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Kristen is Wishing is a podcast hosted by Kristen, who discusses her favorite video games. She talks about her passion for video games and how they have impacted her life. She mentions specific games like Ace Combat, Call of Duty, Assassin's Creed, Destiny 2, Battlefield 3, and GTA. Kristen shares how video games opened up a new world for her and helped her overcome challenges. She also talks about her love for soundtracks in games and her dream to work for Bungie. She recommends games like Destiny 1 and 2, Ace Combat, and Red Dead Redemption 2. Hi! Welcome everybody. This is Kristen is Wishing. I'm your lovely host Kristen. This will be episode 1 of this magical podcast. This is where I'm going to be discussing some of my favorite interests, hobbies, and mostly video games for now, but we'll branch out sooner. If you guys would like to stick around and listen to my endless talking, discussions, reviews, I would truly appreciate you. So, I hope we can have some fun, oh boy! Hello! Hello! Is everyone having a good day today? I hope so! Let's see, let's get our discussion rolling here in a second. Oh boy, I'm so excited! Okay, as we transfer over here to our main point, okay, let's get started. To be completely honest, I probably would be here for hours if I were to talk about everything I have a passion for. So, let's keep it simple and talk about some of my favorite video games of like all time. Okay, where do I even begin? I've been playing video games for all my life. I really racked up a huge inventory of the finest releases and some of my most dedicated playthroughs. I have a name on top of my head right now. Ace Combat is probably one of my favorites. Call of Duty is a little known one. Assassin's Creed, I really love Assassin's Creed. Destiny 2, I've played Destiny 2 for about 8 years and I'm still playing it. I can't think of any... Battlefield 3 is another good one. Oh, GTA, I can't forget about GTA. GTA is another good one that I grew up with. When I first began my journey into the world of video games, I was only in my youth. Watching my dad and one of his good friends that I consider like an older brother. They were playing the legendary Grand Theft Auto San Andreas. I remember I was always the outdoors kid. I was tumbling around the dirt, jumping on trampolines, actually falling off trampolines instead of being indoors. But eventually, I was able to witness them play and explore this strange imaginary world that was extraordinary. I couldn't believe that there was a whole world that you could dive into in the TV. It infatuated me. I remember picking up the controller when they were busy trying to put in some mods to get more money. I was trying to move this train that was about to go off the tracks. I was like, hmm, I'm literally moving this imaginary object with this controller. This is so cool, right? I have always been fascinated by how the mechanics of games work and all that stuff. When I was a little kid and I saw that happening before my eyes, it opened up a brand new world for me to explore and dive into. It was amazing. Well, the first sight, actually. Pretty much after that day, I drove and crashed that virtual train that my dad and his best friend were driving. I was dead set on trying to experience endless adventures in video games. I have managed to get my hands on most of the hottest releases and experiencing a wide variety of genres and stories that impacted my perspective of the creative aspect of character creations and storytelling. Video games have also aided in my ability to overcome real life challenges. I guess I was struggling a bit in school with my attention. Video games helped me cope through that and I developed some minor anxiety problems. Video games have helped me open up to cool people and establish fundamental friendships with some of the most amazing people. These amazing people actually help support my dreams of making video games. My family also does. I'm not excluding them. I've met some of the coolest people playing games and they've helped with different hobbies. I'm also into manga and anime. They've helped me branch out the different resources of character creations and stories and all that good stuff. Back on the topic of video games, when I was a kid, I was the quiet kid so I couldn't really interact. As soon as I started playing games, I became more open. My imagination was endless. I started drawing more. I started doing a lot. I was in a good moment of my youth, I feel like, because I started to understand what I wanted to do when I grew up. When I was a kid, I was really the tomboy. I always played in the dirt. I always ran around and played football, kickball, all that stuff. When I found out about video games, my whole perspective of what I wanted to be when I grew up changed. I really wanted to join the military and fly jets. