THE game that Changed your gaming view

I don't really have a favorite, but Crysis is what convinced me to invest in PC gaming, sell my Wii, and quit using my 360(I only keep it for Netflix.) When I went to destroy the jammer in the first mission and stood on that cliff overlooking the beach, I was blown away. It looked so real. And it was running at a much higher framerate than most console games.

It's not my fav game anymore but the game that changed my life and was a major time sink was WoW. It was the first game that I actually fill in a application form to play with others. The first game that I saw people screaming down the mic at each other when the made a mistake, the first game that felt like a part time job but I loved it, but like all good things it came to a end for me when Wrath ended and my guild fell apart.

I wouldn't go back to WoW for all the gold farmed in China, but I still have good memories of it :)

I have a few favorite games.

Mario 64 is one of the first games I ever played, and even today it has aged extremely well and remains, for me, one of the best all time 3D platformers, if not the best.

Half-Life just revolutionized shooters, today's games focus on set pieces and immersion and atmosphere, well Half-Life made all those things cool back in 1998 and it still plays well with smart AI that can still beat the AI in a game like Crysis 9 years later.

Then Fallout 3, which contains the most time I ever spent on one game, with its hopeless landscape and brutal wasteland, and plenty to explore with an unbroken and immersive experience, its one of my favorite all time games and a worthy sequel to the classic games, if styled completely differently.

I'd say of all of these, though Mario 64 was one of my first gaming titles, Half-Life really made me appreciate a good, single player atmospheric shooter. Before that I wasn't a big shooter guy and only played a couple of multiplayer shooters with friends.

Goldeneye 64 was probably the game that "changed my view."

I bought my 360 in 2007, and the first games I played was Gears of War and Bioshock. I was in awe... Some of the best moments in my life of gaming.

Super Mario Bros on the NES blew minds back when it was first released (if you were a child at that time, you know what I'm talking about).

It was truly jaw dropping to be playing a game like that in your own home, and pretty much every kid I knew either owned it or was begging their parents to buy it for them.

I don't play many Nintendo games now, but they (and Atari) are the reason I got into gaming in the first place, and Super Mario Bros (and The Legend of Zelda, to a lesser extent) are the two games that blew me away the most.

KoTOR got me into the RPG genre.

I have a few favorite games.

Mario 64 is one of the first games I ever played, and even today it has aged extremely well and remains, for me, one of the best all time 3D platformers, if not the best.

Half-Life just revolutionized shooters, today's games focus on set pieces and immersion and atmosphere, well Half-Life made all those things cool back in 1998 and it still plays well with smart AI that can still beat the AI in a game like Crysis 9 years later.

Then Fallout 3, which contains the most time I ever spent on one game, with its hopeless landscape and brutal wasteland, and plenty to explore with an unbroken and immersive experience, its one of my favorite all time games and a worthy sequel to the classic games, if styled completely differently.

I'd say of all of these, though Mario 64 was one of my first gaming titles, Half-Life really made me appreciate a good, single player atmospheric shooter. Before that I wasn't a big shooter guy and only played a couple of multiplayer shooters with friends.

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Final Fantasy III was the game that really made it clear I wanted to be a gamer until I die :P

FF7 was the game that made me deside that consoles were no longer going to be my main platform to play games on.

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Fallout 3 marks a turning point in my life.

Not sure how.

Just a mental bookmark between before and after.

CSS, it's what really got me into pc gaming. I was mainly a console gamer (ps3, mostly) until christmas 2009, when i got css for free from a cousin. Started playing it, and since then i've gotten nearly 500 hours, and i've also sold all my consoles.

276 games on steam now, from December 20th, 2009 to June 6th, 2012.

Tri-part history...

Starcraft is what made me start getting serious in gaming. Before that, I kind of dabbled in those NHL games (I owned but barely touched games like Outcast and Oni). So Starcraft naturally evolved into Warcraft III.

I was introduced to Halo, and it singlehandedly made me buy an Xbox and start on FPS games. Some of the best experiences of my "gaming years" with LANs and whatnot. And, indirectly, I like to think that obsession was the deciding factor that set me on my desired career path.

Here I can also give credit to KoTOR for single-handedly getting me into RPGs. I'd only been exposed to JRPGs at that point, and I really did not gaf until I got to Dantooine.

Company of Heroes is what made me switch back to PC gaming. It's still one of the greatest RTS experiences I've ever had the pleasure of playing.

I remember discovering Minecraft when it was in alpha, it was the day I truly started following indie gaming.

The Secret of Monkey Island.

