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games that blew your mind
Topic Started: Mar 7 2015, 12:36 PM (636 Views)
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what games were so great, revolutionary you can still remember the moments as if you experienced them yesterday?

i have only a few.

grand theft auto III. i can still remember being blown away by the fact i could run around anywhere, from desolate ports to police stations. i had never seen anything like that, and it left a lasting impression.

metal gear solid 2: i remember playing the demo of the tanker level and being absolutely stunned by the brilliant gameplay, the atmosphere, the AI with enemies searching for you.

rogue squadron 2: the first level on the death star, i didnt believe what I saw, what a brilliant game.

star wars shadows of the empire: the hoth level, such an amount of freedom, i felt my brain needed to lay new neuronic pathways to comprehend what it saw, coming from years playing on the snes

i find not a single game on the ps3/ wii, let alone the PS4 or WiiU, has given me similar feelings.
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Things that blew my mind:
- How much I cared for the playable characters in Chrono Trigger.
- The full 3D control in Super Mario 64.
- The waves in Wave Race 64.
- The bullet holes in Goldeneye.
- The lights in Perfect Dark.
- The story in Deus Ex.
- The vehicle physics in Halo 1.
- The level design in Half-Life 2.
- The motion controls in Wii Sports Bowling.
- The 3D effect on the New Nintendo 3DS XL.
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Good points!

I'll say

* Jr. Pac-Man Atari 2600
* Super Mario Bros. Playchoice 10
* TMNT 1&2 Arcade
* Street Fighter II
* The Legend of Zelda:A Link to the Past
* Donkey Kong Country
* Sonic & Knuckles
* Super Metroid
* Killer Instinct 1, 2, and GOLD
* the water effects in Mario Sunshine
* The Legend of Zelda: the WindWaker
* Mario Kart 8

* and countless :n64: moments- even now!

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I think the game that left the biggest impression on me was half life.Such a great game that I've replayed hundreds of times. OoT is another that wowed me as a kid and I still love today.
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Great thread idea! Games that literally had my grabbing at the sides of my head in disbelief to make sure I was alive and not dreaming:

GTA 3 - First time I'd played a fully 3D game that allowed you to do absolutely everything you wanted.

Halo 2 - This was my first serious foray in the first person shooter genre and the first online-capable shooter I would proceed to pour countless hundreds of hours into with my friends. So many great memories from this masterpiece.

MotorStorm - When I saw a demo of this running in an electronics store (PS3 had just been released), I felt like I was being lied to. No way could games look that good.

Virtue's Last Reward - The story... Just, DAT STORY!!!

Conker's BFD - I was probably 11 or 12 when I played this game for the first time. Needless to say, the potty humor and fantastic gags had me captivated and laughing like very few games have.

[PROTOTYPE] - The over-the-top parkour mechanic of this game is what single-handedly sold this game for me. Even after platinuming the game, I would continue to pop in the disc just to run around New York at 80MPH, front-flipping from car to car and walking up buildings! Such a power trip.

Destiny - I'm one of those who are incredibly impressed with Destiny. It blew my mind because of the sheer scale and ambitious universe they're creating, not just for this title, but for what the franchise holds for my Guardians over the next decade and beyond.

Uncharted 3 - This is the first game, to my notice, that had large amounts of different, noticeably human-like animations throughout the game. This game was more mind-blowing from a technical point of view, for me, than what the rest of the actual game brought forth (great game, though).

Persona 4 - The first Persona title I've played and nothing else compares to it. It's hands-down my new favourite JRPG franchise. The mix of dungeon crawling, visual novel and school life simulation elements (and how your school life actually affects your performance in the dungeon and vise-versa) is brilliant and unique to Persona. Also,the characters in Persona are simply the best video game characters ever. Really.

GTA Online - When I play GTA Online, I feel like I'm playing as myself in an open-world MMO crime simulator. I love how your character is extremely customizable, cars are fun to collect and modify, and nothing beats the thousands of jobs they have available to make money and build a property empire :lol:

Watch dogs - JUST KIDDING LOL
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I had a huge giant epic post written for this topic then thought... nobody wants to read all that. Haha.

