Like a lot of us here, not many know what makes the other play video games. Why did we start playing them and so on. I will start by saying that in my household, gaming was just something you did if you were a kid. My parents would always say, "he'll grow out of it" and that kinda bothered me a bit. But anyway, it was around that time that I started playing RPGs due to Nintendo Power showing games like Final Fantasy V Advance and most notably... Chrono Trigger.

Chrono Trigger was a game that I can't really explain in a couple of paragraphs or so but I will try. When I finally played Chrono Trigger, I was simply blown away. I had never been exposed to such a story before and alot of the game stuck with me. One of the things that I will say made me a better person would be Frog's scenario. You know, he was a human that got turned into a frog but in the beginning of the game, you wouldn't know that. But as you went on, the story shows us what happened to him and made us not criticise him as much. I was around 10 years old when I was playing this but this stuck to me because it encourages you to invest in things that aren't normal and try to understand those things, even if they are foreign.

I don't know, I just have this weird feeling every time I play it. Like I'm reading a novel rather than playing a game. It has taught me so much. So what are some games that have inspired you, and how have they done so? You can leave more than one or whatever. If we lose record of what makes us gamers in the first place, the memories had will be worthless. Share your inspirations.

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Ah, I see..very inspiring. Too bad the Japanese men don't think so. :D

Xenoblade because it inspires me to get revenge on the robots that killed my girlfriend

Hey, she was still alive...I think. Wasn't she...isn't she!!!??? I haven't beat it yet!!!

Super Smash Bros. Melee

That game makes me wanna do crazy stuff and movements IRL.

Scott Pilgrim vs the World the game.

Because beating people till they explode into coins never gets old.

Only sad thing is the game is only on XBL and PSN, I'd kill to be able to play it again.

Great post.

A few to list here for me.

Mass Effect Trilogy: never have I been involved with a multi game wonderful story and lore. I would just sit there for hours sometimes and read the codex entries.

Skyrim: it was the music and atmosphere that dragged me into the world.

Couple others like Last of us and Bioshock 1/infinite. Hopefully Witcher 3 Will do the same since I'm currently playing that

Zelda games taught me that pure power alone, although terribly great, is not a justified end to a means (hope i worded that right!). And courage is a trait that one shouldn't take for granted.

Oh and to be nice towards living things or they'll call their kind to ambush you. In fact, I once saw two kids pick on a a crow outside of my front yard. They then carried the crow and walked away from my point of view, so I couldn't see what happened next. But I heard a dozen other crows suddenly cawing and the kids shouting in fright soon afterwards.

I'll take this one on.

Pokemon: There was something to it when you would inevitably lose, you would have to pick yourself back up and train harder. You kept training until you understood your foes weakness or you were powerful enough to just bypass the weaknesses. This generalizes life in a lot of ways, the estetic of getting knocked down only to pull yourself back up. The people that send you on your adventure whether family or friends you have to leave behind just to come back in the end and celebrate.

Other aesthetics are realized and taught, I haven't followed the recent games, but up to Gold/Silver it was not always easy. Sometimes you would encounter a Pokemon that you wanted, but could not get because of whatever reason. The game taught to go back when you are ready or find different means to get what you need (I received Mew not through the competitions, but through a very lucrative trade). You get what you need at that point in life, you do not sit around and wait.

I'm kind of pumping out traits, but Pokemon is the most wanted MMO (along with GTA) game that is not currently a MMO for a reason. It is relative to life, the way we live. Pokemon trainers are people waking up everyday to go to work, they just put a fancy coat of paint over it and make it look pretty. There are lots of games that can be shown working in a fully functional way. The way us Americans love football is the way that the Pokemon universe loves Pokemon Battles. It is a sport, Pokemon is a sport. With virtual reality on its way I am very excited what Nintendo could possibly do with this franchise and the fun that can be had in future iterations.