What game has impressed you the most upon first playing?
To this day, no game has yet to blow me away like GTA IV did back in 08
What game has impressed you the most upon first playing?
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Bentley Lee
I have to agree, it was quite an improvement over San Andreas, technologically at least.
Gabriel Lee
Gears of war
Jace Allen
It controlled like no other game but was extremely intuitive at the same time
Zachary Turner
Mario 64. Nothing comes even close to how mindblowing it was. t.boomer.
Mason Turner
Probably the first Dead Rising or Dinasty Warriors on PS2.
Isaac Lopez
I fondly remember the first time playing every GTA game. First thing I did in IV after the intro mission was beat a cop to death for his gun then executed everyone in the diner around the corner from the first safe house.
Ian King
That's because you were a child and it was your first GTA.
Chase Moore
This was one of my biggest disappointments, I got a PS3 specially for it and bought the game on release day, after about 20 minutes of play all my excitement had vanished.
Kayden Foster
Portal 2.
It was short, but perfect in every way, the ending alone hasn't been topped since.
Alexander Jenkins
I had that with V.
With IV it took me a good while to come around to it though, maybe my second playthrough before it all clicked.
Oliver Roberts
Metal Gear Solid 4 in '08. First game that came with my PS3, and I played ~2 whole acts before my friend told me what the HDMI cable was for and as soon as I plugged that in I couldn't believe how good that game looked.
Jaxon Gonzalez
BotW. Partly because I'm a huge Zelda fag but also because I had avoid open world games for a long time. I think Far Cry 3 was the last game of that style I had played in a long time.
Thomas Cook
Yeah man that's something else. Got a 360 after having a Wii and Bioshock floored me when I booted it up. Made it hard to go back to 480p after that.
Jose Bell
Just cause 2 because of how awesome the open world was. It's the most joyous sandbox I've ever experienced in a game.
Elijah Sanchez
1. Grand Theft Auto III
2. World of Warcraft
3. Super Mario 64
4. Half-Life 2
5. Super Mario World
6. Super Mario Bros. 3
7. Crash Bandicoot
8. DOOM
9. Uncharted 2
10. WWF Warzone
Andrew Price
I'd say Rogue Squadron since it was my first 3D game, or Ocarina of Time, but nostalgia is a factor here
I was pretty impressed by The Witcher 3 once I saw White Orchard was just the first area and there's a massive game after it, and first time arriving at Novigrad was quite an experience
The intro to Prey 2017, the way you find out you're in a space station and everything you've seen and done up until then is fake, that was pretty cool as well
Medievil Resurrection since it was my first PSP game and at the time having those graphics on a portable console was the stuff of science fiction
Caleb Watson
Max Payne 2. Graphics felt photorealistic at the time, and that physics... My game copy had a bug and I couldn't progress farther than the prologue mission. Yet I still was blown away, killing the only enemy guy on that level, and watching how he crashes into a table with dozens little objects on top of it, and they all starting to fly in all directions. I was killing him over and over again, and each time looked different.
Kayden Clark
What JC2 did right was that it wasn't just a gigantic map in terms of area, it also had a brutal sense of scale and tons of places where you could look around and appreciate how truly immense it was.
Kevin Phillips
Deus Ex or RDR2.
Liam Anderson
Definitely GTA4, it looked incredible in 2008. Then GTA5, and then RDR2.
Damn Rockstar, they know how to make a pretty game (gameplay still sucks tho)
Xavier Anderson
Probably Gran Turismo 3, the jump in graphics and physics from GT2 was huge
Jacob Sullivan
why was GTA4 better than 5? 5 had a bigger world and a better colour pallette than just grey and brown. Was it the driving mechanic?
Lincoln Baker
it wasn't
Josiah Carter
Personally because it seemed more grounded. It still had all that outlandish stuff but it wasn't really the focus with the characters themselves, outside of Brucie. You couldn't put all of 4s characters into 5, it wouldn't work.
Caleb Brown
There really was nothing like it back then. Even after reading the game magazines' articles about it it still blew my mind.
Honorable mentions goes to Max Payne (bullet-time was crazy), Black and White (crazy amount of zoom, the creature was cool), and Thief (again, nothing quite like it - I had no idea what to expect and was scared shitless by the first zombie).
Oh, and playing Jedi Knight after installing my first 3D card (a Righteous 3D, iirc). The way it changed the game was crazy.
Jordan Campbell
I still remember playing Halo CE as a kid. The mission where you delve into that Forerunner lab to find Keys is pure kino. Scary and exhilarating. Or at least it seemed to me to be that way when I was a kid.
Dylan Watson
The jump from San Andreas to 4 was way more noticeable than from 4 to 5.
5 was a downgrade in physics actually.
Joseph Ward
Half-Life 2 was one hell of an adventure game when it came out, it’s still incredibly fun to play
Hunter Perez
>5 was a downgrade in physics actually.
This
Ragdolls in 5 are shit. One of the comfiest and funnest things to do in 4 was mowing down peds with a big car or jumping out of fast-moving vehicles and watching bodies bounce and fly around. Shooting NPCs in specific limbs and watching them react accordingly. So much cool stuff they removed
Brandon Butler
Playing Lylat Wars as a child blew my head off. I played that cartridge to death.
I also remember being really impressed seeing Call of Duty 2 on Xbox 360, my rich friend got it on launch, I found the sound effects in that game amazing at the time. We had it cranked up on his surround sound system, MG42s going crazy on one of the desert missions, has really stuck in my mind.
Jaxon Butler
>no game will give you the orgasmic feeling of blazing through the citadel with the supercharged gravity gun ever again
Justin Hill
>just grey and brown
Holy fuck I just replayed recently and it's baffling how dull it looks at certain time of the day, no colours whatsoever
>youtube.com
Liam Allen
Counter Strike Source blew my mind back then. It was my first Source engine game, didn’t get to play HL2 before this. The physics in this game was really cool at the time, I remember binding a key to the ‘kill’ command and jumping into water and killing the player to watch em float. Good times.
Ian Ramirez
>supposed to be NYC
looks fine to me. I don't see the problem
Nicholas Foster
Tekken tag tournament on ps2.
Jason Rivera
was that video supposed to help make gta 4 look bad or something, cause all it does is make it look fun and hilarious
Isaac Barnes
I was pointing out the absolute lack of any colour in the environment, besides police lights
Ian Scott
Demon's Souls
Aiden Scott
It's the industrial area in cloudy weather. Not too unexpected.
Gavin Ross
almost like its a foggy overcast day
Levi Kelly
It's stylized. Liberty City is supposed to be like New York so they make it a gross grey concrete covered shithole.
Compare that to RDR2 which lacks a coherent atmosphere. I much prefer a dark game to look dark than super colorful and saturated.