So here's my abbreviated version.

Super Mario Bros (NES): I was 6 years old when I saw a friend playing it. It was the first game I'd ever seen that felt like an adventure, and kept me wondering what was next. I remember crying when my Mom said we had to leave.

Super Mario World (SNES): Mostly because of how it showed off the capabilities of the Super Nintendo. Finally Mario LOOKED like we always imagined it in our heads. And the sound was smooth and sounded like real instruments, opposed to the beeps and tones we'd heard before. It was literally unlike anything we'd ever seen or heard at the time.

Super Mario 64 (N64): Lots of Mario on this list, but really before the N64, my gaming time was spent between playing Mario, and a ton of racing games. I was actually quite confused when we first started playing Super Mario 64. When Mario popped out of the pipe and was standing there in the castle courtyard, I wondered where the enemies were... where the music was. Honestly my very first thought about the game was "they ruined Mario".

But as I started running around hopping on trees, familiarizing myself with the controls, I started to explore. I found the world behind the paintings and the rest is history. Little did I know at the time that in that courtyard, Nintendo was teaching me how to play the game!

Mario Kart 64 (N64): Battle mode when friends are over. Time Trials when they aren't. This is pretty much the only game I'd ever need.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64): The sheer scale of this game is what blew me away. Getting dwarfed during boss fights. I'd never played anything so epic in my life at the time.

Final Fantasy X (PS2): I never wanted to play RPGs before. But watching a friend play a portion of the game, I got hooked by the story. I got my own PS2 just to play this game. It's now one of my favorites of all time, and convinced me to give other RPG's a shot.

Gran Turismo 3 (PS2): Holy eye candy. This was like the racing game I always dreamed about when I was a kid.

Grand Theft Auto III (PS2): I don't even remember how I happened into this game. But I do remember the first night my college roommate and I played it. I think we just went around jumping cars for 6 hours. The sense of freedom was amazing.

Animal Crossing (GCN): Another game I didn't expect. I got it for my Mom and told her it was a "game you can't lose". Haha. But I later bought it myself, and I never expected how attached I would get to my citizens and my town.

Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii): I was on the hype train for this one. I usually figure that games rarely deliver on what I build them up to be, but this blew me away in every fashion. I LOVED the controls. I know some people are on the fence, but I think it's the ONLY Wii game that really nailed the Wiimote. Which is a bit of a shame in that regard. I loved the atmosphere, the music, the story. It was almost perfect for me in every way.

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There are a few things that have REALLY stood out to me gaming wise.

1. Goldeneye 64. I could not believe what I was playing! I jumped from NES to the N64 so I missed the SNES train. When I got the chance to first experience the N64, I was ecstatic and couldn't believe the level of detail and 3D-ness of the game.. It wouldn't be until about 2 years later that our parents would FINALLY buy the game for us. We fought them so hard on that one, as they didn't exactly like the idea of gun violence and blood. I remember that Christmas day. My siblings and I also each got our own specific colored N64 controller. We played Goldeneye ALL day long. Literally. It was glorious!

2. Mario 64. Although I had played Goldeneye prior to owning an N64, I had NO clue I was going to own one for myself. I didn't even imagine the idea. One day my parents came home from a date I want to say. What they brought with them blew me away, it was an N64! We could finally rent our games from Blockbuster :omg: But seriously, the system came with Mario 64, and they hadn't purchased any other games. I was once again blown away at the level of detail and design put into the game. To this day I still think it's easily one of the top 3 best looking N64 games of all time. Which is insane because it was a launch title!

3. Call of Duty. I missed the GameCube days for the most part. My brother had one, but we really stuck with the N64 through those days. When the 360 came out with it's graphics all a blazin' I couldn't yet again believe what I was seeing. My next door neighbor had one, and my brother and I would ever so often get a chance to go over and play Call of Duty 2 with him. It was a blast, and the smoke effects were beyond anything prior. Then Call of Duty 4 came out. I got a chance to try it at my other friends house and got hooked. I had to have one, and by this time I had a job so I could pay for it. My ex wife (GF at the time) bought CoD 4 for me and I kid you not, I played that game WAY too much. It was simply amazing.

