What's the game that really made you feel like you went on a great journey?
Prince of Persia 2008
Shadow of the Colossus
>>335109375
PoP2008 just made me feel like I was playing a shitty rhythm game :^(
>>335109756
it made me feel like i was a good boy because they literally cut off the ending of the game and repackaged it as dlc. 8 years later, i still don't know how the story ends.
>>335109375
>>335109672
funnily enough these games were very similar (not gameplay wise, but concept-wise)
Dragons Dogma
>>335109827
*good goy
fug
Witcher 1.
Xenoblade Chronicles
World of Warcraft
Before the dungeon finder and other casual shit.
Monster Girl Quest
>>335108631
Dragon Age Origins
Jade Empire
Baldur's Gate
Pretty much all Old Bioware games really had that epic quest feel to them.
>>335109375
Also this.
Journey.. Believe it or not.
>>335108631
i love ivalice so fucking much
skyrim t b h
Borderlands 1
>>335110193
yes
First time I played Super Mario World, it felt like this gigantic adventure with so much to do.
This here is the real shit though, big world map with a good amount of branches, reasons to go to every stage and minimal annoying backtracking. Best of all, the requirements for 100% completion aren't going to make you want to die.
>>335110193
>le skyrim hate meme xD
Fuck off
The Banner Saga. It's a game about protecting a caravan on a great journey across the continent.
dragon quest VII and VIII, specially VIII
Final Fantasy XIIIt's the only Final Fantasy I ever bothered to finish
>>335108631
really, any game from when i was less than 8
holy shit, games felt fucking ginormous when i was younger
i wish i was a kid again...
>>335109375
of all of them you chose the worst one
>>335108631
FF in general
>>335110274
My brother played that all the time when we were kids and it would give me nightmares for some reason. Very odd looking back.
>>335110081
That's not Ivalice. It's LotR's stuff.
Weird thing, most open world games do not feel like journey,
TW3 did only because how step by step progression was from small villages to giant city to northlandsofgiants.
>>335110302
It plays out more as a norse saga desu.
Oblivion. Also Diablo II but mostly oblivion.
>>335109935
This and XBX, both fantastic games
>>335111036
world felt like it was moving so it was fine
how is second one?
Probably skyrim, although it wasn't the main story that did it. It was wandering around and exploring on my own.
Witcher 3 seems like it should've felt the same, but it didn't for some reason .
Witcher is the better game, but not the better adventure somehow? I don't know
This was years ago, but WoW burning crusade is when I played, and early into lich king.
I never even reached a high level, I just explored all the cities and lands and talked with people I met and stuff like that. Still haven't played another game that felt that way. Like a real world full of people
Then again, I wasn't really "playing" it so to speak. Just kinda wandering.
Planescape: Torment and Witcher games
>>335108631
King's Field 4.
Definitely Skyrim.
There's just so many different playstyles and exploits to build all sorts of characters. Stagger effect is overpowered as fuck though.
>>335110289
>lel fix it with bloom mods guiz Xd
Fuck off
>>335111445
Points of interest were copy-paste Far Cry garbage, and dungeons were few and generally uninteresting.
Also, the fact that you couldn't play your own character, and that progression, both character and gear wise was awful, factor in as well, though I do understand that they kinda shot themselves in the foot anyway by going with a fixed character, in order to deliver the story.
>>335111445
witcher kind of feels like a movie somehow, more like you're playing and observing a Game of Thrones type atmosphere than adventuring for yourself.
I think it's because Geralt isn't meant to be a self-insert unlike your PC in Skyrim. Hell, he's not even a relatable character to anyone except like fucking Charlie Sheen or something.
>>335111848
Overall this to me is the greatest Journey Video Game Deverlopers of Sega for an JRPG of all time.
>haven't played in a decade
>buy it on vita
>almost cry tears as memories come rushing back
Yep life was great back then. There isn't much adventuring, but stepping into lumina for the first time really stuck with me as a kid
Dark souls 1 and 3. even sorta 2 a little bit, but not as much. I felt like I was in these fucked up worlds searching and meeting weirdos along the way. It was an amazing feeling to play both of those the first time.
>>335108631
MineCraft
>dat limitless world
>always wanting to cross the horizon
>grappling with hunger, predators and the elements
>going from dirt to the king of the kingdom he literally built from the ground up
>>335108631
Great Journey?
