How old were you when Supreme Commander came out?

[Flynn]

I remember it vividly. I got it when it first came out, I even have my old account on the GPG forums, registered in February 2007, man I loved that year. Not just because SupCom came out but because I was 17, full of optimism, with my whole life ahead of me! But I was going through some difficult times though, what with being an "adult" in a years time, which got me making weird threads like this one:

http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=10869

We had a broadband modem, but not a router so I had to take my Packard Bell Craptop to the living room to link it to the modem (as I had to do when I played TA online as well) and then I was able to play. It went slowly on large maps but maps like Theta's Passage, Winter's duel and Sentry Point being the stable of my time playing SupCom Vanilla.

Eventually I quit SupCom before FA came out because my comp was too slow for me to enjoy it and didn't return to it until earlier this year.

So how old were you and what was life like for you when SupCom came out?

[Flynn]

Haha, typical nerds, just ignore if something is not "logical"

[vongratz]

The right question would be " How old were you when Total Annihilation came out?" or Im wrong?
How many people here played firstly TA?and dreamed with something like Forged Alliance..

[th3_mach1ne]

I was 19 in 2007, but I wasn't introduced to SC until 2008, or so, and hadn't heard of it or TA until then. A friend in the dorm had played TA years ago, so he got FA when he built a PC. At the time, our group's game of choice was CnC Generals, because it was good and that is what our hardware could handle, but I made a point to get FA when I upgraded and started playing in 2009. I still remember being a noob; first graduating from the campaign to vs AI matches, discovering building tesselations, obsessing over base layout/design, moving on to PvP matches, and later loads and loads of Thermo. I'm glad FAF came along. Thermo was the only kind of lobby that would fill and launch in GPGNet's later days, and Thermo is terrible, it would have been a real shame if my last memories of FA were of Thermo.

[Flynn]

The right question would be " How old were you when Total Annihilation came out?" or Im wrong?
How many people here played firstly TA?and dreamed with something like Forged Alliance..

Yeah I used to think that, it was definitely the "original" good old days when TA came out, it is the "new" good old days when SupCom came out. No word of a lie, when I was a kid playing TA a lot I actually had a dream that it was in 3D (like in the introduction sequence) and boy was I disappointed when I woke up from my slumber! Little did I know SupCom would came out 8 years down the line to realise my dream into reality, if only it was a bit more like TA!

[Flynn]

Come on NERDS!!! FFS Come on you logical nerds, provide your input!

[da_monstr]

*Error* No logical query detected! *Error*

[Flynn]

Haha, nice one, da_monstr. But this thread is to reminisce about the good ole' days back in 2007, what were you doing, what was your life like, etc.

[Nombringer]

Brought Forged alliance because I saw some cool vids on the internet. Played the campaign, thought it was good, went to create a gpg account and my product key was taken.

It then sat on my shelf until I saw a video from TA... Well. gg

[Nihkaeda07]

Come back to life!!

Lets see, which year did TA come out? 1997? A relative of mine was a alpha/beta tester, using the 'Mplayer' client to get paid playing upcoming games. They essentially played Starcraft and TA side by side, and TA won out because of the overall mechanics and awesomeness. So, the first time I played TA I was probably four years old.
Then my whole family pretty much were squealing fan-girls when Supreme Commander was first publicly announced. We loaded that up on our machines the first day we could grab it off the shelf ( And they were the LAST ones on the shelf ). Lets see... I was... I believe I was 14 years old! A total Noob!

On an embarrassing note, no one in my family knew about the queuing or orders using the 'Shift' key in TA until I connected the dots that TA was created by the same person the made Supcom and tested it out AFTER Supcom's release.
HurrDurr.

: D!

-Nihk