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12-20-2003, 09:02 AM

Hmmmmm I dunno, there's a few that really stand out in my head.

In terms of just sheer amount of time sucked out of my life, Diablo II. Addicting as hell trying to just level and MF and all that fun stuff. Many many school days were phoned in sick due to this game. IT CONTROLLED MY LIFE. Haven't played it in about 2 months though, but it's cyclical like that... I'm sure in about 4 months I'll probably give it a few more spins.

Sim City 3000 is another one... just one of those games where I'd go upstairs for dinner to eat "right after I finished zoning this industrial sector".... 3 hours ago. I don't know what it is about the game, but it just sucks me right in. I become so involved with it, it's insane. It's one of those games that can totally kill any amount of time, and probably my favourite single-player PC game in existance. What I love about the game too is that it's just so... original. It's not "just your typical FPS", or "another RTS game" or anything. It's in its own genre almost, and it's totally unlike any other type of game (besides the other "Sim" games that were spawned off it) Reason I chose 3000 is because the advances over 2000 are majorly significant, and I just didn't get into SC4 for whatever reason. It's just too "small", the area you work in.

Now if we're going to go into console games, it'd be a hard-fought battle between NHL 2003 and Final Fantasy 3/6. NHL is simply ****ing fun as hell to play. That's all there is to it. 2004 has some nice advances over it, but 2003 just seems more fast-pace.

FF6 is just more of a personal one. It was the first game that I truly "got into". Back when I had my NES I had the original Final Fantasy game and thought it was pretty fun and all. I was one of those kids that never had an SNES, until I was like 14. Every single day I wished I had an SNES. My friend would always rent FF6, so I played it a lot, and I loved it. I wanted an SNES just so I could have this game. One night I was just surfing on the 'net and I saw this one site that had a "Final Fantasy 3 ROM". I had no idea what that was at the time, so I checked it out, and found out that you could... *gasp* ... play SNES games on your PC That was seriously like, the happiest day of my life. I downloaded it and played the game to death on my trusty pentium 120. Oh yeah. I never did own the actual cartridge, because even know it sells for like $35 US in stores. Crazy. One day I will buy it, just for the personal feeling of it. But yeah, it's probably my favourite game just because it has that "bond" with me or whatever. The music in it is just so ****ing brilliant, you can actually connect with the silly little 16-bit pixels by it. Celes' theme is still my favourite piece of video game music ever. Mog is the biggest ****ing bad-ass ever to grace any television ever, as well.

12-20-2003, 09:02 AM	#12
road doggy dogg Guest Posts: n/a	Hmmmmm I dunno, there's a few that really stand out in my head. In terms of just sheer amount of time sucked out of my life, Diablo II. Addicting as hell trying to just level and MF and all that fun stuff. Many many school days were phoned in sick due to this game. IT CONTROLLED MY LIFE. Haven't played it in about 2 months though, but it's cyclical like that... I'm sure in about 4 months I'll probably give it a few more spins. Sim City 3000 is another one... just one of those games where I'd go upstairs for dinner to eat "right after I finished zoning this industrial sector".... 3 hours ago. I don't know what it is about the game, but it just sucks me right in. I become so involved with it, it's insane. It's one of those games that can totally kill any amount of time, and probably my favourite single-player PC game in existance. What I love about the game too is that it's just so... original. It's not "just your typical FPS", or "another RTS game" or anything. It's in its own genre almost, and it's totally unlike any other type of game (besides the other "Sim" games that were spawned off it) Reason I chose 3000 is because the advances over 2000 are majorly significant, and I just didn't get into SC4 for whatever reason. It's just too "small", the area you work in. Now if we're going to go into console games, it'd be a hard-fought battle between NHL 2003 and Final Fantasy 3/6. NHL is simply ***ing fun as hell to play. That's all there is to it. 2004 has some nice advances over it, but 2003 just seems more fast-pace. FF6 is just more of a personal one. It was the first game that I truly "got into". Back when I had my NES I had the original Final Fantasy game and thought it was pretty fun and all. I was one of those kids that never had an SNES, until I was like 14. Every single day I wished I had an SNES. My friend would always rent FF6, so I played it a lot, and I loved it. I wanted an SNES just so I could have this game. One night I was just surfing on the 'net and I saw this one site that had a "Final Fantasy 3 ROM". I had no idea what that was at the time, so I checked it out, and found out that you could... gasp* ... play SNES games on your PC That was seriously like, the happiest day of my life. I downloaded it and played the game to death on my trusty pentium 120. Oh yeah. I never did own the actual cartridge, because even know it sells for like $35 US in stores. Crazy. One day I will buy it, just for the personal feeling of it. But yeah, it's probably my favourite game just because it has that "bond" with me or whatever. The music in it is just so **ing brilliant, you can actually connect with the silly little 16-bit pixels by it. Celes' theme is still my favourite piece of video game music ever. Mog is the biggest **ing bad-ass ever to grace any television ever, as well.