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Legacy
2023-03-07 23:48:57
Guardian1790 wrote:

I remember as a kid, even as a young teen, not really knowing what Rainbow Six was.  I saw the boxes in the store, and just sort of glossed over them, in favor of what, I'm not too sure.  If I had known what was inside that box, I would have jumped all over it.  It was exactly what I was wanting, without knowing it existed.  I played the Delta Force games, Soldier of Fortune 2, and a few other shooters, and I really got hooked on America's Army when it first came out.  I was broke, and it was free.  Joined a clan and everything.  It was everything I wanted.  A realistic look on combat, with a solid group of guys that worked together tactically and just immersed you in the scenario.  Operation Flashpoint, and Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising were also on my play list.

I finally picked up Raven Shield, I think after seeing some trailers for it, and being wowed by this one:
I was amazed at how tactical it was, and the story told in those 3 minutes.  If that's how the game was going to be, I had to check it out.  It was everything I wanted it to be. You got to intricately plan out your hit with your Rainbow assault team, with a cool looking 3d map of the target.  You then got to run the assault in any position you wanted.  It was great.  I didn't really have a lot of friends with gaming PC's, so my experience was limited to single player for the most part, except when I could get online and play adversarial modes, and that was always a blast.

Unfortunately, that was the peak for the Rainbow Six series.  Once RS3 ported to consoles, it was the beginning of the end for the tactical shooter.  We got Lockdown and Critical Hour, which both sucked, and then the Vegas games, which, while good games, didn't really have the same feel as Raven Shield.  The serious tone.  If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest it.  Well, maybe not now, since it will just sting that much more that they've abandoned all the characters.  They'll retire Ding Chavez, but poor Sam Fisher is still climbing up the sides of buildings as he's pushing 60. But hey, he's got some Benjamin Button syndrome or something, since he looks younger in Blacklist than he did in the first game.

To wrap up, seeing all this stuff in a game just wasn't enough for me, so I decided to get into the counter terror field for real.  I love the fluidity and dynamics of structure clearing.  It requires teamwork, trust, and an absolute knowledge of your skill sets.  A well executed room entry is a thing of beauty.


LONG LIVE THE CLASSICS

Guardian1790
2017-02-26 15:19:16

I remember as a kid, even as a young teen, not really knowing what Rainbow Six was.  I saw the boxes in the store, and just sort of glossed over them, in favor of what, I'm not too sure.  If I had known what was inside that box, I would have jumped all over it.  It was exactly what I was wanting, without knowing it existed.  I played the Delta Force games, Soldier of Fortune 2, and a few other shooters, and I really got hooked on America's Army when it first came out.  I was broke, and it was free.  Joined a clan and everything.  It was everything I wanted.  A realistic look on combat, with a solid group of guys that worked together tactically and just immersed you in the scenario.  Operation Flashpoint, and Joint Ops: Typhoon Rising were also on my play list.

I finally picked up Raven Shield, I think after seeing some trailers for it, and being wowed by this one:
I was amazed at how tactical it was, and the story told in those 3 minutes.  If that's how the game was going to be, I had to check it out.  It was everything I wanted it to be. You got to intricately plan out your hit with your Rainbow assault team, with a cool looking 3d map of the target.  You then got to run the assault in any position you wanted.  It was great.  I didn't really have a lot of friends with gaming PC's, so my experience was limited to single player for the most part, except when I could get online and play adversarial modes, and that was always a blast.

Unfortunately, that was the peak for the Rainbow Six series.  Once RS3 ported to consoles, it was the beginning of the end for the tactical shooter.  We got Lockdown and Critical Hour, which both sucked, and then the Vegas games, which, while good games, didn't really have the same feel as Raven Shield.  The serious tone.  If you haven't read the book, I highly suggest it.  Well, maybe not now, since it will just sting that much more that they've abandoned all the characters.  They'll retire Ding Chavez, but poor Sam Fisher is still climbing up the sides of buildings as he's pushing 60. But hey, he's got some Benjamin Button syndrome or something, since he looks younger in Blacklist than he did in the first game.

