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Postby Gazdakka Gizbang » Fri Mar 14, 2014 11:50 pm

View Original PostSquigsquasher wrote:Anything involving Phantom Crash. I fucking loved that game. I still have it.


I remember playing that game. I used a body configuration like the one on the front of the original XBox cover, with spider legs, red paint, and cannons (recoil cannons?) on each hand, with shoulder-mounted machine guns. I'd regularly shoot down the dropships that gave supplies for cash too. Was definitely a fun game.

Fighting Metal Gear RAY in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Rules of Nature is still my favourite song in the entire game.


You just reminded me:

- Beating Senator Armstrong in Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.

He was an unforgiving bastard, and I died many times to him, but I still plan to go back and do it again, and again, and again. Why? Because it felt so fun fighting that nanomachined asshole, and he was as merciless as some older games I remember playing. And not in the nasty Ninja Gaiden 2 3-boss final sense.

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Postby Dataprime » Tue Apr 15, 2014 9:52 am

My mom and I playing Chip & Dale rescue rangers for the NES
We make it all the way up to level 3 together
Because she was actually better at it then I was.

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Getting a N64 for Christmas
I was basically 'N64 kid' at the time

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Playing Timesplitters 2 with my friends
one of the best co-ops games around!!

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Having my GBC stolen from at while I was at summer camp

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Going over to someones house and watching them play Crash Bandicoot 1
and realizing the PS1 can play games on CDs
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Postby ::KL7:: » Tue Apr 15, 2014 12:02 pm

View Original PostDataprime wrote:Playing Timesplitters 2 with my friends
one of the best co-ops games around!!

Agreed. :tongue:

My favorite memory is getting The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for Christmas.
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Postby Monk Ed » Tue Apr 15, 2014 10:41 pm

View Original PostRingworm128 wrote:I don't expect anyone to believe it but one of my earliest memories was my brothers who would have been around 13-14 at the time literally making a tunnel to under the house from their room by cutting a whole where the ducted heating was. They even got a TV and N64 set up down there I can still clearly remember watching them play DK64.

...Wait what?

Logistically, I don't even understand how this works, or why they'd do it.
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Postby NemZ » Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:11 pm

More likely it was a pre-cut access panel in the closet for an unfinished crawlspace. Not uncommon to have outlets in such a place for lighting and power tools.

Still don't know why the hell you'd want to do that though.
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Postby ChaddyManPrime » Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:58 am

My greatest gaming memory was playing Final Fantasy VII back in 97-99, God it was so beautiful back then, unfortunately I ruined the experience by playing it over and over again.

My greatest memory about it though was quite obviously Aeris death, I remember I had Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent in my party, it was 1:16 am I cried like a little sissy bitch for I don't know how long. I paused it during the Jenova battle cause I couldn't stop crying, I felt bad for so long, oh God the trauma. I attempted so many of those "secrets" to get her and Zack back, even tried to get that boxing goblin that was supposed to be able to join your team.

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Postby Oxopoha » Wed Apr 16, 2014 1:31 am

Spending hours trying to make my mech just right in Phantom Crash.

Playing Tanktics with my dad.

Playing Rebel Squadron with my dad.

Completing New Vegas for the first time.

Max Payne 3, all of it.
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Postby Kazuki_Fuse » Fri May 16, 2014 3:54 am

Smashing two controllers almost literally to bits while trying to beat the fucking Water Temple in OoT.
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Postby Stryker » Fri May 16, 2014 2:19 pm

Dynasty Warriors: 3 with my dad.

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Postby movieartman » Thu Sep 21, 2017 2:21 am

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Never been much of a gamer (don't have the hand/eye coordination for it, I always want to look down at my fingers) but I have a few memories.

- In 2002 I bought a game cube strictly for the Godzilla - Destroy All Monsters game on it, barely used it, when I did I played some James Bond game most of the time, despite never making much progress.

- Had this sleep over at my church & we stayed up playing Goldeneye in one of the back rooms almost the whole night.

- Semi-More recently my younger cousin who was into gaming brought over a bunch of games, and I picked out the 2002 sequel game to John Carpenter's The Thing. He had not seen the film so we played together and I described elements of the film in detail & how it tied into the film, he seemed enthralled. Really great bonding moment with our 2 fandoms meeting.
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- Arcade Games I had a bit more experience with, I always played Primal Rage when I went to the movie theaters as a child, Tekken (as true ogre or Yoshimitsu) at Cicis.
Later on, Ocean Master at Gatti Town (rip), loved the mythos of that one with the various seaside cryptids being represented, precisely up my alley.
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Postby Alaska Slim » Fri Sep 29, 2017 5:08 am

View Original PostDataprime wrote:
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Getting a N64 for Christmas
I was basically 'N64 kid' at the time

:raincloud: <-- Was never given one.
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Postby The Eva Monkey » Fri Sep 29, 2017 9:31 am

View Original Postmovieartman wrote:- Had this sleep over at my church & we stayed up playing Goldeneye in one of the back rooms almost the whole night.

