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What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. (infosec.pub)
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For 90s kids, there's no need for explanation. For others, well, pokemon was a phenomenon. It was everywhere, on TV, in magazines, toys, stickers. You could trade pokemon at the school excursion on the bus.

You felt alive in this world, pokemon gen 1-2 were the pinnacle of pokemon for me. And in gen2, finishing the game, and lo and behold, there's a whole other region (kanto) waiting for you to explore it. The night cycle in the game blew my mind in ways that I have been chasing ever since.

I know it will never be reached again, but the memory will remain as powerful as it was that evening of the early 00s. What is your greatest gaming high, that you know will never be topped again, and that you have been chasing ever since?

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[โ€“] Toes@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

When I was a young kid, I didn't understand that the NPCs and game world were essentially fixed. I genuinely believed they were just as alive as I was, and was participating in their world.

I would go around following NPCs, try talking to them and felt like I was really helping someone when I would do quests and such. The games I remember that feeling the best was Zelda OOT & Majora's Mask. Doing the couples mask quest line all on my own* and my little notebook I kept track of what people needed was wild. Man I wish I didn't lose that book so I could look at it again.

*Edit: My much older cousin would help me if I got really stuck. But he didn't pop my bubble.

[โ€“] k0e3@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I was well-aware by the time I played OoT that NPC were just NPCs, but I think I felt the same bewilderment as you did when I first played Shenmue. I haven't played in a long time so I'm not sure if it still holds up, but at the time, that world made me feel like the NPCs were real people with actual lives.