Things that cheer you up in Video Games

[Designer1]

Any genre, any era, any platform.

Those little (or big) things that you absolutely love in games.

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[Ingram85]

Moogles. Especially moogles named Stiltzkin who wears a little leopard print travelling hat.

Also, Half life 2. Gravity Gun.

[Designer1]

The first few hours of a decent RPG where you're basically running around wearing a bin bag armed only with a stick.

[jacketspuds]

Beating Orphan of Kos on Bloodborne, or those pissing giant fish pricks in the well.

Other than it’s the feeling of playing in a movie that Naughty Dog games give me.

[Designer1]

On 04/10/2021 at 20:10, jacketspuds said:

Beating Orphan of Kos on Bloodborne

A definite 'punch the air and shout get the **** in!' Moment for me.

The Soulsborne series has had so many of those over the years.

[Hornso]

Decent soundtracks. Have heard a lot of good music (and terrible music) over the years and discovered songs/artists that I wouldn't have heard otherwise.

[Mister_a]

In-jokes and references to other films / games like:

Spoiler

Seeing a skeleton in a fridge in one of the fallout games

Good quest and quest arcs, with more than one way of doing the mission.

Headshots. In the division, the headshot sound was a horrible squelch lol

 

[desensitized43]

When you play an obviously unfinished game that’s playable and the little bugs just make it better.

Thinking of DayZ when running from a zombie into a house, close the door, and the mofo literally runs through the wall. Nearly had a heart attack

[Dante_Lockhart]

8 hours ago, Hornso said:

Decent soundtracks. Have heard a lot of good music (and terrible music) over the years and discovered songs/artists that I wouldn't have heard otherwise.

THPS >_>

[Straggler]

My first perfect run on rainbow road (Super Mario Kart).

Oh, and dropping a green shell behind you to save yourself from a homing red shell.  Deeply satisfying.

Edited October 13, 2021 by Straggler

[Stevo985]

4 hours ago, Straggler said:

My first perfect run on rainbow road (Super Mario Kart).

Oh, and dropping a green shell behind you to save yourself from a homing red shell.  Deeply satisfying.

That's a good one.

Or hitting B on Mario Kart 64 when you were about to spin to stop yourself (which loads of people didn't know about)

[villarule123]

21 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

Or hitting B on Mario Kart 64 when you were about to spin to stop yourself (which loads of people didn't know about)

What??! 

I'm gonna have to try this out later. 

[Stevo985]

6 minutes ago, villarule123 said:

What??! 

I'm gonna have to try this out later. 

Told you

It's only on Mario kart 64 IIRC

Have you ever seen a speech bubble with a little musical note pop out of your driver and not know what it is?

Basically if you run over a banana skin (or when you skid on ice I think or get bumped into by Bowser or something) on MK64 you don't immediately spin, you do a kind of skiddy wobble beforehand. If you hit B while that's happening then your driver doesn't spin. And he does that little musical note thing.

[Keyblade]

7 hours ago, Stevo985 said:

Told you

It's only on Mario kart 64 IIRC

Have you ever seen a speech bubble with a little musical note pop out of your driver and not know what it is?

Basically if you run over a banana skin (or when you skid on ice I think or get bumped into by Bowser or something) on MK64 you don't immediately spin, you do a kind of skiddy wobble beforehand. If you hit B while that's happening then your driver doesn't spin. And he does that little musical note thing.

150cc is almost unplayable because you can make yourself skid without touching a banana or anything else and you have to keep stopping it. 

Also hitting Bowser is an instant skid, it's the ones where you start wobbling for a couple of seconds that you can stop.

[ender4]

That point in a game where you suddenly just know from muscle memory which button to press, how to aim perfectly and what tactics or skills to use.

[ender4]

When you’re watching a cutscene in a story driven game and the scene makes you go wow and you fall in love with the game and the story/characters.

[hogso]

I really appreciate a good ladder climbing animation. Any ladder, in any game, I am there to determine if A ) one can climb it, B ) if it is an auto climb or manual climb, C ) the quality of the animation),  D ) if there is any danger of falling and perhaps most importantly E ) how long it is.

There are some really good examples, and really terrible examples. Whether the ladder is great or not though, I appreciate it, and really lament those ladders in games which you can not climb. I think this particular perversion for started for me with Metal Gear Solid. 

Some of my favourites are from MGS3, GTAV and Last of Us. Great, great ladders.

 

 

[villa4europe]

Can't remember if the RE remakes added it to, they definitely took some time on the stairs animation 

[lapal_fan]

When developers go the extra mile and include the "backblast" damage to bazookas, and you can use it in multiplayer, like so;

and here is the first kill, from a different perspective;

 

 

Edited October 15, 2021 by lapal_fan

[Delphouneso]

On 04/10/2021 at 20:10, jacketspuds said:

Beating Orphan of Kos on Bloodborne, or those pissing giant fish pricks in the well.

 

These guys are the real final boss of BB. I guess they are guarding the second best weapon in the game though.

 

On the subject of Bloodborne I love it when you try something you don't expect to work in a game and it ends up unlocking or activating something, and you feel like you just got a fist bump from the dev. Like 'maybe I'll just put this crown on and sit on the throne for a second..', or 'I wonder what would happen if I combined these two items', that kind of thing.