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• Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Halo 1 LAN parties

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unreal Tournament LAN parties.

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    • porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit. I was trying to think of an answer and this is probably it. Unreal was indeed unreal. Once I got used to the pace of the game it was on. Saddle me up with Speed Boost & a Flak Canon.

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  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, Halo 3 custom games with full lobbies and super creative customs. Honestly, just Halo 3 in general

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same except Marathon 2

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Splinter cell: Pandora Tomorrow.

    Spies v Mercenaries, screens were set back to back so you couldn’t peek at the other team. We were rotating around for a while before people settled into their preferred play style and shit got intense.

    I miss that game.

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  • GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn- I wish LAN parties were still a thing. The vibe was unmatched

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• everett@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know what you mean about Gold and Silver. Everything you mentioned, plus events that happened on specific days of the week, “mystery gift” functionality via IR, and more stuff I’m forgetting. There were also radio stations you could “listen” to (read text) that made the world feel alive.

  Even in gen 1, trading/battling revived link-cable culture, which I’d only ever seen people use for Tetris, years before.

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• HerrVorragend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Planetside 2.

  Was pretty new to the game and just wsndering around as a sniper when a guy in a transport pulled up and told me to get in.

  Boarded the transport and drove around for a bit when we crossed a hill that sat above an enemy camp.

  I jumped out as he drove on and started scouting the camp from the hill. Felt a bit lonely and asking myself if jumping out here was a good idea at all.

  After a while, I chose to shoot and see where it lands to see how high I need to aim to adjust for bullet drop.

  Suddenly I hear a loud ‘boom’ and an explosion roughly where I was shooting at. Then another ‘boom’ and another explosion.

  Turned around to be surprised by 5 friendly tanks in one line behind me unloading at the enemy camp.

  After about 20 more seconds, my hill was swarmed with all kinds of friendly tanks and personell, just blasting away at the camp.

  It was as if I went from a lonely scout newb to somehow spearheading the attack, which felt really cool.

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  • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was late to planetside starting in 2018, then a haitus and then playing the shit out of it from 2020-24

    Getting a level 80 asp 2 NSO (I’m not insane I’m not insane)

    But for me I suck at the game, drift my pancake dervish over a lib and perfect swing around keeping my Gub trained in him at all time

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Planetside 2 is incredible for facilitating “greatest gaming high” moments.

    I just hopped back in a few weeks ago after probably six or seven years, and it’s still an absolute blast when the population is high enough.

    Amazing game. Sad it’s falling off, but glad there are still at least occasionally enough players to enjoy it as it was meant to he enjoyed

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  • TunaLobster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been playing it for too long. Varying styles of play is really interesting when combined with the carried map and scale of battle. Not that everything in the game scales well, but what does scale makes it very interesting.

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• afk_strats@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The awe and grandeur of Occarina Of Time… at the time.

  Disco Elysium is the best literature I’ve ever played.

  I still feel like used to live in Skyrim. It was a place where I wanted to be and explore.

  TF2/Halo CE multilayer mix of copetitive adrenaline and funny shenanigans

  Those are the game experiences which stuck with me.

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• Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After dragging my long suffering mum around every shop that might possibly still have a copy of The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and finally getting what must have been the last one anywhere.

  We then have to go and do a whole load of other things all afternoon while I read the manual from back to front about a dozen times in the back of the car, getting more and more excited.

  Then we finally got home but I had to help with dinner first and then eat all the while jabbering incessantly about how amazing it was going to be while I’m sure she just rolled her eyes and said “yes dear” and then I was finally allowed to put the N64 on and I then sat glued to it for hours in a state of wonder and amazement.

  Truly the best experience I’ve ever had gaming.

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• SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Psycho Mantis

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  • WhiteRice@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Revolver Ocelot

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Swimming Nougat.

      Did I do that right?

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• veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The decision of waking the Wind Fish in Link’s Awakening broke something in me at such a young age that I don’t think I’ve since experienced as profoundly.

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• mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Playing Wing Commander very late at night, hit a large glass water bottle off the table with my elbow, and catch it with the same arm/hand before it reaches the floor to shatter and wake up the whole family.

  Peak reaction times induced by VideoGame adrenaline never reached again.

