The 10 Games that made you what you are

I just got thinking about what games influenced me as a gamer

1) Metal Gear Solid 4

2)Knights of the Old Republic

3) Jak 2

4) Morrowind

5) Yoshi's Island

6) Ocarina Of Time

7) Metal Gear Solid 2

8) Bioshock

9) Oblivion

10) Super Mario World

What about you?

1. Warcraft 2 (epic, they messed up the series with WC:3)

2. Starcraft (still play it from time to time)

3. Crash Team Racing (one of my first, and favorites)

4. Super smash Melee, Brawl (probably the most simplistic games, and some of the best)

5. Diablo 2 (watched my brother play this series for years b4 I started gaming)

6. Guild wars (a game not about lvls, about tactics and experience)

7. Resistance

8. Unreal series (2004 was probably my favorite)

9. Spyro (my first game ever, for ps1)

10. Kinetica (wow thats fast)

umm i dont have ten but ill try lol

loin king (sega, i was young)
crash bandicoot games(PS1)

dbz games (PS1/PS2)

super smash bros

and alot more i cant remember at the moment,,,

Good topic...

My top 10 games that stand out for me are:

1) GTA San Andreas (PS2)

2) Half Life 2 (PC/PS3)

3) The Sims 2 (PC)

4) Star Wars KOTOR (Xbox)

5) Halo (Xbox)

6) Uncharted (PS3)

7) Crash Bandicoot Series (PS)

8) GTA 4 (PS3)

9) Super Mario Sunshine (GCN)

10) Animal Crossing (GCN)

There's more but these are the ones that I've had the most fun with!

double dragon

final fantasy 3

skyblazer

cybernator

tecmo super bowl

contra

crono trigger

rygar (nes)

street fighter

wizards and warriors

SLY 2!!!!!!!!!! - I will never forget the magical moment of when I first played this game. It's my favorite

BioShock - another one of my favorites

Team Fortress 2 - I think that it's the only online shooter that I like, and it's one hell of an online shooter

Kingdom Hearts II - epic. plain and simple.

Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal - my first R&C game, and it was a goooood one

Burnout 3 - although it's not my favorite racing game anymore (Burnout Paradise is my current fav) I still have some of my best gaming memories from playing BO3

Shadow of the Colossus -when I played it, I had never played anything like it befor, and it changed my view on more unique games

Grand Theft Auto III - uhh...self-explanitory??

SSX/SSX Tricky/SSX3 - without these, I never would have started gaming

1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
2. Metal Gear Solid
3. SW KOTOR
4. Final Fantasy 8
5. Metal Gear Solid 4
6. Final Fantasy X
7. Indigo Prophecy
8. Dreamfall
9. GTA Vice City
10. Star Wars KOTOR 2

1. Final Fantasy VII

2. Final Fantasy VI

3. Super Metroid

4. Metal Gear Solid

5. Vice City

6. Chrono Trigger

7. Secret of Mana

8. Gran Turismo

9. Metal Gear Solid 4

10. Zelda: A link to the Past

1) Pitfall

2) Alex the kidd in miracle world

3) Sonic

4) Mutant League Football

5) Zero Tolerance

6) Jonah Lomu Rugby

7) Civilization 1

8) Final Fantasy 8

9) Syphon Filter

10) Arcanum

Kudos, this is a good topic idea..

I'm going to brainstorm and get back to you :)

Not in any particular order:

1) Super Mario 64 [N64]- First game to make me cry at the end.

2) Megaman Battle Network 1 & 2 [GBA]- Yes I know every Megaman game ever has been terrible, especially the annual releases on the handhelds, but these two games with their excellent gameplay, witty humor and dialog, lovable characters, huge, explorable worlds, clever mechanics, and amazing story captured my heart completely. Leave it to Capcom to milk the series completely and tear my heart out for an extra $30 a year.

3) Fire Emblem [GBA]- Best strategy game ever period. I replayed that so many times to try and get every character and to level characters differently. That game really put your imagination and brain to work.

4) Golden Sun and Golden Sun: Lost Age [GBA]- Excellent story with huge, beautiful worlds unseen on the GBA before or after. Very loveable characters.

5) ES3: Morrowind [PC]- No explanation neccesary.

6) Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 [PS2]- Very fun combat and great characters. One of the best stories ever. Cried at the end of both of those.

