Games in your collection that mean something special to you?

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This can be for any number of reasons. It can be because of who you got it from, or maybe you have a special memory connected to the game in one way or another... or maybe you just really like it because it's a good game.

Before I got really into buying games from eBay (or online shopping in general), I had to make due with what I could find in physical stores. After my brother told me about Kingdom Hearts, a game that not only had a unique sounding title, but also - according to his description - had the cool concept of being a Disney crossover game where you battled the forces of darkness... with a key sword of all things, I immediately got to start searching.

Everywhere I looked however the game was out of stock, and so it attained a kind of mysterious and ellusive status in my mind. This "holy grail" of gaming that didn't want to be found and that I would have to work extra hard to get a hold of. After weeks of searching and asking my local GameStop on a near daily basis, I then decided to give my local BlockBuster a go, deciding that if THEY didn't have it, I would quit my search, as I felt I had been literally everywhere.

When I entered the store and asked the clerk, "Do you have Kingdom Hearts for PS2?" he started typing and I expected that he would turn up empty like all the others, but then imagine my awe when he looked up and with a smile said "Sure, we have it! Go look on the PS2 shelf over there". Barely able to contain myself - part of me unable to believe I had finally found it and that surely he must have mistaken it for another game - I rushed over to the shelf, scanned the "K" section, and there my eyes happened on the unmistakeble key icon on the spine.

Almost trembling I picked it out and stared in disbelief at the beautiful dark blue holographic cover with the gang ominously staring into the distance under the heart-shaped moon (I'm not sure I had ever actually seen the cover before at that point), and so after admiring it for a bit and coming to terms the stone hard fact that I was finally holding it in my hands, I took it back to the clerk and said "How much is it? I'll pay anything!" to which he smiled again and said "How about just 100DKK?" I don't recall how much money I had at the time, but more than enough, so of course I bought it.

On the way home in the bus I then sat on the backseat and took the game out of the small plastic back, still flabergasted that I had finally been succesful in my search.

The joy was then hampered the next day when I, true to my daily rutine, swung by GameStop, where one of the clerks, as soon as he saw me, picked up a copy of the game he had lying on the counter and scanned it in, ready to sell it to me the moment I walked in. He had clearly been looking forward to finally be able to sell me the game after I had come by so many times to ask for it, so I felt bad when I had to tell him that I already found it the other day.

Almost that same second another customer walked in and snagged the game, so I tried to comfort the clerk saying that if I had bought it, that other guy would have left emptyhanded, but I could feel he didn't buy it.

So yeah, at heartfelt story with a bittersweet epiloque that left me with a bad conscience.

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My copies of International Super Star Soccer Deluxe and Jet Grind Radio used to belong to a friend, so they will always be important to me, as are my copies of Alone In The Dark I & II, for reasons best explained on the accompanying article. Then there's The Last Of Us, a game that reignited my passion for gaming at a time when I was throughly done with the whole thing. And even though I don't own it physically... damn it, I can't look at Stunts without remembering the good years we had.
 
Arkham Asylum for me. My sister bought it for me for my birthday years ago. Funny thing is that the disc didn't even work. I did get to finally play the game some time later. I still have that game with the defective disc because it was a gift from my sister and I think that the cover for the game looked cool.

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For me its gotta be Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+

I remember the day when KH2 came out in America, i begged my Mom take me to Gamestop to get it, and TWO of the Gamestops we went to didn't have it. One of them specifically told us that they did have a copy, but on reserve for someone who pre-ordered. I remember crying my eyes out cause I couldn't play my silly keyblade game (I was in 3rd grade xD. My Mom said we could try one more shop, and they DID end up having it! That night I played all the way till the Twilight Thorn boss in the prologue, and that reaction command sequence at the beginning of the fight blew my freaking mind.

I'd say like... 5 years later..? I remember was still really into KH (still am) and had been on Youtube watching people play KH2FM+ on either modded PS2s via SwapMagic or imported Japanese PS2s. Watching people do the data org fights and learning about Terra via the lingering will fight and the secret ending was so hype and I so desperately wanted to play the Final Mix version. I remember I even used Gameshark codes to make my English copy of KH2 mimic Critical Mode from Final Mix as close as possible by purposefully nerfing my health to match the amount I would have on Critical Mode. Another thing I remember doing was going to Gamestop and buying a really cheap used slim PS2, opening it up and taping over the lid sensors with duct tape so that the PS2 couldn't detect if the lid was closed or not. That way with this mod done, I would be able to use SwapMagic to play KH2FM+. Unfortunately, apparently that PS2 I bought could only play CD-ROMs and NOT DVD-ROMs, so basically every single PS2 game was impossible to play on it besides Lego Starwars and Half-Life.

