Whatever game... that made you rethink your life, or your views on society, or your religion, or your love life... I could go on hehehe [img]smile.gif[/img]

What was that one game that made you have a different perspective on things?

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No game has done that to me.

Well after sitting through Metal Gear Solid:Substance's extremely long ending, it made me think about alot of things, I mean, is it really all that hard to imagine if the government and everyone alse is really all instructed by a select few people? (if you dont understand, then go and buy MGS:Substance NOW-Its cheap)
But apart from that the only other game i can thing of right now is Postal 2.....Mwaaahahahahaha


Just Kidding.

Aww come on. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Oh well it's worth a try... hoping somebody has an experience... hahaha. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

No game AFAIK.

Rock, Paper, Scissors.

DnD PnP was the turning point for me :D before that game came into my life, I was normal [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Probably the Final Fantasy series. It made me realise that I could get girls if I tried hard enough... Then I realised that every main character in FF is good looking [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Nevertheless, it taught me basic morale points in life with it's cool storylines.

After a solid year of playing BG2 I realised I'd stopped haveing a life... Does that count? [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]

sure, if you had one to begin with [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yup stormy is right. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

As for me it is Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VII. The concept of time traveling in Chrono and the human stuggles in FF VII really have affected me and has had an impact on how I see things. Well, I did play them when I was at a young age... :D

After playing civilisation 2 I learned that I should never be trusted with the power of a super power.

Whichever game it was that I played first. Obviously, it lead to an addiction.

Well I don't really have a game that gave me a perspective of life...but the game that taught me about past history was Age of Mythology...lol :D

might and magic 6 made me like rpg,s

that was the changing game for me :D

Mafia actually got me think alot about morale and stuff and how even though you´re a nice guy reality always gets you in the end

It was FF7 and Crono trigger for me, too.

FF7 was the first real RPG that I played, and it made me look for RPGs as much as platformers, and Crono trigger was the one that made me look for RPGs almost exclusively.

Having to think while playing instead of jamming on one button is a good idea, which I soon figured out. I think that's why I'm in honors classes. Or that could be just an excuse to play more video games. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Also, sometimes it's kind of fun to think about the impossibilities in video games. Like a certain BG2:TOB enemy is (possibly spoiler) immune to timestop. Assuming time could be stopped, or at least slowed down to where it seemed to be stopped, or speeding up someone to the point where everything else seems to be stopped, something else immune to the spell would mean time was slowed, but since it was immune, the third choice is impossible, and why would time return to normal after the spell wore off? Wouldn't the creature remain in the faster time, and kill everything in an instant?

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LS0158: A person who is immune to timestop is immune to timestop. Hehehe, I think hasting time would be different. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Mafia... hmm I think Hitman will be an interesting game. My friend will lend me his copy. Hitman 2 that is... ;)

I was within an inch of being a history major as an undergrad, due entirely to the original Age of Empires (from '97).

Get the shivers now just thinking about the horrors :D

As for PC games, none, though BG1 sure ate up a good deal of my time. So much so that I have had to discipline myself on the amount of time I put into games.

However, like Stormymystic it was D&D P&P that changed my life. The time I spent on that through the early through mid-80's was less than well spent. I must be getting older though because neither the P&P or PC RPGs hold me captive now.

I've had a lot of games that I've formed an emotional attachement to but never that have seriously affected any of my views of ways of living. Although some have made me think about alternate worlds.

I don't think I could give a video game enough credit in saying that it's actually been life-changing for me. I'm not that much of a nerd. :D [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Even so though, I've played Baldur's Gate since it first came out in 1999, so I suppose it's the one game that I've really stuck with.

Yup BG1 was up the charts for me too...

Vask don't worry your post makes sense ;)

Arledrian... [img]tongue.gif[/img] Well it's fun when you get to manage playing time with studies, sports, and your friends... including girlfriends... oh I mean girlfriend. :D

No one game did it, but the games I used to play have me practically bleeding with nostalgia all the time now.

At 17, that's a serious problem for me...

Now, a single game that made me feel different?

Deus Ex...It triggered my latent paranoid tendancies...I studied the subject thoroughly, and it seems that I was born to be crazy as a loon! In any case, I stopped trusting my government. For that, I ought to write Warren Spector a letter of thanks.

Hehe, Deus ruled... too bad Invisible War didn't live up.

Baldurs Gate has taught me i should always gather my party before i venture forth

Pong. I now know that the laws of friction need not apply everywhere.

<span style="font-size:44">ARRGGGHHHH!

/me runs around screaming like lunatic.

"Make the hurting stop!"

"Here, have some Baldurdash!"

"Yay!"

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*cough*

Life changing? Hmmmm... about the most drastic that ever happened was a shift in preference in game genre. Playing Septerra Core introduced me to CRPGs and I got hooked on them ever since.

I enjoyed the voice of the narrator, so that line "You must gather your party before venturing forth" was really fun... and then you start to get sick of it. hahaha [img]smile.gif[/img]

Oh so Deus Ex... tsktsktsk I chickened out on Silent Hill 3... hahaha actually I hated the controls and then eventually since I felt so helpless control-wise and game-wise (Should that be the case?) I quit. At least with Resident Evil I like the controls. And RE2 made me scream... what a screwed up game that was. Bad for kiddos.

I loved Twinsin's Odyssey, that was amazing when i was younger, Civilization 3 taught me how nations work, and that wars etc can sometimes be unavoidable and that kind of thing it just gave ma an idea of what i would do in control and sadly i was like our current leaders except i started a nuclear war, sim city 2000 was great when i was in primary school, red alert when i was younger, deus ex was really great although i didn't finish it because of a damaged cd, and vice city is what i play to relax or whatever, it's just nice to go driving or kill something.

They have all influenced me and changed me however slightly, i guess Twinsen was the most changing, i think it was the first or second game i had ever finished, at least the biggest and first 3d game i had ever finished, so it is special, and just the idea of saving your entire race, it was just such a great game, amazing in everyway, i've played through it a couple of times, just a spectacular game.

Yup... that feeling hehehe :D

I didn't like Civ 3 though... found it boring. Not my game I guess.

D2LOD -> what is life?

Well baldurs Gate and Baldurs Gate 2 almost lost me my girlfriend, so I stopped playing and took up drinking and then I lost her anyways, so now I'm back to Baldurs Gate.. hmmm, sad story really :S

sad indeed :(

Sodomatic Goat: Okay, you became an alcoholic? Well you can indeed lose your gf on that!

All I can say is, they should accept us for who we are and what we do. [img]smile.gif[/img]

"Sodomatic Goat" hey....
that name doesn't mean what i think it does, does it?