Star Control 2 on the 3DO, playing that before I’d seen a PlayStation, was this for me.
And later, FF7 was this for me.
Me having my first ‘open world’ experience with TES Oblivion and not enjoying it until my inner monologue suddenly switches from “I don’t know where to go. I don’t know what to do” to “I can go anywhere. I CAN DO ANYTHING!” and then I am slaughtered by the guard for trying to kill the nearest random peasant.
-Sometime in 2007
The chicken snitches you
TES isn’t LoZ, buddy.
I remember a friend of mine got an N64 with Super Mario near release date and I hadn’t seen anything like it at the time. First time playing that and jumping through paintings and just playing a game in 3D
Meanwhile 8year old me with a ps1 seeing this for the first time and thinking I can never be happy again
Why didn’t you just use a Phoenix Down on her? Are you a monster?
i used the last one to one shot the cave of the gi :(
Too soon
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/299/
playing aerith’s theme during jenova life T__T
well, did you ever be happy again?
Yes, but only after I collected the Knights of the Round materia just to watch the minute and an half animation of them beating sephiroth’s ass.
Take me back
Beats just having it handed to you by an old man!
I recommend Tunic if you want to be 8 years old again.
Even as a silent GIF I hear something like this masterful rendition of the song play in my mind’s ear.
What makes the OoT animation a bit cooler is that Link is older after the animation, like the beams hide him from your view and after the flash of light, he grew old (and everything else changed as well, but you only see that after leaving the cathedral)
Which seems weird when you think about it. Has he been passed out there for 7 years? How did he stay alive? Where did he get clothes that fit?
And why can he not use the Kokiri Sword as a dagger? It’s like he’s not even trying
I imagine he could, but why would he? He’s got a perfectly good sword right there!
The sages used their advanced technology to send Link into a divergent timeline but had to massively simplify their explanation for refugee child living in the woods.
So does he have memories of the past 7 years or did he just take the place of the adult Link in that timeline?
I like to think that his memory is linear and if he goes from (a) young to (b) adult and back to © young, his knowledge goes from a ➡️ a+b ➡️ a+b+c. So, his age is sort of irrelevant.
And that is why he’s called the hero of time.
I’m with you on this one.
Lucky you. I only had Lee Carvello’s Putting Challenge. I kept hitting the ball in the parking lot.
Would you like to play again?
I have selected no
should have picked putter instead of power drive
For me it was playing Dungeon Master on Atari 520st in 1987. Well past midnight, deep inside the dungeon, I step past a corner and stand face to face with a giant scorpion and almost shit my pants.
hey i just did this for the first time last week!
Sweet! I’m glad people are still getting to experience it for the first time.
Thrillho
I wonder if there’s a timeline where Link is wearing flood pants when he first meets Rauru on that weird fountain platform in the Chamber of Sages
The coolest thing ever HAD just happened
Same but the 80’s and you picked up the first Triforce.
6 days after Christmas to find and beat the first dungeon without the internet? Sounds about right.
I got the master sword in TotK around release and wasn’t spoiled on the context of it. It was really cool.
I died sooooo many times to the zombies in the castle town.
First time playing oblivion, still in the tutorial/intro. Grab the first bow and arrow laying a few meter from a well. Of course the only targety looking thing is the well’s bucket. Hit the bucket, it swing, cool. The bucket stop swinging and behold! It is now tilting on the side where the arrow is stuck in. Coming from Morrowind I had lots of gripes with oblivion, but that first arrow in the bucket feeling has been in my mind forever.
I remember the bucket, but my moment actually came about a minute later. A skeever runs towards me and jumps at me. I put my shield in front of me. The shield shakes, the skeever dies and its body ragdolls down some steps. The bucket was an amazing technical achivement, but the shield thing made me immersed in the world.