Eventually my parents got me a red slim Japanese PS2 and KH2FM+ for.. my birthday I think...? But they gave it to me on Easter for some reason xD I played the everloving shit outta that game. Still one of my favorite games till this day
 
So I have a PS2 copy of Haunting Ground. Didn't know it was actually worth quite a bit. I picked it up years ago at a secondhand shop for maybe 20$. I had a really close friend in high school who got me into a lot of the games and music I'm still into today. We stopped being friends because of dumb bullshit, but they had a lot to do with a lot of the stuff I like now.

I also have a couple of odd games in my collection. InuYasha for the PS1, Powerpuff Girls, Fullmetal Alchemist, and FFVII Dirge of Cerberus for the PS2. Not anything I'd have bought myself, but they belonged to a friend of mine that passed away in an accident shortly after we all graduated. I have a bunch of her manga books, DVDs, and games that I don't ever plan on getting rid of.

As for the rest of my collection, it's a lot of remasters and stuff I've collected, lost, and re-collected over the years. Between being almost homeless for a lot of the time, and having to sell things, I've gained and lost a lot of the same games. Now I'm trying to build a more permanent collection. I really hope they keep remastering the Metroid Prime series so I can actually collect them all again.
 
So I have a PS2 copy of Haunting Ground. Didn't know it was actually worth quite a bit. I picked it up years ago at a secondhand shop for maybe 20$. I had a really close friend in high school who got me into a lot of the games and music I'm still into today. We stopped being friends because of dumb bullshit, but they had a lot to do with a lot of the stuff I like now.

I also have a couple of odd games in my collection. InuYasha for the PS1, Powerpuff Girls, Fullmetal Alchemist, and FFVII Dirge of Cerberus for the PS2. Not anything I'd have bought myself, but they belonged to a friend of mine that passed away in an accident shortly after we all graduated. I have a bunch of her manga books, DVDs, and games that I don't ever plan on getting rid of.

As for the rest of my collection, it's a lot of remasters and stuff I've collected, lost, and re-collected over the years. Between being almost homeless for a lot of the time, and having to sell things, I've gained and lost a lot of the same games. Now I'm trying to build a more permanent collection. I really hope they keep remastering the Metroid Prime series so I can actually collect them all again.
I have a similar story about a classmate who introduced me to a lot of cool games every time I was over, and where eventually we split because of dumb reasons.

In his memory (no he is not dead... that I know of) I have since collected all the games that he showed me which I couldn't afford at the time. I remember he told me about Devil May Cry at one point, explaining that you played as this devil who had to scale a demonic tower, and while it sounded cool for sure... I had yet to be introduced to the world of "cool pretty boy anime demons with cool slick white hair and attitude" so my picture of these devils he spoke of... was the gargoyle kind you see in, well, the game Gargoyles on GameBoy :ROFLMAO:
 
For me its gotta be Kingdom Hearts 2 and Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix+

I remember the day when KH2 came out in America, i begged my Mom take me to Gamestop to get it, and TWO of the Gamestops we went to didn't have it. One of them specifically told us that they did have a copy, but on reserve for someone who pre-ordered. I remember crying my eyes out cause I couldn't play my silly keyblade game (I was in 3rd grade xD. My Mom said we could try one more shop, and they DID end up having it! That night I played all the way till the Twilight Thorn boss in the prologue, and that reaction command sequence at the beginning of the fight blew my freaking mind.

I'd say like... 5 years later..? I remember was still really into KH (still am) and had been on Youtube watching people play KH2FM+ on either modded PS2s via SwapMagic or imported Japanese PS2s. Watching people do the data org fights and learning about Terra via the lingering will fight and the secret ending was so hype and I so desperately wanted to play the Final Mix version. I remember I even used Gameshark codes to make my English copy of KH2 mimic Critical Mode from Final Mix as close as possible by purposefully nerfing my health to match the amount I would have on Critical Mode. Another thing I remember doing was going to Gamestop and buying a really cheap used slim PS2, opening it up and taping over the lid sensors with duct tape so that the PS2 couldn't detect if the lid was closed or not. That way with this mod done, I would be able to use SwapMagic to play KH2FM+. Unfortunately, apparently that PS2 I bought could only play CD-ROMs and NOT DVD-ROMs, so basically every single PS2 game was impossible to play on it besides Lego Starwars and Half-Life.

