Weirdest / most personal / memorable gaming moment of the year - The Bear and Badger

regmcfly

So what were they then?

For me, it was the afternoon in the Summer where I finished Ratchet and Clank on PS5.

Flora was out with C and it was a warm summer day. I'd cleared out the game and therefore had

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During the final boss, with 0 stake, I had a full blown panic attack, thinking my head was going to explode.
I cleared it, turned off the PS5 and went to the nearby ice cream shop.

I'll never play that game again

Roujin

I turned all the lava into vomit in Noita

mistercrayon

I don’t know which I’d rather swim 300m in.

nick_md

I spent time watching thicc Lady D mods after being intrigued by her in Resi8.

Dark Soldier

That I enjoy watching streamers play games more than actually playing them

LivDiv

Trying to do the Custom Skater pro tier challenge on THPS4. Kept having to retry over and over which seemed to fuck me up.
Projectile vomited a share sized bag of skips.

Edit: this wasn't this year

Webbins

Playing Quest VR for the first time and specifically Pistol Whip... a new dimension in gaming.

acemuzzy

Probably a Eureka moment in A Monster's Expedition.

Or seeing shiny water in Ender Lilies.

EvilRedEye

Is it bad that I read the thread title and then went completely blank on anything gaming related that I did this year?

hylian_elf

No.

b0r1s

Getting to end of Returnal. Not much else has come close to that feel of accomplishment.

Spoiler:

JonB

The weirdest actual gaming moment is probably the point in 12 Minutes where I realised that, yep, they really are doing that twist. Oh my.

Gaming related stuff, I've done some pretty interesting interviews this year. The highlight was getting to talk to Housemarque about Returnal.

Roujin

nick_md wrote:

I spent time watching thicc Lady D mods after being intrigued by her in Resi8.

A true connoisseur

Diluted Dante

EvilRedEye wrote:

Is it bad that I read the thread title and then went completely blank on anything gaming related that I did this year?

Checking the eShop for 3DS updates.

Yossarian

Most memorable will probably be my 32 heat Hades run with Extremer Measures on. Or maybe the hungover evening I spent playing through the Artful Escape.

EvilRedEye

I platinumed Persona 5 Royal in March which is probably worth mentioning just for the pure effort it took.

tin_robot

There was a point earlier this year when I was feeling utterly exhausted and defeated. The one bright point was that I'd started playing Returnal, and had found that it was serving as a useful escape - I would regularly disappear into the zone, with my worries giving way to neon waves of bullets, and giant squid monsters. It felt like games did when I was a kid.

Except, of course, Returnal isn't always the most forgiving of experiences. There were several points where I found myself declaring that I clearly wasn't up to this particular challenge, and all those real world worries would suddenly crowd in, savouring yet more evidence that I, once again, wasn't quite as good as I needed to be. I'm a terrible loser (which is why you rarely see me playing online), one of those frustrating people for whom "winning" has no value, and "losing" is the absolute end of the world.

So, in most games, having repeatedly hit a brick wall, I would have thrown in the towel. But something odd (for me) happened with Returnal - I realised that, win or lose, I was enjoying simply being in the game. It was helped, I think, by the game's own narrative reflecting that sense of battling on regardless (and the gentle encouragement of those of you in the Returnal thread).

That sense of enjoying where you are and what you're doing irrespective of whether it's going to plan started to seep out into my approach to other stuff. Everything in the real world remained impossible, but I was able to see that it was, none the less, a frequently enjoyable place to be.

What's more, once I started to sit back and simply enjoy myself, the game seemed suddenly not so impossible at all. Whole biomes fell with seemingly little resistance and I found myself reaching the end - and then the second ending - without breaking much of a sweat.

So yes, my most memorable gaming experience this year was playing Returnal - not so much for the achievement of triumphing over the game itself, but rather for teaching me how to accept living with a little bit of failure.

Frosty

very boring but I hit Diamond in 2s and 3s in Rocket League. I imagine probably as high as I'll get as I don't have the time to practice all the mad skills you need to get up to Champion.

bad_hair_day

Webbins wrote:

Playing Quest VR for the first time and specifically Pistol Whip... a new dimension in gaming.

That feeling \o/

Hopefully more sets under badger’s trees come Saturday.

