What game brings you nostalgica?
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Played some of the enhanced Quake these last couple days, and it was like getting blasted right back to my childhood, getting frags in DM4, doing jump maps, discovering a little mod I'd end up playing in one form or another for the next pair of decades.
Any 16 bit Mario, Zelda, or Castlevania
Shadowrun - SNES
DOOM, Hexen, Heretic - PC
PS1 Final Fantasies (yup, all of them)
Classic arcade Mortal Kombat 1-UMK3
Original arcade Killer Instinct and KI2
Castlevania: SotN
Silent Hill (Team Silent 1-4)
The Witcher - PC (don’t judge; was my first real CRPG and it checked some good boxes outside of the jank)
MGS (1-4, but especially the original and MGS3: Subsistence. MGS4…I know…but when it’s good it’s really good)
Uncharted (just the original)
Shadowrun - SNES
DOOM, Hexen, Heretic - PC
PS1 Final Fantasies (yup, all of them)
Classic arcade Mortal Kombat 1-UMK3
Original arcade Killer Instinct and KI2
Castlevania: SotN
Silent Hill (Team Silent 1-4)
The Witcher - PC (don’t judge; was my first real CRPG and it checked some good boxes outside of the jank)
MGS (1-4, but especially the original and MGS3: Subsistence. MGS4…I know…but when it’s good it’s really good)
Uncharted (just the original)
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- Nearly anything from the days when Japanese gaming ruled the market.
- Lots of classic SEGA games. The Sega Genesis in general.
- The PS2, XBOX, and GC days.
- Capcom arcade titles.
I hear this and I tear up:
Also: Conker's Bad Fur Day
Hexen 64
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill 3
Perfect Dark
Champions of Norath
Diablo 2 (Im going to have such a stink if the remastered version is good and my gaming friends decide to get it, 'cause I REALLY want it)
Jet Force Gemini
Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Bioshock
Also: Conker's Bad Fur Day
Hexen 64
Resident Evil 4
Silent Hill 3
Perfect Dark
Champions of Norath
Diablo 2 (Im going to have such a stink if the remastered version is good and my gaming friends decide to get it, 'cause I REALLY want it)
Jet Force Gemini
Mechwarrior 4: Vengeance
Bioshock
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I mean, can it really be nostalgic if the music works? One of the defining features of quake, back in the day was having the sound track not work.
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Huh, don't remember that being a thing, but then again, it is almost a quarter century ago.
Well I just heard some music from The Sims at the start of one of SGF's streams and it brought me very much nostalgica, so that's going to be my answer.
I played Simcity 2 (maybe 3) with Basment Jaxx's Remedy on repeat. Any Jaxx song just reminds me of Simcity now
Homeworld and Homeworld: Cataclysm for me. Some of the earliest exampels of games that made me actually FEEL genuine emotions. From majestic awe at the launching of the Mothership, to anger at the destruction of our starting planet, and everything in between. Just, really solid storytelling for me.
Oddly I would say Life is Strange 1. Mostly because, while people like to ***** about "it's teenager speak written by adult dudes" , in a lot of ways, it really isn't. I REMEMBER being that awkward kid at that age, and it was decades before these kids era. The flavor of what they're talking about is the same, even if the details are more modern. The way emotions feel more raw when your a teenager, so everything is ramped to 11 as far as it's importance to you, and your reactions to it. I was a teenager in the 90s, and that game was in the 2010's ish era, and it still felt relatable to me.
The first Thief game. Mostly because I remember how much fun I had figuring out novel ways to resolve the various heists, including an ending to the final boss "fight" that I think was brand new at the time. I'd certainly never seen anyone mention it before as a strategy.
That's all I can think of currently. I don't suffer nostalgia all that much, at least not as often as others. I miss being healthy like I was as a kid, having a body that doesn't hurt. But the whole "I wish I was back in my LIFE as a teenager" ? Eh, I could do without it in a LOT of ways.