Eventually my parents got me a red slim Japanese PS2 and KH2FM+ for.. my birthday I think...? But they gave it to me on Easter for some reason xD I played the everloving shit outta that game. Still one of my favorite games till this day
Aw yeah!! I vividly remember those early days of YouTube where, as you say, we would watch videos of all the exciting and Japanese-exclusive content from the FM games. What a time to be alive :3 Glad you got your copy of KH2 as well. I remember arguing with my brother that because I had the first game, HE felt entitled to get the second one. I pretended to agree, just to get him out of my hair, but then secretly went behind his back and asked our grandma for funds to buy the game. He then came home with the game in hand one day, where we discussed the the pictures on the backcover, me pretending like I hadn't seen it before, but it wasn't long before I (rather meanspiritedly) couldn't hold tight and shoved in his face that I had bought it too. I remember us both standing there with a copy of the game, and how sad he got that I hadn't kept my word. I immediately felt bad, and like many things, still haven't forgiven myself. And I never will.

Regarding imports though, you guys in the States at least got Re:Chain of Memories. I know it's the black sheep of the family, but I have very fond memories of the GBA game, so when I looked up information on FM and happened to learn there was a 3D remake of CoM, I foamed at my mouth and HAD to import it.
 
Aw yeah!! I vividly remember those early days of YouTube where, as you say, we would watch videos of all the exciting and Japanese-exclusive content from the FM games. What a time to be alive :3 Glad you got your copy of KH2 as well. I remember arguing with my brother that because I had the first game, HE felt entitled to get the second one. I pretended to agree, just to get him out of my hair, but then secretly went behind his back and asked our grandma for funds to buy the game. He then came home with the game in hand one day, where we discussed the the pictures on the backcover, me pretending like I hadn't seen it before, but it wasn't long before I (rather meanspiritedly) couldn't hold tight and shoved in his face that I had bought it too. I remember us both standing there with a copy of the game, and how sad he got that I hadn't kept my word. I immediately felt bad, and like many things, still haven't forgiven myself. And I never will.

Regarding imports though, you guys in the States at least got Re:Chain of Memories. I know it's the black sheep of the family, but I have very fond memories of the GBA game, so when I looked up information on FM and happened to learn there was a 3D remake of CoM, I foamed at my mouth and HAD to import it.
"Fights" with siblings over games is such a mood honestly.

Also I remember playing through RE:CoM and being able to use the GBA strategy guide which was cool. Though, tbh, I still prefer GBA version.
 
My copy of Silent Hill HD collection on PS3 is a little important to me because that was the last thing I ever bought in Microplay before they went bankrupt.
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And the other one would be the used copy of Batman Arkham City that I got a long time ago, it came with a code for Halo Reach, thanks to that I got to like the old Halo games.
 
Maybe not exactly a game, but a handheld console? It's a bootleg one. My family used to bought me a PSP looking console with a price like RM10+ ($2+) I think. It's green and small, it is pretty cool to me at the time to have one. It was just a blocky looking arcade games but I've played it until it eventually stopped working

A few years later, we would visit a mall called a Paradigm Mall and saw this one store next to a movie place. I was interested in this one console, it was red and looked like a Gameboy. And the price was like RM20+ ($4) I think, or cheaper.

This time, it really surprised to see a much different library of games instead of just blocks. Especially with the NES classics, which I didn't know at the time. But it was really fun and a great way to discover what those games are. Here's the console for example
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"Fights" with siblings over games is such a mood honestly.

Also I remember playing through RE:CoM and being able to use the GBA strategy guide which was cool. Though, tbh, I still prefer GBA version.
I prefer GBA CoM as well, both for nostalgia but also the impressive sprite work. I always admire what developers can achieve on limited hardware. It was cool to play the game in full 3D though, and Marluxia's second form took me by complete surprise.
 
