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[straykat]

An interesting topic. I don't think I can plot paths. My interest in the relevant genres goes back to the early 1970s, and I've read more than 2000 books. Here are some significant milestones:

 

Science Fiction (years are when I read/watched/played them, not publication years):

 

Books and written material: Lensman Cycle (1972), Foundation Trilogy (1974), Perry Rhodan Series (1972-84), A Song for Lya (1977), Dune (197x-8x), Ender's Game (1986), The Amtrak Wars (1983-90), The Madness Season (199x), Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-99), The Clan Chronicles (Julie Czerneda, 1997-present), A Second Chance at Eden (1999), This Alien Shore (200x), In Conquest Born (200x), Orion's Arm Universe Project (2007-present), Safehold series (2007-present), The Expanse (the novel series, 2012-present), Jean Le Flambeur series (2012-14).

 

TV and movies: The Time Machine (the 1960 movie, 1972), Soylent Green (197x), Silent Running (197x), Star Trek (TV only, 197x with long breaks, 199x with long breaks), Alien sequence (1980-), Star Wars (original trilogy, 1977-83), Blade Runner (198x), Dune (the 1984 movie, 1984), Total Recall (1990), Brazil (1995), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (199x), The Matrix (2000), Equilibrium (2002), Minority Report (2002), Inception (2011)

 

Games: Elite (198x), Master of Orion 1 and 2 (199x), X-Wing /TIE FIghter (1993-4), Battle Isle: Shadow of the Emperor (199x), Jedi Knight (1996), Fallout 1-2 (1996-99), Deux Ex (1999), Alpha Centauri (2001), Knights of the Old Republic (200x), Fallout: New Vegas (2011), Mass Effect (2008-2013), Deus Ex Human Revolution (201x), Anno 2070 (201x), XCOM (2012 reboot, 2012-).

 

 

Fantasy (again, the years are the years I read/watched/played it, not publication years):

 

Books and written materials: Lord of the Rings (1980), The Birthgrave Series, The Wars of Vis, The Flat Earth Cycle (all by Tanith Lee, 198x), The Wars of Light and Shadow (1993-?), A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-?), Coldfire Trilogy (199x), Magister Trilogy (also by CS Friedman, 2007-12), Mistborn Trilogy (2006-201x), The Stormlight Archives (2010-, Raven's Shadow Trilogy (2013-15), 

 

Movies: Lord of the Rings (2001-200x). I don't watch many fantasy movies, they never match my imagination.

 

Games: Faery Tale Adventure (198x), Blade of Destiny (199x), Myst series (1996-), Fantasy General (1996), Heroes of Might and Magic 3-5 (1999-2006), Zork Nemesis (1996), Thief 1 and 2 (1999-2001), Age of Wonders  1-3 (1999-2014), Baldur's Gate series (1998-2001), Planescape: Torment (1999), Spellforce 1 and expansions (2004-06), Dragon Age series (2009-), Thief (2014 reboot).

 

So I can count Bioware games as a significant influence within my fantasy gaming portfolio, but my experience of stories is still shaped way more by written fiction. With regard to SF, their excursion into that genre failed spectacularly as far as I'm concerned. It remains to be seen if they learned from that.  

 

I would have never guessed you've.....had this much experience. The 70s?

 

Sad that you mention Tie Fighter, but not WC though

[Seraphim24]

An interesting topic. I don't think I can plot paths. My interest in the relevant genres goes back to the early 1970s, and I've read more than 2000 books. Here are some significant milestones:

 

Science Fiction (years are when I read/watched/played them, not publication years):

 

Books and written material: Lensman Cycle (1972), Foundation Trilogy (1974), Perry Rhodan Series (1972-84), A Song for Lya (1977), Dune (197x-8x), Ender's Game (1986), The Amtrak Wars (1983-90), The Madness Season (199x), Night's Dawn Trilogy (1996-99), The Clan Chronicles (Julie Czerneda, 1997-present), A Second Chance at Eden (1999), This Alien Shore (200x), In Conquest Born (200x), Orion's Arm Universe Project (2007-present), Safehold series (2007-present), The Expanse (the novel series, 2012-present), Jean Le Flambeur series (2012-14).