Because shooting each other is a good way of getting close to Jesus, right?

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Postby imprimatur13 » Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:23 pm

Hmmm... Far as Gaming Memories go... Fond memories of the fighting games on the Wii. I loved loved loved Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Naruto Shippuden Clash of Ninja Revolution 3, and DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Unfortunately, I no longer have the Wii nor those games... Some of my favorite gaming experiences there.
(Despite the fact that they were Naruto and DBZ licensed games, they were VERY good. VERY.)

Other than that, my fondest memories are of the Pokemon games, and of Civilization IV and its mods. ^_^ I used to play Fall From Heaven 2 and Rhye's and Fall of Civilization all the time... That game had so many great mods for it. Pity Civ V isn't so malleable...
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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:35 pm

View Original PostThe Eva Monkey wrote:Because shooting each other is a good way of getting close to Jesus, right?

Well, the Crusades made those guys closer to Jesus... sounds like the same thing to me. As long as they played Goldeneye in the name of God.
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Postby movieartman » Sat Sep 30, 2017 5:36 pm

View Original PostThe Eva Monkey wrote:Because shooting each other is a good way of getting close to Jesus, right?

While I am Christian & did go to church back then, we were not the hyper close minded types that thought fictional animated violence is sinful or would make us killers & such crap. And there was other games, racing games & such, Goldeneye is just the main one I recall us playing most.
And it may have been a boy scout get together not a church one, It just took place IN my church.

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Postby Lordradec007 » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:42 am

One of my favorite gaming memories has got to be the ending to Interplay's Fallout (1997).
After all the trials and errors, I finally managed to destroy the source of the Super Mutants by blowing up Mariposa Military base and killed off the Master, along with the Children of the Cathedral, by blowing up the cathedral. After the cutscene with the fall of the cathedral, the game showed me the endings for my involvement with the places I've been. Most of them are really good knowing how hope is on the horizon, while the other two are just depressing to know that it's too late to save both the Hub and The Followers of the Apocalypse, because of the Super Mutant Army pretty much laid waste to the people in the two places I tried to help in. To think that I would be claimed as a hero (which I did due to my good deeds), I also get exiled into the wasteland by the Overseer of Vault 13 for the concern of the safety of its residents, which I can understand the reasons why, as I watched myself going towards back into the deserted wastes as The Ink Spots' Maybe plays in an eerily, yet haunting tune. This left quite an impact on me, and I have to say that Interplay really did a great job on this first title of the Fallout Series. This is the only Fallout game so far that made me feel quite immersed, while feeling emotional at the same time. Now come to think of it, yet funny enough... I got this game on October 7th and beat it in seven days. To me, that is one hell of an accomplishment I have made than the other fallout games like Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Fallout 4.
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Postby robersora » Mon Dec 11, 2017 7:02 pm

I cried at the end of Nier:Automata and Final Fantasy XV. No other game managed to do that ever before. Thank you, bases Squenix.
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Postby DarkBluePhoenix » Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:35 pm

robersora wrote:I cried at the end of Nier:Automata and Final Fantasy XV. No other game managed to do that ever before. Thank you, bases Squenix.

I have to admit, the ending of Star Wars: Republic Commando made me cry a bit. It was definitely sad.
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Postby dev-iated » Mon Apr 02, 2018 5:38 pm

Video games serve to unify the masses. Most of my memories by myself and with friends were formed with videogames as the conduit. I view most of these experiences through a rose-tinted glass.
I remember watching others play single-player games was something of a sacred rite. I'd beg my friends to play Final Fantasy or Grand Theft Auto so I could experience it vicariously, since I was afraid of buying any game rated higher than E10+ as a kid.
Co-op games are a different breed. They serve to further the strength of social bonds by actually letting two friends play a thing together. But they were also great harbingers of strife in my time. It was rough.

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Postby dev-iated » Mon Apr 02, 2018 5:51 pm

On a real note though, I often become depressed when playing games, simply because I wish I'd played them from a younger age and could experience them now through a nostalgic lens, since it's a really great feeling in my view. I feel like youth is the best time to play games, since your reaction to everything on the screen is such pure curiosity; I think the expression, "childlike wonder" is really important to gaming, possibly moreso than all other mediums.
I never played Final Fantasy or EarthBound as a young'n, even though I could have easily played them, since they were always in my, y'know, my lexicon. Then I could say to folks," I've been a diehard fan of (blank) since I was aged ten!" and impress the fuck out of some people who may or may not see through my act to impress them.
But still, I think it can vastly improve the experience of playing a specific game by letting all of it's pathos sink into you as a child, and then going back and analyzing it's artistic merit as a mature, seasoned guy.


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