Oddly I would say Life is Strange 1. Mostly because, while people like to ***** about "it's teenager speak written by adult dudes" , in a lot of ways, it really isn't. I REMEMBER being that awkward kid at that age, and it was decades before these kids era. The flavor of what they're talking about is the same, even if the details are more modern. The way emotions feel more raw when your a teenager, so everything is ramped to 11 as far as it's importance to you, and your reactions to it. I was a teenager in the 90s, and that game was in the 2010's ish era, and it still felt relatable to me.
The first Thief game. Mostly because I remember how much fun I had figuring out novel ways to resolve the various heists, including an ending to the final boss "fight" that I think was brand new at the time. I'd certainly never seen anyone mention it before as a strategy.
That's all I can think of currently. I don't suffer nostalgia all that much, at least not as often as others. I miss being healthy like I was as a kid, having a body that doesn't hurt. But the whole "I wish I was back in my LIFE as a teenager" ? Eh, I could do without it in a LOT of ways.
The "Build" mode music from the first Sims is incredible, like, it was wasted on a video game; should have been an album. So cathartic and peaceful.
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Many things, a PS3 does the trick better than most other consoles and particularly MGS4 since that's probably the game I played most as a kid, but I'm not sure nostalgia is for me, it brings back memories and it basically scrambles my brain.
I mean it's generally accepted that nostalgia is a sensation of longing for the past and it's accepted that it literally blinds you to reality because your brain literally alters the memories to be better and more interesting than they actually were, this isn't the best for me since it just reminds of the fundamental disconnect between what we perceive as reality and what actually is real, and how what we see, feel, smell, touch, think is nothing but an interpretation of reality rather than reality itself and as such we can never be certain of anything as it's possible to perceive things fundamentally different from what they are, and as such going though memories and noticing all the inconsistencies reminds me of this fundamental fact of life.
I mean it's generally accepted that nostalgia is a sensation of longing for the past and it's accepted that it literally blinds you to reality because your brain literally alters the memories to be better and more interesting than they actually were, this isn't the best for me since it just reminds of the fundamental disconnect between what we perceive as reality and what actually is real, and how what we see, feel, smell, touch, think is nothing but an interpretation of reality rather than reality itself and as such we can never be certain of anything as it's possible to perceive things fundamentally different from what they are, and as such going though memories and noticing all the inconsistencies reminds me of this fundamental fact of life.
Biggest nostalgic impact would be CoD Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops. For that two and a bit years all I really did was go to school and play CoD with mates. So many happy memories were formed over those countless hours in SnD and zombies.
Can't seem to retain or recall any childhood nostalgia with videogames or anything else really, which am increasingly convinced may be directly related to mental health issues. However, when it comes to game music provoking weird surprising emotions from the past, Horizon Zero Dawn's pause menu music and Dark Souls 2's Majula hub score do induce an uncomfortable emotional state, I think due to an addiction to an obscure(ish) new(ish) substance I'd underestimated and regularly overdosed on through lack of care at the time of heavily playing them both, so those musics were most often the sounds playing over a heavily disassociated state as I had to mentally claw back to some semblance of reality, which must've left enough of a subconscious impression to induce such strange feelings hearing them in the present.
It's kind of a nostalgia, right? Well it's all I got, so it's all yous getting! Though unpleasant in the case of HZD's menu, so can't leave it on for long now, but Majula is more bearable in a catatonic sense, not sure if due to just the music or the happenstance of how memories were forming at the time. Made the mistake of leaving Bloodborne on once during those states though, quickly learnt never to do that again, hah!
It's kind of a nostalgia, right? Well it's all I got, so it's all yous getting! Though unpleasant in the case of HZD's menu, so can't leave it on for long now, but Majula is more bearable in a catatonic sense, not sure if due to just the music or the happenstance of how memories were forming at the time. Made the mistake of leaving Bloodborne on once during those states though, quickly learnt never to do that again, hah!