Games that have changed who you are..

[SuperNovaGoPop]

Well I don't think a game has changed me as a person. But I have learned a lot about history playing a few games. Hell most of my WW2 knowledge comes from video games haha.

Sacred 2 taught me that the sun is an un-nessesary part of human life.

Ditto. Sacred 2 is awesome.

I've always been a very laid back player. Ever since I started playin Borderlands with my buddy though...it's been friggin CUTTHROAT. We race each other for guns. What's funny is I play the Siren...so I just phasewalk whenever we get close to a gun store and buy whatever looks good.

The game that initially made me laid back was probably Starcraft. I don't get tense when I'm surrounded by Photon Cannon's and Carriers and then proceed to camp. (Yes, I'm a fag for playing with a legitimate strategy. )

 

[Unkn0wnSo1di3r]

Timesplitters 2, made me want to make my own stuff and hav them take place all over time

 

[Chaos Bringer]

One of the Zelda games probably. Most likely Ocarina of Time like everyobdy else. Oh and Golden Eye too.

 

[Aqualung]

And I played it when I was 6, too.. weird.

That's kind of creepy. Same for me. LoZ: OoT when I was 6, I got into videogames because of it. Hmmm.

I think it was because we were all born in '92, and it came out in 98.

On that note, hello fellow 17 year olds!

HERRO!

We should form a clan of people who are seventeen and played OoT as their first video game at the age of six.

Or is that too specific?

 

[SimuLord]

SimCity (the first one) on the SNES. Totally connected with my inner geek and turned gaming from "what I did on rainy days when I couldn't go play outside" to "projects that are ongoing for months".

My personality started to shift from jock to nerd with that game.

 

[Filtertip]

Tony Hawks Skateboarding. got me off my ass and doing a sport even thougn i spent my childhood in the middle of no where all i did was play games till i played that and got my self a board

 

[A Weary Exile]

<------ Right there baby!

It introduced me to Objectivism (Which I take as my personal philosophy...mostly) and it made me see games as more than just shooty-runny fun and that they can actually be very deep and complex.

 

[azncutthroat]

Halo turned me into the typical teenager, ripe with angst and hormones. Half Life 2 set me on the path to wisdom. That was the first game where I felt the Combine was in the right (not anymore though), and made me reluctant to kill them.

 

[mikecoulter]

Pokemon Red and Yellow. Also GTA Vice City. Just made my younger years.

 

[typhon923]

halo

 

[Steindorh]

Mario Bros (the first one)
The Legend of Zelda (first and second ones)
Terranigma (yeah, I know, odd choice, but it set of a spark that started the fire... so to speak)
Kirby's Adventures (don't ask)

 

[Aqualung]

And I played it when I was 6, too.. weird.

That's kind of creepy. Same for me. LoZ: OoT when I was 6, I got into videogames because of it. Hmmm.

I think it was because we were all born in '92, and it came out in 98.

On that note, hello fellow 17 year olds!

HERRO!

We should form a clan of people who are seventeen and played OoT as their first video game at the age of six.

Or is that too specific?

If we had to have mustaches then it would be too specific.

Good, I don't have the testosterone to grow a mustache anyway. ;p

 

[ivorg]

my first game, which turned me into a gamer, was loz: a link to the past, followed by every other zelda game. my first fps was probably quake 2

 

[Joe Matsuda]

persona 3

its hard to explain

but it changed my view of the world

 

[TelHybrid]

Final Fantasy VIII. Made me appreciate good music and epic story telling to such a major extent.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World. My 1st game, made me a gamer for life.

 

[Aqualung]

And I played it when I was 6, too.. weird.

That's kind of creepy. Same for me. LoZ: OoT when I was 6, I got into videogames because of it. Hmmm.

I think it was because we were all born in '92, and it came out in 98.

On that note, hello fellow 17 year olds!

HERRO!

We should form a clan of people who are seventeen and played OoT as their first video game at the age of six.

Or is that too specific?

If we had to have mustaches then it would be too specific.

Good, I don't have the testosterone to grow a mustache anyway. ;p

Well theres always hormone therapy, but the day someone recommends that I take the opposites sex's hormones in order to grow hair in places I've never grown it before to settle an unbelievably specific request to form a clan based around an arbitrary age similarity of people who played a Nintendo game 11 years ago is the day I say 'go away you silly person.'

So... fake mustaches, then?

 

[Valiance]

The game that initially made me laid back was probably Starcraft. I don't get tense when I'm surrounded by Photon Cannon's and Carriers and then proceed to camp. (Yes, I'm a fag for playing with a legitimate strategy. )

Humans adapt - it's what makes us such a tenacious race. Even bad players will find a way to counter you eventually...

Anyway, there's been countless games over the years, but I think Braid really really changed the way I look at...pretty much everything.