ITT: things in games that used to impress you

ITT: things in games that used to impress you

>Holy shit the level is on a moving train.

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>Children being killed at school

that still would impress me, honestly

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The first game I played in 3D, (I only had Demos and not true 3D shit on PS1) Was Kingdom Hearts.
The memories of running around that beach with full camera control and exploring Traverse Town give me goosebumps to this day. It blew my fucking mind.

When hand models in 3D games started having individual fingers modeled.

>YOU CAN BREAK THE WALLS OMG

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>A game translated into spanish? Neat
>Wait, the voices too? Holy fucking shit

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I thought the dynamic clouds in Wind Waker was the coolest shit.

You can kind of sea when they repeat though

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I miss TECHNOLOGY so much

Scrolling backgrounds. On a Gameboy game.

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in reality, the train in this gif is static, it's the background that is moving

¡Esneik! ¿Te gustaron mis gafas de sol?

console ports on handhelds, mario 64 ds blew my mind

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The dub is A+ tier too.

Day/night cycles blew me away. Later on, especially with the GameCube, how the time of day you played affected gameplay.

Wasn't this level also an autoscroller? It helped add to that illusion.

Lots of neat tricks to make it feel and look like it should without actually being more complicated.

shame about the lisp desu

>Holy shit you can jump from the foreground into the background

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>sea
Heh

Mode 7 was literally the future

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this
in Bad Company 2 I always had grenade launchers / rpgs just to make my way through walls

>X SAID A SWEAR?????!
"MOM! MOM!! GET THE BIBLE!"

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Fishes that move out the way in CoD Ghosts. Truly the peak of technology.
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>"YOU CAN ORDER A PIZZA AND THEY WILL DELIVER IT TO YOU?!"

I remember playing VII and running to tell my parents about the part where Bass said "Damn"

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Metroid Prime rain

>Grew up playing NES and SNES games
>We were always a generation behind
>Make new friend at school
>Go over to his place one day
>"What is that thing?"
>"That's an N64"
>He starts up Ocarina of Time
>It's in 3D!
>3D!
>LIKE PEOPLE ARE!
>WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

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Honestly Sea of Thieves water is the first thing to impress me since Metroid Prime rain.

The water physics in Sea of Thieves is pretty much the only good thing about that game, so it doesn't really surprise me.

I was very impressed when I first saw Virtua Fighter, it was the first real 3D game I've seen and it looked like sci-fi to me at the time. I also remember being super impressed the first time I played FFVII and got to the overworld map, an entire 3D world to explore!

The last time I've been super impressed with a game was HL2 I think, it looked amazing and the physics were incredible.

Man the french dub was terrible. Well, it was funny at least.

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>Holy shit the level is on a moving train.
This, but in Uncharted 2.

>holy shit, bump mapping in a Wii game!

I was a brainlet and didn't know the difference between environment-mapped bump mapping and the regular kind.

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>Tu veux qu'on se tire l'oreille?

The weird thing about MGS games is that they made multi-language voice acting only for the first game. After it they scrapped that down and made them only english and japanese.

Not that I really mind because I'm kind of a "always prefer the original voice acting language" kind of nerd and I know english quite well but it really puts things in perspective.

>Colonel, tu me caches quelque chose?

I guess it works if you play the game like a low budget Z movie. Which given Kojima's abysmal writing is pretty appropriate I suppose.

yeah, I prefer original voices now, but when MGS2 came with english voices I was mad.

Similar experience.
>only play DOS games like Rayman, Aladdin and some educational crap
>get a N64 from flea market
>boot up Super Mario 64
>"It's a me, Mario!"
>HOLY SHIT IT'S 3D

I only played with the japanese audio in the MGS2 ZoE demo (since IIRC that was the only option) and I remember quite liking it. I can't can't really stand Hayther's voice to be honest.

>The water is so realistic in this game

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>Man thats a lot of buttons. You can do so many things with that.

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>The corpses dont dissapear or sink into the ground? And what is this, they have... physics!!??

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Fucking this!

I honestly wonder why those games kinda died out on console. We have Path of Exile on Xbox One and Diablo 3 on anything but Nintendo consoles, but Baldures Gate: DA and that other series were pretty comfy.

Not sure what happened to my text, but I thought it was cool that the game had anime cutscenes.

Champions of Norath?r

I dont know and dont care about apeland spanish dub but the actual spanish dub had god tier voiceactors (The ones used for disney and hollywood movies) and a flawless translation.

omg that wario game was so fun

Mode 7
Scrolling layers

Yes! I enjoyed BG:DA more but Champions of Norath was fine too.