 

TV and movies: The Time Machine (the 1960 movie, 1972), Soylent Green (197x), Silent Running (197x), Star Trek (TV only, 197x with long breaks, 199x with long breaks), Alien sequence (1980-), Star Wars (original trilogy, 1977-83), Blade Runner (198x), Dune (the 1984 movie, 1984), Total Recall (1990), Brazil (1995), Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (199x), The Matrix (2000), Equilibrium (2002), Minority Report (2002), Inception (2011)

 

Games: Elite (198x), Master of Orion 1 and 2 (199x), X-Wing /TIE FIghter (1993-4), Battle Isle: Shadow of the Emperor (199x), Jedi Knight (1996), Fallout 1-2 (1996-99), Deux Ex (1999), Alpha Centauri (2001), Knights of the Old Republic (200x), Fallout: New Vegas (2011), Mass Effect (2008-2013), Deus Ex Human Revolution (201x), Anno 2070 (201x), XCOM (2012 reboot, 2012-).

 

 

Fantasy (again, the years are the years I read/watched/played it, not publication years):

 

Books and written materials: Lord of the Rings (1980), The Birthgrave Series, The Wars of Vis, The Flat Earth Cycle (all by Tanith Lee, 198x), The Wars of Light and Shadow (1993-?), A Song of Ice and Fire (1996-?), Coldfire Trilogy (199x), Magister Trilogy (also by CS Friedman, 2007-12), Mistborn Trilogy (2006-201x), The Stormlight Archives (2010-, Raven's Shadow Trilogy (2013-15), 

 

Movies: Lord of the Rings (2001-200x). I don't watch many fantasy movies, they never match my imagination.

 

Games: Faery Tale Adventure (198x), Blade of Destiny (199x), Myst series (1996-), Fantasy General (1996), Heroes of Might and Magic 3-5 (1999-2006), Zork Nemesis (1996), Thief 1 and 2 (1999-2001), Age of Wonders  1-3 (1999-2014), Baldur's Gate series (1998-2001), Planescape: Torment (1999), Spellforce 1 and expansions (2004-06), Dragon Age series (2009-), Thief (2014 reboot).

 

So I can count Bioware games as a significant influence within my fantasy gaming portfolio, but my experience of stories is still shaped way more by written fiction. With regard to SF, their excursion into that genre failed spectacularly as far as I'm concerned. It remains to be seen if they learned from that.  

 

You totally missed out on Jammit though.

[Get Magna Carter]

plotting paths and crossing media seems impossible for me - if I tried I would end up with a spiderweb rather than a line.

 

RPGs

started at school in the late 70s with the original D&D

 

In the mid-90s I moved away from home and my RPG-ing friends so turned to videogames so got a Playstation and Suikoden and continued JRPGs from there

 

Despite reservations over licensed games, I eventually tried a WRPG on the XBox called Star Wars:Knights of the Old Republic

(which some people on this board may have heard of..  )   

[Ieldra]

I would have never guessed you've.....had this much experience. The 70s?

 

Sad that you mention Tie Fighter, but not WC though

It's an age thing they tell me My interest in SF was triggered by the first moon landing, which I watched on TV as a child, utterly fascinated by the whole project, and annoyed that my parents wouldn't drive over to let me watch the liftoff in person, since we were in the US at the time. Hey, it was just 1000 miles, no distance at all for something that important.  I think that was the most defining moment of my life, though I never managed to land a career as an astronaut like I dreamed about. I regularly gripe about how we haven't been on Mars yet.

I don't know what "WC" means. You may ask how I missed Babylon 5, which I did because I don't watch TV very much, and I could never get into it later, though I watched a few episodes.

 

@Minfilia151:

Neither have I ever heard of "Jammit".

