Game: Age of Empires II Book: Looking for Alaska Series: Mr Robot Movie: Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Game: Halo 3 Book: The Kingkiller Chronicles Movie: Harry Potter series (yes, I hate Rowling, but I can't move on yet) Show: Doctor Who. Been rewatching nuwho with my wife and it's like I've become insatiable for more. Been reading the books, comics, and audio plays. Gonna try Torchwood after
Black & White 2
Tarzan of the Apes
Cowboy Bebop/Trigun
The Avatar
The Avatar
What on earth is that?
Well either way I frame it.. it's not the last of them
Any Legend of Zelda game.
Kinda experienced Portal 2 again for the first time when I played through it in VR. Such an amazing game!
Huh, wait. You can play it in VR? How?
(It was my wish 3 years ago)
There's also a VR mod for HL2. Makes it a better VR game than Alyx IMO.
This sounds awesome. I wish I could understand what I was reading and put it on the VR my stepson gave me.
Well, depending on what VR setup you have I can either help you set it up or it might be impossible.
Portal 2 in VR runs on a PC (a pretty good gaming PC) connected to the headset either through a cable or wirelessly. If that's the setup you're using, it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
If you have an Oculus/Meta Quest and only play standalone (that is, no PC is involved, everything runs on the headset), then I'm afraid that's not good enough for Portal 2 or Half-Life 2, though there is a VR port of the original Half-Life. All you'd need for that is any PC (even potato quality) and a USB cable.
Ah, it is Meta Quest 3. I haven't used it much. I got to play a couple levels of Portal 2 a very long time ago. It was one of the very few video games I actually enjoyed. I don't know anything about Half-Life. I'll ask him if he knows about it first.
Ah, ok. Playing the original Half-Life in VR is great for the nostalgia value, though probably not that great if you're not familiar with the game itself. There's a bunch of great VR ports of old games for the standalone Quest by developers calling themselves "Team Beef". Doom 1, 2 and 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 1, 2, 3 AND 4, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy... the original Tomb Raider is coming soon too.
The real draw is to see those familiar game worlds from a new perspective.
Subnautica, without question.
I'd love to experience the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time again. Especially since I started with 3 so I already knew the ending when I went back to the other games.
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Book: The MaddAddam trilogy
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Game: Yakuza 0
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TV Show: Twin Peaks
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Movie: Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Twin Peaks
Is Twin Peaks suppose to be a slow burn? I have tried it few months ago, the pacing is very slow and eerie. Didn't really catch my attention.
Im conflicted. I want to watch the usual suspects again for the first time but with Kevin Spacey being too much of that movie I dont know if i would even if i could. And that makes me sad because it had one of the best moments in cinema...and that has been completely tainted by a shit person
Wasn't he found legally innocent in the end?
Bioshock.
I don't think there will every be a more satisfying twist for me. The twist was about me, the human playing the game, and only works because of the nature of the format.
It was perfection.
Game: The Outer Wilds and its DLC. Also Undertale as close second Movie: Summer Wars. Redline close second. Tv Show: Frieren - After journeys end
Undertale made me ugly cry, thanks Toby.
- Game: TLOZ:BOTW
- Book: 1984 by George Orwell
- TV Show: Attack on Titan and Neon Genesis
- Movie: Contact, Interstellar.
Game: To the moon
Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
TV: Star Wars Rebels
Movie: Alien
The culture novels, such a good pick!
Alien replays nicely if you haven't seen it in awhile and really focus on the experience.
Yeah but the anticipation of "when is the alien going to pop out" is only there on the first watch. I've watched it a bunch so can never recover that one.
- Game: The Witcher 3 (especially Hearts of Stone DLC)
- Book: The Hobbit
- TV show: The Dekalog
- Movie: Mulholland Drive
- Game: The Outer Wilds and DLC
- Book: Goosebumps - Night in Terror Tower
- TV Show: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
- Movie: Requiem for a Dream
Wheel of Time book series.
Got way into it when I was younger, got them as soon as new ones came out but after re-reading the first like 10 books multiple times and the repetitive descriptions, the long journey just killed it for me before it got more wrapped up in the later books. Still love it when I go to try and reread it, just get flustered out around book 7. Would love to just be able to do the entire run now with that same enthusiasm I had before, like finding a great show with lots of seasons to binge.
Game: a tie between Doom 93 and Super Metroid
Book: Different Seasons by Stephen King
TV show: The Sopranos
Movie: a tie between Terminator 2 and Spoorloos
Game is such an unbelievable slam dunk for me. Outer Wilds.
But if I could forget two, it'd be Outer Wilds twice because it's an incredible story
At this point, there are definitely plenty, but I'd personally say my top picks are definitely (in no particular order):
โข Brok the Investigator
โข Franklin (yes I'm a child at heart sometimes)
โข New Vegas and the DLCs
โข Borderlands (on xbox360 w/ all 4 DLCs, have been playing on and off for over a decade and still have way too much stuff left)
โข An American Tail (definitely in my top 3, if not my absolute favorite 3D animated film ever)
- Game: Zelda Ocarina of Time. My first true game that I had and enjoyed as a child, I didnt even know the language and I vividly remember using a dictionary and translating the game while playing.
- Book: One Piece Manga, yes its not a book, but reading everything from zero to current would be an amazing journey, one that I enjoy watching book-tubers discover One Piece and devour it is great. If I had to reread a book perhaps Project Hail Mary, I didnt know anything about the book, I just liked the authors previous work and picked this one up and stayed all night reading the book, it was one of those amazing moments when reading.
- TV show: Futurama, incredibly funny and imagining discovering it new again would feel awesome. -Movie: I dont really have *A favorite movie, more of the experience and feeling I had while watching a movie. But perhaps the Batman trilogy
I'm currently going through the One Piece manga for the first time and I'm having a blast.
I'm in the middle of Punk Hazard right now and it's starting to drag on, but I'm told that everything gets way better afterwards.
That's awesome! yes, the story structure changes a lot after the war, the conflicts grow larger and take longer. Oda also changed a the characters personalities a lot, in some he dialed them a lot. But it does get better, mostly because Cesar and Jody, where not the best. But still it does get a lot better later on! What was one of your fav moments? me from back then was water seven, it felt that the stakes really ramped up
My favorite single moment so far was the conclusion of the battle between Luffy and Boa Sandersonia.
It really highlights that Luffy is not willing to act against his principles, even if it would further his goals.
Best arc though is a tossup between Arlong Park or Impel Down. Arlong Park has had the best character writing in the series so far, and Impel Down has the highest stakes.
Luffy and Boa Sandersonia.
Absolutely, one of the smallest but most defining moments to show how Luffy thinks about conflicts. For me, I think Zoro's sacrifice for the crew was a highlight for me, I still remember having to wait to find out if he survived or not buy taking Luffy's pain. Usopp's apology, Chopper's backstory, Rob Lucci fight... man so many great moments. But I do agree with you, Oda build Impel Down and the war it was such an epic moment of the series.
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