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.
  • Godort@lemm.ee
    12·
    13 days ago
    • Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
    • Book: House of Leaves
    • TV: Twin Peaks
    • Movie: The Matrix
  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    11·
    13 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.

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      3·
      13 days ago

      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.

      • icerunner_origin@startrek.website
        2·
        13 days ago

        Other people who’ve read it and who I’ve talked with seem to be split over whether the first book is better than the sequels, or the other way around. I prefer the sequels, my wife prefers the original. Do you have a preference?

        • Badabinski@kbin.earth
          2·
          13 days ago

          As a child, I greatly preferred the original. A lot of the emotional subtext from the sequels went over my head (since I was raised in a very emotionally repressed environment), but I could totally grok the cold, somewhat impersonal nature of the first book. It was easier to imagine myself in this huge alien structure when I could understand the characters. Nowadays I think I’d probably prefer the sequels since I derive a lot of enjoyment from interpersonal drama and conflict. I’ll admit that it’s been ages since I’ve read them, so I can’t say for sure.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    8·
    12 days ago

    Game: To the moon

    Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

    TV: Star Wars Rebels

    Movie: Alien

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      12 days ago

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

      • mub@lemmy.ml
        2·
        12 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.

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    7·
    13 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)

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    13 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.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    6·
    12 days ago

    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

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    13 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

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    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.

  • Klear@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    12 days ago

    Kinda experienced Portal 2 again for the first time when I played through it in VR. Such an amazing game!

          • Klear@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            10 days ago

            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.

            • multifariace@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 days ago

              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.

              • Klear@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                10 days ago

                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.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
    5·
    13 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.

  • Davel23@fedia.io
    5·
    13 days ago

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

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 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.