You mean to tell me there are multiple ways to get through the level!?? wow wtf.

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the PSP

it's like a nut you can play with outside

>megaman X2 the robot guy looks 3D as fuck, totally floored
>Any 3D on SNES
>loved jurassic Park, Toy Story, Star Fox
>fzero too, but I didn't really appreciate the framerate until N64, where its 60 fps definitely stood out
>cg animation in portraits of mario kart 64 and mario party 1 looked impossible
>goldeneye having loads of enemy death animations depending on how you shot them
>mario vs dk gba looking 3d, pissed me off when g4 compared it to sonic advance and said mario had worse graphics
>first gc game played was melee
>first level i saw was dreamland, got gotted by the reflections

What about the 3d look on golden sun. Shit boy, that game still holds up. Also I used to be impressed if the water reacted if you shot at it. Honestly, I used to be impressed if I turned the console off and the game saved. Most my SNES games I had to beat in one sitting because I they wouldn't save.

Also setpiece moments where a chopper falls in front of you used to be impressive. Or taking down one down via rpg used to be a big holy shit moment.

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It's like a book but in video game form. It was my first rpg besides pokemon(which I didn't even know was an rpg at the time.

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Fond memories exist of my friends and I, all on our PSPs, downloading porn outside of the lawyer's office because it was one of the few places in town that had wifi.

I was the guy with the hentai

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>I was the guy with the hentai
Based

>Game comes out in US and UK
>Despite sharing a language, they deside to redub it.
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In Grandia 2, many of the spell and skill effects were overlayed or straight up cutscenes.
I loved that

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>only RPG I ever played was Pokemon growing up
>play Disgaea 1's shitty DS port on my toaster laptop at age 13
>really like the world and the characters, the game being set in hell really appealed to my edgy teen self
>play a bit and unlock the option to use Specials
>Etna can use the move "Impaler"
>what's this do
>my fucking face when seeing her leap into the air, clutch the spear and crash down on the enemy unit's head with it before doing a sick backflip to the panel behind her
I was pretty much hooked on the series after that. It's been almost 10 years and I'm still a Disgaea fanatic.

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I wish I could get into them. I just burn out on them so quickly.

Is Item World even worth doing for anything but the best of the best equipment?

>take my dsi to high school
>playing the only game i have
>dsiware bird and beans game
>nigger asks to take a go but makes a nigger scene about it
>big bully of the bus takes notice
>ayo y u playin that kiddy shit
>nigger hands it back, says its his
>you fuckin 10 or something
>"Uuuuuh, it has a camera... (?)"
>O cool then, nevermind
Felt so good, fuck normies

Wait, holy shit I never knew that, I loved Gex thank god I played the PAL version.

Why is the US voice so fucking garbage?

Never realized it before, but that IS pretty snazzy

If you're just playing through Disgaea's story, item world is an absolute non requirement outside the obligatory tutorial. If you want better equips, simply pass the "More Expensive Stuff" bill at the Dark Assembly.
People call it da grindin game but grinding isn't requried for the main story either so long as you manage your party's exp division properly. Think of it like Pokemon, you wouldn't train 10 different Pokemon during the main game right? The same applies to Disgaea, try to keep your party between 5 to 7 units and you'll never be under leveled again.

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WOW and i actually liked the american one too

RTS on Game Boy Color

Best part? It's actually a pretty fun game. Very simple in that you only get 3 types of basic units (Worker, Archer, Warrior), the VERY rare Dragon, 1 defensive building, and buildings for increasing pop. cap

But you also got collectible wizards that all had varying abilities. One would just light a unit on fire. Another would just freeze him. One could turn a unit into a chicken. Another could fuck up an area with a tornado. My favorite was the one that gave a unit the plague so they became a walking bomb. When they exploded, they would spread the disease to every unit nearby. It would FUCK UP armies.

Game even had two different campaigns where you played as the humans or the beasts. At the end of the mission, your leftover units would be added to a running stock that you could use to battle your friend.

Massive injustice that the sequel was cancelled. If I had an ounce of talent, I'd like to make a spiritual sequel to it.

