User blog comment:Project Predacon/Operation: Nostalgia Trip/@comment-26435037-20141030113738

First and foremost: Grand Theft Auto III and its many prequels (especially Vice City); those are pretty much the games that sparked my love for gaming (and in paritcular, my love for open-world games). I love the stories, the gameplay, the locations and the general freedom given to the player.

Others include Metal Gear Solid, Pokemon Yellow, Spider-Man 2, Half Life, Counter Strike, Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land, and to a lesser extent, Resistance: Fall of Man and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.