What is your favorite video game and why?

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Have any video games had a positive influence on you, or made a deep impact on who you are today?

You can guess my favorite if you know/can figure out what my profile picture is. It had a great impact on me by exposing me to philosophical and moral dilemmas in which I could apply my Catholic faith. It also has a great story of redemption and brings awareness of varying cultures.
 
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I recategorized this under Popular Media as I thought it might attract the posters who would be interested in replying.

I do really enjoy video games, but I’m not sure I’d say any single game has had a “deep impact” on me. I really mostly only play Nintendo games which—as great as they are—don’t necessarily have story lines that get too “deep.” There are moments in Zelda games that get me choked up. I can’t listen to the owl music in Ocarina of Time without getting weirdly emotional. 😄
 
Counter-Strike and other FPS shooters had an influence on me joining the United States Military, which in turn has helped shape me and made me who I am today.
 
I love me some Pokémon, some Super Mario Brothers, some of the original Sonic games, Street Fighter, a lot of The Legend of Zelda games, Oregon Trail, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem before it was a first person shooter, nothing against first person shooters, it’s just when I think of Duke Nukem I don’t think of that. Some of the Resident Evil games I’ve spent a lot of time with, I really like Nemesis in Resident Evil 3. Honestly, I think if I had to pick a favourite video game though, it would have to either be Super Mario Brothers 3 or Super Mario World, I mean that’s just huge Nostalgia to my childhood.
 
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Interesting. Maybe I will look it up. I don’t know anything about it.

For me, maybe no particularly positive influence, jut fun, I guess. I haven’t played too much lately, I get kind of addicted to them. I would play the online first person shooters, not real edifying, I downloaded Battlefield I demo, It’s pretty fun. But l like more modern warfare really,

The game I played alot which was 7 years ago or so was battle field 2142. So yeah, modern war settings.

I’ve debated playing again. One needs to not waste too much time in life as it’s finite and we’re expected to use it as best we can by God, so I’m a little conflicted about it. Plus I’m a lot older than you. So maybe I have less excuse. 🙂
 
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Perhaps the Magnus application whereby you play chess against “Magnus Carlsen” at various ages.
I used to like smash brothers a lot along with most fighting games but I think I played those too much and don’t like them very much anymore.
 
I would probably go with Dynasty Warriors (especially 3-5) as the game that had the most positive impact. They are pseudo historical games taking place in the Three Kingdoms era of China and help cultivate an interest in Chinese history and culture.
 
My favorite game is Super Mario World (on the SNES). It was one of the first games I played as a child and I fell in love with it. I love the level design and how there are alternate paths in some levels (like the key holes). The boss fights are pretty awesome, too.
 
I like watching some of the cutscenes from Dynasty Warriors 3, it is hilariously bad dialogue
 
Absolutely video games can be a force for good. I’m sick of hearing people say that kids need to play outside more etc. As a child I did plenty of sport but i also loved video games. Games like age of empires, championship manager and sim city taught me how to abstractly visualise systems in the world; which is now what i do in my career and i am very fortunate to have a job that i enjoy and it pays well.
 
The only video game I ever played was the first home video game ever made, Home Pong, in the mid- 70’s. My late sister and I would play it for hours. A fun fact, a computer chip was developed to make the game possible and when it was first sold, that was the most powerful computer chip in any consumer product. The first home computers, such as the Compucolor, Commodore PET, Apple II, and TRS-80 were still a couple of years off. My sister got dual bachelors degrees, both with honors, in computer science and math about that same time, which was out there for a woman back then.

It is one of my favorite memories of my sister, who passed away in 2001.

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I think kids do need to play outside more, even if it isn’t sports. Video games are great. I find them to be even more immersive than novels, and even if you aren’t playing narrative driven games, they are still just a fun, challenging activity like board games and puzzles. However, I see way too many kids that don’t spend any time at all doing physical activities like playing outside. From a very young age, kids are now becoming addicted to tablets, spending all of their time playing mobile games and watching YouTube videos.