On a personal level, I'd probably say that my copy or Resident Evil 2 is special to me. I remember getting a discount card for christmas one year which had enough to get me one game. Instead of going out and getting the latest and greatest at the time, I sat on it. And I sat on it for months until I had heard that Resi 2 was getting a release (remember, this was pre-internet essentially so games didn't have set release dates nor were they communicated very well. You just read possible dates from print magazines and/or spoke to staff at a brick and mortar store who might be able to tell you a little in advance).
Took a lot of patience but that card was marked for resi 2 so it was super satisfying to finally be able to take it into a shop and and it over for a copy after a very long wait.

Otherwise, I have copies of various RPGs like FF7, Parasite eve and Xenogears which are of importance to me as I got them signed by the music composers (Uematsu, Shimamura and Mitsuda respectively).
 
I wish I could be even 1/10ths as eloquent as others on this subject, but I do have a few games that will forever be in my heart.

I think Twisted Metal would be at the top. There were many games I loved before it, but TM was the first game where I felt "wow this was made for me". I was big into demolition derbies and wrecked cars in general. My mom, aunt and especially grandma would often take me to the local junkyards just to look at the cars and we did it frequently enough to be known by the staff and my grandma would bring in baked goods for them when we visited. Good times. Anyway, a game with cars that fucking blow each other up? Hell yes! I saw the commercial on TV (can't find it for the life of me on the internet though) and begged my mom to rent us a PS1 with the game. Remember when you used to be able to rent consoles? We rented a PS1 more than a few times and by the time I got my own PS1, TM2 was out and I got that as well. Car combat games became really special to me and they led me getting into racing games too. TM definitely had a big impact on my overall tastes in media.

Digimon World for the PS1 would be another game that was big for me. Digimon was my favorite of the cute monster anime that rolled out after Pokemon became a national sensation, so when a game came along that let you explore the digital world I was over the moon. We moved across the country soon after and I did pretty much nothing but play my PS1 for like a year straight until I made some new friends. DW was easily my most played game during that time, though I never beat it because it was an absolutely bullshit game with a horrible battle system, soul draining training and a pretty unforgiving Digimon care system. I'm deep in this area, but I gotta hurry back out so my Digimon can take a shit because I forgot to bring a portable toilet and I don't want him turning into a fucking Sukamon. Anyway, I still sank some serious hours into it and my fond memories will never go away, even though I know it's kinda a bad game, though it's better than the borefest that was DW2 and the grindfest that was DW3. x)

Devil May Cry was similar to Twisted Metal in that it was a game that felt like it was made specifically for me. A rockin' soundtrack, a badass anime guy with a sword and guns and it was extremely fun to play too! Sign me the fuck up. I don't have much more to say about it, it was just a game I fell in love with instantly and it spawned both a (mostly) excellent series and even an entire genre that remains one of my favorite genres. There are better games in the series, but DMC1 is a super special certified classic.

Finally, Final Fantasy Tactics. It's my favorite game of all time, of course it's special to me. :> I wanted it for years entirely because it had Final Fantasy in the name and when they re-released it as a greatest hits game, I was all over that shit. I played Front Mission 3 shortly before, so I was at least a little familiar with tactical RPGs and I knew it had a reputation for being a tough game for new players, but I fucking hated it at first. x) I was a dumb kid and didn't know to hit shoulder buttons to change units in the first battle at Gariland, so I bashed my head against it a few times with only Ramza and NPC Delita. I put it down for awhile, came back and noticed that it said to press R1. Oh, I have more characters. Fuck. I kinda hobbled along, getting my ass kicked constantly (especially at Dorter, oof), but I eventually hit my stride and started enjoying the game quite a lot.

And then I hit the infamous battle with Wiegraf at Riovanes Castle. Oh boy. I was softlocked and only had the one save, so I had to restart the game. I knew what I was doing this time and started visiting GameFAQs and the forums there to enrich my knowledge using the school computers. All was good after that! I beat the game, started a new playthrough immediately and used a guide to help get everything. Multiple times. I even dabbled with cheating devices and did some character modding and eventually used save editors and game editors to do even more tweaking. Then I discovered hacks of the game and it was like I could experience it fresh all over again. I've played that game more than any other game and plan to do so again soon.
 