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• MXX53@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a few from childhood, but the gaming high I am chasing now is whatever Outer wilds was. A beautiful story told through exploration and discovery. I just want to go back and experience for the first time again.

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    d00d. I keep trying to play it. The world resets and I’m like wtf is going on? Something is not clicking for me. Boy do I suck at piloting too.

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    • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re out there collecting info maaaan. Information is the thing that unlocks new areas.

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    • MXX53@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all suck at piloting lol. I have crashed into the sun, planets, etc over and over again. You get better at it with time though.

      Best thing I did when playing that game was to stop trying to figure it out, and just start letting my curiosity drive me. Things intrigued me, and that drove me to go try and figure it out. Eventually the pieces start to come together. When I felt stuck or confused, I just went somewhere else and poked around for a bit elsewhere.

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  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you beat the echoes of wisdom DLC? It’s fucking incredible and easily on par with the base game if not better

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    • MXX53@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did. Loved it. Echoes of the eye is a really good addition to the based game and honestly other than the base game, the only game I have very been choked up at.

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• Nalivai@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Morrowind. Playing it, modding it, breaking it, trying to fix mods, writing new mods, all of it. Morrowind was so fun, for some time it convinced me that Bethesda might be a competent company

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah modding it…I remember, for some reason, whenever I wanted to make a new NPC, everyone in the world reacted as if I were naked. I have no idea what that was about!

    …so I just did goofy stuff like putting a ton of that ice ore chunk stuff in a barrel right next to the guy that makes you ice armor in Bloodmoon. <_<

    I also made a fun house in Balmora with a bunch of replenishing colorful torches (I LOVE the light sources in this game) and embedded tons of chests in the walls, since the poor sucker it belonged to never would go inside. XD

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• gary@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The absolute peak of gaming for me was the first time I got stoned out of my mind and played Minecraft. Probably like... circa 2012. I've never been able to get back to that place ever since lmao the colors were so vibrant, each pixel was absolutely perfectly placed. The light grey ui elements in your inventory... everything just tied together so perfect. It was like seeing a new color for the first time, but then every time after that is just, eh...

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  • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had similar experience with alcohol and horizon zero dawn. I can remember so much about that night despite the liquor.

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• sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The immersive world of Oblivion (Elder Scrolls IV). Morrowind had been great, but the high-fantasy realism of Oblivion blew Morrowind away. Skyrim wasn’t as immersive for me, mostly because the guilds and other side-stories weren’t as deeply developed. Oblivion remains THE high water mark for open world RPGs.

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Skyrim has the best bars in any video game that I know of. I used to dump all my crap on the floor of the Whiterun tavern, so the npcs would kick it around as they moved. Hundreds of baskets and pans and garbage items. I’d leave the game running as I slept, listening to the trash being kicked, local gossip, awful minstrel, and pleasant sounds of people drinking.

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    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What a mental image that is.

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  • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oblivion was the only game that came close to how I felt the first time I stepped out of the dungeon and opened the world map of Daggerfall. I couldn’t stop making new characters that I wanted to explore the world with.

    But Oblivion really was something special too. Felt like an alive fantasy world.

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    • BrianTheFirst@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve been chasing that Daggerfall high for so long. Oblivion and Morrowind were amazing, but they didn’t quite get me there.

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• Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FF IX. I’ll never get that again.

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Playing the Mass Effect Trilogy for the first time.

  Sure the ending was a bit disappointing, but the ride was absolutely phenomenal.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The ending of ME2 alone makes the whole trilogy worth it IMHO. I dare say that’s just about a “perfect game.”

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    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup. Especially with The Arrival DLC.

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• ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I want to feel that time again when we ran a mod-packed Minecraft server with friends and we built a whole city with really creative and elaborate structures and cool tech. Everyone had their speciality and it all came together perfectly.

  Nowadays none of us have the time anymore to get lost in games for weeks and months like that. Also it’s hard to get back into it after such a long pause. Everything has changed so much.

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I doubt anybody’s gonna actually use it much, but I’m currently setting up a Minetest/Luanti Voxelibre server accessible to friends and fam through TailScale on my home server.

    I thought it’d be so neat having a world running whether I was there to see it or not.