 

Edit:

I recall I tried to convince my parents with the argument "The moon is more than 200 times farther away than Florida. So really, it's a very short distance". For some odd reason, this didn't convince them.

[fraggle]

Interesting topic

For me, there was no path really, it was just a chain of (lucky) events (or something like that ).

My brother and I had started on the GameBoy with Tetris and Super Mario etc., and later on I watched him play games like Tomb Raider, Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Resident Evil. Back then I loved watching someone play, but rarely ever played myself. One night I asked him to play Resident Evil 3 again so I could watch, but he wasn't in the mood and said I should play myself. So I did, and was terrified because I had no clue what I did and because the game was in Japanese (which made things even worse). Nevertheless I enjoyed it and soon played Final Fantasy 8 and got sucked into lots of JRPGs, I even bought a US copy of Chrono Cross because it was not available in Europe at that time. These games were topics to talk about with a guy from school I became friends with, and years later, we met up each Friday and played games together or watched movies in a group of 4 people. One fateful Friday, my friends popped in DAO, and I was done. We had choices! We could shape our own protagonist! I was really in awe and soon played it on my own again. I knew Mass Effect existed, but didn't play it back then because it wasn't available for PS3 yet and had a sci-fi setting (never was a fan ). I played lots of different games until I decided to finally check out DAII. After that I also started the ME trilogy which has become my favourite gaming experience so far

Another honorable mention goes to Nier which I bought because Square Enix published it and was my favourite game until I played ME

Then there's The Last of Us, one of my other favourite games ever... because years back my boyfriend was reluctant to play the first Uncharted and I had to do it myself  Thank god. I loved these games ever since, and Naughty Dog, so getting The Last of Us was a no-brainer.

 

Btw, my friends and I still meet on Friday whenever we can to play games/watch stuff

[Fylimar]

An interesting topic.

 

I read a lot of Fantasy as a child and continued so later.

 

Some of my very early influences are Michael Ende, Tolkien, Jules Verne, the movie Legend (with Tim Curry as the Lord of Darkness - not a masterpiece, but I loved it), Star Trek, Star Wars, Captain Future and many more.

 

Later I discovered horror and mystery, mainly Lovecraft and others writing about the Cthulhu Mythos, King, Barker ... and in Fantasy/SciFi it was Tad Williams, Terry Pratchett, G.R.R. Martin, Philipp Pullman, Matt Ruff, the graphic novels of Alan Moore, lots of Steampunk novels and many more.

 

Then came some more movies and TV Shows, that inspired me, like Babylon 5 (best show ever), Doctor Who, Firefly, Pan's Labyrinth, Robin of Sherwood (who combined the Robin Hood mythos with a lot of legends from that time), X Files, Penny Dreadful, The Walking Dead ...

 

Those stories brought me to role playing - first pen & paper and LARP (D&D, Call of Cthulhu, Babylon 5, Star Wars, Vampire - The Masquerade, Shadowrun and Firefly), later computer games (Baldurs Gate 1&2, Vampire Bloodlines, KOTOR 1&2, Morrowind, Mass Effect1, Neverwinter's Night, Icewind Dale, Star Wars - The old republic, DA 1-3, Jade Empire)

I still prefer p&p and LARP over computer games though.

[VivainaDX]

Man I feel old...I was already well into my late teens-early twenties when gaming systems came to be...  

 

My early influences:

 

Books- I grew up reading science fiction/fantasy books - Chronicles of Narnia, Dragonriders of Pern, Darksword Trilogy, Sword of Truth series..etc.

 

Movies/TV: I was ten when the original Star Wars first hit theaters and it was a huge influence on me, then there were movies like Beastmaster, Conan, Alien, The Thing, Predator,Stargate, A Knight's Tale and 300. I favor fantasy/sy-fy so my tv programs were Star Trek, Man from Atlantis, Fantastic Journey, Battlestar Galactica, Xena, Hercules,Stargate SG1, Game of Thrones, Vikings...I love laser guns and swords and armor, I'm a BIG fan of Boris Vallejo/Julie Bell artwork and I can usually pick out a Kit Rae blade (swords/knives/axes) design when one is used in either a movie/tv program or video game.

