What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨eru777@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrogaming@lemmy.world⁩

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For 90s kids, there will be no explanation necessary. For others, well, pokemon was a phenomenon. It was everywhere, on TV, in magazines, toys, stickers. You could trade pokemon at the school excursion on the bus. You felt alive in this world, pokemon gen 1-2 were the pinnacle of pokemon for me. And in gen2, finishing the game, and lo and behold, there’s a whole other region (kanto) waiting for you to explore it. The night cycle in the game blew my mind in ways that I have been chasing ever since. I know it will never be reached again, but the memory will remain as powerful as it was that evening of the early 00s. What is your greatest gaming high, that you know will never be topped again, and that you have been chasing ever since?

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afk_strats@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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MXX53@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  - MXX53@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  - olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’re out there collecting info maaaan. Information is the thing that unlocks new areas.
    
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Toes@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
When I was a young kid, I didn’t understand that the NPCs and game world were essentially fixed. I genuinely believed they were just as alive as I was, and was participating in their world.

I would go around following NPCs, try talking to them and felt like I was really helping someone when I would do quests and such. The games I remember that feeling the best was Zelda OOT & Majora’s Mask. Doing the couples mask quest line all on my own and my little notebook I kept track of what people needed was wild. Man I wish I didn’t lose that book so I could look at it again.

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- k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I was well-aware by the time I played OoT that NPC were just NPCs, but I think I felt the same bewilderment as you did when I first played Shenmue. I haven’t played in a long time so I’m not sure if it still holds up, but at the time, that world made me feel like the NPCs were real people with actual lives.
  
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
TFC “Sillyzone” server. so many fun mods and oddities like the dj/lightshow nights.

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veeesix@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Psycho Mantis

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- WhiteRice@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Revolver Ocelot
  
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  - AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Swimming Nougat.
    
    Did I do that right?
    
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trslim@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My Arma 3 Antistasi server. it was so fucking dope

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- boomzilla@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I only played Arma 3 for a very short time online but I spent quite some time in the simulator because I utterly feared to suck online (just like I spent more time with bots in CS2 then online). It was a glorious moment when I took over flying a heli in an online match and successfully transported a crew of players to the target location first try. I died pretty quick in the ensuing urban warfare though.
  
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Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
FF IX. I’ll never get that again.

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ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Crawmax. That was really fun with a group.
  
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- Drusas@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Borderlands 2 was fun, but Borderlands 1 is the game I replay.
  
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Canconda@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Halo 1 LAN parties

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- GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Damn- I wish LAN parties were still a thing. The vibe was unmatched
  
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- Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Unreal Tournament LAN parties.
  
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  - porcelainpitcher@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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- BigDaddySlim@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same except Marathon 2
  
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