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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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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The immersive world of Oblivion (Elder Scrolls IV). Morrowind had been great, but the high-fantasy realism of Oblivion blew Morrowind away. Skyrim wasn't as immersive for me, mostly because the guilds and other side-stories weren't as deeply developed. Oblivion remains THE high water mark for open world RPGs.

[–] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oblivion was the only game that came close to how I felt the first time I stepped out of the dungeon and opened the world map of Daggerfall. I couldn't stop making new characters that I wanted to explore the world with.

But Oblivion really was something special too. Felt like an alive fantasy world.

[–] BrianTheFirst@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I've been chasing that Daggerfall high for so long. Oblivion and Morrowind were amazing, but they didn't quite get me there.