I'd say it had quite a big impact on my taste in games. I didn't grow up playing a lot of games and this is the only one I still occasionally play.
It'd probably be the Metal Slug series, 3 specifically. I still believe that open world games where you don’t have a world map filled with question marks and you just go in a certain direction and discover interesting things for yourself are much more appealing and I wish more games were designed like that. Luckily, the game warns you when you fuck up like that, but it’s still not something you can see in a modern game where your characters always hides his weapon whenever you target a necessary NPC. And of course there’s that infamous thing that you can accidentally kill a guy that turns out to be necessary for the main quest. How do you get to Balmora? Well, that’s your problem, pal. Of course, the game has its fair share of flaws and a lot of things in the game are cryptic: for example, if your level is low and you’re trying to kill an enemy you’re going to miss 9 hits out of 10, there are no quest marks or whatsoever and in the very first main quest you get you have to find a certain guy in Balmora. I don’t feel like the later installments managed to capture that feeling of awe and excitement about exploring the world: I still think that Morrowind has by far the best atmosphere and setting in the franchise and I still play it once or twice a year. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was the first open world game I’ve ever played and despite the fact that it aged pretty poorly it still holds a lot of nostalgic value for me: I remember going like OMG I CAN STEAL EVERY SINGLE SPOON AND EVERY SINGLE CUP FROM THE TABLE and walking out from the ship and seeing the massive beautiful world with flying jellyfishes and giant walking striders was mind-blowing beyond belief at the time. I would love to hear the community reminiscing on what games they hold dear. Honorable mentions: Dead Space, Skate 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption. Split screen Halo 3 was a right of passage and many bonds were made. The visual fidelity was something I had never seen, the level design in that game was something really special. The lore alone was incredible to me, alien religious zealots bent on an intergalactic purge? Too epic. I was so grateful to even be playing it, let alone own a copy, I quickly became obsessed. Halo 3: Ah, to feel that feeling of booting up Halo 3 for the first time again. (Sidebar- has anyone played the remaster? If so, worth it?) Hearing a big daddy groan in the distance while I marveled at the beauty of the underwater city, was simply revelatory. Although I am confident that it deepened my appreciation for art design, in anything, and was proof that games could be as profound and meaningful as any other medium. 13 or 14? Surely too young to appreciate the brilliance this game had to offer. It was one of the first real games I played when I got an Xbox.
I suppose I still do this, just in real life now.īioshock: I was spoiled with Bioshock. Driving around Los Santos while listening to a podcast or music was a brilliant way to decompress and just get lost for a while. The graphics were weird, the gameplay was wonky, the story was contrived and ridiculous. I have played since, and to my surprise it has aged pretty well.īlack Ops 2: This is one I would certainly not enjoy now, but I had a blast at the time. The freedom to explore the islands was empowering, and this was when it was actually fun to raid outposts in games. I remember many a night I would get home late and have to sneak back in, only to spend the night playing far cry.
To name a few:įar Cry 3: This hit me at the perfect time, I was in my second year of high school and I was infatuated with the exotic, psychedelic, violent world. Then, I got to thinking about the games I was playing in high school and before, and the feelings I associate with them. First, it made me feel old because it feels like that game just came out. I was inspired by a comment I saw by someone describing how they grew up with GTA V, and that era of gaming is nostalgic for them.
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