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Posted By: Digbert |
So I ask the question why do I sill play games?
One of my first gaming memories is waking up on Christmas day and opening up my brand new Mega Drive Sonic the Hedgehog 2 bundle and it was great and I was about 8 maybe younger. You see games were simpler then and sometimes I think just more FUN in those days however I don’t think I had any favourite games back then, I love Sonic and still kind of do but he’s almost dead to me now.
So what is my favourite game and why?
Okay is is where someone finds me a kills me in my sleep, as my favourite game is still little misunderstood still after all these years, the game being of course Final Fantasy 8 and there’s a little story to why this is my favourite game.
Back in the day when the PS1 was king still my house was burgled and one of the things they took was my old PS1 (RIP) and all my games, it was not until the insuresers paid off I got a new PS1 Slim and one of the games I had received was Final Fantasy 8 and I started a long slippery slope into what would become my gaming habits, it was and I still think is the only Final Fantasy let alone JRPGS I have ever finished and still think about today, and the thing that made it so good was the story and the atmosphere and I fell in love with the characters every single one of them that’s why.
Into the future and beyond
Of course after Final Fantasy 8 there was the PS2 and Xbox and the only title that I can think of that stood out in that GEN was Knights of the old republic and that was that until the Xbox 360 came about and BOOM! right out the gate came Elders Scrolls Oblivion from Bethesda Softworks and then after that Mass Effect from Bioware and Fallout 3 and next week I will be drooling all over Mass Effect 2 oh and not to forget my GOTY last year Dragon age Origins.
Now What is the one thing they all have in common well they all are great character driven RPG’s That’s what I look for in a game and why none RPGs always fail for me they don’t seem to be able to tell a story just look at Modern warfare 2’s story or lack of story in fact if it had a story it didn’t make much sense.
That’s why I still play games for the story.
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January 24th, 2010 Posted by Digbert | Hardware, Xbox 360 Tagged under | Digbert, Dragon Age: Origins, Final Fantasy VIII, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, Memories, Oblivion, PS1, RPG Comment on This Post | Comments (0) Discuss this Post | On the XG:Forum |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is one of the biggest games of the year therefore expect quite a lot of official products rolling out from Activision and Co. In this case we’ll be taking a look at the ‘crazy cats’ over at MadCatz who have sent us the Combat Controller for the Xbox360 (Also available on the PS3, a wireless version).
