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I didn't start playing video games until the DS era. I'm sure I would have loved Splatoon as a kid.
I didn't start playing video games until the DS era. I'm sure I would have loved Splatoon as a kid.
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If you could show one game to your childhood self to blow their mind what would it be?
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If I could show my early 2000s self what Monster Hunter World Iceborne looks like, compared to the PSP offerings I was playing, I'm pretty sure my head would have exploded.
Aside from that, something Like Elite Dangerous or No Mans Sky would have done the same thing to any version of my kid self
Aside from that, something Like Elite Dangerous or No Mans Sky would have done the same thing to any version of my kid self
Spyro Reignited Trilogy. As a kid, I played the first three Spyro games so many times, and seeing it remade like this would blow my mind
I'd have to show that little Final Fantasy nerd the FFVIIR announcement trailer and blow his little cans off. He's not allowed to play it, because he'd be more pissed off than present day me, but for the next 20 years he'll live in ignorant bliss.
I was racing game mad as a kid so Forza Horizon 4. The graphics and open world would have blown my tiny mind.
Kid me's favorite series were Pokemon and Final Fantasy, but modern FF is so unlike the SNES/PS1 days that I don't know that showing kid me XV or XVI would really have the desired impact. So my vote has to be Pokemon Sword/Shield. Or maybe World of Final Fantasy to get the best of both worlds, lol.
Xenoblade 1 DE or 2 might also be a good answer. Seeing just how massive and beautiful RPG worlds could become would be truly something.
Xenoblade 1 DE or 2 might also be a good answer. Seeing just how massive and beautiful RPG worlds could become would be truly something.
I think Uncharted 4 would break my 12/13 year old self.
it was around then I was getting more into action platformer/cinematic games
it was around then I was getting more into action platformer/cinematic games
Hollow Knight. I was playing a lot of indie Metroidvanias, and a game that polished, professional, and pretty would have blown my mind.
10-14 year old me : DBZ Kakarot. Despite its issues, it's pretty much the DBZ game I dreamed of back then.
14-18 year old me : DCS World in VR. Back then I was obsessed with fighter jets (guess I still am lol) and played all the sim games I could get my hands on. If you had told me one day I'd play one in full VR with realistic interactive cockpits, quality HOTAS gear etc, it would have blown my mind.
Younger than 10, maybe the recent Captain tsubasa game, since I loved the old NES game back then. The animations would have blown me away for sure.
14-18 year old me : DCS World in VR. Back then I was obsessed with fighter jets (guess I still am lol) and played all the sim games I could get my hands on. If you had told me one day I'd play one in full VR with realistic interactive cockpits, quality HOTAS gear etc, it would have blown my mind.
Younger than 10, maybe the recent Captain tsubasa game, since I loved the old NES game back then. The animations would have blown me away for sure.
Cyberpunk running on a 3080
The scale of the city and RT effects is pretty mind blowing even right now if the hardware can handle it, and I'm old enough that even though its pretty standard fare for open world "RPGs" that the game play would have still blown me away as a kid.
The scale of the city and RT effects is pretty mind blowing even right now if the hardware can handle it, and I'm old enough that even though its pretty standard fare for open world "RPGs" that the game play would have still blown me away as a kid.
TFW in-game graphics look better than the original cutscenes...at 60fps, in HD.
lol, right?
"I wish the whole game looked like the cutscenes!"
FF7R: "Hold my beer."
As a younger me obsessed with Super Mario World, I think I'd of said you were a liar if I was seeing this as a video game…that you could actually move. Hell I don't even know if I'd of bought it as a movie
I mean to go from this….
To THIS!!!!
I mean to go from this….
To THIS!!!!
The very first game I fell in love with and spent hours upon hours playing and eventually beating was Pitfall on the Atari 2600. I played it for a good 2-3 years when I was a kid. This is like 1985.
Because Pitfall was my shit, I would show myself Uncharted 2 (maybe 4 since the visuals are better) and I would probably die from shock.
Because Pitfall was my shit, I would show myself Uncharted 2 (maybe 4 since the visuals are better) and I would probably die from shock.
I didn't even know there was a Turok 2008 but this looks awesome, lol
GTA V and flight simulator 2020 just for the sheer size of the worlds and freedom of exploration with realistic graphics.
I'm in a rough spot for that one.
