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THE game that Changed your gaming view
- Jun 6, 2012 11:42 pm GMT
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 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 :)
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- Jun 7, 2012 12:33 am GMTFallout 3. I used to avoid RPGs before that.
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- Jun 7, 2012 1:07 am GMTstarcraft broodwar. Technically starcraft 2 as that is what made me play bw. Never knew there was such thing as a competitive gaming scene till bw and it's so awesome
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- Jun 7, 2012 3:10 am GMTThe first three games I ever bought for my PC made me a PC gamer addict, Half Life, Deus Ex, and Thief. All were fantastic and just offered amazing gameplay!
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- Jun 7, 2012 1:12 pm GMT
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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!
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- Jun 7, 2012 1:14 pm GMT
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.
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- Golden Eye, Ocarina of Time, Counter-Strike, Halo, KoTor, Star Wars Battle Grounds Each did something I didn't do before, Golden Eye great multiplayer, not that I never played multiplayer before but it would lead to getting halo.
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- Jun 7, 2012 4:38 pm GMTGod of war i used to take gaming casually until i played this thing in my ps2's cd tray and boy was i wrong ?
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- Jun 7, 2012 5:58 pm GMT
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.
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- Jun 7, 2012 6:18 pm GMT
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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.
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- Jun 8, 2012 5:02 am GMT
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"They'd've replaced his whole body if it would've improved performance. If that's how you judge a man -- by performance -- then eventually it's not about people but upgrades, versions, functionality..."Deus Ex and games developed by the Origin Systems/Looking Glass Studios/Irrational Studios/ION school- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jun 8, 2012 5:51 am GMT
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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.
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- Jun 8, 2012 7:52 am GMT
Um the original fallout and def S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shoc
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- Jun 8, 2012 7:58 am GMT
Warlords 2
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- Jun 8, 2012 8:04 am GMT
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- Jun 8, 2012 10:29 am GMT
I guess it would be Ocarina of Time (not a PC game
), 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.Edited on Jun 8, 2012 10:29 am GMTI 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.
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- Jun 9, 2012 9:00 am GMTWell 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.
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- Jun 9, 2012 9:26 am GMT
~~"Hands can't hit what your eyes can't see."~~
Everquest 1.. It was my first MMO and really opened my eyes to the possibility of the social part of gaming and what your capable of.. Before this games like Diablo 2 and Starcraft, you really only played with a handfull of people at a time in instanced areas.. The whole "world environment" blew away, and to boot it was extremely unforgiving which I miss in today's games.. Specifically just exploration was dangerous, and for a very long time there were no maps to the game.. Only coordinates, so you had to remember landmarks and what not.. I honestly think alot of it is spoonfed.. And thats a problem..- Please wait. Quick reply will be available shortly.
- Jun 9, 2012 10:12 am GMT
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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.
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- Jun 9, 2012 10:21 am GMT
battlefield 2 and rome total war. those game at the time makes my head explode!
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