Isn't that all DDR is? The song list? Like Guitar Hero. Well, I suppose I don't know what I'm talking about, I can barely play it on my iPod let alone the full on version. I've been thinking more and more, and it really is hard to choose a "Greatest/Favorite". I mean, It all depends on my mood, though I do think that the nostalgic games are the ones I tend to think of immediately when I think of my favorites. Nevermind that I can only play the first hour of Chrono Trigger before getting bored (because I've played that first hour so damned much!), because it really is a wonderful game even by today's standards. When I think about the GAMEPLAY of games, I think of stuff like MGS, Gears of War, and Resident Evil 4 as games that beat the nostalgia factor by offering totally awesome gameplay (though GoW was disappointing in story department for me). I also really like Baseball Mogul, because i'm one of those baseball stat dorks. It's a really good General Manager simulation, you can make trades, draft players, and really monitor your teams progress on a player skill level, as well as a financial level. Good stuff.
fav game of all time - kung-fu master on coin-op fav computer game - chuckie egg on zx spectrum fav Touch game (so far) - Solitaire
Ohhhh...how could I forget my baby?? Silent hill II deserves a spot. I think my brain just tried to block it out
Wow!! Come to think of it...your right. I never realized how much of my life I've wasted on those 3-4 video games.....I am such a failure.
Wow, that was an over reaction, I wasn't even saying you were a loser, I was just wondering, as you said I was wondering what the "Actual impact" was, other than increasing the amount of time you had played on your consoles
Hahaha...sorry. The impact they held on my life was transcending the medium, and becoming something entirely new...art. For example, having read Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, I found new insight into the ideal of objectivism explored in the world of Bioshock. Shadow of colossus taught me the beauty of subtlety. Silent hill taught me fear...a type of fear movie's fail at delivering. The deepest psycological demons of the human psyche realized in the flesh. And well FFVII, showed me how much I could care for a set of characters. Good stuff.
I bloody loved Bioshock, such a brilliant atmosphere. Brilliant combat mechanics with mix of all the tonics making your character your own. I had a wrench wielding, unkillable machine
The city of Rapture is just so fully realized it's scary. Each room is methodically planned out. Giving small bits of story, and motive to the characters. It along with the others I've mentioned are..in a word...perfect.
The only thing that stops Rapture being quite so fully realized for me is how linear it is. Yeah it's set out nicely, but it's all planned so carefully it almost feels as though that's all there is to it, everything you need to know is in those rooms and the rest of the city need not exist. Hopefully Bioshock 2 will expand on that a little more. One of the environments I like most is Fallout 3's world. There are a lot of loose ends but obviously that's intentional, the bombs wiped everything out and practically erased history. Searching among the rubble and finding small clues is like one giant detective story, slowly piecing together little tidbits of information to find out more about the people that once lived there... some clues lead to a definite conclusion and others leave you wondering what the hell happened. It's fascinating.
See my next gen days petered out shortly after Bioshock, so I never got to play Fallout 3,though it's reputation far precedes it. Perhaps I misspoke when I said "fully realized". I was more along the train of thought, that no room exists without offering it's own "world", or it's own addition to the story. Though judging by your post on Fallout offers an equally rich (if not more so) environment. Guess I got to go buy a PS3.
heh. I didn't even realize I beat fallout 3 for a while. I'm not going to give anything away for you folks but if you played fallout 1 as much as I did, prepare to be dissapointed with the story. The rest of the game is ace though.
The main story in Fallout 3 is actually one of the weaker parts, it's basically just politics in the current time. The sub-plots are where it gets real interesting 'cause those are the ones that refer to the history of the city and life before the bomb. I think my favourite part of the game was all the Nuka Cola stuff, reading the promotional material for new flavours they had planned and visiting the factory to see how it was all made, awesome stuff. You could totally believe it was a real functioning company that had its place in the peoples lifestyle.
Ok, I'm adding 2 games to my 360 category: Portal (idk how I forgot it...) Assassin's Creed 2... Such a huge improvement over the first... I started on Monday and I can't put it down... Too awesome.
