Video Game thoughts

So I just thought it be fun to talk and see what people thought of video games. I am a gamer and have been one for as long as I can remember. I thought I ask a few questions and see what everyone else thinks of games.

Like whats your favorite game from being a kid and more recent favorite game?

Do you watch people play games on you tube?

Do you play games on you tube?

I still know the best game I ever played as a kid was dig dug. For just the simple fact that I wasted a whole summer in the arcade near my house in the goal of having the high score when I was 7, I can say dig dug is the best game to me. I doubt any other game will ever come close just for the fact that it holds so much memories.
I love dig dug and always will be if I was to pick a second favorite game it would be portal. I like puzzles and I love the way portal plays it just so much fun. I have played portal 1 and 2 and there just the first game that comes to mind when I want to play.
Im also a big fan of watching people play games on you tube. When I was first on you tube I was mostly on for music or lyric videos but then I saw Red vs Blue and I was hooked to gaming videos after that. I stated by watching the machinima's people made then started watching there game plays and now I watch it all. I even have friends who make videos on you tube who I love watching.
I thought of playing and making videos myself but Im still not sure.

Anyways I just thought I ask and see what others here may like to say about it. ^-^

xoxo
Athena

 

I love playing games as well. One of the best current games is Victoria II, it's a grand strategy game, a political nation simulator with many options and statistics. It's set in the 19th century and runs up to the 20th century and you can play every single nation at that time. :2thumbsup:

From their website:

Victoria II is a grand strategy game played during the colonial era of the 19th century, where the player takes control of a country, guiding it through industrialisation, political reforms, military conquest, and colonization.

Experience an in-depth political simulation where every action you take will have various consequences all over the world. The population will react to your decisions based on their political awareness, social class, as well as their willingness to accept or revolt against their government.

 

I have been kind of addicted to Dr. Mario on Wii. I am normally very not competitive, but when I start playing that game, I get a little aggressive.

 

I never heard it before but it sounds like it be really fun to play.

 

I really enjoy video games! It's unfortunate that I can't find time to play them much at the moment.

My favorite games growing up changed quite a bit. I rarely replayed games that had like a story mode once I finished them unless they had some interesting multi player options.

I'll give a rough Top 10 of my favorite video games when I was younger tho:

Goldeneye (N64)
Resident Evil 2 (PS)
Metal Gear Solid (PS)
Super Mario World (Snes)
Mortal Kombat (SNes)
Street Fighter (Snes)
Tecmo Super Bowl 3 (Snes)
Mario Kart 64 (N64)
House of the Dead (Dreamcast)
Contra III (Snes)


For more modern games, I like Call of Duty, God of War, Uncharted.

 

im a mario expert..love those games (except for the newest one explanation below)

another game i really like is goldeneye rogue agent (gamecube)


i cant play these newer fast paced first person shooter type games ...i suffer from a form of vertigo that affects my eyes and balance and those games are just way too hard on me

 

kid? that's a hard one. from very young, the early mario and zelda games took up a lot of my time, along with final fantasy. then sonic, especially sonic 2. a little later came twisted metal 2, resident evil 2. for some reason the original wild arms really struck a chord with me too. also the arcade xmen and simpsons games.

as an adult, my two favorites are still around 10 years old: morrowind and simcity 4. i also love the GTA series; i think 4 is my overall favorite there.

not really. i have once or twice when i was stuck somewhere, and i sometimes put youtube game videos on for the music, although there's usually videos that are just the song i'm looking for without having to listen to the player's commentary.

can't say i've ever done that one.

 

I really only have time to play them on the weekend, and for the most part I work 6 days a week, so Saturday evening and during the day on Sunday, but I grew up in the eighties and nineties playing whatever video games I could get my hands on (I was born in June, 1985). I grew up in extreme poverty until I turned 12 and my mother remarried, which moved us up to lower middle class initially, and one of my earliest memories is of playing with a solar calculator and a flashlight in bed one night when my aunt came to visit my mother, and she asked me what I was doing, and I told her I was playing a Gameboy. I went to a catholic school, and on my date of communion, I got $200 from my grandmother, and my mother let me use it to buy a Super Nintendo. Later on I eventually got a Playstation, and a Dreamcast, and I had a few Gameboys. My cousins had the first Nintendo since 1988 and we visited them often, so it was a huge excitement for me every time we got to go there, and I would watch my cousin play games for hours, taking turns here and there.

When I was 12, a friend introduced me to Final Fantasy VII on PC (I was previously only familiar with Final Fantasy Legends I, II and III for Gameboy, which actually are Sa Ga games in Japan and so unrelated), and about 6 months later I got it for Playstation, and that game is what changed my (and, really, the worlds) perception of gaming. I 'grew out' of gaming once I was 15 and spent a few years rambling, wandering in homelessness with rainbow family types. But as my first son was born and I settled down into my own home and working a regular job, I got back into video games; now my son is OBSESSED with them, mostly with Mario and Sonic but he is coming around from watching me play Final Fantasy games.

Anyway, I've since played them all between Final Fantasy I to Final Fantasy IX, with Final Fantasy Tactics being my favorite game of all time. I play some of the modern remakes for PSP, and right now am playing Tactics Ogre. Games that made a huge impression on me in my youth were all of those in the Zelda series, Super Metroid, Shadowrun, Pokemon Red & Blue, Mario Bros and Super Mario World, Command & Conquer, Street Fighter II, Megman III, Chrono Trigger, and many more. I did venture further into PC gaming in my very early teens, mainly with Baldur's Gate II and Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, that kind of thing, the Fall Out and Fall Out 2, &c.

