(01-29-2014, 12:51 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: I'm still ultra nostalgic about the N64, since it was the first system I owned. I guess my age also makes more leery of any online connectivity or DLC, because I hate that in games. I really miss cartridges and floppy disks also for gaming, just because you didn't need a car, and could write codes right on the game!

(01-29-2014, 12:51 PM)CosmykTheDolfyn Wrote: I'm still ultra nostalgic about the N64, since it was the first system I owned. I guess my age also makes more leery of any online connectivity or DLC, because I hate that in games. I really miss cartridges and floppy disks also for gaming, just because you didn't need a car, and could write codes right on the game!

(01-29-2014, 06:54 AM)Psychospacecow Wrote: Personally, I'm from '95. Yeah, make your 90's kids jokes but that only increases my modem speed!

Anyway, I started more or less at my aunt's house. She had an old windows computer with Raptor and some Mouse maze set of games. We also had a plug in kind of system with duck hunt and one of the old mario games. I don't remember that too well minus how annoying that dog was.
I guess our first real console was the Playstation 1. I remember Final Fantasy 9, the twisted metal toy game, Legend of Dragoon, Crash Bandicoot's racing game, and Chrono Cross very well.
About a year after the PS2 came out, we got one for Christmas. It had Kingdom Hearts 1 with it, and I never actually played it. There was that sibling hierarchy, and not knowing how to read very well at the time did not help. My first handheld was the Gameboy Color. I got it around 2000. It had some Gradius type game, the Dinosaurs movie game, some tank game, and Pokemon Yellow. I eventually got Pokemon Gold with it as well and Mario Tennis. The PS2 eventually became mine when my brother became more of a PC Gamer. I remember very distinctly watching him play these wonderful games with his keyboard. This would have been around 2006. We had since played Devil May Cry 3, Final Fantasy 10, 10-2, and 12, Dragon Quest 8, Gladius, Every single DBZ game with Budokai in the name, Kingdom Hearts 2, Destroy All Humans 2, Soul Calibur 3, and the second Star Wars Battlefront, all the Tekken games from 3-5. My neighbor had a gamecube and I would stop by every other day and we would play Smash Brother Melee, or Kirby Air Ride, Shadow The Hedgehog, etc.
What's funny is, I had been playing Starcraft Brood War since around the time we got the PS2 as well. My brother would always beat me, but I loved the map editor. The same story repeats with Warcraft 3, Empire Earth, and Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds. (will continue later)

(01-30-2014, 11:37 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

(01-30-2014, 01:34 PM)eatona Wrote:

(01-30-2014, 11:37 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

I love Majora's Mask. There was something about affecting the flow of time, results and how it stood away from OoT with the time thing. And now the 5 stages of dying. Mind blown. That's what makes it my 2nd favorite Zelda.

(01-30-2014, 02:05 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote:

(01-30-2014, 01:34 PM)eatona Wrote:

(01-30-2014, 11:37 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

I love Majora's Mask. There was something about affecting the flow of time, results and how it stood away from OoT with the time thing. And now the 5 stages of dying. Mind blown. That's what makes it my 2nd favorite Zelda.

2ND? I'm sorry. We can't be friends any more.

Just kidding. MM is my personal favorite Zelda, with Twilight Princess being my 2nd and A Link to the Past being my 3rd. The game is one of those that makes you think if you look into the background. It's the first game to try a dark fantasy type and treats the player like an adult. It's too bad that it's so short, which is the only reason why I want a remake, but with real graphics.

Someone told me to pick up a PS2 game called Ephemeral Fantasia becuse it plays like MM. I have yet to find a copy of the game, so maybe someone who has played it could tell me if I need to play it or not.

(01-30-2014, 02:05 PM)gamemaster1991 Wrote:

(01-30-2014, 01:34 PM)eatona Wrote:

(01-30-2014, 11:37 AM)BumblebeeCody Wrote: I'm a lot more critical as a person which then effects the way I think about games. I have the nostalgia factor but generally don't let that get in the way. When I was younger I didn't quite understand what a game/form of media was saying or the deeper connections it made to the audience but then when you get older and smarter, you appreciate what they were saying.

Example being:
The Matrix, Majoras Mask, Cowboy Bebop and a few others. Never understood them when I was younger, but rewatching/playing them now makes you appreciate what really went into them. It's a different case with games like Sonic Adventure which was awesome back then(2003) but is incredibly bad by todays standard or has aged terribly(no nostalgia allowed).

I thought Majoras Mask was a fun game until you look at the finer details of that as opposed to the entire series.

I guess I look at mostly everything objectively now which has affected my thoughts on gaming.

I love Majora's Mask. There was something about affecting the flow of time, results and how it stood away from OoT with the time thing. And now the 5 stages of dying. Mind blown. That's what makes it my 2nd favorite Zelda.

2ND? I'm sorry. We can't be friends any more.

Just kidding. MM is my personal favorite Zelda, with Twilight Princess being my 2nd and A Link to the Past being my 3rd. The game is one of those that makes you think if you look into the background. It's the first game to try a dark fantasy type and treats the player like an adult. It's too bad that it's so short, which is the only reason why I want a remake, but with real graphics.

Someone told me to pick up a PS2 game called Ephemeral Fantasia becuse it plays like MM. I have yet to find a copy of the game, so maybe someone who has played it could tell me if I need to play it or not.

(01-30-2014, 02:35 PM)Hexadecimal Wrote: I was born in 1989 and my first gaming experience was the Sega Game Gear; my mom didn't want to buy me a Game Boy since it "wasn't in color". When I was seven I lived in an apartment building and made friends with a boy across the hall who owned a Super Nintendo.

I got one a year later but my mom ended up selling it on me when she got me an N64. For a little while I stuck to Nintendo systems but then I realized the PS2 matched my tastes so much more with their weirder titles. I loved the SMT series, Persona, Space Channel 5, Katamari Damacy, Gitaroo Man, Mr. Mosquito, and so on. They had the exclusives that wouldn't be on any other system and the backwards compatibility was a huge plus.

Nowadays... My game library becomes smaller and smaller with each new system. There's nothing I care about and all the stupid bells and whistles they make me pay for that I don't use are infuriating.