Reading this thread warms my heart!
It's awesome to hear stories like these. Very good morale and motivational boost for myself and others at Tripwire. Helps remind me that it's worth all the sacrifices to make RO2. It feels very surreal to be completing RO2 and finally getting it out there. It's been a long journey. For myself I feel like I've been working on this game for nearly 10 years now. It truly is a blessing that we've been able to make RO2 and stay totally independent. So I thank all of you for supporting TWI. RO2 is only the beginning of awesome things to come!
And we appreciate and thank you guys for those sacrifices to make that game we always wanted.
Anyways here is my story:
When I was young I got a xbox 1 and got Call of Duty 3 which I loved and ultimately made me interested in WW2. When I was playing I always said to my self "why can't I go join that big group of guys over there and join a huge battle with tanks going across the field, planes flying over head, taking fire from MG fire while watching people fall to bullets around me instead of staying in this small squad doing small things with invincible people"
Though being young and not knowing the beauty of PC gaming I only had CoD 3 and I played and beat it tons of times because it was the only thing I had, I memorized the look and gun name of every gun on there.
Then came CoD 2 on the 360 where I became interested in the battles and I started looking up information about these battles, information I still remember today. As like CoD 3 I loved it and played it many times over.
WaW came out and again I was hooked onto World War 2, though after when I switched to PC gaming and even after I beat WaW I craved for more and basically started playing every WW2 game I could get my hands on, Medal of Honor, CoD 1, BF1942, I played most of the well known WW2 games. I still felt like something was missing and I haven't gotten everything I wanted from WW2.
Then I saw Enemy at the Gates which started my love for the Eastern front which was portrayed as gritty and horrible, when I watched it I was thinking in my head "Now this is the World War 2 I always wanted to play" This started my interest in the Eastern Front which fascinated me a lot probably due to barely anything made about it.
One day I stumbled across Darkest Hour and RO videos and I couldn't believe my eyes what I just found, I found the perfect World War 2 game, though I think it didn't say the name of the game and I couldn't find it any where no matter how hard i looked until I found it one day and (being the stupid kid that I was) pirated it and tried it with bots.
It was honestly the best multiplayer game I ever played, even with the bots, I loved it and would play hours on end with the bots because of how amazing it was. Then I saw there were still servers for the game and I knew that this was a multiplayer game and single player didn't do it justice. Being ashamed with my self for pirating it, I got a week pass from someone and I barely stopped playing, I stayed up all night most of the time just ot continue playing it. When the pass was done I said to my self that there was no way I wasn't getting this, I then made my own money (this was a week after the sale last summer I bought it) and bought it a week after the sale because I knew you guys deserved the money for this amazing game and I felt bad for pirating it first.
Now most of the stuff I do during the day is play RO and advertise RO2 on a forum and I have gotten several people to buy RO1 and get very interested in RO2 and even get more excited for RO2 then BF3 and for my brothers birthday this week I bought him RO1 (and killing floor) since he is just getting into PC gaming I might as well get him the best.
It took me 7 years, 2003-2010 to find RO and in the end it was completely worth it and I thank you guys for such an amazing game and can't wait for RO2.
(Yes it's a long post but I feel like there is no shorter way to describe how I was brought to RO)