I’ve probably played an uncomfortable amount of FF7 to most. During covid, I recently became single so I decided to find some like-minded discord communities to pass that time. I met someone who was streaming FF7. I hopped into the stream and kicked it off with explaining how to get a golden chocobo to reach the final red materia. We’re married now and have a dog :D
What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?
Submitted 1 day ago by Elevator7009sAlt@ani.social to games@lemmy.world
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grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
I don’t track or rank joy like that, but discovering the dark world in The Legend of Zelda a Link to the Past is definitely up there. Just realising the world had this whole extra dimension to it.
I still love dimensionality / hidden depth in games.
I mean, who doesn’t?
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
24 hour Civ 5 marathon with beer and the boys in my college days.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
…well. What happened???
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
It was just amazing to hang out and focus on playing a game deeply for 24 straight hours with my two closest friends. Can’t recall otherwise being so pleased with how I spent my time.
OrionTheElder@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Playing Halo co-op with my wife.
towamo7603@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I also choose playing with this guy’s wife.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wandering around in Morrowind before I really knew what I was doing, being happy just to find a few coins in a tree stump or a crappy dagger.
Other games have given more extreme emotions. But no other game has instilled such a joyous sense of wonder.
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Killing Vivec and then getting the message about being doomed was probably my favorite “oh shit” moment of all time.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Meeting my wife on Elder Scrolls Online has got to be number one, but we didn’t even play the game very long to be honest lol.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I met my wife playing Rock Band. It was definitely a top gaming moment. But I didn’t realize at the time what it would lead to eventually.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oh for sure, us either. We were guild mates for a while, then friends, then partners! The process took years.
B0NK3RS@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I play games with my wife every now and then and it’s great. I wouldn’t say regularly but every few months we’ll play something like State of Decay 2 or Astroneer and get really in to it for a week.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I didn’t think anyone did.
PmMeFrogMemes@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Red Dead Redemption, when crossing into Mexico for the first time and the sun starts setting and Far Away by Jose Gonzalez starts playing. That shit blew my mind.
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I still get goosebumps from that song for this reason! Nick Drake’s Three Hours gives me a similar feeling.
How_do_I_computah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know if these are the most joy but some good memories.
When I first saw Mario 64 in Toys R Us I was awestruck. Just unbelievable. Mario in 3D.
When I was playing Ocarina of Time I was hunting Poes in Hyrule field on Epona. I fell asleep because it was late. When I woke up the game was still running. Nothing overheated. Nothing killed me in game. No loud jarring noises. I wasnt late for anything. I just woke up and started hunting Poes again.
A friend and I were staying up late playing one of the early Kings Quest games where you can dial a 900 number to help you if you got stuck. This was back when save points where maybe once every 10 minutes if you’re lucky. We had gotten to a really verbose riddle that we were supposed to have found a clue for earlier in the game but missed it. We just figured out the riddle and guessed it on the first try. It was an unbelievable triumph.
evening_push579@feddit.nu 17 hours ago
Growing up:
- playing Perfect Dark either story coop or battle simulator with my best friend or brother
- getting totally immersed in Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask
- Silent Hill 2 and 3 with best friend
- playing Star Craft online until way too late, also with best friend
- not only joy maybe, but FFX was very memorable for me
- organising Xbox lan parties at our house playing 16 player death matches in Halo
Adult:
- Getting a Switch totally re-ignited my gaming passion. Having a full time work and family it is hard to find the time to sit down and focus on a game, the Switch with its quick sleep/on/off and tv/mobile feature changed that. I felt like a teenager again when I lost track of time (usually late at night) while playing Breath of the Wild and the Xenoblade series
- FFXIV and getting immersed once again in a game world
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 23 hours ago
Dialing in to a local BBS to play 4-player deathmatch DooM 2, circa 1995.
otp@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Rock Band 2. Bladder of Steel achievement playing with a full band of 4 (locally).
It’s playing the entire setlist of 84 or so songs all the way through in one sitting. Without pausing or failing.
We did it with all instruments on Medium, but we did it! (I could pass anything on Expert, but maybe not all the way through. My friends were borderline Hard players at best, so Medium was the only way we’d ever be able to do it together)
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Wow that does sound incredible
anakin78z@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Playing Solasta. Our D&D group had fallen apart, and we just didn’t seem to be able to get a new game together. Solasta scratched that D&D itch like no game before it has. My wife got really into it, too, so we ended up playing for hundreds of hours together.
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not too long after it came out I was good at Siege and I mean good I was ranked in the top 1000 players and I thought that was pretty badass. I got a DM from some guy who was like “Hey I’m from TEAM and we wanted to know if you wanted to try out for our Siege squad?” I said thanks but no thanks, I have a mortgage and a full time and then some job. I dont want to take on the obligation.
I then went and googled the team, I was being courted by serious professional players. I still decided I didnt want that headache but as someone who has always been an underachiever it was like an IRL achievement popup or a level up notification. Like… look what I can achieve when I actually give a fuck and put the work in.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
KOTOR. just existing in a Star Wars world and becoming a Jedi. really have no idea why we can’t have another Jedi RPG, do you not like money Disney?
