playing. And now I'm depressed when I realize that was 10 friggin' years ago, thanks alot OP.[/QUOTE]
Yep. It was 2002 when Vice City came out. I remember putting tons of hours into that, including a massive run on the "Brown Thunder" missions(Vigilante side missions with an attack chopper).

If you hovered over the tarmac at the airport, the bad guys would keep spawning right under you and you could annihilate them in 30 seconds or less per wave. I played for around 10 hours the one night and racked up over $150 million in score on the game just for doing those side missions. It's a shame there was nothing besides the properties/hideouts you could buy in the game to buy after you had those.

I think I also managed to find 90 some of the 100 packages, so I had weapon pickups at each major hideout that I could use to build up my ammo for rampages too.:D
 
2002 the only games I can ever remember playing was Baseball Mogul on the PC and Max Payne on the PS2. I think that was when it came out at least. Didn't play games much in College.
 
[quote name='LordVila']I was probably playing Ultima Online.[/QUOTE]

Same. I quit shortly after the Trammel/Felucia thing, but I can't remember when that was.
 
Probably GTA3, GT3, and maybe some Dreamcast stuff like Crazy Taxi since that was around the time that I got one for cheap after Sega gave up on it.
 
GTA 3 PS2, NBA Street PS2, Crazy Taxi and Crazy Taxi 2 Dreamcast, Super Monkey Ball Gamecube, and 2002 was the year I really got into DDR so DDR 3rd mix, 4th Mix, 5th Mix and Best Hits (all Japanese PS1 games). For GBA, I remember getting Sonic Advance and Tekken Advance in 2002.
 
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