Blaster Master for Nes...first game I played only to listen to the awesome Music....still is a great game

Parasite Eve for Psx...Love It, it is my favorite horror game on the psx

Final Fantasy Tactics...my most favorite tactic game ever made. Super Robot wars is my favorite game series, but FFT is the game that made me the happiest to own and play.
 
Flipping Weigraf... In the end, my friend and I settled on a really long winded but 100% effective strategy on him, which we still use to this day...

Set Ramza as a squire and run the hell away. his movement is around the same as yours so you can stay just outside his attack range and get him to chase you around the map. On your turn, use guts to increase your stats. There's no upper limit to how many times it will stack so you just run away and use guts over and over again until you're strong enough to 1-shot him when you turn around.
 
My copy of Megaman X3 on the SNES.

I used to go to a local game and movie rental place that was inside of a grocery store with my mom, and I'd get to rent a game during our weekly shopping. We were friends with the lady who ran it and she would sometimes bend the rules for us. I was the only one still renting games from the SNES corner when the PS1 and N64 came out, and I rented X3 a bunch. She noticed this and told us to just keep the game and gave us a few other SNES games too. It was a pretty big deal to me as a kid. I have kind of an estranged relationship with my mom nowadays, so it kind of reminds me of better times.
 
Two in fact: My 64 in 1 cart for my PC Kid 2 Famiclone, the one that started it all, and a Pokemon multicart with Yellow and both Gold and Silver, thanks to that cart i got to enjoy Pokemon after the Anime introduced me and have been a pokefan since then
 
I wish I could be even 1/10ths as eloquent as others on this subject, but I do have a few games that will forever be in my heart.

I think Twisted Metal would be at the top. There were many games I loved before it, but TM was the first game where I felt "wow this was made for me". I was big into demolition derbies and wrecked cars in general. My mom, aunt and especially grandma would often take me to the local junkyards just to look at the cars and we did it frequently enough to be known by the staff and my grandma would bring in baked goods for them when we visited. Good times. Anyway, a game with cars that fucking blow each other up? Hell yes! I saw the commercial on TV (can't find it for the life of me on the internet though) and begged my mom to rent us a PS1 with the game. Remember when you used to be able to rent consoles? We rented a PS1 more than a few times and by the time I got my own PS1, TM2 was out and I got that as well. Car combat games became really special to me and they led me getting into racing games too. TM definitely had a big impact on my overall tastes in media.

Digimon World for the PS1 would be another game that was big for me. Digimon was my favorite of the cute monster anime that rolled out after Pokemon became a national sensation, so when a game came along that let you explore the digital world I was over the moon. We moved across the country soon after and I did pretty much nothing but play my PS1 for like a year straight until I made some new friends. DW was easily my most played game during that time, though I never beat it because it was an absolutely bullshit game with a horrible battle system, soul draining training and a pretty unforgiving Digimon care system. I'm deep in this area, but I gotta hurry back out so my Digimon can take a shit because I forgot to bring a portable toilet and I don't want him turning into a fucking Sukamon. Anyway, I still sank some serious hours into it and my fond memories will never go away, even though I know it's kinda a bad game, though it's better than the borefest that was DW2 and the grindfest that was DW3. x)

Devil May Cry was similar to Twisted Metal in that it was a game that felt like it was made specifically for me. A rockin' soundtrack, a badass anime guy with a sword and guns and it was extremely fun to play too! Sign me the fuck up. I don't have much more to say about it, it was just a game I fell in love with instantly and it spawned both a (mostly) excellent series and even an entire genre that remains one of my favorite genres. There are better games in the series, but DMC1 is a super special certified classic.

Finally, Final Fantasy Tactics. It's my favorite game of all time, of course it's special to me. :> I wanted it for years entirely because it had Final Fantasy in the name and when they re-released it as a greatest hits game, I was all over that shit. I played Front Mission 3 shortly before, so I was at least a little familiar with tactical RPGs and I knew it had a reputation for being a tough game for new players, but I fucking hated it at first. x) I was a dumb kid and didn't know to hit shoulder buttons to change units in the first battle at Gariland, so I bashed my head against it a few times with only Ramza and NPC Delita. I put it down for awhile, came back and noticed that it said to press R1. Oh, I have more characters. Fuck. I kinda hobbled along, getting my ass kicked constantly (especially at Dorter, oof), but I eventually hit my stride and started enjoying the game quite a lot.

