An introduction, of sorts.

[narilka]

Please tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into gaming, a bit about yourself, what your favourite games are. Let's get comfortable and get to know each other!

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[narilka]

Don't apologize for rambling, we're here to get to know each other, right? :)

Welcome to the community!

As I mentioned above, I really loved Spyro as well, and you reminded me why -- it was the first 3D game I really played too. Also, cute dragon. How can you go wrong with that?

[narilka]

Welcome to the community!

There's nothing wrong with guides (I like them because I like to really complete things, and collect all the things).

I recently picked up a DSi, and I really like the user inface better than the DS, but it's a small thing, really. The DS has a slot of GBA games, if that's important to you -- the DSi does not.

[narilka]

Hi Sian! Welcome to the community!

I really enjoyed the frist Raving Rabbids on the Wii the first time I played it, but then when I went back and tried to play it again, I couldn't quite get into it. I think it was probably because I had to re-do all the stuff I'd already done (lost the save).

Donkey Kong Country had the best music. And was pretty fun. I love that they released it on the virtual console for the Wii.

[1582]

Yeah, I wanted to get every nook and cranny in FFX so I got the guide and I didn't get far in FFX-2 but that guide was like a collector's item~ :D
Mostly, I agree, I don't want to miss anything!

Ah, yeah I got internet on my laptop a few days after starting Silent Hill 4 so yeah, that helped. It's pointless if you don't have one though, more trouble than it's worth.

I have played Silent Hill 1& 2 but did not very far (I rent games, not buy them so it stops me from getting far :/) but I finished Silent Hill 4~
The games scared me too much to get far back in the day, lmao!
I am very close with Sons of Liberty and the MGS2 (those are my fave), but I haven't played either in a very long time. As for Pokémon, I've beaten maybe half of them, if even (one kind from each generation up until GBA, since I don't have one xD). And my favorite was Yellow (so far).

[1582]

Thanks! ♥

Yay for collecting! I definitely like to stock up on items, unless it's Silent Hill. There's not enough space :/
I wouldn't really know any GBA games, but I may end up just getting a DS because it's cheaper and less can go wrong since it's not new. I can always trade it in eventually for a discount on a DSi at my GameStop!

[animeshon]

NWN has 2 versions. The original game and the second game. There are a number of expansions for the original game, which might be what your thinking of? Shadows of the Undrentide, Hordes of the Underdark.

Haha, I have no shame or self-conciousness when it comes to singing :D I was just warning you!

[sketch]

Hi, I'm Oshi. I started getting into gaming when I was little with the Super Nintendo and game "Widget". Super Mario World came shortly after, of course, and I never turned back. I got my hands on a Playstation a few years after they were released, and started getting into RPG's. JRPG's specifically. Final Fantasy VIII is still one of my favorite games, even though I had to replay it numerous times due to corrupted data just to get to the end boss.

I guess currently I'm more interested in table-top gaming than electronic gaming. Dungeons and Dragons is a major hobby of mine, and takes up a nice chunk of my free time because I'm the dungeon master, and have to plan all of the adventures. I don't own any of the current generation systems, but I've been meaning to get my hands on a PS3 for a while now. I play on my boyfriends whenever we're together. My current favorite games for it are Valkyria Chronicles and Resident Evil 5. I've also got a guilty pleasure for Little Big Planet. Heh...

[lexus]

D&D! Oh, man, I want to play tabletop so bad. I wonder how I could find a bunch of people playing... :x

Lexus

[lexus]

So, yes. I'm Lina [or more commonly known as Lexie/Lexus], and I'm a gaming addict.

I am not looking for treatment though. :]

Anyway, I started gaming back when I was a wee dependent leeching off my parents' paychecks and had a big brother who got a Nintendo for Christmas. And I've gamed ever since. On and off (mostly off), but I can't live without games. It's true.

And some of my fondest memories as a child is being stuck at some random person's house because Daddy was playing D&D with them. I got to know all the cool kids of the cool D&D people, and some of them had dogs, even! It was fun times.

I love RPGs (and RPGs, and more RPGs), and will always be one of those people buying Final Fantasy games. Or Disgaea or Shin Megami Tensei's Persona line, at the very least. And I'm finally going to get myself a PS3, I hope, with my tax return ♥ Yay. Xenosaga is awesome and I'm currently playing through all three. I also play dating sims, because them boys are just so pretty. I'm not as big a fan of visual novels, though... Otometeki Koi Kakumei and Tokimeki are the two I actually actively enjoy and replay often. ♥

Um, and that's about all I can think of to ramble on about.

[animeshon]

I LOVE tabletop. Sadly a jealous girlfriend saw the end of my tabletop group so now I have no one to game with :(

[animeshon]

I love Assassin's Creed!

Hi!

[ororo]

Another old-school here. I started playing AD&D in high school. I've played a couple campaigns in 3rd edition, and am now playing a 3rd level dragonborn cleric in a 4th edition campaign.

I've played: D&D, Traveller, Mage, most of the Fluxx games, Killer Bunnies, Gloom, several Munchkin games, Settlers of Catan and Illuminati.

Nice to meet everyone!

