God what I wouldn't give to play through the ICO series for the first time again. Three of just the best cases for why games are art.
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I Saw the TV Glow, I was just talking about not liking that Iβve been desensitized to it a bit.
Game: Baldur's Gate
Book: Dune
TV: Fraggle Rock
Movie: Fight Club
Game: Wolfenstein the online part. Cant remember what title, but it was on pc in the 2000s oh it was Amazing Book: Goosebump TV Show: Werner Movie: The perfect storm
Metal Gear Solid 3.
I played it overnight, I was alone, and it thunderstormed that night around the time I reached The Sorrow. I couldnt stop. It was so good and I was into it. Nothing else has been more memorable.
The whole experience of starting up my new (used) N64 for the first time on my blurry old CRT TV and see that huge 3D Mario face pop up that I could squeeze and pull. This was a truly magical console for me.
- Game: Skyrim
- TV show: Game of Thrones
- Book: The Lord of the Rings
- Movie: The Lord of the Rings
Does Sonic Adventure count? I literally started over on that game recently.
With you on this one! The Sonic Adventure games are what come to mind when I think of 3D Sonic. The gameplay of the boost games doesn't appeal to me nearly as much as the physics based movement of the Adventure games!
Here are the baby Chaos that Iβm raising in Station Square in Adventure mode.
Still canβt upload them to a VMU though.
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Just a game and book come to mind for me right now, plus a music album.
Game: Star Control 2
Book: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
Album: Floating World by Anathallo
Game: Quest for Glory I: So you want to be a Hero
Book: Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
TV Show: Babylon 5
Movie: Spaceballs
All fairly old, but still some of all time favorites.
The first BioShock game. I don't know how I managed to go so long without it being spoiled for me, but man, I'm glad it wasn't.
Game: Life is strange Book: Hyperion TV Show: Stargate SG1 Movie: ~~All of them? ... Primer~~ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (if you know, you know)
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Game: Tie between Dragon Age: Origins and the original Bioshock.
Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street
TV Show: Stranger Things
Book: Man, too many to mention, but maybe The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.
Satisfactory.
The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week's time!
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Game:
GoldenEye 007, but I want it to be in 1997 playing on the 27" CRT TV in the basement with my brother. Technically, it was my N64, so I always got to use the gold controller that it came with. We sat on the carpet within feet of the giant wooden TV cabinet, because the cords weren't very long. My dad was a carpenter and only recently refinished the basement with tongue and groove cedar. I still remember the smell of the wood and the sound of the furnace clicking on down there. He even cut a crescent moon into the bathroom door as if it were an outhouse.
We liked to play Golden Gun in the temple. We even made up our own games within the game, like hide and seek. Back then he was my best friend. He made some life choices that were different from mine. We were never as close as when we played that game. We're not in a bad spot or anything, but those days now just memories.
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Game: Gunship 2000
Book: the Murderbot Diaries
TV: Firefly
Movie: ~~Casablanca~~ no! Little Shop of Horrors!
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Game: Noita
Book: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (RIP, you deserved more time)
TV show: Cowboy Bebop, I think
Movie: Honestly, I can't think of one.
In order of priority, I'd put The Player of Games at the top by a wide margin (seriously, it's an amazing book by a brilliant author), followed by Noita, with Cowboy Bebop at the end.
Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender's Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense
Game: Day of the Tentacle
Book: Cryptonomicon
TV: BoJack horseman
Movie: The Matrix or The Prestige
Honorable mention: Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Book: 1984 Movie: Sinister Game: Borderlands 2 Tv show: (Is an animated serie ok?) Gravity falls
Hell yeah animation is ok, and Gavity Falls is a solid 10/10 choice.
Between my brother, a mutual friend, and myself, we have over 1,800 collective hours in Borderlands 2. That was probably my favorite game for about 5 years. It's fun enough on your own, but the game gets a million times between with co-op.
I thought the Pre-Sequel was pretty good. The low grav mechanic was a fun addition, and the moon being populated by Aussies was a nice touch. Borderlands 3 was kinda meh. We all had high hopes for it. It's a pretty good game, but its greatest weakness is that Borderlands 2 exists.
- Star Trek
- Ultima Underworld
- Myst
- Fallout
- Jurassic Park (book)
Oh man, Ultima Underworld was mind-blowing in its time.
The sequel was pretty good too. Theyβre both on GOG, btw, And have aged pretty well. The graphics arenβt so good, but the story and gameplay are still pretty great. I still replay them (and the Myst games) from time to time.
Oh, I played them both. I didn't really care for II's splitting the game into 8 "worlds", I preferred the original's single huge dungeon, but I did enjoy it.
It did get annoying having to run back and forth through all of the worlds, but some were very cool, like the one with the fighting arenas. And the tomb with all the levels. And the story was awesome.
Game: Super Mario Galaxy
Book: The Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
TV: The West Wing
Movie: The 5th Element
It makes me happy to see Rama mentioned here! I read the first book in the series when I was 8 or 9, and it's what really hooked me on science fiction. Like, I had to read it with a dictionary open because some of the language was way too technical for me, but I was absolutely enthralled.
Other people who've read it and who I've talked with seem to be split over whether the first book is better than the sequels, or the other way around. I prefer the sequels, my wife prefers the original. Do you have a preference?
As a child, I greatly preferred the original. A lot of the emotional subtext from the sequels went over my head (since I was raised in a very emotionally repressed environment), but I could totally grok the cold, somewhat impersonal nature of the first book. It was easier to imagine myself in this huge alien structure when I could understand the characters. Nowadays I think I'd probably prefer the sequels since I derive a lot of enjoyment from interpersonal drama and conflict. I'll admit that it's been ages since I've read them, so I can't say for sure.
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- Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
- Book: House of Leaves
- TV: Twin Peaks
- Movie: The Matrix
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Mass Effect 2
Guild Wars 1 (at the time it was just called Guild Wars)
Edit : both were played on the pc
All 3 Mass Effect games!
Outer Wilds and Piranesi.
We got a winner here
Game: Bloodborne
Book: Green Eggs and Ham
TV Show: Lost
Movie: Morbius
Game, Outer Wilds
Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once