I played Age of Empires 1 for the first time when I was 9 or so and the fact you could build anything anywhere and create cities and any army you want blew my fucking kid mind. I can't articulate how cool this was.

Civ II had a similar effect on me. Building entire civilizations across all of history from the dawn of time to the atomic age? It was awesome.

Morrowind
>I can go anywhere??!?! just explore?!?! an entire fantasy world?!?! HOLY FUCK!!

>>715812946 (OP)
Fast forward to 2025
>Pauses your game
>Press adsw to move lil nigga
>Space to jump
>The green bar is indicating how much health you have left. If it reaches 0 you die.

ocarina of time. I still remember going to hyrule field and castle town for the first time. There was something really enthralling about that game. Though a link to the past kinda had the same effect on me and was the first game I played past midnight as a kid.

When I went from lego racers 1 to lego racers 2 and it was open world

the first far cry, really enjoyed the scenery
vanilla wow, teldrassil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgdgaDlgUzw&ab_channel=Meisio

Planetside 2
Nothing else has come close
>2 platoon galaxy drop on the crown, through flak and anti air guns, landing into a battle of hundreds of players
>Last minute base defenses
>Massive armor columns and fights across the plains of Amerish
>Hit and run valkyrie tactics
>Biolab grinds
>Hating on koreans im the public yell chat with my outfit
I've been chasing the high ever since

>>715814320
stop playing baby games for babies

>>715816212
you're making it sounds much better than it really was.

>>715812946 (OP)
We had aoe1 and hexen 2 on the computers at my kindergarten

>>715816549
Idk man, I had a great time
I think being part of a cohesive outfit really makes the difference

mgs1, ff7, and runescape were the most mind-blowing games I played myself
the most my mind was blown from vidya though was watching my uncle play Ultima online and everquest, pretty much cemented me as a future mmo degenerate watching him from so young

Deus Ex 1. It really hit me in Chinatown that you can really do anything.

Black on the PS2. Shame that it was so shitty with its boring levels and retarded AI, but the graphics sure impressed me.
PS3: Uncharted.
PS4: Bloodborne.
PC: Witcher 3.

>>715812946 (OP)
>travel south from Beregost
>see the corner of Beregost's southernmost street at the top of the following wilderness map
>"whoa, these maps actually connect to form a larger, contiguous world"
It's not exactly a technical marvel, but this realization blew my kid mind and also made it just that much more fun to go out and explore even the generally empty wilderness maps. Made the game feel so much bigger and more significant.

>>715812946 (OP)
FNV. First play session found a powder ganger and used VATS to shoot the grenade he was holding. That session ended up going for 8 hours.

>>715812946 (OP)
Ocarina of Time. It made me realize that game journalists were full of shit, because despite all the praise, it was an incredibly boring and watered down game for someone who actually played video games in the 90s.

>>715812946 (OP)
the AoE1 colorscheme is a permanent fresco on the inside of my skull

>>715812946 (OP)
>Runescape
>Age of Mythology
>Morrowind & Oblivion (Yes, both lol)
>World of Warcraft
of the top of my head

I remember playing CS Source for the first time and thinking that shit as magical, so realistic kek

WORMS. the fact that they're just WORMS and can fight each other and use literally human weapons, explosive sheeps and shit blew my mind. how tf is that even possible?

On PC The Sims 3, because The Sims open world was crazy to me, and Fallout 3 from being the first Bethesda RPG I played.
On the Ps3, MGS4 because of the graphics.

>>715812946 (OP)
It was WoW unironically, I was like 15 when it originally came out and the sheer scope of it blew my fucking mind. First and only mmo that literally felt like another world.

>>715820823
>Fallout 3 from being the first Bethesda RPG I played.
I'll always have a huge soft spot for FO3 because of that unique feeling at the time I felt playing it.

>>715820041
I thought oblivion was peak realism when i was 10 lol. Genuinenly thought graphics couldn't get better

>>715816695
No one's gonna question this?

>>715812946 (OP)
Empire Earth is better

>>715812946 (OP)
For me it was the sims and dungeon keeper

>>715821169
Me too. I had never played anything like it before. My first playthrough was kino and I still remember a lot from it. I started at that school near where you exit the Vault and got killed by Raiders. Then I went exploring the Wasteland until I arrived in Washington and got chased by a Centaur. I ran into some Russian guy’s house with a couple of chicks. It was all so random, I felt like anything could happen in that game. Then I kept exploring the city until I found the BoS people fighting some mutants and joined them, my mind constantly being blown.
There’s a unique feeling you get when you don’t know what you’re doing in these games. When I played Skyrim and New Vegas already knowing how they work and their gimmicks, it lost some of the charm for me.

>>715819743
People make fun of Oblivion's lighting now but the fact you could see sunlight reflecting off your character's armor genuinely impressed me back then. lol

>STARSIEGE TRIBES
>meant for huge 64 players teammatch
>gigantic maps you cross with jetpack
>deep armor, roles and inventory system
>vehicular gameplay, thought skiing made it an underused gimmick

And I played it before the "skiing bug".
The modding scene was also incredible.

>>715812946 (OP)
>advertising pic
>think you will have large formation armies with combined-arms
>reality
>it's just blobs of whatever unit have the most DPS against what you are facing
It's definitely not Age of Empire that blew my mind.

>>715823359
My bad
It was capable of having 128 players max.
And that was in the days when 256k DSL connection was fast.
https://wiki.tribesdepot.com/wiki/Starsiege:_Tribes

>>715822667
Bold opinion, how so? I liked its audacious attempt at many ages, and the look of it, but it did fall short of delivering properly.

>>715823069
Yeah, I get you. I wish I could play it blind all over again. Playing it knowing where everything is just isn't the same. The atmosphere is there but the mystery is gone.

