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i love you for your silence
Video game meme, part the second:
all the prompts
My answers for questions 6 - 10:
6: A game that's changed you the most?
I honestly don't know. I suppose it depends on how you mean changed, really. There's not been a game that's completely changed my outlook on life, if that's what you mean. On a really simple level, I suppose Mass Effect got me playing shooters, which is a genre I generally would've stayed far, far away from before that. But as for something that's changed me in a more complex way? There isn't one.
(OK, that's not strictly fair - Lost Odyssey made me realise just how complicated storytelling in games can be - don't play it because Kaim's memories will break you into little pieces, and if they don't, you have no soul).
(But that's the only one I can think of offhand. I bet I'll remember way more once I've posted this and shut the browser down).
7: A game you'll never forget?
Hum. Well. There's a lot of games I can remember playing (and it's a LOT. I have been video gaming since I was five, so that's almost thirty years).
I have a lot of fondness for an old DOS game called Sleuth, because I like puzzle games, and a good old murder mystery. Also because it's mostly text with a very basic layout (a yellow blob is you, with a 2D map of the mansion), it leaves a lot to the imagination. You can also input your own character names, and me and my BFF used to have a lot of fun with that.
Well, and there was that time I whipped my brother's arse at playing Treasure Island Dizzy while still only a wee babby of less than ten years old, so of course I'm not going to forget that.
8: Best soundtrack?
OH GOD THIS IS THE WORST QUESTION HOW DARE YOU.
Final Fantasy XII's soundtrack is pretty damn awesome - it's one of the few I can listen to pretty much every track without skipping any (OK, there's a couple I dislike, but the rest of it is so amazing and beautiful, and wow I have a crush on Hitoshi Sakimoto's composing skills, eh?*).
But honestly I don't think I've heard a bad soundtrack on a game. The nearest I'm willing to get is that I wish the Dragon Age music tracks were more constant/apparent. I like the silence with occasional music in Inquisition, but honestly I'd prefer a full, looping music track in an area? I AM SO PICKY. ALSO NON-COMMITTAL, BUT MAINLY PICKY.
(I'd also like the music to be louder in DA:I - I have it on full volume, and barely catch it a lot of times (see also: bitching about not being able to hear the actual lyrics of the pub songs) and that's the game's output and not my TV's speakers. Which is a shame, because there's some really beautiful tracks in there).
*I totally do, though.
9: A game you turn your volume off every time you play it?
I don't turn the volume off on games, even if I get stuck in areas for hours (I am looking at you that one side quest in Eryut Village). I mean, there's a reason hours of work were poured into the soundtrack/sound effects/voice acting.
10: A game you've completely given up on?
Aside from the aforementioned Baldur's Gate game? Um, well, there's Code of the Samurai; Onimusha 2 (zombie samurai scared me? Probably); Resident Evil: Code Veronica (actual zombies + tank controls? NO THANKS); LSD: Dream Emulator; The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion; Ib (it was a good game, I just never finished it); Viva Pinata; and probably at least a dozen others, but I have wiped them from my memory.
all the prompts
My answers for questions 6 - 10:
6: A game that's changed you the most?
I honestly don't know. I suppose it depends on how you mean changed, really. There's not been a game that's completely changed my outlook on life, if that's what you mean. On a really simple level, I suppose Mass Effect got me playing shooters, which is a genre I generally would've stayed far, far away from before that. But as for something that's changed me in a more complex way? There isn't one.
(OK, that's not strictly fair - Lost Odyssey made me realise just how complicated storytelling in games can be - don't play it because Kaim's memories will break you into little pieces, and if they don't, you have no soul).
(But that's the only one I can think of offhand. I bet I'll remember way more once I've posted this and shut the browser down).
7: A game you'll never forget?
Hum. Well. There's a lot of games I can remember playing (and it's a LOT. I have been video gaming since I was five, so that's almost thirty years).
I have a lot of fondness for an old DOS game called Sleuth, because I like puzzle games, and a good old murder mystery. Also because it's mostly text with a very basic layout (a yellow blob is you, with a 2D map of the mansion), it leaves a lot to the imagination. You can also input your own character names, and me and my BFF used to have a lot of fun with that.
Well, and there was that time I whipped my brother's arse at playing Treasure Island Dizzy while still only a wee babby of less than ten years old, so of course I'm not going to forget that.
8: Best soundtrack?
OH GOD THIS IS THE WORST QUESTION HOW DARE YOU.
Final Fantasy XII's soundtrack is pretty damn awesome - it's one of the few I can listen to pretty much every track without skipping any (OK, there's a couple I dislike, but the rest of it is so amazing and beautiful, and wow I have a crush on Hitoshi Sakimoto's composing skills, eh?*).
But honestly I don't think I've heard a bad soundtrack on a game. The nearest I'm willing to get is that I wish the Dragon Age music tracks were more constant/apparent. I like the silence with occasional music in Inquisition, but honestly I'd prefer a full, looping music track in an area? I AM SO PICKY. ALSO NON-COMMITTAL, BUT MAINLY PICKY.
(I'd also like the music to be louder in DA:I - I have it on full volume, and barely catch it a lot of times (see also: bitching about not being able to hear the actual lyrics of the pub songs) and that's the game's output and not my TV's speakers. Which is a shame, because there's some really beautiful tracks in there).
*I totally do, though.
9: A game you turn your volume off every time you play it?
I don't turn the volume off on games, even if I get stuck in areas for hours (I am looking at you that one side quest in Eryut Village). I mean, there's a reason hours of work were poured into the soundtrack/sound effects/voice acting.
10: A game you've completely given up on?
Aside from the aforementioned Baldur's Gate game? Um, well, there's Code of the Samurai; Onimusha 2 (zombie samurai scared me? Probably); Resident Evil: Code Veronica (actual zombies + tank controls? NO THANKS); LSD: Dream Emulator; The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion; Ib (it was a good game, I just never finished it); Viva Pinata; and probably at least a dozen others, but I have wiped them from my memory.