I have been a gamer all my life playing Atari, Nintendo and PC games, though I was kind of a late comer to FPS games, Starsiege: Tribes really sparked my FPS and on-line presence. My first 3D on-line game was Monster Truck Madness 2, I couldn't believe I was in a 3D world interacting with other real people. Shorty after I got Half-Life, a very impressive game, but I always felt disoriented in on-line play; something about the Half-Life net code and physics made the other players appear to move erratically and made it hard to visually track players across the screen.

I had seen an article in a gaming magazine about Starsiege: Tribes months before my short Half-Life era and was instantly hooked, I grabbed the Alpha video and lurked around the TribesPlayers message boards playing lesser games like Monster Truck Madness and Half-Life waiting for it's release. Finally, I bought Starsiege: Tribes the day it was released while visiting family and was so anxious to play it I loaded it up on my fathers machine even though the games system requirements were more than his computer could handle, needless to say it was a slide show at 1 fpm; I had to wait 2 more days to play Starsiege: Tribes. Now at home, WOW! Free movement, no sky and clouds painted on walls and canyons and buildings boxing in the game-play, just wide open terrain and sky.


I was hooked.

Thoroughly addicted to Starsiege: Tribes, I got sucked into the community. I created my own tribe, The Hounds of Zeus, and joined the PlanetStarsiege staff as an administrator and injected myself into several Tribes community projects.

When Starsiege: Tribes was released map polygons weren't memorized for optimum ski routes and vehicles were used, the game world was big, it took coordination and teamwork to get things done. Prior to the release of Tribes 2, skiing increased and brought heavy armor 5 second flag captures and made the game world small and destroyed what I loved. When Tribes 2 was released I was very happy with it, the game was big again. Tribes 2 slowed things down, it brought back the game I loved in the beginning and, what I believe, was more in line with what the developers originally developed Starsiege: Tribes to be like.

Tribes: Vengeance, well, I saw it's doom early on. With the use of the Unreal Engine and way too much input from a vocal minority of a certain community, it was destined to be a very different game. There isn't much for me to say about Tribes: Vengeance, I beta tested the game and bought it the day of it's release and played it for a short while, no addiction. The single player game was very enjoyable, one of the few single player games I have had the interest to finish, but my on-line time logged was probably less than 20 hours. Multiplayer however just wasn't the same, the skiing way too fast, the maps way too small, no use for vehicles, and 5 second heavy armor flag captures.

Since the passing of my Tribes addiction, I moved on to play PlanetSide and became the web site administrator for PlanetSide-Universe.com operated by Hamma. After PlanetSide I played Star Wars Galaxies for a short while before getting into the Lineage 2 beta and then playing it's retail for a few months and realized I had real interest in slower more community driven games such as MMORPG's. I found my interest in FPS games drifting and saw that my interest in games was directly related to how many friends play which games, if my friends lose interest, I lose interest. I love the social nature of MMORPG's more than the games themselves, I like having the time to sit and chat with my friends rather than constant twitch and shoot games where I constantly ignored voice and typed chat.

Recently my addiction has been World of Warcraft...and it's AddOns. From beta I used the Cosmos UI suite and later moved into developing a new website for them and created a few niche AddOns. With the World of Warcraft expansion here, I don't for-see any new games which will call my addiction away from World of Warcraft...for now.

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