What games defined your childhood and why? What aspects of them interested you and how have they shaped your taste? And how do they hold up for you?
Rollercoaster Tycoon and
Sim City 4. Those were the first video games that I ever played at a young age. It really got me interested on strategy games for a young age. I still play the original and (mainly) modded version of both games. Especially OpenRCT 2. Good mod that combines Rollercoaster Tycoon Deluxe and Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 together. Better than Rollercoaster Tycoon World. It is sad how EA and Atari treated those games. SimCity failed terribly and caused Maxis to shut down. While RCT: World also failed and killing the franchise for good; however, they did release Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic for the phone. I wished that both of my childhood games had a happy ending. But, I liked how they died so early before microtransactions became a thing. Otherwise, we might of ended up a Battlefront 20-style microtransaction in Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Other games that (sort of) defined my childhood were: Tycoon City: New York, Zoo Tycoon, Mass Effect, Mall of America Tycoon, and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
What is a game you know is bad or is widely considered to be bad but you enjoy/love anyway?
Homefront: The Revolution. I know that the game was broken (and kinda of still is) at launch, it's a generic first person shooter with the main character having no voice (until the DLCs), and other stuff that people hate about this game. But, honestly I
loved the story. And shit gets serious towards the middle of the game. I loved the whole story of the game with a few minor issues that I had. There's also Homefront, the first game, but I like and hate it for the same reasons as Revolution.
Then, there's the Walking Dead: A New Frontier. The third season of Telltale's The Walking Dead. And I liked the season even know it was too fast, some of the characters weren't good, and we barely saw/played Clementine. I liked Javi and Kate. Also, David
but he was like Kenny from Season 2. They became insane because of the apocalypse. I also liked the relationship between Kate and Javi even if she forced it out at Episode Five. I have to say that the season was a fresh point of view. And I hope that either we see Kate and Javi or they get mentioned again in the final season.
And there is Mafia 3. Nothing like Mafia 2. It was broken as hell on release. But, again, I really liked the story. Especially the documentary style cutscenes. It was something that I haven't seen before in a video game and I wish more games did something like that. Lincoln Clay was a good character along with some members of the Marcano Crime Family and Vito. I also really liked one of the DLCs where afterwards you get to rebuild and redesign your "father's" bar. The whole game just falls into the open world symptom, where it feels barren with collectables to collect here and there. I think there are other games that I could mention if I look into it but I am busy with school work at the moment.
EDIT:Mass Effect Andromeda.
If you look past the rather overblown animation issues, it was definitely a very solid game. The gameplay was actually the best in the series in my opinion. The story was pretty okay, I guess, but I felt like there were a lot of holes that would have been closed if it wasn't for EA pulling the plug on it so soon.
I really wanted to like Mass Effect Andromeda. I did. Even pre-ordered the game and stayed outside of Gamestop for a hour to be the first person to get the game. But, after playing it over and over, EA honestly killed Mass Effect for me. The good thing about it was the gameplay but the story was a lackluster. If EA wants to keep Bioware alive, they should be focused on releasing a remastered Mass Effect trilogy to win back fans of the classic. But, they will most likely leave it to die while focusing on Anthem and the next Dragon Age game (if Anthem does well).
