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Topic: So what games were you playing / loving when you were 14? Have your tastes changed?

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themcnoisy

Quick thread which has come up due to @kidfried and @kyleforrester87 in the best game ever poll.

So what games were you playing at 14, how do you rate them now and how have your taste in games changed?

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kyleforrester87

I was playing FF9 and a hell of a lot Ultima Online when I was 14 and they are two of the best games I'll ever play.

I still play FF9 periodically now, and I have been wanting to dip back into Ultima Online but a Mac client doesn't exist. I'll get a new PC at some stage and hopefully UO is still going then.

Then I got the PS2 that year so a lot of Half Life 1 and SSX Tricky. Edit: wait, that was the following year

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FullbringIchigo

i was playing playing Final Fantasy and i still love Final Fantasy so no my tastes nave not changed

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BAMozzy

I was 14 in 1986 so no games from that era are 'currently' on my playlist or would I want to play now. I can't remember exactly what games I was playing but they would not have been 3D story based action-arcade, RPG or FPS/3rd Person Shooters that tend to dominate my gaming choices today. I have NO interest in playing the 2D platformers, scrolling shooters (like 1942 for example) or any of the games that were around then...

I think that sums up how my gaming has changed - its basically changed along with the evolution of gaming.

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Rudy_Manchego

Super Metroid baby! Still one of my favourite games ever.

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stinkyx

That's the age my parents forced me to get rid of all my video game consoles so I could concentrate on school. At the time, I was a hardcore Nintendo Fanboy, and having to sneak-in PC games and my best friend secretly giving me his old PSOne opened up a whole new world for me.

Haven't really liked Nintendo much since. Otherwise...my taste in games has opened up a lot, but I still mostly just play FPS games. Gah, I guess I'm fairly one-dimensional!

THEN : Medal of Honor, Final Fantasy IX, Fallout 1 + 2, Resident Evil 2, Silent Hill, Castlevania SOTN, Turok 2 (game was taken away, but I dreamed of it constantly)

NOW : Call of Duty, Mass Effect...waiting for more sequels of the games mentioned above. Those games made a big impact on me!

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Dichotomy

That was a long time ago, but a quick google of games to check dates leads me to think I was probably playing The Secret of Monkey Island (and quite possibly some other LucasArts adventures), Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. I'd also guess that Kick Off was still being played by my mates and I as Sensi hadn't released at that point. I was also probably playing a lot of cack too (like Shadow of the Beast), but I'm still a fan of well done adventures and dungeon crawlers (Legend of Grimrock 2 is excellent if you have the means to play it).

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Kidfried

@smelly_jr I guess you could say your parents saved you!

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kyleforrester87

I'd have simply burnt the house down if my folks took video games away from me at that age.

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Kidfried

I got a GameCube for my 14th birthday. I had actually saved up to pay for it myself, so my parents got me Super Smash Bros. Melee and an extra controller. And honestly, it's one of the best memories of my teenage years, however superficial that may sound.

My GameCube was bundled with Zelda: The Wind Waker. I saw that game over at a friend's house before, played it for an hour or so with him and just couldn't believe that games were looking just as good as animated movies back then. I remember being impressed with all the water effects and the imaginative environments. That game made me look at games way different than I did before.

I think I played Mario Kart: Double Dash and Pikmin a lot as well that year. So basically, those Nintendo classics. And I still think they hold up quite well, and in many respects my tastes haven't changed - even though I'm not a fanatic fan of Nintendo's current output.

The things I do enjoy in games are still quite the same. I love creative and bizarre stuff, basically anything that is able to surprise me.

Also... 2004 might be the year I beat Chrono Trigger for the first time. I've played quite a lot of JRPG's as kid, but most of them were just too difficult for me to beat (especially without any guide at all). With English not being my native language, I often got stuck in these games somewhere. And it's probably around this time, that I had the courage to pick up that game again.

It was also the year I first played a Metal Gear Solid game (the second one!) and found out about the stealth genre. Unfortunately I found that game to difficult, but I did pick up Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow later that same year.

On PC I played a lot of strategy games. Rise of Nations was a big hit among my friends. That's a great game by the way, do pick it up if you ever enjoyed the Age of Empires games. I played Sands of Time as well, but I've talked about that game in lengths in the other topic.

And of course I played a lot of games over at friends. One of my best friends had a PlayStation 2, and I was over at his house about every weekend, during which we played the Jak and Ratchet & Clank games.

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Kidfried

@smelly_jr I actually convined my parents that having a video game console was a lot butter, as it meant I would spent less time on the computer and more time in the living room. I didn't make up that reasoning myself, we all used it to trick our parents!

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stinkyx

@Kidfried That's a good one, although it wouldn't have worked for me...my parents were ALWAYS on the living room TV! I had to have my own TV in my room (which also got taken away...re-purposed for my sisters, but luckily replaced with a super small TV for my secret PSOne sessions).

Waitaminute, now that I think about it...I have the same problem nowadays, with my wife!! She's always in control of the living room TV. Luckily, I've got Remote Play on my Vita. THANK YOU, VITA! Can't keep me from my precious, precious video games...

