Games that have changed who you are..
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Maybe (and this is a huge "maybe") Metal Gear Solid 2 changed me a bit. If I recall, it was one of the first things that influenced me into questioning reality and my own perceptions, which is something I still do to this day, except it doesn't feel like a foreign concept anymore.
A lot of games have changed who I am, because they've been a large aspect of my life since I was a kid.
Final Fantasy VII is the obvious one. Aside from the fact that it's probably partially responsible for turning me into a dirty hippie environmentalist, it was also one of the first stories I'd encountered that taught me about death (I was seven when I was playing it, and hadn't experienced any death in my life). And, beyond that, it was the first time I ever wondered about concepts like identity - "Who am I? Are we just what we believe?" Yeah, even as a kid I was a real nerd. I thought about weird stuff. XD
StarCraft also had a big impact on me. I was playing it when I was about eight or nine, and, from that moment on, I fell in love with outer-space. I'm not kidding that, when adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my response was, "An inter-planetary anthropologist." That was my dream job in 3rd grade. =3 Unfortunately, the fact that we haven't discovered alien life kind of puts a damper on that. <_<
No, seriously, I don't think I could list all the games that have changed me in some way. I like to approach everything with the attitude that it will help me learn and grow. ^ ^
Final Fantasy VII is the obvious one. Aside from the fact that it's probably partially responsible for turning me into a dirty hippie environmentalist, it was also one of the first stories I'd encountered that taught me about death (I was seven when I was playing it, and hadn't experienced any death in my life). And, beyond that, it was the first time I ever wondered about concepts like identity - "Who am I? Are we just what we believe?" Yeah, even as a kid I was a real nerd. I thought about weird stuff. XD
StarCraft also had a big impact on me. I was playing it when I was about eight or nine, and, from that moment on, I fell in love with outer-space. I'm not kidding that, when adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, my response was, "An inter-planetary anthropologist." That was my dream job in 3rd grade. =3 Unfortunately, the fact that we haven't discovered alien life kind of puts a damper on that. <_<
No, seriously, I don't think I could list all the games that have changed me in some way. I like to approach everything with the attitude that it will help me learn and grow. ^ ^
I am sure no one has ever heard of it, but Stay Tooned! (A point and click adventure game for the Mac) was probably the most influential to me.
The game was supposed to fake being buggy. (With fake script errors pop ups and system crashes) That got my curious on how computers work and help start my passion for the computer.
The game was supposed to fake being buggy. (With fake script errors pop ups and system crashes) That got my curious on how computers work and help start my passion for the computer.
i think i was playing A link to the past when i was like 4 and i got a playstation when i was 5 so ima say spyro , pokemon or final fantasy changed my life
they helped me learn to read
they helped me learn to read
Believe it or not, when I was 6 years old, I got Ocarina of Time, and I have been a gamer ever since!
Believe it or not, Halo. Halo was the first game I ever played that really had a great story: it opened my eyes to the fact that video games can tell stories just like books or movies. Of course since then I've seen better examples (Final Fantasy series, Bioshock, etc.), but Halo still stands out as the first game that opened my eyes to that. Now video games as literature is my passion in life, something I want to be involved in from now on.
Morrowind. It taught me that gaming had a chance, and that perhaps, just perhaps, one day good games would be the norm.
For me it was Fallout 2 i was a normal geek before it. then i became a cynical geek such is its power of greatness. I still remember the event of me buying it, i was at the Local EB store when picked it up and the guy next to me said to me "That's a good game you should buy it". Which i did and never looked back
It's actually not that odd. A lot of games have a considerable amount of reading. Planescape: Torment is famous for having an entire novel.sasquatch99 said:
I think games didn't change me but show me time and time again who I am.
The last experience in this direction were
Lost Odyssey (especially the written stories),
Condemned 1 (made me realize how well psychological horror works for me)
and Planescape: Torment (it's an overlooked, mature masterpiece)
The last experience in this direction were
Lost Odyssey (especially the written stories),
Condemned 1 (made me realize how well psychological horror works for me)
and Planescape: Torment (it's an overlooked, mature masterpiece)
I was talking about other people's ethics, not my own. I'm referring to how important control is to some.-Stranger- said: