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---json { "title": "My formative games", "date": "2024-05-30T07:30:00.882Z", "tags": [ "games" ], "excerpt": "Here's a list of my favourite video games" }
I'm not a huge gamer. I've got a few consoles, I've played a fair few games, but I would never say it's my number one hobby, and I can go weeks in between switching any console on. But there are a handful of games that I think are a big part of my formative years.
TimeSplitters 2
The first game on the list is also one that I could tell you absolutely nothing about, other than the fact it's the first game we got when my family got a PS2, and it's probably the only game my Dad would enjoy playing too. It had an amazing multiplayer mode, including a custom level designer, and that's pretty much all we used to do the whole time. It was great fun, but I never once played the story mode; I'm not even sure there is a story mode.
Halo 3
Halo 3 is the reason I begged my parents for an Xbox 360 for my 13th birthday. My cousin already had it and I got to play a couple of levels of the campaign on my own once when he was out, and was absolutely hooked. It had an incredible, atmospheric soundtrack, was seriously fun to play. I've never been one for playing competitive online games too much, but I still consider being called a "beat down whore" by an angry teenager on Xbox Live one of my crowning achievements.
Runescape
I think I lost at least 2 years to runescape between 2005-2007. I was obsessed with playing the game. I was utterly terrible at it, because I didn't have the attention span to grind any of the higher levels1, but I'd still waste hours and hours on it. It was the first MMORPG I ever played, and thinking of it makes me so thankful that I never bought World of Warcraft, because I'd never have seen daylight again.
Fallout 3
When I first played Fallout 3, I hated it. I had no idea what to do, and was very used to regular story-driven games. Then at some point, I tried it again and got the hang of playing an open world RPG, and realised how much fun it could be. I played through Fallout 3 dozens of times, trying out different character builds, following different plotlines, often ignoring the main story until the very last minute. Once I found out about the glitch to get power armour early in the game it was a total game changer too.
Pokémon Red
Pokémon Red was probably the only game I actually played on my Game Boy Colour2, the rest were just left there, ignored. I loved, and still love, this game completely. It has plenty of flaws, and the next generation is undoubtedly an improvement, but there's something about playing this that is a complete comfort to me. Even before I found out about the famous MissingNo. glitch, I managed to complete this game and train a bunch of my Pokémon to lvl. 100, which must have taken me hours and hours to do. I've still got the game, and my Game Boy Colour, so occasionally I'll still boot it up and do a play through when I find the time.