Metal Gear Solid - actually, since I have a high-powered gfx card now I could PS emulate it and output it to my tv. If it works, I'm inviting over all my friends who might be willing to play through the game over a two day period. The first time I played it I played for three days straight. I pre-ordered or something to get the t-shirt from EB, and it's for that reason that I met one of my best friends in college: Fred. Where is Fred now? I'd like to know, and I'd also hope he's not mad at me for him leaving his shades in my glove box--because a month later they were gone. Anyway, I digress. I met Fred on my community college when he and I were both wearing our MGS shirts. All I said was, "Dude. dude. Dude!" followed by some pointing to our t-shirts and then mass hanging-out after that. So, I met one of my best friends ever, the guy who taught me how to hunt, hide, and find people in Halflife/Q2 dm. I wish I knew where that guy was.
Gran Turismo Woah. Yes. Great, great, racing. I couldn't believe the illusion of reflection on the windshields and hoods.
Starcraft didn't play as much as others, but it has its merits.
Half-Life It's only one of my reasons for happiness in life. Kudos, Valve!
Baldur's Gate OMG, in reading the character class I had a moral crisis because for three days I decided that to be chaotic evil in real life has benefits. I'm glad I came to my senses. I just reminisced the other day about playing GB on my K6-2 333Hz 4x cd-rom laptop. During BG sessions later at night while I "worked" in the campus computer lab, my CD reader would spin sooo fast and soo hard that it'd vibrate my whole laptop. I had so much fun with BG. If you missed out, do yourself a favor and experience it.
Grim Fandango I never got far in it, but I enjoyed the stigma that others attached to the game. I think it's pretty revolutionary for then and current time.
Final Fantasy Tactics played. the. shit. out. of it.
Thief sneaky bastard. That's what I liked being, a sneaky bastard. Matt Smith really got me into it two years later. I like seeing others' excitement at such gameplay elements. It's really like being a kid again when gamers get together on this stuff.
Unreal OMG, you remember when someone reengineered Glide to run on Nvidia? That sorta caused a TOS agreement that no one would alter driver software. I met the guy who started 3Dfx and had to compliment him and shake his hand. I hope he's doing well.
Descent Freespace I didn't play. My friends did and called it Quake with flying craft.
SHOGO How did the guys in Washington come up with this? I dunno, but I loved it and still speak to its fame today.
Banjo Kazooie ...should be released for the DS.
Resident Evil 2 w.o.w., but i didn't get scarred when i could walk away from my enemies.
Parasite Eve I bought three copies for a dam good reason...because Square knows its business.
Dreamcast (Japan) I was sooooo stoked seeing VHS footage of Sonic at Fred's house because a buddy of his imported one.
Ocarina of Time There's a reason we had 11 people in a room watching and taking turns progressing through the game. Playing by myself was slow.
I was definitly bored playing through the game myself, so a few of us traded off playing through it. I mostly watched because I was bored, but on the whole our group of guys and gals were captivated by it. Its far from being the perfect party game, but during parts when we needed to slug away and fight or whatever questing elements needed hack and slash action, one of us would do it, and the rest of us would just drink and smoke. Yes, Im going to go as far as to say that OoT is my favorite party game of all time. Wed all watch the new Friends episode, maybe something else, and then stuck around for two to three hours of OoT.
1997 to 1999 were a couple of the happiest year of my life as far as my person life went and with gaming. GDC stopped doing the five road trips, so it's been Cali since, but I walked, talked, lived, and breathed the best of that time. 1998 stands out in gaming infamy, and I don't think we've had quite a quality-packed year since. IAW Manabyte
