Populous the Beginning. I'd internalized from a really young age that boxart was bullshit and lies and way cooler than the actual game would ever be. But then I got to play a game where you can actually just unleash tornadoes and earthquakes and volcanoes and demon dragons on your enemies. God I played the shit out of that game.
tekken 2. i was a moron kid but it was one of my first 3d games. i was really in awe at the background. i remember spending like 10 mins jumping back to see how far can i go and how much background i can see.
>castle of illusion
I remember that game. Really beautiful to look at, awesome visual and level design. One of the nicest looking games on the Genesis. I think I was too young to be blown away by it though, I'm more amazed by it now in retrospect, I would have been 3 or 4 and you kind of just take things for granted at that age.
Jak and Daxter
Being able to see the precursor temple from the village and then Misty Island off in the distance across the sea blew my fricking mind. And the fact that there were basically no loading screens to the game. Granted, I didn't realize until later were just very well hidden but still. I became a fricking collosal Naughty Dog fanboy, and now look at them.
Half-Life 2.
Followed many years later by Alien Isolation in VR. This is the game that made me realize VR is not a gimmick for beat saber. It's next level, and most anons have no idea how insanely good VR can be, and will be in the future. It's the only game that made me basedface irl. Thank god nobody saw me.
>and most anons have no idea how insanely good VR can be, and will be in the future.
Oh I believe that. No idea what compels people to post threads asking "why did VR fail" when VR is still being released. You can make that appraisal once it has finished.
Still not on board with it at the moment though. Every time I stick my headset on I spend more time fiddling around with shit to get my experience just right than actually playing and then don't play it again for another month or two. And just too many drawbacks and too few games. I can't see any reason why it won't get there eventually though. Can't be more than a couple of decades before we have comfortable, lightweight kits with 10k displays and adequate computer power to use them.
When I was about four or five my mum worked in a pub. She'd give me a fizzy give and set me up on a pinball machine or pic related with infinite continues while she was counting up the till. The fact that the game was embedded in a familiar object probably contributed to the wonderment.
Good times. Set me up for a future of inceldom and videogame addiction.
World of Warcraft. Never had an online game before so the fact that im playing with real people in real time that I can talk to blow me away.
There's so many other reason too but I could go on forever reminiscing this nostalgic moment.
>Christmas Day >Got the NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOUR and picrel >HOLY SHIT MARIO IN 3D WOAH
i pity the zoomers that never experienced the magic of going from 2D in 3D
black and white 2, turned out to be a little more shallow than presented, but watching your god animal grow up and using the mouse gestures to cast spells blew my teenage mind
Palworld
halo 2...
hehe
Isn't having armor (an exoskeleton) in the same kind of ballpark as having a weapon?
Lost Life, unironically
Probably Wolfenstein 3D.
Oblivion
Super Mario 64 DS
Super Mario 64 for the virtual console, it actually controled better then galaxy for having so shit framerates.
How did bowie go from weird looking homosexual to the most attractive man of his generation?
genshin impact
YO DID THAT CUTSCENE GO STRAIGHT INTO GAMEPLAY???
Gothic, followed by Morrowind soon after
supreme commander.
Duke 3D then Half Life 2. Nothing else has reached that wow factor since.
Leaving the dungeon for the first time in oblivion
Populous the Beginning. I'd internalized from a really young age that boxart was bullshit and lies and way cooler than the actual game would ever be. But then I got to play a game where you can actually just unleash tornadoes and earthquakes and volcanoes and demon dragons on your enemies. God I played the shit out of that game.
TAKATA!
Marathon apple talk multiplayer
tekken 2. i was a moron kid but it was one of my first 3d games. i was really in awe at the background. i remember spending like 10 mins jumping back to see how far can i go and how much background i can see.
prince of persia sands of time PERSONALLY
seeing others play it. FFx, gta vice city, mgs2, ffx-2, GoW.
Duke Nukem 3D I guess. It was my first "3D" game
captcha: HTD2D
>Delta Force
I was shitting bricks man. Look at those graphics!
Mickey & donald in world of illusion, or castle of illusion. I have memories of one that should be on the other game.
On megadrive.
>castle of illusion
I remember that game. Really beautiful to look at, awesome visual and level design. One of the nicest looking games on the Genesis. I think I was too young to be blown away by it though, I'm more amazed by it now in retrospect, I would have been 3 or 4 and you kind of just take things for granted at that age.
Jak and Daxter
Being able to see the precursor temple from the village and then Misty Island off in the distance across the sea blew my fricking mind. And the fact that there were basically no loading screens to the game. Granted, I didn't realize until later were just very well hidden but still. I became a fricking collosal Naughty Dog fanboy, and now look at them.
Half-Life 2.
Followed many years later by Alien Isolation in VR. This is the game that made me realize VR is not a gimmick for beat saber. It's next level, and most anons have no idea how insanely good VR can be, and will be in the future. It's the only game that made me basedface irl. Thank god nobody saw me.
>and most anons have no idea how insanely good VR can be, and will be in the future.
Oh I believe that. No idea what compels people to post threads asking "why did VR fail" when VR is still being released. You can make that appraisal once it has finished.
Still not on board with it at the moment though. Every time I stick my headset on I spend more time fiddling around with shit to get my experience just right than actually playing and then don't play it again for another month or two. And just too many drawbacks and too few games. I can't see any reason why it won't get there eventually though. Can't be more than a couple of decades before we have comfortable, lightweight kits with 10k displays and adequate computer power to use them.
Metroid Zero Mission was a perfect marriage of gameplay and storytelling for me as a middle schooler.
I never thought a game would have the balls to kill off the entire cast of playable characters halfway through until I played FE4
half-life
When I was about four or five my mum worked in a pub. She'd give me a fizzy give and set me up on a pinball machine or pic related with infinite continues while she was counting up the till. The fact that the game was embedded in a familiar object probably contributed to the wonderment.
Good times. Set me up for a future of inceldom and videogame addiction.
>a fizzy give
frick that should have been a fizzy drink
>Set me up for a future of inceldom and videogame addiction.
I forgot to mention alcoholism
More recently Muramasa. Scene after scene of great art, often in unexpected parts of the game.
World of Warcraft. Never had an online game before so the fact that im playing with real people in real time that I can talk to blow me away.
There's so many other reason too but I could go on forever reminiscing this nostalgic moment.
>full motion videos
>great gameplay
>tanya and eva made my pp hard
I mean probably Sonic 2 which was the first game I played.
>I can... move what's on the TV instead of just watching it!?!?!
It was just way too cool
>Christmas Day
>Got the NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOUR and picrel
>HOLY SHIT MARIO IN 3D WOAH
i pity the zoomers that never experienced the magic of going from 2D in 3D
I got it for Christmas too. dad got my sister and I wave race and piolet wings too
FF7
max payne 1
Ultima Online
Commandos. Used to play it when I was a kid, ignited my love for ww2 games
The first Halo game.
GTA3 too
black and white 2, turned out to be a little more shallow than presented, but watching your god animal grow up and using the mouse gestures to cast spells blew my teenage mind
goldeneye
Double dragon 2
Minecraft
Remember David Bowie said the internet would destroy humanity
mario