Is there anything that has ever motivated you to play a game? I watched Die Hard, the other day, for example, and wanted to go play Rainbow Six: Vegas. When I was watching Hero, I wanted to play Ninja Gaiden. What are some of your stories, if any?
(The same principle can go to other things of course - I've seen a Navy SEAL training video and been inspired to go work out immediately afterwards. Then there's news articles that can hit your soft heart and make you want to go to a soup kitchen I guess. But right now.. let's talk about video games. 8-)
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Of course, it also works backwards for me, since one of my main college paper topics came about from discovering territorial claims present in a Paradoxgame...
Similarily, whenever I see a movie like Gladiator or Braveheart or Kingdom of Heaven I just want to break out Medieval/Rome Total War and play tactical battles. Especially Medieval...where the European tech group says stuff in Latin and it's all immersive (if you can get passed the sprite) when you bring the camera in close and watch your catapults hurl boulders and the walls of the heathens you're about to crush
When I see a Star Wars film I tend to want to play one of the KotORs...but not always.
After watching Predator I tend to want to play stealth-filled games, which are better if they have some sort of stealth generator or thermal vision. Heck, sometimes you've just got to stalk around in Splinter Cell only using thermal vision (except to navigate heat-less places). AvP and AvP2 work as well, I guess.
Sort of the same thing with Aliens, but that leads to a desire to play something like Natural Selection or something like that.
...really the history ones are the most prevalent.
Any serious discussion of history gets me going for Medieval: Total War.
Deus Ex.
You totally do stealthy stuff and hacky stuff. It's quite awesome.
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"Sci-fi Rebellion against the Big Bad Power" stuff like Children of Men, Equilibrium, Fahrenheit 451, etc always makes me feel like Half Life 2.
I predict the next time I watch Schwarzenegger kick ass in Commando, I'll want to boot up my Wii and play Contra III immediately after the movie's ending.
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When I saw 28 Weeks Later, I wanted to go play Universal Combat.
I just had the desire to be reminded that, no matter how much 28 Weeks Later sucked, how big and gaping the plot holes were, how utterly contrived every conflict was, there was still something out there that sucked more.
Sometimes reading about war makes me want to play Civilization.
Also, when autumn comes around, I want to play platformers. Probably because alot of the big ones have been released around fall.....Mario 64, Banjo Tooie, Donkey Kong Country. And hey, look, Mario Galaxy comes out in November.
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Sadly I really couldn't think of one.
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I have one collecting dust in my attic, but I wanted to keep it a positive experience.
Also, any "epic conflict" type music (powerful orchestral stuff) makes me want to play Call of Duty or Rainbow 6.
Basically, music.
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Ditto. Though I particularly like segments in FPS's where I'm making a mad, desperate dash through hordes of enemies.
The Maw in Halo is good for The Final Countdown.
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Seems like you could just save yourself the trouble and play Deus Ex.
Also, watching WAR GAMES always makes me want to play DEFCON, but that should be painfully obvious to even a small child. Actually, by extension, anything with Matthew Broderick makes me want to play DEFCON. In addition, that guy's dreamy. Not that I'm attracted to him.
and conversly, when me and the family get together to play monopoly, the game cannot start until the Future Stock episode from futurama is on. we usually start buying as soon as we hear safety dance from "that guy"
Whenever I'm in any History class, I have a burning desire to play Civilization 4. Reading the Civilopedia on these games has helped me ace dozens of History tests, and because of the game I have a richer appreciation of ancient history.
Lately, I've grown tired of cynicism and dark, foreboding atmosphere, and been seeking out games that make me feel like I'm fighting for a great and noble cause. I was really disappointed when I tried out Freedom Fighters recently and it just didn't appeal to me, because I was hoping it would be such a game.
Guess I'll just bite down and play through the huge backlog of dreary, mean-spirited PS2 titles I've accumulated while I wait for Ace Combat 6, which looks positively triumphant.