7) Mech Warrior 4: Vengeance + Black Night Expansion Pack [PC]- Such fun gameplay and customization have gone the way of intelligent people ruling countries. The story of taking over a government as one faction, then in the expansion, taking over that government as the original faction was absolutely brilliant. Getting to blast your friends from the original game was absolutely superb.

1.DOOM (PC)

2.Half-life series (PC)

3.Hybrid Heaven (N64)

4.Final Fantasy series

5.Metal Gear series

6.Diablo (PC)

7.Elder Scrolls series (PC)

8.Golden Sun (GBA)

9.Super Mario series

10.Lemmings (SNES)

lets see....

1. Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time (This game was EPIC!)
2.MGS1

3.Final Fantasy 8

3. Final Fantasy 9

4.MGS2

5. Sonic on Genesis (these games got me into gaming)

6. Street Fighter and MK

7. Metal Gear Solid 4

8. Zelda Windwaker

9. Final Fantasy 7

10. Ninja Turtles for the SNES!

Most of mine were through the next-gen but here's my list nevertheless.

1.) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
2.) Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
3.) Resistance: Fall of Man (MY FIRST FPS!)
4.) Bioshock
5.) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
6.) Final Fantasy X
7.) Grand Theft Auto IV
8.) Kingdom Hearts I + II
9.) SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Confrontation (well, the beta at least :P)
10.) Star Wars Battlefront (First 3rd person shooter)

In no particular order (and I can't think of 10 games of great influence but......)

Super Mario Bros. (NES)-brought me into console games
Wing Commander (PC)-brought me into PC games and DOS (thus leading to my current career in desktop support/network management)
Duke Nukem 1 (PC)-also brought me into games
Doom (PC) - you can guess what I'm going to say here
Diablo II (PC) - stole a lot of my life, renewed my love of the PC
FFVII (PS1) - Brought me under the wing of Sony
Shadow of the Colossus (PS2) - turned me into a game snob.
Myst (PC) - stole a bit of my sanity, and turned me into a cocky jerk for beating it.

That's all that comes to mind at the moment. Also, I was j/k about Myst. Really, I just enjoyed the time my dad and I used to spend working through those maddening puzzles together. Brought us closer together.:)

GoldenEye on the 64 oh yeah we all remember that one;)

Elder Scrolls III one of my first rpgs

Halo(the first one)

thats all I can think of at any rate

The 10 games that have shaped my now developed taste for games eh?

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Genesis/Mega Drive). This is my favorite game of all time. It pretty much created my taste for pick-up-and-play style games and my fandom of the series.

2. Guitar Hero series (PS2). This is probably my most played gaming series in the past 5 years. It's always fun trying to beat my high scores.

3. MTV Music Generator (PSX). Partially because of this game, I spend quite a bit of time in a legitimate sequencing program. This is what I cut my teeth on so to speak.

4. Quake III Arena (PC). Was and still is imo the best twichfest deathmatch game ever made. If it wasn't for this game, I wouldn't play online games at all.

5. Streets of Rage II (Geneis/Mega Drive). This among other games really fueled my passion for arcade style games.

6. Super Stardust HD (PS3). Thank you PSN for reaffirming my loyalty to shmupping and high score fests.

7. Devil May Cry 3 (PS2). Amidst the sea of hack n slash games available, one series rose above...with style. Also, if a game has a ranking system for each level, I'm almost guaranteed to like it.

8. Tekken 3 (PSX). In the fifth generation, this was THE 3D fighter to have. It's because of Tekken 3 that didn't give up on 3D fighters because of other titles that came before it.

9. Mortal Kombat Trilogy (PSX). IMO, the epitome of the Mortal Kombat series. The bloodiest, goriest, most over the top version of any 2D Mortal Kombat game.

10. Crash Bandicoot (PSX). My first game on the Sony Playstation. I had fallen out of love with gaming for a few years. Leave it to crash's simple yet challenging platformer to bring me back into the fold.

Those are the 10 most influential games I've ever played. They all came at a point that for better or worse, helped shape the gamer I am now.

i know there are 11 games here but i couldnt stop listing

(no order)

Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2)

COD4 (PS3)

MGS4 (PS3)

Yoshi's Island (Super Nintendo)

Mario Cart (Super Nintendo)

Star Wars Battlefront (PS2)

Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC)

Pokemon Yellow (GBC)

Pokemon Silver (GBC)

Spyro the Dragon (PS)

Ape Escape (PS)

These games were the best in my life

brings back memories of Super Nintendo and PS1

I will spare everyone and only do 5, but I've been gaming since the mid-80s, and video games have always been a part of my life. I can almost tell you the story of my life and what Nintendo game (mostly Nintendo at least) I was playing during the major events in my life.