 

Games: ZELDA!!!   -> Ratchet & Clank ->  Jak & Daxter -> Final Fantasy -> Drakan -> Drakanguard -> Sly Cooper -> Oblivion -> Skyrim -> Dragon Age. I love games where your battling with swords, I'm not a fan of too many shooter games.

[PapaCharlie9]

Games: Elite (198x), Master of Orion 1 and 2 (199x), X-Wing /TIE FIghter (1993-4), Battle Isle: Shadow of the Emperor (199x), Jedi Knight (1996), Fallout 1-2 (1996-99), Deux Ex (1999), Alpha Centauri (2001), Knights of the Old Republic (200x), Fallout: New Vegas (2011), Mass Effect (2008-2013), Deus Ex Human Revolution (201x), Anno 2070 (201x), XCOM (2012 reboot, 2012-).

I forgot all about Jedi Knight Academy! I also played Dark Forces, but there was a huge gap of time between that and JKA. I didn't play any of the JK games in between. JKA definitely set me up for the ME experience, I felt right at home.

Games: ZELDA!!!   -> Ratchet & Clank ->  Jak & Daxter -> Final Fantasy -> Drakan -> Drakanguard -> Sly Cooper -> Oblivion -> Skyrim -> Dragon Age. I love games where your battling with swords, I'm not a fan of too many shooter games.

I didn't include Drakan, since I couldn't trace a path to it, but it's still one of my favorite games. I can't tell you why -- the graphics were horrible, even in its historical context, the combat was clunky, aiming was impossible, it was glitchy as heck -- but at the end of the day, how can you not have fun flying around on a dragon and blowing sh*t up?

[PapaCharlie9]

Btw, my friends and I still meet on Friday whenever we can to play games/watch stuff

I miss this. Every time I move away from gaming friends, I do manage to make new gaming friends, but each move recapitulates the most popular medium of gaming at the time: tabletop (including collectible cards) -> LAN games, at the peak we had six laptops wired together in my living room, and couch co-op -> multiplayer online. Now all my gaming friends are all over the world, which is great because even if I move I can still play with them, but I miss the face-to-face socializing part of it. Well, except for the drama.

[Gilli]

You know, this thread just gave me an idea.

 

I'm gonna take some pics of my games in regard to genre / titles etc let's see how that ends up...

 

I just opened my games closet OMG I didn't know I had THAT many games   

[straykat]

It's an age thing they tell me My interest in SF was triggered by the first moon landing, which I watched on TV as a child, utterly fascinated by the whole project, and annoyed that my parents wouldn't drive over to let me watch the liftoff in person, since we were in the US at the time. Hey, it was just 1000 miles, no distance at all for something that important.  I think that was the most defining moment of my life, though I never managed to land a career as an astronaut like I dreamed about. I regularly gripe about how we haven't been on Mars yet.

I don't know what "WC" means. You may ask how I missed Babylon 5, which I did because I don't watch TV very much, and I could never get into it later, though I watched a few episodes.

 

@Minfilia151:

Neither have I ever heard of "Jammit".

 

Edit:

I recall I tried to convince my parents with the argument "The moon is more than 200 times farther away than Florida. So really, it's a very short distance". For some odd reason, this didn't convince them.

 

Very cool.. (about the moon landing). I used to want to be a pilot.. Not exactly astronaut. But I didn't have the discipline for it, as I got older.

 

WC = Wing Commander. I think they came before X vs Tie, but they're similar dogfighting games.. LucastArts kind of rode on it's success, but since it was Star Wars, they're a bit more well known. Plus, Wing Commander sort of had an added adventure/dialogue element to them.

[Ieldra]

WC = Wing Commander. I think they came before X vs Tie, but they're similar dogfighting games.. LucastArts kind of rode on it's success, but since it was Star Wars, they're a bit more well known. Plus, Wing Commander sort of had an added adventure/dialogue element to them.

