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no experimental phase in collage?

Interesting, makes me feel like doing something like this for my own history.

well get really for the ride of you life...................I have no idea what that means

That's so funny. I play more mainstream games now than I did in my past. I still dabble in some indie games. By the way, I downloaded the Dear Esther mod... a little slow of foot. I wish I could speed it up a little bit.

Very nice post - enjoyed reading it. Good luck with game development :)

Some links to the games not covered on this site would have been cool, but interesting mix. 

You make me feel old...

I see what you mean, I more meant direct, off-site links.

I remember playing Morrowind for 3 hours just organizing the loot i had in the place i was illegitimately squatting in when the dude i helped out left town...all the while my own real apartment could have benefited from 3 hours of actual cleaning and organizing.

My experimental stage consisted mostly of gaming mods which was the only way, at the time, to play anything doing something extremely different gameplay wise.

Hmm, lemme try:

A taste of things to come (2003-2006)
Genesis (06-08)
Evolution into the third dimension (08-present)

I could divide it up further, but that's good enough.

Interesting take on a personal history through video games. Having  been gaming since the early 80s I think I'm on the jaded gamer phase right now.

1. Childhood: There's reviews for games? I'll get this one with the cool cover.
2. Teenager: I discover RTS games, I start enjoying the story of some videogames. I start regretting bad purchases.
   
3. Now: I am pretty selective about what I buy, specially with time being so limited. I become more of a PC enthusiast.

Hey, there are lots of games out there that are neither mainstream, nor indie but fall between having both the artistic voyerism it takes to engage, and the budget to follow up. ICO or Shadow of the Colossus are obvious choises, but Indigo Prophecy, Mirror's Edge (artistic direction, not gamelpay), and perhaps Heavenly Sword for it's high quality MOCAP

This is a very neat post, indeed.

Glad someone else is willing to give the original Halo the credit it deserves. I don't think I'd still be playing video games were it not for that title.

I liked the format as well.  I'm not familiar with any of the indie games you mentioned, but I intend to give at least one of them a try.

 "I got Xenogears as my primary present for Christmas 2004."
 
This was my fav. part.
Can you say BEST. GIFT. EVER.?