>>715823359
>>715823646
Tribes only makes me sad. That series should be a top FPS but isn't because too many gamers suck and wanna get high and play Call of Dooty.
Hi-Rez shall never be forgiven for abandoning Tribes Ascend.

>>715823359
>>715823646
Based fellow Tribes bro

>>715823764
>but it did fall short of delivering properly.
No it didn't.

>>715823646
>It was capable of having 128 players max.

I knew I remember it being that high

I played on hundred+ population servers on my dads cable internet in 1999

Gayming literally never got better

>>715823841
Don't forget that the owner of Hi-Rez made another jew company just to make a new Tribes since Hi-Rez had such a bad reputation.

>>715824294
Disgusting.

>>715823841
Hi-Rez is part to blame for Tribes downfall.
And I'm not even talking of making it F2P cashcow, which was pretty bad. I'm talking of turning the game into a go-sanic-fast meme.
Armor design was meh, before they started selling cosmetic armor
At least it did ok on some soulful environments.

Shazbot

>>715812946 (OP)
World of Warcraft, easily.
I started playing WoW during TBC, a few months before WotLK was released. So, before I discovered the game the most impressive games to me were probably GTA San Andreas and Warcraft 3.

>>715824164
>I played on hundred+ population servers on my dads cable internet in 1999
Is there even large population FPS anymore?
I don't play many but I'm pretty sure those day they do small teams so their matchmaker have less difficulty ranking players

>>715816212
>TR
>AT THE CROWN

Stopped playing after they got rid of the ability to hold an individual zone without any backing. The beta was hilarious

>>715824858
>I'm talking of turning the game into a go-sanic-fast meme.
/v/ kind of turned it into that more than hi-rez themselves. It's kind of funny to think that HiRez PR actually embraced /v/ culture and hosted the shazbowl with /v/ vs reddit, no one would do that these days. Granted /v/ is also too splintered these days for that to even matter, most of the /v/ team was American with one furfag south american on the team. Most of /v/'s shitposting problems can be traced back to globalism not working.

Wave Race 64 is still godly.

>>715828418
What Hi-rez embraced was those ridiculous grinding mechanics and achievement you find on F2P. I'm sure they did everything they could for Sanic to turn into meme, that's why it's a damn speedometer.
And don't turn that into poltard bullshit, /v/ shitposting is just the average /v/tard being easily brainwashed into nihilism and rejecting any wise comment as weakness.

team fortress 2 and battlefield 3 for multiplayer games.
supraland for singleplayer games.

>>715830959
Yeah, the f2p was the problem, the memes weren't. And no it's not even /pol/. 4chan was better early on, and early on it was mainly American. Now its worst and full of everyone who hates everyone else.

>>715828932
kinda insane how that game had water physics when water in 98% of games at the time was just a flat floor plane with a transparency texture that your char could swim in.

>>715812946 (OP)
Max Payne 1, Mafia 1, Morrowind.

I remember my first time playing AoE, just the demo, but then GLADIATOR was out at the same time and it was awesome.

>>715816212
Planetside2 was only fun for the first three or so months after release, when people didn't know what they were doing. Then, like any other massive multiplayer game, it turned into min-maxing for pixels and people started to actively avoid fights.

I cannot think of a single PvP game thas hasn't been ruined by people who suffer physical pain whenever they die in a videogame and cannot help but chase worthless fucking pixels (ranks, currency and whatever) just to immediately abandon their characters when they cap out.

>>715812946 (OP)
Unreal was the first game that really made me gasp out loud. Doom and Red Alert and Quake were really fun and exciting but none of them really blew my mind the way Unreal did. The first time I started it up and the fly-by started I just sat there stunned. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

>>715820041
same but for the counter-strike beta way back
>wow holy shit this is so realistic! i'm a real counter-terrorist you guys!

First time I played bg3 final credits I was like wow but on replays I quit after act 2 and hate act 3 now

>>715812946 (OP)
My mind blew when I played dust 1 in CSS all the way back in 2005 and noticed that there were little individual dust particles floating around.

>>715824294
Don't forget that tribes 3 released to early access, and they immediately abandoned development rugpulling everyone who bought the game

>>715833867
I played from 2014 to 2020, and this is only somewhat true. The recursion stat padding fags with their fanfiction "sanctioned" stats were annoying as fuck but not really a massive problem, cant say they were really any worse than your average shooter K/D nigger. Also, ghost capping kinda died off as counterplays were developed, a single 12 man squad with a couple valks or a galaxy could shut that down.
The biggest problem was that outfit leaders had to actively create good fights, and usually, the most fun battles would have to be abandoned to secure defenses and actually gain ground. This led to uneven numbers where you either shot out of spawn as you lost a base or stood around doing nothing. Being part of a cohesive outfit and galaxy dropping onto these was fun, but for an average player, it just kinda sucked.

>>715812946 (OP)
Kid me would load up death match, give myself max resources and spend hours 1 v 7 the AI

Shit was a blast, I have every unit sound ingrained into my mind

SHIIII HOH

This was my first "HD" game and it absolutely blew my mind back in high school

Pokemon gold and silver impressed me the first time I played it simply because you had the entire region from red and blue open up once you first the elite 4. Even if it had less content than the original, finding you still had another half of the game to play when you thought you had finished it was great.

>>715823841
It makes me sad to see Tribes die, I have fond memories of watching my brother play it and sneaking onto the computer to play it when he was away.

>>715824907
smilar with wow and gta vice city

seeing red alert 1 at my cousins house at 8 years old was fucking amazing and then he ripped it on a cd for me to install

>>715812946 (OP)
Spellforce, its graphics nuked my 2004 PC but I was blown away, I still think they look cool

>>715824907
Is the undead's neck achievable natty?