To wrap up, seeing all this stuff in a game just wasn't enough for me, so I decided to get into the counter terror field for real.  I love the fluidity and dynamics of structure clearing.  It requires teamwork, trust, and an absolute knowledge of your skill sets.  A well executed room entry is a thing of beauty.

Tango
2017-02-23 18:19:05

The year is 2001, prior to September 11th, by a matter of maybe six months. I just turned eleven years old, still in the 5th grade.  After going to a friends house one Saturday evening, and spending many hours into the morning having the time of my life eating pizza, drinking Mountain Dew code-red, and playing Goldeneye on the Nintendo64, with three buddies, on a four-way split-screen, I may have already been hooked. 
I don't mean addicted to Mountain Dew, that would come later, and certainly not gaming. I had been in love with videogames since the first time I set my eyes on a Sega Genesis.  It was the multi-player aspect that was truly addicting. The ability to shoot your pals, and then talk a bit of shit and then maybe even laugh at their expense, or even my own when I got killed. The social side of gaming was the heroin needle that made gaming truly addictive.

Upon coming home the next morning, I had a tremendous desire to continue playing a shooter game. The previous night was entirely too satisfying. The gears in my mind started to turn. I didn't have a Nintendo 64, or any game on my dated PlayStation 1 console that could even remotely satisfy this itch.  However, unbeknownst to me, Rainbow Six has been out for over two years, and Rogue spear, more than one. The Rainbow Six Collectors Edition has just been released. Fortune would have it that my forty year old father had purchased it, December of the previous year. After he had played through a small bit of the single player campaign. He left it alone, installed on our family PC taking up valuble space on our 10GB hard disk.  It certainly didn't seem terribly thrilling watching my father fumble through the planning phase, take every corner extra cautiously, and then somehow, still lose anyways.  It seemed the game was far too slow, and serious to excite me initially.
I mean, is this really the type of game that old-people thought was fun?

Nevertheless, this was the only option I had available to play a game that involved shooting things. 
Besides that, there was a trend that I had started to notice already, most of the things that my dad was into that I originally thought were boring, turned out to be pretty damn cool. (More often then not anyways, things like sports, cars, guns, etc. ) I knew it wouldn't be exactly the same. I didn't have any friends over, and this was on the PC, so naturally it was going to be single-player only (yawns) but, I desperately wanted to shoot something, anything!

Somewhat reluctantly, yet still absolutely excitedly, I decided to give it a chance.
Rather then play it in the front-room, on the family PC where I could be distracted. I decided to install it on a lesser PC kept in my bedroom, that I had been allowed to use, because it was essentially free.  It was subsidized from both my father's employer and as an agreement through a dial-up internet service provider. The system featured a 500MHz Celeron processor, with 64mb of Ram, and onboard graphics.   Not exactly a gaming machine, however, just enough to meet the minimum requirements of Rainbow-Six. In hindsight, I should have just fired it up on our main machine, faster processor p3@500MHz, twice the ram and a dedicated video card (3dFX Voodoo 3), but, I was eleven and didn't have that much knowledge of PC hardware yet.

Being absolutely convinced this was a single player only game. I decided to start with Rainbow Six. I was able to discern that it came first, and if you were reading a book, you wouldn't want to start with a sequel, right? You would be lost if the stories relied on each other, and I knew that.  If I had known what I was about to learn, I might have started with Rogue Spear instead.

After installing, I watched the introductory video with complete fascination. The introductory video for Rainbow Six didn't really resonate with me though. Terrorism? From non-domestic folks? Who knew of a such a thing? Certainly not I. I had remembered seeing some news coverage of the Oklahoma City Mcveigh bombing, but he was an American, and I was far too young to remember the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. To top it off, in history class that year, the first year it was offered in my elementary school, we were learning, through rose tinted glasses, about Europeans settling North America.