1. Legend of Zelda II : Link's Adventure - I got to the last castle so many times in this game, but it was so difficult to navigate through (I was 6 or 7 when this came out) that I was never able to beat it, until the Zelda collection came packaged with my gamecube, and I finally played through it, for the 20th time probably, and beat it. So essentially, it took me about 14 or 15 years to complete it. Pretty sad actually... still love it even though it's disliked by most.

2. Super Mario Bros 2 - Once again, probably one of the most disliked of the series, but one of my favorites. I was timing myself to see how fast I could beat this one, back when the only people that cared were my older brother and my close neighborhood friends. There weren't online stats or anything like that, just word of mouth that probably didn't make it past my block.

3. Super Mario 64 - Yes, I loved this game as did most gamers of the 64 era, but I can't begin to describe the feeling I got when I saw Mario's face, in all it's 3-dimensional glory, for the first time. I, still to this day, have never felt that same level of excitement for any other game that I've played. Even after I got all 120 stars, that game kept me entertained for months and months afterwards.

4. Pokemon Red/Blue - I bought both me and my little brother these games to try and spark a stronger bond between the two of us, and little did I know, it was going to work. Not only did this game give us something to do together, this game was so good, that we found ourselves talking about it all the time. Not that we had a bad relationship, but I think this game had a hand at making it as good as it is now.

5. Final Fantasy 3/6 - I remember getting this game for my birthday the year it came out, and me, my older brother, and a couple friends stayed up all night to try and get as far in the game as possible. We used cross country driving techniques to get through the night, a couple of us would sleep until a big part came up and we'd be awakened to see the story progression and then the two playing would sleep while the other two took over. Absolutely loved the game. It's my love for this game that keeps giving the FF Series a chance, even though I haven't liked what they've done to the series since 10. Hell, FF 13 is a big reason I bought a PS3 over the 360 even though I couldn't bring myself to even complete 10 or 12. I think 13 will be it's last chance though.

Sorry for the long post, but you asked.:P

Also meant to say that this is an excellent topic. Some people are taking it as favorite games, but I think it's a lot more than that. A couple of these games wouldn't make it on my top 10 games of all time, but they made it on this list. Just thought I would add that.

1) Starcraft - I have easily put more hours into this game than any other, perhaps even all others combined.

2) Star Control 2 - Perhaps the single most underappreciated game ever. I still play it now and again and it still plays well even 15 or so years after release

3) Shining Force 1 & 2 - These two games began my love affair with strategy rpgs... my favorite genre to this day.

4) Disgaea Series - picked up right where Shining Force left off :)

5) Baldur's Gate 2 - Best. PC. RPG. Ever.

6) KOTOR - Yeah, I don't think I need to explain this one

7) Guardian Heroes (Sega Saturn Baby!!) - I had to include this. The game isn't anything special really, but I had two brothers and we would play for hours and hours and hours.

8) Diablo 2 - Ok, who didn't burn hours of their lives playing diablo at some point??

9) Azure Dreams - If you played it you'd understand!

10) Mike Tyson's Punch Out - Ok, anyone who even mentions Mr. Dream gets punched out! (haha, get it??)

Not in any particular order...

Secret of Mana (SNES)

Golden Sun 1&2 (GBA)

GTA: Vice City (PS2)

Crash Bandicoot (PS1)

Super Mario All Stars (SNES)

Jak & Daxter series (PS2)

COD4 (PS3)

Pharoah (PC)

FFX (PS2)

1. MGS1

2. FF7

3. Shadow of the Colossus

4. Counterstrike (+ Source)

5. MGS3

6. FF9

7. MGS4

8. Uncharted

9. Kingdom Hearts 1 + 2

10. Resident Evil 4

1. super mario world (one of the best games ever)

2. megaman x (best hadoken ever)

3. street fighter II turbo

4. final fantasy vii

5. final fantasy x

6. metal gear solid

7. halo 2 (this would prob be on the top of my list,

and has changed my life the most)

8. pokemon blue

9. ocarina of time

10. super smash brothers (any, especially melee)

MGS1 showed me the future of gaming and how far developers could go with creativity. It also proved to me that games aren't just about killing and running left/right or jumping, or shoot 'em up. It also showed me that Hollywood could be applied into games and make video games' stories compete with top Hollywood action films and even surpass them in some cases. Thanks Mr.Kojima.AgentH

mgs1? thats a surprise :P

oh and yes. mgs1 is the best game ever made.

