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Imperioratorex Caprae

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Too many... too damn many. Because I take off nostalgia glasses, put in the games from almost 30 years ago and STILL find them enjoyable. Graphics and memory space be damned, a good game is a good game. Kids these days don't have any respect, with their newfangled tutorials and case-insert manuals that barely depict a control scheme. And this "save" game function, back in my day we would have to start over if we died too much or if our jackass cousin hit the reset button before we beat our previous high score (with our trusty wall of polaroids for proof).

OT: Ghosts 'n Goblins, the original Dark Souls/Demon's Souls... to me.
 

kasperbbs

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Tony Hawks pro skater 2 & 3 on the playstation. I have never spent more time on any other games, me and my best friend played it almost every day after school and didn't get sick of it, taking turns every 2 minutes trying to complete different objectives in crazy levels and with an awesome soundtrack. I Probably wouldn't have liked it that much if i played it alone.
KKND krossfire and red alert introduced me to RTS and they were even somewhat playable on a console.
And ofcourse quake 2, the only fps that i liked on the PS, besides fighting alien cyborgs was a lot more fun than these goddamned terrorists that have infested almost every shooter nowadays. And the soundtrack! It really got me in the mood to kick some alien ass.
 

Fractral

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Final Fantasy 9, for being the game that made me realize that story was just as important as gameplay in a game. While in a technical sense I can see how it is worse than more recent good jrpg's I have played like Persona 4, I will always love it more. The box has pride of place in my games collection, next to Final Fantasy 7 and Persona 3 FES.
I should also mention Pokemon Ruby, for being that game which brought me into gaming. I played that game religiously as a kid. It must have taken me 50 hours to beat, and 20 or more tries on the elite 4, but I loved every moment of it. Every new area was a discovery, every new species a delight. I was playing it completely blind, you see, having no knowledge of Pokemon beyond Pikachu. The 3rd generation games are still my favorite ones.
 

GundamSentinel

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There aren't really any games that I would say have changed my life, but there are a couple that stand out for me, even when they're not my absolute favorites.

I have a lot of fond memories of Age of Mythology. I've spent many hours in the campaign, skirmishing and with friends. One of the first games I got when I finally got a (for that time) good PC and I only have good memories of it.

The same goes for Final Fantasy XII. It's a game I put more hours in than I care to count and I loved every second of it.
 

Blood Brain Barrier

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Exius Xavarus said:
Blood Brain Barrier said:
Exius Xavarus said:
Golden Sun Axe
Golden Sun: The Lost Age Axe II
Can't say I disagree with you there!

Also Civilization (PC) and Space Quest.
I can. Because I don't remember Golden Axe fondly.
I don't remember Golden Sun at all. Looks like one of those hundreds of lookalike mass-produced Japanese games made each year. Not to say some of those weren't good.
 

Sigmund Av Volsung

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I remember Lord of The Rings : Return of The King having awesome combat and really nice graphics.

Suffice to say, the latter part is most definitely nostalgic.

 

Exius Xavarus

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Blood Brain Barrier said:
Exius Xavarus said:
Blood Brain Barrier said:
Exius Xavarus said:
Golden Sun Axe
Golden Sun: The Lost Age Axe II
Can't say I disagree with you there!

Also Civilization (PC) and Space Quest.
I can. Because I don't remember Golden Axe fondly.
I don't remember Golden Sun at all. Looks like one of those hundreds of lookalike mass-produced Japanese games made each year. Not to say some of those weren't good.
If you say so. If you don't like Golden Sun, that's fine. But kindly refrain from editing quotes to make it seem like I remembered a different game. As I see it, we are most certainly not in agreement.
 

Yoshi4102

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Mario in general has left a lasting impact on me by far.

Super Mario Bros. 3: first game I ever played, and solidified me as an avid gamer! I know I'm not blinded by nostalgia goggles because I still play it beginning to end several times a year. I just LOVE the way Mario controls and the level design of each world theme.
 

