| Angel of Light |
May 11, 2009 12:23 AM |
First of all, I just want to say that I am absolutely impressed with everyone's entries. With the event reaching its half way point everyone is doing a great job with their entries and its even got me interested in some titles that I have never had a chance to play.
With how Omagnus Prime and Qwarky have described their games, I'm actually interested in giving them a shot. Especially ICO because I've always haeard of this game but I never ever knew what it was. With how Qwarky have described the visuals for this game I think I'm in for a real treat. With Shenmue/Shenmue II, I have always known from various gaming TV shows that they were great games because of the level of interaction. I know the story is a little spoiled since I read Omagnus's Entry, but I still want to experience the gameplay. These games are on my hit list so hopefully I can play them soon. It seems like Omagnus these games like to give you a little hate because they seem to tease you a lot.
I would also like to take this opportunity to provide some of my personal gaming experiences with some of the games that have been mentioned thus far.
Chaotic's Game: I actually never got into DDR until really late. I had already finished my university degree, and was actually thinking of going after a second one when I experienced DDR for the first time. I was actually 24 years old. It is actually kind of funny how I got into DDR for the first time. It was actually after we had a Halloween fest at the anime society. That night we had gotten a ride to one of my friends house. As I was getting out of the car, and holding the door for one of the girls to come out. She actually slammed the door while my fingers were on top of the door jamming on of my fingers. I was actually bleeding pretty bad when I walked into his house, so I went to the bathroom to get myself cleaned up. I was actually in a lot of pain so thankfully my friend had some painkillers. So I took quite a few that night.
In his basement he had a lot of people downstairs and they were all playing DDR. He had all the mixes and even two cobalt flux dance pads. I knew about the game at the arcade, but as much as I wanted to play it I was too embarrassed to play it in front of everybody. As the night went on the painkillers started to kick in, and I just didn't give a shit anymore. I decided to try it, and I failed miserably but I had a lot of fun so I kept trying it, and throughout the entire night I managed to go from beginner to light mode.
After that, I played it every weekend at his house, when he use to have a lot of people over. I still didn't want to play at the arcade, in front of a lot of strangers because I thought I would get a little embarrassed. As soon as I started to get into the harder standard songs and easier heavy songs. I decided to bridge that gap from playing at home to playing at the arcade. The biggest thing I take from this game, is that it got me into being active again, since I lost a lot of drive to play sports when I finished university. In two years when I use to play this game at the arcade 3 to 4 times a week for about two years I had lost 35 pounds. Unfortunately I had put that weight back on again, but anytime I come home from working out in Alberta I try to get in a scatter game or two. I pretty good at the game, but I've still yet to pass my first ten footer.
The other big thing that I take from this game, is that this game introduced to me Trance Music. I have always been a big fan of dance music ever since high school. As sad as it sound but this game actually helped me identify different types of dance music. My favorite artist has always been dj TAKA, and I just love it how he incorporates piano into his music, such as tracks like Frozen Ray, Pandora, Votum Stellarum, .59, Rainbow Flyer and I roughly like about 90% of his music. I even prefer his style of trance over a lot of big artists in trance music such as Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, and many others.
In my house I only own US Versions of all the PS2 Mixes, but I don't have any interest in picking up any of the JP releases. I hope to eventually get time and try some of the UltraMix versions for the XBox, and the Universe Mixes for the 360. My favorite US versions are DDR-Max and DDR-Extreme, DDRMax because it just has so many of my favourite songs; they have two healing visions, two versions of look to the sky, gambol, stomp to my beat, dark black forest, and many others. DDR-Extreme put a lot of the older songs on a PS2 engine such as Wonderland, Kick the Can, Do Me (H.I.G.E.O Mix), plus it has a lot of stuff by dj Taka. My favourite JP Release, is actually DDR Party Collection; despite having a small song list, it has a lot of awesome songs such as Freedom, Stars, Orion .78 (AM-Euro Mix), Dub I Dub, and El Ritmo Tropical.
Worm's Game: To be honest Worm, I don't have much to say about this game Worm. I first noticed this game from when I had the Nintendo Power magazine subscription. I played this game as a kid and probably got to the same point that everybody else did which was the speeder bike level and just found it too hard and gave up. I never touched the game since. With how you described your review Worm it seems like this game may not be as hard as many people have claimed it to be. I haven't played it in such a long time, I think it's worth for me to give it another try.
Acer's Game: The Legend of Zelda: A link to the past was one of the first snes games I had ever owned. I had rented a lot of other snes games. I never had much of an opportunity to own very many of them. I actually had to fight a very personal battle to actually own this game. To the people that actually know me well. I have a fear of open water, but this fear is mostly based upon the fear of drowning (aquaphobia).
One summer my parents decided to sign me up for swimming lessons, much to my disapproval because they didn't want me to sit around the house playing video games all summer. My siblings and myself joined up for swimming lessons at the same time. While it only took my two younger siblings two lessons to get through the beginner level, it actually took me the entire summer to actually get through beginner but what kept my motivation up is that even though my mom knew I didn't like swimming she told me that if I could pass the beginner level, she would actually buy me a snes game. That was all I needed to hear, knowing that I really wanted to pass the beginner course for swimming. I knew it was definitely a luxury because in the early to mid 1990's snes games in my hometown were $80-$100 to buy. I actually managed to pass the beginner course, and my mom asked me to pick out the game I wanted. I told here I wanted to get the Legend of Zelda. That is the game she bought for me.
The problem with most of the snes games, I owned is that I beat them too quickly. This game however actually took me a long time to finish. I think it might of been 3-4 months for me to actually finish it for the first time. I had a hard time with the ice dungeon, but it was actually worth the money to buy it. Even though now I could probably finish it in two days. It is one of my favorite games I played as a teen. After that summer, I never signed up for swimming again, but my wife is trying her best to help me overcome my fear of the water. I guess more than anything else, I helped get over my fear for a chance to own a great video game.
By the way Acer, the first time I beat the game, I actually managed to get into that secret location too with all the blue gems, the first time I tried to drop down the pyramid to defeat Ganon. I never been able to get to that area ever since.
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