What was the earliest point you started following a game before

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Probably Killing Floor.
It was somewhere around 2004-2005, I was following the progress of another UT2k4 mod, the Out Of Hell. Ended up seeing some articles about it AND the upcoming Killing Floor in practically the same sentence, got interested.

Soon after, it's first pre-release demo came out, and I played the shit out of it. Then the 1.0 arrived, had lots of fun offline and online, top spooky atmosphere.
Then arrived 2.0 and 2.5, which market the end of the mod.
But then in 2009, the Steam version made by TWI was announced. I preordered that in a heartbeat, introduced it to some of my buds when it arrived, and we were hooked for the next couple years.

And now we're at KF2, and everyone loves to hate the games or the devs or both.
I could also note that I did also play the OG Red Orchestra -mod long before it became a retail game.

>>386987174
I played the Undertale demo.

I just thought I was playing an Earthbound clone, so the Flowey scene at the end was pretty magical.

>>386987174
AoS games on Starcraft and Warcraft 3. I just played them occasionally, and then all of a sudden it became a huge genre filled with millions of players.

>>386987174
Playing the Undertale demo and Yakuza series. The former when it blew up ruined the game and the latter is getting a bigger following but also retards spouting garbage or old memes or whatever

I followed the original SA lets play of dangan ronpa where the dude translated it before anyone else and lots of tumblr posters got mad about paywalls

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I used to watch pic related when he only did Overgrowth let's plate and had less than 50k subs

>>386988220
Overgrowth let's plays*

>>386988220
>"What was the earliest point you started following a game before it blew up in popularity?"
>Posts e-celeb
You okay in the head, buddy?

>>386988424
This is the eceleb board, buddy. I don't know what you were expecting

>>386988847
Keep telling yourself while everyone actually posts vidya instead.

>>386988220
I didn't even know he used to play video games on his channel

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>>386987174
I guess I liked Nier before Automata was a thing.

Thought it was nice to see Yoko Taro get more recognition than none at all.

>>386989512
They are all deleted now to avoid cringe I suppose. He still shows clips of them on rare occasions. Specifically a terrible Slender let's play he did.

It's a shame. His Overgrowth ones were solid. I'd love to rewatch a couple for nostalgia sake

I played Demon's Souls before Dark Souls came out, and while it wasn't unpopular to begin with, I did see the surge in popularity with DaS. There's not a whole lot to say about it really, I don't give much thought to how popular or unpopular a game is.

>>386990356
It's not just about the popularity, it's also about the attitudes that changed. I remembered the /v/ DeS comics and how everyone was excited to explore or friendly co-op sessions. Now it's one of the most garbage communities to the point that you need to memorize a guide and min/max your stats or you're garbage that you can't interpret the lore correctly from one of those fucking e-celebs

>>386990630
That's true, but I wasn't as into DeS as a lot of other fans of the game to begin with, so I wasn't too upset about the decline of the community, though I understand why others were. For each game in the series I would just play them, discuss them for about a month, then not really think about them much beyond that.

Probably drakengard or the original nier

Probably Kerbal Space Program, while there were versions much earlier than the one I played first I was still quite early