How have games influenced you?

[Cardboardtubeknight]

Be it art by creativity, or other such means, even making games yourselves potentially or how you've developed with identity or self perception like good fellow humans. I definitely got musical influence enjoying a wide arrange of electronica or downtempo, and as I've shared here before, even learned how to read through games. Anyway, sorry if this happened to be a thread already done, I'm free Tuesday's if any punishment is in order.

 

[χKai]

Megaman X taught me how to deal with loss and grief
You don't stop and cry, you get going and finish the stage so you can hurry up and stop the bad guys and avenge your friend.

 

[ciro64]

As a kid, videogames were my primarily form of media entertainment. When playing, I would often pretend I were videogame characters, or play with Mario plushies or Mega Man figures, or pretend whatever scenario that I came up with happened within videogame rules (such as having levels and mechanics) rather than a traditional story.

To this day I listen primarily to videogame music.

Programming games without a engine became a passion of mine.

I heavily defend games in general as a form of art and I think it's a very unique medium, especially retro and indie games.

Some of my dreams still happens within videogame rules, or are just plain videogame footage. I remember this time I was playing Kirby Amazing Mirror "through my dreams", and when I realized my dad was trying to wake me up for school, I opened Visual Boy Advance's menu and clicked Save State before waking up.

So to put it shortly: Yes.

Nowadays it's not much of a frequent activity for me, although when a game hooks me it's still like it never left.

 

[Yousef]

I’ll sound more dudebro-ish than I really am saying this since my tastes are fairly girlish but gta has been the most important fictional medium to me ever not just helping me mentally and helping me find great close friends but also helping me get Into hip-hop, movies and better appreciate other cultures. Truly illuminating.

 

[CheelaCheela's icon]

they made me a fucking nerd (although to be fair i already was since my conception), also they gave me a way to bond with people, have a distraction for dark times and tetris help me a lot with my adhd and ptsd :3

 

[RockinACup]

Certain games like Super Mario taught me that even heroes come in small, unconventional packages (like seriously, a plumber saving the day?? C'mon.)

Then you got games like GTA and Saints Row teach me the value of friends and family, and to stick by your homies and loved ones so that they'll stick by you, and that life is filled with BS that CAN be dealt with by just sucking it up and actually DEALING with it.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

As a kid, videogames were my primarily form of media entertainment. When playing, I would often pretend I were videogame characters, or play with Mario plushies or Mega Man figures, or pretend whatever scenario that I came up with happened within videogame rules (such as having levels and mechanics) rather than a traditional story.

To this day I listen primarily to videogame music.

Programming games without a engine became a passion of mine.

I heavily defend games in general as a form of art and I think it's a very unique medium, especially retro and indie games.

Some of my dreams still happens within videogame rules, or are just plain videogame footage. I remember this time I was playing Kirby Amazing Mirror "through my dreams", and when I realized my dad was trying to wake me up for school, I opened Visual Boy Advance's menu and clicked Save State before waking up.

So to put it shortly: Yes.

Nowadays it's not much of a frequent activity for me, although when a game hooks me it's still like it never left.

Video game dreams are what made me stop having nightmares, which was more crippling than it sounds, but like the added lucid-esque controls like you would have in a video game made it way less scary.

 

[Yousef]

they made me a fucking nerd

Lol, what a nerd

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

they made me a fucking nerd (although to be fair i already was since my conception), also they gave me a way to bond with people, have a distraction for dark times and tetris help me a lot with my adhd and ptsd :3

Hey cool I too have high definition

 

[LNS]

For me, games were my primary way to access culture. I developed my tastes and music, literature and movies based on the games that I liked. They also taught me how to better deal with my emotions, mostly the negative ones, such as anger or grief. Strangely enough, mostly of my nightmares resembles Silent Hill in a way or another. Nowadays I mostly write things, and is kinda funny how games also influenced my writing. So yeah, they're a very important thing to my formation as a human being.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

They made me just a little less boring
And a little less bored

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

They made me just a little less boring
And a little less bored

Strangely profound

 

[MetalSharkPlayer]

They indeed influenced me when i was a kid, but the reality of life hit stronger than the illusion games gave me back then, especially talking about Lunar 2. I wanted to be just like Hiro, the protagonist, have adventures, find a nice girl to have adventures with and discover new stuff. How innocent I was...

