most ppl I’ve met have a game or game series that like … fundamentally influenced their life and interests and i think that’s awesome
mine are the legend of zelda and fallout
what are yours?
Oh dang. All of them? You know, every video game? I work in video games and my life feels like a culmination of the many I played from the NES onward. These games were always more like interactive stories to me. They were the rabbit hole and the looking glass.
But if I had to choose some early stuff, I’d say Castle of Illusion and World of Illusion were formative experiences. They presented dark worlds and protagonists who didn’t exactly fit the mold of action hero. Just some doofy people who try to help others and escape their circumstances. The environments and characters were rich for the time, really taking you into the games as stories in spite of the minimal exposition or dialogue. I didn’t get to reading fiction until later in childhood but these were the stories I grew up with. I always looked for the narrative and applied my own when the limits of design or technology left me to my own devices.