What was the last game that legitimately blew you away at how good it was?

What was the last game that legitimately blew you away at how good it was?

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Russian roulette

Fallout 2

Breath of The Wild

Mario Odyssey

Prey

Yakuza Zero.

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Persona 5

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Sekiro

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fpbp

Idk, dmc5 and sekiro were good, but the real killer was bloodborne
I beat it 2 years ago

>cope

When I modded my Skyrim after not playing for 4 years.

this one modded open-world version of Shadow of Chernobyl
fucking black magic X-Ray engine

based

CTR: Nitro-Fueled, Hollow Knight and for the most part Abe's Oddysee
no items mode fucking when though

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Not that guy but absolutely.
If you liked SS2 or any Bioshock game, you will almost definitely like Prey. The atmosphere is just bellisimo and pretty much any build is viable. Hop in and play blind if you aren't a pussy.

Black magic and chewing gum, how can other engines even compare?

Witcher 3. Put it off for so long because i thought it would be shit, ended up playing it for a month straight

Witcher 3

And then the remake of 1 shits the bed and becomes the worst Yakuza game yet.
Nice.

Amid Evil

Dark Souls

It's a great alternative if you are interested in the story but dislike turn based combat and the pointless visual novel social links.

based

God of War during some combat, but I remember it really blew me away when I was playing it tripping on a low dose of shrooms. Before that, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Max Payne 3, TLOU, Uncharted 2, FEAR, Max Payne 2, Max Payne 1, FF7 (going way back)
All these games except FF7 I would savescum or do whatever I had to to autistically replay the fights over and over. Basically I'm impressed by flashy cinematic stuff that you can actually control like a regular game.

Oops I forgot Sekiro, that was actually the most recent one

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I want to try that game

Isshin was just kino. Every aspect of every part of the character was just fucking amazing.

Yea this

Wandersong

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Played through Mario the lost levels yesterday abusing the hell out of the rewind feature and it blew me away from a level design perspective, the fucker knew exactly what to put where to fuck me in the ass after every landing, it was like a series of troll levels, truly a work of great effort.

red dead 2

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Metro Exodus

DMC5, and I just replayed Fire Emblem 4

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Doom 2016

if we're listing every game that ever blew my mind?

1. Super Mario Brothers (NES)
2. Legend of Zelda (NES)
3. Final Fantasy IV (SNES)
4. X-Wing (DOS)
5. Baldur's Gate (PC)
6. Everquest (PC)
7. Dark Souls (PS3)

That's pretty much it.

I don't remember and I hate it. Everything is garbage lately.

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I've heard life gets like that without change

Persona 5
Forza Horizon 2
MW2 with the boys
Halo 5 PC custom games with Yea Forums

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Dragon Quest 3, but I only played it last year

Psychonauts

Darkwood

Darkwood
These too, just not quite as recently.

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RDR2

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Sekiro, GoW, and MHW

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Doom 2016, New Vegas, and soon Doom Eternal and when I was a kid Mario 64

Play the others.
You weakest part of P5 is its story. What do you get out of watching the story of a video game? Go watch a real film if that's how you want to spend your time.

Based and neonpilled

Probably Overload. Doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It’s a fantastic game.

I don't know about amazed but Prey was the last game I played and was able to complete without dropping it.

What should I watch then, faggot?

Marvel's Spider-Man

For me that would be Ghost Trick. Played it for the first time about 4 months ago.

Dusk

I don't know if I can make this judgment yet, I haven't even completed it once, but Rain World is impressing me with the stuff it has so far.
FUCK those spiders though.

Trials of Mana

>when the first final boss theme ends and the second theme starts

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As far as shocking me by being way better than it should have been Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment. It was like Dot Hack on PS2 but with everything improved outside of a few gripes, especially the fact that it was missing that sense of genuine dread and uneasiness that Dot Hack nailed.

Shame both sequels were kinda dogshit though.

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Came here to post this

Me2

I can't even play bloodborne anymore. I'm going back and checking out scholar though.

I can't go back to that game after playing red dead 2. The better graphics, animations, horse controls, character controls, combat, fashion. Only thing it does better is quests and looting, imo.

