Not really a game per se made me a gamer but a console did, and I owe it everything.

Back in 2000 or so, I stayed up all night to play the Dreamcast. I played pretty much every game we had from Sonic to Metropolis Street Racer to Quake 3, and I loved every moment of it.

Sure, I was shouted at and I was tired when I went to school, but damn it. I loved every moment.

Soon enough we had a Gamecube, an Xbox and a Gameboy Advance which pretty much streamlined me into preferring Xbox, Nintendo and Sega throughout my life, and having a slight distaste towards Sony.

These days I'm more into older games and I don't like calling myself a gamer due to the negative stigma it has attached to it, but Video Games are still a big part of my life.

I gotta say it was Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Ocarina of Time that made me the gamer I am today.

I'm going to sound like a hipster, but it was Super Mario Bros.

(01-04-2014, 10:57 PM)PixelXenoKing Wrote: 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

I always try to get as much of a game completed as I have the patience for. Some games like FF7 with the optional Weapons bosses, like the Ruby Weapon in the desert or the Emerald(?) in the ocean area. Those ones you need to be super high leveled and have awesome leveled materia to even have a chance of not dying in the first few turns.

Games I've gotten almost 100% on though was Skyrim only because I don't like being a pickpocket and more a locksmith instead.

(01-07-2014, 11:46 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote:

(01-04-2014, 10:57 PM)PixelXenoKing Wrote: 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

I always try to get as much of a game completed as I have the patience for. Some games like FF7 with the optional Weapons bosses, like the Ruby Weapon in the desert or the Emerald(?) in the ocean area. Those ones you need to be super high leveled and have awesome leveled materia to even have a chance of not dying in the first few turns.

Games I've gotten almost 100% on though was Skyrim only because I don't like being a pickpocket and more a locksmith instead.

It's funny becuse the first games I ever really wanted to complete 100% (besides Mario 64) were the three games I talked about. Sadly, I didn't really care about Sly untill the sequel, but that made me want to beat them all.

As for 100% itself, I only go for the things that show 100%. Having every item in the game for FF9 is not what I'm going for, but all trinity marks in Kingdom Hearts and All the Jiggys in Banjo-Kazooie is.

(01-08-2014, 12:19 AM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: It's funny becuse the first games I ever really wanted to complete 100% (besides Mario 64) were the three games I talked about. Sadly, I didn't really care about Sly untill the sequel, but that made me want to beat them all.

As for 100% itself, I only go for the things that show 100%. Having every item in the game for FF9 is not what I'm going for, but all trinity marks in Kingdom Hearts and All the Jiggys in Banjo-Kazooie is.

I've actually done that with Sly with the Sly Cooper Collection for the PS3. One of the few games that I got 100% on, the other being DeathSpank off the PSN.

Kingdom Hearts I think I got all the Dalmations, the Trinity Marks and I think the most of the story sections and character/monster journal entries but that was on the PS2. HD version has extra enemies and I got spanked all around on the secret bosses. Need to level up a bit more before I can go against them, especially Xemnas in Hollow Bastion.

(01-07-2014, 11:46 PM)GameWizard001 Wrote: Some games like FF7 with the optional Weapons bosses, like the Ruby Weapon in the desert or the Emerald(?) in the ocean area. Those ones you need to be super high leveled and have awesome leveled materia to even have a chance of not dying in the first few turns.

Oh, Emerald... The reason why I haven't played the game in years. Still haven't finished it either. I wanted to get to the sunken plane but that bastard glitched in front of it and wouldn't move unless I fight it. Seriously, my characters were way over powered when fighting any regular boss but Emerald killed me in an instant. Talk about discouraging.

For me it was probably Spyro 1 and FF Tactics. Both took a long time to beat due to strategy and just trying to find everything. Mario and pokemon and things like it were just for entertainment's sake until those two games.

Mostly games I played for the NES/N64 with my dad. Double Dragon 2, TMNT, Super Mario, Beetle Bug Racing, and a ton of others.

(01-09-2014, 06:41 PM)RepentantSky Wrote: For me it was probably Spyro 1 and FF Tactics. Both took a long time to beat due to strategy and just trying to find everything. Mario and pokemon and things like it were just for entertainment's sake until those two games.

(01-09-2014, 11:25 PM)FUS RO DAH Wrote: Mostly games I played for the NES/N64 with my dad. Double Dragon 2, TMNT, Super Mario, Beetle Bug Racing, and a ton of others.

That was me. I played the SNES and N64 as a kid, but it was for fun and I rarely (if ever) beat anything. It wasn't untill later that I started getting into games as a hobby insed of as something to play when I got board. It was still cool to play Mario Party, Mario 64, and Banjo-Kazooie with my family as a kid.

(01-10-2014, 12:02 AM)gamemaster1991 Wrote: That was me. I played the SNES and N64 as a kid, but it was for fun and I rarely (if ever) beat anything. It wasn't untill later that I started getting into games as a hobby insed of as something to play when I got board. It was still cool to play Mario Party, Mario 64, and Banjo-Kazooie with my family as a kid.

I played those systems a lot as a kid, the SNES at my grandparents house as they bought it for the grandkids to play on when they were over as they babysat for us after school. They got a really good selection too; Donkey Kong Country, Spider-Man, Battleship. NBA Jam, Captain America and the Avengers, and Pagemaster.

My mom bought the N64 for us for Christmas, we had StarFox64 and Cruisin USA to start. Later Zelda: OoT and Banjo Kazooie but my brother was an idiot and either lost them somehow or let his friends borrow them and never got them back. Once he got the PS1 I was fully hooked with video games and played on that more than my brother and he owned the damn thing. Before they were to just kill time when I was bored, but then they became something I was really interested in doing, something more focused with.

I don't think there was one game that definitively made me a gamer. It was more a combination of me just playing games as a kid and becoming obsessed. If I had to name names then Kingdom Hearts, Ratchet and Clank (1-4), and the Sly Cooper games were all definitely powerful fuel for my gaming hobby.

I suppose I should just rename this discussion since saying "game" as a singular thing is really limiting as it has already been pointed out that sometimes it is a combination of different circumstances that make us the gamers we are today, so really let us just say what it was from games to consoles to ways to be with your friends and hang out, or whatever.

Really I just want this to be one of those discussions about sharing your memories of what lead you to be a gamer.