What's the first game you played that you loved and still play it today? [A Break from ME3]
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The game that truly lead me down the path to becoming a gaming addict was Warcraft 3. I am not joking when I say I almost failed 9th grade because I was skipping school to play it in 2002. Oh to be young and stupid...
Final Fantasy Tactics. Every year when the weather starts to get spring like I get the urge to play that game. I know the translation is screwy and the game is buggy and in some places it can be broken, but hot damn I just love it so much. The story is epic, like MacBeth and Hamlet had a love child and it was possessed by demons. The battles take a lot of, well, Tactics. Play one wrong and you can watch your whole party turn into crystals before your eyes. I also love the cameo by Aeris and that Cloud is a playble character, admittedly one you have to hunt down. I love how in depth the job class system is. I just... I love that game so huggy-muggy much, and I play it once yearly.
Yeah, GOG is awesome - if it's a 20th century PC game somebody brings up in this thread, chances are they'll have it for just $5.99!Byere said:
Their repertoire includes another favourite I pick up and play every once in a while, Wing Commander: Privateer [http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/wing_commander_privateer]. It's the year 2669, and humanity is embroiled in a war against a race of cat aliens called the Kilrathi. And it kind of looks like we're on the losing side. If that wasn't enough, the local militia have got their hands full with pirates, drug runners and technology-hating religious extremists called the retros. Which is where you come in. Not as a military ace pilot out to save the galaxy, but a poor shlub who's just inherited a slow, crappy Tarsus-class freighter. Of course, you can just eke out a living shipping tungsten and grain between mining asteroids and farming worlds, but it is so much more fun to continuously upgrade your ship and start hunting more and more challenging bounty targets - until you are finally able to take on even a Kilrathi corvette. Of course, nothing says you've got to stay on the side of the law - smuggling Brilliance (future cocaine) or slaves can turn a tidy profit. Or, if you're up for a real challenge, look for a twitchy guy named Sandoval who graciously offers you an ancient artifact as collateral - thereby kicking off the main plot, which will sooner or later pit you against most major factions in the game, and something far worse.
Edit: Whew, that sounded like a sales pitch. For the record, I am not affiliated with GOG.com, I just really, really love Privateer and Jagged Alliance 2.