>>335110289
Skyrim was unmitigated garbage.
>>335112586
>Skyrim was unmitigated garbage.
Explain the accolades? Fucking simpleton gtfo off /v/ if you can't think straight.
>>335110302
Fuck yeah this was my answer as well.
>>335112638
I can buy 50 accolades, they mean nothing
>>335112638
>argumentum ad populum
People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy.
Oddly enough Okami.I thought the game would end once Orochi was slainI already was content from what I have gotten out of it by than
>>335112747
>I can buy 50 accolades
Dark cloud 1 and 2
>>335108631
FF7
Half-Life 2
>>335112747
Holy shit anon. American dad did an episode of that you faggot. Awards bought mean nothing. But awards bestowed have meaning. And before you start slapping your meaty claws on that keyboard know this. Im refering to community awards, which skyrim got a fuck ton of.
>>335112960
Paid reviews.
Popularity is not indicative of quality.
>>335109827the ending they cut off was just sequel bait. Sequel bait that they refuse to continue on with.
>>335112307
>He doesn't plough wenches and slay monsters on a regularly basis while meddling with politicians
>>335113083
>Paid reviews.
Literally post 1 source you shill
>>335111848
My fucking nigga.
>>335113156
I don't think you know what "shill" means.
In fact, I'm an anti-shill in this particular scenario. Pay attention, please.
>>335113258
>No sources
cool, argument over
>>335110450
More like best. It's the most gorgeous one, and the mythos in PoP 08 is genuinely fascinating. Too bad the actual god Ahriman is nowhere near as impressive.
>>335113281
It's well-past your bedtime, isn't it? It's a school night, after all.
Scurry off now.
>>335111848
>>335113370
You're a turd, you got btfo because you can't explain how the game was so decorated without resorting to accusations you can't back up.
You lose.
This shall be my last post in this thread.
>>335113514
Goodnight, hun.
Don't forget your night light.
Morrowind
>>335113514
Lol what a fag.
>>335113618
>>335108631
Peter Jackson's King Kong the game.
>>335109375
This.
Castlevania Lords of Shadow. I know the game has many faults.
>>335110213
>>335110289
Skyrim and TES games in general can be fun to fuck around in and some questlines can get fairly involved but I'd never characterize them as great journeys.
>>335113881
what would you characterize as a great journey then?
If a game has fast travel and is open world, it greatly ruins the whole "great journey" feeling. Skyrim, Oblivion, The Witcher 3, all suffered from this.
Older games like Morrowind (which restricted fast travel to boats or silt striders) didn't have this problem.
>>335109935
came to post this
Red Dead Redemption.
A journey that spans generations.
>>335114117
>The Witcher 3
That's not even supposed to be a great adventure. He's stomping around places he's been before looking for someone.
He's not journeying into the unknown on a grand adventure.
>>335114183
It was a really shit game though
>oh look woman on the road
>oh wait no she's a trap
>x1000
killed all immersion
FFVIII really felt like I went on a grand epic journey when I first played it.
Windwaker. Played it when I was ten or something and it felt big. Nowadays it kind of bores me.
>>335109827
I played the DLC and we don't know either. Ubisoft are cucks and they need to make a new one. I absolutely loved this game.
>>335108631
>>335114280
>That's not even supposed to be a great adventure.
Yeah, it really showed.
The whole game felt like a giant fucking fetch quest.
>"WHERE'S MUH CIRI?"
>"excuse me sir, but do you have a moment to talk about MUH CIRI?"
Compared to The Witcher and TW2: Assassins of Kings, TW3 was a disgrace in the story and plot department.
The new Tomb Raider games felt like that for me.
Majora's Mask which is weird considering you don't actually go anywhere thanks to time travel shenanigans.
>>335109935
>tfw first time seeing stardust
>tfw that night music at eryth sea
>tfw night falls on satorl marsh
>tfw another fucking awesome piece of music
>tfwbionis slash X
we didn't deserved that game
>>335114471
I don't know why people praise TW3's main story so much, it was pretty boring and unrealized. I had a lot more enjoyment out of side quests or HoS.
>>335114107
Zelda
>>335111848
I still hear that song, when you're raping the boss and the music changes to a fucking awesome victory theme
The first two paper mario games. Maybe SPM to some degree as well.
>>335108631
Every time I beat it I just feel like I went through a lot to get there.
