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.
  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • Godort@lemm.ee
    12·
    11 days ago
    • Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
    • Book: House of Leaves
    • TV: Twin Peaks
    • Movie: The Matrix
  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    11 days ago

    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

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    7·
    11 days ago

    Game: To the moon

    Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

    TV: Star Wars Rebels

    Movie: Alien

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 days ago

      Alien replays nicely if you haven’t seen it in awhile and really focus on the experience.

      • mub@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 days ago

        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.

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 days ago

        The sequel was pretty good too. They’re both on GOG, btw, And have aged pretty well. The graphics aren’t so good, but the story and gameplay are still pretty great. I still replay them (and the Myst games) from time to time.

        • Davel23@fedia.io
          3·
          11 days ago

          Oh, I played them both. I didn’t really care for II’s splitting the game into 8 “worlds”, I preferred the original’s single huge dungeon, but I did enjoy it.

          • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
            3·
            11 days ago

            It did get annoying having to run back and forth through all of the worlds, but some were very cool, like the one with the fighting arenas. And the tomb with all the levels. And the story was awesome.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    7·
    11 days ago

    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)

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    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.

  • Davel23@fedia.io
    6·
    11 days ago

    Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender’s Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 days ago

    Satisfactory.

    The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week’s time!