For my first post here I think I should give a little info about myself and how I came to be where I am. My name's Mike Hamilton, I've been an avid video gamer since I got my first nintendo back in 1985. I played lots of games through my years...mostly on my PC. My favs had to be any type of flight sim (including space sims), racing sim, nhl game etc.
The first game I ever played online was Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed (best NFS game ever...besides maybe Hot Pursuit 2). At the time I was a competitive swimmer and had quite the competitive spirit. Online games gave me the outlet to be competitive with people all around the world and I found that awesome. Then I found out about Diablo, my buddy told me to get it because he could get me some hacks and we could run around with the best gear and pk everyone we wanted. Even though I did cheat, I had a great time playing that game and running through dungeons with random people killing mobs for the hell of it. I didn't realize it at that time but I was preparing myself for the type of game that I absolutely fell in love with. MMO's.
Because I could have been considered somewhat of a "jock" in those days I thought games like EQ were pretty damn nerdy. I thought they were pretty dumb, running around pretending to be an elf or whatever. I used to make fun of my friend's bro for playing games like that. I just didn't understand.
Obviously I came around, I'm not sure what sparked the turn around but it happened. I had expressed some interest in maybe trying a MMO with a PvP aspect to it to a dude that I was working with at the time...and asked him if EQ or WoW would give me what I was looking for. He told me yeah possibly but how does this sound to you.
"Imagine you're just one guy, running with 100 other guys on other computers and all of a sudden 150 "enemy players" come over a hill and start attacking you. You run into a tower and start pouring hot oil all over them and trying to defend the tower. The PvP is absolutly epic and 100's vs. 100's is a regular occurance. Does that sound like the game you're looking for?"
It of course was exactly what I was looking for. I started a free trial to DAoC and never looked back. It was the Realm vs. Realm fights that drew me into that game and the RvR fights that held me in that game for 5 years. The chance to have epic battles fighting other players has to be the best videogame design I have seen in my entire life. There were so many aspects to keep RvR fun! You could run around solo looking for other solos to kill, run in a group of 8 and fight other groups, you could run in a zerg and take keeps and towers.
I was so excited when I heard mythic was developing Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, yes DAoC was nice but I was also excited to see what else they could do with RvR. So WAR has been different than I expected but it's still a great game! Great enough for me to blog about.
So here we go....let the Realm vs. Realm begin....
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