I'm playing Deus Ex. (which Deus Ex?)... Deus freaking Ex. What amazes me is this game's pacing. I don't think people give enough credit to this game's sense of direction. The game is renowned for it's player agency, but in a lot of older games, players have a tendency to get lost. This game is 20 yeards old and I haven't gotten lost once. To be fair, I've played it once before but I don't remember getting lost then either. You always know where to go and what to do, but have meaningful choices about how to get there. That's how games should be.
The voice acting is horrific and the AI is even worse, but this is a positive thread and the pacing and agency honestly outweigh it all, even in 2018.
When I was younger, it seemed weird to me that someone's parents would play video games. Just so you know, my parents were born in 48 and 51. I was born in 1993 and my sister was born in 1987. I was definitely the first person with any genuine interest in video games.
My question is mainly three-fold. Who was the first person in your family to call themselves a "gamer"? What was the first game you beat, and how old were you? Do you think this could affect someone's innate ability to play video games?
The reason I wanted to post this thread is that I was thinking about the first game I ever beat and I want to say it was Super Monkey Ball 2 for the GameCube. that game is 30 minutes long. I've been gaming since I was five, but I rarely beat anything until I was ten or eleven.
I would really love to know where the GB community's personal gaming habits come from. How long did it take before you really stuck with gaming as a hobby? If I'm being honest, it took me a while, but for all I know, eleven may be very young for some of you.
So, I never actually beat the raids in this game. I know it's super late and all of you did it years ago, but is there anyone out there who can find it within their heart to help me finally smash this mother and remove it from my backlog? I'm pretty desperate.
I'm finding myself wanting to mine this thread for games to play. I'm kind of shocked at the ones that keep popping up, Like World at War, Meat Boy, and SMT Nocturne.
@brunothethird: GB rules kinda say don't promote yourself, but I gotta ask for a link to that mega man video if you have it. Sounds impressive and I think mods would let it slide. (@mods come on guys... this shit is impressive and pertinent to the thread.)
@sunspark @liquiddragon @justin258 Brag away, guys. I like your answers. You guys have already done shit I promise I will never get done in my gaming life. If I can remember correctly, beating uncharted 1 on normal was hard for me... apparently, I'm old and I suck at games.
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