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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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[–] TechAnon@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

This is how I feel as well. A new PC or even a new console was a gigantic leap forward in both visuals and gameplay. We've had a couple decades of diminishing returns.

I think the next big leap will be something along the lines of AI building out the stories, missions and dialogs "on the fly" creating incredible amounts of immersion where no two playthroughs have to be the same.