The last game where you felt "it".

[Gravityqueen4life]

sonic adventure 2. played the three original games on sega genesis when i was very young. so much in fact, i burned the system down. few years past and i kinda forgot sonic even existed until i went to a friends house and he showed me sonic adventure two. i remember seeing the cover and all those memories just rushing back to me and i screamed "IS THAT SONIC THE HEDGEHOG!?"

loved the game and got it for myself soon after with sonic the mega collection. i felt like a child again.

 

[Un Platano]

For me it was early tech mods for Minecraft like what Tekkit added. Puzzle games about putting components together to make complex systems had long existed prior to it, but using the infinite expandability of Minecraft as a base for that kind of gameplay created an experience that hadn't existed in any game up until that point. The idea of building a giant factory from basic components was incredible.

There's plenty of other games like it now because it was responsible for creating an entire genre of autism factory building games like Factorio, not to mention the giant Minecraft modpacks nowadays that have literally hundreds of those mods at the same time. There's nothing wrong with those, and for someone who has never played any of them, they might feel the same thing about it the first time. The problem is that once you've done it enough, doing the same thing yet again starts to feel less like a game and more like a job.

 

[FuckedUp]

Probably Skyrim because it was my first real open-world RPG (unless you count Demon's and Dark Souls). Sekiro came pretty damn close, though.

Miss the days when getting a new game was thrilling as fuck and not just " another game in my backlog". And I got on average more than one new game a month as a kid, even excluding my birthday and Christmas.

 

[Childe]

Breath of the Wild. Nintendo threw everything they had into making it fantastic and there hasn’t been another good game like that for the switch. I think it’s one of the greatest games to come out in the last decade, and every time I open it up again I’m still awed at how much content is in it.

 

[boofit]

It's got to be New Vegas for me. Never touched a Fallout game because I always believed it was just hype like most shit, installed it maybe two years ago, lit a joint and.. well you know, you've played it.

Before that Grand Prix 3, Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed.

 

[T_Holygrail_Jesuschrist 2]

Mortal Kombat 10

 

[Damien Thorne]

I currently am playing a game that has me wrapped up completely within it. SMT Digital Devil Saga. Playing though it for the first time.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Breath of the Wild. Nintendo threw everything they had into making it fantastic and there hasn’t been another good game like that for the switch. I think it’s one of the greatest games to come out in the last decade, and every time I open it up again I’m still awed at how much content is in it.

It might be the greatest game of the last ten years to be honest.

 

[Gun Safety]

It might be the greatest game of the last ten years to be honest.

Breath of the Wild has so many issues. The world is basically empty with only a few things scattered around for you to do aside from Shrines, which only a few are actually memorable. The weapon breaking is novel but becomes an exercise in tedium when you're having to replace good weapons as they wear out. Weird voice acting. Et cetera.

And yet, it was the only game in years that made me feel 'it'.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Breath of the Wild has so many issues. The world is basically empty with only a few things scattered around for you to do aside from Shrines, which only a few are actually memorable. The weapon breaking is novel but becomes an exercise in tedium when you're having to replace good weapons as they wear out. Weird voice acting. Et cetera.

And yet, it was the only game in years that made me feel 'it'.

It's got some flaws but it's still an amazing game and a way higher standard of quality than most games these days.

 

[Kerr Avon]

DS9 : The Fallen.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

It's got some flaws but it's still an amazing game and a way higher standard of quality than most games these days.

It's one of those games where it relies on the player's creativity and imagination to keep it fun. If you're a stick in the mud like me it's an empty world with an absolutely dreadful story.

Twilight Princess and Monish Cap are my favorite Zelda's, so I make of that what you will.

 

[KillThemCrackasBabies]

Spider-Man 2018 was probably the first time in a long time I got a game I loved to a point where I would sit down and play with every ounce of free time I had until I beat it, something I hadn't done for years until then. Ghost of Tsushima is kind of closing in on it but I don't think anything is going to top Spider-Man for quite a while.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

I would say Breath of the Wild, but I played a game after that which ended up being great. It's an older game called Inazuma Eleven. I later discovered it is based on an anime, but I won't hold that against it. This game is on the DS and it is a bunch of junior high football teams beating the shit out of one another with DBZ-inspired moves that turn the pitch into a battlefield. And the way you construct your team and train each player up is a lot like Pokemon, except better by leaps and bounds. The first game was so good that I played the second game, which even has two versions with exclusive players (like Pokemon) but I never got the other version and I don't know anyone with it so I can't do the trading and co-op matches.

But it's a really neat series. The way it plays on the DS touch screen is very rewarding.

 

[tigergrinder]

Actually y'know what? I wanna give honorable mentions to a few DS games I emulated over the years.

First mention goes to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, juvenile as that sounds. It was such a brilliant fucking game. Even the story was kind of emotional, and for a little kid's game, that's not bad. But the best part was just being able to clear dungeons, collecting treasures and bringing them home with you. And recruiting was so much fun, it was a gamble. I still loved the feeling of getting your first few recruits, knowing you will build a great empire from their weak asses. And the sprite work was something else. Even the background tiles were gorgeous (Crystal Cave, Zero Isle, etc.). And it let you make any team you wanted, there were no gym badges to restrict your choices.

Second mention goes to Avalon Code. I played this game blind and had no idea what I was getting myself into. But holy shit, it's really fun. Playing Tetris with a book has never been so much fun (you combine various elements to create different weapons). It was like that treasure hunting/discovery vibe all over again. Not only that but you got to literally juggle enemies in the air. You could time it right to hit them progressively higher and higher into the air, and do more and more damage. There were tournaments and you could just steamroll over everyone by timing your hits. I loved that it broke up the game into all these little sections you could keep coming back to and discovering hidden aspects.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

Cuphead.

 

[Aidan]

Factorio was the last game where I felt "it" and I actually have to avoid it or my autism turns on and it's 30 hours later with no sleep. That's the only modern title in 10 years I think I've felt that, before that it was Minecraft.
Before that it was probably STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl but also Call of Pripyat did it for me too.
Before that it was probably Mass Effect 1.

Older games are better about getting that feeling. I still feel "it" when I play Doom 1 or 2.

It's got to be New Vegas for me. Never touched a Fallout game because I always believed it was just hype like most shit, installed it maybe two years ago, lit a joint and.. well you know, you've played it.

It's a gem and it did it for me initially and did it for me again a year or two ago when I replayed it with some different mods. The engine sucks, the controls can be shit, the low draw distance can be lame, but it mostly holds up and it's a satisfying game. It's nuts how using the exact same tech that Bethesda used, a much better game can be made that's far more replayable.

What is it about machinarium you like? I've gotten half a dozen copies of that game in bundles and shit on both pc and Android, so I assumed it was one of those games that critics rave about because humble tells them to.

Not him obviously but I think it's just a nice little surprise of a game in a genre that doesn't get much good attention and definitely didn't back then. It's very accessible, it's cute, not too long.. Great for a rainy day with coffee and some pen n paper.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Devil May Cry 5.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Resident evil 2 remake.

I beat the original on N64 on every way possible, was one of my favorite games, i had the police station burned in my memory after walking through it so much. I had a blast with the remake and seeing where it was the same and where it was different, it was a done very well, loved how they did the zombies.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Skyrim, but in my defense, it was the first open world game I played. Prior to that, Dark Souls.