045f48 No.15234278
Have you ever played a game that just blew you away?
I grew up poor, but one year I got given a gamecube and a copy of Resident Evil 4. The first part of the game where you gain control made my jaw drop, it looked realer than real life to me. I was shaking with excitement and I've never felt so much joyful wonder before or since. I don't like horror media in general, I hate the feeling of stress and fear it gives me but RE4 was so good I couldn't put it down. I've played a handful of games like that in my life, games so amazingly well put together they redefine their genre and make me love something I never liked before.
8c3424 No.15234302
The kind of games that are so good they ruin things.
Pic related.
a98b46 No.15234319
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NON-STOP BLASTING ACTION, GENESIS TUNES ROCKIN' SEPTILLION CHANNELS OF JOY INTO YOUR EARS
OFFICIAL TAGLINE: VISUALSHOCK, AUDIOSHOCK, SPEEDSHOCK, 68000 HEART ON FIRE
FUCKIN' ALIEN SOLDIER, RAMMING THROUGH EVERYTHING AT TH SPEED OF LIGHT
6ba930 No.15234330
>>15234278
disregarding the catastrophic damage RE4 caused to the franchise as a whole, i agree that the first time i played RE4 i nearly shit my pants. that village scene, where you're running from enemies, barricading doors and then some crazy motherfucker busts through a window with a chainsaw. the whole thing felt so desperate and unscripted and really impressed me
362228 No.15234331
>Pick up DMC3 from a store
>Dante being a super cheeky cunt in the cutscenes
>Those super satisfying attack animations
045f48 No.15234333
>>15234287
>Skyrim. It's a objectively amazing game.
t. someone who was 12 when Skyrim came out and thought the height of video games before that was GTA and CoD
f3f278 No.15234341
>>15234278
Yeah pretty much this. RE4 was like the ultimate game when I was young (along with GTA:SA).
In retrospect I'm very bitter about it since I went back and played all the originals. I still can't deny that it is pretty great as a standalone.
a67134 No.15234346
skyward sword
I thought the motion controls and associated equipment were amazingand really don't give a fuck that it was linear and hand holdy
kingdom hearts 2
I remember when it came out I literally could not stop playing it. It was the first of and one of very few games that did this to me
Mario Galaxy
again, motion controls combined with the level design, scope and soundtrack
Pikmin 3
The way you used the gamepad to micro manage and the way levels were designed blew my mind
Won 101
again, gamepad usage was dope and very innovative
can't think of any other right now, the wii u was a very fun time for me though. I'm not enjoying the switch as much
There are many games that hooked me and i love, but the above literally blew my mind either because the gameplay and design felt very innovative and/or fun to me or some other reason
I anticipate being called many mean things
a67134 No.15234360
>>15234346
forgot xenoblade
literally breath-taking
8c7dd2 No.15234365
>>15234278
The first two chapters of RE4 were great, so I can understand where you're coming from and why it made such a strong first impression. Shame the rest of the game was shit in comparison.
045f48 No.15234371
>>15234365
It definitely got worse as it went on but it was still great fun to play and Leon's cheesy one liners only got better the further in you got.
4f4bbb No.15234389
I didn't expect a mouse pointer, some names, some text messages and a song to crush my soul. But they did.
3a4e9e No.15234392
>>15234346
>skyward sword
is it bad due to my ineptitude I was never able to finish that game due to the absolute stupid mechanic of electric weapons
>>15234360
>xenoblade
Downloading Xeno Blade chronicles because big robots, apparently it's good too so that's a bonus
78ec8d No.15234411
>>15234287
I wholeheartedly agree.
b90b97 No.15234412
>ITT anons post their honest opinions in what they think is a joke thread
That's okay, confession thread!
I unironically still buy games on Steam and play them on my Steam Link.
faff2e No.15234418
>unpopular opinion thread
EAT A LIVE GRENADE AND BLOW YOURSELVES YOU FUCKING REDDIT & CUCKCHAN RAPEFUGEES
4f4bbb No.15234421
>>15234412
>I unironically still buy games on Steam
Eh y'know whatever.
>play them on my Steam Link.
074e51 No.15234425
>>15234278
I matured in squalor, however many moons ago I received a gamecube and a legitimate printing of Mario Sunshine. The first part of the visual experience where one gains control made my jaw decrease in latitude, it looked worse than my impoverished life to me. I was shaking with disgust and I had never felt so much revolting anger before or since. I don't like Italian renaissance media in general, I begrudge the feeling of stress and fear it gives me but Mario Sunshine was so detestable that I daren't even disgrace the floor with it. I've played a handful of visual experiences like that in my long years, visual experiences so amazingly befuddled they redefine their genre and make me loathe something I had never enjoyed before.
a65248 No.15234428
>>15234419
How new are you to imageboards?
