I've played a lot of video games ever since I can remember, maybe as early as 5 or 6 years old. Since then I've been playing something. But at the time like my older brother, we didn't play because we loved video games or thought about it or did all the extra stuff one does when they are really into something. For me, it wasn't until I played FFIX and Legend of the Dragoon did I start to really love playing video games. Before it was just going through the motions of playing but never appreciating what I was playing.
Then I played those 2 games and I was hooked. I loved the story of them, I loved the characters and all the various ways you can grow your characters. Even now I'm replaying FFIX because I've played the other games I have and I'm bored with them.
So I'm curious if anyone has a game or two they've played that just clicked with you and you became a "gamer" as in this is what made you really want to play video games far more than you may have before that game.
F-Zero X. No question about it. That's the game that I started waking up at 5 or 6 AM just to play some before going to school, and then rush home to turn it on. It was the first game I managed to 100% complete. Every tournament by every character.
The first games I remember playing was one of those Dragon Ball Z games. (Probably a Budakai). I remember Crash 2 a little, also but thats it. I think those Dragon Ball Z games were the games that really got me into gaming though.
I dunno, I guess it was just gaming in general that got my head spinning. I still do have a very special spot in my heart for Double Dragon II on the NES. I think the very first series I tried to get all the games in was Crash Bandicoot. Oh, those were the days...
Believe it or not, I think it was this.
http://www.vgfacts.com/game/dragonballzu...ebattle22/
Its one of my first gaming memories, using ssj3 Goku, furiously using the throw attack against an AI because it was the only was to beat it.
Also, I've been doing a Chrono Cross playthrough that I jump back into every now and again for the past year now.
That, and Starcraft. I played that until I broke the disc, then I got another one, repeat maybe 4-5 times.
(01-04-2014, 08:41 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]Believe it or not, I think it was this.
http://www.vgfacts.com/game/dragonballzu...ebattle22/
Its one of my first gaming memories, using ssj3 Goku, furiously using the throw attack against an AI because it was the only was to beat it.
Also, I've been doing a Chrono Cross playthrough that I jump back into every now and again for the past year now.
I got to be honest, I didn't like Ultimate Battle 22. The controls for it were way to clunky for me. Maybe I didn't have the patience for it.
Chrono Cross though I love. I actually played that before Chrono Trigger, so thankfully it wasn't a true sequel in the strictest sense. It was more like a alternate time line or the consequences of killing Lavos in Trigger. I own both now and I kinda like Trigger more by comparison but Cross is still a great game.
(01-04-2014, 08:44 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-04-2014, 08:41 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]Believe it or not, I think it was this.
http://www.vgfacts.com/game/dragonballzu...ebattle22/
Its one of my first gaming memories, using ssj3 Goku, furiously using the throw attack against an AI because it was the only was to beat it.
Also, I've been doing a Chrono Cross playthrough that I jump back into every now and again for the past year now.
I got to be honest, I didn't like Ultimate Battle 22. The controls for it were way to clunky for me. Maybe I didn't have the patience for it.
Chrono Cross though I love. I actually played that before Chrono Trigger, so thankfully it wasn't a true sequel in the strictest sense. It was more like a alternate time line or the consequences of killing Lavos in Trigger. I own both now and I kinda like Trigger more by comparison but Cross is still a great game.
That's actually what they were aiming for if I remember correctly, the consequences thing.
I think it is a shame really that it had to be labeled Chrono at all. Though it did help the game quite a bit lore wise, it also hindered it in the same ways and more.
Its my favorite rpg and I just wish there were more like it.
Also, I really hate Ultimate Battle 22. You gotta realize, in the memory I am describing, I was probably 5.
(01-04-2014, 08:48 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]I really hate Ultimate Battle 22. You gotta realize, in the memory I am describing, I was probably 5.
Sorry to hear that was apart of your early childhood. I was like 12-13 when I played it. Actually worst yet, I bought it without ever seeing it before. I was a huge fan of DBZ that I just saw the title in Walmart and just had to have it. I think I payed like $25-30 for it, not cheap really especially since it was just a Japanese import with the Japanese voice actors doing the noises. Only real cool thing about it was the intro and the fact that they give you the code to get the extra characters.
(01-04-2014, 08:51 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-04-2014, 08:48 PM)Psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]I really hate Ultimate Battle 22. You gotta realize, in the memory I am describing, I was probably 5.
Sorry to hear that was apart of your early childhood. I was like 12-13 when I played it. Actually worst yet, I bought it without ever seeing it before. I was a huge fan of DBZ that I just saw the title in Walmart and just had to have it. I think I payed like $25-30 for it, not cheap really especially since it was just a Japanese import with the Japanese voice actors doing the noises. Only real cool thing about it was the intro and the fact that they give you the code to get the extra characters.
Its all good. I actually played FF9 as a kid too. Never beat it but I probably would if I devoted a lot of time to it.
I remember my brother having Legend of Dragoon and I thought it was really cool but again, probably being 5, I never made it past the chase scene at the very beginning.
A rpg I really loved was Dragon Quest 8. It was my first one, and the artist was Akira Toriyama so it looked like DBZ. Then, I actually played through it, and though it had some pretty forgetful moments, it played a lot like the older rpgs.
That's hard. I've played many games that I don't really know the moment that it happened. I'm going to say around the time I played Sly Cooper, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Ball Z Budokai. These got me into my favorite genres (platformers, RPGs, and Fighters) and my favorite platform (PS2).
I would say when I first got the Gamecube. I had played only a few games at friends houses or in some places that had little arcades or gaming areas in them, but one year my parents got me and my sisters the Gamecube for Christmas, which really got me started in gaming. I played and enjoyed every game I had for it, but I think the games that really made me a gamer were either Super Smash Bros Melee or Super Mario Sunshine. I also didn't have a memory card for a while so I became really good at both of these games.
FF7, MGS1, when my friends saw my characters at level 80 and my snake having the tuxedo outfit with stealth, The look on there faces. Because of that i like to 100% games because its awesome
A Link to the Past and Chrono Trigger. Those 2 were GREAT games that really made me wanna play video games. I stopped playing video games for a while because there's no games that I find interesting, until I played Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 3 near 2005.
I have been a gamer ever since I could hold a controller, so I am not sure of which game actually sparked my interest in gaming. Back then, the PlayStation was the first console I had ever owned. It had a modchip soldered into the circuit board, which allowed me to circumvent copy protection and play an entire collection of burned game discs. Of course, this was when CD writers were becoming increasingly popular and affordable. If I had to say though, my earliest memory of playing a video game was when I was scaling a cliffside with a waterfall flowing down it and a rainbow being projected. If anyone could associate this kind of scenery with a cartoony, E-rated PlayStation game, please let me know, because I would like to know the first game I could ever recollect playing.
I feel bad for not mentioning my brother's old Amiga 500 and my first very own console, the PlayStation. They must have contributed a lot to my love for gaming.
(01-05-2014, 03:05 AM)Cheshireson Wrote: [ -> ]If I had to say though, my earliest memory of playing a video game was when I was scaling a cliffside with a waterfall flowing down it and a rainbow being projected. If anyone could associate this kind of scenery with a cartoony, E-rated PlayStation game, please let me know, because I would like to know the first game I could ever recollect playing.
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