The Blackangel

AOE 2 and Diablo II. I played them almost nonstop. I haven't really played any PC games since that era. I tried WoW for a brief time, but hated it.

I remember the game, but I never played it. Not sure why, but it never happened.

I was never a fan of the Mario games on GB. They just didn't impress me. As for Sega, I never had a Game Gear or Nomad, so I can't really comment there.

I'm a part of a team the makes the occasional ROM-hack, but mostly originals. If I had a job title, it would be "thinker". I think up scenarios or stories that I think would make decent to good games, and give them to the guys that write the software. If they like it they work on it. If it's just a quick thought or they think it could be the next major franchise they have me work on storyline even more. Sometimes that damn near turns into a novel, other times it's a bad case of writers block. It's not a paid job unless we start having a paying demand for games. But at the moment it's just something we do for fun. I got the job by word of mouth from people talking about my writing abilities. So I have fun with it. I get to see my name in the credits under "Story By" so that's always really cool. I don't remember exactly who it was, but someone got the cheapest Switch cartridge he could find to erase it so he could put one of our games on it. I don't think he's been successful yet. But that's the ambition of the team. When they want something new they call me, let me know the type of game they're wanting, and I get to thinking shit up. Whether it's a children's game or an adult game, I write up what I can, and away we go.

That would be when I was a kid. I sat down and started a new game on Zelda A Link To The Past on SNES. And with the exception of a couple bathroom breaks, getting a cold soda, or small things like that, I went straight through from nothing to defeating the game with every heart piece and powerup in the game. I didn't stop to save or die. I wanted a perfect score of 0 and got it. At the time being a kid, I wasn't the best at video games because of a few reasons I'm not going to get into. But it took me almost a full day to complete. 10 hours or so. After that I was burned out on gaming for almost a year.

The only time I'm playing any sort of competition is when I'm playing a fighting game like MK, SF2, KI, etc. But I have no one to fight, so those are always solo as well.

I never used a guide for an NES or SNES game. The only GB game I used a guide for was the Oracle games. I used the guides for Zelda OoT and Majoras Mask when the games first came out, but to be honest I initially only bought the guides because they were limited edition collectors guides. Later when I got stuck trying to find items like gold skulltulas, and the big goron sword etc, I used a cheaper guide to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing. When I started playing FF8, I had no choice but to use a guide. I mentioned it before about the point on disc 1 where Zell, Quistis, and Selphie are locked in Caraways mansion. There's no way that anyone would figure out that you need to take a glass from the shelf and put it in the statues hand to open a secret passage. I was stuck there for almost months before I said "fuck this" and got a guide. Also I wanted all the GF's and some of them are hidden extremely well. I also have a guide for Skyrim, but that thing is so in depth and physically heavy that I haven't even begun to read it. Also a weird thing is that I have absolutely no clue where it came from. I found it in a box in my garage a few months ago. The same thing goes for a hardback copy of a Dark Souls II guide. I have no idea where they came from, but I have them. I have other guides that I'm at a loss for where they came from, but those are the two that really throw me. I may have possibly had them even before I had the damn games.

This has already been posted.

Never once in my life have I played Minecraft.

On GB/GBASP I would say Links Awakening, Galaga, and Oracle Of Ages would top the list for me. On PSP it would be God Of War Chains Of Olympus. It's actually the game that made me GoW fan.

If you are such a hardcore believer that game violence is a direct link to real world violence, then why are you still playing games? Aren't you at a risk of being corrupted by the games you play and going postal on your area?

I hate trying to post on my phone. That "Soli" was supposed to be Solo. I can never hit the right key between the O and I keys when I'm using my damn phone.

The first games I can remember playing were Ladybug on Colecovision, and Pitfall on Atari 2600.

I've never even heard of it. And now, I'm glad I hadn't. If that's the future of gaming, count me out.

Duck Tales 2 and TMNT Tournament Fighters on NES. The combined price for the two games was more than $300.

Nuclear annihilation. We’re headed there as we sit. It won’t be long now.

Soli. I want to rely on myself, and not have to deal with anyone else’s playing speed. Whether they move faster or slower than me is irrelevant. I just don’t have the patience or tolerance to deal with others in my game.

I’ve used a lot or players guides. When I approach a new game and have no idea what I’m supposed to be doing, I’ll give it a look. Or if I’m hopelessly stuck I’ll crack one open, but other than that I typically don’t use them.

I was talking about a “once the design was finalized and orders were being shipped” kind of situation.

You may not have been all that active, but your contributions definitely warrant a nomination.

I know I played something yesterday, but the whole day was so mind numbingly boring I honestly don't remember what it was. I was so bored, I was about to the point of ripping my hair out.

If it's just a hobby, then like @Jayson said, I doubt anyone at the corporate level would notice. And if they did notice, I doubt they would care. All you would have to say if someone got their feathers ruffled, is that you were using their software as a prototype to make sure your design would work before you started getting your own games written and made compatible. Tell them that they would be credited for their system being so much assistance, and I'm sure that as long as they got a cut of the profits (assuming you went into production large or small) there wouldn't be any hard feelings. I don't have the knowhow to do any of this so I can't offer much on the technical side. Actually I can't offer jack shit on the technical side. All I can do is make extremely simple YouTube videos.

I would love to upgrade my PC as well, but money keeps me down. My computer is a 4 year old all-in-one that is starting to show its age. If I could come up with the money to get something that would keep its value for at least 5 years before turning to shit, I would be all over that. But it’s not in the cards.

Look we ARE a civil group. Most of the community is actually extremely friendly. But when you go into an area with an attack on that demographic, you’re not going to get any warm responses.