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In Cookie Clicker when you manage to stack 3 fortune cookie modifiers. Numbers going up so fucking hard.
Gael from Darksouls 3 and Orphan from Bloodborne were really cool and intense fights, those probably gave me the greatest rushes in Fromsoft games but I havent played Eldenring yet.
Getting a crit with Paladin in DnD is always amazing. I dont know if the updated 5e rules ended up removing the crit on Divine Smite but I'd elect to ignore that
Finishing street fighter 3 on one coin in the arcade. Still play street fighter 6 daily but I'm not as good as an adult as I was back then.
I worked waiting tables so got lots of change. Some I would spend or cash in. Some was kept purely for arcade time.
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.
TFC "Sillyzone" server. so many fun mods and oddities like the dj/lightshow nights.
I dunno if it was a high per se, but I used to love playing Dreamcast with my friends at lunch every day in high school. I dunno if I long to do it again, but the memories are nice.
When Myst first came out and then me and all my friends carrying our controllers around with us for spontaneous (but constant) quake 3 arena battles on the Dreamcast. Those were the days I'll always remember but never be able to relive.
The early days of Asheron's Call. One of the earliest MMORPGs with a 3d game world. It was cool being in a giant world with thousands of other people who were all trying to figure out the game and explore the world. There were monthly updates that were adding all kinds of new stuff all the time. I don't really care for MMOs any more but it was a cool experience at the time.
I still chase after the first playthrough experience of Okami. It was a time before novel ways of interacting with the game world were the norm. Everyone I knew at the time was playing CoD (some even just played Zombies mode and nothing else), Battlefield, Halo, GTA, Pokémon, Mario, Zelda… all titles that “everyone” played at the time.
When I saw Okami on a commercial, I knew I had to own it. There was nothing like it at the time and the way it pulled from Japanese culture was such a new concept to me. The way you can stop time at any point and paint shapes on the screen was just too cool to pass up. Not to mention, the almost hand-drawn aesthetic was still one of very few at the time.
I will admit, I can’t stand the experience on Wii. I can only enjoy it on controller because of how awkward painting with a 6-foot brush is.
Not retro at all, but Destiny 2 Forsaken. I’ve always loved the Bungie game feel and gunplay, and I finally kicked my D2 habit right after Edge of Salvation week one. I’ve tried many single player shooters since and have yet to find something that comes close to scratching the itch.
Metal Gear Solid V: Mission 16.
Arma 3 Exile