4. The 3DS. Long after I had forgotten about Nintendo entirely aside from Smash bros (I never stopped playing that one when friends/family were over) my friend had a curious looking object that could apparently produce 3D imaging without the use of specialized glasses. What's more, is he had Ocarina of Time playing on it. I tried it out for a min or two and was hooked. I had to have one! So I found the only Gamestop in the state that had the OoT edition 3DS and purchased it. This is what got me back into Nintendo, and to this day I feel bad for missing out on the GameCube and Wii. Luckily I can still experience them and I thoroughly enjoy collecting for them.

5. The Wii U! Everything about it is intense. First HD Mario Kart/Zelda/Mario platformers/etc.. It's all just a dream come true, and I am very privileged to own one.

Good thread, I love reading all of these! You guys make some valid points! It gets me thinking :)

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most games that blew our mind are the one we first experienced with when we were kids. first NES games, first SNES games, first N64 games. after that we had time to grow up and nothing really impressed us anymore. sure there's WOW games for the first days but nothing beat the kids experience. nothing.
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Indeed. Nostalgia is a powerful thing.
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I remember playing Doom and Wolfenstein 3D for the first time and remember being blow away by the shear awesomeness that was the original first person shooters. Having playing these games on a pc after owning a Commodore 64 was a real step up in gaming for me and my brothers.

Double Dragon - I remember first playing this in an arcade when I was very young and being super impressed with the game. I relived that experience a few years later when I had a physical copy of it on the Sega Master System II.

NBA Jam - Being obsessed with basketball since I was very young I remember games like NBA Live 94 and Lakers v Celtics and the NBA playoffs being games that I had played quite a bit an loved, but when playing NBA Jam I fell into a world of super slam dunks and nets constantly burning. This game blew me away and I spent many hours playing this whenever I could. I still play it a little bit from time to time to this day.

Goldeneye 007 - As far as gaming goes and the :n64: is concerned, this game was one of my favourite's from my teenage years. The multiplayer aspect was fantastic. Being able to play with 3 other friends and try and slaughter them was huge amounts of fun and something I had not experienced until this game came out.

GTA 3 - I'm going to agree with a few of you here and put this game down. Open world madness is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this title and how awesome it was to drive around the city and do anything you pleased. Vice City is another one that I spent a fair amount of time with also. But I can never forget GTA 3 and how cutting edge the whole concept was at the time.

To be honest I could probably sit here forever and talk about games that blew my mind over the years. Been gaming for over 30 years now, so I've seen a few.

Also I'll mention the games that have been coming out over the last 12 months, and some of the beauty that is associated with the games that are coming out now. Won't be too long until we can't even tell what's real and what's a game. I think that might be too far, but some of the environments that game developers are creating these days are truly great and impress me quite a bit. :yeah: :D
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I personally think donkey kong country is the best game I have ever played of my life. I still remember playing at my grandmahouse, me and my sister would try to see who is the best at the game haha :lol:
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seriously, you can jam with an AI band, with the scales appearing on screen, using every guitar tone imaginable from joe perry to slash, with your own trusty guitar, and you're really getting GOOD at this, man. how can this not be the best game ever created, it's nothing short but a god's gift to any guitar player.

so you can throw away your 3000 $ marshall amp, this game gives you every imaginable guitar tone from your stereo. expensive guitar lessons? away with them. no teacher can provide you with the experience this game gives you at imrpovising. and music theory books are so overrated: the scales appear on screen and can be changed with the click of a button.
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Fantastic topic!

Mario 64 - The bright colors and 3d gameplay.

Goldeneye - Everything about it.

Ocarina of Time - Set the bar for games as art for me.

Perfect Dark - Improved over even Goldeneye.

Mario Kart 64 - Defined what multiplayer gaming should be.

Pokémon - How addictive it was.

Monster Hunter Freedom - Addictiveness (600 hours)

Resident Evil 2 - The Fear.

Metal Gear Solid - How is just drew you in.