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>handheld rts
you reminded me of this. Played it a lot

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>Have a SEGA Genesis in 2001
>Played the shit out of it when I was little, like 4 at the time
>Before I learned to read I would have my grandparents read me game manuals so I could figure them out
>Yeah sure get to the Bible stories later I need to learn how special stages work
>One day my older brother and I get into a fight
>He accidentally hits the AV cable and destroys the video output
>Being retards parents don't realize it's just a cable, throw out the whole thing and its games
>they see me feeling bad about it
>Suddenly
>Christmas 2001
>Dad comes home with a big box
>It's massive, literally couldn't lift it myself
>hooks it up
>It's an XBOX
>He bought me Blinx the Time Sweeper and Crash WoC
>Seeing 3D for the first time
>Hearing CD audio and VA for the first time
>Surround Sound
>Rewinding time and shit
>Saving my progress
The shit that's most basic nowadays used to blow my fucking mind

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And the OST was fucking banging

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I used to feel like I had entered the fucking FUTURE when I would load up killer instinct.
I still get this intense feeling when I play it.

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Didn't they do this with Ape Escape?

I only recently played this and it still impressed me.

This was my first Super Nintendo game and it blew my fucking mind.

PD truly was a beacon of TECHNOLOGY at the time.
>all those secondary fire modes
>x-ray visor and a gun that scopes through walls
>all those animated and voice acted cutscenes
>NPCs that tell you to piss off if you do weird shit around them
>camspy, fly-by-wire rockets
>disarming enemies, shooting the guns out of their hands

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classic

Half-Life's opening tram ride was incredible to me. Ditto for the innumerable mods for it?
>What? There's a matrix mod? Holy shit I killed that guy while backflipping!
Half-Life 2's ragdolls fucking awed me for YEARS.
Do you remember the AMV that was on youtube a decade ago showcasing all the no mercies from KI and KI2?

Yuna in FFX. Impress doesn't cut it. She's literally the closest thing we've ever come to an archetypal representation of the perfect woman.

>Gentle and friendly, but not overly naive
>Knows how and when to say no and put a line in the sand
>Considerate of other people's feelings, but still considers her own as well
>Knows that people depends on her, and always tries to stay strong and stand tall both in leadership as well as support
>Doesn't use own hardships as an excuse to put other people down
>Forgiving to honest mistakes, but remembers betrayal
>Modest, wholesome, and collected. Sees that life is more than instantaneous pleasure, and will sacrifice the present for the future, a sign of wisdom.

I could go on. I have spend my entire youth looking for the closest approximation to Yuna I could possibly find. Every other female character stand in the shadow of Yuna.

Then X-2 happened and turned the woman into a fucking caricature of a teen girl refusing to grow up

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Shit nigga i played that
Whats the name,?

>tfw played half life many years after it came out and was not impressed. That is until the final area in the main game where you are on this like casket thing going through this massive complex for 5 minutes.

Yuna is such an unbelievably boring character. "ideal waifu" is the worst archetype.

t. Rikku

>dad hates vidya
>but busts on the scene with an xbox hueg
>fuuuckkkkk
>only had up to n64
>bought off some latin muchachos for 40 bucks
>no cables or vidya
>reflect on decisions because nintenbro
>see bob and steve
>want
>get pt thinking its ct
>blown the FUCK away
>absolutely loving shooting lights out
>still haven't unlocked coop mode
>discover ct
>bootup, HOLEEE SHIIIIIT
>most gorgeous game i would have for a long time
>so many new mechanics, cutting cloth
>more and better everything, 10/10
>get xbox live
>the coop is its own entirely separate 10/10 campaign
>asston of TECHNOLOGY
>guards hear voice chat, etc.
>chilling and exploring maps with bros
>Versus mode is BEST XBOX LIVE EXPERIENCE TO DATE, 20/10
>has free DLC maps which I didn't know was possible
>there's even a fucking trailer for a movie in the extras

Sure fucking sold me on xbox, I'll tell you that much. Splinter cell was designed for og xbox controller

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>Xbox HD port is console exclusive

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for me it was ragnarok online
>what you can talk to all these people in real time? you can fight together and trade items?

Killzone was my fucking jam.

mech platoon, gba

tsunderes are shit and so are you

Runescape og. Looked like paper but damn was it immersive. Then they added trumpet music and everything looked worse but the game was way better.

Wasn't this the game where the pizza delivery guy has needlessly sophisticated pathfinding AI, way beyond anything else in the game?

>explorable CI base
>computer terminals with intel and lore on them
>shitton of guns, multiplayer levels and gamemodes
>co-op campaign
>bots with different playstyles as well as skill levels
The team really went balls out on that one.

Good for you, paelladudes. Us pastafags got a very laughable voiceover wich is regarded today for its so-bad-it's-so-good factor.

This game sounds amazing. What is PD?

Perfect Dark.

Going to date myself, but FMV blew my mind when I first played Mad Dog McCree.
> it's a western shootout movie you can play!

perfect dark i guess

Perfect Dark. It's basically Goldeneye but with a cool hub.