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Diablo I. I was immersed in this grim, dark world by visuals, music and sounds. Gameplay was a revelation for me as well
Later I learned to cheat by duplicating stuff with a pile of coins, and the difficulty of the game was lowered so much.
As a kid, I was amazed with its simplistic yet engaging gameplay and fantastic storytelling.
It also happens to be an utterly brilliant piece of software: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/
Outer Wilds. I think I discovered it after reading a similar comment in a previous thread. It's a great space exploration game that has enjoyable and forgiving flight mechanics, really interesting and sometimes mind-bending environments and puzzles, and a fantastic soundtrack. You'll wish you could play it for the first time again after you finish it.
For what it's worth, the expansion does a number of things to really create the feeling of playing the base game again. Highly recommended.
Echoes of the Eye did the same thing the first time I walked into the main environment and looked up.
Fun facts:
- I bought it because the game box showed a turret which I mistakenly though was a button for a puzzle.
- It was my first first-person game, and the beginning of the game (when you see yourself through the portal) was such mind blowing that I spent a couple minutes just moving forwards and backwards trying to understand it.
- I couldn't play it at first because my graphics card was a literal potato, half a year later we upgraded it mainly because of this game.
- I loved it so much that I spent several years (until portal 2 released approximately) downloading and playing custom maps from the internet (my first contact with modding too).
- Steam was required and I hated it because of their constant updates that made me wait a couple minutes before playing (until I discovered the offline mode).
So yeah, it changed my life.
I was ~6 years old, when I played the demo version. Earlier, I had played Q2, (maybe Q3 demo?!), Tiberian Sun, Red Alert before and couple of simpler games and demos.
Unreal Tournament demo had like ~4-5 Deathmatch/Team Deathmatch maps, 1 Capture the Flag (infinite gameplay for me at that age on CTF-Face (Facing Worlds) :D ), maybe 1 Assault map, but not sure.
The motor, feeling, control, sounds, music were just pure awesome. Sniper headshots, jumps, tricks, extremely competitive feeling, double kill, triple kill, ultrakill, mo-mo-mo-mo-monsterkill... :D
Then the Game of The Years version was a Christmas present for me, I still remember the smell and the feeling. I could not try it out for a bit, so I was reading the (Hungarian! :D) manual back and forth. The GOTY version had extra weapons, maps, skins, goodies.
Later, internet was slow, but mods and couple servers were just awesome.
I want to go back! :D
Unfortunately it is impossible. Partially due to the missing scene, partially because I get frustrated, when I realize that my muscle memory (aiming) is totally broken and I cant hit shit, even if I truly see and feel, that I hit. :D
Back then, I did not even see if I hit, I just knew. And I truly hit. Wtf, it's gone. :D
Nowdays the only maps I play are TS/Expo/mobx-keystone. :)
But my vote goes for Morrowind.
These two games actually have a lot in common. Great storylines and gameplay. But what they excel at above all other games is the exploration. I won't spoil Outer Wilds, but the following are some of my favorite moments in MW early game that got me hooked.
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In the first few hours of the game you're stumbling upon a man falling out of the sky with amazing boots, a naked Nord who was tricked by a witch, a maiden that has become infatuated with the bandit that robbed her, and a spy of the empire that hides hard drugs under his bed.
The guild missions are really well written. The feud between the fighters guild and thieves guild forces you to choose a side - unless you're very clever. The early mages guild mission where they send you, the intern, to go gather .. flowers. For alchemy. They don't mark your map. They just give you vague directions and areas to check.
The world is alien and foreign. Exciting but unforgiving. It's full of interesting places, characters, stories, and history to discover. Even now I think of how many stones I've left unturned in that game that makes me want to go back and play it again.
However, be warned. If you plan on playing, it is rough around the edges. I highly recommend using OpenMW, as it address a huge number of exploits and balance issues.
Further, the tes3mp multiplayer mod is not half bad if you can convince a friend to join your play-through.
Another World (or its alternative title, Out of This World) As a kid, I was amazed with its simplistic yet engaging gameplay and fantastic storytelling. It also happens to be an utterly brilliant piece of software: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/
Outer Wilds (not to be confused with Outer Worlds) is a fantastic game. It's one of those games that makes me wish I could erase my knowledge of the game to experience it again. I won't say more to avoid spoilers and not to over hype it, but if you like story-heavy and exploratory game play you should check it out.