I recall. I didn't play those, but I played the spinoff "Privateer". It was fun but didn't leave a lasting impression, though I recall the futuristic mission-acquisition holoscreens now that it has come up.

[Gilli]

You know, this thread just gave me an idea.

 

I'm gonna take some pics of my games in regard to genre / titles etc let's see how that ends up...

 

I just opened my games closet OMG I didn't know I had THAT many games   

 

So, here~ 

 

Super Mario

Spoiler

 

• Super Mario Land (SNES)
• Supermario Land 2 Yoshi's Island (SNES)
• Super Mario Kart (SNES)
• Super Mario Bros. (DS)
• Super Mario 64 (N64)
• Super Mario DS (DS)
• Mario Kart 64 (N64)
• Mario & Luigi Partners in Time (DS)
• Super Mario Land (Game Boy)
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
• Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (Game Boy)
• Wario Land 3 (Game Boy Color)
• Super Mario Sunshine (Game Cube)
• Luigi's Mansion (Game Cube)
• Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
• Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
• Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii)
• Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)

 

Not pictured:

• Yoshi's Universal Gravitation (Game Boy Advance)
• Mario Kart 8 (Wii U ) pre-installed on Wii U

 

Pokémon

Spoiler

 

• Pokémon Red (Game Boy)
• Pokémon Blue (Game Boy) twice 
• Pokémon Yellow (Game Boy)
• Pokemon Stadium (N64)
• Pokémon Trading Card Game (Game Boy)
• Pokémon Snap (N64)
• Pokémon Silver (Game Boy Color)
• Pokémon Gold (Game Boy Color)
• Pokémon Crystal (Game Boy Color)
• Pokémon Stadium 2 (N64)
• Pokémon Rubin (Game Boy Advance)
• Pokémon Saphire (Game Boy Advance)
• Pokémon LeafGreen (Game Boy Advance)
• Pokémon Channel (Game Cube)
• Pokémon Colloseum (Game Cube)
• Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness (Game Cube)
• Pokémon Diamond (DS)
• Pokémon Pearl (DS)
• Pokémon Platinum (DS)
• Pokémon HeartGold (DS)
• Pokémon SoulSilver (DS)
• PokéPark Wii (Wii)
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue (DS)
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (DS)
• Pokémon Ranger (DS)
• Pokémon Black (DS)
• Pokémon White ポケットモンスター ホワイト (DS) japanese
• Pokémon X (3DS)
• Pokémon Y (3DS)
• Pokémon Alpha Saphire (3DS)
• Pokémon Omega Ruby (3DS)
• Pokémon Tekken (Wii U)

 

Zelda

Spoiler

 

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64)
• The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Limited Edition (Game Cube) includes a second disc with Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and  Ocarina of Time: Master Quest.
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii)

 

Anime/Manga related Games

Spoiler

 

• Digimon World (PS)
• One Piece: Grand Battle (PS)
• Jump Super Stars (ジャンプスーパースターズ) (DS)
• One Piece: Round the Land (PS2)
• One Piece: Grand Battle (PS2)
• One Piece: Grand Adventure (PS2)
• One Piece: Unlimited Cruise 1: The Treasure Beneath the Waves (Wii)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja (PS2)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2 (PS2)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 (PS2)
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 4 (PS2)
• Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja 5 (PS2)
• Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (PS3)
• Naruto Shippuden: Ulitmate Ninja Storm 2 (PS3)

Not pictured:

• Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (3DS) download

 

Diverse Jump 'n Runs

Spoiler

 

• Mega Man (Game Boy)
• Kid Icarus (Game Boy)
• Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)
• Kid Dracula (Game Boy)
• Duck Tales 2 (Game Boy)
• Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Montana's Movie Madness (Game Boy)
• Mr Nutz (Game Boy)
• Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure (Game Boy)
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (SNES)
• Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy)
• Banjo-Kazooie (N64)
• Rayman 2: The Great Escape (N64)
• Rayman 3
• Daxter (PSP)
• Little BIG Planet (PS3)
• Wii Sports (Wii)
• Disney Infinity 2.0 (PS3)

