Gaming gems you almost didn't play
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STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
When I picked it up from the bargin bin for $10 back in late '07 (yeah, bargin bin after 6 months on the shelf), it was simply cause I was looking for something different, and had grown tired of my usual FPS haunts (FEAR, Doom3, Quake4, etc.).
It's let to countless hundreds of hours of gameplay and modding for me over the last 3+ years.
When I picked it up from the bargin bin for $10 back in late '07 (yeah, bargin bin after 6 months on the shelf), it was simply cause I was looking for something different, and had grown tired of my usual FPS haunts (FEAR, Doom3, Quake4, etc.).
It's let to countless hundreds of hours of gameplay and modding for me over the last 3+ years.
Assassin's Creed for me. I played it at my cousins and i was terrible at it. I had really bad gaming experience with the game.
I got myself an xbox that years Christmas and saw it on sale preowned for 30 bucks.
I thought to myself why not and bought it along with BF2 Modern Combat.
I loved it. Assassin's Creed is now my favorite game series alongside Mass Effect.
I went to my cousin's place the next year and I finished the game for him. Start to finish in six hours.
I got myself an xbox that years Christmas and saw it on sale preowned for 30 bucks.
I thought to myself why not and bought it along with BF2 Modern Combat.
I loved it. Assassin's Creed is now my favorite game series alongside Mass Effect.
I went to my cousin's place the next year and I finished the game for him. Start to finish in six hours.
The Orange Box for me. I still don't really care about TF2 (just because I don't like online shooters) and the only Valve products I knew so far were Half-Life 1 (which I found just awful when I played it) and Counter-Strike, combined with Steam, I just wanted to avoid it completely.
Also, Portal seemed just like a ripoff of Narbacular Drop.
The I bought it...
And it was AWESOME! I loved HL2, I loved Portal, and I liked the TF2 design and "Meet The..." Videos (still missing the Medic though...), but still never actually played TF2. It might also be awesome, but as I said, I don't like online shooters.
Also, Portal seemed just like a ripoff of Narbacular Drop.
The I bought it...
And it was AWESOME! I loved HL2, I loved Portal, and I liked the TF2 design and "Meet The..." Videos (still missing the Medic though...), but still never actually played TF2. It might also be awesome, but as I said, I don't like online shooters.
I almost didn't play Call of Duty 4, figuring it would just be a generic "realistic" shooter with too much of an emphasis on multiplayer and no meat to its story. Then I watched Yahtzee's review of it, decided to give it a whirl, and now I consider it to be one of my favourite games (it's #4, specifically, right after Half-Life 2, Portal, and Dead Space 2). It's also one of only three games that have actually managed to make me cry.
The Suffering
It looked stupid...sounded stupid...and all of the reviews seemed to have people starting on Nightmare mode. It was on sale for 5 bucks and I figured, "Eh...5 bucks is worth an hour or two."
Played that game twice. Loved it. Real atmosphere building and the little psychological hiccups were interesting instead of distracting. Have to play it on normal to get a real feel for the game, though.
It looked stupid...sounded stupid...and all of the reviews seemed to have people starting on Nightmare mode. It was on sale for 5 bucks and I figured, "Eh...5 bucks is worth an hour or two."
Played that game twice. Loved it. Real atmosphere building and the little psychological hiccups were interesting instead of distracting. Have to play it on normal to get a real feel for the game, though.
The series of Divine Divinity. I hadn't heard much about it and I started playing it when those sort of graphics were heavily outdated. I now love it and count it as one of my favorite series.
Tales of Symphonia. When I first saw the cel-shaded style it was a huge turn off, and as one of the only games I've played that has enough story and character development to really draw me in, I would have been missing out on what is now one of my favorite games.
When I was little we wanted to buy Kirby's Dreamland for the gameboy, except it came in a pack of 3 games and not seperately. My mum didn't want to buy this, but eventually gave in. In this pack of three was the gaming gem of all gems - Zelda: Link's Awakening.
I never would have played Tales of Symphonia if I hadn't seen a commercial for it. I flipped on the TV one day, it was on some random channel, and it was at a different time in the day than usual since school got out early. It was the only thing that tipped me off to the box art at Gamestop that weekend. I haven't ever seen the commercial again since that day. Now I'm a devout Tales series fan.
I also never would have even heard of Ocarina of Time if my next door neighbor hadn't let me watch him play it.
I also never would have even heard of Ocarina of Time if my next door neighbor hadn't let me watch him play it.
Mega Man 2, I had had a NES back in the 80s but had never played or heard of the series till 00s, now I rebought a NES and have completed it 20+ times, perfect platforming and shooting, just perfect
Thief 2 and Psychonauts. I learned of them through Yahtzee.
I loved them both, though I never managed to finish Thief 2 (stuck in bank level) still a great game, but I'm not the kind of person for stealth gameplay.
I loved them both, though I never managed to finish Thief 2 (stuck in bank level) still a great game, but I'm not the kind of person for stealth gameplay.
Diablo 2- Id just gotten my 1st computer and desperately wanted a game to play on it, I had chosen the sims but when I went to buy the store didnt have it in so instead I picked up the game with the coolest boxart.
Ten years later and Im still playing it and still have the original copy.
Ten years later and Im still playing it and still have the original copy.
Two for me. Tales of Symphionia, which my brother rented when I was 14 and I orgiinally thought it was bad, but it is with phantasy star online my favorite game. As well PSO my brother bought from a friend and I never wanted to play since he was so much higher level than I was. So I decided to stop crying and played it continuosly. I never want to leave Ragol!