• Name the five most important video games that shaped your childhood
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UT99 & Unreal Gold Serious Sam Morrowind taught me to read Horizons (now Istaria or something) Many various n64 games, including zelda, golden eye, etc
Metal Gear Solid Runescape Crash Bandicoot Spyro Resident Evil
Battlefield: Vietnam Max Payne Diablo II Mark of Kri Medal of Honor: Frontline
Half Life IL-2 Midtown Madness MS Flight Simulator 2000 (I think..) Mario 64
runescape garrys mod command and conquer red alert 2 and a few other c&c games team fortress 2 halo 1
DKC2 Yoshi's Island Flight Sim' 98 Army Men 2 MoH Rising Sun
Super Metroid Resident Evil The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Battlefield 1942 Unreal Tournament 99
Duke Nukem (The original 1993 game) Raiden II Rayman 2 Rollercoaster Tycoon Jazz Jackrabbit 2
Super Mario 64 Zelda OoT Banjo Kazooie Pokemon Blue Sonic Adventure 2
Bubsy the bobcat(ohhhh yeah) Gran Turismo 1 and 2 Crash Bandicoot Tiberian sun/Firestorm Diablo 1 and 2
super mario bros ocarina of time majora's mask 1nsane super mario 64
Worms Armageddon Midtown Madness Jazz Jackrabbit 2 The Sims Microsoft Train Simulator
Crash team racing Spyro Half Life Gmod (The mod version, not the release) Battlefield 1942
Gran Turismo (1 through to 4) - Huge racing fan, watched Le mans since 2002 every year and really enjoyed playing this when I was really young Time played - From 1999 to 2006 across all games Half Life - Played through the entire game and got hooked on the multiplayer of this and played Team fortress classic too Time played - Same as above Garry's mod - Played since Garry's mod 9 and I can still remember my first day of Garry's mod 10 Time played - From 2005 to the present, Currently have 4200+ hours recorded of Garry's mod on my steam Runescape - Quite enjoyed this when I was younger, I mainly enjoyed exploring and money making rather than leveling as much as others which brings me onto my final game Time played - From 2006 to 2008 World of Warcraft - Played since Burning crusade and have really enjoyed this one all the way upto Mists of pandaria where I think its time to call it done as blizzard have become a money making monster. Time played - From 2008 to 2014
Battlezone Battlezone II (still one of the best I've played) Freelancer (just an all round really good game.) Age of Mythology (never played AOE2) Men of Valour (it was fucking infuriating, never beat that bullshit final level)
Bioshock Oblivion Fallout 1 Max Payne 2 COD 4
super mario kart legend of zelda: link's awakening pokemon silver legend of zelda: majora's mask super smash bros. i had a ps1 and a sega genesis but i wasn't too interested in any of the games i had
Dune 2000 Quake Diablo Stronghold Tes:morrowind
Doom Crash Bandicoot TimeSplitters Flight Simulator Pokemon
Final Fantasy X Dark Cloud 2 Super Smash Bros Melee Starcraft Tales of Symphonia
Spyro 3: Year of the Dragon Pokémon Silver version Kingdom Hearts 2 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Super Mario World
Runescape Pokemon Super Smash Bros. Melee Age of Empires Final Fantasy VIII Seriously, my childhood was mostly going to school, sitting inside the house, parents would occasionally go to bingo at night for a few hours and whatever, we'd get money on Christmases and birthdays, so by the time we get things, they're probably a few years old. Pokemon is Pokemon....i mean WHO hasn't engaged in it when it originally came about? it was just weird and unusual for an RPG but it had quite a bit of depth for a game that isn't as high in graphics or plot than say [I]Final Fantasy[/I]. sometime in 200X we got a PS2 and a Gamecube, they were sorta OK, think we mostly missed out on the gems of that generation, think even in those days i only just bought [I]Final Fantasy 7[/I] and played [I]Metal Gear Solid[/I] in means other than a demo disc...brother took it and Dino Crisis 2 and swapped them for some gamecube X-Men fighting game that sucked then for [I]Melee[/I]. Chances are he'll still say that Smash is his, and they he didn't trade away [I]Red[/I] for his Friend's Sister's [I]Yellow[/I]. as for Runescape, it was pretty unique, the youngness of myself and lack of information about the intricities of the game just made the game feel large and explorative. seriously, i still remember making banksale threads in the Marketplace forums years ago and managing to scrape up the GP for a Sara page set (not Zammy!). i remember the launch of Hunter where i was at secondary School, in the Libary reading up on Runescape Community's (the Zybez forum) opinions about the Hunter Crossbow having (pre-eoc, recall about Mith arrow/Addy Bolt) powerful Bolts in a game where we only had Crossbow, Phoenix Crossbow and Karil's Crossbow (which used it's own type of ammo) and also the fact that Swamp Tar could be an alternate herblore method. When i got home from school, i spent an hour trying to catch Tropical Wagtails instead of Crimson Swifts. i may or may not have cried at Construction's release, because the change in music/theme sounded sorta shiny/harmonious..remember Summoning's release, but i think everyone was alluded to that because of Edgevill.net (long defunct) leaking images from the cache, back then...i was in College. so getting home back then from kinda nice since it got really dark at 5, sorry for going on about it, but it was what i mostly linked with it. (that and the old Dev Blog comics made Andrew kind of a Bishie, except in real life he's kind of like that guy from Peep Show, except with fetus eyes...) Other notable mentions • Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3, i recall brother joining a clan called GOAT...CYGOAT?/ imo 4/Underground killed it. • Dungeon Keeper (weird Tile-based RTS Management game, with optional first person spells, play from the side of evil) • Mario 64 (not that it's bad, but it was the N64....kinda got overshadowed by...) • ...Diddy Kong Racing (Kart racing game with an Adventure Mode!?!?!, did get it on a birthday with console, but not with M64) • Crash Bandicoot. feels more like a nicer exploration of a traditional 2D platform style, but in 3D. broke apart from games like Mario by having collectibles like Crystals for alternate stage exits and whatever. again, not that Mario 64 is bad, just that it only had stars and basic movements...Crash did too, but his game was Nintendo hard.
Runescape Half Life Counterstrike: Source GTA:Vice City Garry's Mod
- Super Mario World - Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 - Final Fantasy 8 - Halo - Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Crash Team Racing Halo Shadow of the Colossus Pokemon: Yellow The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 64 Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask Resident Evil 2 Worms World Party Spyro the Dragon
Jazz Jackrabbit Super Mario Bros Super Smash Bros Ocarina of Time Banjo Kazooie Super Mario Sunshine Halo 2 I couldn't pick just 5, but these are the 7 most important games from my childhood, in the approximate order that I played them. They're the games that developed my tastes, and they all hold up pretty well, except maybe Smash. Project M has spoiled me, but I'll never forget the days at my friend's house playing Smash for hours.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 & 3 Need for Speed Underground 1 & 2 LEGO Island 1 & 2 LEGO Racers 1 & 2
Pretty much every Mario game released. Pretty much every Mega Man game released. Pretty much every Valve game released Pretty much every Doom game released BIT.TRIP games (maybe Super Meat Boy)
Super Metroid Turok 2 Super Smash Bros Goldeneye Halo 1 I have spent hundreds of hours were spent on the MP of those last 3 games.
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