Biggest WOW! factor

[bigjimmy]

fletch360 said:

mr_yogi said:

Flashback on the Amiga, where the main character had realistic movement.

Yeah, I remember that one. I loved it.

Was it much different to the Megadrive version?

[Mr E]

fletch360 said:

mr_yogi said:

Flashback on the Amiga, where the main character had realistic movement.

Yeah, I remember that one. I loved it.

I remember "Another World" being equally as impressive from a character animation PoV some time earlier.
Flashback is the better game though.

[wolves_wanderer]

Ultima Underworld (first time I had seen a smooth-scrolling first-person game.

Alone in the Dark (first time I had played a game with a soundcard in my [dad's] PC)

Grand Prix Legends (the first time I ever saw 3d accelerated graphics on a PC)

Project Gotham 3 (I wasn't going to buy a 360 until I saw this running in HD on a projector, I couldn't win a race because I was too busy looking at the scenery.)

[deevlash]

I remember seeing Mario 64 running for the first time, It had the bit where he jumped into the pictures and they rippled. I was amazed as it was the first full on proper 3d game Id seen and the levels were mind blowing.

[JagLover]

Halo when in the second level you are 'outside'. Both the graphics and the 'open' feel to the gameplay.

[mj04uk]

bigjimmy said:

fletch360 said:

mr_yogi said:

Flashback on the Amiga, where the main character had realistic movement.

Yeah, I remember that one. I loved it.

Was it much different to the Megadrive version?

Remember that one too - great game. Just found a link to download, I know what I'll be doing tonight

www.games4win.com/games/flashback/

[texasjohn]

ThePassenger said:

The original Unreal doing it's Nali castle intro flyby wired up to the surround system. Must admit that game had a lot of WOW moments in it.

Here here, a long time ago now but I think I remember this as the first game I installed on a then-new Pentium 2 with a Voodoo 3DFX card... Fantastic and real wow factor for me at the time!

[ThePassenger]

texasjohn said:

ThePassenger said:

The original Unreal doing it's Nali castle intro flyby wired up to the surround system. Must admit that game had a lot of WOW moments in it.

Here here, a long time ago now but I think I remember this as the first game I installed on a then-new Pentium 2 with a Voodoo 3DFX card... Fantastic and real wow factor for me at the time!

geek momment. I ripped all the s3m tracks and I have them on my ipod

[molineux1980]

Prince of Persia was one of the 1st games where I went WOW! On aAtari ST, probably about 89? Recently, Shadow of the the Colossus has the wow factor on PS2. You get the 'How the feck am I gonna kill that!

[J_S_G]

ThePassenger said:

The original Unreal doing it's Nali castle intro flyby wired up to the surround system. Must admit that game had a lot of WOW moments in it.

That was a great, great day for a gaming "wow".

Also, the animation from the beginning of Psynosis's "The Killing Gameshow" on the Amiga in 1990. Game was widdle, though.
Hmm, what else...

Ah, yes... Robocop "speaking" the directives on the Spectrum 128 version of it

"Super Nashwan Power" when bought for the first time on Xenon 2. It's a megablast.

The first time I did a "kung-fu superkick" on, erm, "Kung-fu superkicks" on the Atari 2600.
Actually, making it alive to level four of Tutankham on the Atari 2600.

Populous 2. And everything about it.

Any number of "4k demo" competition winners on the PC.

Wolfenstein the first time.

Alone in the Dark when I nearly had a heart attack it was that damned atmospheric.

Comanche: Maximum Overkill for the voxel rendering stuff.

LHX on an old 386 seeing the Osprey switch from plan to heli- type thing.

Dragons Lair on laserdisc/arcade.

The echoes to the sound in SNES Super Mario World (and Addams Family)






Edited to add: And how could I possibly forget - Kickstart 2's track designer on the Speccy.

Edited by J_S_G on Wednesday 28th March 01:34

[tank slapper]

J_S_G said:

"Super Nashwan Power" when bought for the first time on Xenon 2. It's a megablast.

Surely the most pointless upgrade ever. Lasted for 10 seconds, during which about 2 targets would appear. It did look cool though.

[J_S_G]

tank slapper said:

J_S_G said:

"Super Nashwan Power" when bought for the first time on Xenon 2. It's a megablast.

Surely the most pointless upgrade ever. Lasted for 10 seconds, during which about 2 targets would appear. It did look cool though.

I remember getting to the last level and accidentally buying Super Nashwan Power whilst bolstering the ship up. I was kicking myself for those 10 seconds waiting for my temporary downgrade to go away and let me have my bajillion-credits worth of vastly-superior tacked-on lasers back.