Didn't quite live up to my expectations. Rockstar not adding things to singleplayer while they add update after update of things pulled from red dead 1 to 2's online pisses me off to no end too. Cheats are awful too. I lose the ability to save for downgrading my dead eye and spawning a regular ass boring stage coach?

Pretty much this until chapter 2 and I saw how much game they really managed to finish before release.

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

I just completed it for the first time two months ago, and I'm in total love with a game that has ZERO replay value

Next Horizon when?

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Played the original NieR a few months ago. It's beautiful in so many ways.

>Play the others.
Played 3 FES, P4, and P4 Golden. But I could stand to play more.

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I went into Aztez a few days ago knowing what it was (A 2D Action game with deep combat mechanics combined with a Civ-like strategy campaign) and I expected to like it a lot, but I was still blown away by how good it was. The style is pitch-perfect, the Civ stuff has a good level of depth and strategy that balances randomness with consistent elements (you must always protect Tenochitlan, ~14 turns in Cortez starts fucking shit up), and even the music got better the more I played.

The moment I was using the Fists weapon to bob & weave around Conquistadors' bullets so I can punch them to death and sacrifice their blood to the Rain God, leading me to unlock a Spanish Rifle as a weapon type, I knew this game was 10/10.

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sekiro

Bioshock infinite and portal 2

Maximum Payneis 3

Borderlands 2, but not because it's actually all that good, but because I hated it at launch and randomly pirated it on a whim and had a fair bit of fun in TVHM.

The World Ends With You.

Saints Row 2

Ace Combat 4
I played it for the first time this year

Witcher 3 was the only game this entire gen that I liked and I own every console and gaming PC.

this

Fallout 4

Unironically Super Mario Odessey.

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Titanfall | 2. I came late to the party.

This is a legitimately good game.
I just hate the aesthetic, the characters, the way they look, the story, lore. I absolutely hate everything they did to dress up this game at all.
Everyone looks and sounds retarded. Everyone's outfit is an overdesigned eye sore. Everyone's hair is a mess of stinky dreadlocks. The main character you play as has all of these problems, plus she's a massive mary sue.
I don't mind if games make me op. But in a serious story, it's boring if the main character's just the answer for everything.
The only thing they've got going for them thematically is the whole prehistoric tribal hunter caveperson vs the robot dinosaurs theme. And they spread that butter across this entire gigantic open world AAA game.

Only problems I have with gameplay are this.
Only 2 types of buildings, ruins and tribal villages/cities.
Only 2 types of enemies, cultists and dinosaur machines.
Uncharted climbing and no good way to mitigate fall damage without using the shields on the hardest outfit to get in the game. And this game came out like directly after breath of the wild.
Weapon wheel weapon switching.

I literally can’t play red dead 2 for a few minutes. I’m just sick of moving around janky and slow as fuck and then just instantly aiming at enemies heads for kills. It’s retarded and jarring.

It’s a shame too because the 1st red dead made tear up at the end

>bloodborne wasn't a good game
I'm a PC fag to the extent that I sold my PS4 but you're either shit or a contrarian to not admit it was a masterpiece.

divinity original sin 2

It was boring

yes yes big chest

Only boring people get bored, nigger.

Based and redpilled

A Hat in Time

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yakuza 0

yobyos

Some dumb indie mech game.

Arkane's Prey. Went in with zero expectations because of marketing and sark33sian, but it was great

Mother 4

Dragon Quest x
It still blows my mind how comfy this game is.

The story in rdr1 is 10x better than the pacing disaster of rdr2 for certain.
I've gotten used to the controls a long time ago though. I remember rdr1 being even worse. Except for switching between left and right handed aiming.
I like the shooting a lot. Especially shotguns. There isn't much else out there as cathartic as watching a man's head/arm/leg disappear in a splash of blood when you shoot them with a shotgun.

I do hope this whole animation quality > smooth gameplay meme dies soon though.
I'll never get used to this disgusting, backwards, waste of time system for looting bodies and rooms.

I expected some poorly done Pokemon knockoff

holy crap I got a really damn good experience and one of the better FF games I have played in years beating out crap like 13, the 13 sequels, and 15.

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You arent wrong it's just gay anime shit story bs

I picked up CIV 3 after over a decade of not playing it and fell completely in love with it again; does that count?

