Formative Games
List idea entirely taken from @PhantasM_ (list here), it was a bit of a challenge to remember core games that had a serious impact on my tastes today, but here's my attempt at going down memory lane.
trying to make a mental note of cutting off anything past 2012, as I was around 9-10 years old.
trying to make a mental note of cutting off anything past 2012, as I was around 9-10 years old.
78 Games
I don't remember what it was called, but I loved this online PvP gamemode where two teams built out trails to eachother in cobblestone. I always built little archer points.
Those loading times on the PS3 were fucking brutal, but I waited everytime cause I thought the online was that cool. Today I wonder, what the hell did I even do in the online for that long
I sucked at the main game so I just played Deathrun lobbies a lot
I was literally the god of Mario Kart Wii, every square filled with gold.
Was a master of These two as a kid, I beat the entire Wii game in one day can you believe it.
I was a Ganondorf main, the worst character in the game lol
that Tennis shit wasn't no game that shit was kill or be killed
100%'d this game as a kid, a truly grand accomplishment.
My favorite platformer :)
I never finished it because the mission where you have to go and save cortana creeped me out + was too hard.
What my parents THOUGHT my first M rated game was. My dad played Black ops 1 constantly and of course it led to me playing it.
I was absolutely obsessed with this games multiplayer for a good while, I still remember a lot of the maps vividly.
This game probably helped me fall in love with Star Wars, I can credit a lot of me knowing stupid character names to this
Made my mom play this with me once, she got stuck in a bush.
Everyone used to always play this and Mario Kart DS after school, was awesome.
I thought the physics in this game were hilarious and insane.
Found this one in a bargain bin at Best Buy and convinced my parents to get it. Best bargain bin find ever.
Catch me in the Dojo bro
Start of the flash games, I spent way too much time playing some of these lol
Me and my friend only ever played this with the angry cars cheat code. We thought it was unbelievably hilarious.
Core Memory: brought a friend for camping, there was this lodge/restaurant nearby, me and friend just played Street Fighter II there the whole time while the summer Olympics were going on, can't remember which year cause we didn't watch at all lol
This is the most important game, hugely inspired me and influenced who I am today. countless memories with the community, priceless moments were shared.
I mostly played SMB3
I thought the opening sequence was unbelievably cool
You know I don't fuck around with Dr mario
Can you believe I still suck at Tekken?
Mained the Shark dude
Idk if you could tell but I liked a lot of racing games back then lol.
Yeah in absolutely no way should I have played this as a kid, a somewhat offensive game!
Little kid me was DESTROYED as the Target employee explained to my mom that the game requires a monthly subscription. Luckily that subscription went away :)
I got this game literally just because of the Star Wars crossover lol. Always felt odd playing this in the living room cause of how much skin the characters showed lol.
Bizzaro Mario Party, if only I knew.
Never forget when my dads drunk friend just came in and fucking obliterated me in MK infront of my friends. A truly humbling moment
I thought the 2 wheel guy was fckn badass
One summer me and my cousin dumped 50 million quarters into this game to beat it. We should've gotten medals for that one.
Super underrated Battlefield, played this game constantly despite no unlocks, the maps and gunplay were just endlessly fun.
The first M rated game I ever played.
Another game where I played it with a fixiation on the physics. Idk why but the slo-mo cam everytime a crash happened was endlessly addicting, I did that more than actually play the game.
We only rented this one but this was my first exposure to a game where you can build your own town n whatnot, I thought it was incredible.
Really liked unlocking all the monsters more than playing the actual game. I'd show my dad and my godfather all of the monsters I unlocked
I could never beat the silver surfer guy at the end.
Yeah this game was not the best, but it had Spongebob in it!
Really lucky I picked this one up, exposed me to so many 16-bit greats like Shinobi III, Dynamite Heady, etc.
This game kinda sucked ngl, however, I really liked unlocking all the characters, also I had a physical blaster accessory with it.
Now this game consumed me. I was seriously obsessed with this world and the community within it. I saved up for quite a long time to get that lifetime membership. Absolutely loved this game.
This was Skylanders before Skylanders and no one remembers it. Very surreal game.
Using this a representative for all the plug-n-play machines we had, most were also Namco.
I remember asking some silly question in chat, and someone got me with the Alt-F4 trick, it was my first time ever reading it. Safe to say I felt so stupid but also furious at that fella lol. Also vividly remember the announcer on some modded servers "M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!!!!!"
Still the coolest arcade experience ever.
This game was kinda wack in retrospect.