Wookienopants

Playing Demeo with Boozy and Bad Hair Day was a real fun introduction to the wonders of MP VR gaming.

EvilRedEye

Diluted Dante wrote:

EvilRedEye wrote:

Is it bad that I read the thread title and then went completely blank on anything gaming related that I did this year?

Checking the eShop for 3DS updates.

A new Nintendo 3DS game came out today! Literally a New Nintendo 3DS game, it only works on a New Nintendo 3DS.

Dark Soldier

Frosty wrote:

very boring but I hit Diamond in 2s and 3s in Rocket League. I imagine probably as high as I'll get as I don't have the time to practice all the mad skills you need to get up to Champion.

Some going tbf, kudos.

FranticPea

Discovering Rimworld and realising its the most 'me' game ever made.

davyK

Getting to play Mushihimesama via Steam. A game I'd always wanted to play. It's one of the greats of the shmup genre. Marvellous stuff. Have 1CCed it in Novice but Arcade mode is a different proposition.

ZMM

tin_robot wrote:

There was a point earlier this year when I was feeling utterly exhausted and defeated. The one bright point was that I'd started playing Returnal, and had found that it was serving as a useful escape - I would regularly disappear into the zone, with my worries giving way to neon waves of bullets, and giant squid monsters. It felt like games did when I was a kid. Except, of course, Returnal isn't always the most forgiving of experiences. There were several points where I found myself declaring that I clearly wasn't up to this particular challenge, and all those real world worries would suddenly crowd in, savouring yet more evidence that I, once again, wasn't quite as good as I needed to be. I'm a terrible loser (which is why you rarely see me playing online), one of those frustrating people for whom "winning" has no value, and "losing" is the absolute end of the world. So, in most games, having repeatedly hit a brick wall, I would have thrown in the towel. But something odd (for me) happened with Returnal - I realised that, win or lose, I was enjoying simply being in the game. It was helped, I think, by the game's own narrative reflecting that sense of battling on regardless (and the gentle encouragement of those of you in the Returnal thread). That sense of enjoying where you are and what you're doing irrespective of whether it's going to plan started to seep out into my approach to other stuff. Everything in the real world remained impossible, but I was able to see that it was, none the less, a frequently enjoyable place to be. What's more, once I started to sit back and simply enjoy myself, the game seemed suddenly not so impossible at all. Whole biomes fell with seemingly little resistance and I found myself reaching the end - and then the second ending - without breaking much of a sweat. So yes, my most memorable gaming experience this year was playing Returnal - not so much for the achievement of triumphing over the game itself, but rather for teaching me how to accept living with a little bit of failure.

This is awesome.

davyK

Tin's post is just a another day when you play shmups in your 50s.....

Escape

I spent hours watching a car hang in midair with points going up.

Pseudoscot

Going on a Valheim dungeon raid with Speedhaak and Subbax. We got tooled up, drank our buff potions, and fought our way over a difficult swamp biome to the dungeon. When we got there not one of us had brought a key to open the door. I think one of said "we are terrible vikings". It made me laugh for about 3 days.

stonechalice

FranticPea wrote:

Discovering Rimworld and realising its the most 'me' game ever made.

Tell me more I've been interested in this. Is there a thread??

FranticPea

Not sure. It's like The Sims but more miserable and bloodier.

Absolutely amazing. Base building and keeping your people happy, arming against raids, hunting, building defences. The relationships can be hilarious. I've had men leave their wives for other men, people spiralling into depression and causing fights in the canteen. Mad buffalo's getting into the Kitchen and causing a bloodbath.

It's totally my kind of jam.

equinox_code

Definitely this:

The pawn shop in Disco Elysium has one item for sale which is ludicrously expensive. So much so, that the only way one can purchase it- a large street lamp- is by not spending money on anything else for the duration of the play through, in addition to selling everything saleable that you own, completing all the side quests, and always choosing the most profitable conversation options/thought catalog upgrades. And what is the reward for all your scrimping and frugality to obtain such a luxurious item? Absolutely nothing. Upon purchase you are reminded that the lamp is far too big and heavy to move yourself, plus you don't even remember where you live, so you can't even take it home. Fuck. Okay never mind, surely you can still get a refund seeing as you made the purchase less than half a minute ago? No, sorry. No returns allowed.

Love it.

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