Just a normal blog post today... though a lot has happened in Fallout 3. I don't think I quite realized how much I liked that game until I finished the LP of it and moved on to other games. In fact, I think it's safe to say that it is my favourite game at the moment. To be completely honest, I haven't played as many games as people seem to think I have.
I cannot really name my first game as my first console was the PAL SNES and my first cartridge was a 76 game pack. So any one of those games may have been my first. Some that I remember playing a lot are: Antarctic Adventure, Charlie's Circus, Pooyan, Twin Bee, and City Connection. I searched on youtube couple years ago and couldn't believe that someone actually had some videos up of that cartridge. Unfortunately, they didn't do all the games but they did do a couple of the better selections of the 76. Here is the playlist if you're curious what I'm talking about: 76-in-1 Rush Talkthrough. We also had the original Super Mario Bros. in which, I realized as I looked back on it, I never actually got very far. Didn't stop me from playing it for hours and hours though.
Then my dad brought back the North American SNES from his visit to Canada. He had gotten the promotional Donkey Kong + SNES package deal as a coming home present for me and my sister. We only had Donkey Kong. We only EVER had Donkey Kong. We never got any other cartridge. But being kids we were completely fine with that. We played Donkey Kong so so much. I remember the two of us being stuck at the Mine Cart Madness stage and me being awestruck when my sister finally beat it (she is 3 years older than me by the way). I think when I was around 6 or 7 my dad played Age of Empires and I watched, learned, and played it on my own.
The above is all prior to 1998 which is when we made our immigration to Canada. After the move I still played the two consoles/cartridges (same thing really lol) but I also played some games on the computer. I had no idea at the time (I was 8 - 10-ish) but these were games that were being emulated on our computer and were mostly originally for the Sega Genesis or NES/SNES. I have no idea how my dad got them on our computer way back then (around 1998 - 2000) but obliviously I played them. I don't actually remember a lot of these but Theme Park was one of them and Pocahontas. We had on CD-ROM the original Rayman game. Not sure when that was purchased. Somewhere in here I got a Gameboy Colour for my birthday and played Pokémon Yellow. We never got the full AoE 2 game but we had a demo of it which my sister and I played quite a bit. We were still young so we were fine with the demo for a while before we actually grew skilled enough to hit the demo's limits.
Then this brings me to something connected to a current LP of mine, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I mention in that LP that Chamber of Secrets was my first 3D game and indeed it was. December of 2002, we were going on vacation to a cabin in Sun Peaks (a ski resort) with two other families. My parents didn't want us to be bored during the evenings there so we went out and bought Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the PC. I remember being the only one who really understood how to play the game and the other kids would hand the laptop over to me when they got stuck.
My single player game "career" ended there for a long time. I turned away from video games for couple of years and instead opted for online text-based RPGs. I was quite big in the community I was in, I eventually became the site Manager and Site Designer. Fancy titles but nothing really big as the "site" was an MSN group. I'm sure no one knows what the hell that is but it was kind of like a forum that MSN used to run ages and ages ago. In fact, our site had become the number one (based on activity rating) MSN group in the listings. Then when I was 14 I started blogging on MSN Spaces and through that met a friend who reintroduced me to video games.
Don't laugh... but my re-entry into the world of video games started with Gunbound. Though most of you probably have never heard of it. It's a cartoony style 2D multiplayer game in which you enter matches with a team. You're set on a stage and you adjust angle and power of your shots so that you hit the enemy and either kill them or make them fall off the stage. I was quite the pro Nak.
Then I met a friend on Gunbound who introduced me to MMORPGs. Silkroad Online to be exact. I was hooked on that game for about 2 years. Then I moved on to Rappelz for 1 year but I never really grew very fond of Rappelz. It rather had to do with the people. I missed my old Silkroad guild mates and I still do from time to time. Though I say I played Rappelz for 1 year, what I mean is that for 1 year that was the only game I played. Doesn't mean I played it particularly a lot. Also got Age of Empires 3 and played that a lot somewhere in these years. At this stage I was about 17. So as you can see, I've been a gamer for many years but haven't played a big variety of games.
When I went off to university at the age of 18 I was completely video game free. I had been so addicted to those MMOs that when I finally managed to quit it all I was actually quite intimidated at the thought of becoming addicted to gaming again. Which is why I bought a my MacBook. I had resolved not to play video games but just in case my will should waver I would be forced to be unable to play video games by incompatibility. It worked... sort of. In November my friend from Rappelz told me about Dragon Age: Origins which had just come out. He had gotten it and was just raving about how good it was. Once I got home for the Christmas break I had my sister buy it for me for Christmas and completed it in about 5 or 6 days. Needless to say, Dragon Age: Origins completely revitalized my love of video games and also showed me what a great single player RPG could be.
The rest of that school year I was still without means to game but I found another way to quench my thirst for video games. Yep, you guessed it: Let's Plays.
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