These screenshots will always mean the most to me, I have memories with this game like no other, and that it was remade for PSP (which I still have, and return to frequently) and available in the original on PSN makes me extremely happy!

 

Seeing your list and games made me think of some games I haven't played in so long like house of the dead. I use to love that game and Looney Tunes Space Race. Plus ofcouse Street fighter, witch I used to fight my brother in all the time. Looking back I remember most of our video game fighting ended up as real fighting before to long. =P

 

I like action adventures or role playing games with action/adventure elements with a lot of depth in the story and setting. I prefer historical settings but also like fantasy like Skyrim or fantasy mixed with history like Assassins Creed.

 

I miss my PS3 and my games. I played Dragon Age: Origins more than anything else.

 

two old school games i liked were Gauntlet ..and Dash Galaxy...for NES

 

Sorry Rocks. FFtactics was a sorry rip off of Tactics ogre. My brother thought the same until he played it. I asked him how the new characters for the PSP version were and he said. I can't play it Logan... it feels too dumbed down after playing tactics ogre.

Anyway... After highschool I slowed down. I still threw parties and held various king of the mountain tournaments for Mario Kart and Mario Golf.

One day I was sitting by myself playing Mario Kart said "Fuck it" and donated my machine and games to a family that didn't have one.

I'll still play retro games on my handheld devices, but that's it.

 

Im mostly a PC gamer now. I use to have a dream cast and a game cube as a kid but I gave them both away before we moved. I still have my first Nintendo 64 but Thats because it is special. I worked a whole summer to buy it and at the end of the summer I ended up about 20 dollars still short but it turned out my older brother had bought me a special see though red one. It doesn't work but I just cant bring myself to toss it out, it still means a lot to me.
I also still have a old Virtual Boy. I don't think it works, it use to give me really bad head aches so its in its box packed away.
I also got my ds for when I travel and want to play some quick and easy games. I mostly just doddle on it to tell the truth =P

 

My favorite game on our first game system (Sega Genesis) was Berenstain Bears Camping Adventure. lol, I'm not joking, I really did love that game and I think I might try to find an emulator so I can play it again. Then we got an N64 when I was 11 and Banjo-Kazooie was my favorite game until my brother got an Xbox when I was 16 or 17 and GTA: Vice City quickly became a favorite.

Now my favorite game of all-time, hands down, no questions asked, is GTA: San Andreas. It's one of the few games I've actually played all the way through (never 100% though, my game corrupted before I could start doing the side missions to get to 100%). People say I should give GTA IV more of a chance, but I ruined it for myself watching my friend play it all the way through. I hate hate hate the storyline.

 

I don't play video games. I think it's crazy how much they've evolved. People meet while playing video games?! Wtf?! I don't understand it. I don't watch people play them either. I sincerely hope my children don't want to play, as I really don't know if I'd buy them games to play or not.

 

Final Fantasy Tactics and the Tactics Ogre in question were produced by almost the exact same people, the only difference being the few members of the development team who had were added after Tactics Ogre was completed, and both headed by the same man.. It is therefor a game in a similar vein, as a rip-off would imply that the idea for one was stolen by a different development team.

If you are referring to the gameplay being a sorry, dumbed down comparison, then in the case of the original FFT for PS1, I would agree, and this is because the difficulty was immensely lowered for the Western market. The PSP remake retains the original difficult of the Japanese version, and the only difference is in that of the translation; the rest are add-on's (like two more job classes, Dark & Onion Knights, more battles, new dungeon &c). In fact, having played it on it's original settings, I would argue that it is Tactics Ogre which is an over-simplified affair, as the leveling system is a class-based shared affair, while in FFT, it is individual; also in FFT, the monster based maps and story events have all of the enemies level up on par with your highest leveled character in your party, while in Tactics Ogre, this is not always the case. I can't really see any difference beyond this, other than the skill points systems, which are somewhat different but ultimately the same, except that in Tactics Ogre, you are absolutely forced to micromanage and there is no 'preview' of stat attributes when purchasing / trying on new gear or weapons, which is not manly, it's just fucking retarded.

Anyway, the story line of both games are excellent (bro.. this ain't my first time playing Tactics Ogre, lol) but in my opinion it is FFT which is superior, as is the music, but the big differences between these two games are really a matter of taste and preference of gameplay style; I dislike having more than 6 characters on the screen at once, and I dislike micromanaging when there is not so much uniqueness to each character to begin with (I LOVE micromanaging when their is depth to each character as an individual; assinging the "new skill slot" to every fucker in the party is tedious as hell), and the class-based leveling up was actually almost a turn-off forever to me playing the game, I cannot believe they did that (although I totally understand why, being that people nowadays are too busy, lol).

 

i use GENS. i don't know if it's the best or anything, but i can tell you that it is functional.

granted, i've never played berenstain bears camping adventure on it...

really? what do you dislike about it. i'm pretty sure it's my favorite GTA storyline.

GTA3 had a great storyline too, and both of the GTA4 add-ons were good, although too short to really count. the only storylines i didn't particularly like were vice city, because there wasn't really a storyline, and vice city stories, because vic vance is an annoying little bitch. i'm glad he died.

 

GTA Vice City and GTA 4 are my favorite in that series, but I love everything Rockstar does. I love Max Payne, and Red Dead Redemption is an experience to behold.

 

Haha, I hated that you spent so much time and effort on that stupid hoe just to have her fuck you over in the end. What a hoe. I guess that's really just what I hated most, lol.

I liked GTA 3, I was so surprised when it ended, though! I was really excited, however, because it was the first game I had beaten since Yoshi's Story. lol.

I forgot to mention I really love MarioKart 7 on the 3DS. MarioKart on the Wii is pretty fun, too, but I really like the 3DS game.