Rain World was definitely the last game to blow me away. Once you get over the first difficulty hurdle of surviving cycles, the game really opens up into a beautiful world. Especially after Five Pebbles.

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Rabi-Ribi

Dark Souls. The level design is near immaculate.
MGS3 was also a fantastic title. MGS2 was only living in its shadow

Gay nintendies

Played it, but took many long breaks. The UI in the game though is a solid 11/10

DMC has literally always been a meh series. The only good one was the first one.

"Dancing all night". Includes spin-off titles

Ayy lmao
Couldnt even finish it, and I really wanted to like it.

Really great mechanics. Very D&D

Nier: Automata

I wish it did faggot

>MGS3 was also a fantastic title. MGS2 was only living in its shadow
Take it to this board is for video games.

This

MGSV
Uncharted and Guerilla games for technical reasons.
Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, that game is so comfy and the way objects interact with each other.

Lately, Dreams looks pretty awesome.
I gotta say, we never do talk about TECHNOLOGY anymore. Why is that Yea Forums?

Katana Zero

It really puts all single player shooter campaigns to shame. I'm hard pressed to think of a better one.

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This but unironically.

This. The ending sequence was one of the most cathartic experiences in any form of media for me.

Return of the Obra Dinn, even when it's more of a one-time experience than a game.

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Transistor

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If devs are gonna put a feature in their game that's already been done in other games already, they should check and see if they can do any better than the devs of those games.
If they can't come up with any better ways implementing that feature and they really need it, they should just copy it.
I already played elder scrolls and fallout well over a decade ago, and no game has done looting better than them imo.

It actually baffles me how R* would actually go out of there way to fuck up their looting system so much. Because they had to animate it all happening. When bethesda just lets you instantly look at a nice, clean, organized menu of everything in a body, chest, cupboard, totally animationless. And it's infinitely better.

I don't know how you an quantify how good a game really is. A game that keeps you playing for hours? theres a lot of skinnerbox games designed to do that that aren't very good. I feels like most games coming out nowadays are skinnerboxes it's hard to tell what's good anymore.

heavensward

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Talos Principle

Not him, but it’s really damn good. Not even underrated if you go back and check out the game’s reception. It just got overlooked because 2017 was stacked.

>it's hard to tell what's good anymore.
So you need someone to tell you what to like?

Baba is You. It's such a great mix of simple and devilishly smart.

If only I had time to finish all the puzzles.

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Based.

Replayed MGSV recently and I forgot how good this game was. It shits the bed in chapter 2 but the game is overall a 10/10.

Prey, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory (old game, but never got around to it before) have been the most memorable experiences in the last few years.

It drives me wild listening to people think out loud while trying to solve a level in this game when you don't have any context.
It's as close you can get to sounding like you're speaking gibberish while still actually saying something that makes some sense.

Warframe

I totally get where you’re coming from and the first half of the game is solid, but the fact that it’s so incomplete makes it hard for me to go back and enjoy the earlier sections.

Nero?

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>Crash's girlfriend's boyfriend.png

>Prison

I guess if you ignore 50% of the game then Dark Souls is immaculate.

Prison is peak block puzzle kino.

> likes mgs3 more than 2
> thinks dmc is meh
> unironically loves generic jrpg gameplay full of party members and taking turns and shit

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Dark Souls or Titanfall 2

What part of titanfall 2 wowed you?

I love the gibberish memes it spawned

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underrated post

Not him, but that single level that let you instantly time travel the whole time was fuckin incredible.

TMNT 3: Radical Rescue

>first one
Fucking Kamiya purists and mathosis parrots
You are worse than fujos
>dark souls

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Chrono Trigger. I don't know how anyone can enjoy jrpg games after playing that.

CT was really fucking easy, maybe that is why people continue to play JRPGs after it?

This is what I was thinking too which is why I was surprised at how much fun I was having when I played it again. Maybe you should try to pick up the game again and just drop it when you start feeling the emptiness and noticing the lack of stuff to do.

Chrono Trigger is easy but it can be challenging if you just avoid grinding. That's what I love about CT, grinding isn't necessary and you can flee from most battles. Compare it to a jrpg like DQ3 on the snes where the encounter rate is extremely high, grinding is mandatory and it's almost impossible to run from a battle. Most jrpg difficulty is entirely dependent on how much you level anyway. If you want a jrpg to be hard you just shouldn't grind.