A few short years after I was introduced to the nes, and learned to read (pretty sure my affinity for engrossing video games hyper accelerated my reading capability as a child) I stumbled across the colony on my dad's computer. (He had shown me his old game code books and I was currently in the process of transcribing the coding of biker Dave... Which instantly became shit I couldn't care less about).
Not much impressed me after that for a long while. Not where that engrossing adventure itch was concerned. Even other raycasting games. Somehow the colony had 3d objects instead of billboarded sprites, so chairs, toilets, and like everything was interactive, it would switch to a 2d picture as you pushed computer buttons and rummaged through desks, but like every button on everything functioned, from turning on and off the lights, to opening the airlock (and killing yourself).... Or picking up a cigarette in an ash tray (and.... Killing yourself smoking is harmful to your health). It felt like a coherent organic world instead of an obstacle course of a level. You had to explore the world, find the colony, figure out what happened, get stuff to repair your ship and escape the planet. It felt so coherent compared to level based games. On a replay I found out you could also save the colonists kids.
I think it was..... 7... 8 years later with system shock that I felt a sense of satisfaction for that kind of game world again.
It would probably be Metroid prime if not for Subnautica. Building my own habitat, Making and exploring and figuring out how to use the cyclops for the first time would be pure crack for young me. Having to manually turn on the engine would be the cherry on top.
I think if I found out about a lot of the other games today, particularly the mainstream games where revenue models replaced game design, I'd be super disillusioned.
A few short years after I was introduced to the nes, and learned to read (pretty sure my affinity for engrossing video games hyper accelerated my reading capability as a child) I stumbled across the colony on my dad's computer. (He had shown me his old game code books and I was currently in the process of transcribing the coding of biker Dave... Which instantly became shit I couldn't care less about).
Not much impressed me after that for a long while. Not where that engrossing adventure itch was concerned. Even other raycasting games. Somehow the colony had 3d objects instead of billboarded sprites, so chairs, toilets, and like everything was interactive, it would switch to a 2d picture as you pushed computer buttons and rummaged through desks, but like every button on everything functioned, from turning on and off the lights, to opening the airlock (and killing yourself).... Or picking up a cigarette in an ash tray (and.... Killing yourself smoking is harmful to your health). It felt like a coherent organic world instead of an obstacle course of a level. You had to explore the world, find the colony, figure out what happened, get stuff to repair your ship and escape the planet. It felt so coherent compared to level based games. On a replay I found out you could also save the colonists kids.
I think it was..... 7... 8 years later with system shock that I felt a sense of satisfaction for that kind of game world again.
It would probably be Metroid prime if not for Subnautica. Building my own habitat, Making and exploring and figuring out how to use the cyclops for the first time would be pure crack for young me. Having to manually turn on the engine would be the cherry on top.
I think if I found out about a lot of the other games today, particularly the mainstream games where revenue models replaced game design, I'd be super disillusioned.
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I wonder... did you mean to post a gif with "Johnson Derrière" in itAs a younger me obsessed with Super Mario World, I think I'd of said you were a liar if I was seeing this as a video game…that you could actually move. Hell I don't even know if I'd of bought it as a movie
I mean to go from this….
lol
As an RPG fan of the 80s and 90s, who was also interested in the idea of MMOs...
The Elder Scrolls Online
I would be absolutely blown away by the scope.
The Elder Scrolls Online
I would be absolutely blown away by the scope.
Final Fantasy 7 Remake- I used to imagine what Midgar would be like to live in, and I think this is the closest I could get to it.
BOTW- I spent countless hours on Zelda 1 and LTTP and to see it go from that to a vast open world would be mind blowing.
Horizon: Forbidden West- obviously just the trailer
BOTW- I spent countless hours on Zelda 1 and LTTP and to see it go from that to a vast open world would be mind blowing.
Horizon: Forbidden West- obviously just the trailer
Yeah, my first version of this was the second one by Sublogic on the Apple II.
Going from this...
...to this:
I don't think there's any way my mind could possible comprehend how this would be possible.
The one true answer. Little me would shit himself. Especially over K Rool, Ridley and Banjo & Kazooie. Would have lost my mind at all the Pokémon that would eventually exist too.
it'd blow my mind on like, 12 different levels
bloodborne. seeing as there was no such thing as 'video games' when i was a child, but there were h.p lovecraft stories, i would've been staggered...
Honestly, when I was a kid in my military shooter phase, CoDMW2019 would have made me lose my shit. Those NVG missions were crazy cool
