Oh yeah, gamer since the late 80s. Started with a Nintendo NES, proceeded to SNES where I found my niche with RPGs, especially the Japanese variety (Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 2 & 3, Chrono Trigger).
Then around 1998 we got a respectable-ish PC at home and I got into Baldur's Gate 1&2, Planescape: Torment, Daggerfall (Elder Scrolls 2), Morrowind, Warcraft 2&3, Starcraft, Half Life.
Then in 2000 I went to university where a) I couldn't afford a PC of my own and b) I discovered what I was missing with regards to the opposite sex. Not that I had any great success, but I had some! Then around 2005 I got some money, bought a PC and caught the MMORPG bug, and the heroin addiction that is World of Warcraft. I played that pretty hardcore until 2009 where I lost interest and joy to where the game was going.
Then I didn't really play anything until 2010 when Starcraft 2 and its expansions came out, played that, liked it but was never good at playing vs other players so naturally the single player game had a limited time before it became stale. I tried quite a few other games at that time but nothing worked for me so I started using emulators to play my favourite old NES and SNES games.
I played minecraft beta for a long time, and still got an account where I go in when I want to really chill out.
Until the Witcher 3 came out, which I picked up at around 2017, as well as its expansions Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. Oh my, what a game, what a story, depth, CARE and LOVE put into making it. I've never been to Poland, and will visit at some point because I had several Polish friends over the years in the UK, but I'd fly to Poland just to visit CD Projekt Red's offices and give them all big handshakes. This is an RPG made from old school RPGers, for old school RPGers. Of course, being based on a series of novels it has a set story that you can't deviate from, you can't make your own story, but that story is solid. It is the details that make this game stand out, the care that went into making it really comes through. I'd say the Witcher 3 tips its hat to the greats that shaped me as a gamer and as a person
But still, The Witcher was a good couple of months of gaming at most. I have installed it from time to time but can't get into it again.
Now, in August Blizzard released World of Warcraft classic. I'd said, for years, that I'd give one of my testes to play the original World of Warcraft on a non-pirate server, however 2019 is not 2005, I am married with two kids and a very demanding job, so my gaming time is a couple of hours on Saturday and Sunday, but I am still enjoying it despite Blizzard's, and the community's messups.
What are my top games? These are the games I would, and have, feign sickness to stay home and play them, it is a short list.
- Final Fantasy 3
- Chrono Trigger
- Planescape: Torment
- Minecraft
- World of Warcraft
- Witcher 3
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I’d forgotten that game. How could I?
