It was the first Xbox 360 game I played (on my HDTV) and I was blown away by it especially when you exit Mystic's hut for the first time and see this environment before your eyes:
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It was the first Xbox 360 game I played (on my HDTV) and I was blown away by it especially when you exit Mystic's hut for the first time and see this environment before your eyes:
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Wow what game is that?Comment
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Cheers. Looks pretty cool.Comment
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Kameo was a decent game, all told. It didn't review well at the time, but I think people were perhaps a little too harsh on it.Comment
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Cut My Milks stipulation, what single game released this generation has been magical and brought out child like glee in you, is a fairly broad and unique filter!
If I had to graft Child like glee into playing a game I would recount memories like opening a Mega Drive with Sonic the Hedgehog on Christmas day, Playing Mario 64 in Toys ‘R Us in Woking, exploring a real 3D World in Tomb Raider 2 on my Birthday and playing into the night on Tekken 2 with my little brother. Nostalgia mixed with the summer days of your childhood are hard to replicate when you’re 24 years old!
There’s been multiple games released over this generation that are brilliant and will be remembered but more importantly played in generations to come, but in the nearly 4 years since its release, only one game meets Cut My Milks criteria.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
I enjoy games where the Developer has strived to replicate real world ideals and designs into their games just as much as they’ve tried to paint a blank canvas and create something unique. Due to technological limitations it’s only over the past 5 years where these games have become feasible and games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Shenmue have hinted to what Developers can make. Upon its announcement in E3 2005 I could not begin to describe my anticipation for Oblivion and the final PR Video shown a week before its release, with a simple walk across a valley as the music swells, begun to drive me to madness to begin living in Bethesda’s world. Upon release, they exceeded all my expectations of what the game could be and it has turned into one of my favourite games ever made.
From my anticipation before its release, graphics that signalled the arrival of the next generation and a world that truly shocked with its size and complexity like never before, Oblivion is the best and only game this generation that could be described, in a true and good sense, of invoking child like glee in a 24 year old man!Comment
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I'd have to go with Fable 2 which, to my mind, multiplayer aside, is one of the few games this gen to match it's considerable hype. The graphics, music, in-game design and architecture, voice-acting, humour - individually they're the best examples I've seen this generation and combined together with a huge layer of charm to produce a game that completely drew me into it's world and left me spellbound.
I can't really choose a favourite or single "holy wowzer" moment, but the blend of the vivid, dream-like yet slightly crooked imagery and beautiful but haunting atmosphere of a Tim Burton movie coupled with the richness, humour, self-parody and strong characters of a Terry Pratchett Discworld novel was everything I wanted in a game. They're the ingredients for a perfect fairytale and I love fairytales, they remind me of my childhood. And then, of course, there's your four legged friend...Comment
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Metal Gear 4: Act 3. Most people hate this chapter, but I loved the film-noir vibe!
However, the most magical 'Holy Wowzer' moment had to be the bit at the end, when Snake
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Most of Dead Rising particularly the cut scenes of all the psycho's and insane folks amongst the mall. And the first 30 mins of Bioshock was brilliant as i had started it late at night with the light of and my chair pulled up closer to my HDTV and the earphones in and was really sucked into it and turned out to be a great game.Comment
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Yes, yes and yes.Originally posted by Wools View Post
The game that sold me the system, such was the WOW factor. I was 27, and it was jaw-droppingly exciting.Comment
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on the 360 it had to be dead rising one of my first games I got on the console, so so many zombies way, way beyond the amount of onscreen enemies i was used to!
Wii, when I first got the Wii i was pretty damn excited and felt it was so new and cool!! (only to later learn the Wii would be the lamest console this gen library wise)Comment
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For me it was Mirrors Edge, just the intro part (after the anime bit) where she runs around the building and the music playing that fits so well and then suddenly you are in the game and those are the actual graphics. I literally just sat there looking around and admiring everything and I hadn't done that in a game for a long time, was brilliant.
No game since them has quite given me that feeling but in Batman, the
was pretty close.Comment
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I'm with those that have mentioned The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
I owned a PS2 at the time, was a very casual gamer and was happy with my lot. Then on a day I can still very clearly remember, prinny drags me round to his house with the promise that he's just started playing a game which will convince me to make the new gen console upgrade.
Righto - this'll have to be good.
So we start off in the dungeon and I'm playing along thinking 'well it's ok - graphics are alright, I like the way decisions shape your character but its very dark and the combats not brilliant and I like more traditional RPGs'.
All the time prinny's got this smug grin on his face letting me have my say but looking infuriatingly like a condescending know it all who has a secret he isn't going to share. And then it happens. Sewer exit. Loading screen. Bang.
I can still see that picture in my mind. Lake, reflections, greenery, sunset, ruins on the hill, shadows created by the undulating lanscape. 30 mins of gaming and it was like someone had chucked a bucket of water on me.
When we found Dive Rock 2 weeks or so later it happened all over again.
Unbelievable. And I became another person who bought a console for one game.Comment
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Slightly odd one here, I think the first holy wowzer moment was seeing XBLA for the first time and realising the potential (which imo has been realised on XBLA and PSN).
As for games, I'm not about graphics so the most magical moment was playing L4D for the first time with three friends and realising how exciting and well crafted an experience it was.Comment
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Perfect Dark Zero.
360 launch night with a massive group of both real life and online friends, in the front room of my swanky new flat with a projector I'd borrowed from work, and a big widescreen LCD that Crisp borrowed from his work. I've never been so hyped up in all my life.
I just moved out of there this weekend leaving a ton of memories, and the perfect room for a projector setup behind, so depressing.Comment
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