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.
  • calabast@lemm.ee
    261·
    3 months ago

    Game, Outer Wilds

    Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 months 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
    13·
    3 months ago
    • Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
    • Book: House of Leaves
    • TV: Twin Peaks
    • Movie: The Matrix
    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      4·
      3 months 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
        3·
        3 months 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
          3·
          3 months 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.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      2·
      3 months ago

      Oh wow, I actually haven’t read the Rama books (been meaning to!), but I vividly remember the flawed-but-wonderous PC adventure game. Have you played it by chance?

      Haha, grokking abstract space-math associations maybe wasn’t my strength when I was like…7 or something (prolly still isn’t LOL). But I sure did enjoy crudely drawing the biots and aliens. :D

      The soundtrack is still one of my favorites from any game, ever.

      This humorous review is fun to watch, but there’s really good gameplay and stuff without commentary too. :)

      https://youtu.be/Pu4n5YXPaMQ?si=adgsTuyyKWRXS8Xc

      • icerunner_origin@startrek.website
        2·
        3 months ago

        I played the game back when it originally came out. Like any media based on a book, it was slightly frustrating for a while that the graphics didn’t match the visuals I had imagined whole reading the book. I still have the discs somewhere, might see if I can get it running somehow. I suspect I’ll find the game mechanics to be clunky but today’s standards.

        I’m surprised there hasn’t been a movie made yet.

    • 🐋 Color 🔱 ♀@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      With you on this one! The Sonic Adventure games are what come to mind when I think of 3D Sonic. The gameplay of the boost games doesn’t appeal to me nearly as much as the physics based movement of the Adventure games!

  • metaStatic@kbin.earth
    8·
    3 months 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)

  • mub
    8·
    3 months ago

    Game: To the moon

    Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

    TV: Star Wars Rebels

    Movie: Alien

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

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

      • mub
        3·
        3 months 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.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    3 months 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.

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months 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·
          3 months 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·
            3 months 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.

  • frank@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    3 months 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

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    6·
    3 months ago

    Game: Day of the Tentacle
    Book: Cryptonomicon
    TV: BoJack horseman
    Movie: The Matrix or The Prestige

    Honorable mention: Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog

  • Davel23@fedia.io
    6·
    3 months 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
    6·
    3 months 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.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months 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