video games that inspired you to do something cool IRL

[Looney Troons]

Taking a break from the Chris Chan board to discuss a topic a few mates and I had discussed last night over a few pints, video games that inspired you to do something cool.

For me, The Sims 1 made me really interested in music, namely pianos. I loved the Build Mode music in that game, and still do. The piano pieces in the game were not something I’d normally listen to as I was real big into nu-metal, but the compositions in-game made me want to learn more about music. I ended up downloading Cubase, Reasons, Fruity Loops, and whatever program and plugins were out there and just started fucking around. I could not produce anything of value, but I had a blast learning about music and being able to identify what I like (or dislike) about particular songs.

Once old enough, I ended up blasting an entire minimum wage paycheck on a shitty Casio keyboard in feeble attempt to learn to play the keys and took some classes in school. Nowadays, I’m mediocre at best on keys (decent at bass guitar, or so I think), but have a small space in my house dedicated as a studio environment. Music is enjoyable, even if you suck ass.

I cannot see what I liked about The Sims games in retrospect, but the music of the game had a long-lasting impact. Probably would have never picked up an instrument otherwise.

 

[eldri]

Happy Wheels has led me to construct an obstacle course in which I will gruesomely die from.
The death course will be finished in a couple of months. When it is finished, I plan on streaming my attempt through the course on Facebook, sharing the link with all kiwis.

 

[Love Soze]

GTA inspired me to run over hookers. Good times.

 

[Eryngium]

Rapelay taught me to go out and get what I want.

 

[Looney Troons]

This thread hasn’t let me down at all

 

[NerdShamer]

Guitar Hero got me into learning how to play drums. Granted, I never got a full drum kit and it's one of the easiest instruments to play; but it turned out that it's surprisingly easy to pull a drumroll.

 

[Judge Holden]

Fortnite inspired me to pledge fealty to the eternal fuhrer Adolf Hitler and dedicate my life to building the Fourth Reich. The connection is so obvious I trust that I dont need to explain it to yall untermensch

Also bizarrely enough TF2 inspired me to learn to properly cook for myself, since I decided while bored to recreate Hoovy's sandvich from scratch, including baking my own bread and creating my own mayo, and after finding that I could make a damn fine loaf of bread and a frankly sublime mayonaisse on my first attempt I started to expand my culinary experimentation to more shit I saw in various forms of media and chose to cook on a whim, from meme inspired tendies and hunny-mussy to DS9 inspired Jambalaya to a south park inspired fritata among many, many others.

 

[Slowpoke Sonic]

Pokemon taught me how to worship satan

 

[Jmz_33]

Minecraft inspired me to go out an commit a second genocide of the Arminian.

 

[Chexxchunk]

They inspired me to get a job because I realized that most games are just jobs that don't pay you.

 

[Nekromantik]

Also bizarrely enough TF2 inspired me to learn to properly cook for myself, since I decided while bored to recreate Hoovy's sandvich from scratch, including baking my own bread and creating my own mayo, and after finding that I could make a damn fine loaf of bread and a frankly sublime mayonaisse on my first attempt I started to expand my culinary experimentation to more shit I saw in various forms of media and chose to cook on a whim, from meme inspired tendies and hunny-mussy to DS9 inspired Jambalaya to a south park inspired fritata among many, many others.

Homemade mayo is the best.

For me it was the Sims and learning to make carbonara and waffles.

 

[CWCissey]

Red Dead Redemption 2 inspired me to get a horse and ride around town dragging random people behind me for fun.

 

[UE 558]

Donkey Kong Country inspired me to go to the zoo, climb on top of a rhino, break him out of his exhibit, and impale all of the alligators and crocs in their exhibit with its horn.

 

[Draza]

Far Cry 2 made me into a mercenary for hire.

 

[millais]

Historical milsim or strategy games usually inspire me to pirate and read some books and literature on the relevant historical era.

 

[Altera the Hun]

DMC's Vergil has inspired me to try and obtain true power

 

[WEEDle]

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas inspired me to go to the gym for the first time way back when. Watching CJ lift those weights and gain muscle at a ridiculously accelerated pace appealed to my young mind.

It formed a habit that I'd do for a few months, then stop, then pick up, and it's been that way ever since, until I said fuck it and just bought my own equipment for home which I use on the reg. Thanks GTA!

Also Music 2000 for the ps1 was probably indirectly responsible for me downloading FL Studio many years later and making a bunch of songs on there.

Oh yeah, and Mario Kart made me want to go Go karting once, which I did. Not really that cool but it's something I probably wouldn't have done otherwise. I spent the whole time pretending I was in the game.

I'll post more if I think of anything.

 

[Edgeworth]

This is gonna sound dumb but InFamous: Second Son inspired me to take up parkour because it seemed fun and like a good way to exercise

 

[Nobunaga]

Yakuza inspired me to learn retarded fighting moves

 

[UE 558]

Hitman inspired me to shave my head, tattoo a barcode to my scalp, and kill retards to retarded to realize that literally nobody else on the planet has a tattoo like that