    But yeah, I know I won’t get that community aspect of having a digital third-place the people in my life can just vibe. =\

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  • Charzard4261@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Aww man, the memories of making a garden base for Botania outside my friend’s Thaumcraft witch tower, across a river where your could see a Buildcraft quarry running next to someone’s industrial complex… Good times!

    Tried playing Cobblemon with the idea to make our own themed towns but just like you there doesn’t seem to be time for it anymore :(

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• ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Man, I was playing Borderlands (1) on PC, playing as Roland with the support gunner class mod. I had a couple of Tediore legendaries, I believe it was the revolver and the combat rifle, and I just reached this zen state near the end of the game, shooting at these seemingly endless waves of enemies just coming from everywhere. thanks to the guns and class mod I never had to worry about picking up ammo, it was just constantly spitting lead in every direction, and it just clicked, it was golden and beautiful.

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  • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Borderlands 2 was fun, but Borderlands 1 is the game I replay.

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  • Drusas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only way that Borderlands 2 was a real improvement over the first one was the auto money picku to-up. I know many or most will disagree with me, but I don't care. I have beaten both games more than once and I always go back to the first one. I find it much funnier than the second, and the second went overboard with the variety of weapons to the extent that everything was basically garbage. I did enjoy using keys to get mystery loot, though.

    Also, Bloodwing for life.

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Crawmax. That was really fun with a group.

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• Naz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I lived and breathed Morrowind.

  But I’ve got optimistic insane news for you all

  IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN

  I’m playing a game called Kenshi and it feels like it’s 2003!

  I’m at the verge of tears. Chase that gaming high, YOU’LL FIND IT!!!

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  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go.”

    –Jiub

    Truly loved Morrowind. The first game that I played that had such a powerful construction set!

    I’m still enjoying OpenMW to this day, when I can, in my adult life. Also (can’t find the image at the moment)

    YoU wOuLdN’T sTeAL a LiMeWaRe PlaTteR!!

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  • mikedd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are we soulmates!? I lived and breathed Morrowind too! I’ve got Kirkbride’s concept art tattooed all over my body, hehe.

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• Seasm0ke@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The first two weeks of Pokemon go were like peace on earth. Everyone was friendly, excited, and walking around outside together, chatting with perfect strangers was actually a blast for once. We shared tips and locations, exchanged numbers, metup after work, cops were largely unmotivated to do anything about it because of how many of us and how wholesome it really was. Honestly best 2 weeks of my life

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  • LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was trying to think of an answer and when I got to yours, I found myself remembering that time and that gaming high that game collectively gave everyone. And then they took away the step tracker, and while I still played daily until 2018, taking that away really took some gas out of the game. I don’t know what else to call it so hopefully you understand what I’m referring to. The thing that helped you find the pokemon and whether you were going in the right direction or not.

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got sick of all the Pidgeys so quit after a week. I did come back to it eventually… and then quit again when they over-enshittified it

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• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably Halo Reach Forge mode, couch co-op with a friend of mine. We’d spend countless hours building bases, doing races, all sorts of stuff in Forge. We played other stuff in Reach too but Forge was always my favourite.

  We haven’t spoken in years. We used to be super close, I hope he’s doing alright.

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• Anubis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Bioshock, the first one at the end. “Would you kindly”. I lost my mind.

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  • fefellama@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is the same thing I thought of as well. Blew my mind at the time.

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  • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Um … I definitely saw that coming. Gorgeous game tho. The sequels … meh.

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• Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Learning I only beat half of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and then playing the rest. And then playing it again and again, and finding new crazy weapons I’d never seen before. Learning that some weapons (like Sword of Dawn) do something other than just slash. Later reading GameFaqs .txt guides to learn about even more stuff I had no idea about, so end up playing it even more.

  And playing Final Fantasy 7 right before all of that. When the demo disc of Final Fantasy 7 came out (inside a Playstation Underground magazine), I lost me shit. I had loved, loved, loved FF4 and 6 (2 and 3 in the US), and 7 was just insane. The graphics, the music, everything. Absolutely revolutionary. That game was a reason to buy a PS1. I remember maxing out the playtime at 99 hours in my first playthrough.

