Gaming keg of fun

Well god i thought i already did this, um i guess i can pad out the middle bit a litle.
After Quake i discovered Unreal Tournament although it was rendered in treacle vision due to my comp barely meeting the minimum spec at the time, 200mhz and 32megs of ram baby!

Anywho i pretty much converted to that and then continued to play that religiously - i loved the variation in map designs how you could jump from an ancient castle to a space station to some kind of hybrid space castle thing floating on is own exclusive lump'O rock in the middle of nowhere. I eventually got my computer upgraded to something approaching decent for the time and was capable of running modern games, before i had been lagging behind but now i could run with the big boi's! Ahem...yes a 450mhz P2 and a 32 meg tnt2 worked wonders at the time when shaders were something you'd uh um do something humourous with. Anywho i continued on this first person shooter ride sampling some Mortyr here, blururghh to some Unreal there, odd really never got that game. But it was Quake 3 that well changed my life i suppose - lame and cliched as it sounds it probaly did if unreal tounrnament captivated me in terms of its variations in map designs quake 3 dazzled me with its pure gameplay brilliance yes it was just deathmatch to people who were'nt watching it closely but everyting from the way in which the doorways were constructed to allow people to fly through propelled by rockets to the timings of the powerups and the placement of the weapons or the specific stats of each weapon that ensured that even with the most powerful weapon a player could never dominate the map on just firepower.
Quake 3 pretty much taught me about how games were made - i learnt how maps were made with its map editor and even today can pretty much map out a room with my eyes closed, woo thats a party trick right there, i learnt about textures and there specific resolutions light placement, optimization and triggers to me it was a huge keg of pretty much undocumented wonder.
After that i was firmly cemented in the fps genre of games i played online games like everyone else sampled some mods and you basically end up at the last section of hte previous segment of this.
Hope this has been inteesting but i keep gicing myself aheadache thinking back this far