Remember when...?

You FIRST played Ocarina of Time? Or Guild Wars (or your first MMO)? or Final Fantasy 10?

I just noticed the games I mentioned are all RPGs. Maybe cause the dramaof theRPGs suck me into the actual game moreso.But those are the games that gave me that "wow" first impression. I've played many-a-awesome games over the years, but these ones gave me the greatest first impression when I first plugged them in ya know... For my kids, their obsession is Kingdom Hearts and I can see why. It will probably be a nostalgia piece for them for the rest of their lives. :-)

What games over the years have given you the greatest first impressions? Games that exceeded anything beyond what you've ever played before as soon as you turned it on.

What games over the years have given you the greatest first impressions? Games that exceeded anything beyond what you've ever played before as soon as you turned it on.

skreetpreacha

-Definitely OoT; even with the advanced hype and perfect 10 reviews, it blew me away from start to finish in every way possible and I've yet to have a gaming experience that matched that feeling.

-World of Warcraft, simply because before WoW I never paid much attention to MMOs and didn't really know what to expect, and I was floored at the size and detail of the world and all the things you could do.

-Kingdom Hearts - I hate spoilers so I hide myself from everything before playing except review scores, even what's written on the back of the box, instruction book and any cinematics that aren't part of gameplay. I knew next to nothing about this game, so each cameo was a wonderful surprise.

-Grand Theft Auto III - Took all of five minutes for me to start thinking that this is a game that I had to call people about and say "Oh you gotta play this."

Other games left similar or better impressions by the time they were finished but those were the ones off the top of my head that left the best first impressions. I also loved the first 20 min or so of FFX and the opening moments of Suikoden III.

For one I'll say Final Fantasy VII. My first experience was at a friends house who had been playing it by the time I got there. He was really praising it and was at the part in Hojo's lab where you save Aeris and meet up Red XIII. I thought the whole thing was cool, especially the battle system.

The other would be Super Mario RPG, it was the first RPG I ever played and because it was Mario I felt like I was already familiar with it. Turns out its one of the best games I've ever played.

i'd say gears of war. i know this sounds insane, but its one of those games i never really heard anything about(except the ad running at the time..). the entire thing blew me away. awesome graphics and intense combat - until i mastered headshotting.

its just those games i havent heard anything about that blows me away - because i know nothing about them and therefore cant recite a 50 page long biography of the protaganist.

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What games over the years have given you the greatest first impressions? Games that exceeded anything beyond what you've ever played before as soon as you turned it on.

kfjl

-Definitely OoT; even with the advanced hype and perfect 10 reviews, it blew me away from start to finish in every way possible and I've yet to have a gaming experience that matched that feeling.

-World of Warcraft, simply because before WoW I never paid much attention to MMOs and didn't really know what to expect, and I was floored at the size and detail of the world and all the things you could do.

-Kingdom Hearts - I hate spoilers so I hide myself from everything before playing except review scores, even what's written on the back of the box, instruction book and any cinematics that aren't part of gameplay. I knew next to nothing about this game, so each cameo was a wonderful surprise.

-Grand Theft Auto III - Took all of five minutes for me to start thinking that this is a game that I had to call people about and say "Oh you gotta play this."

Other games left similar or better impressions by the time they were finished but those were the ones off the top of my head that left the best first impressions. I also loved the first 20 min or so of FFX and the opening moments of Suikoden III.

I totally feel you. I knew nothing of online PC games before I randomly got Guild Wars from the store and was blown away like you were with WoW... Since I played FFX before Kingdom Hearts, I wasn't "as" blown away when I got to KH, though KH was great too. But I'd already experienced the similar immersive music and graphics from FFX... And I was late getting my PS2 and originally had many reserves about playing a GTA game, so I didn't have that experience when GTA3 first came out, but I surely can imagine. My PSP came with Liberty City Stories and I was really blown away by that, but by that time, I'd experienced similar games already. But I'm sure GTA3 was pretty mindblowing when it first came out. :-D Good taste my friend...