3a4e9e No.15234429
>>15234419
You just have shit taste then, skyrim is fun for a bit but once you realize everything feels the same and the combat is left click right click left click right click it gets worse and worse and that only takes 10 minutes
a65248 No.15234430
>>15234425
Is this a copypasta of something?
5677ca No.15234446
sure have
i think my favorite part was how if you didnt give them an order they would swallow or spit it out based on their own personality.
3a4e9e No.15234451
>>15234444
>skyrim
>climb anything
>streamlined
For an old dude you sure are retarded
074e51 No.15234456
>>15234430
I began a quantum singularity, however in the unfolding moments of the dawn of time I happened upon a games contraption and a three-dimensional cuboid labelled "Bubsy". In the beginning there was light, wherein I gained the ability to manipulate the universe and my masticatory system devolved leaving me with just a head and a pair of eyes able to appreciate all before me. I was struck with joy for all things and I have never felt so much wonder before or since. I disapprove of homosexuality in general, I hate the feeling of stress and fear it affords God's Creation but Bubsy was so good I couldn't put it down. I have observed a handful of ecclesiastical moments like that in all of time, so well put together they define those moments and make me love something I never knew before.
5b2e1a No.15234458
>>15234278
That's funny OP, and it fits my belief that most of those who enjoyed RE4 hadn't played the other 3 Resident Evil games. I dropped RE4 about an hour into it because of how disappointing it was compared to its predecessors.
e6b4e7 No.15234462
>>15234278
I beat Final Fantasy 7 for the first time a few months ago, and while I'm not usually fond of JRPGs I really came to admire just how much effort was put into the game, especially for the first 3D entry in the series
3d9f6b No.15234483
>>15234278
>blew me away
I really like the personal way you set this thread up. I was not poor growing up, but not everybody had a console, so we played the shit out of every game.
Tony Hawk 2
We spent thousands of hours on that, and somehow it just kept getting better all the time. The best designed skill level "grinding", couch shit for a score game - High score, after high score, after new trick, after new way to keep combos going. Just another 4 minutes. Fucking amazing game. We loved it.
Next game would be:
Shadow of the colossus
I was a bit too old to actually play it when it was released - too much teenage social bullshit that kept me occupied. But when I finally played it, it was like nothing else. Best game ever.
First game I played was a Spectrum game, that did not blow me away. I'm old as fuck.
074e51 No.15234489
>>15234462
I was raised a cross dressing homosexual, but one year I got given AIDS and a copy of Final Fantasy 7. The first part of the game where you gain control made my tranny tongue drool, it looked just like my real life to me. I was shaking from buttplay and I've never felt so much joy or wonder before or since. I don't like gay media in general, I hate the feeling of stress and fear it gives me but FF7 was so good I couldn't stay in the closet. I've played with a handful of men like that in my life, so amazingly put together they redefine the gay genre and make me love something I only liked before.
ceadd2 No.15234490
>>15234278
Devil May Cry 3
Everything about that game was just pure fun, from the story to the gameplay. It's one of the best games ever.
aeba22 No.15234495
>>15234451
>taking toddposting seriously
>falling for it
>calling me retarded
I wish I could ban you
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a88223 No.15234538
>>15234483
>Tony Hawk 2
My fucking nigger. I personally liked 3 a little better, but 2 is still just as great.
074e51 No.15234543
>>15234483
>I really like the personal way you set this thread up
I thought it made for such easy copypaste material since it was newfag-tier bait, but I guess I could have misinterpreted it
Also TH2 on multiplayer sucked even if the rest of the game was gold. The worst part though is if you ask people which is the best in the series you don't get "TH2" from anybody, you just get newfags like OP telling you it's Underground 2. Go back and play something good you fuckin kids
045f48 No.15234567
>>15234458
Well fucking DUH most people hadn't played the other 3 games, RE4 sold like fucking crazy and was arguably the best game on the Gamecube. You can't hold it against people for only getting into a series when a game came out that blew everyone's pants off, got 10/10's from everyone ever and was the blueprint for every third person shooter for the next decade or more.