 

Card & Puzzle Games

Spoiler

 

• Bust A Move (PS)
• Puzzle Bubble Universe (3DS)
• YuGiOh! Nightmare Troubadour (DS)
• YuGiOh! World Championship 2008 (DS)
• YuGiOh! GX Spirit Caller (DS)
• YuGiOh! GX Tag Force 2 (PSP)
• YuGiOh! 5D's Tag Force 4 (PSP)
• Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations (DS)
• Ace Attorney Apollo Justice (DS)
• Ace Attorney Miles Edgeworth Investigations (DS)
• Professor Layton and the Curious Village (DS)
• Professor Layton and the Pandora's Box (DS)
• Professor Layton and the Lost Future (DS)

Not pictured:

• Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel (Game Boy Advance)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship Tournament 2004 (Game Boy Advance)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Ultimate Masters Edition: World Championship Tournament 2006 (Game Boy Advance)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! Dungeon Dice Monsters (Game Boy Advance)
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Sacred Cards (Game Boy Advance)

 

 

Final Fantasy & Kingdom Hearts

Spoiler

 

• Final Fantasy (PSP)
• Final Fantasy II (PSP)
• Final Fantasy III (DS)
• Final Fantasy IV (DS)
• Final Fantasy V (Game Boy Advance)
• Final Fantasy X (PS2)
• Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2)
• Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
• Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- (PSP)
• Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (PS3)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers (Wii)
• Kingdom Hearts (PS2)
• Kingdom Hearts II (PS2)
• Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (PSP)
• Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (DS)
• Dissidia Final Fantasy (PSP)

 

Tales of, Star Ocean, Shin Mgami Tensei/Persona Games

Spoiler

 

Tales of Eternia (PSP)

Tales of Symphonia (Game Cube)

Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World (Wii)

Star Ocean First Departure (PSP)

Star Ocean Second Evolution (PSP)

Star Ocean Last Hope (PS3)

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (PSP)

Persona 3 Portable (PSP)

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (PS2)

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army (PS2)

Persona 4 (PS2)

 

Not pictured:

• Tales of Phantasia (Game Boy Advance)

 

Diverse RPGs

Spoiler

 

• Grandia II (PS2)
• Suikoden IV (PS2)
• Suikoden V (PS2)
• .hack/Infection (PS2)
• Class of Heroes (PSP)
• Astonishia Story (PSP)
• Phantasy Star Portable (PSP)
• Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)
• Resonance of Fate (PS3)
• Ar tonelico Qoga Knell of Ar Ciel (PS3)

Not pictured:

• Golden Sun (Game Boy Advance)
• Golden Sun 2 (Game Boy Advance)

 

SSX & Soul Calibur

Spoiler

 

• 1080° Snowboarding (N64)
• SSX Tricky (PS2
• SSX3 (PS2)
• SSX (PS3)
• Soul Calibur II (Game Cube)
• Soul Calibur III (PS2)
• Soul Calibur IV (PS3)

 

Marvel & DC Games

Spoiler

 

• Lego Marvel Super Heroes (3DS)
• Lego Marvel Super Heroes (PS3)
• Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 (PS3)
• Lego Avengers (3DS)
• Batman Begins (PS2)
• Lego Batman 3 Beyond Gotham (Wii U)
• Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition (Wii U)

 

For PC

Spoiler

 

• The Sims 3
• The Sims 3: Ambitions
• The Sims 3: Late Night
• The Sims 3: World Adventures
• The Simd 3: Generations
• The Sims 3: Supernatural
• The Sims Medieval
• The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - The Eastern Realm  
• The Settlers: Rise of an Empire 

Not pictured:

• Bejeweled 3 (Origin)
• Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition (Origin)
• Dragon Age II (Origin)
• Dragon Age: Inquisition (Origin)
• Jade Empire (Origin)

 

Now I wonder what this says about me. 