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well we’ve had a couple Jedi RPG-lites in the Fallen Order series.
But nothing quite like KotOR I’ll give you that. They just had incredible atmospheres on each planet. I loved the city planets the most, like Taris, Nar Shaddaa, and Manaan.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
idunno, to me the heavy reliance on platforming and metroidvania-style traversal far outweighs any superficial RPG elements in those games. I just get annoyed rather than immersed in the game.
Symphonic@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Red dead redemption 2 really made me feel thankful for experiencing the story. It was a different kind of joy but it was very sad too.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
In college, quake 3 arena came out about a month into school. My roommate and I stayed up all night playing together. That was when we moved from roommates to friends.
lime@feddit.nu 14 hours ago
the ending of outer wilds, figuring out that the treasure really was the friends we made along the way, will always stand out to me as the most magnificent, joy-filled moment in my 25+ year gaming experience.
that, or getting the cool sunglasses in fez.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Far cry 2 team Deathmatch first team to 100 kills win on clearcut.
I got 55 of the required kills and was banned from using the 50cal sniper on all future games.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Far Cry 2 brought me joy experiencing the open world format. I fell in love with the desert at night there and now I try to visit real life arid regions at night.
kat@orbi.camp 1 day ago
That’s bad ass
tatterdemalion@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Clutch team killing in Rainbow Six Siege. A rare occurrence but so much adrenaline.
Hillcrest in The Last of Us 2. Never have I had so much fun trapping and hunting people down. It really brings out the psycho killer energy.
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I don’t know if that’s count, but I spent one Summer almost every night playing on an almost dead private WoW-Server with my Brother and my best Friend. Since we were only 3 People and the Server was almost empty, it felt like we had the whole World for us. This was such a fun time back then…
sith@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
That must have been really awesome. ❤️
zedgeist@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
Life is Strange, with the final decision of Bae vs Bay. It made me quit the game for two days before I came back and decided (Bae forever). I love a good, story-impactful decision. That might be weird in this context, but it was so great.
dubble_deee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Once when I was 8, a friend brought over his PS1 and Metal Gear Solid. We played pranks on the guards in the zone that has a bathroom using claymores and Nikita missiles and called snake the Toilet Stalker. Peak 8 year old humor, I couldn’t breathe from laughing.
Another in High school, visited my older sister in the dorms and the boy floors were having a massive halo Lan party since all the rooms were connected. I had never played a console shooter before but the guys were really welcoming and wanted me to join anyways. One match came down to a 1v1 with me and one of the good players, I almost got him with the sniper but lost. I wasn’t too bummed but afterwards everyone on the floor cheered me up. I stomped the same guy later that night in warcraft 3 and that one felt good.
catalyst@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Getting to the top of the mountain in Celeste. It may not be the hardest challenge in the game (screw you Farewell), but just arriving there with the soundtrack swelling felt so good.
Completing the golden path in Tunic.
Any number of silly things in FFXI that at the time probably felt immensely important.
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Unlocking the golden door was one of the greatest experiences I’ve had in video games.
essell@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mass Effect, almost certainly with plenty of honourable mentions to other games.
Peak is the Dramatic Scene at the end of ME1 after the final boss. Really really moved by events on Tuchunka and Rannoch.
Favourite moment outside Mass Effect, JC Denton saying “You’re gonna burn, alright”
Omgboom@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I once stole 20 billion Isk from a guy in Eve Online. I was hard for days.
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Beating Link’s Awakening as a kid. No internet no hints or help just hours of exploring when I was stuck on a puzzle. It’s so hard for me to get lost in a video game like that now and not just reach for an answer or check the internet to see what I’m doing wrong. It’s a shame now, I know links awakening now like the back of my hand and I’ll never get to explore a first play through of that game ever again.
Weslee@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Probably back on dota1 before matchmaking and meta and all that crap, you could play any hero in any role on any lane and everyone was mostly just having fun
hactar42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was in the military and we had this big conference table that could fit a good 12 people at. About once a month our boss would give us the key for the weekend and we’d play Unreal Tournament, Quake 3, and Red Alert 2 for 12-18 hours straight while pounding back Mountain Dew Code Red.
locahosr443@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Actually learning to fight effectively in kingdom come deliverance.
Or maybe beating those swarm motherfuckers in the first homeworld… First 2 examples that come to mind.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Staying up all night playing GoldenEye.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean…you just described large portions of 1997 and 1998. On the weekend.
Some houses had a rule. No oddjob. I had a different rule. You’re oddjob. It was no fun if it was an even fight. I needed a handicap to make it harder.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 day ago
thats one of the most badass statements ive ever read
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
1v1 where you’re expecting Oddjob is a lot different than 4P deathmatch where one guy is Oddjob. That’s where it’s a real dick move cause he’ll catch you by surprise.
Still, though. Respect.