I loved and competed in various trading card games throughout high school however once married with kids I could no longer afford the hobby. Dominion caused a surge in the deckbuilding genre and ultimately led to my first published game design. Now board games and tabletop RPGs are a favorite for spending time with family and friends.
Can’t say any one game was life changing for me. They are more a collection of experiences that I reflect upon. Hundreds of games, that have refined me my thoughts and feelings over the decades.
Life is Strange 1 - There are just a lot about life that I wished I could change. Lots of regrets. I think about the idea of butterfly effect a lot. I know a lot of movies also show this, but they often portray in a very “high stakes” scenario which its hard to feel relatable to, since its so far detached from realism. Meanwhile, in LiS, the portrays a scenario that’s more localized, it “hits home” stronger, especially that part where…
spoilerMax was able to go all the way back to childhood. Like… that shit just triggered one of my childhood memories where I was being abused by my older brother and I ran away from home. I could’ve died that day, or worse, tortured and trafficked, or they could harvest my organs. I was supposedly a common thing the country I was from.
Life is Strange: True Colors
Some people might relate less, but for me I can relate to the Alex a lot, the emotional aspects of life. I wasn’t an orphan, but I feel practically like I’m one. I wasn’t originally supposed to be born, I kinda feel like this life, this “timeline”, is an anomoly. Everyone in my family hates me, kinda like how
spoilerIn a flashback / dream sequence, prospective adoptive parents would reject Alex, just like how my home country’s government have legally rejected (tried to, at least) my existence, and my parents, my older brother, they all hate me. And I don’t even have a “Gabe” like Alex has. Which hurts even more That family argument thing before the dad abandoned them is also relatable. My parents would frequently threaten divorce, and threaten to abandon us. There are arguments all the timex between my parents, and my mother and older brother, and then my they would turn their rage towards me, the youngest in the household. I didn’t even have headphones to tune out the yelling. It was miserable, it was agonizing. And I relate to how Alex never felt like there is a “home” And also the ending how almost nobody really believed her (choice dependent, but I fucked it up somehow) I don’t even have the ability to feel emotions, yet everytime I hear those arguments at home, I feel like as if I was Alex, like I had her abilities to sense feelings. And those feeling are explosive and contaminates the entire house.
I haven’t played much (under 10 hours) but I started one of the “easy” starts and it isn’t going poorly. I always hit the point in complex games where I’m not exactly sure what to do.
Arthur Morgan was an incredible character. RDR2’s story is a masterpiece.
Hell I still choke up when I listen to the song Unshaken, even though that wasn’t quite at the point of the ending, they still got me emotional after that whole big part of the story.
I still have friends who haven’t beaten that game, and I feel like they’ve missed out on one of the most interesting characters developed in gaming recently. I’ve only ever been able to do the “good Arthur” playthrough though, so if most people played like how they play GTA, they might never get to know Arthur’s REDEMPTION.
YEAH! I have two friends who are very slowly going through the first few chapters, and I have to hood myself back from overwhelming them with encouragement because I don’t want to annoy them away from continuing it, hahaha
Spiritfarer, though it’s more crying than drinking. It took playing the game alongside my best friend to get me to finish it, because I cried at the first spirit and couldn’t continue on my own.
It didn’t help that my grandma died right as I started playing the game with my friend, and I was beating myself up for missing that last phone call.
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