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DOOM II. Sinking the final rocket into the demon’s brain on L30 Icon of Sin. I did it before Z-axis engines like ZDoom. 30 years ago? Something like that.
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  The very last level is worthy. You must train in order to finish it. I could not do it today without a month or two of practice.
  These days if I want that rush, I boot up DOOM 2016 and play the first level on Ultra-Nightmare Arcade.

  I did enjoy killing every last Brotherhood of Steel member in the airbase and then blowing up the Institute in FO4. That wasn’t a rush, it was a culmination of about 800 hours. I was done. Kill em all now.

  More recently, the first time I killed the final boss in Risk of Rain 2 was quite satisfying. Took about 3 months.

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  • Teppichbrand@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey, just in case people don’t know: There is a very lively community still playing Doom II. There are incredible mods and maps, from minor addons to gamechanging mechanics. I love Brutal Doom for it’s modern shooter feel and the pixel-gore. But there is loads of other stuff, years of fun!

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    • dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ya, Brutal Doom is the fukin shit. Killer. Really. With lots of blood.
      I have Selaco on my Steam wishlist. I’ll get it someday.

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    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looks phenomenal.

      I was recently so excited to discover Fortress Forever also, which is the old TFC game. I dominated in that.

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• djdarren@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m forever looming for a game that’ll affect me emotionally as much as Arthur’s last ride in RDR2. I still can’t hear that Daniel Lanois track without feeling all of the feelings, and it’s been a good few years since I played it.

  Absolutely remarkable experience.

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• the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Chrono Trigger, and finishing the games first full arc. What would normally be the end literally showed me that this game had so much more, which expanded the more I played it.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I still maintain that Chrono Trigger was the masterpiece of the SNES. Not of its genre, not just the best RPG on the platform, not just a standout for being ahead of its time.

    What got me about Chrono Trigger is the crux of the 1000 AD cast’s main quest, wherein the three kids from the present become accidental time travelers and complete what amounts to an entire young adult novel’s narrative arc where they manage to rescue Princess Nadia/Marle from the past and marginally improve history, and in any other story that is where the Happily Ever After would go and the end credits would roll. But via extended highjinks they ultimately wind up gaining some future foreknowledge of the Day of Lavos after witnessing its aftereffects first hand.

    These three are not heroes or warriors (Crono possibly notwithstanding, since he’s already suspiciously good with a katana) and were not called upon by the gods. None of them are any kind of chosen one. There is no ancient prophecy. They are not the scions of a past fellowship of heroes who saved the world from an ancient evil generations ago. No villain has burned down their village in the first act. They aren’t facing much real adversity or hardship in their lives, none of them really have a secret and tragic past, and they all have homes they could go back to pretty much at any time and forget about all of this.

    They’re just three kids. Lavos isn’t their problem, or even the next generation’s problem, or the generation after that. It won’t rise to destroy the world anywhere near their lifetimes, and they’re certainly not powerful enough in that moment to do anything about it anyway.

    But it’s Marle who decides right then and there, no. Fuck that shit. Without hesitation. No one else can time travel and change the past, at least as far as the three of them know. As Marle says, this can’t be the way the world ends. They have to try.

    There are so few RPG stories of that time where the decision to embark on the quest to save the world is left to the player characters’ own agency, and so neatly aligns with what the player would probably want to do themselves.

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• Tilgare@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think it’s a pretty easy call for me - World of Warcraft raiding was some of the most fun I’ve ever had gaming. The pinnacle was probably when my guild got Realm First! Fall of the Lich King (25-man heroic). We spent MONTHS grinding away at it - we had the 10-man realm first achievement as well and could clear heroic with a variety of group comps, 2 or 3 groups per week would run on off-raid nights. But for 25-man heroic, we could clear the rest of the raid in 2-3 hours as I recall, so we’d take some swings at him on night 1 and then we’d spend 2 full raid nights on The Lich King - the final boss of Ice Crown Citadel raid and in fact the final boss of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.

  For SEVEN months we did this. He was tough af. He had a number of abilities where a single person fucks up and either the whole raid wipes immediately, or it rapidly snowballs out of control otherwise. So after a month’s long uphill fight, and with competing guilds just as close as we were, it was an INSANE moment when we got our realm first kill. It was such a ridiculous high, everyone screaming with relief and excitement. The realm second kill happened that same night, too - so we just narrowly managed to earn our server first kill.

