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Pazuzu:
Hey guys, i wanted to suggest that we talk about our titan quest history/background here. Like, when did you first play titan quest, how did you find out about it, at which point in your life, and so on.

I will start


I got an original copy of titan quest back in 2005 or 2006, so did 2 of my best friends in highscool (yea i was in highschool). Immediately got to love the game, and shared it with another friend of ours, the 4 of us would play titan quest after school for several months. They stopped playing after awhile though since we were about to finish highschool and had other priorities, like jobs and university! But i kept the game disks.

 I remember my PC would really lag whenever i launched titan quest, i was using a single core hyper threaded pentium 4 clocked at 3ghz back then, with like 512mb of ram and an 80gb hdd, my gpu was a gt 5700LE :D . After a year or so i got a new PC from the money i was getting from my university scholarship, it was a dual core athlon with like 2gb of ram and a gt 8600 graphics card. The Game would run much better on that one, but still a bit laggy at times. Funny thing is that many years ago you actually needed a good PC to play titan quest, the only time i was able to play TQ in max settings without any lag was around 2010-2011 when i upgraded my PC to something modern.

 Long story short, i never really got tired of titan quest.
It is true that there were times in the past 12 years when i stopped playing TQ, but i would always eventually return to the game. What helped me the most was tq.net forums where i registered several years ago, and since then TQ has been something like a more permanent activity in my every day life. I've played many games in the past 15 years, spent years playing online MMO's too, but the only game im still playing after 12 years is titan quest.

Typhon:
I found it back in March, 2011 at a thrift shop for $1.00 (Yes! And Immortal Throne for another dollar for a total of $2.00), not to mention that the discs were in extremely good shape surprisingly and the original big box came with a skill tree thingy. I had already played games like Diablo 1 and 2 but had never heard of this particular game although I did get it due to the price and the fact that I like Greek Mythology. When I booted it up at home on my then Windows XP I was greeted with the normal setup stuff but I had later figured out that I needed a CD key, which was luckily easily found online. When in-game it ran gloriously on it despite its superb graphics (I didn't  have a gaming pc, nor do I now, but that computer was off the shelf quality in walmart *aka* crap) I hadn't really seen a game that lovely from such a perspective and it was mind blowing.

It was relieving to see another game like Diablo with its clicking style of combat/looting/etc. since I don't have many of them like that but I was having fun with the Hunting Mastery shooting everything from afar (never really liked archers in these types of games anyways). I had fun listening to every bit of dialogue, killing every monster, and picking up every piece of loot I could find. Until... Egypt happened. I quit the game for a good 3 months or so just because I couldn't force my hand through that world, it was physically punishing for me but when I got further through I enjoyed it a bit more and pushed through the rest. Something I'm glad I did.

On a snowy day I stayed inside, determined to push up through to the final boss, which I knew was close. Then I met Typhon, and his meaty four arms of course. Dying about 16 times, about 4 more times than what I had done by the dragonians if I remember correctly, I finally beat him and listened to that glorious music and Zeus's all important speech telling me how awesome I really am. I had finally installed Immortal Throne afterwards and realized that I could've played with it the entire time :o but that added god knows how many hours to my playtime. I dropped it for about 2-3 years and have picked it up fairly recently, looking to forums to join and dropped by titanquest. net where I met most of you. I got all kinds of neat ideas and tricks from that website that it's not even funny and now I'm here, playing through Anniversary Edition and slaying Norse monsters. I would love to be more active in Titan Quest Anniversary Edition but life often times gets in the way and other games that I would like to try out as well slow my progress in Ragnarok. Walls of text ftw!

Medea Fleecestealer:
Well, I guess you could say it was a lucky chance buy for me.  I came late to gaming in general, must have been in my late 40s  :o when I got my own PC as opposed to sharing my husband's.  I played city builders: Zeus: Master of Olympus (was this a foreshadow of what was to come?), Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, early Anno stuff, Port Royale, Children of the Nile.  I'd thought occasionally of trying an RPG, but never got around to it.  Then in early 2007 I spotted the Royal Edition of Two Worlds in our local Media Markt store.  It looked interesting and was in English so I bought it, installed it and played it.  Most importantly I enjoyed it.  I played it several times, though I never could get the hang of a caster in that game.