045f48 No.15234571
>>15234543
>newfags like OP telling you it's Underground 2
No, it's THPS3. Stop crying about people liking RE4 and not even knowing 1-3 exist, it's been over a decade.
074e51 No.15234616
>>15234571
>No, it's THPS3.
I will revisit 1 & 2 because they're locked down tight. With 3 I'd rather kill time by pissing in the breeze. Especially the PC version the physics are just whack.
>Stop crying about people liking RE4 and not even knowing 1-3 exist, it's been over a decade.
No. newfags won't ever play spy vs spy or bonanza bros, they ought to hear nothing but autistic screeching until they do
84fc85 No.15234937
>>15234278
I remember a couple, FF7 actually blew my mind with how good it was. I played it for the first time in 2014 and all I knew about the game was that Aeris dies because everyone knows that. I'd never played a FF game before and I thought the whole game was going to be in Midgar, I was so amazed when you go to the open world. Blew my mind since all the Midgar stuff was enough for a full game on it's own.
When I actually got to play Oblivion back in 2006 (after getting a new pc since my current one at the time wasn't good enough to run it) and I didn't know you could fast travel which made the game way more interesting. Actually using the map and planning my trip to quest locations while finding events on the way and getting sidetracked was awesome.
8ed263 No.15234953
>>15234937
Midgar is actually pretty small, although it's the largest area in the game. FF7 does a good job of appearing bigger than it really is, it's a packed journey with a lot of little events that you only see once, helps give each area more context and even the reuse of places like Nibelheim end up being a positive service to the adventure at large, re-experiencing a place from numerous periods and angles allows a lot of context and information to be generated from it.
There's a lot that gets neglected about FF7 that really shouldn't mostly due to some unfortunately pretentious reasons either the fans being too aggressive (although I think this has significantly died down in the past 10 years) or the perception of those fans causing the game to be swept away as "overrated" and the discussion dying there.
a404f6 No.15235013
R-Type III impressed the hell out of me when it came out.
a404f6 No.15235023
>>15234953
>There's a lot that gets neglected about FF7 that really shouldn't
I agree, and the two most important things that people rarely address are:
1. The game is far too easy. Even with the very limited resources of a low-level playthrough running from every random battle, the game struggles to provide genuinely challenging bosses. It does not do enough to encourage the player to take advantage of its strategic depth, and as a result said depth is fairly inconsequential and wasted as a source of replay variety.
2. Too much unskippable exposition between real gameplay chunks.
a404f6 No.15235026
Battle for Wesnoth and SuperTuxKart blew me away when I first learned about them. I honestly never thought the FOSS community would produce games this good.
1a52eb No.15235048
>>15234278
Yes. None from western devs.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=9v3B1hzMwnQ
>>15234302
Marxist propaganda piece of shit with gameplay for toddlers.
f706e2 No.15235058
>>15234330
It felt extremely scripted, but to be fair I was 18 the first time I played it
a057b6 No.15235111
>>15234302
I was blown away when it came out, too. Then I actually look back in it and realize it's a piece of shit that created new standards for the "alternative" AAA scene. Where developers can say,
>Look goys, we're a modern gamedev company, and our game isn't completely casual! We have wider hallways and RPG elements!
After that, it seems like the only standard that a game had to be considered "good" is that it's not Call of Duty.
27af22 No.15235173
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The second alpha for Sonic 2 HD.
ae3a12 No.15235189
The utter lack of handholding and the feeling of freedom in a bizarre world in digimon world 1 set my standards too high, now none of the digimon or pokemon games satisfy me anymore
Modern digimon games are too boxed in with forced human animu npcs and cutscenes, and pokemon is even more so, with the difficulty bar dropping all the time
54fbdf No.15235218
>>15235192
>blue purp
>antifreeze
Why say the same thing twice, especially since I doubt niggers played Bioshock?
3917c0 No.15235276
>>15235173
absolutely beautiful, if SEGA is going to make a sequel to Mania, the next game needs to look like this and feature new stages and bosses only.
3a1332 No.15235289
>>15235192
>>15235218
>drinking antifreeze at all
y tho
5d6bb4 No.15235294
>>15235289
PSA
red propylene glycol is edible antifreeze
green ethylene glycol is the toxic shit
5b2e1a No.15235309
>>15234567
And was somehow a clunky boring piece of shit, even when compared to its predecessors
e2380e No.15235339
>>15235023
These are both true, even the hardest optional bosses aren't extraordinarily challenging once you grasp the unique mechanics to each one, like aire tam storm then essentially the greatest difficulty spikes in the game are overcome. I do not really see the poorer difficulty as a major flaw in the game, just a noteworthy one - that is to say not something which cripples the experience.