PilgrimScott_III

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Jazz Jackrabbit. I played the HELL out of the demo as a kid. The demo was all I had access to back then, but the platforming and gameplay mechanics were so much fun, and the graphics were easily some of the best I'd seen in a DOS game; hell, the game is more of a feast for the eyes than so many modern games. And don't even get me started on the music; easily some of the best I've ever heard in a video game ever.

And as long as I'm talking about DOS games, I'll also mention Duke Nukem 3D and Command and Conquer: Red Alert. My brother and I have many happy memories playing and chatting about those games :)

As far as console games are concerned, I'll say Kingdom Hearts, The World Ends With You, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, and 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors. There are more, but these ones are the first to spring to mind, and I'd like to keep it short.
 

Rebel_Raven

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The Road War series. Dos based games where you were a person on a mission to save the world by finding important people. Meh plot? Yeah, I often forgot it existed.
Here's where it gets interesting:
You did this by roaming a map of various large masses of land. One Road War had a rough map of the united states, one Europe. Along the way you looted, recruited, and basically created an army of vehicles that could be upgraded. These vehicles from side cars to semis were manned by said recruits of various skills.
Why an army? Because there were mutants, Rival gangs, cannibals, disease, radiation, desertion, and many factors that could impact the size of your army.
Among the human enemies there were friendlies. Yes, diplomacy was an option, but it can help as much as hinder as the mysterious group opens fire.

Oh, you also needed to maintain your fleet of vehicles.

Battles could be auto-resoved, or a randomly generated map could be created where you tactically moved each vehicle in turn based top down combat. Each encounter was generally done with guns, you could aim for wheels, roofs, drivers etc. Volleys of fire exchange, results are had. It's more interesting than that, but it's hard to describe the full amount of combat options that include ramming.
Vehicle velocity had to be taken into account, too as you turned them, and such.
The combat was amazingly deep, but easy enough to pick up.

Along the way, you sorta built an empire of supply caches, claimed areas, and so forth.

I mostly watched my dad play, but I learned, and was fascinated. If I tried to play it now, on a modern machine, the game would run so fast it was detrimental, or I'd need an emulator.

I'd say this series needs a reboot.
 

the_great_cessation

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Oh great, another opportunity for me to wax nostalgic about Zelda.

So yeah, for me that title would be all the main console Legend of Zelda titles released between 1992 and 2006 (A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess to be specific). These titles all had such a profound effect on both my childhood and growing up and as a result influenced my tastes in fiction in all its forms. Ocarina of Time was the first video game I ever owned and I have really strong memories of both how much I was infatuated with it as a kid as well as real world memories I had attached to the game.

One of the best early memories I have of my father was when he used to play Ocarina of Time with me. He never really understood it and couldn't even get to the Deku Tree but he tried to and I always appreciated the times he sat down and engaged with something I loved with me. Zelda was a social thing as well. I remember gathering around with my friends at school and talking about the game - trading secrets and strategies and hypothesizing what we thought would come next. More than anything though, I was just simply enraptured with the land of Hyrule, the characters who populated it and the overwhelming sense of adventure I felt exploring its beautiful over world and nefarious dungeons. When I wasn't playing Zelda, I was thinking about it. I remember writing short stories about Zelda for creative writing assignments at school and doodling Triforces all over my binder. My walls were adorned with Zelda posters and I had notebooks full of pictures I drew depicting characters from the series. My favorite piece of Zelda merchandise I owned was the Official Nintendo Player's Guide for Ocarina of Time - a gift given to me by my grandmother shortly before she passed away. At the time I loved it because I loved reading the legend-like way in which it narrated the guide, but the real reason I still held on to it all these years was because of what it represents to me.

