Based Chrono Trigger. I started playing it for the very first time this month after having missed it back in the day...and, just this once, fuck cynicism. This is magical.
What was the last game that made you feel like a kid again?
Gabriel Howard
Hudson Morris
Super smash bros ultimate. I haven't played a smash game in years before this and its bringing back a lot of nostalgia from gamecube melee days with my bros
Adam Long
Shame we'll never experience something magical like the all star roster of JRPG devs that Trigger gave us again.
Unironically OG Zelda. I fire up the randomizer occasionally just to make myself remember what I was like back then. Firing it up in the AM before afternoon kindergarten.
Nolan Allen
I don't exactly have a copy on me now but Super Mario Land and Kirby 64 for some odd reason
Landon Lopez
didn't mean to reply FUCK
Carson Gomez
Undertale.
Yeah I fucking know, but I legit hadn't felt that way about a game ending in a long while.
James Brown
No shame. I maintain the game itself is great, it's just the community based around it that can get offputting.
Asher White
Link's Awakening on the Switch. It dropped just after I got home from work, and I have the entire weekend to reminisce about one of my first vidya
Ryder Ortiz
Red Dead Redemption 2
A list of things it did especially right for me to get all warm and fuzzy the first time going through all that game.
Nolan Torres
Final Fantasy VIII dropping recently made me feel like a teenager again
whatever...
Joshua Richardson
>Shame we'll never experience something magical like the all star roster of JRPG devs that Trigger gave us again.
Perhaps not, but that it happened in the first place and all and folks like OP can still discover it for the first time decades later, while still available to us already familiar with is, is reason enough for gratitude.
Some good stuff in this timeline!
Austin Ortiz
None
A good game is a good game and a bad game is a bad game, it has nothing to do with "cynicism".
Jayden Taylor
Metal Gear Rising
Liam Nguyen
Is it just me or do certain games have a certain feel to them like a special sort of mood you only get when you play that specific game?
Ex: CT's music gives the game a sort of bittersweet feel imo.
youtube.com
youtube.com
youtube.com
Carter Hernandez
>MM9
Too accurate, it's doesn't have the right to be...
Anthony Cruz
In OP's favor, I feel he's less decrying videogame criticism as cynical and more so that a lot of Yea Forums is jaded enough that the feeling he's describing must be atypical to many here.
Jack Taylor
I don't know, OP. I don't.
I just don't know....
Asher Harris
Corridors of Time awakens this quality in me. Especially this cover...and more considering why he made it.
youtube.com
Henry Johnson
That too, like the developers were trying to imbue a certain emotion into the game itself. I think that's what soul really is and not every game has it.
Sebastian Sanders
Thanks, Captain Obvious!
Jaxon Sullivan
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
I got this for Christmas the year it came out. I remember sitting on the floor of my grandmother's living room, beyond excited to play it. I had loved the first one so much, probably my first real RPG.
It was so cold outside, my family were all there, I took breaks to eat dinner and chat with everyone. I played all night and woke up to snow on Boxing Day, and played all day.
Getting lost in the Boggly Woods, marking out as a wrestling fan at Glitzville, managing to recruit Ms. Mowz- Fucking hell, I love that game.
Nintendo really need to make a true third Paper Mario. Turn based, story driven, with companions. I'd pay any amount of money for it.
Brody Howard
>What was the last game that made you feel like a kid again?
New gens of pokemon used to
Andrew King
hat in time and crash remakes
Brayden Baker
More like The Bald Man Effect
Noah Reyes
>Crash remake
Oh, this is a damn good one
Nathaniel Torres
Nothing. Even playing games I liked as a kid and still enjoying them doesn't make me feel like a child. I might get nostalgic or have fond memories but I don't have the sort of whimsical excitement as I did when I was a kid. I'm not sure, maybe I am just autistic. That isn't to see that I haven't thoroughly enjoyed some games I have played recently, but it is all from the perspective of an adult.
Isaiah Garcia
TF2 or RO2.
That shit hits me hard hearing the menu music in RO2 or the victory music.
Kayden Long
No, that one's caused by Piglike Man 9.
Carter Jackson
Aaron Phillips
Playing the first Spyro game on emulator made me feel like this.
Bear in mind that I didn't play it before so it felt fresh to me and I loved it.
Josiah Harris
Thank you.
Julian Butler
When I played Until Dawn: Rush of Blood. I never thought I would be scared again after RE and Silent Hill.
Josiah Diaz
Same thing happened to me a few years ago. I never owned a SNES growing up, just played it at friends. No nostalgia, what a great game. Same goes for Super Metroid and Mario RPG
Isaiah Gray
I recently played a few rounds with a guy at some party while most of the people were busy playing Poker. Even though we both had to use half a joycon due to a lack of controllers, it was still fun.
Ryder Garcia
Wasn’t until dawn like super campy? I didn’t think it was scary at all
Bentley Robinson
BoTW. Felt great having this big new world to explore. Reminded me of my first time playing OoT.
Leo Robinson
FFVIII was my first FF. Still haven’t played 7 or 9 so those have priority, but I’m sure I’ll have a weird recollection of being a young teen when I finally replay 8
Michael Stewart
Are we the same fucking person
Owen Parker
Haven't felt this way in years. Even replaying my childhood favorites is rather boring now. I'm gonna try Chrono thoughbased on this reccomendation.
Dominic Rivera
I almost said it myself, but I have bad memories with that game towards the end. I think blindly doing a normal run was great. Doing pacifist and Genocide runs wasn't as fun because I was no longer exploring, and making descisions. Instead I was just railroading through a world I had already seen to unlock specific game endings. The dialogue feels kind of forced in those runs too.
It's still a good game though, it just left a bad taste in my mouth.
Jack Wright
The first one was. The second VR one is like a ride in a haunted house.
Jason Cook
I can't explain why, but it just hit that spot.
Parker Campbell
Elite Beat Agents of all games. Bought it used and it's given me more joy than all new releases I've gotten in the past few years.
Jaxson Cooper
Nice taste DoppelAnon
Camden Gray
Feel like a kid? Are you saying that only kids can feel joy?
Ryan Morris
Super Mario Galaxy made me feel that way.
Oliver Cruz
They can certainly feel more it than whoever has your response as their first thought!
Brody Sanders
Undertale
Mario Odyssey/BoTW
Baba is You
Are the only games within the past 5 years
Jaxson Moore
this
Christian Harris
Toejam and Earl Back to Groove. inb4 something something some character I don't even played is a gay nigger from outer space
Grayson Miller
no, but I can only feel joy with kids ;^)
Jace Peterson
the western webcomic effect: eternally forced to make the same shitty art
Kevin Rogers
Undertale and Memohuntress were the most genuinely exciting, it is great when it feels like the dev put whatever he felt like into the game
>baba is you
why? i thought it was generic as fuck
Liam Gray
I smile quietly in my chambers, knowing that the old ways are remembered