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themcnoisy

I was playing a lot of swos when I was 14 (which came out the year before), every top league in the world was in the game even the likes of new zealand and chile etc. Amazing game, as a player-manager game It was unreal for the Amiga.

As for consoles I think 1995 was when I got the 32x. What a disaster. Comix zone was meant to be a big hit but again was rubbish on the standard megadrive. 1995 was a bit of a dud gaming wise. Both 94 and 96 had tons of classics. In many ways 1995 was a lot like 2018 so far.

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mookysam

Not sure I can remember everything. 😅 I had and N64 and several friends had PS1s. I got Ocarina of Time when I was 13 but I'm pretty sure I was still playing it when I was 14. I still love the game to this day and replay it every so often, although the 3DS remake is much better these days. It was my first Zelda and the one that made me a fan of the series. I also seem to remember playing a lot of Turok 2 around that time as well.

I think I was 14 when I got my Game Boy Color. My first game was Wario Land II (ace platformer) and then my Mum surprised me with Link's Awakening DX. Me and my best friend were huge fans of Pokémon Red and Blue. I'm still a big fan of the core Pokémon games, although less so than back then. I enjoyed replaying Blue when it was released on the 3DS Virtual Console a few years ago. I was expecting it to compare really unfavourably to the newer ones (which have had lots of improvements over the years) but it was still really playable and fun.

Have my tastes changed? I think they've evolved as I got into new games, platforms and genres. I still enjoy the types of games from back then, even though certain genres are much less prolific these days. I guess it's why new games with big nostalgia elements do well among people who grew up in the '80's and '90's.

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Jaz007

Let’s let’s see, what was I playing. Transformers: War for Cybertron, Dark Void, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit,Ico and SoTC Collection, Red Steel 2, Naughty Bear, LoZ: Skyward Sword, Gosh I loved WfC, Dark Void, Red Steel 2 and Skyward Sword. and SoTC,. Such great games. War for Cybertron, Dark Void and Red Steel 2 got replayed so many times. Maybe Medtroid Prome 2. My tastes, haven’t changed too much, but they’ve probably expanded a little. I’ve also had diverse tastes though:
My parents were also still super restrictive around this time with games. They didn’t have a problem with the time I spent with the hobby, but everything was worse in game than a movie. I don’t mean M rated games either, I understood that fine and still keep restrictions on what I play. But I mean it was a struggle to get a T rated game with the mild language rating. Dark Void was a hard battle to win because it had that, and then I couldn't get the DLC later because of it.
A year or two later than goodness for Uncharted 3’s graphics, because my mom noticed that in a trailer and that’s why she considered letting me get it. I was so happy when I walked with Drake’s Fortune one day.

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JohnnyShoulder

Man this makes me feel old! I can't ever remember what I played on the 14th of this month never mind when I was 14...

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stinkyx

@themcnoisy "1995 was a bit of a dud gaming wise"...whaaat!!! Did you happen to have an SNES in 1995? That was such an amazing year, I remember...Killer Instinct, Primal Rage (I begged for that one every day), Donkey Kong Country 2, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, etc.

But yeah, 2018 is kinda quiet, especially on PlayStation...I like it, though, since it gives me lots of time to deal with my backlog.

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CountFunkula78

RPGs all day long back then! Warriors of the eternal sun and Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday on Mega drive, and occasionally dipping back in to Pool of Radiance and Pirates! on C64.
I had Splatterhouse and Desert Strike for the sega as well.
Also had access to (but not owned) Amiga and SNES, for Monkey islands 1 & 2, and Link to the Past and Street Fighter 2.

I now have a lot more spare money which means I get to try/play more games and own more hardware (mostly PS4 and PC). I play almost everything except sports games, and still love a good RPG.

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RogerRoger

Halfway through my fourteenth year, I upgraded from PSone to PS2, because James Bond 007 in... Agent Under Fire was released Christmas 2001 and I was right at the beginning of my new Bond obsession, which started thanks to games (Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is Not Enough and 007 Racing) rather than the films or books. I probably spent most of the time between June 21 and December 25 obsessively replaying those PSone Bonds and dreaming of how amazing a PS2 Bond game would be, and my younger self wasn't disappointed.

Problem was, it was all I wanted to play. I seem to recall my brother getting me Red Faction (likely because he wanted to try it himself) and before I became fifteen, the hype train for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones had released Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, which I might've gotten on my fifteenth birthday, it being pretty soon after the May release date. Star Wars: Episode I - Super Bombad Racing happened in there somewhere, too, and that was cute enough (or rather, I was a big enough nerd to love it regardless) to hold my attention for a while.

All of the games in bold above are games I regularly replay, purely for the nostalgia kicks. I got all of the Star Wars games that were released as PS2 Classics on PS4 and re-discovered them all over again. Even did the same with Red Faction, and it was pretty cool. I think they're all wonderful, because they're a part of my childhood and therefore a part of who I am (the other broken, messy bits of my headspace aren't the fault of gaming; on the contrary, gaming has saved me more than a couple times over the years since). Objectively, I can see their individual faults, but happy memories paper over the cracks.

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