While Ocarina of Time was the game that inspired all this fandom, ALTTP, MM, and WW all furthered my love for the series and helped further immerse me in the world and lore of Zelda. However, Twilight Princess will always be the game that stands out the most to me. I remember seeing the trailer for the first time. I was 13 at the time and I was excited - more than I ever have or ever will be for a piece of fiction ever again. Just the concept of a new Zelda game with this darkly stylized new look and significant sense of scale had my imagination going nuts. I remember soaking up every piece of information I could find on the game. Whether it was by tying up the phone lines by watching the trailer over and over again on my familie's broadband connection or buying the latest issue of EGM or Nintendo Power to look at screen shots on the bus ride home, my imagination was constantly fixated on the game.

However, alot can happen over two years and I started to stop gaming. I moved away and had a hard time adapting. Along with this I went through a lot of personal experiences that shifted my interests elsewhere (mainly towards music and the opposite sex). However, that Christmas I received the game as a present from my parents (who knew how much I wanted this game years prior). Suddenly, all my memories of the series flooded back to me: the imagined spaces I explored in Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, the characters I met in Ocarina and Majora's Mask, the dungeons I craftily navigated in ALTTP and all the time I spent daydreaming about my next adventure in Hyrule - I was brimming with a child-like glee I had not known in years. When I finally got to playing the game, I was not disappointed. In fact, I'd argue that Twilight Princess is the best game in the series to date - capturing everything that made the originals so great and amplifying on the sense of adventure and place tenfold. Even with that game, I have good social memories as an equally nostalgic friend of mine ended up buying the game and Gamecube the following day. The Christmas break was then spent playing the game and then meeting up on later one where we would gush about the game and compare notes on our experience with it. It really took me back to that schoolyard experience I had with Ocarina of Time. Twilight Princess is,to me, an immersive love letter to my childhood and the sense of adventure, discovery, inquiry and heroism that I identified with so strongly growing up. Beyond that, I love how these games are not only an important part of so many peoples childhood and growing up but they are thematically about childhood and growing up. Every single Zelda game is at it's core dedicated to this theme and I think that's why it stuck with me so late into my young adulthood (I'm in my early twenties) in a way no other movie, book, cartoon or video game has. For whatever reason, The Legend of Zelda series (circa 1992-2006) will forever be an important part of my growing up and integral part in shaping how I read fiction and my relation to it.


(I apologize for the essay)
 

DeimosMasque

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A few come to mind. As a man in his thirties I've gotten to see the fall of Atari, rise of Nintendo, the Bit Wars, the Playstation release, etc. etc. My first computer was an Atari computer. My first console was Atari as well.

From the 80s period: Ultima 2, Pool of Radiance, some simple ABC 123 type games my father programmed for me when he was unemployed. Then I was given an NES and it was Legend of Zelda (I remember 8 year old me scared to go into any of the dungeons), Super Mario (I remember my Grandfather playing though all the worlds without dying once), Final Fantasy (I have wonderful memories of being my father's navigator as we tried to figure out where to go next), Wizardry NES (teaching me how complex RPG work)

Follow all that with the 90s: X-Com UFO Defense that both scared me and made me think. Star Control 2 which was my first multiple ending game I ever encountered. Leisure Suit Larry 5 (my first adult game at a 11), Kings Quest 6 (first point-n-click game and my first VGA game) Gabriel Knight (first modern day horror game)

After that Metal Gear Solid, Mario Kart, WWF No Mercy and Golden Eye. There were other games that caught my attention. Ultima Online (bought first day, played for about two months) Gabriel Knight 2 (VMA Hell), Police Quest SWAT (more VMA Hell) Phantasmagoria 1 and 2. And so much more, but I was just going through the motions.

Things were much the same until Dead Rising and Mass Effect came around. Before that I was just going through the motions and playing games because that was what I expected of myself. And then I was adoring WET, Bayonetta, Oblivion, Skyrim, Left4Dead, and so much more.

This last generation saved me and brought me back. And while I'll never had games like the original Ultimas, Pool of Radiance, Legend of Zelda or things like Kings Quest and Space Quest and Gabriel Knight. Nor will I get a game that allows you to fail like Space Quest 2 again. For me it's a weird time to be a gamer.