>>335113618
this 100x
A lot old school top down RPGs, too many to even name
Knights of the Old Republic I and II
Ni No KuniHalo 1, at points
Mega Man Legends
Bunch of different Zelda games
Probably other games that don't come immediately to mind
>>335110612
what?
Lineage 2
>>335112403
muh nigga
>>335114608
>tfw randomly hearing about this game
>tfw watching the trailer
>tfw gaur plain for the first time
>tfw diving off the cliff in makna for the first time
>tfw SUDDENLY LASERS at mt valak at night
>tfwdropping from the mechonis' sword
>tfwpretty much all of mechonis
>tfwLandmark: Saturn
>>335112951
same for me, I though it would end after snake
then ninetails was a very good setting (emperor of japan, oni master and all that)
I was trully surprised with all the content this game offered
Wind Waker, Witcher 3 and Mass Effect 1
Who wants the OST to Skies of Arcadia?
>>335114614
Because it was way better than what bethesda has ever done, and that's what normies know.
I will agree though the the Witcher 3 should be always pointed to when someone asks about a game that did side quests perfectly.
It's the same with the Witcher books as well, short stories were great and the ciri saga was mediocore. I guess this setting is good for former and not the latter.
Not sure. Dark Souls was one. Just because it was harsh, hard and I didnt know where to go or what to do for a while. Then couple Zeldas too I suppose.
>>335117724
>game that did side quests perfectly
I liked witcher3 but all side quests revolved around batman vision, it got tiring, the terrible loot system also meant that rewards were worthless
The Longest Journey
>>335117882
I meant the story aspect of it, everyone knows that the witcher 3 gameplay is servicable at best.
>>335112951
This man speaks truth.
>>335108631
unreal that shit makes you think about how far youve come since the spooks that is vortex rikers
>>335110289
you gay homosexual how dare you exist
ToEE
PS:Torment
Baldurs Gate
Icewind Dales
Neverwinter Nights
Witcher
Chrono trigger/cross
Dragon Quest series
Elder Scrolls
Kingdom Hearts
Vanilla WoW
There are too many to name
>>335108631
TES franchise, d&d based rpgs, I also heard good things about the gothic and risen franchises but havent played them yet
>>335118214
I remember playing unreal and coming across a giant monster thingy that I thought was a final boss, and it turned out to just be another generic enemy, the game was really fucking long, quite fun though
>>335113618
This. Oblivion and Skyrim capture some of that feeling, too. You can hate TES games for any number of reasons, and even fans of the series can't reach a consensus on which ones are most deserving of hate, but they provide large worlds full of content and the free-form gameplay required to make all sorts of journeys possible. They're player-driven rather than narrative-driven, and the most memorable journeys in them often have nothing to do with their main quests or any prewritten questlines.
What all that really means is that if you have the imagination and motivation to want something cool to happen, the game gives you the tools and the mechanics to make that happen, and that becomes a journey.
You might try to become powerful enough to kill a god, then literally polish your shoes with his soul so they let you walk on water, teleport, fly, or jump over mountains.
Or maybe you want to herd every single Khajiit in the world onto an island to be slaughtered with a single massive area spell.
Or maybe you want the simple things in life like a 20 skeleton army. You find someone who can teach you how to summon a skeleton, train your magical abilities enough to reliably summon 4-5 on your own, and collect powerful enough souls and valuable enough items to enchant with temporary or permanent summons to further bolster your ranks.
Or maybe you just want to beat the main quest after having committed a total genocide, even having killed the fat elf that makes the almost-total-genocide route possible. Preparing your character for that can be a bigger journey than the main quest itself.
You decide what kind of character you want to become and what kind of things you want to do, and then accomplishing them becomes a long journey taking you all over the world, completing quests and finding new things along the way. But if you aren't excited by all the possibilities or can't figure out what you want to do, then the lack of focus of Bethesda games will likely bore you.
MGS3
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Arx Fatalis
>>335108631
south park the stick of truth
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Star Ocean 3
Here's hoping SO5 keeps the same feel
>>335110612
Look at the picture he posted and then reread the post.
Super Metroid
Unreal 1 (1998)
Wind waker
Metroid Prime
Shadow of the colossus
Dark souls 1
>>335118643
>tfw finally getting outside anddying
>>335109935
Came here to post this, first time in years I didn't feel like I was going on an adventure in years, last time as well. God I loved this game.