And then I hit the infamous battle with Wiegraf at Riovanes Castle. Oh boy. I was softlocked and only had the one save, so I had to restart the game. I knew what I was doing this time and started visiting GameFAQs and the forums there to enrich my knowledge using the school computers. All was good after that! I beat the game, started a new playthrough immediately and used a guide to help get everything. Multiple times. I even dabbled with cheating devices and did some character modding and eventually used save editors and game editors to do even more tweaking. Then I discovered hacks of the game and it was like I could experience it fresh all over again. I've played that game more than any other game and plan to do so again soon.
Great stories my man! I really enjoy reading all of these and hear about how other people's childhoods with games were. I mean these stories don't have to be from back then, but many remember their childhoods the most fondly, plus we were easily excited back then.. and I mean that in the best way possible :3

I was Pokémon > Digimon as a kid, but I did at some point end up acquiring both Digimon World and Digimon World 2003, and I remember how much it frustrated my brother that hsi Digimon would always evolve into the dreaded Sukamon you mentioned. The internet was in its infancy but we did try to guide him to have his mon evolve into something cooler, but even when we thought we had cracked it we still got Sukamon.. and then we just put it down xD I don't recall exactly how far we got in DW2003, but we loved the boppy title/training music xD

I also remember that because I was a Pokémon kid, I found it strange why Digimon World 2003 started you off with a team of 3 mons with NO way to add more, because every time I encountered a wild mon I would be like "hwo tf do I catch it??"
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My copy of Megaman X3 on the SNES.

I used to go to a local game and movie rental place that was inside of a grocery store with my mom, and I'd get to rent a game during our weekly shopping. We were friends with the lady who ran it and she would sometimes bend the rules for us. I was the only one still renting games from the SNES corner when the PS1 and N64 came out, and I rented X3 a bunch. She noticed this and told us to just keep the game and gave us a few other SNES games too. It was a pretty big deal to me as a kid. I have kind of an estranged relationship with my mom nowadays, so it kind of reminds me of better times.
Aww, what a nice store clerk! No wonder that game is special to you what with such a cherished memory.

I have a similar story where I would take my kid sister to school by bus every day and always sit up front. We then quickly grew a friendship with this super nice female busdriver who drove the bus every wednesday (I think?) where we would talk about everything and nothing.

One of the topics we vividly discussed was Pokémon, and one day, just as we had entered the bus and sat down, she turned around to hand us a used VHS with a couple of episodes from the first season (the ones with St. Anne sinking). She said she plucked it from her own kid's shelf as they didn't watch it anymore and therefore didn't need it.

We were of course super grateful and thanked her a bunch. At some point she apparently quit as a driver, but I'll never forget that morning.
 
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Physical Hardware
My Copy of Firered - My First Game ever
PMD Gates and Explorers, Chrono Trigger - Some of My Favorites That I always go back to
Arkham City - First T rated Game
Skyrim - First M rated Game, also first game I bought for myself

Roms and Fangames
FE6 (old english translation) - first game i ever emulated
Pokemon Uranium - first fangame/freeware, still haven't finished it honestly because i keep wanting to train a fakemon because i like its design, im at like 22 total, I have a problem
AM2R - its a passion project on devs end, and my favorite metroid game
 
Flipping Weigraf... In the end, my friend and I settled on a really long winded but 100% effective strategy on him, which we still use to this day...

Set Ramza as a squire and run the hell away. his movement is around the same as yours so you can stay just outside his attack range and get him to chase you around the map. On your turn, use guts to increase your stats. There's no upper limit to how many times it will stack so you just run away and use guts over and over again until you're strong enough to 1-shot him when you turn around.
Haha, that is an extremely valid strategy and I've used it many times myself. x) I always keep Ramza in his Squire class because he has really good, balanced growths, excellent equipment options as the game progresses and a really good skill set that also gets better as the game progresses. Technically there is an upper limit, you can only raise PA/MA to 99, but you need far less than that to one shot him. It becomes double funny when you can just walk up to Belias and waste him in a turn or two with your superpowered Ramza. Another fun way to cheese him is to find a Chameleon Robe and slap that on Ramza. The Holy Knight skills are lies, they seem like they're supposed to be Holy elemental but they're actually whatever element the equipped sword in the right hand is. However, the game still thinks they are Holy so Wiegraf won't use his sword skills since the Chameleon Robe absorbs Holy, so he'll just use his Martial Arts secondary skills instead and they aren't particularly threatening. Belias is still a problem with that method though.
Great stories my man! I really enjoy reading all of these and hear about how other people's childhoods with games were. I mean these stories don't have to be from back then, but many remember their childhoods the most fondly, plus we were easily excited back then.. and I mean that in the best way possible :3

