#for my college playthrough with my roomie

[aparticularbandit]

Top five Jessica Rabbits, go!

Top five video games?

Ask Me My "Top 5" Anything....

Banjo-Kazooie. Hands down. Hands down, this is my favorite game. Not just because it's a great game but because I have a lot of happy memories of playing it with my parents. I grew up with this game. It is maybe the only game I've 100% completed (screw you, Canary Mary; YOU'RE THE REASON I HAVEN'T WITH THE SECOND GAME). And then I introduced friends in college to it. I just bought a copy for a friend's kid. I love this game.

Sonic Adventure 2: Battle. This would be a close competitor for first if not for, you know, Banjo. This is the game that got me into reading fanfic! (But not the one that got me into writing fanfic. That belongs to Tales of Symphonia, which will not be on this list.) Am I saying this is a good game? No. Am I saying it's in my top five? YES.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe. I have told at least one person that if she ever buys a Switch I will buy this game for her. I love this game. (I have considered by the Playstation version for my dad because he also loves this game (we've seen some playthroughs) and he's said this is a game he can play! So. You know.)

Undertale. Like. Another game that I frequently recommend to people. I mean. It's Undertale. That said, I haven't gone back and played this in a while, which means maybe it shouldn't be on this list. Hm. (But the story and the music. AND CHARA.)

Enter the Gungeon. I've played a lot of games, and like. I'm not talking story. I have never beaten this game. (I'm no good at bullet hell games, y'all. I'm surprised I made it through Undertale on pacifist.) But I like playing it! It's low stakes! And I like having my little puppy companion! (I pretend that the character I play as is Luisa. It's fun! I know there are other options. But I want to play with the puppy companion!!)

[wraenata]

Here's a question. How much of pokemon have you played? (Mainline series, side series, etc) :3

Pokemon long rambling activated :3

Seriously long post

So before my mom banned pokemon from our house (probably when I was around 7?) we loved Pokémon. We never had a video game console but my cousins did. So technically pokemon stadium is my first pokemon game! Only ever the rentals haha. But we loved playing the mini games.

When my mom banned pokemon and sold all our plushies (rip butterfree plush, I'll get you back some day) it was a pokemon drought. Until my cousin went to college and gave me her pokemon card collection. (Supposedly the halo mew is worth $100?! But I treasure them) and the brainrot infected me once again.

I started learning everything I could about game mechanics. This was when Gen 5 came out in Japan so you didn't even have the English translations yet! I made lists of what my teams would be in each game, how to divy up the HMs, how to get certain egg moves. All without playing a single game lol.

And then I found playr.org. It had all the retro game boy games. Including Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal. Unfortunately the saving system wasn't so great and got corrupted a few times (rip shiny ekans) but I did mostly play Silver or Crystal. (This is where the name Wren for my character was born!)

I craved more but I didn't know how to download emulators safely :( I watched playthroughs to get by. To this day let's plays are a comfort source for me <3

By the way I did all of this without my parents ever knowing. I was very good at hiding it from them XD

I think it was finally like freshman year of college when I figured out the pokemon fan games. I'm talking Uranium, Phoenix Rising demo, Ethereal Gates demo, Solar Light Lunar Dark, Sage, aka non emulator ones. Basically any I could get my hands on. I also started drawing fakemon in my sketchbook. I kind of want to revisit those some day. I still have the sketchbook somewhere.

Then I figured out emulators FINALLY. At least enough and got an emulator and mystery dungeon explorers of sky, MY BELOVED! I have played through the rom many times. I have a randomizer. Also a few years ago I found Sky Temple for editing the rom aka different starter pokemon. The discord server is always working on making new sprites so you can be any pokemon you want its very wonderful.

Junior year of college, I said I'd had enough. I spent an entire year hyping over Sun and Moon and my bestie/roomie convinced me to treat myself, something I literally never did. I bought a 3DS and Pokemon Sun and never looked back. I loved it. My first real pokemon game. (My parents were not happy when they found out lol). I spent so many hours. I got big into breeding perfect IV pokemon (idk why cause I never did online battles) or shiny breeding. I used to work til 11 pm some nights and before bed I'd just do some breeding. I would have the pokemon in the perfect ball and have all the egg moves and perfect IVs and nature and have the perfect nick name cause I was obsessive like that oof. I got ultra moon when it came out as well and loved it. I also bought pokemon X and Omega Ruby which I enjoyed. But Sun and Ultra Moon I played many times and bred so many perfect pokemon.