10 game's that made you what i am..good question;)

1.harrier attack(amstrad cpc 464)

2.oh mummy(amstrad cpc 464)

3.mario 3(nes)

4.mortal kombat 1-3(megadrive)

5.resident evil(playstation)

6.final fantasy 7(playstation)

7.skies of arcadia(dreamcast)

8.onimusha(ps2)

9.devil may cry(ps2)

10.final fantasy x(ps2)

i have played some great game's this gen..but can,t really say they made me what type of gamer i am:P

I'll try to go in order of year.

1. Pole Position (Atari 2600)- first home console game

2. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

3. NBA Live 1995 (Genesis)

4. Mario Kart (SNES)

5. Metal Gear Solid (PS1)

6. Goldeneye 007 (N64)

7. Soul Calibur (Dreamcast)

8. Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2)

9. Gears of War ( Xbox 360)

10. Battlefield Bad Company (PS3)

honorable mentions - SotC, Phoenix Wright: AA, Sonic, and oh yeah, MGS4

Silent Hill I

Silent Hill II

Resident Evil 4

Pro Evolution Soccer

Fatal Frame

Tomb Raider

Prince of Persia sands of time

God of War I

God of War II

Champions of Norrath

World of Warcraft (To be honest this game has been the cause of some of the best and worst experiences in my life)

Metal Gear Solid 3 (Bet you thought I was going to put 4, but 3 is by far the pinnacle of the series. Great story, amazing looks and a teary ending that doesn't feel contrived)

ICO (Possibly the single most beautiful game ever made)

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Easily the best Zelda game ever)

Super Mario World (The greatest platform game ever)

Final Fantasy X (Made me realise how much I love turn based RPGs. It got me into playing some of the older games)

Megaman (Killing Dr. Wily with the bubble gun was the single hardest thing I've ever done in a game. And I was the one who did it between me and my brother)

Tomb Raider (Even my mum played it)

Street Fighter II (First game I owned on the SNES)

Guitar Hero (Made my family realise that games are fun. Not just to be played in the bedroom)

im a gamer thanks to...

1.metal gear solid

2.mario 64

3.ocarina of time

4.final fantasy 8

5.soul reaver

6.vagrant story

7.tekken3

8.metal gear solid 2

9.syphon filter

10.resident evil 2

good old ps1 days.

Megaman 2&3

Super mario world

LoZ Link to the past

Final fantasy 3 SNES(aka FF6)

Chrono Trigger

Super mario 64

LoZ OoT

Perfect Dark & Goldeneye

Final Fantasy 7

FFT

Grand turismo

MGS2

FFXI

Super Mario galaxy

Zelda TP

MGS4

Yea I know its way more than 10, but all of the above have had a pretty large impact on my gaming.

Hmmm... This is tough. I can easily name my favorite games and series, but the games that influenced the gamer I am now wouldn't actually be my favorites for the most part.

1. Super Mario Bros. - I started my gaming days on the 2600, but didnt truly love games until this I played this one.
2. Legend of Zelda - The first open world game I played. Definitely made me a fan of exploration and puzzle solving.
3. Phantasy Star IV - I always thought RPGs looked boring, but my buddy got me to try it. This game showed me how great it is to have a good story in a game and that fun=/=action. If it werent for this game I may have never played the FF series, Chrono Trigger or any RPGs in general.
4. Ninja Gaiden/Double Dragon - Fueled my need for brutal action games. Showed that games with a challenge can be truly rewarding.
5. Street Fighter 2 - Even though I'm not a fan of fighting games anymore SF2 made me a fan for a long time. It was also the first game to make me love competing against friends.
6. Ocarina of Time - I was a serious hater of the transition from 2d to 3d games. :lol: After the wonderful 16 bit era, mainly the SNES, I couldn't stand 3d games and thought they were poorly made for the most part. This game slapped me in the face and brought me back to reality.
7. MGS1 - If you would have told me what a stealth game was back then I would have laughed and said it sounds boring. OMG was I wrong! This game made me love stealth games and realize that games could have amazing stories without being RPGs.
8. MGS2 - This is the big one! Never did I imagine how much detail could go into one damn game. To this day I still consider it a masterpiece and a good example of were games should be going. Sometimes I doubt I will ever see a game this ambitious again. Kojima poured 200% of himself into this game, but caught a lot of backlash because the masses really weren't ready for something so crazy. I honestly felt sorry for him since he had to change his vision of MGS for the later games.
9. MGS3 - I was almost about to call it quits with games in general, but MGS3 pulled me right back in. After this game I decided to pursue a career in game design and I'm still on track towards my goal.
10. SotC - Shows me not to give up hope as a gamer XD. Theres still room to expand in ways of gameplay and storytelling and that not every game has to follow a cliche' formula. I guess Oddworld Strangers Wrath gives me the same feeling.