Grand Theft Auto III - The freedom.

Gun - Adventure and freedom.

Assassin's Creed Series - The amazing story and gameplay.

Heavy Rain - I was emotionally immersed.

Uncharted - The adventure and story both.

Fallout 3/NV - The entire feel of the game.

Oblivion/Skyrim - How immersive, addictive, and amazing they are.

Saboteur - How under-rated it was.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2/Battlefield 3 - The fun! 1000+ hours logged online. Never seems to get old for me.

The Last of Us - Everything about the game. Graphics, music, gameplay, and the story most of all. A true piece of art :yeah:

I know I am forgetting something...





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Superman 64?? :lol:
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The first one that really blew my mind was Atic Atac (ZX Spectrum, 1982).
It was billed as a "graphic adventure" and had you searching for three pieces of the golden ACG key in a haunted multi-storey mansion.
It introduced a lot of elements that are now familiar RPG fare like dungeons, trapdoors, secret passages, character select, item inventory...
I have a feeling Miyamoto knew about this game when he developed Zelda!
It was made by Chris & Tim Stamper at Ultimate Play The Game (they later went on to form a small studio called "Rare"). and really set a new standard for the home computer game industry.
A couple of years ago i reverse-engineered a homebrew version for Nintendo DS and gained lots of respect for the original programmers who managed to pull this off in 48K on a slow 8 bit computer.

Atic Atac, like many games of the time, was HARD. It took me several months to figure out what the objective really was and how i could achieve it.
Then about a year to uncover all the possible locations of the key parts.
Remember: no Internets or playing guides in those days, you'd get maybe one or two tips in magazines and that was it.
Then another two years to actually collect all three pieces before my health ran out and make it out the front door.
I've never felt a greater sense of achievement

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what games were so great, revolutionary you can still remember the moments as if you experienced them yesterday?

i have only a few.

grand theft auto III. i can still remember being blown away by the fact i could run around anywhere, from desolate ports to police stations. i had never seen anything like that, and it left a lasting impression.

metal gear solid 2: i remember playing the demo of the tanker level and being absolutely stunned by the brilliant gameplay, the atmosphere, the AI with enemies searching for you.

rogue squadron 2: the first level on the death star, i didnt believe what I saw, what a brilliant game.

star wars shadows of the empire: the hoth level, such an amount of freedom, i felt my brain needed to lay new neuronic pathways to comprehend what it saw, coming from years playing on the snes

i find not a single game on the ps3/ wii, let alone the PS4 or WiiU, has given me similar feelings.

You didn't like 'The Last of Us'? That blew my mind (",)
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what games were so great, revolutionary you can still remember the moments as if you experienced them yesterday?

i have only a few.

grand theft auto III. i can still remember being blown away by the fact i could run around anywhere, from desolate ports to police stations. i had never seen anything like that, and it left a lasting impression.

metal gear solid 2: i remember playing the demo of the tanker level and being absolutely stunned by the brilliant gameplay, the atmosphere, the AI with enemies searching for you.

rogue squadron 2: the first level on the death star, i didnt believe what I saw, what a brilliant game.

star wars shadows of the empire: the hoth level, such an amount of freedom, i felt my brain needed to lay new neuronic pathways to comprehend what it saw, coming from years playing on the snes

i find not a single game on the ps3/ wii, let alone the PS4 or WiiU, has given me similar feelings.

You didn't like 'The Last of Us'? That blew my mind (",)
that's because i don't like modern aspects in video games like focus on story and graphics. i can give many other reasons but i guess i would bore you :P

i like being challenged in my games. something like getting a gold medal in a rogue squadron level for example 8)
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The game that got me into gaming. This was the first "proper" 3D game I played. Sure, I'd played games like Battlezone many years before but this was a million miles away from that. Real 3d environments to explore and scary monsters. I was hooked for about three years.