When i first got this game on my Amiga 600 i knew i was utterly hooked. Adventure games became my passion. So i got a PC and bought every Lucasarts game i could get my hand on. The rest is history. Funny that my favorite game right now is Gemini Rue, considering the similarities in graphics and gameplay. 1990 <-> 2012 :)

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion

I was 12 back then, i read a magazine that had a review on the game, i read it everyday, and i was amazed, i had never played many games back then, I dreamt about the images i saw on the magazine, i had to play it.

One day, i was in my neighbours home, and guess what i saw in his room shelf? Oblivion!

Borrowed it imediatelly, ran home, installed it, and was immersed!

Played it 10 times already, and it holds up as my favourite game, i was so amazed at it!

If you're talking about the game that got us into playing games to begin with, it was Sonic Adventure for me. It certainly wasn't the first open ended adventure game but it was the first one I played and really demonstrated how absorbing and fun a game could really be. Until I played that I had been playing 2D platformers on handhelds.

Wasteland. It wasn't the first computer RPG that I played but it was the first to really get its claws in me and consume a lot of my free time. Fortunately, I was a lot younger back then so I had plenty of free time to piddle away. I was doing somersaults and cartwheels when they announced the sequel.

STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (and to a lesser extent the other games in the series) was the game that made me become aware of the abilities of PC gaming, and taught me a lot on what first person shooter design should move towards in the future (open-ended, largely unscripted gameplay, (semi-)realism, atmosphere and freedom). ArmA 2: Combined Operations is similar in that it taught me a lot about what makes PC gaming special, and what can be achieved with a relatively small budget. I still often use these titles as benchmarks for new games that come out.

For me it was most definitely Battlefield 1942. There is a clear separation in my mind from BB and AB (Before Battlefield and After Battlefield).

BF 1942 absolutely revolutionized what a mutliplayer game could be. I remember just being in absolute awe at the fact that there were people running around with guns on foot, planes in the air, and tanks roaming around all on the same level. Multiplayer gaming would never be the same after that.

It was also probably the first PC game that made me believe that consoles were clearly inferior. Though I've always been a PC gamer, before that I of course gamed on consoles (nintendo, genesis, N64), but BF 1942 was something that was just completely unatainable on a console. I immediately felt like consoles would always be playing catchup to PC gaming, and I think that's definitely been the case.

Um the original fallout and def S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shoc

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I guess it would be Ocarina of Time (not a PC game :P), though it is hard to pick one that "changed my view". That could apply to more in their own way. Be it Diablo II, Battlefield, Super Metroid, Perfect Dark 64 or other games.

I used to play shooter games with cheat-codes. Then I beat Max Payne in 2002 without 'em. So yes, it was probably Max Payne that came closest to changing my approach to games.

As for my favorite? That would be Half-Life.

battlefield 2 and rome total war. those game at the time makes my head explode!

The Witcher, KOTOR 2 and Age of Empires 2.

Well Modern Warfare 3 told me not to buy every goddamn COD game that comes out every year because its the same goddamn game and sometimes even worse in the case of MW3. I'm not sure if that counts but otherwise it would have been Call of duty 4 which turned me into a hardcore gamer in the first place.Nirzzle

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Pokemon Red was my first video game I owned, so it has a special spot. Halo 2 got me into gaming as my main hobby, and Battlefield 3 convinced me to build a gaming a PC.

For the pc probably either BF 1942 or Battlefield 2.

1942 got me hyped up for pcgaming and what it could do with the open ended maps and vehicles, and BF2 was the first online game I owned and played myself. Blew my mind on every level.

Crysis is what made me realize what a current gen shooter could be. Since it nothing has even come close to taking up the mantle or even trying. Crysis 2 wasn't even close to making me feel how Crysis still does even on replay.

[QUOTE="Nirzzle"]Well Modern Warfare 3 told me not to buy every goddamn COD game that comes out every year because its the same goddamn game and sometimes even worse in the case of MW3. I'm not sure if that counts but otherwise it would have been Call of duty 4 which turned me into a hardcore gamer in the first place.GummiRaccoon

yeah ok

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[QUOTE="Nirzzle"]Well Modern Warfare 3 told me not to buy every goddamn COD game that comes out every year because its the same goddamn game and sometimes even worse in the case of MW3. I'm not sure if that counts but otherwise it would have been Call of duty 4 which turned me into a hardcore gamer in the first place.FPSfan1985

yeah ok

Well hating CoD is popular for all those who are unoriginal and stuck in last year when BF vs CoD was such a big deal.

Its a valid answer, CoD4 changed a lot this generation and likely got a lot of people into competitive multiplayer, while the single player really made set pieces for other developers to aspire to.

Call of Duty 4 is a masterpiece that got millions of gamers hooked on FPS games.

I've been waiting for the next "Call of Duty 4" to arrive for years now, hopefully it will happen soon.