Safe to say, I knew absolutely nothing about the state of affairs in the world.  How or why terrorism would be the major issue facing our society, or how much that will impact the future. It occurs to me now, that what I thought then was, that the games' story line was based almost entirely in fiction.  Which is probably why it bored me. I never was much of a fan of fiction. Real life always seemed too interesting, and too short, to focus too much on make believe.  I just chalked it up to, good guys and bad guys. That was a real enough justification for elven year old me to get excited.

Turns out, the Rainbow Six writers knew a whole lot more about the world then I did. A painful lesson that I learned during the attacks on September 11th of that year. To be a completely naïve 11 year old again.

As I got passed the intro videos and into the game, I quickly ignored the planning phase, and went in guns blazing. A lot of mission failures ensued. But, I did learn that the game had an auto-aim feature, and I looked up the codes for 'god mode', or invincibility.  As a result, I was able to shoot my way through the single player campaign a couple of times.

The very next day, while already bored with r6's single player campaign due to my cheating, I considered installing Eagle Watch to continue the story.   Before I got to that though, I noticed while looking at the Rainbow Six game packaging, that it mentioned online multi-player.
Sweet! I was pretty sure that meant I could play with or maybe even against other players on the internet. Instantly, I turned my PC on.

My excitement was so high that I noticed I could hardly wait for that snail of a machine to boot. It probably took no more then two, or two and a half minutes, but it seemed like half of an eternity that day. Wasting no time, I connected the dial-up internet. oooooo..dotodotododoto.sccrohaa sreekaa. scrhhhowsfwqa binybinya..

Then I immediately loaded into the game and looked for multiplayer options. What I found was a box asking for an IP address, or a LAN? I didn't know what either was. Damn! It couldn't be this complicated, could it?

I looked back at the box, and noticed an M Player and MS Gaming Zone logo, I was so damn excited, it didn't take me long to figure out how to install one of them.  Next, I pressed connect on the first server I saw, and was greeted with some kind of cryptic error message. It wasn't like today where the game tells you it needs to be updated, or even updates itself. I think it was a rather general connection failure dialog box.
Shit, this really is complicated, I thought.

As a newbie 11 year old, It surprisingly didn't take me all that long to figure out what to do.
(Not because I was technologically advanced for my age. Rather I was clever enough to ask for help in the multiplayer clients' chat and the community was nice enough for someone to respond with a relatively simple fix, download the game update.)
But what did take long was downloading the patches. I'm sure, by today's standards these patches are miniscule, but downloading them back then, over a 56-kilobits-per-second dial-up modem took some serious patience. It felt as if it took a full eternity this time. 

While watching the pot, and waiting for it boil, I began to wonder if the multiplayer game would be 'players versus other players', or just the single player campaign with 'everyone playing together'. This cant possibly be that cool that I can play against other people instead of playing against the computer, could it? After all, it was decidedly few years prior to this, that I could still remember getting in to trouble at a church sponsored pre-school for having mock gun fights with other kids using toy cars as prop guns, during play time.  It really couldn't be that cool. To be able to virtually shoot strangers on the internet?

I immediately tried to temper my excitement to avoid disappointment.  It just couldn't be that awesome.
While still waiting, I thought to type to the players in the game lobby chat, and ask them what kind of multiplayer game it was.  They told me that it was in-fact, both. Whichever you prefer.

Holy Shit! My mind was blown, the excitement came back in full force, except this time with a vengeance, even stronger then it was before.
I was so excited, that I started having delusions of grandeur about my first kill.
Surely to be the first of many to happen very shortly thereafter! I stared thinking I'd be Rambo or something of the sort.  So sure of myself, I preemptively warned the players in the lobby chat that a real certified bad-ass was downloading the latest patch and that they should prepare to meet their demise.

