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.
  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    7·
    14 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.

  • Jarix@lemmy.world
    5·
    13 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

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    14 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.

  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
    3·
    13 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.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    3·
    13 days ago

    Game: To the moon

    Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

    TV: Star Wars Rebels

    Movie: Alien

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

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

      • mub@lemmy.ml
        1·
        13 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.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
    3·
    14 days ago

    Game: Tie between Dragon Age: Origins and the original Bioshock.

    Movie: Nightmare on Elm Street

    TV Show: Stranger Things

    Book: Man, too many to mention, but maybe The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman.

  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world
    3·
    14 days ago

    Satisfactory.

    The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week’s time!

  • Ledz@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago
    • Game: Zelda Ocarina of Time. My first true game that I had and enjoyed as a child, I didnt even know the language and I vividly remember using a dictionary and translating the game while playing.
    • Book: One Piece Manga, yes its not a book, but reading everything from zero to current would be an amazing journey, one that I enjoy watching book-tubers discover One Piece and devour it is great. If I had to reread a book perhaps Project Hail Mary, I didnt know anything about the book, I just liked the authors previous work and picked this one up and stayed all night reading the book, it was one of those amazing moments when reading.
    • TV show: Futurama, incredibly funny and imagining discovering it new again would feel awesome. -Movie: I dont really have *A favorite movie, more of the experience and feeling I had while watching a movie. But perhaps the Batman trilogy
  • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
    2·
    14 days ago

    Game: Gunship 2000

    Book: the Murderbot Diaries

    TV: Firefly

    Movie: Casablanca no! Little Shop of Horrors!

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      2·
      13 days ago

      I watched serenity before i watched firefly. Wish i could watch both again in the other order.

      BUT i think i had an interesting relationship with the river character that many other fans dont have because i got to view every river moment knowing where her story ends up.

      On a different tangent, i wish we could get a Book of Booke or The Good Booke show/novel/film

  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
    2·
    14 days ago

    God what I wouldn’t give to play through the ICO series for the first time again. Three of just the best cases for why games are art.