What game wowed you the most when you first played it?

Doom and Everquest.

Playing Doom on a lan for the first time was really something special and Everquest when you realised that all those hundreds of people around you in such a gorgeous world were actually other real players.
 
Elite on my BBC Micro B (Beeb). Then Barbarian came out with 8-colour graphics along with Repton which had it's own level designer.
Then I got the Amiga 1200 and it was Combat Air Patrol - my first taste in a proper flight sims, along with Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Beneath The Steel Sky and Gloom (Amiga's take on Doom).
After the death of Commodore, I got a PC and was wowed by DiD's TFX & EF2000, Jane's AH-64 Apache, DI's Hind, Janes ATF and a demo of Duke Nukem 3D. - It was seeing textures on a polygon - a rare glimpse of the future of computer gaming.
Then came Quake - proper 3D modelled graphics & animation, followed by the beauty of Red Alert & Dark Reign which still held the flag for 2D games.
Finally we came to Quake 2, Commandos, Half Life, Falcon, Diablo 2, Medal of Honour, Call of Duty, C&C Generals, HL2, Oblivion and finally CoD4.
 
Longbow2 best helo flight sim.....now top slot taken by black shark
I-War best space sim ever
Half-life best trend setter ever
COD made MOH look like a cartoon! and made me stop playing MOH
 
GTA 3. I'd been out of the loop with regards to games for ages, and then played it on a mate's PS2. WOW. The 2 mile draw-distance was particularly impressive.

Also, the first screenshots of Doom 3, as it was the first time I'd seen normal-mapping.
 
I knew I forgot a classic Amiga wow game - Original Wing Commander - even the pre-loading screens of you running to your ship set a fantastic atmosphere. When I first got a PC, I bought Privateer 2 (off-spin from WC) and although it had the mechanics of Elite and fantastic graphics, it was a bitch to reconfigure the joystick every game (before digital joysticks) and featured the worst acting ever in a FMV... Even if it starred Clive " Hey you might remember me from classic films such as Sin City and Children of Men." Owen and John "Aaargh my chest!" Hurt.
 
Quake I guess, it was the first PC 'proper' gaming experience I ever had. Three of us huddled around the screen taking it in turns to play the next level. I was gob smacked.
 
SiriusB said:
FarCry - The graphics!
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I remember staring at the water effects for ages. The graphics were great but I never enjoyed the gameplay as much I thought i would.

Graphics I would go for the doom 3 leaked E3 demo a few years back. It was just so more advanced than everything out at the time. It blew me away. Pity my PC couldn't keep up with it at the time.

I never realised games could be scary until I played the Alien vs Predator 1 demo as the marine. I still remember staying out of a room for a minute to prepare myself hah. I was only about 14 so thats my defense

For overall general feel that wowed me it has to be HL1. The opening sequence was like a movie and while loads of games do that now in 1998 it was pretty new to me. I could rant and rave about it but I seem to do that too often on other threads :D

voodooGT said:
Day of Defeat, probably during the original beta release. Playing on one of the omaha / beach head style maps. Mint!
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I seemed to be the only one who would be able to climb that rope and not die. Probably down to the lag :D I seemed to remember everyone on that map (as yanks) would sit prone in the water with the springfield and wait for heads to pop up. Then you had the people actually trying to push up the beach with 1/15 scores :D

Talking about mods, as for CS, each beta I played seemed to wow me. Then after valve took over the process of releasing new material seemed to slow down and that feeling went away. :(

I reckon the younger you are at the time the more chance you are of being wowed by a new game. These days even after establishing a game has great graphics or presentation my critique side of me seems to look for the negatives in the other parts of the game
 
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shaggyd said:
I knew I forgot a classic Amiga wow game - Original Wing Commander
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My mate had that for his 286 PC and we played it loads. Then I got it for the Amiga which had really good onboard sound (compared to his 286 which had an internal speaker and that was it) and the intro, with the orchestral music was *incredible*.
 
Adding another one:

Team Fortress Classic, this was the first ever game i played online. I remember waiting 9 hours for my 56k connection to download the 100 odd mb patch and then finally firing it up at a stupid hour in the morning.

I remember getting utterly owned, sworn at for not knowing the objective of the amity map and then getting disconnected due to my crappy connection in the space of around 5 mins. I was in love, played that game for over 3 years.
 
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