I did pick up roms around this time for Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Black and White and the sequels, and maybe Platinum? But they ran really slow on my computer so I never made it far. I preferred playing on my 3ds. But I still played quite a bit of Sky rom.

I was, less excited about Sword and Shield. I saved up a whole year to buy my switch and bought Lets go Eevee, Botw, and Sword when Gen 8 came out. I did inhale the entire game of Sword in one week, but I don't think I ever finished a second playthrough. The story was really disappointing and I did not like the gen 8 pokemon as much. It's hard when you're not a big fan of any of the starter evolutions, cause pressing B for every level up is tedious :(

I did enjoy Lets Go Eevee but after I loaned it to my bestie I had troubled getting back in. The ball throwing was a little off putting.

Oh I also bought Mystery dungeon Rescue Dx and I enjoyed that quite a bit!

Last summer I was struggling a lot with my emotions and frustration with my mom and as a form of therapy started spending money oof. I wanted a second DS so I could trade back and forth and make my life easier. It took a lot of bidding on Goodwill online but I snagged a second 2ds, legit copy of pmd sky! and pmd gates to infinity. And Pokemon Soul Silver! Also I bought the digital versions of gen 1 and 2 before the eshop closed.

I also bought Shining Pearl cause it went super on sale, but after I lent it to my bestie I haven't played since. I actually dont like too many gen 4 pokemon besides Glaceon, Leafeon, and Chatot.

Playing pokemon mystery dungeon on a 3ds instead of a computer keyboard was so much more satisfying. I played through Sky and loved it of course. Then I picked up Gates to Infinity which I never knew the story. I enjoyed it! I was and Oshawott with partner Snivy.

This brings me to last late summer, and the turtle brainrot set in and grew. Less pokemon, more turtles! I debated back and forth whether to get Scarlet or Violet up til the day it released. And then I just didn't. I watched playthroughs though. Seems pretty good and I like a lot of the pokemon, especially after gen 8 when I struggled to find enough to fill out a team of 6. I only like to use pokemon I like. I'm sure I'll get it someday but for now, turtles have my brain.

And that's my pokemon origin story! Still mad about my mom selling all our pokemon plushies. I do still have my cousins pokemon cards and I treasure them <3

I am very adamant about my pokemon having the perfect nick names.

Umbreon is my favorite pokemon <3

Not surprisingly this got very very long. If you made it this far, have a Leppa Berry <3

[scithemodestmermaid]

first time i was in college, i wasted so many hours on left 4 dead 2.  my roomie and our online friend were going to become internet famous with our custom map playthroughs (warning: it’s not so good).  we didn’t, and instead we all had our grades suffer, i ended up dropping out of college through this and a plethora of other factors, and we havent spoken in years.

now for the spring cleaning event, i will play this game again.  and try not to cry from the nostalgia.

[cruximpetus]

neko-shadow replied to your post “��, ��, ��”

I was about to say, before you mentioned it, "was the guy playing the original Crash Bandicoot game?" Because I remember that level and I HATED it. I could probably do it no trouble nowadays, but back then, the only way I could manage was by gambling on walking on top of the ropes on the sides, which didn't always work perfectly.

so - i only played a little bit of crash when i was a kid (because i didn’t have a playstation until much, much late) but my junior year of college, i bought it for one of my roomies because she loved it and we’d already established that we worked together to beat video games. the bridge levels were my levels.  i was good at them.  i loved them.  we ended up being only one diamond away from 100% completion, and i’d been working on that one before we stopped living together.  i was close. but, yes, i’ve been watching markiplier’s playthroughs and just yes, i understand your pain and then occasionally being astonished when he does something in one try (the boxes in the newest upload on that last level he beat) that took me a lot a lot a lot a lot of practice to do.