I recently did a fun little game with my friends on twitter about the games that made them gamers, and I thought it would be cool for all of us to know what games out there made us who we are with gamers, with a little more explanation that what Twitter could provide. The questions are:
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What was your first game?
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What was the game/s that clicked and made you a "gamer" and why?
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What is your favorite game and why?
Below are my answers. Feel free to go as in depth as you would like.
What was your first game?
My first game was many people's first game, Super Mario Bros. I was graced in being born into a young family. My mom and dad were only 20 years old when they had me, both of them graduating in 89. Because my dad grew up in the boom of video games, he had a the NES he got in high school when I was growing up. I don't remember there ever being a time when there wasn't a console in the house. Naturally he had me and my sister play Super Mario as it was most likely the easiest of the games for us to grasp.
What was the game/s that clicked and made you a "gamer" and why?
I have two games that made me fall in love with gaming, Arc the Lad 2 and Kingdom Hearts. Though I had played many games before these two, it was always just messing around, never really trying to progress through anything, my attention always being pulled to the outdoors. In 2001 I had gotten the Arc the Lad collection from my Grandfather and played the first with my dad. It was fun, but it was very much my dad carrying me through the tactics based game, as my young brain was not honed for that style of gameplay.However Arc the Lad 2 I played by myself, and I was hooked. I remember sinking easily over 100 hours into that game the first time I played it. I was just so in love with the world, the characters, the music. It was one of the great fantasy epics in my eyes. It was the game that unlocked my passion in games, and it should even to my family. Arc the Lad 2 was the game that convinced my mom that I should have a TV in my room, to feed my passion.
If Arc the Lad 2 was the game that started my passion for games, Kingdom Hearts was the game that made me fall in love with gaming. I remember immediately falling in love with storybook feel of Disney with the dark edge of and Square. It didn't even matter that I had never played a Final Fantasy game at that point, there was just something in that mixture that "unlocked my heart" and showed me what games could truly be.
What is your favorite game and why?
As probably guess, or already known, my favorite game is Arc the Lad 2. It stems for all the reasons listed above, but really when it comes down to it, my favorite things are the things I can always consume without getting sick of. With having played through the game 3 times all over 50hrs, I can safely say that I am not sick of that game. Every few months I even get the pull to drop all these new games, and go back in.
