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sapphi_snake said:
Scoobes said:
sapphi_snake said:
Scoobes said:

Deus Ex.

Everything about that game was just so immersive, the developers really did think of everything.

You decided how to go about your missions. Do you hack the computer system and open the door whilst programming the turrets to attack the guards? Bribe an official to give you the code? Pick the lock? Kill the guards and get the key? The choice was always yours and the levels were always designed to give you multiple options. Even on my fifth playthrough I was finding the odd hidden room, or new methods to go about things.

And the cyber-punk setting, the storyline with the amazing conspiracy theories, the fact that if you pissed off characters their were genuine consequences to your actions, so many things! Then there was the science in the game. It actually helped me choose my degree course with all the cool biotech stuff in the game.

I got so addicted and the game so immersive that when I was walking down the science block of my school I heard a beeping sound (that turned out to be a timer) that was identical to the sound of the explosives in the game. I then proceeded to jump into the opposite room before realising I was in the real world...

Did that really happen?

Yes... luckily no-one was with me, but it was pretty embarrasing none the less.

I was playing the game everyday and was probably on my 4th playthrough. When I wasn't playing it I'd sit there and watch my younger brother play it. Like I said, addicted.

Never experienced or done anything like it since which goes to show that graphics doesn't = immersion.

I tried playing Deus Ex, and while I'm no graphics whore it did kinda hurt my eyes a little. What amazed me though was how fun the gameplay was and how you had so many possibilities in reaching you objectives. I started the game 3 times and I remember doing the first mission in 3 different ways. It was really ahead of it's time. Really should get back to it one of these days. You however should put it down. It's not healthy, man.

I have now, lol. I've done everything in the game. If I played through now it'd only be for nostalgia... or for the HDTP pack/nameless mod (which was annoyingly buggy). I hope Human Revolution can live up to the orginal, but it's sounding quite promising. Honestly, I can't think of a game like Deus Ex, it's just unique in what they acheived and the vision they had back then. I'm still waiting for a modern equivalent.

Honestly, I worry about my mates more now. Just the other day one of my mates saw a moth in the corner of his eye and thought someone was chucking a grenade.... Too much Call of Duty!



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My game would be giants: citizen kabuto

It was released in 2000 for the pc and ps2, and was the first game developed by planet moon studios

I had never heard of it and my dad bought it for me on my birthday right after i had got a ps2.

The game got some good reviews (i think it got 80-something on meta) but sold terribly

When i played it i wasnt expecting anything brilliant because id never heard of it before and i wasnt really a serious gamer then

But the game is one of the greatest games ive ever played, it had a brilliantly wrote story with lots of humor and it ahd the sort of squad based shooting and comicy style thats common today (but this was 10 years ago)

This game is very special to me even though most people have never played it.

If you do ever get a chance to buy it you really should



End of 2012 prediction:

xbox 360 : 73-75 million  playstation 3 : 72-74 million  wii : 104-105 million 

Most hyped for :

Bioshock: infinte, The Last Of Us, Alan Wake's American Nightmare and Agent

Well, not surprisingly, the game that's closest to my heart is definitely Sonic & Knuckles. That game really defined my childhood, as well as defined my tastes in gaming (Platformer nut here!).

Before I had the game, I would rent it every weekend and play it as often as I could, and each time I would get closer and closer to beating the game. Heck, I even remember the place where I recieved the game as a present on my birthday. I was so pumped to finally own the game, so of course I played it as soon as I could. When I finally beat it (took me forever to figure out that you had to hit the Master Emerald on the "final" Robotnik) there was a celebration at hand... until I found out that you didn't get the good ending unless you collected every single emerald. So off I went again, finding those pesky emeralds.

So yeah, I own four versions of the game (Genesis, PC, GameCube, and DS) and I love the fact that I could play Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 with Knuckles thanks to the Lock-On Technology (sounded so futuristic at the time). I would go to Chemical Plant Zone and just climb the giant walls the whole time.



Never got people's fascination with multiplayer games. Sure they're fun once in a while. But I'll take a good single player game over Call of Duty every day of the week.



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sapphi_snake said:

Never got people's fascination with multiplayer games. Sure they're fun once in a while. But I'll take a good single player game over Call of Duty every day of the week.


replay value is important to some people. most cod fanboys get 2-3 games a year. thats why we dont have many here.



Being in 3rd place never felt so good

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sapphi_snake said:

Never got people's fascination with multiplayer games. Sure they're fun once in a while. But I'll take a good single player game over Call of Duty every day of the week.


You don't get that people like playing with other people rather than playing alone?



I LOVE ICELAND!

CGI-Quality said:

Although obvious: HEAVY RAIN.


Obvious? Why ever would you say that? :D



Mario Kart: Double Dash for being my first videogame ever.

And Chrono Trigger for massivly raising my love for games



There are three games that will forever be close to my heart: Final Fantasy VI, Dungeons and Dragons (the pen and paper game), and Ghostbusters: the Video Game.

For Final Fantasy VI, this was the game that made me a gamer, this was the game that inspired me to write, and this was the game that made me want to be a game developer.  I could rant about this game all day about how it moved and inspired me, but I'll just keep it short.  This game will always be special to me and I generally play it at least once a year.

My next game, Dungeons and Dragons, while not a video game, is still important to me.  Above I mentioned that FFVI made me start writing.  I started writing a book and realized I can tell a good story, I just can't actually write it (like Tolkien!).  After finding Dungeons and Dragons, I found a great way to tell my story and share it with others, it couldn't be more perfect.  Furthermore, Dungeons and Dragons is the game that let me take my first step into game development.  When applying to The Guildhall at SMU, I hadn't really worked with 3D editors like most of the other people.  When I had to submit a portfolio I only had hand drawn DnD maps.  Long story short, what I thought was going to be a huge disadvantage turned out to be a great strength.  The lessons I learned from planning and using those hand drawn maps I still use today and one of the things that got me into grad school.  I'm so proud of my DnD experience that I put it on my resume.

My final game, Ghostbusters: the Video Game, will always be special because 1) I love Ghostbusters, and 2) it was my first real game I made.  I graduated from the Guildhall thinking I knew a lot and working on Ghostbusters showed me how little I knew.  I learned a lot from that game and I still have much more to learn, but that will always be the first game I made (a dream project even, how lucky is that?!) and I'll always remember it and the experience.  You never forget your first. 



Any game that I consider my "Top Games of All Time".

Though not my favorite game ever, I would have to say Fallout 3. I had never played the franchise (even though F3 is radically different from the first two) and had read nothing about the game. I just had heard some stuff here and there and that the game was really good. I noticed my brother had it on his computer and I decided to give it a shot and it blew me away. More than 80 hours into the game, I still find stuff to do. It's just plain awesome.