I find it very sad to see so many kids neglected. Many parents don’t seem to moderate their kids’ time at all any more, or even pay attention to the content their children are exposed to. It is way too easy for a 5 year old to end up in a bad place on YouTube. Also, some games, like Grand Theft Auto, nobody should be playing, especially a 10 year old.
 
Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Saturn is my favourite game. It admittedly had more an effect on how I view art than on my life as a Catholic, but it really is a profound piece of work. I also recall reading an interpretation of the game’s ending online somewhere that relates it to the Trinity and how the Holy Spirit acts in us, which I thought was pretty interesting (though almost certainly not what the developers were going for, not directly anyway) so there’s that!

I’m a big fan of Nintendo in general, particularly the Zelda series, as well as Mario, Metroid, Star Fox – who would have guessed?! 😛 – Pokémon, etc. I’m also pretty into adventure games, strategy games (4X, squad-based tactics, etc.), top-down spaceship shooters, lots more…

I think overall gaming has had a positive impact on my life, even if I devoted way too much time to it in the first half of this decade (pretty much saw it as my primary use of spare time then). Even as I’m moving further away from entertainment and more towards faith, I think games are good just to relax, for a challenge, to drive creativity, and lots else. Just need to practice moderation like all other worldly things.
 
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Fallout New Vegas, because the writing and care that went into every detail of the game is so deep. There’s almost always more than one way to finish a quest, the story and set pieces can be funny and sad, and you can play and finish the game any way you want. It’s possible to sneak around and use diplomatic skills and never have to attack or kill anyone, you can side with any faction or no faction, and there are lots and lots of places to explore.

In second place I’d have to say Bioschock because it’s setting of a failed underwater libertarian art-deco city is amazing and truly unique. Story is interesting too.

I guess what I value most in video games is setting and theme, and the ability to explore these. I even bought and played a lot of Battlefield 1 not because I like FPS (or had even played them before) but because I wanted to be in that setting of WW1. (I ended up having fun though, so I am glad I tried a new genre).

I am going to pick up Assassin’s Creed Origins eventually because I want to play a game set in ancient Egypt, even though I don’t really like Assassin’s Creed, as I find the mechanics not that great and the whole Illuminati thing really played out and boring.
 
I still have to play New Vegas, have it sitting on a PC somewhere. I really enjoyed the first two Fallout games.
 
I think you are talking about a symptom rather than a disease! If the problem is that the parents are neglecting the children then simply shoving them outside the front door is probably going to mean they end up causing anti-social behaviour rather than swinging from trees and jumping over streams!
 
Panzer Dragoon Saga is the best game of all time in.my opinion, but it never gets the credit because if when it came out and a lot of reviewers just haven’t played it.
 
It’s not much like the Interplay ones before Bethesda bought the series, at least gameplay-wise. I tried to play FO2 and I had to stop because I never played PC games and I just couldn’t get the hang of the turn-based combat and isometric style. Which is a shame, because I’ve heard it’s really good, but it’s just not my thing.

I still hold out hope that they may remake 1 and 2 in a modern engine. That’s be extremely up my alley.

But if you are expecting the exact same experience you’ll be disappointed. I know there’s a lot of fans out there that hate any of the games made for the newer generations of consoles, like 3, NV, and 4.
 
I can’t narrow it down to one.
  1. The original NES Legend of Zelda
    This was really the first game for me that really built up as it went along. I’m old enough where arcades were the primary source of video games, and while there were some great ones that got harder and harder as they went along (e.g. Robotron) they didn’t provide a multitude of unique challenges, explorations, and secrets the first Zelda did.
  1. Shadow of the Colossus
    If you look up “video games as art” you’re bound to see this game. It evoked so many feelings: a sense of scale, of desolation, of mystery. The narrative is purposely sparse, but it’s enough that the player can put together a cohesive story, as opposed to a game that throws a lot of disparate things at you so that you can never put together a single airtight narrative (see the otherwise great game Inside).
  2. The Binding of Isaac
    This game is for those who love ruminating over every aspect and interaction of a game, where experimentation is the ultimate goal. This delivers that in spades even after playing it so very many times.
 
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