This thread has convinced me to play Outer Wilds.
My picks are:
- Game: Portal 2.
- Book: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
- TV show: Bojack Horseman.
- Movie: The Shawshank Redemption.
Game, Outer Wilds
Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
- Book: House of Leaves
- TV: Twin Peaks
- Movie: The Matrix
Outer Wilds and Piranesi.
We got a winner here
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:
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.
Game: Super Mario Galaxy
Book: The Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
TV: The West Wing
Movie: The 5th ElementMetal 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.
Kinda experienced Portal 2 again for the first time when I played through it in VR. Such an amazing game!
Huh, wait. You can play it in VR? How?
(It was my wish 3 years ago)
There’s also a VR mod for HL2. Makes it a better VR game than Alyx IMO.
This sounds awesome. I wish I could understand what I was reading and put it on the VR my stepson gave me.
Well, depending on what VR setup you have I can either help you set it up or it might be impossible.
Portal 2 in VR runs on a PC (a pretty good gaming PC) connected to the headset either through a cable or wirelessly. If that’s the setup you’re using, it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
If you have an Oculus/Meta Quest and only play standalone (that is, no PC is involved, everything runs on the headset), then I’m afraid that’s not good enough for Portal 2 or Half-Life 2, though there is a VR port of the original Half-Life. All you’d need for that is any PC (even potato quality) and a USB cable.
Ah, it is Meta Quest 3. I haven’t used it much. I got to play a couple levels of Portal 2 a very long time ago. It was one of the very few video games I actually enjoyed. I don’t know anything about Half-Life. I’ll ask him if he knows about it first.
Ah, ok. Playing the original Half-Life in VR is great for the nostalgia value, though probably not that great if you’re not familiar with the game itself. There’s a bunch of great VR ports of old games for the standalone Quest by developers calling themselves “Team Beef”. Doom 1, 2 and 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Quake 1, 2, 3 AND 4, Jedi Outcast, Jedi Academy… the original Tomb Raider is coming soon too.
The real draw is to see those familiar game worlds from a new perspective.
Game: Baldur’s Gate
Book: Dune
TV: Fraggle Rock
Movie: Fight Club
Game: To the moon
Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks
TV: Star Wars Rebels
Movie: Alien
The culture novels, such a good pick!
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.
- Star Trek
- Ultima Underworld
- Myst
- Fallout
- Jurassic Park (book)
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.
Black & White 2
Tarzan of the Apes
Cowboy Bebop/Trigun
The Avatar
Game: The Outer Wilds and its DLC. Also Undertale as close second Movie: Summer Wars. Redline close second. Tv Show: Frieren - After journeys end
Undertale made me ugly cry, thanks Toby.
- Game: Zelda Ocarina of Time. My first true game that I had and enjoyed as a child, I didnt even know the language and I vividly remember using a dictionary and translating the game while playing.
- Book: One Piece Manga, yes its not a book, but reading everything from zero to current would be an amazing journey, one that I enjoy watching book-tubers discover One Piece and devour it is great. If I had to reread a book perhaps Project Hail Mary, I didnt know anything about the book, I just liked the authors previous work and picked this one up and stayed all night reading the book, it was one of those amazing moments when reading.
- TV show: Futurama, incredibly funny and imagining discovering it new again would feel awesome. -Movie: I dont really have *A favorite movie, more of the experience and feeling I had while watching a movie. But perhaps the Batman trilogy
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.
That’s awesome! yes, the story structure changes a lot after the war, the conflicts grow larger and take longer. Oda also changed a the characters personalities a lot, in some he dialed them a lot. But it does get better, mostly because Cesar and Jody, where not the best. But still it does get a lot better later on! What was one of your fav moments? me from back then was water seven, it felt that the stakes really ramped up
My favorite single moment so far was the conclusion of the battle between Luffy and Boa Sandersonia.
It really highlights that Luffy is not willing to act against his principles, even if it would further his goals.
Best arc though is a tossup between Arlong Park or Impel Down. Arlong Park has had the best character writing in the series so far, and Impel Down has the highest stakes.
Luffy and Boa Sandersonia.
Absolutely, one of the smallest but most defining moments to show how Luffy thinks about conflicts. For me, I think Zoro’s sacrifice for the crew was a highlight for me, I still remember having to wait to find out if he survived or not buy taking Luffy’s pain. Usopp’s apology, Chopper’s backstory, Rob Lucci fight… man so many great moments. But I do agree with you, Oda build Impel Down and the war it was such an epic moment of the series.
