Formative Games
List of games that had a lasting impact.
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The first JRPG I played post-SNES. Fell in love with the writing, characters, art/graphics, music, and setting. One of the best strategy RPG's out there. It was the first time I experienced a mature branching story, challenging battles, and bothered to learn about the great depth of customization offered.
That field screen though was just OK, it's mostly boring to me now. I liked the idea that you were maneuvering troops on a battlefield and the sense of scale it conveyed. But the developers should've gone further with it. I remember spending a lot of time chasing retreating units, sweeping for items and camping. There is no flanking, ambushing, or real small unit tactics to it. Plus the environment just creates barriers (rivers, mountains), I don't remember elevation or type of terrain giving engagements any pluses or negatives.
I also wish you got to explore towns instead of just visit them, especially when back tracking.
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One of the greatest multiplayer shooter experiences ever. Before my friends and I figured out how to host a TeamSpeak server, we'd play this every night after school and communicate via landline conference call.
If you enjoyed realistic gun play this was it. I had handled firearms before and had a big interest in them, some of my buddies were buying modern rifles like G3A3's, AR's. So seeing the reload animations and magazine sizes be accurate was cool as hell. Plus the realistic properties of this tactical fps were fantastic had things that were absent (or at least not part of the design) from Counter-Strike and Ghost Recon.
Just stellar map design for competitive MP play. The maps allowed for various balanced load outs. I don't remember another shooter where I really cared about optics, smoke, FMJ vs JHP ammo. The multiplayer was simply lethal, challenging and intense.
Rainbow was never the same for what 12 years? Yet to play Rainbow Six: Siege but it looks like a return to form!
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More goodness for Raven Shield. Tango down.
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I remember spending way to much time to figure out how to download this off of FilePlanet/GameSpy. But hey more Raven Shield.
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