Well I can only think of those as games that truly influenced me. Funny part is a lot of those aren't even my favorite titles.

This is an excelent thread... Hats off to the TC.

1) Wing Commander - Without WC I may never have started playing games in the first place

2/3) Warcraft 2/Command & Conquer - A tie because of the equal impact they had on me

4) X-Wing - Almost as much an influence as WC

5) All Star Baseball 98 - Essentially what made me decide I had to own a video game system

6) Gran Turismo 2 - My 2nd PS2 game after ASB2001. I tore through that game and have loved racing games ever since

7) Battlefield 2 - I never really was a huge fan of FPS... Until Battlefield... BF2 really brought it all together for me.

8) Homeworld - The most innovative RTS since the inception of the genre. Absolutely loved this game.

9) Star Trek: Armada - The first - and only - game I seriously modded. Really opened my eyes to how games are created.

10) NFL 2K2 - I always rather enjoyed football games, but this was the first one I absolutely loved

1. Doom (PC)

2. Super Mario World (SNES)

3. Road Rash (SegaCD)(and now PS1!)

4. Quake 2 (PC)

5. Final Fantasy VII (PC)

6. NHL 98 (PC)

7. Neverwinter Nights (PC)

8. Tomb Raider Legend (PS2)

9. God Of War (and 2) (PS2)

10. Tiger Woods 07 (PS3)

Plus every fighter game there is for PS1, 2 and 3. Love them.

1. MGS1

2. Sonic & Knuckles

3. Tomb Raider

4. GTA

5. Team Buddies

6. Silent Hill

7. Resident Evil

8. Pokemon Gold

9. Rayman 2

10. Halo

Note: These are not my favourite games of all time, which people seem to be posting on this thread, but games which changed something about me.

only a few (4)

Far Cry 2 (not out yet but meh) it has changed the way I look at games and how much goes into developing revolutionary games like that, has sort of infuenced me into game development as a career. (also crysis is part of it to)

GTA SA - most awesome, fun game ive played last gen.

COD4 - introduced me into this gen of online games.

MGS 4 - havent played the rest of them, but showed me how epic a game storyline can be.

halo - because spent hours playing co-op with my mate. and it because it was such an original idea and it just worked, it made me like fps.

Mine are:

Legend of Zelda: A link to the past (the greatest Zelda game ever)

Resident Evil Series

Metal Gear Solid Series

Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter 2

Rainbow Six 3

Silent Hill series

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Mass Effect

Super Mario World

GT 4

first post, saw this thread and cant resist but join :P

1. star wars: rogue squadron (first double cd playstation game i played.felt hardcore upon finishing LOL)

2. tekken 2

3. crash 3: warped

4. crash team racing

5. pokemon red

6. pokemon silver

7. call of duty

8. counter strike source

9. battlefield 2

10. resistance (first time playing a game from start to finish in coop..totally into coop gaming now)

11. mortal kombat (cant remember which one, was on sega mega drive)

12. fifa games on playstation 1 (98 and 99 i think?)

13. super smash brothers on nintendo 64.

14. star wars kotor

15. oh and i almost forgot. gex:enter the gecko. never actually finished that game.got stuck in the horror channel cause as i a kid i was too freaked out by the dark scene and the approaching zombies..lolthe game was too hard for me..from then on i learnt i dont like horror games..

alex kid

wonder boy

space harrier

resident evil 1

FF6 - FF7

Chrono triger

Xenogears

Breath of Fire

1.Metal Gear Solid

2.Final Fantasy VII

3.Brave Fencer Mushashi

4.Parasite Eve

5.Final Fantasy X

6.Pokemon Red :)

7.Silent Hill

8.ICO

9.Devil May Cry

10.Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver

I just wanted to say this is an awesome topic. I would have never even thought of this but it brought some Insight to the history of my life as a gamer.