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The screenshot is from Morrowind (Running in OpenMW)
Easy To the Moon. Great little indie game with an amazing story that will make you cry
Outer Wilds, probably.
Likewise. Outer Wilds was an incredible experience but it's one of those things that will inherently have zero replay value. Unless maybe you feel like doing a quick run-through as a comfort food nostalgia game, or something. It's fairly unique in that your progression in it is based purely on your personal knowledge of what you've discovered in the solar system, and if you had foreknowledge there's literally nothing stopping you from beating it on your very first launch without even doing a single time loop. There's even an achievement for doing the same, no doubt intended to be earned once you already know everything.
Did I cry when I talked to Gabro at the last campfire? Yes, yes I did.
My first thought too. Probably in my top three games, but you can only play it the best way once.
I went back and tried to play the DLC and even that just wasn't the same. I want to play them both blind.
I still keep it installed but I'm waiting a decade more before I replay it. Hopefully I forget enough to have a similar experience
That game came out when I happened to be really into the PBS Space Time series and I was learning as much as my brain could comprehend about general vs special relativity; which is all I can say without spoiling the game lol. So even if I could forget all of the story I don't think it would have quite the same impact. It would still be something magic though I'm sure. I still enjoy watching others experience the game for the first time too.
Same here.
I think MGS2 on the original PlayStation or PS2. That was a dream a few decades later.
Shadow of the colossus or Transistor.
Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos (and it's expansion, The Frozen Throne).
The level of storytelling for a strategy game's campaign completely blew me away at the time. The "good"-coded guys are haughty and rigid, the "bad"-coded guys are (mostly) just trying to get by in a world that rejects them at every turn, not to mention you play as the lovable young protégé and prodigy that slowly casts aside his humanity until he becomes a "big bad" for everyone else. The campaign has world-altering events take place, and you actually get to see the world altered after the fact.
And that one time, at bandit camp.
Probably World of Warcraft. That's a couple thousand hours in total as I played on and off on private servers throughout the years from 2006-2012, plus a brief stint with BfA.
Actually, no, I'd rather not forget how I saw the game evolve, even if my experience wasn't the ideal one.
None. Every game was a product of its time, hence bound to many external factors.
Let it go... And take the chance to experience what you haven't yet, there's more to do, than can ever be done.
(on a roll with 2 Disney references, apologies)
That's not really in the spirit of the question though. The question boils down to "what game made you feel some kinda way that you'd like to replicate?" It's entirely hypothetical. Theres too many amazing games that have been made in the last thirty years to ever finish them all. But that doesn't take away from that moment in a game that was so new and impactful that it became seared into. I've had experiences so deep it literally changed how I felt about death and loss and it would be amazing to feel those feelings again.
Apologies, thats just the way I understand it. 99% will understand it as intended, I'm with the 1% 😁 (neurodivergent).
Basically, only a new game can achieve this was my point. Except for turning back time.
Outer Wilds
Outer Wilds! 🥲
Thomas Was Alone, The Fall, Rumu, To The Moon, Stanley's Parable, Toem, Primordia, Turing Test, The Entropy Centre, Subnautica, Bioshock 2, Portal 1/2.
Though honestly any game with good story would probably count here.
Can’t believe nobody mentioned Last of US.
League of legends because I hate myself
On a more serious Note Mischief makers is the only one that comes to my mind
Anti chamber, portal, journey, and Rez.
Add Tunic to this.
Final Fantasy 7 Chronotrigger Secret of Mana
A lot of good ones here already listed, some of those I've started and veered off due to busy life with kids.
What I didnt see was uncharted 4. Never played any other in the series, but bought that one from steam sales. You know when you picked up a good book which you couldnt put down but had to read through as fast as possible? Or new tv series that you had to binge? Well surprisingly uncharted 4 was that for me last year. After I was finished I felt empty: "whats now?".
A very few games have gripped me that way.
Persona 5 Royal
Outer Wilds. I never beat it, but I played through a lot of it. I went in completely blind, not knowing what it was, and my mind was blown away.
I wish I could experience all of it brand new whenever I go back to finish it up.
Its comments like this that made me finally go and purchase The Outer Worlds a few months ago. Going in blind and within 10 minutes I'm thinking, what is this bullshit?!?! I have yet to try the right game yet but that always makes me laugh.
The correct answer to this question is always Outer Wilds.
It's a game that can be beaten in five minutes if you already know the solution. But the process of discovering that solution, and unearthing the incredible story around it, is one of the most unbelievable gaming experiences you will ever have.
It's an absolute masterpiece and if you haven't played it yet, you really, really need to.
Spec Ops: The Line
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
Also Starcraft: Brood War, Shadow Watch, and, yah, Morrowind. I took over an entire house in Balmora to serve as a treasure room. Then hit the max item limit and had to re-place everything by hand while also taking over another house.
Never been in the military but after the prologue I assumed any sane recon squad lead would radio the HQ and ask for advice instead of 'getting to the bottom of this'
And every horror movie should be ten minutes long and end with the kids taking one look at the spooky cabin, getting back in the car and driving back to their dorm.
Fair, yet it broke the immersion for me 🤷
Im almost not sure if I want that. Most of the games I would do that for are older games from like 25 years ago, and I honestly can't see playing them today and ever having those fond moments like I did then. In my case, the time of playing them also mattered a lot.
I agree with so many here, but I have a new one.
Dredge.
It just seemed like a fishing simulator, but it got creepier as it went on. Definitely an ending I didn't expect. That may have been me just getting too into finding every fish.
Great gameplay loop and played on steam deck excellently.
Honestly, I had completely the opposite experience with Dredge.
The first few days in the game feel truly scary, with your terribly slow ship, and every strange light in the darkness is terrifying. Those initial quests with the pulsating wet package are creepy, and you wonder where that's going to lead, and what storyline will come from that.
But then, you get a few engine upgrades and there's suddenly not a single danger in the game you can't easily run from. You're invincible and the whole ocean is your oyster. The pulsating package was just a bit of flavour and nothing comes of it at all - in fact the quests in the game are almost entirely plain fetch quests, totally shallow with very little real story. And while the ending gets interesting, it's all too brief.
Now don't get me wrong - I loved Dredge, actually! But I loved it as a cosy collect-em-all fishing sim, bombing around the ocean in your fun and zoomy boat, rather than the narrative-driven Lovecraftian horror the trailers made it out to be, which ultimately I felt it wasn't at all.
Still fun, though!
OUTER WILDS! If you've played it, you know why. (If you haven't, do not ask. Play it.)