[PapaCharlie9]

So, here~

Wow! When do you have time to do upkeep on your Sims?

That's pretty impressive. Whatever I can't sell to GameStop gets donated to the school flea market, so I don't have any of my old games. Except for the CD of Master of Magic, because I heard the MIDI files for the music can be extracted. But I never got around to doing it and now the music is on YouTube, so I needn't have bothered.

[Gilli]

Wow! When do you have time to do upkeep on your Sims?

That's pretty impressive. Whatever I can't sell to GameStop gets donated to the school flea market, so I don't have any of my old games. Except for the CD of Master of Magic, because I heard the MIDI files for the music can be extracted. But I never got around to doing it and now the music is on YouTube, so I needn't have bothered.

 

I don't, I haven't played Sims in forever

Tbh I was thinking about selling them, but they came with codes and I already used them, means I can't sell them.  (I think)

 

You know, without The Sims I wouldn't be here. Sims 3 came with Origin and I had to register my games there to even be able to play(IIRC). In 2014 was an On The House sale of DAO, so I downloaded it, liked it, bought the UE, then DA2 and then DAI.

[straykat]

I recall. I didn't play those, but I played the spinoff "Privateer". It was fun but didn't leave a lasting impression, though I recall the futuristic mission-acquisition holoscreens now that it has come up.

 

Privateer is OK, but it's more toned down.. The regular WC games are more space opera. 

 

It's too bad you didn't try it at the time... they're a bit outdated now. But if you can look past that, check it out.

 

The guy who created them is making that Star Citizen game now... which has single player and mmo elements. Not sure I dig the latter, but I'll try it.

[Ieldra]

Privateer is OK, but it's more toned down.. The regular WC games are more space opera. 

 

It's too bad you didn't try it at the time... they're a bit outdated now. But if you can look past that, check it out.

 

The guy who created them is making that Star Citizen game now... which has single player and mmo elements. Not sure I dig the latter, but I'll try it.

I haven't played a space combat sim for 20 years, I doubt I'm up to it. And the MMO aspect is really turning me off. They say you can control your destiny, but what does that mean if of a million players, 10% are out to control yours as well as theirs? No fictional gaming environment has ever been as hostile as that created by a subset of players in an MMO. 

[Duelist]

My earliest influences were kung fu/samurai movies and Roberto Duran, so naturally I gravitated towards fighting games with Street Fighter II being the favourite of a young Duelist and Fight Night Champion being my all time favourite.
It was also a love of kung fu movies that led me to try and enjoy Jade Empire, although I don't have particularly fond memories of the combat.

As for RPGs, I honestly can't say what got me into them.
I tried Mass Effect 2 on a whim and enjoyed the series so much I ended up trying Dragon Age which I came to prefer.

Dark Souls came a little later as I tried that to see what all the fuss was about and once I found a weapon that clicked with me, the rest fell into place and I fell in love with the series.

[straykat]

I haven't played a space combat sim for 20 years, I doubt I'm up to it. And the MMO aspect is really turning me off. They say you can control your destiny, but what does that mean if of a million players, 10% are out to control yours as well as theirs? No fictional gaming environment has ever been as hostile as that created by a subset of players in an MMO. 

 

Yeah, I'm not too excited about that bit.. But I'll give it a chance. It's crowd funded, so I at least know he's the main visionary behind it. And I loved his older games.

 

I'm not sure I'd call them sims though. No more than X vs Tie. It's dogfighting with emphasis on action and the maneuvering. Less emphasis on all the doodads and technicalities that proper sims flood you with.

[Ieldra]

Yeah, I'm not too excited about that bit.. But I'll give it a chance. It's crowd funded, so I at least know he's the main visionary behind it. And I loved his older games.

 

I'm not sure I'd call them sims though. No more than X vs Tie. It's dogfighting with emphasis on action and the maneuvering. Less emphasis on all the doodads and technicalities that proper sims flood you with.

