I've grown up on games. From Atari 2600 up to the triad of consoles (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube).
So here's the down and dirty.
Zelda: all the non portables version. The stories, and the near open-endedness of the games. Zelda 1 is perhaps one of the only games I've completed and played again, and again....
Metroid: Another game I could beat and play over again. This games open ended designs were amazing. It was a bit lax on story, but was flooded with depth and little secrets to keep you moving on discovering new things each play time (this was before internet Cheat sheets started spoiling games)
Interplay golden Box D&D series. Dragon lance golden box series was truley amazing back in the days of 4 color CGI displays. I'd bring "Secret of the Silver blades" and "champions of Krynn" (I think that was the name) in to my High School computer class and we'd play it a good portion of the day. We'd spend hours just generating characters and forming up a killer party. Making it past that first Draconian roadblock was a huge success for me, since non of my other friends could. Shame the Teacher kept formatting the hard drives to keep the games off it.
Thief 1 and 2. This game bent the mainstream FPS standard. Instead of rushing into combat the whole premis was sneaking around and avoiding it. There where a few very memorably moments for me in Thief. Particularly after getting my eye ripped out by plant chick I was in the under ground cavern. I killed 2 of those weird things perfectly, one shot one kill. The 3rd guy was alerted and started booking it. There was no way I could catch him and I feared the reinforcements he'd bring. So I loaded up an arrow and took aim. Just as he was about to turn a corner, about 100 feet away, I fired. the arrow arced perfectly in the sky and hit the target dead on killing him. Thankfully since I was low on health. Also those damn haunted libraries scared me, I usually rushed through those places as fast as I could, and games rarely ever scare me this sort of way.
Final Fantasy: what can I say, the games have made me laugh and cry and touched my soul in a way no movie or book or any other game could. They are quirky and weird at times but They drew me in and held me till the games were completed.
Ultima Online: this was my first endeaver into the online world of games. To this day I believe it has the best resource and skill based systems of any online game (though it's been a year since I've played it). essentially the lackluster attempts to modernize the graphics pushed me away. That and my hate for EA.
Well, there is deffinately alot more games out there that have changed my life, for the better or worse. "Sam & Max", "Full Throttle", "Fallout", Mechwarrior, Crystalis, Metal Geat and heck I could keep naming memorable
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I've grown up on games. From Atari 2600 up to the triad of consoles (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube). So here's the down and dirty. Zelda: all the non portables version. The stories, and the near open-endedness of the games. Zelda 1 is perhaps one of the only games I've completed and played again, and again.... Metroid: Another game I could beat and play over again. This games open ended designs were amazing. It was a bit lax on story, but was flooded with depth and little secrets to keep you moving on discovering new things each play time (this was before internet Cheat sheets started spoiling games) Interplay golden Box D&D series. Dragon lance golden box series was truley amazing back in the days of 4 color CGI displays. I'd bring "Secret of the Silver blades" and "champions of Krynn" (I think that was the name) in to my High School computer class and we'd play it a good portion of the day. We'd spend hours just generating characters and forming up a killer party. Making it past that first Draconian roadblock was a huge success for me, since non of my other friends could. Shame the Teacher kept formatting the hard drives to keep the games off it. Thief 1 and 2. This game bent the mainstream FPS standard. Instead of rushing into combat the whole premis was sneaking around and avoiding it. There where a few very memorably moments for me in Thief. Particularly after getting my eye ripped out by plant chick I was in the under ground cavern. I killed 2 of those weird things perfectly, one shot one kill. The 3rd guy was alerted and started booking it. There was no way I could catch him and I feared the reinforcements he'd bring. So I loaded up an arrow and took aim. Just as he was about to turn a corner, about 100 feet away, I fired. the arrow arced perfectly in the sky and hit the target dead on killing him. Thankfully since I was low on health. Also those damn haunted libraries scared me, I usually rushed through those places as fast as I could, and games rarely ever scare me this sort of way. Final Fantasy: what can I say, the games have made me laugh and cry and touched my soul in a way no movie or book or any other game could. They are quirky and weird at times but They drew me in and held me till the games were completed. Ultima Online: this was my first endeaver into the online world of games. To this day I believe it has the best resource and skill based systems of any online game (though it's been a year since I've played it). essentially the lackluster attempts to modernize the graphics pushed me away. That and my hate for EA. Well, there is deffinately alot more games out there that have changed my life, for the better or worse. "Sam & Max", "Full Throttle", "Fallout", Mechwarrior, Crystalis, Metal Geat and heck I could keep naming memorable games.