First computer game I ever saw was Space Invaders, I was with my brother and we were in Hawai'i, for Christmas (1980). I was entranced.

I recall vividly the day I made my high score in Donkey Kong, too; a game where I was able to speed-run. (Later levels are just: get through it before a pig-pile of pixel critters pole-axe you.)
That really difficult second scene (with the pies) was a nightmare, normally, but I jagged three or four in a row where I just ran for the exit and made it before the fire moved.

Usually I would make it through about three or four levels, but this game stood out because I made it through seven or eight (almost 400 thousand points, IIRC), about a half-hour or more of single-player activity.

Not bad for 20¢!

My biggest gripe with Diablo 3 was the lack of necromancer. Sure, it's there now, but I've already moved on to Torchlight II. It's like the ex girlfriend who comes to her senses and restore her boobs to the natural state after having them reduced, the damage is already done and I've moved on.

And yes, that's the best comparison I cold come up with. And yes, it's terrible.

it was probably during the rise of xbl and the height of co-op games. r6v2, graw 2, n+, gears, re 5, etc etc etc.

That was kind of a joke. ;P

Your post was a necro of a thread that has been dead for four years.

I was just being silly and I meant no ill will. :D

Now I see it, marked in bold and everything.

Well played, sir. Well played!
http://i1362.photobucket.com/albums/r698/noahski/Mobile%20Uploads/thread-necromancy_zpslduenrqk.png

BUT you are also correct.
The "replacement" for lack if a better word, for the Necromancer in D3 just WASN'T the same. Still my favorite character in any ARPG.

I always felt like it was a symptom of pulling back from how dark D2 was, and that ruined D3 for me.

My fondest memories huh? I have a few.
1. Playing Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest for the SNES. I know many purists hate this game because it doesn't mesh well with the series, but I loved every minute of it. The difficulty was no cake-walk, but if you studied which monsters are weak to which spells and husbanded the resources necessary to cast those spells(MP Points, I think) then you'd generally be all right, unless you were using spells on the Black Goo. Then you'd have them rebounded at you for full damage! The 16 bit graphics were revolutionary to my young mind back then, though they look very dated now.
2. Playing and beating Orphen: Scion of Sorcery for the PS2. This is probably the hardest game I've beaten, especially one boss fight where you're battling a Minotaur who's trying to shove you backwards into an abyss and you have to juggle blocking his attacks, doing damage, and oh crap, didn't do it fast enough, now you die. Took me like six hours for that one boss fight alone, and that's not even the hardest one!
3. This is far more recent. Playing Supreme Commander for the first time. I've played Total Annihilation, T.A. Kingdoms, Warcraft III, Starcraft, etc and in a contest between Supreme Commander and these others(yes I know they're classics and it sorta isn't) it wins hands down for me every time. There's nothing like playing an AI that challenges you by being sneaky for two and a half hours, so it's got you convinced it's gonna be a pushover, then you find three Galactic Colossi charging for your base, wipe them out after some anxiety with Loyalists and Monkeylords and finally almost lose the game because the AI finishes a Tech Three Heavy Artillery Installation; it almost destroyed my base, but I got Six Monkeylords down to it's base after softening the place up with some Mobile Heavy Artillery and beat the AI by a whisker.

Hm, no real "fond" memories of me actually playing anything. It was more about watching the intro of Age of Empires 2 and Empire Earth which gave me goosebumps for instance. Looking back or watching them again fills me with nostalgia. Getting up at 6am to drive to a buddy to have a LAN party all Saturday was always great. The 2010 Power Outage MSL finals between Jaedong and Flash were absolutely great. The stream was blasting DTs on Top (from which Kesha clearly stole her song) during the games and the chat was wild. Also, watching offline qualifiers from 3am till 4pm while eating sweets, ah...the memories, time flies by. It's interesting how back then when games were somewhat new (first console or first computer), family members would try to play the games as well. My family certainly did. Was funny seeing someone flinging their arms with the gamepad around to help Sonic jump. I guess that is what it means to "get into the game", haha.

My fondest gaming memory is just getting engrossed in the halcyon days, playing Secret of Mana for the first time.

Playing Romancing SaGa: Minstrel Song (PS2), and remembering one incident that happened:

I was fighting the Ghost Ship boss with an underpowered party. (I would say underleveled, except that this game doesn't have conventional levels and XP.) The thing is that this particular boss, unlike most JRPG bosses, is not immune to status ailments. So, my strategy was to paralyze the boss, which I have had work before. However, things did not go according to plan. I think what happened was something like this:

Round 1: Enemy manages to wipe out most of my party, leaving only Claudia alive. (I don't remember whether I got the spell that can inflict paralysis off, but if I did, it did not work.)

Round 2: (Most of my party is down, so things are not looking good at this point.)
* Claudia's turn comes up, and she's about to attack with her bow.
* A lightbulb appears over her head. (This is normal, and is how you learn new physical techniques.)
* Claudia uses Shadow Shot (bow technique that does damage with a chance of instant death.)
* The instant death effect *works*, killing the boss (that I was sure I would not defeat this attempt) instantly.

Of course, I have other memories, like when I was playing Final Fantasy 6 (PSX version, though it doesn't actually matter for this purpose) and got softlocked; I had Gau and Umaro, both uncontrolled and using only physical attacks (and some healing from Gau), but able to absorb elemental attacks; the enemy had turned invisible (making physical attacks always miss) and was healing my characters with elemental attacks; and the game would not let me run away from this particular enemy, hence the softlock. (This is worse than a game over; in FF6 (but not other FF games), you can continue after game over keeping the XP (but not other things) you gained since your last sav, but in a softlock situation like this, your only option is to reset.)

Also, in Destiny of an Emporer (NES), I was unable to complete the game because a glitch caused a key item to disappear from the chest it was supposed to be in.

My fondest gaming memories are:

- How when I was younger, I would play LEGO Star Wars the Complete Saga with my younger brother using the same keyboard! We would first adjust the key bindings for the two players in the game's settings and calibrate them as we played further along in to the game. Then we would laugh together and basically have fun for hours. The enjoyment and fondness that I have towards these memories are consolidated by the fact that we were really young and not yet occupied and separated by the tasks that only perpetuate as we grow older in life.

- The second one happened when my younger brother and I were playing Battlefield Play4Free where in one of the maps that we played in, we went inside a building, climbed upstairs towards the roof where our teammates were located, and suddenly an enemy mounted in a helicopter just emerged from below and rained down heavy fire at all of us. It was an epic experience that I, for so long have always wanted to relive.

Crash Bandicoot 3- playing the time trials for the levels and finding the hidden levels/areas.
The game was my second platformer after Mario, but I still enjoy the old days.

My other favorite game is Warcraft 3. I enjoy playing the different campaigns and playing random team games.
Looking forward to the Reforged version.

I think my fondest memory was either the first time I played a video game, which was Castle Adventure:

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/226/Castle+Adventure.html

Or it was when I got Final Fantasy VI (FF III) for my birthday, and I played it all ... day ... long. Good times.

* I also have very fond memories of playing Ninja (1986).

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/633/Ninja.html

I think that the fondest memory that I have is playing Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 all day long back on the PS2. Do not remember why I did it but I did.