GoldenEye (N64)

I wasn't sure about Goldeneye at first. Coming from Doom to Goldeneye the first big difference I noticed was the angled gun in the hand looked different from Dooms straight down the barrel perspective and made me initially think it was shooting towards the side of the screen! Anyway, I got used to it quickly. The first moment of greatness was picking up the sniper rifle on the Dam level and realising you could zoom in. Then noticing that enemies reacted differently depending on where they were shot. And the bullet holes, and having to shoot a padlock to open a gate and stacking mines on top of one another... All this was new and it was amazing seeing it for the first time in the one game.

Ocarina of Time (N64)

There's this moment in gaming that I keep on reliving in different guises and in different games, but Ocarina was the first time I experienced it. Its after Kokiri Forest, when you venture into Hyrule Field for the first time and this huge expanse opens up in front of you, with mountains and castle in the distance. And at that point you think "wow, can you explore all of this" and yes.... yes you can.
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How have I not seen this great thread before!?

My first console was a Sega Megadrive so I really enjoyed playing the likes of Streets of Rage II - wouldn't say that wow'd me but it was great fun. From there:

-Goldeneye 007 N64 - Just wow such a great leap into the 3D world. Everything about this game was just amazing, solo player, multiplayer (4 players!!), graphics, weapons, enemy reactions / AI (for the time) and just the fact it was a Bond game as I am a huge fan of the franchise since I was a toddler.

-Resident Evil PS1 - genuinely used to make me nervous playing it. Felt like I was actually there. Has you on the edge of your seat. Great puzzles, enemies and weapons in this multi strategy game.

-Resident Evil 2 PS1 - I say PS1 because I had it on the PS1 at the time 1999ish but I love playing it on the N64. For me the best of the series - I haven't played all of them I've still got Res Zero and Rez Revalations 2 but from the ones I have played Rez 2 really nailed it and still holds up in my opinion to today's standards for playability. The best in the franchise for me.

-Shenmue Dreamcast - wow just graphically it was cutting edge, real world, AI really good at the time and a fantastic story line to boot. Always had, and still has, me coming back for more.

-GTA III PS2 - when I got this I was amazed. Couldn't stop playing this. Just a brilliant game and revolutionary at the time. Great storyline, vast array of missions / cars etc it really was and is a great game.

Since then my expectations have been quite high and I wouldn't say anything has really given me the wow factor to the extent those games have. That said subsequent releases of GTA and perhaps Call of Duty have still impressed me a lot. But the above are the core ones looking back through my childhood.
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Super Mario 64

Goldeneye

Ocarina of Time

Metroid Prime

Zelda: Skyward Sword
- I hadn't been following new games for a while so I had no idea what this would be about or anything, but like every other console Zelda game since OOT I knew I had to have it.
The size, the atmosphere, the story, the controls, just an amazing, underrated masterpiece that is probably missed by far too many people due to kids attention spans these days, people jumping off the Wii bandwagon or people just not having time due to grown up life and so on.


Wolfenstein : The New Order
- I got this game purely on being a Wolfenstein game (I loved the original) and the description of the game with a brief overview of the story.
The game is set in 1960 assuming the Nazis won WWII with some new technology.
The level of detail and unexpected turns with the story was fantastic as well as being pretty enjoyable as a shooter.
Some sections are surprisingly gruesome at times but also there are some massive moments and set pieces that very much did blow me away.
Highly recommended.
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I was still very young when the N64 came out so for the most part that is the console that blew my mind.

Ocarina of Time: The very opening of this game and running around in Kokiri Forest blew me away. The music was great, and I was simply amazed that I could control something on the screen and the fact that there was hidden items and a story made it even better.

Banjo Kazooie: The music. The first time I listened to the music in this game I realized how much fun a lighthearted game could be. The big moment in this game for me was the first transformation though. The fact that I could change the things I could do in a game made me feel like there was infinite possibilites.

BattleTanx Global Assault: The first time I blew up a building I was absolutely amazed. I could actually change the world around me and I felt like a truly destructive tank.

Conker's Bad Fur Day: Since I was still pretty young at the time this game caught me off guard. I remember specifically the Great Mighty Poo singing opera was hysterical to me and I couldn't believe something like this could be in a game. I was blown away by the fact that games could be something more than either lighthearted or dark and gritty. They could be adult without just being gritty and serious
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