[terran_emperor]

In no particular order, the lists of firsts that Blue Planet provided me. I'll add more as I think of them. I invite the community to post their lists here

1) The first time i'd EVER cheered for some thing that happened in game - In ANY game.
When the Masyaf jumped in to the rescue - that was the first time that I'd ever actually cheered out loud

2) First time i'd ever gotten to feel as the Player Character feels. And I mean really felt it.
Granted that Halo came close with John and the Rookie (more so with John) and Kyte from .hack//
 
3) First time I'd ever played a lesbian character.
I play Mass Effect as the default male Sheppard so WiH was the first time I'd ever played

4) First time I'd ever seen game-engine rendered cutscenes of such cinematic quality
There is of course one exception - Master Chief's dive with the bomb in Halo 2 - But that's it nothing else comes close the the Intro and Outro of WiH

[Spoon]

First time I cheered for the opponent (GTVA, <3 Steele) 

[Colonol Dekker]

My first time hating Earth.
First time getting killed but surviving, bleeding out and using stims etc.
 
First time i'd killed Xinny and Zero outside of a hacked Freespace 2 SOC mission.

[Rodo]

My first time hating Earth.

this.

and first time I read all the recommendations for the first time player in an FS mod
(because all others before used the retail ones, of course).

[Mongoose]

My first time hating Earth.

this.

Civilian-murdering scum.

I think it was the first time I've died by bumping into an escape pod.

...yeah.

[-Sara-]

First time Freespace made me feel sobby.

[MatthTheGeek]

First time hating the GTVA with a passion. Short-minded traitorous bastards.

[Scotty]

First time rooting for the antagonists.  Pacifistic Ubuntu losers.

First time I haven't felt like some ridiculous super-pilot.

First time I've seen capships used in a way that makes sense both in real(ish) life tactics and in gameplay.

[Aardwolf]

First time (except with the possible exception of the NTF Iceni) the enemy had the sense to jump out instead of letting me kill them.

It makes a lot of the warship captains in canon FreeSpace look like idiots 

[-Norbert-]

Let's just say that the jumpdrives back then couldn't charge up fast enough and the Iceny was the first ship to have such fast-charging drives  

If this isn't about WiH only, but Blue Planet in general then:

First time I ever fiddled with a table file (namely playing around with the beam-pierce effects when they first came out).
First time I ever auditioned (and made it) for voice acting.

[Rodo]

Civilian-murdering scum.

Well they are kinda..... no, not kinda, they are plain queers.

I felt some sympathy for them, but only in the mission where they stole that Anemoi (that was the name?) from the GTVA.

And for the main character as well... but just at the very end.

PS:

what happened with the BP's site?

All data regarding ship classes, prose and stuff is gone.

[General Battuta]

Civilian-murdering scum.

Well they are kinda..... no, not kinda, they are plain queers.

We have enough gay forumites that I think we probably shouldn't use that as a slur.   Also, who are you referring to?

PS:

what happened with the BP's site?

All data regarding ship classes, prose and stuff is gone.

We thought it wasn't up to snuff. It's being overhauled. In the meantime you can find everything on ModDB or in the techroom.

[Spoon]

How much is "enough"?

[General Battuta]

How much is "enough"?

no u

[Rodo]

I was referring to the UEF, but at the very end you start seeing some balls on the earth side as well.

Jovians and Martians are not as softy as terrans... so I guess it's ok.

[achtung]

First time I've felt emotions in a FreeSpace campaign.

[redsniper]

First time I felt bad for the families of all the poor bastards on that freighter I couldn't protect.

[Aardwolf]

First time I felt bad for the families of all the poor bastards on that freighter I couldn't protect.

Which freighter?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

List of firsts:

* First time my frame rate fell below 10 FPS;
* First time my frame rate fell below what the FPS counter could read (4 FPS);
* First time I actually got annoyed by recoil;
* First time I used a female profile picture;
* First time I died because I wasn't looking at my shields;
* First time I evaded Trebuchet missiles fired by the AI;
* First time I deliberately manage to evade missiles without using a countermeasure;
* First time my ship's hull increased as a result of rearming;
* First time I chose a Morning Star for bomb interception;
* First time I cheated to get a debrief;
* First time I failed to locate a fighterbay;
* First time I flew backwards on afterburners;
* First time I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended for something related to FreeSpace in a serious manner;
* First time I used Adobe After Effects CS4 for something related to FreeSpace; and
* First time I turned off my reticle by accident.

That's about it, I guess.

[Erkhyan]

* First time since Tomb Raider I've played as a female character
* First time I've played a lesbian. I can't already relate easily to a female character, I can relate even less to one attracted to women
* First time I've paused in the middle of a FS2 campaign because I couldn't stomach more scenaristic punches to the gut
* First time I've posted on these boards. W00t.