Most Memorable Game You Ever Played

WingedKagouti on 4/1/2017 at 18:10

Quake 1 is definitely the best Quake game and has stayed in my Top 5 Games Ever since I played it the first time.

But the game I find most memorable is another of my Top 5 Games Ever: Morrowind. While the game has its fair share of flaws, the characters, mechanics, worlds, ways to play and things to do has stuck with me ever since I first landed in Seyda Neen. I may have forgotten a lot of specifics, but it is the game that I do remember the most while not actively playing or focusing on media connected to it.

Yakoob on 4/1/2017 at 21:47

Personally I liked Quake 2 more. The setting and semblance of story (even if simplistic) just kept my motivation going moreso than the all-over-the-place randomness of the first. Plus it had some interesting scenes like the prison, where your captured mates crawl on the floors deranged, begging to be killed...

Matthew on 5/1/2017 at 09:50

Embarrassingly enough, it's probably Star Wars: Rebel Assault. A real 'whoa, PCs can do what?!' moment.

Neb on 5/1/2017 at 11:25

First game I played was in an arcade in Scarborough while visiting my grandma. Simple jet fighter game (cannot remember the name) and you had to land on an aircraft carrier at the end of the first mission, and it was soooooo stressful at the age of 5 or 6. My dad saw how much I loved that arcade and bought me a NES. First game was Super Mario Bros., but I think the most memorable game for me ever has to be Mario 3. I remember seeing it for the very first time on a display TV in a shop, and the graphics looked SO GODDAMNED GOOD, OMG. And then I played the crap out of it.

I really don't miss many of the games before 3D took off and I had access to a PC.

icemann on 5/1/2017 at 11:30

Arcades had much more excitement to them back in the 80s - 90s. You had the moving cabinets (eg Afterburner, Hang-On with it's moving motorbike etc) which were just fantastic. Weird how nothing similar has been released since then for arcades. Or not that I've seen.

Jason Moyer on 5/1/2017 at 12:18

I think part of the appeal of arcades was that the hardware was usually much more powerful than what you could get at home, regardless of whether you were a PC gamer or had a console. You had the occasional arcade games that used console or PC hardware (like the NES Vs system) but up until the mid 90's you could still get wow'd by the audio/visual side of arcade games. The last game I remember seeing in the arcade and thinking it was impressive was probably NFL Blitz, just before the 3-D accelerator market took off.

Yakoob on 6/1/2017 at 03:59

Quote Posted by icemann

you gotta go to japan ;p

icemann on 6/1/2017 at 05:01

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

Definitely.

The last game that impressed me in an arcade was a car racing game that gave you a card to use that had your saved game data on. You could then use this on future plays of the game (regardless of which machine you used it on) and pick up where you left off. That is just awesome, and more arcade games should have this feature.

Tomi on 6/1/2017 at 10:54

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My first MMO love was the original Guild Wars. It was actually really good and really respected its players. Unfortunately, it acted as a gateway drug for me, introducing me to the more harmful types of MMO, those that hide all the shiny stuff behind microtransactions. And then GW2 came out and basically did the same.

I spent way too much time on Guild Wars too, I even maxed all those stupid PvE titles. Those "Cartographer" titles must be some of the worst things invented in a computer game ever, yet I still felt like I had to do them. Those titles could have been fun, but the way they were implemented in the game was just horrible. I wish I could get all that time back that I spent hugging the walls of Tyria, Cantha and Elona, and watch the paint dry on the wall or something more exciting instead. :p

By the time the Eye of the North expansion came out, it was all downhill from there. I loved the dungeons and stuff, but looking back at it now, it seems quite clear to me that the game devs just wanted to rush it out and concentrate on Guild Wars 2 instead. I guess it was easy to sell new content to someone who was already somewhat addicted.

I was really excited about GW2 as well; it's one of the few games that I've pre-ordered and played from day one (and beta), but for some reason I never really got into it. In fact, it turned out to be a huge disappointment, and I haven't played it for three years now. It seemed like a pretty fun game for a little while at first, but very soon I realised that the "no more grinding" hype talk was just bs. Well, at least I haven't felt like playing any MMOs ever since, so I suppose that it all turned out well for me. :)

Gryzemuis on 6/1/2017 at 12:50

Quote Posted by Neb

Simple jet fighter game (cannot remember the name) and you had to land on an aircraft carrier at the end of the first mission, and it was soooooo stressful at the age of 5 or 6.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_%28video_game%29) 1942.
(https://www.google.nl/search?complete=0&ion=0&tbm=isch&q=1942%20video%20game) The wiki page has no pictures, but google will tell you if I am right or not.
1942 is one of the few arcade games that I have played a lot myself.
If you want to play it now, install MAME. It's an emulator to play old arcade games. It's legal. You also need a copy of the ROM of 1942. Those are around on the net, but they might not be legal. I've played 1942 on my PC a few years back, and I can tell you that the experience did not withstand the test of time.