In that case, it's even less for me. You know, I could really do without this "fast-paced action" fad that has gripped the industry for a decade. Games made for kids with attention deficit, just what we need. It has invaded even the stealth genre where it's completely out of place (as in the 2014 Thief reboot, which was rather nice until the action sequences of the final two missions, which is why I never finished it). Frustrating, just because a game thinks it needs to be more action-y in its last five minutes. No trust in anything but the fad. Besides, real space combat would be *way* more deliberate and tactical because you simply couldn't afford the delta-v for fancy maneuvering. 

[straykat]

In that case, it's even less for me. You know, I could really do without this "fast-paced action" fad that has gripped the industry for a decade. Games made for kids with attention deficit, just what we need. It has invaded even the stealth genre where it's completely out of place (as in the 2014 Thief reboot, which was rather nice until the action sequences of the final two missions, which is why I never finished it). Frustrating, just because a game thinks it needs to be more action-y in its last five minutes. No trust in anything but the fad. Besides, real space combat would be *way* more deliberate and tactical because you simply couldn't afford the delta-v for fancy maneuvering. 

 

Haha.. I feel like I said something wrong. WC influenced Tie Fighter...which you said you liked. It sparked that whole genre. It's a dogfighting game, with some dialogue/rpg type of elements. It still used a joystick back in the day, with all the controls on a basic stick. plus keyboard commands.. so it's not completely boneheaded. I meant that that it's more about the space battles... not taking 5 minutes to land or something. If that's still a Space Sim to you, cool. I just didn't want to mislead you into thinking it was MS Flight Simulator. 

 

It had decent battles/AI back in the day too. Some fights could take awhile.

[mgagne]

Heh.. We might be in the same boat. I don't think I know anyone else either.

 

My first serious fantasy book wasn't fantasy, but sci-fi: Dune. But that kind of opened me up to fantasy. And I've always liked fantasy that's done like Dune. Full of intrigue and politics and such. I was hoping Inquisition would be like that or GoT, but it's still heavily in the direction of high fantasy.

 

 

You must know Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series then?  The last installment of the second trilogy ( The Aspect Emperor ) comes out July 5th.

 

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In any case the first 'fantasy' book I read was Homer's "The Odyssey" - I was 13 I think.  I came to the usual fantasy stuff later when I had learned to read english - the Lord of the Rings of course and afterwards the Silmarillion, which blew me away.  From there, at the turn of the 90s, I moved on to the classic RPGs of the time (Baldur's Gate & co).  I've played all the Bioware game except for the Mass Effect series.  I was obsessed with DAO but didn't pick up DA2 until last year.  Strangely enough I waited a long time (2014) before trying Skyrim (never played the previous titles) but when I did I fell madly in love.

 

As for science fiction I've always consumed a great deal of it.  Herbert is on top of the list of course, Arthur C Clarke, Orson Scott Card, Ian Banks and so many others.  However when it comes to space and sci-fi I prefer strategy games to rpg (see the recent (and excellent) Stellaris by Paradox Studio).  I liked Star trek well enough but they've overdone it so much over the decades...  And evidently Star Wars remains an all time favorite.

[straykat]

You must know Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series then?  The last installment of the second trilogy ( The Aspect Emperor ) comes out July 5th.

 

I have the first book... but it's sitting on my kindle..haven't read it.

[mgagne]

I have the first book... but it's sitting on my kindle..haven't read it.

 

 

It's phenomenal IMO, a breath of fresh air amid the standard fantasy fare.  And the man's prose is spectacular.  Once you get into it you won't be able to put it back down until it's finished.

[Ieldra]

I have the first book... but it's sitting on my kindle..haven't read it.

I also recommend the book. I should've mentioned in my fantasy milestones, actually, but one forgets with so many books. I second mgagne's opinion. It carries one of my favorite quotes, a fundamental question about the nature of freedom, or its lack:

 

"The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?"

 

And another one of my favorite quotes:

 

"Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing"