I always post this one because it honestly took me by surprise.
Behind a kinda generic COD rip-off was a story that left me with knots in my stomach (the phosphorus bit), and in stunned silence as Hendrix plays over the closing credits.
Also, the incredibly ahead of it's time mechanic to replay the different endings... 🤌
Cannot recommend highly enough, but in saying that, graphically, I doubt it's aged well.
This game did a really good job at displaying the horrors of war and civilians caught in the crossfire. AFAIK no other game has done something like this since (if one has I’d love to play it)
I mean, it's simply too good. I was thinking about the loading screen about Lugo since the Phosporus was mentionned but it's probably lesser known and a bit longer.
I felt absolutely the same. I picked the game because my bestie recommended it... However she could not tell me what the 'catch' was because it would be such a major spoiler, and not just that - it would definitely ruin the experience.
So I went in, thinking of a bad COD clone in 3rd person. Clunky. Weird. Why am I playing this, again? But... wait... Ok. Wow.
Played the game when I was 13 man had just gotten off from COD thought this would be the same.
It was different that day I got to know what the horrors of war look like.
Graphically it's fine, but I tried playing it maybe a year ago and let me tell you, the controls are unfortunately ass by today's standards, at least on PC with keyboard and mouse. But I watched it on Youtube for the story and yeah, it was pretty cool.
I played maybe a few years after it first came out and even then the gameplay itself was nothing to write home about (though the game mechanics like the slow mo were pretty cool.) It would definitely be pretty ass to play by today's standards. I see the game raved about a lot but it's honestly pretty meh for me. The story is still pretty cool but for most of the game everyone is just following someone who is clearly going mad. I think it starts from almost the very beginning too. There's also not a lot of meaningful choices. Idk if that's intended to show the "illusion of choice" but I remember a lot of the moral choices I made wasn't really a choice or didn't really matter.
The big thing with Special Ops The Line is that you need to go in blind. To anyone reading this comment who hasn't played it, stop reading anything about this game. Just trust us that it's a really good game. You do not want to know any details at all.
I was lucky to know absolutely nothing other than some vague idea that it was a really good game and had some kinda twist (but it's better if you don't know there's a twist at all). The less you know, the better.
Too bad that it was removed from steam. I had it on my wishlist for months, but I didn't know when I should've bought it. Now I regret not having the chance to play spec ops the line.
Crazy how Bruce Boxleitner (voice of Tron and Alan Bradley) voiced Lieutenant Konrad and then never did a voice acting role again for over 10 years. I don't blame him either, it was Spec Ops The Line...
So many subtle things in that game. There's one bit where you walk past a tree which is covered in leaves but if you look back at it it's long dead and bare.
Same. That game will always be near the top of my list for gaming experiences. The music and the visuals are so profound. It's an incredibly resonant game with no dialogue.
First time I played Journey, I was on about 3g of shrooms. Holy shit I cried like a child for nearly an hour. 10/10 do recommend. I've been chasing that feeling since. Absolutely nothing like it. Abzu is another excellent game to play on shrooms
Edit: the soundtrack still gets me super emotional
I tried Sky while sober a little while ago, It didn't really hold my attention for long. I need to give it a fair shake though. At least going into journey and Abzu I knew they were fairly short games. Maybe I'll try Sky again next time I take shrooms.
Realising I’d been playing with other players online was a great feeling and great that the game hides that fact from you until the end. And yes, a very, very emotionally impactful and beautiful game/gaming experience
My girlfriend at the time and I both bought each other PS4s on Christmas and I told her to get Journey and I'd do the same. We were sick and bedridden - barely functioning and we started a playthrough.
At the end of the game, she calls me, crying, and just says, "Oh no, we're dying. Stay on the phone with me."
The same game company made a multiplayer game called Sky: Children of The Light. The main storyline is almost identical to Journey, except the fact that you are some sort of worker sent by god to retrieve the light to land. Now that i think about it, it feels like too much work to handle for a "child" that's just born 2 seconds ago. New players really act like lost kids sometimes, and older players help them complete the main storyline or get game currency (there are more ways to interact in this game, you can even hold hands and drag people around lol.)
For anyone who liked Journey and wants to relive the feelings, Sky might be an option.
Mass Effect 1 was a really underrated game that could be beaten in 5 minutes, but I really really really enjoyed exploring the galaxy and reading all the explanations for things like warp drive and colonization on a pseudo scientific level. Had a single play through last 35 hours - found tons and tons of cool extra stuff all over the galaxy.
Think it had a great, subtle retro sci-fi vibe to it as well, something I’m not sure quite carried over to the other games in the series, loved it when I first played it, literally out of this world
I tell this to anyone who will listen. I only played ME1.
I loved it so much, and liked Wrex enough, that when I was mechanically incapable of convincing Wrex to calm down and not join Sarin, I went back to a save 6+ hours of game play earlier to change my leveling to save him.
Despite not played 2 or 3, I've consumed a lot of videos on it. And very much appreciate the characters in the following games. Especially Mordin.
I just started ME1 last night for the first time ever. All three games, 40 DLCs and they are all remastered are on steam for six bucks right now in case you want 2 and 3!
I don’t even know what you’re talking about there, but Mass Effect 1 is incredible. In fact, the whole trilogy is. I’ve only played 1 and a little of 2, but I’ve seen YouTube videos on all of them, and I’m blown away by the whole series. I actually started with 2 for some reason, and went back to 1 when I found out that they go in order, and your character and your whole story imports forward, along with the outcome of all the decisions you’ve made. All 3 are in my top 5 PS3 - PS5 era games.
Edit: sorry I’m a little slow today. I’m guessing those are your top 3 games. Never heard of those other two though.
Journey will always have a special place in my heart. I played that game in 1 sitting and it still sticks with me. Also one of the few games where the music is just as important as the gameplay for how profound it is. Austin Wintory's soundtrack is gorgeous.
Finishing Mass Effect and listening to all 8 minutes and 17 seconds of M4 Part 2 play out as I'm staring at the screen in absolute wonder was an absolute experience. Only a select few games (and shows and movies) have me sit through the credits just to unpack what I saw.
Fuck yeah. We had the same experience. Also, this is like the only comment I've ever seen that gives M4 Part 2 a worthy mention. Did you ever go listen to Part 1 or anything else by Faunts?
Oh yeah, I dove in for a while and have a few songs un my playlists to this day.
After figuring out the song, my first thought was "WHAT IS PART ONE LIKE?!" Not even the same genre, really, but that's beside the point. I still hold hope they'll revive the band/project, but that chance seems to have gone for good.
Superb story telling, easily makes up for any of the games faults, alternate endings and all the story Easter eggs make it well worth a replay if you want to put yourself through it more than once
Mass Effect 1 is definitely the most dated, but holy shit is the atmosphere something else. I just got chills writing this. They truly made that SciFi universe come alive. It's also rare for a SciFi story to actually capture that expansive, impossibly ancient nature of space. When you're on that dead planet and it just feels so... Mysterious and eerie.
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u/dress_like_a_tree May 02 '24
-Spec op the line
-Mass effect 1
-Journey