Guessed by Bofferbrauer2
This game blew my mind. When you start a new game in Star Wars Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire the first thing you see is a figure with a long dark cloak on a grey, slightly reflective steel deck turned away looking out at a field of stars. On the figure's head what looks like a heavy helmet. Pure black, but shining like a mirror. Then as the dark figure turns around you see the head is a dark mask with black pupil-less eyes under an arching rim. He makes a hissing heavy breathing noise, and his underling nervously clears his throat. The live-action scenes in this game are great, high quality and very much true to the franchise. I was sold on Star Wars right then and there, and the game had yet to even begin.
Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast
I missed out. When Metroid Fusion originally released on GameBoy Advance, I had kind of given up on gaming on consoles, both home and handheld. The GameCube had disappointed me after the amazing Nintendo 64, and on GameBoy Advance I really only had, though of great games, ports. Then, two decades later, Nintendo's 3DS handheld wasn't doing so hot and Nintendo decided to lower the price while giving those that already owned the system and bought it full price a slew of free games. Old games, but good games. So I figured I'd try a Metroid game. I had played the original and Super Metroid a handful of times way back when, not understanding a thing that was going on in either because I was too young, but I thought I'd finally try one for real and play it through to the end. Good choice.
Unguessed
I'm not really into multiplayer gaming, but every once in a while I would play something with a friend, because multiplayer gaming was all he did. Warcraft III to be exact, but he was extremely good at that game and I only ever played the story mode, so I wasn't. We settled on a couple games to play instead, of which Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds was the competitive one. I say "competitive", but it wasn't really between us, because I only ever wanted to play as allies against AI. Sure, we could set those to a hard difficulty at some point, but still, AI. The AI however, cheats. If you cheat to reveal the map, you'll see it doing multiple things at the same time and creating units and building buildings when there was no way it'd actually have the resources for it. So we found a solution to this; we both picked the same colour. Then, you'd both play the same base, which means you could do multiple things at the same time as well because for example I'd scout the map and manage resources and my friend would train units and wage war. Take that AI!
Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast
I talked about Pokémon Blue (#42) being a pretty big addiction in my life, but Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock wouldn't be far behind. If it is behind at all. At one point I played this, or any of its successors daily. Really, it is hard to decide on one of these games for this list. I could've entered another because the premise of all of them is the same. Obviously. But Guitar Hero III was my introduction to this series and to the genre as a whole and that will always be something special. Sadly, the genre would soon become oversaturated and the quality of the games fell and pretty much from one day to the next it was all gone. However, these games have greatly broadened my musical knowledge, or at least were the catalyst of that, and that is worth a whole lot. I even bought myself a real guitar at one point. I can't play it, but it's my prettiest wall ornament that's for sure.