>>335118724
this
>>335118724
Holy shit, someone else played this game...
>>335112360
Did you just have a stroke?
>>335118959
that ISV-Kran can go to hell with its bullshit skarrj swarm
Gone Home
>>335109935
Too bad XBX didn't give that feeling. Probably because there's just one hub city and the rest is wildlife.
>>335118461
Fuck, even daggerfall does the whole adventure thing pretty well, and the game's 20 years old. It may not have had much variety or look pretty, but the mechanics were there, and the lore and quests/storyline were top notch.
>>335110090
But then you took an arrow to the knee? xD
>>335120379
you cant accuse something that spawned a meme of meme-spouting
>>335112951
>Oddly enough
Not really. The game was designed that way ,with the story guiding you but not restricting you in the areas you visit. The different brush powers are basically keys to unlock other parts ,secrets and collectibles and you alternate liner parts (dungeons) with more open parts where you can basically go wherever you want granted you have the right power.
That's a fucking perfect definition of an adventure. Some heavily scripted sequences coupled with an overworld that needs key (powers or items) to explore fully
Oh, Yharnam
>>335120242
Agreed, I would have mentioned it but my post was already way too long. Daggerfall's a different beast from the others since it's not as much of a sandbox, but the gigantic world and reputation mechanics work together to create the same kind of player-driven journeys.
I spent a few in-game years doing quests for nobles in Sentinel so that I could eventually betray them in those two ones that let you get Daedra/Orcish rep. And then I finally summoned Nocturnal and was able to accept the quest (this was extremely expensive because I don't savescum the failures) but got a letter from Baltham (from a multi-part Mages Guild quest) and my vampire clan at the same fucking time, leading me with three quests in two regions on opposite sides of the Iliac Bay and not enough time to complete them all, forcing me to decide which promises I was going to break and figure out how I was going to just barely manage to not completely fail two of them.
Putting aside the emergent journeys that most TES games share to varying degrees, Daggerfall stands out as the only one with a main quest that managed to feel like a large journey as well, in my opinion. It's a shame that it's so damn easy to fuck up so most people miss out on it.
New Vegas with a shit ton of mods.
>>335108631
Most recently, Witcher 3.
I had to stop playing video games for a few days after beating it because I was just fatigued from everything, but very satisfied.
>>335112307
>>335111445
The thing about skyrim is you can wander into the wilderness without seeing any civilisation for extended periods and come out having accomplished essentially nothing
>>335116943
>>335114608
The thing that I liked about Xenoblade Chronices was it was the first game I've played since Xenogears that starts small and every couple of hours you get this twist that makes you rethink everything you thought you knew and broadens the scope of the game. Then when you go back and play it again it seems like the most obvious thing in the world.
Might sound strange, but San Andreas. Starting out in Los Santos, making friends, and getting used to how things work, then suddenly being kicked out in the wilderness. Moving from area to area, each with their own distinct feel and meeting different people really felt like a grand journey.
>>335121723
I can't find that kind of story in general. Everything is low key, predictable or too afraid to make the plot too complicated.
>>335118724
and then dungeon siege 3 came out...
>>335108631
Vanguard mmo. You see that mountain in the background? Holy shit you can climb to the top.
more like a great pilgrimage
>>335109935
I need to emulate this in HD some time, some of the areas were fucking beautiful, but looked like shit thanks to the Wii.
>>335112951
Nah, the world felt too empty for me.
The Longest Journey
Still will never forgive that faggot for ruining Chronicles.
I wouldn't say a "great journey" but Risen had this real great feel to finding new areas of the island, made the place seem a lot bigger and denser than your initial impressions.
>>335112638
that cunt probably had 200+ hours and complains.. i have a weeb friend like that
>>335108631
>dark souls 2
>Halo 2
>Resident Evil 4
>Mario Galaxy
That's all I can think of at the moment
>>335110274
Oh shit I loved Medievil
Fucking Custom Robo felt like a Journey. When you actually find out the World isn't Flat as well as its destroyed by a Evil alien mech you had to fight at the end.
>>335108631
Every Legend of Zelda
Halo 1-3
The Witcher 2-3
Mass effect trilogy (fuck that shitty ending tho)
KOTOR I
Read Dead Redemption
Dragon Age I
Elder Scrolls
Oblivion
Skyrim
>>335110274
it doesn't hold up
>>335109827
the sequel is a ds game lmao