We were going to go to the US in November 2007 to visit my relatives there and because my home state was celebrating it's 100th birthday.  So I made a list of a few RPGs to try and buy while I was there: Morrowind, Oblivion, and a couple of others I can't remember now.  We were in the local Best Buys and I was picking these up for purchase and saw a Gold edition of TQ/IT on the shelf nearby.  I didn't know much about it except that it was an RPG like the others, but reading the blurb on the back it sounded like I'd enjoy it since I like Greek mythology, etc.  So that got added to the purchases.

Once back home I installed the games and tried them out.  Didn't really like Morrowind or Oblivion, but kept at them for a bit.  It wasn't until some time in 2008 that I got around to installing TQIT.  I'd also purchased the strategy guide for it (I'm a sucker for those) so that helped me understand how it worked, but like Typhon I kept hitting a brick wall.  I was getting more and more frustrated, but I wanted to continue to play the game.  So I tried to go to Iron Lore's website to see if I could find any information/advice that would help me, only to find the company had closed down.  So I googled and that came up with titanquest.net and that was it.  There was so much info there and many helpful members of the forum willing to help me with their advice.  I learnt a lot there and became a better player.  I beat Typhon and danced around the room with joy.  I went on to beat Hades.  I was hooked.  Needless to say I became a member at TQ.net and over the years was able to pass on my own knowledge of the game to others. 

Because it was the very first forum I ever joined I wanted a username that reflected the mythology in the game itself.  Now I have a sort of love/hate relationship with the film "Jason and the Argonauts" (which is another story), but thinking of that film brought to mind the character Medea who helps Jason steel the Golden Fleece.  So Medea Fleecestealer I became. :)

You could say the game has been a continuing influence on my life over these last 10 years since it was on TQ.net that I first saw news of a new project by some of the devs who'd worked at Iron Lore.  As I enjoyed TQIT so much I was pretty sure I'd like whatever they were doing so I went to their website, pre-purchased a copy and joined the forum.  As we all know that became Grim Dawn.  I upgraded my purchase during the Kickstarter and started playing the game as soon as it was out in alpha.  In 2016 I was asked if I'd like to become a playtester for GD (come on - who wouldn't!).  And now that TQ.net has folded here I am the proud owner of the new TQIT/AER forum.

So lucky chance buy?  It certainly was for me.  :)

Malgardian:
My story is similar to pazuzu's in the way that I got the original TQ (without IT) some time in 2006/7 (don't remember the exact year) from a bargain bin (well, I say bargain, but it was still 10 bucks back then) in my local electronics store. As I only had an old laptop from 1995 back then, I knew that I couldn't run it, but I still bought it in the high hopes that I would eventually own a computer powerful enough to run it. That didn't happen for some years, though, so I mainly played it at my best friend's house or on the computer of my cousin (7 years older than me) at family gatherings. As it always got uninstalled from my cousin's computer after the family meetup and because I had no idea where the save files were I always started anew and always only got till Delphi. It was only years later (ca. 2009) when I finally got a second hand computer that could run it that I got past Delphi and got to enjoy the rest of TQ. At that point I also bought the Gold edition (again from the bargain bin).

In 2010 I joined the tq.net forums on a whim, but never really posted there until 2011/2012. In 2012 I read the last bug report thread of the then already disbanded Fanpatch team and thought: "Hey, it's all here: Bug reports and in most cases even how to fix them! Let's try to learn how to apply those fixes and roll our own patch!" Which is what I did :) I even learned enough C# back then to cobble my own installer together, which was a nice learning experience!

The rest of the story is mostly just taking part in the efforts to move pre-AE TQ tools over to the post-AE world, which also was not something I thought I could do until I tried it. Surprisingly enough it worked!

EDIT: Just hit me: My patchfix is almost 6 years old! Daaaaamn...I'm getting old...

Cygi:
My first time? Gold Edition in 2009.

And with Defiler's mods, so it was already better experience.

But before reaching Megara, I was close to abandon this game out of boredom and repetition, you know - grassland, cave, grassland, cave...until I saw the beach before Megara.

And I was hooked.

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