Games that hit you like a ton of bricks.

[NCLWC]

ratchet and clank going commando

first game i played on the ps2

 

[Cowabungaa]

Exploration seems like the only thing that could be fun in a game like that, but what's fun about exploring a mostly flat, barren wasteland? I really don't get Oblivion and FO3. Maybe I just never found the interesting areas because they both bored me away so quickly.

Things like the various Vaults, the Dunwich building (that shit was scaaaary), those recognisable Washington monuments all in ruin and of course exploring all those ruins, various side-quests and other random stuff (like that collection of , I must say that FO3 was pretty packed with things to do and explore. Oblivion...well, not thát much, come to think of it. All those random dungeons littered around weren't very interesting, usually.

 

[Tharwen]

Portal, on a crappy laptop, in the dark, with bad earphones and a sticky mousepad. Absolutely incredibly good game.

This, but with better hardware. My first thought was: "How the fuck do they do that?", in reference to the portals. I then spent the next two days trying to work out how you could possibly program portal technology in a game.

 

[Yeager942]

You've become a PC-elitist? Then do this:
1) Go buy STALKER: SoC.
2) Download STALKER Complete 2009
3) Install game and Complete update
4) Enjoy the awesome!

If you like the first game, get Call of Pripyat too. Clear Sky wasn't all that great, but it's version of Complete makes it much better. Still inferior to Complete SoC, which is downright amazingly good. A warning though, STALKER games are awesome, but have one redundant flaw (other than high PC reqs); thier final areas are universally bad. The last parts of all 3 STALKER games are the worst parts of the games, but getting to them and the actual story is worth it.

Only other game I insist people play is Torment, which you started thread saying you did. Cheers.

I own SoC and I love it! I'm pretty early in the game, but the atmosphere is palpable. I haven't even seen too many abominations (I don't remember what they're called xD), but just walking down the road is enough to freak me out.

 

[Wayneguard]

Morrowind. I was a fantasy hater before I played that game. Now it's in my top 3 favorite games of all time.

 

[MrShowerHead]

This game made me buy it at the same day I tried its demo

Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis (Or Flashpoint GOTY Edition)
God, this is all I have done here, declearing my love to Flashpoint

 

[Klepa]

I'm actually ashamed of this, but Assassin's Creed II. I was extremely excited throughout the whole game, even though Ezio and myself didn't really have a clue what was going on, and there were way too many side characters, and the controls are a bit flaky on the PC.

But I was sucked in, for whatever reason. I pretty much got goosebumps near the end's "wtf"-moment. Admittedly I was sleep deprived as hell, and kind of drunk, which probably added to my immersion.

 

[TraderJimmy]

Baldur's Gate 2
Final Fantasy X
Dragon Age: Origins
Team Fortress 2
Sonic the Hedgehog
Dragon Warrior Monsters
Ecco the Dolphin
Ape Escape 2
Dungeon Keeper
Dungeon Keeper 2.

All awesome games.

 

[GrinningManiac]

Evil Genius.

The first time I heard this theme, I knew I'd found a keeper

 

[Kserijaro]

Smart people here. One of the best in game stories to ever be..is by far the Legacy of Kain.Other include Homeworld, Pax Payne,Devil May Cry (as a best hack and slasher ever to be made),

 

[Thaius]

A mere 5 years ago or so, a friend let me borrow Final Fantasy VII, a game I had heard many amazing things about, but I had never played an RPG. And, um... WOW. Still the greatest game I have ever played.

 

[Boxpopper]

Morrowind, WoW (I am ashamed to say), Oblivion, Gmod...

And, for the short time that I had a Wii, Trauma Center. That had to be one of the most damn fun games for that sad little brick.

 

[Chamale]

Portal, on a crappy laptop, in the dark, with bad earphones and a sticky mousepad. Absolutely incredibly good game.

This, but with better hardware. My first thought was: "How the fuck do they do that?", in reference to the portals. I then spent the next two days trying to work out how you could possibly program portal technology in a game.

I've thought about it too. The Source engine has technology to help a lot. For example, the technology that lets you set up a camera, and turn another surface into a "TV Screen" showing whatever the camera sees.

A portal creates a camera looking out from its surface, and it is also a TV screen displaying the other portal's camera. This lets you see "through" portals.

The position of each portal is noted, and contacting a portal moves the XYZ position of anything to the X1Y1Z1 position of the other portal. This translation accounts for normal movement through portals. When the portals are also at different angles, the thing being sent through is rotated as a result of the portal code.

 

[CriticalGriffin]

Mother 3.

That is all from me.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

StarFox 64

I don't know why, but that game just wowed me like no game has since.

Except perhaps Halo, but it had better graphics than most I had played before, and I totally didn't expect what I got. All I knew was you killed aliens.

 

[Chamomiles Davis]

I downloaded Mass Effect for $20 on XBL at around 11:00am(shortly after waking up...which was shortly after deciding not to go to class....) last December

At 1:00am the next morning I realized that I hadn't showered, eaten and maybe went to the bathroom twice. I kept playing for two more hours before I felt like taking a dinner break

 

[Shru1kan]

Shadow of the Colossus blew me away. A game that huge for the PS2 made my head implode and neck pulse.

Oh I remember that. My friend rented a ps2 and that game, neither of us were sure about it but by god we had beaten it by sunup and it was just so... wow.