Am I the only person who enjoyed Demon Ruins and Izalith?

It felt like you were really descending into places you just shouldn't go, same with ash lake but there wasn't much there.

Yep.
These were fantastic.
Especially Odyssey.
The amount of shit you can do with just Mario and Cappy alone is insane.

This.
I'll take Itsuno's, perfect, break neck combo heaven over whatever Kamiya was trying to do with the underwater bullshit, t rex skeleton puzzle, incestuous undertones.

I need my boy Vergil too.
Itsuno Vergil >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kamiya Vergil.

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UnturnedRP Around 2015

Basically the whole game
So many cool environments, fun gimmicky mechanics, tight movement and gunplay etc

GTAV

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Yakuza Kimami 2 PC

bait?

I do like areas like that. It's just that after your first playthrough, after you solve all the mysteries down there and go as far as you can go, it's a real slog making your way down there.
Only kinda cool thing is being able to see those big weird yellow funnel demon things. And the slide is always nice to use. Gameplay wise there's some sweet pyromancy stuff. Other than that, the statues and dragon asses are just atrocities that should've been cut out. And the bed is just the worst shit ever. And the massive expanse of lava, dragon asses, and statues in front of it's lair doesn't help. Bed should've been an optional boss. Really, everything past Quelaag should've been completely optional content.
Those're easily some of the worst areas out of all the soulsborne games purely from a designers point of view. But they have one of the coolest themes and some of the coolest lore and aesthetics and stuff.

Look at that grass, dude

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Amid Evil

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minecraft with SEUS Raytracing shaders

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Might agree with you if it weren't for all the forced online bullshit, shitty writing, and having to repeat that fucking annoying unskippable beginning hospital sequence so much to S rank everything. Knocked it to 8/10 for me.

Ahh, I only played it once. I can see how it might not hold up so well subsequently.

Bed of Chaos was complete bullshit of the highest order and one of the worst encounters I've ever seen in a game, so I can definitely understand that aspect.

Look at the 7 polygons on each of those rocks.
Look at the flat, blury texture on the ground.
Look at the weird, glitchy shadows on those boat sails.

Nigga, like, just go to an actual beach.

What is this?

look at that water dood

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CrossCode

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I've played every soulsborne game over and over again.
Let me tell you, the first time you see all those taurus demons, capra demons, Izalith temples, funnel demons, the worms, the centipede demon, the egg sack cult, and the sight of yourself jogging across lava is all pretty cool the first time.
But the firey version of the asylum demon, the bed, the dragon asses, the demon statues, the field of lava, and ceaseless discharge aren't even fun the first time you encounter them.

That is some nice water, bro.
But look at the damn ground.

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Smash Bros Ultimate. Played through Spirit Mode a few months ago. Very addictive.

RDR2 for me, it was proof you can have hyper realism in a video game without it being unartistic

speaking of hyper realism i can still remember vividly when my friends mom took away his copy of doom 2 because it was too realistic

deus ex

oh user let me tell you about Yakuza 6.

This right here. I didin't had any expectations after the shit Yakuza 6 was but this blew me away.

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REmake 2

Original sin 2

looks fine

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Cringe. Worst Persona by far. Hashino should be shanked and burned alive for that piece of shit

Fuck no. Terrible story.

Bloodstained.

Rainworld.

Fake news

Your """"opinion"""" is fucking cringe. Keep it to yourself next time

SSX3

This. That game is complete shit. Can't believe Reddit fooled me into buying that garbage.

one finger death punch 2

My man. This and Sekiro were such a pleasure to play. It feels good when devs you love just keep improving.

I never played CTR as a kid so Nitro-Fueled was pretty impressive to me.

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i wanna fuck audrey

>just keep improving
>ds3 was their last game before sekiro

this

Bloodborne and DMC V.

It took me a while to really get into it, but during the Guardian Ape fight I got so hyped like I haven't been about a boss fight in a long time that I felt like the food critic in Ratatoulle re-experiencing his childhood through food.

Wind blows
Rain falls
Yea Forums seethes about P5

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And Sekiros combat and bosses shit on DS3.