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ThatGreekGuy on 03 March 2013

Kratos made me kill my family.



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IsawYoshi on 03 March 2013
Otakumegane said:
IsawYoshi said:
Xenoblade and Final Fantasy have cooperated and learned me piano.


My sister started playing Piano again after playing Skyward Sword.....and now she's moving on to Xenoblade songs.

I've created a monster.



Haha, do not mess with the power of the piano! I'm beeing serious here, its pretty expensive. Anyway, I should have mentioned Pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky, the story in that game is the only one that have made me start thinking about my life, and also the only one that actually have made me *sniffle*

fordy on 03 March 2013
Raze said:

So, I'm wondering - has anyone else ever had a game or the hero of a game ever impact your life, to the point it changed your life and attitude in some way?

By this, I don't mean Gran Turismo making you want to speed in your Toyota down city streets, but more like become a role model for you?

The best way I can explain is by my own example:

My favorite hero turned role model is Adult Link, from Ocarina of Time. I never really associated with the previous versions of Link, but his story in OOT struck a chord with me. I didn't go all fanboy and start going to Comic Cons dressed up as Link or whatever, but it made me look at the world differently, and take up the ideals of courage, responsibility, and honor. It made me view all the world as Hyrule, waiting to be explored with adventures everywhere.

It did lead me towards the SCA (medieval re-enactment group) where I ended up becoming a pretty good archer, and decent swordsman (no joke!), which I now attend Pennsic War on a yearly basis and have my own reputation (mostly on the music and party scene! ;) ) I have quite an extensive contingent of friends from that.

I'd say that I credit about 60% of who I've become to Adult Link/Ocarina of Time. Yes, as  musician, I also did learn to play the ocarina decently well too. =)

So, how about you? Any game or character ever infulence who you've become/are becoming?

Are you banned from pottery stores, too?



Mummelmann on 03 March 2013
Raze said:
Mummelmann said:
Sure! Games like Baldur's Gate, Betrayal at Krondor and Ultima made me want to start writing and got me into reading as well.

Without this creative input and inspiration, I wouldn't be half as well off as I am today as this has opened many doors on many areas.


I can see that too for me. The stories from Zelda, FF, Ultima (6 was my fav!) got me into deciding to try reading fantasy fiction books (Dragonlance series and Forgotten Realms ). I otherwise had little intersted in reading as a hobby. Now I read allsorts of stuff.


Hahm that's funny! The first novel I read was "Legend of Huma" in the Dragonlance series! Those were great books back in the day, the Dragonlance series must be the biggest fantasy project available in book form today. I remember I was nine years old and cried when Huma died and Kaz the Minotaur visited his grave, I'd probably flinch at the base language and overall quality of the narration today but it was a good start and lead to some truly incredible reading experiences to this day!



Scoobes on 03 March 2013

Deus Ex helped me choose my career path. The vision of the future and the technology presented in the game fueled my interest for biotech which helped me choose my undergrad degree.




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Raze on 03 March 2013
fordy said:
Raze said:

So, I'm wondering - has anyone else ever had a game or the hero of a game ever impact your life, to the point it changed your life and attitude in some way?

By this, I don't mean Gran Turismo making you want to speed in your Toyota down city streets, but more like become a role model for you?

The best way I can explain is by my own example:

My favorite hero turned role model is Adult Link, from Ocarina of Time. I never really associated with the previous versions of Link, but his story in OOT struck a chord with me. I didn't go all fanboy and start going to Comic Cons dressed up as Link or whatever, but it made me look at the world differently, and take up the ideals of courage, responsibility, and honor. It made me view all the world as Hyrule, waiting to be explored with adventures everywhere.

It did lead me towards the SCA (medieval re-enactment group) where I ended up becoming a pretty good archer, and decent swordsman (no joke!), which I now attend Pennsic War on a yearly basis and have my own reputation (mostly on the music and party scene! ;) ) I have quite an extensive contingent of friends from that.

I'd say that I credit about 60% of who I've become to Adult Link/Ocarina of Time. Yes, as  musician, I also did learn to play the ocarina decently well too. =)

So, how about you? Any game or character ever infulence who you've become/are becoming?

Are you banned from pottery stores, too?

No, I dont do pot. ;)



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http://www.thecarnivalofshadows.com 


Raze on 04 March 2013
Mummelmann said:
Raze said:
Mummelmann said:
Sure! Games like Baldur's Gate, Betrayal at Krondor and Ultima made me want to start writing and got me into reading as well.

Without this creative input and inspiration, I wouldn't be half as well off as I am today as this has opened many doors on many areas.


I can see that too for me. The stories from Zelda, FF, Ultima (6 was my fav!) got me into deciding to try reading fantasy fiction books (Dragonlance series and Forgotten Realms ). I otherwise had little intersted in reading as a hobby. Now I read allsorts of stuff.


Hahm that's funny! The first novel I read was "Legend of Huma" in the Dragonlance series! Those were great books back in the day, the Dragonlance series must be the biggest fantasy project available in book form today. I remember I was nine years old and cried when Huma died and Kaz the Minotaur visited his grave, I'd probably flinch at the base language and overall quality of the narration today but it was a good start and lead to some truly incredible reading experiences to this day!

My intro into the Dragonlance series was The Kagonesti, I tneded to play Wood Elves in Everquest 1, and thus was interested in any writing on anything closely related =) My most recent read actually was The Hobbit (insisted on reading it before I saw the movie).  Currently reading some classics - Treasure Island, and the original JM Barrie version of Peter Pan (which is a lot darker than the Disney film ever made it out to be!)



The Carnival of Shadows - Folk Punk from Asbury Park, New Jersey

http://www.thecarnivalofshadows.com 


TripleMMM on 04 March 2013
d21lewis said:
kitler53 said:

catherine. gave me the push i needed to finally start cheating on my wife.


Lol!  I was gonna post a joke comment but I can't compete with that!

Well, you did get banned (more like thrown behind bars) from The Mushroom Kingdom (Miiverse) just 'cause Peach didn't like how you address a complete stranger... XD

Imagine what would happened if you did do something severe as just dating another women behind your wife's back. lol



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binary solo on 04 March 2013

Not me, but I'm pretty sure my son was partially influenced by God of War to take Classical Studies at high school. He probably would have done it anyway, but He rally enjoyed seeing all the Greek Gods and other creatures of myth in those games.



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