A few lols ensued, and the players informed me that I had something different coming for me.
All of this waiting, anticipation and excitement, to enter my first game and within just 30 seconds of my very first round being very briskly delivered a cold and hard reality check. After running around a corner like a certified dumb-ass, an opposing player fired one quick burst that sent my character to the cold and hard concrete floor of the oil-rig, to the sound of a rather painful and grotesque sounding death gone, and then the beautiful sounding song of loss and despair. Those gloriously gloomy sounds only served to amplify the feelings of failure I had just experienced.
These same feelings that consequently fueled the desire to succeed at fps games in the future.

I knew then two things, this would be much more challenging than I had imagined, and I was hooked.

Trosty
2017-02-08 19:28:36

Probably when it was first out, way back when. Quickly followed by Athena Sword.

Paladin
2017-02-08 12:07:27

Started playing with the release of Rogue Spear,can"t remember what year that was sad .Have all versions and add-ons through Vegas 2. My favorites in the series have to be Ravenshield and Rogue Spear.

Legacy
2017-02-07 17:24:25
Relog wrote:

My first time playing Rainbow Six was on the PC at my older brother's house back in 1998. Needless to say I was very impressed. The series has stuck with me and I've owned every Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell game on one platform or another all the way up to Siege, Future Soldier and Blacklist.

And now thanks to Recognition I'm enjoying RVS again with friends from all over the world. Thanks dude!

Word!

Relog
2017-02-07 13:27:09

My first time playing Rainbow Six was on the PC at my older brother's house back in 1998. Needless to say I was very impressed. The series has stuck with me and I've owned every Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell game on one platform or another all the way up to Siege, Future Soldier and Blacklist.

And now thanks to Recognition I'm enjoying RVS again with friends from all over the world. Thanks dude!

Conjurer
2017-02-05 08:34:03

I have been messing around the rainbow series for many years..
But the r63 i started playing online in 04.
i played with Toetags&bodybags for some years... we played tornaments and ladder wars with R63 and battlefield 2.. we had a blast.... smile

Legacy
2017-02-01 07:47:13
BlueRagg wrote:

1998.. the older brother of a friend of mine had a PC and the original R6. Ever since then, i´ve been hooked. Got the Games, the Books.

Favourite Game of all time for me is still Raven Shield! Till this day! big_smile

Hell yeah man!

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BlueRagg
2017-02-01 07:25:08

1998.. the older brother of a friend of mine had a PC and the original R6. Ever since then, i´ve been hooked. Got the Games, the Books.

Favourite Game of all time for me is still Raven Shield! Till this day! big_smile

pothead
2017-01-31 15:26:45

...when it was released. i went to public game  rooms with friends to play it, cause internet was shit at Serbia at the time...now years later, finding this community,,just great 8o

Gagei
2017-01-28 10:08:38

I don't know when exactly I got the original Rainbow Six, but I saw a screen shot of the (back then) upcoming Mission Pack Eagle Watch (from the Space Shuttle Mission) in a gaming magazine. Soon after, I bought the game, and since then every Rainbow Six-Game on the PC (yes, even Lockdown... shame)

ALBerT
2017-01-28 05:07:30

I was 14 or so, got suckered in by the cool front cover of the game!
Never quite found a game that compares to RVS though

Legacy
2017-01-28 03:49:28

In 1998 I went over to my mothers friends house for dinner. I was bored and the husband of her friend had a PC. I spent hours there playing original Rainbow Six. I was HOOKED ever since. Never forget that night. It was the coolest thing I had ever seen. I remember it like it was yesterday like a video in my mind. Crazy shit.

And now look I'm creating ALLR6 and trying to bring back the community we all loved and still do.

Goat
2017-01-27 20:13:26

Around the time Roque Spear was released. I remember I started playing the original Rainbow Six when Roque Spear was released.

I really kicked it off with Raven Shield, though. In 2003, my family decided to go online which allowed me to play coop with some friends from school. Awesome times.



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