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My Favourite Computer Game of All-Time - From Soon Seng's Point of View Tuesday, August 12, 2008
It all began when I first brought home the 2-piece pirated borrowed cd from a friend, and popped it into my Pentium 75, to hear the marching sounds of Red Alert waft from 16 bit speakers. I was instantly hooked. Granted, it took years to load a single map, and I could have boiled several cups of coffee before even starting to play, but it was all worth it.
I can put my tanks anywhere.
It was every boy's (and girls with a fetish for heavy metal) dream come true. Plenty of explosions, heavy equipment, rock music, and a sexy lady in the form of Tanya who ran around planting bombs and saying things like "Ka-Ching!".
Pretty soon, however, I began to grow bored of watching miniature tanks roll around on a black map which slowly uncovered itself, and the phrase "Unit ready!" started to set my teeth on edge. After having completed Red Alert twice, I managed to purloin borrow yet another cd, and this time, it was Diablo. Yes, the first Diablo, which managed to chill my blood everytime I heard the eerie music and watch gruesome bodies rise up in churches, attempting to reduce my globe of red health to zero.
Its kinda creepy in the dark.
Nonetheless, the running around and hacking began to grow wearisome. I had yet to find 'The' game, which could keep me coming back for more. I tried my hand at Diablo II, and lo and behold! I was hooked...again. I slept at night, dreaming of various things to transmute, Unique Items I could unearth, and various weapons to buy (of course there were also the scantily clad elf maidens running around, but thats a different matter altogether)
(Highly pixelated) Eye Candy I can dream my items to death.
Still, something was lacking. I've always wanted to be part of the experience, to customize the settings, leaving my mark in the game, and thus far, all those mentioned earlier lacked that sense of involvement. I quested far and wide, and only managed to spoil my pirated borrowed cds through overuse.
Until I found Counterstrike.
It was like finding gold. My first glimpse of the mod was when I was blasting aliens in Half-Life, and when I shot my first kill in the head, it was pure ecstasy. (ok, mp_friendlyfire was on, and it was my own teammate, but still...) And, even better, I realized that, due to the game engine, I could pretty much do anything I wanted! I could press the (~) key, and key in all kinds of commands, so as to be able to do anything from carrying the gun in my left hand to jumping like Superman. I could spraypaint my own stuff on the wall, and hide in clouds of smoke while everyone was busy knifing each other.
Yes, even Nuffnang-ers can leave their mark!*
Suffice to say, despite the fact that I was virtually useless at the game, Counterstrike became an integral part of my life.
I suddenly had less real friends.
In a nutshell, Counterstrike managed to beat Diablo II to come in as my Favourite Computer Game of All Time, a title which will remain indefinitely undisputed.
Diablostrike/Counterblo II
Or until they amalgamate Diablo II and Counterstrike, of course.
*For the Nuffnang-ers, feel free to download the Nuffnang Spraypaint Logo (click here to download), and use it in the tournament! Installation instructions are as follows.
1. Copy Nuffnang.bmp into "SIERRA\Half-Life\logos".
2. Start Counterstrike, select Customize, and choose the Nuffnang logo as your spraypaint image.
3. Enjoy!
Posted at 09:03 pm by IsaacCheah
 | | | Soon Seng
August 16, 2008 01:04 AM PDT
Kuzco: Thanks! Don't know if anyone will use it, though.. haha.. | |
| | | Kuzco
August 15, 2008 09:12 PM PDT
Then Nuffnang spray paint is AWESOME! | |
| | | Xian
August 15, 2008 01:34 AM PDT
There'll be Diablo III coming out and it looks super cool! ^^ But play it only if you want to hack and slash and gain items...(I could never understand how one could never get bored of that. ^^;;) | |
| | | Soon Seng
August 14, 2008 08:52 PM PDT
Joyce: Hmm.. you also played Red Alert 2, right?
Julian: Hoho, that was fast.. Thanks for dropping by! yes, a lot of people actually played the game. I guess it was one of the most happening things to do, at the time. | |
| | | Julian
August 14, 2008 08:19 PM PDT
I liked Red Alert... never really progressed to others after that... | |
| | | Joyce
August 14, 2008 01:05 PM PDT
HEY!! I like to play red alert too but i dun like heavy metal weiiiiiii.... :( :( :( | |
| | | Soon Seng
August 13, 2008 08:11 PM PDT
Robb: Thank you, thank you.. haha.. I've never actually played Starcraft before. | |
| | | Robb
August 13, 2008 08:43 AM PDT
this is very creative! hahaha | |
| | | Soon Seng
August 12, 2008 11:13 PM PDT
Eric: Whoa, that was fast. Haha.. I fixed the link already.. you can try downloading now! (or better yet, try right-clicking, then "Save As") | |
| | | eric thor to isaac
August 12, 2008 09:50 PM PDT
hilarious.... totally hilarious.... now you have made me wanna play diablo again... with counterstrike characters of course. Imagine imbuing a grenade with a automatic.... wait... they have that in the real world already... haha
wei... where is the nuffnang spraypaint file? cannot find lar. | |
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