I'm sure this topic has probably been covered before, but most of what I've been able to find on the forums touches on this without actually stating it outright. There are 'moments that defined you as a gamer' threads, 'your top 5 (or 10, or all-time favourite) games' threads, 'moment you became a gamer' threads, and a whole host of others of that ilk.
My question is a little bit more specific. I want to know, Escapists, about the first time a game wowed you. What was the game? What was the moment? Was it the first game you ever played? Did it pull you back into gaming as a hobby? Details, man, I want details!
Personally, despite the fact that I've been playing games in one sense or another for about as long as I can remember, my first 'wow' moment didn't come until I was 8 or 9. I had gotten a Nintendo 64 for Christmas that year, and with it The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I'll admit that it took me quite a while to make it to the Great Deku Tree. I had trouble finding the Kokiri Sword, you see. Once I got into the Deku Tree, I got stuck again for a while, before realizing you could jump off of the top level onto that spiderweb on the ground floor, and break through it. Once I figured that out, I sailed through the rest of the game fairly smoothly, (save for figuring out that you needed to put a fish in front of Lord Jabu-Jabu to get him to open his damn mouth).
My first 'wow' moment came upon beating Queen Gohma inside the Deku Tree, and earning the right to leave the Kokiri Forest, and make my way to Hyrule Field. If you've never played the game, whenever you entered a new area, Ocarina would do these epic, panoramic shots of the environment, as a way to show off what the area contained.
The very first time I saw the panoramic shot of Hyrule Field, I quite literally said 'wow,' out loud. It just seemed like there was so much to do! Part of my reaction may have been that I was just moving up from a Sega Genesis, so it was the jump from 2D to 3D that wowed me, but either way, the rest of the game could have been an exercise in mediocrity, and I still would probably rank it pretty high on my list.
TL;DR: The first time a game wowed me was the very fist time I stepped out into Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time, and was treated to the panoramic shot of the area. When did a game first 'wow' you?
My question is a little bit more specific. I want to know, Escapists, about the first time a game wowed you. What was the game? What was the moment? Was it the first game you ever played? Did it pull you back into gaming as a hobby? Details, man, I want details!
Personally, despite the fact that I've been playing games in one sense or another for about as long as I can remember, my first 'wow' moment didn't come until I was 8 or 9. I had gotten a Nintendo 64 for Christmas that year, and with it The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I'll admit that it took me quite a while to make it to the Great Deku Tree. I had trouble finding the Kokiri Sword, you see. Once I got into the Deku Tree, I got stuck again for a while, before realizing you could jump off of the top level onto that spiderweb on the ground floor, and break through it. Once I figured that out, I sailed through the rest of the game fairly smoothly, (save for figuring out that you needed to put a fish in front of Lord Jabu-Jabu to get him to open his damn mouth).
My first 'wow' moment came upon beating Queen Gohma inside the Deku Tree, and earning the right to leave the Kokiri Forest, and make my way to Hyrule Field. If you've never played the game, whenever you entered a new area, Ocarina would do these epic, panoramic shots of the environment, as a way to show off what the area contained.
The very first time I saw the panoramic shot of Hyrule Field, I quite literally said 'wow,' out loud. It just seemed like there was so much to do! Part of my reaction may have been that I was just moving up from a Sega Genesis, so it was the jump from 2D to 3D that wowed me, but either way, the rest of the game could have been an exercise in mediocrity, and I still would probably rank it pretty high on my list.
TL;DR: The first time a game wowed me was the very fist time I stepped out into Hyrule Field in Ocarina of Time, and was treated to the panoramic shot of the area. When did a game first 'wow' you?
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