As far as the cutscenes it's a criticism mixed with its age and also ones expectation. Being an RPG the story is at the forefront. I don't dismiss it, however, it is a valid point but not something I see as game breaking either. I am also talking about praise which the game rightfully deserves in its pacing, mood setting, story beats, setting and world design. It's really good at this stuff but this is often praise ushered away.
df72f8 No.15235357
>>15234937
There is something deeply disgusting and unsettling about this picture but I can't quite put my finger on what exactly it is
54fbdf No.15235365
>>15235289
We started out eating mud and things got progressively worse
46fa3f No.15235374
The opening of FF7 blew my tiny little mind as a kid who'd never played a 3D game and who didn't know or care about the difference between pre-rendered and real-time 3D, on a CRT TV those FMV transitions were fucking seamless, and in some you could move the character on top of the FMV. Going from 2D direct to that was magical.
5d6bb4 No.15235381
>>15234278
>I was shaking with excitement
a404f6 No.15235418
>>15235173
>still using shitty checkerboard patterns to handle transparency and those horrible farting toaster sound effects
rofl, "HD"
3fd961 No.15235583
Runescape on a fucking AOL dial-up connection. Nothing will ever top being in the wilderness and someone calling my grandma's house phone (my parent's didn't have internet until I was like 15) and me yelling "NO DON'T ANSWER IT PLEASE" and they answered it anyways, with me losing all my shit except 3 items. Good times.
37ec37 No.15235638
>>15234278
RE4 was the "Crysis" of Gamecube to me. I was scared shitless and it looked realistic.
efd810 No.15235663
>>15234278
KotOR II
>>15234302
Casual. It's so-so tbh
e64ab5 No.15235857
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Sonic Adventure 2. Back in the day, I spent many years stuck with a Genesis and SNES, and a computer that could run Quake at best. So when I had a chance to play on a Dreamcast, and I found this baby, I was fucking blown away. It was a whole new level of beauty, far beyond anything I had seen before. This damn game rekindled my love for vidya.
5be3e1 No.15236243
I enjoyed every minute playing F:NV. Obsidian really hit the right notes on this one. Too bad we're not getting a game as good as this anytime soon.
7b7472 No.15236357
>>15234278
I enjoyed RE4, even after playing the originals I still find it good for a run through. I think it’s hyperbole to say that it “ruined” the series. If anything Capcom ruined themselves, Dead Rising being the last Hurrah. I can see how people could blame it for the disappointments that were Resident Evil 5&6, but that’s rather like blaming Sonic Adventure for Sonic 06 just because it created the formula.
f1ba0f No.15236487
>>15235309
>Abloo bloo my thing is dead and the new thing has erased it
Get a grip, RE4 shits all over 1-3 and no one but you gives a fuck.
4e1895 No.15236898
>>15236487
RE1-3 have the benefit of not being 20 hours long and majority of their runtime not being dedicated to the worst area in the game
111b25 No.15236918
>>15236898
>RE4
>20hr long
How? did you fall asleep in front of your screen or something?
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000000 No.15236925
>>15236243
Fallout 4? What was the difference?
95d3af No.15237136
There are a ton and they all come with the heavy burden that after them the expectations you have for video games will grow, but the video game industry is so shit they will never deliver.
8a8c59 No.15237185
>be poor as kid
>only vidya I have is game and watch
>go to cousin's place
>he has a N64
>Golden Eye, Mario Kart 64, Smash Bros, Star Fox
>whole new world of entertainment
I can only imagine how great it would have been to play something like Ocarina of Time for myself as a kid. It's amazing how much more colourful and mysterious things are to children
6a477c No.15237286
Phantom Dust for Xbox blew me away after playing it for the first time last year. I booted this thing up and immediately I couldn't believe it was a sixth gen game. The character designs are a bit fucked but the graphics are incredible.
On top of that it had a very interesting setting, cool deck-building combat mechanics and fucking destructible environments. This is one of those games that had me thinking "how the the hell did I never hear about this?".
Basically, the tagline is absolutely right.
3917c0 No.15248190
>>15236487
>t. low IQ underage who's shit at Re1-3 and whines at "tank controls"
Get a grip, no one gives a fuck about you
94a8e2 No.15248228
>>15236898
RE4 should average 7-9 hours on your first playthrough. You must be shit at vidya