I love turning off the minimap in beautifully crafted sandbox games, like Red Dead, because I then start paying attention to the world and everything in it. It's truly wonderful, and I strongly suggest you all try it.
I love turning off the minimap in beautifully crafted sandbox games, like Red Dead, because I then start paying attention to the world and everything in it. It's truly wonderful, and I strongly suggest you all try it.
I really like dynamic weather systems, and subtle atmospheric lighting effects, such as ambient occlusion, and so called god rays, and those shadow rays around objects that are on front of bright lights. I like how that was implemented in 13-2. I don't think 13 had that. I also think gt5 has some of the best use of hdr bloom in games today.
I also really like it when environmental sound effects are done so well that I don't even miss or notice that the bgm has stopped.
another thing that I think is awesome is that fighting games are pretty popular again. they had kind of a dump in popularity around the beginning of the 00s.
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I absolutely love the background aspects of Skyrim, the enormous amounts well written books in-game are just like candy to me.
"Oh look a copy of Gods and Worship, screw that bloke trying to attack me! Let's read!"
I also love seeing things like the Admonition against Ebony, where it was a handwritten note from the Jarl and his court wizard warning you not to take the daedric weapon the Ebony Blade. It just adds to the experience.
My favorite easter egg from skyrim was seeing the dead troll underneath a dwemer bridge, smurfing hilarious.
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I like it when games let you min/max to absurdities. Breaking games if fun, but it's even more fun if the developers saw it coming and can still throw out monsters to smurf with you. And I don't mean the optional kind either, which had better be able to stand up us. I mean plot-related monsters that adapt to you're strategies.
But more than that, I like that moment right after you get the full party and you go to the airship/hidden base/End of Time and see them all there. It's great. And on the party select screen when there are blanks and seeing all those filed in, I love it. Especially in games that force you into parties in the beginning.
Like that moment in FFXIII, sure it's almost everyone's favorite moment, but for different reasons and mine is because I can finally wreck trout with Fang, Snow, and Vanille. Or in FFIX when you get on the boat about halfway through Disc 2. I mean sure you're still missing Eiko and Amarant, but it's the first time you get to select your party. Or in FFVII when you leave Midgard.
Please tell me you played the other TES games tooOriginally Posted by Unbreakable Will
I loved this. Especially on FFVII where you one by one start filling in the gaps. But then of course, one of them dies so it's like, oh crap.
Yeah I played the hell out of Oblivion, it's the only game out of like fifty that I have all the achievements for (dlc included). I'm proud-ashamed of it lolPlease tell me you played the other TES games too
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PLAY MORROWIND!!Yeah I played the hell out of Oblivion, it's the only game out of like fifty that I have all the achievements for (dlc included). I'm proud-ashamed of it lolPlease tell me you played the other TES games too
That moment when the game opens up and just sort of kicks you loose and you explore and discover things is pretty incredible.
I've been wanting to play Morrowind but haven't gotten around to buying a copy or much less the original xbox. I will someday though, I saw online that this dude did an entire revamp of it's graphics and it looked excellent. If I see it again I'll post a link... now where was it? Damn you stumbleupon.
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I love it when games allow you to customize/recolor the armor. I feel that more in control and I like to look awesome while killing things.
Just realized that happens just about the same time the party selection becomes available too.
Bahaha! That's it!
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Emulation is amazing. I love being able to revisit the past without necessarily having to lug around all of the old hardware. I've now got my main gaming PC hooked up to the TV with a 360 wireless pad, and emulation is so much better than it used to be.
My girlfriend didn't game a huge amount when she was younger, just a few select games, but giving her the chance to re-experience them has been great - it's filled her with this childlike wonder and given us a chance to connect in new ways. It started with just Super Mario World, which we blasted through and looked for all of the secrets, but the real gem was when I decided to look into PS2 emulators a few weeks back and got Kingdom Hearts. It's the only JRPG she's played that I know of, and I got it fairly absent mindedly, thinking she might just like the chance to replay it. But when she saw it loaded, it meant the world to her, and we've had a pretty serious playthrough of it going ever since; which is great, because it's a game I've only tried before and got sorta frustrated with, so it's been a lot of fun to take it on together.
For me, I'm happy to go back and check out games again that I haven't seen since my younger days. FFVI has been a big one for me, mostly being played on my phone. I just see the whole thing through new eyes and it's wonderful. I'm also giving Majora's Mask a solid play-through for the first time, with an HD texture pack, and it's seriously the coolest thing. I just sit and think: Here I am, playing an N64 game on my PC, using a wireless Xbox 360 pad, all upscaled with remastered textures. When I was a kid, I'd have never dreamed that this sort of thing would even be remotely possible, but now it's right in front of me. It's a beautiful thing.
I seriously think that the industry is in a bit of a creative rut right now, as far as big-budget AAA titles go, but otherwise it is such a great time to be a gamer.
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