I was Pokémon > Digimon as a kid, but I did at some point end up acquiring both Digimon World and Digimon World 2003, and I remember how much it frustrated my brother that hsi Digimon would always evolve into the dreaded Sukamon you mentioned. The internet was in its infancy but we did try to guide him to have his mon evolve into something cooler, but even when we thought we had cracked it we still got Sukamon.. and then we just put it down xD I don't recall exactly how far we got in DW2003, but we loved the boppy title/training music xD

I also remember that because I was a Pokémon kid, I found it strange why Digimon World 2003 started you off with a team of 3 mons with NO way to add more, because every time I encountered a wild mon I would be like "hwo tf do I catch it??"
Aww, thank you so much. ? I love topics like these too because it's really cool to hear about different people's experiences and how it shaped them into the gamers they are today. Or even shaped them in general sometimes. Numemon and Sukamon were total fucking blights in that game. At least they eat the shit that's left on the ground when your Digimon doesn't make it to the toilet in time instead of it being a permanent blight. That's... something at least. I had the official strategy guide and even with it's guidance training your Digimon fast enough before they digivolved naturally or died was a pain in the ass no matter which way you cut it. And sometimes, even with the right stats, it just didn't fucking work. There is Digimon World Re:Digitize: Decode and Digimon World: Next Order that follow the same formula that Digimon World did, but they didn't have the same charm the original did, despite being objectively far better games. And yeah, switching between series must have been confusing for a first timer, but it would have been even more jarring if you went for Monster Rancher. x) That's absolutely nothing like the anime.

Finally, I can't believe I forgot one of my most special and favorite games! Silent Hill for the PS1. I was never really a fan of horror when I was younger, but Resident Evil always seemed cool from what I saw in video game magazines. However, my mom had some mysterious stick up her ass and wouldn't let me play it. She would let me watch, read or play anything else but RE. I still don't get it. Anyway, my thirst for RE only got worse when I got an issue of GamePro with what we now call Resident Evil 1.5 on the cover and featured in an article. RE2 proper eventually came and I still couldn't play the series, but Silent Hill appeared on my radar when Tips & Tricks featured a full walkthrough of the game. I thought it looked really cool, so I rented it and was completely floored by it. It didn't really scare me all that much, even though I was only 11 at the time, but the atmosphere and soundtrack was unlike anything I had played before and the story was really intriguing. I beat it within a few days and picked up a copy for myself soon after. It very quickly became one of my favorites, I replayed it over and over and over. Could even beat it in a little over an hour eventually, the closest I've ever come to speedrunning a game. x) In the end, it birthed one of my favorite series ever (even though only about half of them are good) and I spent more time in forums and theorycrafting than I have ever done before or since. Oh and by the time Resident Evil 3 came out my mom finally let me play the series and that also became a favorite series. Yay!
 
Haha, that is an extremely valid strategy and I've used it many times myself. x) I always keep Ramza in his Squire class because he has really good, balanced growths, excellent equipment options as the game progresses and a really good skill set that also gets better as the game progresses. Technically there is an upper limit, you can only raise PA/MA to 99, but you need far less than that to one shot him. It becomes double funny when you can just walk up to Belias and waste him in a turn or two with your superpowered Ramza. Another fun way to cheese him is to find a Chameleon Robe and slap that on Ramza. The Holy Knight skills are lies, they seem like they're supposed to be Holy elemental but they're actually whatever element the equipped sword in the right hand is. However, the game still thinks they are Holy so Wiegraf won't use his sword skills since the Chameleon Robe absorbs Holy, so he'll just use his Martial Arts secondary skills instead and they aren't particularly threatening. Belias is still a problem with that method though.

