In Gran Turismo 4, I wound always buy the AE86 Trueno as my first car. This left me with no money to do anything else.
So I had to do several races (usually placing 3rd or 4th) in a used Corolla with bad brakes and in severe need of a tune up and oil change just to have enough money to start working on it.
Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.
Legend has it the original Worms was similar. The DRM was a notepad readme that basically said “share me with your friends but buy a copy if you really like it please”
In your friend’s defense, he looks high as a fuckin kite off of amphetamines, dehydrated af, eyes boodshot af, teeth ground down to points… so you shouldve known what you were getting into lol /s
A little bit of a different type of game and I’m cheating by using four moments, but they all stuck with me.
Not For Broadcast, Day 296: The Heatwave.
It starts off with a slight shift in tone from the earlier broadcasts, you feel the tension ramping up, and then you know exactly what’s coming, but it’s still a fucking gut punch no matter what choice you make.
Day 371: The 20 Week War adds on to that with this underlying tension from the last broadcast, broken by some hysterical nonsense and then hits you with a sobering end to the broadcast which plays out three different ways depending on earlier decisions you’ve made. All three are devastating in their own right.
The entirety of Day 2602: The Finale is just fucking wild, and best experienced without any hint of spoilers.
Beyond that, the lockdown broadcast is fucking hilarious and came out of nowhere. The sheer absurdity of it caused a “wait, what the fuck is even happening?” moment every single time something new happened.
Honestly, that entire game has so many of these moments, but those are the ones that have stuck with me. I often find myself singing “Mr. Bear (What’s That Over There?)” for literally no reason whatsoever.
Looking at the game’s minimum requirements, I’m not sure I how well my available hardware will work. Granted, it’ll probably be some time before I play the game unless there’s a free demo available. I’m more of a patient gamer type and I still haven’t played through Eternal yet (and may not).
Honestly, from the descriptions and reviews I’ve seen, Dark Ages game play style sounds like it’s a sharp turn away from Eternal, which means it might be more my thing. Granted, I’m also seeing a lot of folks saying it’s super heavy into story telling and cut scenes. Not that I have a big problem with those things, but I enjoy that they’re kind of light in earlier entries of this series.
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