 

[valosagutas]

Video games made me a master criminal. Before I played Super Mario I was a harmless innocent child. My only sin was peeing in my pants. But just after a minute of playing the game something was changed in me. My primitive neurons that was left over from the previous stage of human evolution were activated. Suddenly I had an urge to jump on people to defeat them!!!... This is what the media and old generation of parents would expect me to say. Ha ha nope.

*Ahem* I can say video games positively affected me especially because of the way how educational they can be. I gained the superpower of pattern recognition, a great memory to remember all the trivial BS my brain is filled with thanks to education system, better sense of navigation so my parents couldn't get rid of me despite they left me in the middle of random jungles several times but I kept tracking them back like a Witcher, better sense of thinking 100 steps ahead just so I can be painfully aware no matter what I do I'll die one day lol, better way of inventory and money management, better persuasion skills, I even learned new languages as video games are a great tool to learn new languages. Now I sound like video games turned me into a super agent or something right? But all I do is just sit here and eat Nacho Cheese Doritos™. Thank you for reading this message. This message was sponsored by Frito-Lay©℗® and PepsiCo©℗®. All rights are reserved lol and lol.

 

[Cardboardtubeknight]

Video games made me a master criminal. Before I played Super Mario I was a harmless innocent child. My only sin was peeing in my pants. But just after a minute of playing the game something was changed in me. My primitive neurons that was left over from the previous stage of human evolution were activated. Suddenly I had an urge to jump on people to defeat them!!!... This is what the media and old generation of parents would expect me to say. Ha ha nope.

*Ahem* I can say video games positively affected me especially because of the way how educational they can be. I gained the superpower of pattern recognition, a great memory to remember all the trivial BS my brain is filled with thanks to education system, better sense of navigation so my parents couldn't get rid of me despite they left me in the middle of random jungles several times but I kept tracking them back like a Witcher, better sense of thinking 100 steps ahead just so I can be painfully aware no matter what I do I'll die one day lol, better way of inventory and money management, better persuasion skills, I even learned new languages as video games are a great tool to learn new languages. Now I sound like video games turned me into a super agent or something right? But all I do is just sit here and eat Nacho Cheese Doritos™. Thank you for reading this message. This message was sponsored by Frito-Lay©℗® and PepsiCo©℗®. All rights are reserved lol and lol.

On a side note, did you know that Salsa flavored Doritos never went away and are the flavor featured in the Munchies flamin hot bag? I will never forgive them

 

[Yousef]

On a side note, did you know that Salsa flavored Doritos never went away and are the flavor featured in the Munchies flamin hot bag? I will never forgive them

Good. Maintain that vengeful spirit.

Video games made me a master criminal. Before I played Super Mario I was a harmless innocent child. My only sin was peeing in my pants. But just after a minute of playing the game something was changed in me. My primitive neurons that was left over from the previous stage of human evolution were activated. Suddenly I had an urge to jump on people to defeat them!!!... This is what the media and old generation of parents would expect me to say. Ha ha nope.

*Ahem* I can say video games positively affected me especially because of the way how educational they can be. I gained the superpower of pattern recognition, a great memory to remember all the trivial BS my brain is filled with thanks to education system, better sense of navigation so my parents couldn't get rid of me despite they left me in the middle of random jungles several times but I kept tracking them back like a Witcher, better sense of thinking 100 steps ahead just so I can be painfully aware no matter what I do I'll die one day lol, better way of inventory and money management, better persuasion skills, I even learned new languages as video games are a great tool to learn new languages. Now I sound like video games turned me into a super agent or something right? But all I do is just sit here and eat Nacho Cheese Doritos™. Thank you for reading this message. This message was sponsored by Frito-Lay©℗® and PepsiCo©℗®. All rights are reserved lol and lol.

