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BasilZero said:

JEMC said:

I'm not there because I didn't want to (and still don't want), but it wouldn't surprise me if part of the decline in activity here is because of the VGChartz Discord server, that may have pulled some people away from posting here and doing it only there. But it's just a thought and that place may also have little activity.

I think there's multiple discord servers now - amongst certain people who fragmented from the original group due to disagreements, arguments, etc.

I'm in the main one I think?

There was one I was in but I left that - I'm not that active and didnt like my phone getting spammed constantly with messages about the most random conversations.

It doesn't surprise me that they've splitted. Too many different gaming tastes can't coexist in harmony in Discord.

BasilZero said:

JEMC said:

Anyway, my introduction to Steam was when I build my first PC and the GPU came with a Steam voucher for DiRT 2. It took me a while before I actually decided to create an account, tho, because the notion of not having phisical games was odd to me, but I eventually caved in.

Anyways, my first build, I remember - it was HD Radeon 7850 2GB replacing a pre-built GPU PC build. Got Sleeping Dogs with it too, ironically was suppose to get another game but I'm glad I got Sleeping Dogs because that was an amazing game.

Ironically while I was still in the phase of playing MMOs - one of my guildmates introduced me to Left 4 Dead 2 - a pirated version of the game and we were using Hamachi to do MP playthroughs.

Eventually something happened where we couldnt use Hamachi again so they introduced me to Steam.

First game I got was a gift - Torchlight 1 with 2 pre-ordered.

First set of games on my first Steam sale I bought were

-Terraria
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Ys Origin
-Assassin's Creed Director's Cut

Mine came with the HD 5850. That card game me many, many years of gaming, like my current GTX 1070.

Torchlight is a fun game, but I think the end is too abrupt. I feel like there has to be something more, but I can't find a way to get to lower levels, so either that was it or I missed something. For some reason, I couldn't quite get into Torchlight 2, but that's an odd thing that happens to me with sequels (currently struggling to fins motivation to play Deus Ex Mankind Divided even tho I quite enjoyed the first one).

I played the first Assassin's Creed on the Xbox360, but all the others have been on PC.

Random_Matt said:

I remember PC games boxes, boy were they the best ones. The art on them was great and you have to love those good old floppy disks.

I wasn't into PC gaming when games came in 3.5" disks, but those cardboard game boxes were great. I still have the one from the Age of Empires II Gold Edition.

And well, good manuals gave you so much info besides the basic controls (maps, character bios, etc.)