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Post by Terrifying on Feb 23, 2015 18:20:48 GMT -5
In addition to the other thread called "Games that ended your desire to play a genre"...
I'll start with Street Fighter II, the game which made me interested in the one-on-one beat 'm up-genre.
Probotector / Operation C for the Game Boy for the side scroll shoot 'm up-genre.
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Post by Weasel on Feb 23, 2015 18:26:08 GMT -5
I didn't truly get into 2D fighting games until I played One Must Fall: 2097, shortly after its freeware release in 2000. Interestingly, a lot of the techniques I learned from playing the Tournament Mode translated pretty well towards SNK's fighters, less so to Capcom's. The very next game I got hooked on was King of Fighters '97 (no idea why I chose that one above all the others, admittedly!), and that just started my craze.
Also, I admittedly didn't think much of Japanese-style text adventures until I played the fan-translation of Radical Dreamers, and later on, the fan-translated first case of Gyakuten Saiban 3 (I think they were still calling it "Comeback Courtroom 3" at the time?). I'd tried Snatcher and the weird GBA hack of the Sega Saturn El-Hazard game, but neither one truly showed me the way (even though I got half the endings in El-Hazard).
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Post by susanismyalias on Feb 23, 2015 18:34:45 GMT -5
I didn't really get into fighters until I played #reload, still one of my favorites.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Feb 23, 2015 20:32:53 GMT -5
Alternate Reality: The Dungeon on Commordore 64 is what triggered my interest in RPGs, tho I'd say it was also helped by both Betrayal in Anatara on the PC and Final Fantasy 7 on PSX.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Feb 23, 2015 20:52:42 GMT -5
Legend of Dragoon is what got me into JRPGs.
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Post by GamerL on Feb 23, 2015 21:16:59 GMT -5
Silent Hill 2 was the first survival horror game I played and I was probably way too young to play it (I think I was like 12) and it put the fear of God in me.
But it made me both a lifelong Silent Hill and survival horror fan.
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Post by alphex on Feb 23, 2015 23:35:28 GMT -5
Street Fighter II - versus fighters. I had already played and enjoyed Virtua Fighter before, but 2D fighters were more my thing, as I'd learned when I first played SF2.
Super Mario Land - probably the first video game I ever played.
Silent Hill - Resident Evil was cool and all, but Silent Hill really gave the horror a psychological depth I had not experienced from games before.
Ishar 3 - western RPGs. It's not a stellar game, but I played it together with friends for multiple hours. Of course, we'd all created our own characters at the beginning as well.
Monkey Island 2 - point & click adventures. I had played Kyrandia and Quest For Glory 3 before, but the pacing, the humour, the game world, the puzzles - this game bested them all and sucked me right into its fantastic environment.
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Post by kaoru on Feb 24, 2015 8:38:18 GMT -5
Skyrim and Mass Effect showed me that WRPGs don't have to be the complicated D&D affairs like most of the ones from the 90s always seemed to me.
Clock Tower made me realize that I can play survival horror, if I don't have to worry about ammunition.
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Post by guninanrunin on Feb 24, 2015 12:55:10 GMT -5
Etrian Odyssey 1 (which I only just touched a few months ago) got me into the first-person dungeon crawl scene.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Feb 24, 2015 13:00:20 GMT -5
Etrian Odyssey 1 (which I only just touched a few months ago) got me into the first-person dungeon crawl scene. Then let me be the first to say welcome, and be careful what others you play. Because Etrian Odyssey is super user friendly compared to the rest of a genre that died roughly the I was born. |
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Post by Dingo on Feb 24, 2015 13:10:28 GMT -5
Etrian Odyssey 1 (which I only just touched a few months ago) got me into the first-person dungeon crawl scene. Etrian Odyssey was my gateway into the genre, too. Now first-person dungeon crawlers are among my favorite genres. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2015 15:39:49 GMT -5
Mario got me me into RPGs and Kart racers, not mention, y'know, platformers.
He remains the king of RPGs, though. I don't know how timed attacks aren't a genre staple.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Feb 24, 2015 16:00:14 GMT -5
Demo of Silent Hill-Started my liking of Survival Horror
Final Fantasy 2 (SNES)-RPG's
Bioshock, Duke Nukem Forever and Aliens vs. Predator plus a commercial for FEAR 3-First Person Shooters
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Post by X-pert74 on Feb 24, 2015 16:03:54 GMT -5
Duke Nukem 3D for Xbox Live Arcade got me into FPSes, back in 2011. I'd played a couple before it, but it wasn't until DN3D that I started to actually really enjoy, and go out of my way to play FPSes (particularly older ones, but I enjoy some modern ones too).
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Post by Colonel Kurtz on Feb 24, 2015 17:00:58 GMT -5
 Outrun ignited in me a lifelong passion for racing games. ALL RACING GAMES. From arcade franchises (Ridge Racer is simply magical for me) to sims (Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport are in a tie) and everything in between (F-Zero GX is still stunning, and Ferrari F355 Challenge has the most satisyfying racing gameplay ever). Of course, in this genre more than almost any other, the advent of polygonal 3D was a revelation, a game-changer and a second, miraculous birth. As an illustration of how deeply I love virtual driving even to this day, I've just spent the last two weeks cruising the italian and french rivieras in Forza Horizon 2, and for the last days, I just spent a good hour each day simply cruising the map, without any particular goal, just driving while listening to good music, like you sometimes do in real life. And Outrun was the start of all this. I had already played Pole Position, but Outrun was on another level in every way. Graphically, it was like playing a dream. There are not many genres I don't like, but racing games are like a drug to me. Mario Kart DS, WipeOut, Power Drift, Colin McRae, etc, etc. the advent of polygonal 3D made my head explode. Racing games benefited from that revolution immediately, and more deeply than almost any other genre of games. There is only one racing games franchise that almost systematically bores me to death: Need for Speed. And even so, I could make a top ten of my NFS favorites easily. And all of this started in 1986, when I saw for the first time a stand-up coin-op version of one of the most legendary racing game ever made: Outrun, the Citizen Kane of racing games. It also started a lifelong love affair with SEGA. Without Outrun and their other Super Scaler games, I NEVER would have bought a SMS, when Konami games were released on the NES! ...The sensation that a perfectly negociated trajectory gives me is simply one of the greatest feelings in my life, on par with skiing fast and well. And yes, I'm anxiously waitinf for the release of SEGA/M2's 3D Classic version of Outrun on 3DS. And of course I love Outrun 2. Outrun started it all. And I never regret the innumerable days of my life I spent playing racing games. It was time well invested, for the joy they gave me is unlike any other, even among other video games - and I've rarely played a game I did not enjoy at least a little!  My XBOX handle is "OPA-OPA Forever" as an hommage to Fantasy Zone, but if I went by influence, it should be "Outrun 'til I die"... |
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