  We continued with realm firsts in the Cataclsym expansion on Sinestra, Ragnaros, and Deathwing. I got my first and only legendary weapon - Dragonwrath this expansion. And finally the Mists of Pandaria expansion was the beginning of the end for our guild as a lot of long time players like myself started falling off, so after earning #1 for the first raid tier, things slipped from there. I had a ton of personal victories in game too - after earning Dragonwrath, the most esteemed of all was earning the achievement Insane in the Membrane.

  And yet - none of those other victories remotely compared to that first kill of the Lich King. It was truly a special moment.

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My first Wrecking Ball achievement is probably the peak of WoW for me. Orc warrior SMASH

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    • Tilgare@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I never did get too into PVP - I did enough arena to get a bunch of low hanging achievements and always enjoyed the occasional casual battleground, especially when there was a lot of downtime between patches… But otherwise PVE was my jam.

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mech Assault 1 & 2, particularly 2. The two most memorable boss fights for me was the mid game one where you fight some giant robot bull thing in a tiny exosuit while Getting Away with Murder by Papa Roach Plays, and the final fight where you fight a half built giant mech again in the exosuit while Right Now by Korn plays.

  Also I really liked Halo 2 for the banshee dogfight with Follow by Incubus in the background and the big Mausoleum fight at the end of Gravemind with Blow Me Away by Breaking Benjamin plays; the part where the doors open and the bell starts to toll chefs kiss. Oh and the whole level where you drive a tank up the bridge chasing down a Scarab too.

  Also, why has there been no remake of Crimson Skies yet? That game was so much damn fun. I miss the dog fighting and crazy guns.

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  • __hetz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For a very brief moment in time I held the leaderboard for the Bowman in Mech Assault. I think the main contender at the time was a total loudmouth and XBL Forum regular with the gamertag “GeorgeTheGreek.” A certified shit talker, but he was also damned good with that Mech. One of my fondest memories of the game was using the Bowman to stomp someone in an Atlas on the city map (River City?). I hadn’t seen it done before, and most others in the lobby must not have either, because a bunch of them went ape. My team might’ve still gone on to lose, I seem to recall the map meta being “pick a Mad Cat and sit back sniping,” but that moment was worth any outcome.

    OG Xbox Live was probably my favorite console experience after Quake 3 Arena on Dreamcast. I wouldn’t own a console after the 360. My next favorite console experience was when a buddy got Mortal Kombat 2 online for his PS3. One regular, whose name I’ve forgotten, would bust out all the old glitches (could’ve been using a macro controller) but it was the first time I’d send Fatality Friendship on the Kombat Tomb stage. Another had a novelty account named “ItsTheToe” that always played as Liu Kang. Anyone familiar with MK2 would know his crouching low kick was this stupid stick-his-toe-out move that was nearly impossible for any of the ninjas to jump kick into. Absolutely hilarious when I first encountered them, then frustrating but rewarding having to relearn my favorite three characters to deal with them.

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    • cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You just reminded me, I also played the shit out of Unreal Tournament 3 and briefly held a double digit rank in Team Capture the Flag. Loved that game overall and I liked the addition of that hoverboard.

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• Greddan@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Saints Row Co-op over systemlink with a monitor each up on the sofa table (also a bong each on the sofa table).

  Star Wars Galaxies before the horrible updates and Jedi inflation.

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rhythm Doctor boss stages. Each one is an amazing showcase of visuals on a rhythm game with the simplest control scheme ever. And the game’s final stage, the full release is in December 10.

  With each stage exceeding my expectations by a long shot, I can’t wait to see what they’ll do this time.

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• BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Beating halo final level with wife in co-op

  Sonic 2 all emeralds, no deaths Metal Slug in the arcade

  Any clutch ending

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• quinkin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ark Survival Evolved.

  Waking up on the beach, getting insta-murdered by a raptor.

  Managing to meet up with your mates, building a hut, thinking you are doing ok and carno eats you and your hut in the night.

  Taming your first T rex, stomping about monching everything, thinking you are doing ok, then suddenly giga eats you and everything you love.

  Wish I could recapture that feeling.

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