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View Comments June 17, 2007 | Everton

I love reading stories about Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel who is clearly the world’s number one and most successful gamer. Fatal1ty has won 12 major championships, but more impressively, across 5 different games.

One of Fatal1ty’s top games is Quake 4, and John Chow wrote an interesting post about a competition in Taiwan to find the best Quake 4 player who would play Fatal1ty in a big money final. If you play any games online, you will know that Asian gamers are very, very tough so you’d expect Fatal1ty to at least have to break a sweat. Well, the final score for the ten minute match was 74 to minus 3!

What game would you consider yourself World-Class at? Only online games are allowed, as beating your next door neighbour’s or your little brother’s ass doesn’t mean that you are any good!

Sometimes I just don’t know how these online gaming guys do what they do sometimes. The speed that they react to and the level of control sometimes just seems so amazing in games, the only explanation seems to be that they must be hacking. Sadly, this is what happened a lot with the only online game that I’ve played to a good standard, Age of Empire II (Age of Kings). In Black Forest games I can hold my own against most players.  Maybe, not 1v1, but definitely in team games where I excelled.   I don’t think I will ever play a game as intensely as AOK, where some games could last for 4 hours.

I started playing online in 2000, just after the legendary players like Arch_Koven stopped playing, but there were still some great players knocking around like Illume_Nuisance, Mad_Chieftain, Knight_Pilot, Knight_Chicken etc 

I thought I was good playing against the PC, but playing against human opponents took the game to a completely new level! I remember the first time I got Trushed (Tower Rush). I was wondering what the hell was my enemy doing building lots of stupid towers in random places…… but, before I knew it I couldn’t even get out of my TC without getting shot!

Luckily I got chummy with the players I mentioned above, and they spent a lot of time training me. Nuisance and Knight_Ewok in particular got me up to a near 2K rating.  I think my proudest moment was when I flushed Nuisance in a 4v4 arabia game, and although eventually he kicked my ass, he said afterwards that for a while he really thought that I had him.

If you are an old AOK player here are my main old nicknames (far too many smurf names to list!):

  • Knight38_Binson
  • Vulture_Foster
  • Digital_Toomuch
  • Pur3_Flava
  • SIN_XenJi

I stopped playing at the end of 2005 as it was taking up far too much time.  I wish I hadn’t quit totally though as the AOK community is still going strong, but I’ve forgotten so many of the theory, hotkeys, build orders, tricks, counters etc that I can’t even play the odd game with the guys.

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About Everton: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day. View posts.

  • @Nuisance

    Hi Raph-how's it going! I don't have any recs anymore although there are still quite a few of yours on the web in various places. I'm going to install it again to watch some recs - will email them through to you when I find them.

    There's one 4x4 BF game where I went full on scorp+mang whoring and it's hilarious watching me wipe out 4 bases in quick succession - can't beat the micro on seige!
  • Raphael
    Haha, so I was getting a little bored today and decided to find out what's going on with AOK... eventually typed in my name iLLuMe_NuiSanCe to see if ppl still remembered it, and i just have to say you made my day haha, althought I can't say I remember that 4v4 game.... have a rec? send to blackeye101@gmail.com! And, if you still have any cool recs of your gg's too... its nice to reminisce on the good days haha

    take care bro
  • I don't think I link to John Chow that much, and he does link to other sites unlike some sites so I think that's a bit unfair Angie. Plus, he's the original source for the story!
  • Yeah. I pwn Pong. Other than that, I got a rock (as Charlie Brown would say).

    And as an aside, why dows everyone throw Chow free linkage. It's not like he gives back.
  • I like to think I was a pretty good Battlefield 1942 player. Probably the most hours logged for any online FPS of any game of all time. I'm hoping this future release can live up to the hype.
  • Well the real problem that most of us face is that you need time to be good. You need to practice a lot, learn the levels, shortcuts, build orders, strenght and weakness of players, races and units.

    When I had the time I played CTF in a very successful Unreal Tournament clan but stopped putting to much time into playing games since then. My next big games will probably be Starcraft 2 and Hellgate London.

    Unless you know the game in and out and practice daily there will always be someone better online. think of all the kids that come home from school and play all day, think you can beat them ?

    so, it basically sums up to this. Invest time, become better, if you got talent you become a top player, if not you become above average.
  • Mosey
    Everton: alas I never did. It was always against the computer. Sorry! ^^
  • @Mosey

    Did you play AOK online? Nicks?
  • Mosey
    I play TFC (Team Fortress Classic - HL1 mod) for recreational purposes and can't claim to be world class at all. :) The maps I play on are fairly limited (and don't require too much travelling :P) so it's easy to be 'good 'at them after a while, especially if defending.

    Rubbish at CS tbh. ^^ Loved Age of Empires, and quite liked Age of Kings, due to the better proportioning of the um.. characters, but there's something endearing about big berthas, the hoo-lala sound of the monks/wizards(?) and nuke/photo man or something like that from the first game.
  • I've been keeping my head down for a couple of years since I quit AOK, although I took PGR3 pretty seriously until they switched all the cars and tracks which really messed me up. I was going to play Age of Empires 3, and I even built a new PC to be ready but (luckily?) I never brought the game.

    I think I'm going to come out of retirement for Halo 3. I think I'm pretty good at FPS. I've never tested myself online, but I always kick my friend's asses offline.
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