Post Games Special To You For Any Reason

I only keep physical copies of the games that inspire me in some way. These games shape the kind of games I want to develop in the future.

What games are special to you all, and why?

I'm triggered by your shit tastes. At least you posted PMTTYD

VC wasn't so much for story, but structure and gameplay. Adding more depth to the model with the characters and making "building your army" in every sense of the word a part of the game would be magnificently fun and replayable.

The combat was also pretty fun.

The thread isn't for 10/10's, just special games, ones you still hold on to.

My nigga
Pic related, perfer the other SMT games for gameplay (mainly DDS) but FES got me into it and Portable was more enjoyable overall.

Fuckdammit

Some of the games i can replay over and over and never get tired of em.

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All in all I like Fable: TLC a lot more after playing through it again recently, but fable 2 is always comfy as fuck for me to revisit and I always enjoy my time playing it, mostly due to not ever hearing the bullshit Molyneux spewed.

Super Mario World was what got me into video games
I know a lot of the people on this board like Super Mario Bros 3 more, but i still prefer world for some reason.

RIP duke
you were great

fugg, that was the storyboard for one of the cutscenes, i can dump it if wanted

Why not?

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Nice taste.

Go ahead, I'm kinda interested. What game was it for?

good taste.

Last one reminds me of fun days of co-op with some former friends I no longer have.

Always nice to see love for Wild Arms around. I'd have posted WA3 if you hadn't.

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the story board was intended for use in duke nukem 3d.
in this video you can see that the cut scene that is in the vid at around 50 seconds in

Zelda was literally the first series of video games that I ever played and discovered. It really sort of snowballed after I saw an advertisement of Minish Cap and ended up getting used copies of Ocarina of Time, A Link to the Past (on Gameboy), and The Legend of Zelda NES (also on gameboy). This collection later accumulated because I had no social life in the first place: everyone was pissing on me because I was mixed in with the tard kids for being diagnosed with autism at a young age.

It was a huge part of my childhood. I branched away and now I don't consider myself as much a fanboy of any series, but a bit of my soul died when I saw them ruin the series with the latest installments.

Was Skyward Sword that bad?

At most I can say it was mediocre. I thought the dramatic "you're the hero" shit was overplayed even more than the previous games.

Though call me autistic but the biggest shit I disliked about Skyward Sword that they added was save stations.

This is a Zelda game. Who in their right mind decided to add save stations!?

I only really have games that used to be special to me. It's been too long for them to hold any meaning anymore, though. That being said:

Banjo Kazooie
Paper Mario
Maple Story
Tales of Symphonia

I just realized that 3 of those were gifts, so I guess that's the reason. Getting a gift as a kid makes the possession more important than getting it as an adult.

mah niggas

Some of my first game memories were with the C&C games. Still one of my favorite franchises till this day.

Man, I'll never forget the one night, I was in bed by 9:00pm like always, when my dad invited me downstairs, and we stayed up until 2:00 am beating it. Even when my mom came out and asked why I was up, my dad told her to go back to sleep because it was guy time. I was a happy 7 year old back then.

Dad why did you have to try and kill me years later? ;_;

Is your dad Pigma?

Might as well be. They're both dead.

I had a good childhood.

It was an impulse buy. One of the objectively worse games of the series, but the way it somehow pulled me in guarantees it a special place in my heart. The sort of charm only a rough game can have.

I don't even particularly remember the game, I just remember it was comfy and fun and my cousin was and still is hotalso holy shit this came out 9 years ago

I want to die,

I wonder why this place sucks and then I see people your age posting here.

No no no

Yet you're the one making the shittier post.

The ability to observe my surroundings without changing my flight path reminds me of flying in a plane.

I think this should not only be the standard for starfox, but this would also be great for a rogue squadron revival

That post got real dark real fast.

its obviously not true, fathers dont play vidya with their children.

The main characters (young people dealing with loss and mortality) resonated with me and helped me through some hard, and strange, times as a kid.

Taught me some valuable lessons.

LET ME OUT

Not to defend Skyward Sword (I didn't mind it that much on a first playthrough, but looking back it's got way too much tedium, and the lack of challenge to puzzles between the camera pan or Fi outright telling you the solution is awful), but Majora's Mask also had save stations in the form of those owl statues if memory serves. I could be wrong though, been a while since I played Majora's Mask. Still not much reason that they should have felt a need to use them in Skyward Sword; most Zelda games seem to get around fine using the ability to save anywhere and loading at the entrance of a dungeon/town.

I remember a year or two back people were surprised to find out the original DS was already eleven years old.

That one doesn't do much for me because I'm more aware of how long ago 2004 was.

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All of these games have directly affected me as a person

Broke up with my GF of nine years, she made me "get all serious" and drop all my hobbies for years. So I went to the store and bought this game just because I figured it was a grindy Japanese thing that could occupy my mind for a while, and I had enjoyed Armored Core in the past. Re-ignited my love of games in general.

Fair enough, but it's a bit hard to think that (unless you count the DS being sixth gen, given how the GBA was a bit shortlived as far as being current for only 3-4 years) seventh gen started that long ago. The DS sure stuck around, too, with some of the last non-licensesdshovelware games on it being as recent as 2012 (stuff like Pokemon B2W2 and Conquest).

Knowing that the 3DS is over 5 years old hits way harder.

So, Ace Comat?

Mah nigga. It might be shit, but it's my shit.

There were a few games that I can remember from my childhood, but I don't know what other ones I would list that haven't been listed. There are definitely good games, like Donkey Kong Country, or other SNES games, or Starfox 64/OoT, but probably between Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer and far later, Gotcha Force on GC were really good. On PC, motherfucking Command and Conquer is memetic in the family. Still quote it often.

Is Persona 3 shit? It's sitting on my shelf but I haven't played it yet. (Or anything SMT besides Catherine)

Persona 3 is pretty good, definitely worth a play through

Compared to normal SMT and some of the better JRPGs out there, it's mediocre. But if you go in expecting nothing, you might be pleasantly surprised. It's not the best writing, but I love the characters and setting(aside from it being high school), and it was really neat to play when I was in school. If you're a bit older than college graduate, you might be tired of the wacky high school hijinks prevalent in Persona 3 and 4. Also, you can't control your party members in 3, which might be a deal breaker for you, I dunno.