This thread has convinced me to play Outer Wilds.
My picks are:
- Game: Portal 2.
- Book: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- TV show: Bojack Horseman.
- Movie: The Shawshank Redemption.
Game, Outer Wilds
Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once
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.
If I were your brother I would love to read this comment
- Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
- Book: House of Leaves
- TV: Twin Peaks
- Movie: The Matrix
Oooo Obra Dinn is a good answer
Outer Wilds and Piranesi.
We got a winner here
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 I’m raising in Station Square in Adventure mode.
Still can’t upload them to a VMU though.
Ahhh the Chao! I spent so many hours in the Chao gardens, so relaxing and fun! What types are you gonna make em?
I don’t really know.
- 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. They’re both on GOG, btw, And have aged pretty well. The graphics aren’t 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 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
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.
Game: To the moon
Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
TV: Star Wars Rebels
Movie: Alien
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: Baldur’s Gate
Book: Dune
TV: Fraggle Rock
Movie: Fight Club
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: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender’s Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense
Game: Life is strange Book: Hyperion TV Show: Stargate SG1 Movie:
All of them? … PrimerFinal Fantasy: The Spirits Within (if you know, you know)Primer gets better everytime though…
Game: Quest for Glory I: So you want to be a Hero
Book: Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
TV Show: Babylon 5
Movie: SpaceballsAll fairly old, but still some of all time favorites.
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.
