Current Events > What was the first thing in gaming to truly wow you?

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It can be a moment in a game, something you saw about a game, a new piece of technology, etc.

I think for me, it was seeing a report on video game violence on the news. Id never seen Mortal Kombat 2 yet, but they were showing fatalities in the report. I saw Jaxs head smash & arm rip, and thought Holy shit, I must play this! Seriously, that news report on why kids shouldnt play it got me incredibly hyped about it.

I was gonna go with the first time I saw a commercial for the Power Glove, but I think that should be DQd because it was a POS that didnt work as advertised.

(Also thought of Mario flying in SMB3, but I dont think it wowed me. There was also the graphics of the floating continent going up in FF6, but that was after the MK2 thing).

Mortal Kombat in the arcades

Super Mario rpg, to me as a child it was basically a fully 3D n64 game on snes, I didnt think games would look any better and it looked perfect

Also being able to enter and exit any house

NFL Blitz, probably

Mario 64

The jump to 3D was just mind blowing.

Honorable mention to FFX's intro.

Munch's Oddysee.

I'd played some early PS2 games before this, but nothing with really good graphics. For the time, Munch was incredible, at least to me.

I would say the environment graphics of ff7. Even the change from say snes mario to 64 didnt impress me that much.

Space station Silicon Valley might actually be the first game that wowed me though, being able to pop out and take control of all the enemies was excellent. That seemed more next gen to me than mario for some reason.

mild props to donkey Kong graphics on the snes as well

nativengine posted...

Mortal Kombat in the arcades

Or

BettyWhite posted...

Mario 64

That was a long time ago. So, I want to say Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6.

Maybe even A Link to the Past.

Final Fantasy 7, Xenogears, Ocarina of Time, and Mario 64 were big wow factors in gaming for me too.

Tony Hawk 2, I remember that feeling

halo

Taking cover in Gears Of War.

Also Half Life 2 in general.

FF8 and it's still one of the FF i haven't finished yet

GTA III was my first true open world experience.

FF7's intro

AC4a... Has a slow motion kill cam

I agree with Super Mario 64. My little kid mind was blown by that. Pretty much played the entire game with my jaw on the floor

Diablo 2. My most addicting game ever and i'll be playing it today too.

IG88 in that n64 star wars game. That was the first time I experienced competent AI, and he fucking rekt me (I could hear him clomping arpund somewhere but I couldn't find him. I was like "where the fuck is this asshole?" and wandered all over the arena looking for him. Suddenly he drops from some catwalk or something, right behind me. I was dead before I could even turn around).

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Diablo 2. My most addicting game ever and i'll be playing it today too.

I was playing the other day and found a great low level unique that I wanted for my druid to eventually use. I was thrilled. Then I noticed it was ethereal and my soul burst into tears :(

The jump to 3D

I was pretty young, but the intro scene in FF4 just grabbed me in a way that no other game before it had. I think I just hadn't really run into any other game that tried to tell that sort of story before that.

Ocarina of Time blew me away when I was 5 years oldp

BettyWhite posted...

Mario 64

The jump to 3D was just mind blowing.

Honorable mention to FFX's intro.

Definitely these. To this day, my brother and I still agree that our N64 was the best Christmas gift we've ever gotten. Can't even count how many hours we put into Mario 64. And watching the FFX intro at my buddy's house the day it came out was literally the reason I started playing RPGs. I bought a copy the next day and RPGs steadily became my favorite genre.

Playing with Mario's face at the startup screen back on the N64 was pretty dope

I actually played FF7 super late, like maybe 2009 for the first time. And I remember being floored at some of the backgrounds in areas. They looked more beautiful than a lot of modern games for the time.

Exiting the sewers in Oblivion for the first time.

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Nudity

Okami for me easily. Only game that I can say had a profound impact on my life.

Deus Ex when I realised that the there wasn't a 'right' way to play. It blew my mind that they'd made a game where you could take different approaches.

I think it clicked for me on the second mission with the vending machine entrance.

Playing Sly Cooper at Best Buy. It was the first PS2 game I had seen, and it was incredible how much smoother the 3D graphics and animations were compared to previous gen.

I dont remember the name of the game. It was a PS3 shooter that took place on an alien world with dinosaurs that my friend was playing. Id only played N64 games and handheld games up to that point so that was the first HD game Id ever seen and I thought it looked so realistic lol

playing Diablo with other players

Maybe not the first thing to wow me, but my most memorable wow - soul calibur on the dreamcast

For some reason, going through a gate for the first time in Chrono Trigger.

First? I dunno. Could have been the moment in Prince of Persia where you get the sword and can start fighting the guards instead of just getting stabbed to death.

Probably a while later though...FF8. The opening FMV, the music, the presentation of the game in general.

The first Ridge Racer. First 3D game i saw and it really wowed me.

first large arcade. shit was sensory overload.

MC_BatCommander posted...

FF7's intro

Probably this for me, too. Followed closely by the end of the first disc - though the wow was for a different reason.

Ocarina of Time.
It's my least favorite 3D Zelda as of today, but good lord at the time it was something else. BoTW was the absolute closest a game has ever made me feel the way that I felt the first time I played OOT, but I don't know that it'll ever be topped.

FF7's opening cutscene

The visuals and music for Castlevania on the NES. I was coming from Atari 2600/Intellivision so I couldn't believe my eyes and ears!

Dragon Lair? Is that the game? Interactive story on an arcade machine.

Mine was a little simpler...

Snes : A Link to the Past - seeing and hearing rain for the first time in a video game.

Honorable Mention : Super Metroid's opening when the the room/station tilted over during the destruct sequence.

...simpler times...

Secret of Monkey Island or Final Fantasy 1

Id say either discovering the first whistle by myself in smb3, or turning on Pokmon red for the first time

For me it was playing Shadow of the Colossus for the first time. Climbing up into the arena with the first colossus, seeing the amazing scale, finally taking him down. Just amazing. I remember taking my parents into my room on Christmas Eve to show them just how awesome this thing they got me was.

The Cape in Super Mario World. Sometimes I would run down the timer just flying around.