Be honest, what's the most recent game that gave you the same feelings of joy and wonder as when you were a kid?Joy and wonder being that you enjoyed the experience, not necessarily that it caused joy
Fallout 4,
Uhm....
>>337451082
Xenoblade X. Exploring the world felt incredibly satisfying.
>mfw you get your wings for the first time
>>337451431
I'm glad you liked it.
But getting your mech ruined it.
Natural Doctrine
Felt like an adventure and thr gameplay was good enough
>>337451484
Nothing stops you from travelling on foot again. I covered a good chunk of Cauldros that way because the flight music got so irritating after forty hours of listening to it.
>>337451082
It was so long ago that I don't remember. I don't really blame the games for that, though. I blame severe depression destroying my ability to feel those things.
Undertale
desu
Wonderful 101.
Just so unique and fun that I had a blast trying to learn/master a game that did something totally new with a genre love.
It was a great experience.
Jazzpunk, I just beat it a couple hours ago. Before that, probably playing Explorers of Sky for the first time (I didn't buy it because I already had EoT) summer 2015.
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mists of pandaria
>>337451082
i think i'd have to say dragon's dogma
>>337451082
Last thing that truly stayed with my that I tend to replay over and over is KH2, and that improved when I got Final mix in 2008ish on my hacked ps2. I made sure to get the 2.5HD Remix I replay it every year, but for some reason I feel like I love 1 more even though cobmat is less superior.
Monster Hunter Freedom 1, about two years ago.
I had no idea what to expect beyond monster battles and had no idea what I was doing. It was an uphill battle the entire time. Every kill of a new monster was a triumph. The difficulty brought fear of the unknown, and that fear totally absorbed me into the game.
>>337455387
>yfw first Monster Hunter game
>yfw you kill the same monster more than you need to because you're afraid to move onto another monster that will kick your ass
>yfw farming for weapons you don't need to postpone learning
or am I the only one
I'm play through severed right now.
God damn does juicebox have some consistent quality while keeping it fresh.
>>337455527
I don't know that feeling. I was actually eager to meet my next greatest enemy.
Running into non-objective large monsters was actually how my most memorable hunts happened. Like finding a Basarios on some mining mission and having no idea what the fuck I had unearthed and that feeling of glee when that chest armor broke and it had begun to bleed. Or finding a Khezu in the jungle and again having no idea what the FUCK it was, killing it across a 40 minute struggle, and carving something I needed for a weapon upgrade and getting super excited.
MGSV
Kingdom Hearts 2, I only played for the first time recently.
DOOM
Not even joking. i played it for 8 hours straight and called off of work to play it more.
>>337451082
I just played gravity rush for the first time. The movement system in that game is a lot of fun, I enjoyed it.
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Trails in the Sky/Coldsteel. Had me grinning from ear to ear the entire time when I played through them. Haven't felt so good about a video game series for a long time.
Can't wait until they localize the rest of 'em.
Joy AND wonder, together.
I'd probably have to say Wonderful 101. I played the game very, very late and was amazed at how good it felt. The setting, story and experience hit all the sweet spots I'm a sucker for, and the ending literally had me standing up for the climax.
Such a great game.
Rayman Origins
Dark Souls 1.
Terraria was another one. really really enjoyed that game, it just has no replay value.
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DivOS
everything about the classic CRPGS with a focus on co-op and built from the ground up to remove all the horrible nuances of the old CRPG games in multiplayer
>>337451082
Oldschool Runescape released Monkey Madness 2 last week. That made me feel like a little kid again.
Mass Effect 1.
The narrative, gameplay, ambientation, soundtrack (oh the soundtrack), the mistery, the vastness of space. I really felt like a kid again.
Same with Dark Souls. Minus the vastness of space.
Super Mario Galaxy. Not that I haven't played a bunch of fun games since then, but paying SMG for the first time was really something else.
>>337456772
dark souls 1 is honestly a game I get to gush about whenever a friend plays it for the first time. The freedom and difficulty remind me of older SNES games
Underrail
But to be perfectly honest, I only play something between 1~3 games a year, and another 1~3 that I end up dropping very early in. So the ones that I stick with do tend to give me those feelings of joy and wonder. I'm not playing a game if it's just okay.
Garden Warfare 2 surprisingly.
Kero Blaster. I might actually like it more than cave Story
I only got into the ultimate apocalypae dow mod recently and it blew my mind
Im a sucker for huge battles
Kirby Planet Roboto
Joyful experience with no levels I actively disliked and the robot mechanic was used with copy abilities very well.
>>337456998
>The freedom and difficulty remind me of older SNES games
This. Ghouls&Goblins, Castlevania, Demon's Crest and shit.
>>337452320
LET ME SEE YOUR DARK MATTER
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>>337456590
Mah fellow diplomatic wonderful ones.
It was such an amazing game that had such a good balance on everything. I personally didn't expect this game to be as amazing as it was. The action, the humor, the dark and sullen atmosphere where practically an entire armada of ship is out to destroy the world, and the characters was just such an amazing refresher from games as a whole.
The ending will forever be one of the greatest moments in video gaming, bar none. Nothing could ever attain that sort of hype.
Lost Planet 2. Easily.
>>337457434
>not IN A SEA OF DARK MATTER
Last time I've had joy in a game i cant even remember because i've been died inside for years, but the closest was with The Witcher 3.
Journey.
>>337457829
>tfw getting the hardballer
Skullgirls
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Dynasty warriors 7 and DW:7 Empires.
I was glued to that shit for months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIhzQn1jwrk
>dat custom soundtrack from the rest of the games in DW:7 empires.
>Men of intelligence kicks in.
Kid Icarus Uprising.
Shin Megami Tensei 4.
Bomberman 64
Dragon Quest V
Overwatch was really fun to play with friends during the beta
The Last of Us Remastered
I don't play games I expect to hate, so it has never happened. Turok came closest, I guess, to achieving that.
>>337462138
You can not hate a game, but still have it be unsurprising.
For example, I knew when I bought Borderlands 2 that it'd just be a WRPG with a Mad Max skin. I got what I asked for. It was good enough.
>>337462374
It's just when I play games, I expect to enjoy them or that they don't offer much. To be surprised at liking a game, would require that I have to expect them to be horrible beforehand and since I usually give them a chance to show what they're about even if I know they're bad, the combination required is exceedingly rare.
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Dark Souls 3, I absolutely loved it
Alien Isolation got a huge rise out of me.
Undertale
I could also say MH4U but that was released earlier