Happened to my buddy Derrick.

 

[valosagutas]

Happened to my buddy Derrick.

That's odd because my name is Derrick. *dramatic sudden plot twist reveal SFX* lol

 

[RockinACup]

That's odd because my name is Derrick. *dramatic sudden plot twist reveal SFX* lol

 

[Rhent]

For me they helped me learn more about history. I am grateful for that and enabled me to dabble different genres of music.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

They made me love different genres, made me love Video Game Music and got me fascinated on the history of games through the many retrospectives and video essays on the net.

 

[MakiRaffi]

as an artist, videogames have influenced my art style, or the music i listen and want to make. you can tell i like guilty gear only by my pfp.

guilty gear as an example, the rock and metal soundtrack inspired me and helped me a lot in a very confusing and lonely stage of my life. the art, characters, world, it seemed like it was a game made for me, and is such a great place to go when im looking for some reference or inspiration.

videogames influenced my way to do stuff, to listen to stuff, to wear stuff, and to have a better way to look at my life and see how great it can be.

 

[Pippin]

Megaman Zero taught me, That if i want something I gotta have to work for it

 

[freedomindeath]

Musically I'm a HUGE jazz fusion fan and a much better guitar player because of Jun Senoue's work on Sonic Adventure. The Capcom sound team (specifically on breath of fire 3) also had a heavy hand in jumpstarting my interest in like groovy/ "unorthodox" music.

From like a personality standpoint though, I think a lot of it is the reason I can be an idealist and pretty optimistic about things. As grueling as reality can be it is nice to fall back on lessons I picked up from like JRPG's or just random PS2 games. I don't know how to word it without sounding so cliche, but it is nice to reflect on adversity and just come to the conclusion that you can't give up.

 

[E0N]

In many ways. I learned English by playing games (and now learning Japanese and German using the same way). It improved my critical thinking since games are inherently all about problem solving. It also shaped my taste in music just like you. I came to know about so many types of music through gaming that I don't think would have been possible any other way. And then there are games with thought provoking/emotional stories that shaped me as a person and how I view the world.

 

[Dawg19]

It all started... when Joker was invited to Smash.

Persona 3 taught me that death may be inevitable, but that's what makes life precious. One doesn't need to have a grand purpose in life, it can be something small, like someone to take care of. Hell, it can be smaller, like feeling the wind on your face, the fresh water soothing your body, the sound of conversation reverberating in your ears, just feeling the senses are enough.

Persona 4 taught me that the aspects that people hate about themselves are still them, and they are still people no matter what. Everyone has flaws, but that's what makes people perfect ironically enough (Have you seen a character with no flaws? Pretty boring right?). And the sooner you accept that, the easier life will become.

Persona 5 taught me that authority isn't everything, and that autonomy is our greatest gift. It's a shame that some are willing to throw it away just to avoid responsibility or hardship, but its like a sinkhole, its hard to get out of. But once you do, you'll find the greatest weight being lifted off your shoulders, and life becomes enjoyable.

And then, a cyborg ninja rapidly punched a senator in the gut.

The Metal Gear Solid series taught me to think outside the box (primarily in VR & Missions). Along with how war and any type of fighting is pointless, and how it only hurts humanity in the long run. Genetic Control? One can still master their own destiny. Information Control? It's all about doing thorough research to reach a solid conclusion. Emotional Control? They are what makes us human, and suppressing it unnecessarily only leads to heartache. Battlefield Control? He who controls the guns controls the world, but we can still fight back. Killing people is useless, but killing ideas are much more effective in inching closer to world peace.