Hey guys, gals, and whatever the fuck you freaks inbetween prefer to be called these days. My name is Blake, and it's time for BaD! Well, for me anyway, it just became monday here and I have nothing better to do.
So here's the deal. BaD is a community event, and this year I want my blogs to involve the community. Sometimes these blogs will be simple questions requiring a simple answer in the comments. Sometimes I'll ask people to mention something in their Blogs, or write a blog about a particular thing - if they are able.
Hopefully it all adds up to some fun, and since everyone will be reading like a kazillion blogs every day, I will endeavour to keep mine concise. Let the BaD times commence!
What is Your Favourite Game? Please Explain Your Answer
I thought I'd start off simply, and since this is a gaming site, I think knowing everyones favourite titles would be a good place to start. If you don't know mine, you haven't been reading my blogs, and shame on you!
In case you're new though, favourite game is Dark Souls, because it has my favourite combat system of any game, the lore is deep, dark and depressing, the game world is a massively interconnected geometrical marvel, and enemy encounters are always unique in some way. To me, it is the epitome of an artistic experience.
So, what's yours?
F-Favorite game? F-Final F-Fantasy VI. F-Favorite f-fetish? F-F-Feet! lol
FFVI is by far the best Final Fantasy. Feet freak me out though haha.
Just kidding. I don't really have a foot fetish. ^^;
My favorite game is either Final Fantasy IX, for its beautiful world and great story and characters, or KOTOR 2, which I think is one of the deepest philosophical experiences I have ever had in any medium.
Damn Blake, it's Monday there huh. You guys are living in the future.
Nice! So far 2 final fantasys! And yeah, it's 230 am so it counts I gueaa
Star Fox 64, because of nostalgia and how awesome it made Christmas 1997. Also, I love arcadey games, but also prefer playing at home to an actual arcade. That game is perfect for people like me who have twitch fingers and also like couches.
I've actually never played it. Yeah I know, I should hang my head in shame.
Eh. It's probably dated, but it's not like my rose-colored nostalgia glasses would be able to tell.
I mean I've played it very recently and enjoyed it, but who knows what you'd think.
Kotor 2 for many of the same reasons you love Dark Souls. I love the combat, I love the depressing outlook on the Force and the negative effects it would have on the universe, how every world has it's own unique feel to it, and for how it tries something really unique with the Star Wars universe
I do need to replay it sometime. I did adore it back in the day, and I'd love to see it now with what I know about gaming now.
Final fantasy 9, I fell in love with its characters and story. It was also my first major rpg accomplishment when I beat it. In the days of no Internet at my house I'd re beat the final boss just to watch the ending sequence over.
9 is seriously awesome. I prefer VI, but IX is still fantastic.
Also, did yousave just before the boss or did you replay the game in it's entirety? Because that would be some seriously awesome effort haha.
This is really difficult for me because there are so many that are close. I think I have to go with Persona 4 just because of the depths to which I was drawn into the game. I have never got so involved with game characters and their lives to the extent I did in P4.
Lost Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles and as has been mentioned a few times in here FF IX would be up there too. In non-RPG games Silent Hill's 1, 2 and 3 are among my favourites.
Persona IV is fantastic. The themes, the art style, the characters, the batshit insane story... ah, Persona 4 really is golden!
Chrono Trigger. For me it was my first rpg and the first one I beat. Everything is just so great about it. The characters, the story, the battle system, the music. I have 3 copies: my original SNES cartridge, the DS remake, and the one on the virtual console.
Nice! I didn't know it was on DS. Might have to grab it haha. I haven't played it in ages, but you're right, it is fantastic.
I have to pick just one?!
Oh, OK... Ratchet and Clank HD Collection. There, I got three for the price of one, lol. It's funny, though, because my favorite genre is RPGs. Just something about the amount of fun to be had blowing shit up in comical ways that makes me giggle maniacally and want to play them over and over again.
Haha I'll accept it. The series is supposed to be being rebooted either this year or next isn't it?
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal is one of my favourite games. I love it to pieces! And it has so much replayability! It was like one of the only "violent" games I was allowed to play when I was a teenager, so I played the hell out of it.
One?
I'm gonna have to go with Resident Evil Remake on Gamecube. I know there is a remake out now, but when that game first came out with those visuals, it was just so beautiful, in a horric sense. The lighting and the mansion just came alive. The game might be dated by now, but when that game came out when it did it was really amazing. It also describes my taste in games. Despair, Sadness, Anxiety, Scares, Darkness, Monsters. I would say that Demon's Souls captured that same vibe and atmosphere of a world that doesn't want you in it and everything wants to kill you. My close second would be Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES. This game offers the other things I like about games. A big adventure with a large open world full of secrets and cool boss fights.
Yes, and I am going to get that remake ASAP. Seriously, I've never played it, but I need to. I played the original when I was 8 (played my uncles copy) and it helped cement my love of gaming.
And yeah, A Link To The Past is my second favourite Zelda after Majora's Mask. Or is it after Windwaker? Windwaker is so awesome.
Those who know me can probably guess straight away what my favorite game of all time is. Pac-Man! Why? Well it was the first arcade game I ever played and it got me hooked on video games. I never got tired of playing it and it pretty much defined my childhood and who I am today. That's the short answer, anyway.
Pretty sure your favourite game is the oldest :p. Oh well, so far mine is the newest! Opposite ends of the spectrum unite!
This is a really tough question. If I HAD to choose, I'd probably say Double Dragon II on NES or Contra. Maybe Mega Man 3..... or Doom. Those are all games I can play over and over endlessly and never get sick of them.
I thought you'd say Doom haha. I feel like you're going to hit me, but I've still never played a Double Dragon game. I was brought up on Streets of Rage and always told playing Double Dragon was blasphemy lol.
It's cool Blake. I had a NES growing up, and was obssesed with kung fu, Bruce Lee, and what not. So that's what I gravitated to. If I had a Genesis, I probably would have preferred Streets of Rage. I played them eventually though.
I'm gonna go with Dark Souls II. Before that game i never thought about strategies and a game itself when I wasn't actually playing it. I was consumed by it for nearly 9 months.
A distant second would be Counter Strike 1.6....lots of good memories playing that with my now-deceased Uncle Ray.
Nice! Dark Souls 2 is great!
Also, do you play CS:GO? If so we should play that together sometime. I fucking suck at it though.
Both Super Mario Galaxy. I pretty much made a blog on the last day of BaD 2014 detailing my love for them which cover the core aspects. But, I should add that at the same time, the first game made me realize how much there was to a game other than fun and I started to also see games as experiences. I think both games (mostly the first) made my love of gaming evolve.
I remember reading that last year! As I hadn't played it, I didn't really have anything to add to it so I didn't comment. I do that a surprising amount actually. Or I read a blog in the morning and think I'll come back to that when my brain is functioning, and never do...
I seriously hope those games get ported to another system though. I'm not buying a wii haha, but I really want to play them.
Metroid Fusion. I have played through the game a couple dozen times and nearly have it memorized. I love the gameplay, atmosphere and don't mind that it isn't as open as its predecessors.
My favorite game right now would have to be Crackdown. It's the first game I think of when favorites are mentioned. It's was the first console game I played that used online campaign co-op. I could finally get away from split-screen play or trying to make system-link work. In the game, players could wander anywhere and not be tied together by some invisible tether. You could do missions or just wreck the place. It was a barrell of laughs every darn time. I look for that experience in every game I play.