Salmonpuff

[salmonpuff]

My first game system was a sega megadrive when I was like erm...8 or something and I was well into all the old disney games like Alladin and the Lion King - embarrasing i know.
Since then I've gotten more and more into gaming and have owned all sorts (Playstation 1, 2 and 3 - PSP - Gameboy advance - wii...) am a playstation girl at heart and am very very VERY into my survival horrors - resident evil and silent hill are my particular favourites though I am partial to a bit of Final Fantasy, Devil May Cry etc etc. I spend a lot of time with my other half playing games - we're replaying DMC4 at the moment, I'm part way through Metal Gear 4 and we've recently started a pro runthrough on Resi 5

phew :D

[lexus]

Ooh, that's always the worst :(

[rivenwanderer]

OK, I'm not sure whether I'm a gamer or a person who plays games, but I mostly think that's a silly distinction. So!

-MYST. RIVEN. (ehh, and I guess the rest of the series too ;) ) These games are what got me interested in computers; their fandom is what got me started on the internet. (I even started a myst comm on dreamwidth, to be sneakily spammy :p)

-Other point-and-click adventure games, to a lesser extent; flash room escape games are a recent obsession (there are hundreds of them out there on the internets!). I keep meaning to play through more highly-rated text adventure games, but I'm a visual person and tend to miss the eyecandy.

-I like the Zelda games and Katamari, but I don't own a console

-Kingdom of Loathing! I'm a ridiculous Level 24 Disco Bandit at the moment :D

-Sometimes D&D; sometimes LARPing; I still haven't *really* gotten the hang of roleplaying in the sense of taking on a character who's not just a thin re-visioning of myself, but I like it in theory and would like to get better.

-Knytt Stories and some of its fan-made expansions (like Gaia) are so much fun and so pretty

That's the majority of what I care about at the moment. I tend to be a jack-of-all-trades sort of person in whatever I do, and gaming is no exception, so I'm always on the lookout for something new and shiny :)

Re: Lexus

[narilka]

Welcome to the community, Lina/Lexie/Lexus!

I'm a gaming addict as well, so you're not alone. :) Admittedly, as I've mentioned above, I'm not a huge RPG person, but I do appreciate them, and sometimes I get sucked into them.

I've heard of dating sims but I've never actually tried one. What's your favourite?

Re: Hi!

[narilka]

Welcome to the community, Ororo!

Excellent, another Killer Bunnies fan! *And* Gloom. Aside from the people I've made play with me, I've never heard anyone else mention those two.

Re: Salmonpuff

[narilka]

Welcome to the community, Salmonpuff!

I used to have the old Lion King game as well. :) Hey, it's Disney. They haven't become a giant for no reason. They're good stuff!

When DMC4 came to the Xbox, I tried it out for the first time. It's pretty fun, but are all the previous ones the same, where you play through it multiple times?

[narilka]

Welcome to the community, Rivenwanderer!

I don't think we make the distinction here between a person who plays games, and a gamer. We're all here for the same thing, right?

I just downloaded Myst for my iPhone last night. I really loved that game when it came out, I'm looking forward to playing it again on the iPhone.

I'm not familiar with Knytt Stories, what is that?

[narilka]

Hi Oshi, welcome to the community!

I really enjoyed SMW when it came out. Mario games are usually pretty good.

As I mentioned in another post, I've been playing a lot of LBP lately. It's a cute game! I made my mother play it and now she wants a PS3 just for it!

RE5 looks good, as far as I've gotten, but I have it for the Xbox 360. My PS3 hardly gets any love, usually...

Re: Salmonpuff

[salmonpuff]

erm, theres not a lot of replay value to be honest with you. No unlockable costumes in DMC4, just unlockable difficulties. It does take a while to get all the blue orbs and stuff which is what i'm going for this time. But its more for fun than anything else :)

Re: Lexus

[lexus]

I love me some RPGs hardcore :D

Otometeki Koi Kakumei & Tokimeki Memorial ~Girl's Side~ 2nd Season are the two I've played and love, love, LOVE. They're really interactive fun, so. ♥

[rivenwanderer]

Knytt Stories is a free platformer style game in which the main goal is exploring. You don't collect coins or kill monsters, but you collect abilities along the way that let you better avoid monsters and that let you explore more areas (a bit like Zelda in that respect). And it's free and has a pretty usable user-created content system. Oh, and the music is lovely and the graphics are pretty and pixely and the player character is a fairly gender-neutral (only made of a few pixels, after all) female. This youtube video has a fairly in-depth look at it, including a bunch of gameplay video (though I think the video's narrator is a little annoying).

[ayabie]

Hello, my name's Ayabie and oh man, I first started playin' video games on an Atari. I think my first games were like Pitfall or Frogger. I think it's so cool how far games have come since way back when. Well, mainly now I play a lot of survival horror like Silent Hill and the Fatal Frame series. And I do play some rpgs like Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, Fallout 3, Folklore, the King's Field series, etc. etc. Oh yeah and FFXII.

Anyways, nice to meet'cha'll! :D

[sousora]

I've been playing games ever since I can remember. The first ones I remember were on the Atari, although the memories of Pitfall are the strongest. I could just never get past that first pit...

I got my first Nintendo of my very own when I was seven years old and that was that. Growing up I was obsessed with Mario and The Legend of Zelda, although I had a very special place for others such as Goonies and Faxanadu.

These days I'm a huge fan of Biohazard (Resident Evil). I also like games such as Final Fantasy, Higurashi no Naku koro ni, Bully, Silent Hill... just about anything, really.

I love games, but I really don't play them as much as I used to anymore :(