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Q*Bert forms the very cornerstone of my innermost soul. | |
Tetris gave me obsessive-compulsive disorder. I have an inescapable urge to stack things in an orderly fashion. Leaving holes in my stacks abhors me. Encountering long pieces brings me great joy. Should my stacks ever reach the ceiling, I'll surely suffer a heart-attack from sheer terror. | |
Crash Bandicoot is where my gaming hobby began, and therefore the biggest influence. Dynasty Warriors 4 made me fascinated with history which would eventually become one of my favourite and strongest subjects at school. Destroy All Humans! and Mercenaries expanded on that with the Cold War era and modern political eras respectively. Mercenaries also made me aware of the world around me and I began to take an interest in current affairs and international politics. Muv-Luv Alternative solidified my belief that humanity is capable of making absolutely mind-blowing works of entertainment. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix reignited my interest in music; something that I had completely ignored for about 5 years and served as a the foundation to what would eventually lead to me listening to music constantly. | |
Mario made me eat mushrooms. Lots of mushrooms. | |
Katawa Shoujo made me start going to the gym and pick up the guitar again. Still going to the gym and playing guitar to this day. | |
No, silly, the gym is for exercise. | |
Morrowind made me the fantasy RPG fanatic that I am today. | |
I don't see how a game can change one's life. However, a game the altered my gaming perspective/life was Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (PS1). | |
Myst Online URU Live gave me an online social life after HS (not that I had much of a social life in HS anyway) and I met great people and had some very... interesting social experiences. (that is, i meat a lot of @$$holes too) without Myst Online I wonder just wtf I'd be doing after HS... probably be in a better place and less jaded right now but who knows? :) | |
Yeah, I probably could have worded that more clearly. | |
Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie will always remain in my heart as the games that really got me started into the entire gaming fandom. Up until recently, I had considered a career in game design, going as far as to spend my first three years in college toward that kind of degree. I wanted nothing more than to create games along the same fashion as to simple, quirky, and most importantly, fun platformers that made my own childhood so much fun. But that is what it is, a dream. Still, as for my personal tastes, there will never be a more entertaining game than those two aforementioned. I am considering getting a tattoo of a Jiggy, though. I adore those games that much, yes. | |
I was about 12 when I played it, so it influenced who I started to hang around with, which further determined my personality. I reckon it's effect on me is in part due to the age. | |
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The very first Dragon Warrior for the NES (which I think was back in 1988). Got me hooked on RPG's. | |
San Andreas taught me english, motherfucker. | |
Dynasty Warriors gave me an interest in Chinese culture. I met my best friend of 15years thank to Resident Evil. :3 | |
Guild Wars pretty much play a big part of my online gaming life. About 2/3 of my Uni life was spend at that game and no my degee did not suffer for it (I kind of used it as my reward for my hard project works). | |
Ah if only I could use gaming as a reward instead of instead of. I'd have done a lot better in school. Actually I'm lying with or without games I would have done the same. concentrating is hard | |
Resident Evil made me view things through a much gorier lens and totally altered how and what I drew. Seriously I was a gore hound for a good while after seeing just what one could come up with once you tore some skin here and added an eyeball there. | |
Homeworld showed me just which kind of story I like. The initial hopefulness with the Mothership being built, then a crushing depressing bit, Kharak being destroyed, the bulk of the story being made up of a rather desperate struggle, ending rather bittersweetly. If you think about it, a lot of media goes like that. Battlestar Galactica, KotOR, Deus Ex: HR, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, all follow the basic structure of hopeful intially, major defeat, the hard journey and the bittersweet ending. | |
Bioshock introduce me to the idea of Objectivism which has become my personal favorite political and social philosophy. | |
I have to say Gears of War helped me calm my anger. Without that game, I'd probably be suckerpunching people, stabbing others...yeah. I had a pretty bad anger problemas a child. | |
I'd have to say Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. It was the first game to turn me on to online gaming and was also one of my first 3D games (I only had a SNES, never got an N64).
During the height of my Tetris gaming, every once in a while I'd play an imaginary game of Tetris in my head (when I'm away from a computer or cellphone and in class or in a waiting room or something). I could actually keep track of it longer than you'd expect, and the pieces came out fairly randomly, and the straight piece still took forever to show up. | |
The amazon trail.....i dream of capturing fish with a spear now! | |
Well, I'd say it's my old PC games and demos. Those things got me really interested in gaming and are the biggest game-related factor that affected my personality. To name a few I remember fondly: Supaplex taught me to appreciate simplicity and hate scissors, Tachyon: The Fringe made me develop an interest for all space-related things and Daikatana made me desensitized to violence and made me appreciate shooters. Yes, fucking Daikatana out of all games. | |
For me it would be Rome: Total War. It's what got me into ancient history and human history in general (I was only interested in the prehistoric before that). It's also what got me into studying tactics and strategy. | |
Operation Flashpoint and ArmA convinced me to keep myself away from the army. It's all fun and games (and running through eight miles of woodland with a backpack the size of Bosnia) until the bullets come in to it... WoW did learn me alot about teamwork and how to function and cooperate under pressure, even if it's not something I'd reveal to anyone. Ever. And Europa Universalis/Hearts of Iron taught me why international politics tend to be such bollocks. And I didn't even have to worry about election campaigns or bribes. | |
The way I see it, is that all media can change someone in profound ways, but I think games do this the best because of their inclusion of other media, at any point in a game you might be in a situation where it is art, it is a book, it is a song, it is a movie. All of these things make it so much easier for games to shape us as individuals but not in the "We're all violent monsters" kind of way. By letting us experience all these different mediums at once. I think I went a bit off topic there, which is funny cause I started the topic :P | |
I only remember the frog-thing in it, but Number Munchers has set up a core in my mind. At least I think it was called "Number Munchers", or maybe it was "Math Munchers". I don't know. | |
NINJAED. Kinda... Also Pokemons affected my life greatly. And I'm pretty sure WoW made me dumber (is that a word? or should I say >>> more dumb?!) | |
I used to be absolutely terrified of graveyards when I was younger, to the point of being unable to pass one without freaking out and screaming. | |
Well, I remember after finishing FF 9 when I was about 12, I'm 20 now, I wanted to give ff8 a chance. In my group of friends back then no one had it, but one friend of mine knew this guy who had it and he gave it to me. That guy and I started talking and talking and introduced me to a whole other group of people who are now my real friends. My old group of friends ( so the people I hung around before becoming friends with that FF8 guy) are all screw ups now. In a way, FF 8 introduced me to a group of people that were smart, and seeing as people are a big part on personal developement, you can say FF 8 changed my life for the better. | |
Team Fortress 2 on the Xbox 360 is the game that really got me into gaming. I must have over 200 hours clocked into that baby. | |
Dunno about changing my life, but Baldur's Gate 2 was the first serious RPG I ever played (I think before that, I only played Fallout 3), and I remember feeling, "good God, this is what video games can be!" I then went and sincerely thanked the person who recommended that game for introducing me to something so wonderful. | |
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After reading Rage not being in Tony Hawk's remake and a little thinking it hit me. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 actually shaped me as a person, it is the reason I started to dress the way I dress, it is the thing that introduced me to the bands and music that I listen to, it turned me into the person I am today. I realised that about 5 minutes ago and it's rather profound.
So Escapist that makes me wonder, are there any games that have shaped you in such a massive way? Games that you played as a child and only realised later how much of an affect they had on you?