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to fly a helicopter, fly a jet. I thought it was amazing. I thought you would be the hero of a comic book or something. Basically, when I discovered games, I'm like, I can make my own stories. I can make characters heroes. I can do exactly whatever I want. It changed my whole perspective of wanting to be a hero. Now I'm going to be creating heroes. Which is another cool little divergence, but it's still a process of trying to figure out who I want to be, what I want to do, what I want to make. Enough about me. Let's start getting into some of my most favorite games I've ever played of all time. If I could list all my favorites off the top of my head right now, if I haven't already said them. It's Ace Combat 6 Fires of Liberation. I absolutely adore this game. I still have this game from the old Xbox 360 days. I play that game every single day. I mastered each level and I mastered each jet. It's just an amazing game that I grew up with. Again, back to the topic of jets and stuff. It was another reason why I loved the game so much because it was so realistic. Well, I guess going a thousand miles per hour Mach 3 isn't that realistic. It still hit a string in my heart because of how much I love aircraft and military jets and all that stuff. Ace Combat is a huge inspiration of why I want to create games and why I want to dive into the industry. Another good mention is Ace Combat Assault Horizon. I absolutely adore the soundtrack from that game. It is one of the best ever. I'm so upset that Spotify took it down, but we got to push through it. Ace Combat, best game series ever. If you've never played it, please consider trying. What are you doing? You are missing out on some of the coolest things ever. Who wouldn't want to fly an F-22 and go Mach 2 and Fox 3 and everything you see? I'm probably not saying that right, but that's what they say in the game. It's experience and I totally recommend playing. Second on the list here is Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. Destiny 1, oh my god, I've spent countless hours on that game. I don't even want to talk about Destiny 2, bro. Destiny 2 and Destiny 1 are my second favorites because they've helped me open up more to people online. It is an open-world multiplayer game where you have to interact with others in order to get certain objectives done. It's a first-person DPS game, so you've got to have certain builds for your characters. You've got to have certain weapons to complement those builds. It's not as bad as Genshin builds, but it's still on the surface. What they're doing is pretty envisionary. I've always wanted to work for Bungie, the creators of Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. I've always wanted to join their company. Another good topic to bring up about these games is the soundtracks. I'm infatuated with soundtracks, especially when it comes to battle music or any type of music that helps me get more immersed in the gameplay. Destiny 1 and Destiny 2 and the Ace Combat series does an amazing job of getting me immersed and feel like I'm actually fighting for my life in these video games. Back on to gameplay for Destiny 1 and Destiny 2. I really love the aspect of Call of Duty mixed in with Halo. I was a huge Halo fan growing up as well. Having Call of Duty and Halo mixed together really helped understand that there's endless imagination with creating games and creating worlds and stories. Destiny 1's story continues on with Destiny 2, and Destiny 2 to this day is still ongoing. I've been playing Destiny for about 9 years now. I have not had the pleasure of playing the Destiny 1 beta. I'm not that OG, but I still look around during the Rise of Crota days. King Oryx, I was around during those moments, that hype train. Unfortunately, when Destiny 2 first released, I did not ride that hype train. I was a bit reluctant to join because of all the hate it received, but after a while, I gave it a try. I think I joined in at a pretty good time around Shadowkeep when one of the main characters died. It really boosted the story, and I think understanding what your audience wants really helped the company understand what direction of their game they should go in. Now, with Destiny 2, they are trying their best to keep the community happy and develop the story and keep it ongoing. I am super excited for these new releases, especially Lightfall. Lightfall was great. I love the soundtracks from Lightfall, and it's still ongoing to this day. I cannot wait for Final Shape. Final Shape, I know, is going to blow everyone out of the water, and we are not prepared for what's going to happen. Okay, next. Red Dead Redemption 2. If you have not played this game, oh my goodness, it is one of the best Rockstar games I have probably ever had the experience of playing. Obviously, everyone knows who Arthur Morgan is and his story, unfortunately. What he has to overcome and what he has to endure throughout the entire story is heartbreaking. Anyway, when I first started playing Red Dead, well, actually, let me back up. I actually played Red Dead 1 before Red Dead 2, and I really liked John. John was cool. I thought he was a pretty good character, but I never understood the story completely because, again, I was really young and I was too infatuated with GTA. I never really understood the horse mechanics and running around for hours on a horse. But as soon as I touched Red Dead 2, I was a little bit older, I was like, bro, this storytelling is out of this world. I was so attached to the characters, I would cry each time one of them was killed. I just couldn't believe that a game could have such an impact and was able to make me feel such loss in real life. I guess the actors did a really good job of keeping me immersed and, again, with the soundtracks, amazing sound pieces and music used throughout the series. And the mechanics were awesome. Dead Eye is still amazing, even though I can't figure out how to do it, but when I figure it out, it's a pretty cool mechanic. And again, the graphics are amazing. Probably one of the best games to this date, graphic-wise. But, unfortunately, Rockstar threw in the towel with Red Dead Redemption 2, so they're focusing on bigger projects, which is probably the next GTA coming out. I mean, I can complain. I like GTA. I like Rockstar. Rockstar's cool, but Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably one of my favorite games from Rockstar, if I had to tally what my favorite games were from them. Okay. Modern