Game, Outer Wilds
Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once
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Game, Outer Wilds
Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Outer Wilds and Piranesi.
We got a winner here
Game:
GoldenEye 007, but I want it to be in 1997 playing on the 27" CRT TV in the basement with my brother. Technically, it was my N64, so I always got to use the gold controller that it came with. We sat on the carpet within feet of the giant wooden TV cabinet, because the cords weren't very long. My dad was a carpenter and only recently refinished the basement with tongue and groove cedar. I still remember the smell of the wood and the sound of the furnace clicking on down there. He even cut a crescent moon into the bathroom door as if it were an outhouse.
We liked to play Golden Gun in the temple. We even made up our own games within the game, like hide and seek. Back then he was my best friend. He made some life choices that were different from mine. We were never as close as when we played that game. We're not in a bad spot or anything, but those days now just memories.
If I were your brother I would love to read this comment
Oooo Obra Dinn is a good answer
Game: Super Mario Galaxy
Book: The Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
TV: The West Wing
Movie: The 5th Element
It makes me happy to see Rama mentioned here! I read the first book in the series when I was 8 or 9, and it's what really hooked me on science fiction. Like, I had to read it with a dictionary open because some of the language was way too technical for me, but I was absolutely enthralled.
Game: To the moon
Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
TV: Star Wars Rebels
Movie: Alien
Alien replays nicely if you haven't seen it in awhile and really focus on the experience.
Yeah but the anticipation of "when is the alien going to pop out" is only there on the first watch. I've watched it a bunch so can never recover that one.
Game: Life is strange Book: Hyperion TV Show: Stargate SG1 Movie: ~~All of them? ... Primer~~ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (if you know, you know)
Metal Gear Solid 3.
I played it overnight, I was alone, and it thunderstormed that night around the time I reached The Sorrow. I couldnt stop. It was so good and I was into it. Nothing else has been more memorable.
Game is such an unbelievable slam dunk for me. Outer Wilds.
But if I could forget two, it'd be Outer Wilds twice because it's an incredible story
Game: Baldur's Gate
Book: Dune
TV: Fraggle Rock
Movie: Fight Club
Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender's Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense
The whole experience of starting up my new (used) N64 for the first time on my blurry old CRT TV and see that huge 3D Mario face pop up that I could squeeze and pull. This was a truly magical console for me.
Game: Day of the Tentacle
Book: Cryptonomicon
TV: BoJack horseman
Movie: The Matrix or The Prestige
Honorable mention: Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
Im conflicted. I want to watch the usual suspects again for the first time but with Kevin Spacey being too much of that movie I dont know if i would even if i could. And that makes me sad because it had one of the best moments in cinema...and that has been completely tainted by a shit person
Game: Quest for Glory I: So you want to be a Hero
Book: Colour of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
TV Show: Babylon 5
Movie: Spaceballs
All fairly old, but still some of all time favorites.
Kinda experienced Portal 2 again for the first time when I played through it in VR. Such an amazing game!
I'm currently going through the One Piece manga for the first time and I'm having a blast.
I'm in the middle of Punk Hazard right now and it's starting to drag on, but I'm told that everything gets way better afterwards.
Game: Noita
Book: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (RIP, you deserved more time)
TV show: Cowboy Bebop, I think
Movie: Honestly, I can't think of one.
In order of priority, I'd put The Player of Games at the top by a wide margin (seriously, it's an amazing book by a brilliant author), followed by Noita, with Cowboy Bebop at the end.
Game: Gunship 2000
Book: the Murderbot Diaries
TV: Firefly
Movie: ~~Casablanca~~ no! Little Shop of Horrors!
Satisfactory.
The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week's time!
I cannot wait for 1.0! Only 4 days away!
Game: Tie between Dragon Age: Origins and the original Bioshock.
Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street
TV Show: Stranger Things
Book: Man, too many to mention, but maybe The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.
Book: 1984 Movie: Sinister Game: Borderlands 2 Tv show: (Is an animated serie ok?) Gravity falls
Hell yeah animation is ok, and Gavity Falls is a solid 10/10 choice.
Between my brother, a mutual friend, and myself, we have over 1,800 collective hours in Borderlands 2. That was probably my favorite game for about 5 years. It's fun enough on your own, but the game gets a million times between with co-op.
I thought the Pre-Sequel was pretty good. The low grav mechanic was a fun addition, and the moon being populated by Aussies was a nice touch. Borderlands 3 was kinda meh. We all had high hopes for it. It's a pretty good game, but its greatest weakness is that Borderlands 2 exists.
Bioshock.
I don't think there will every be a more satisfying twist for me. The twist was about me, the human playing the game, and only works because of the nature of the format.
It was perfection.
God what I wouldn't give to play through the ICO series for the first time again. Three of just the best cases for why games are art.
Game: The Outer Wilds and its DLC. Also Undertale as close second Movie: Summer Wars. Redline close second. Tv Show: Frieren - After journeys end
Just a game and book come to mind for me right now, plus a music album.
Game: Star Control 2
Book: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter
Album: Floating World by Anathallo
The first BioShock game. I don't know how I managed to go so long without it being spoiled for me, but man, I'm glad it wasn't.
At this point, there are definitely plenty, but I'd personally say my top picks are definitely (in no particular order):
โข Brok the Investigator
โข Franklin (yes I'm a child at heart sometimes)
โข New Vegas and the DLCs
โข Borderlands (on xbox360 w/ all 4 DLCs, have been playing on and off for over a decade and still have way too much stuff left)
โข An American Tail (definitely in my top 3, if not my absolute favorite 3D animated film ever)
Subnautica, without question.
Wheel of Time book series.
Got way into it when I was younger, got them as soon as new ones came out but after re-reading the first like 10 books multiple times and the repetitive descriptions, the long journey just killed it for me before it got more wrapped up in the later books. Still love it when I go to try and reread it, just get flustered out around book 7. Would love to just be able to do the entire run now with that same enthusiasm I had before, like finding a great show with lots of seasons to binge.
Mass Effect 2
Guild Wars 1 (at the time it was just called Guild Wars)
Edit : both were played on the pc