Aww, thank you so much. ? I love topics like these too because it's really cool to hear about different people's experiences and how it shaped them into the gamers they are today. Or even shaped them in general sometimes. Numemon and Sukamon were total fucking blights in that game. At least they eat the shit that's left on the ground when your Digimon doesn't make it to the toilet in time instead of it being a permanent blight. That's... something at least. I had the official strategy guide and even with it's guidance training your Digimon fast enough before they digivolved naturally or died was a pain in the ass no matter which way you cut it. And sometimes, even with the right stats, it just didn't fucking work. There is Digimon World Re:Digitize: Decode and Digimon World: Next Order that follow the same formula that Digimon World did, but they didn't have the same charm the original did, despite being objectively far better games. And yeah, switching between series must have been confusing for a first timer, but it would have been even more jarring if you went for Monster Rancher. x) That's absolutely nothing like the anime.

Finally, I can't believe I forgot one of my most special and favorite games! Silent Hill for the PS1. I was never really a fan of horror when I was younger, but Resident Evil always seemed cool from what I saw in video game magazines. However, my mom had some mysterious stick up her ass and wouldn't let me play it. She would let me watch, read or play anything else but RE. I still don't get it. Anyway, my thirst for RE only got worse when I got an issue of GamePro with what we now call Resident Evil 1.5 on the cover and featured in an article. RE2 proper eventually came and I still couldn't play the series, but Silent Hill appeared on my radar when Tips & Tricks featured a full walkthrough of the game. I thought it looked really cool, so I rented it and was completely floored by it. It didn't really scare me all that much, even though I was only 11 at the time, but the atmosphere and soundtrack was unlike anything I had played before and the story was really intriguing. I beat it within a few days and picked up a copy for myself soon after. It very quickly became one of my favorites, I replayed it over and over and over. Could even beat it in a little over an hour eventually, the closest I've ever come to speedrunning a game. x) In the end, it birthed one of my favorite series ever (even though only about half of them are good) and I spent more time in forums and theorycrafting than I have ever done before or since. Oh and by the time Resident Evil 3 came out my mom finally let me play the series and that also became a favorite series. Yay!
Exactly! Another reason I like doing these topics, is because there are much toxic and negativity going around the community. Sentimental topics like these "expose" our more vulnerable side, and shows that at the end of the day we are all just passionate nerds who sometimes let our fire get a bit out of hand ❤️

Haha, when we were kids our mom prohibited us from watching DragonBall Z because it was too violent. As the oldest I protested and said that I at least should be allowed, to which she agreed.

I don't quite follow your chronology thought? Your mom finally let you play the RE series when 3 came out.. but by that time you had already gotten RE2 behind her back and mastered it to the point you could speedrun it? Also, I assume when you said Silent Hill at the beginning, you mean Resident Evil? Sorry I don't mean to nitpick your story, I'm just trying to get a few details right ?

For me my first horror game (an I AM a horror nut) was a demo of Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare that I got in a Kellogg's Frosties pack. And at the time I apparently didn't get the idea of a "demo" because every time it ended I assumed I had just somehow failed to install the whole game, and so kept uninstalling and reinstalling ? I eventually got the full game on PS1 though and the atmosphere blew my socks off. After beating it to hell and back I then scoured the market for similar games, and happened on Resident Evil 1 for the DS. And while that game DID make me a fan of the series, what with its cool and likable characters and over-the-top mutant fights... it didn't hold a candle to Alone in the Dark in terms of scare factor.

By the way, I am an unapologetic Resident Evil 6 fan ? I love the story, the cinematography, the characters, and the fluid gun gameplay. Many say it's just a bad game. Some say it's a fine action game but Resident Evil in name only. I say it is exactly was Resident Evil always was to ME: a cheesy over-the-top B-movie action game.
 
Twilight Princess. It was such a gorgeous game, I adored everything about it as a kid. I'd spend hours just looking around each section. Looking back I spent much more time fooling around than actually advancing the story. It had me completely hooked, it's still my favorite Zelda game to this day. Even if other games have a better story, level design, controls or mechanics, none have charmed me as much as this one did. I'm even a little scared to play it again and find out that it's nowhere near as pretty as I remember
 
I'm even a little scared to play it again and find out that it's nowhere near as pretty as I remember
that will definitely happen. a lot of the appeal hinges on that atmosphere but objectively speaking the atmosphere in that game isnt as strong as we remember we just had our naive child brains fill in the gaps. there are still some vibe heavy nostalgia games that were actually still strongly atmospheric without the rose tints, but twilight princess isnt one of them. going back to it will probably be disillusionment in that sense
 

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