Warfare 2. The original Modern Warfare 2. Modern Warfare 2. I spent countless hours on that game. Probably for trying to get skins, trying to get killstreaks. I think everyone had their Call of Duty phase growing up. But, again, Call of Duty helped me interact with probably not the best people in the world, but I had fun talking to people in lobbies and hearing people yell at each other. Prestiging, trickshotting, all that cool stuff that Call of Duty brought to the gaming culture, and the memes that followed with it, and the way first-person shooter games should evolve when it comes to multiplayer, and all that stuff. But, Modern Warfare 2 had a special place in my heart for the story, because, again, we experienced loss with some of the character deaths, and you actually had the player experience it firsthand, which was amazing. I thought that was cool writing, and obviously you can't forget about Hans Zimmer and his interaction with the soundtrack. Oh my goodness, the music is so good in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. I could talk about it all day about how I would mod on that game. I'm kind of calling myself out here, hopefully Xbox doesn't track me down. But I would mod on the game and bug people away with my quote-unquote trigger finger, or whatever you want to call it. But I interacted a lot with the story, and I was really attached to Ghost. He was a cool character, and I got a bunch of inspiration from him for creating characters that I have today. Same thing, again, in the Reboot Modern Warfare series. At first, I was kind of reluctant towards it, because I didn't really like a remake of an already good game. But as I experienced the new story that they were trying to adapt to, I could really understand where they were going. They wanted to make it more modern, which I can understand, because it's not just fantasy. War is not pretty, I guess. Anyway, I guess while we're on the topic of the more modern Modern Warfare games, I could talk about Modern Warfare, and how the mechanics for that game were extraordinary, and the AI for that is groundbreaking. I can't talk about how blown away I was from the graphics, and how hyper-realistic it was from Activision, and how they actually used real-life military men to help them with movement, and how the actual tactics were used in the real world. That is extraordinary, and I'm super happy that games are becoming more realistic, but at the same time, it can be a problem, because people don't really like it when their kids have to witness such realistic tragedies. But at the end of the day, it's all a video game, so it could be a bad thing, but I really like the direction of realistic video games, because again, graphics are changing, you become more immersed into industries, becoming more aware of how to create these realistic scenarios, and realistic storytelling, which I am absolutely blown away by. Because again, developing these types of characters that you can attach to, and understand as an almost real-life individual is extraordinary to me. I think that is one of the coolest things ever, and I cannot wait to experience it myself. Okay, next on the list here, it is Battlefield 3 and Battlefield Bad Company. I'm probably going to get some hate for putting Call of Duty on top of Battlefield 3, but in recent years, Modern Warfare and Activision have been going in the right direction with their games. In comparison to Battlefield 2024, I was just not as hyped for that release as I was for the other games, like Call of Duty, Modern Warfare, and their DLC releases, their ongoing battle passes, and all that stuff. But back on Battlefield 3, I grew up playing Battlefield 3. I absolutely adored the jets, the tanks, the different scenarios where buildings can blow up, the environment can change, you can literally make the environment your playground. It was amazing to me how each game that you would go in as your playable little guy, you could change the environment and turn the tides in your favor. The strategy was amazing. It was something I've never experienced before, and I was able to adapt to it. I was able to understand the mechanics behind it, because I know that it's not easy for a multiplayer game to have that sort of destruction mechanic, which is amazing. Battlefield 3, one of my favorites of the Battlefield series. I cannot tell you how many kills I have in a tank. I main the main T90 tank, and I would run around on that endlessly. I would capture objectives, I would shoot helicopters out of the sky, sometimes jets if I'm lucky. It was an amazing experience. There is no multiplayer experience better than Battlefield 3, and the moments that you get from Battlefield are endless. If you've never played Battlefield, or any of the multiplayer, you are missing out on cool experiences. I'm pretty sure you can still play it. I think it's compatible from the 360 days, but I'm going to have to check it out again, because I miss it a lot. Another good thing, Battlefield 3's story is amazing, so is Battlefield Bad Company. The humor from Battlefield Bad Company 2 was amazing. I loved the characters from Battlefield Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3. Although Battlefield 3 was more serious, there was a lot more chaos, Battlefield Bad Company 2 did a funny take on the comedy with the characters, which is why I enjoyed the story so much. The multiplayer was also really cool with the mechanics for helicopters, and the tanks were another thing I really liked, and some of the sound design was amazing as well. Battlefield 3, and Battlefield Bad Company's music. No one can forget the main theme of Battlefield 3, but Battlefield Bad Company 2's soundtrack was probably one of my favorites of the manga series. I kind of miss it, but I might go back and dive into that series again, because it's been a while, and I really miss it. It's a huge experience, and I recommend anybody who has never played it to please check it out. Alright, finally on the list here is Assassin's Creed 3. Assassin's Creed 3. Everyone knows who Connor is. Connor Kenway. Oh my goodness, one of the best Assassin's Creed stories, in my opinion, from a Native American standpoint, which I really liked. Again, an attachment to a character. I really liked Native American culture, and I really enjoyed the aspect of being stealthy, and using the trees as an environment, and just being an Assassin. It was cool. In comparison to Ezio, and Alatar, if I'm saying his name right, I probably butchered that, I'm so sorry, but from the original Assassin's Creed series, I think Assassin's Creed 3 was groundbreaking with the mechanics and everything. It opened up a window of using the environment to your advantage, and actually becoming immersed in the setting, and understanding the character in depth with Connor's unfortunate father, who was a Templar. I was absolutely blown away by the storytelling, the music, oh my gosh, the music is so good, I'll never shut up about gay music, and how it helps the immersion and the overall vibe of the game. And another thing, with the big plot twist of Washington being a Templar, it was amazing as well, I really liked that. Talking about the corruption, and all that stuff. Amazing. Amazing game. If you've never played it before, I think it's on Game Pass, if I can remember, but if you've never played it, I really recommend playing it. It's such a good game. Alright, what's the time here? Oh man, we've been talking for about 30 minutes now. Oh boy. Sorry, I'm like talking somebody's ear off right now, talking about these games and how much I enjoy them. Okay, so, I've had the absolute pleasure of growing up playing these games. Each one of them holding a special place in my heart. It is without a doubt I played these games without prevailing or tiring. I remember staying up, even on school nights, until like 3 o'clock in the morning playing these games, especially Ace Combat, because I was dedicated on finishing the story, or competing with myself to see how fast I could complete missions or get specific grades in the levels, because you could get an S-tier grade, you could get a B-tier grade, and I was dedicated on trying to absorb myself in the story and feel like an actual fighter pilot. Also, there's a new game out now, Ace Combat 7, I mean, it came out recently, that I also played and also enjoyed, and it is also a very good Ace Combat game, story-wise, so if you would like to check that one out as well, I highly recommend it. But, back on the recap here, I really like the concept of exploring how each game is made. I think playing each game and seeing how it works, you know, maybe breaking some mechanics and going a bit overboard, like on Destiny 2. Recently, there was a glitch happening where one of the characters you play as had an endless, like, super or endless ultimate that they were using, and they were just throwing, like, their ultimate over and over and over again, which is not supposed to happen. But it's so fun seeing mechanics break, and now that I'm kind of not a developer developer, but now that I understand what programming is, and how to create games, I can truly understand what the industry or what the creators were thinking when they saw that. They're like, oh no, what's happening right now? How can we go back and fix this? Which is, I can understand that now, because now that I'm making games with groups of people and have experienced group work, experienced game bugs, experienced my game crashing when I'm making it, I can understand how these mechanics work. And I think that's awesome, because it's a new-founded skill that I've developed, and not that many people can understand, and I would, and I find inspiration in wanting to let people understand and dive into this world of technology. Because it is always changing, and it is, without a doubt, probably one of the most influential industries that we have so far. So, I really cannot wait to get a career and dive into this and create my own sort of games and have my own bugs and have my own stories to fix and create and develop. I am super excited, and I cannot express how ready I am to dive into it. Okay, we are now about 32 minutes, 30 seconds into our podcast. I think this is a good time to stop. This is a little first episode, just getting used to everything. I hope everyone had a good time. If you enjoyed this, please make sure to keep in touch. If you want to hear me ramble some more, I'll be here next week. My Instagram is available for all, at notwishing, if you haven't already found me. You should probably go find me. So, next week's episode, I'll begin breaking down each game individually, basically discussing their stories in depth. I'll talk about Ace Combat's story, I'll talk about Red Dead's story, how much I enjoyed it, I'll talk about Battlefield, I'll talk about Assassin's Creed, and Destiny 2 is probably going to take the longest because that's the most lore I've gathered playing that game for endless hours. Just get ready to listen to that and stick around for a longer session. Don't forget to subscribe for more content, and like. It really helps out a lot, and it really makes me happy. You should definitely click the like button, like, right now. You know? I'm joking. I hope everyone had a good time. I'll see you guys next time. So, don't fall, and I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for watching!