Which is the first PC game that blew your mind?
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PC Gaming@kbin.social – 132 points – For me it was definitely DOOM 2! Miles ahead of anything else I had played before.
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Deus Ex. I was 14, didn't really play or like first person shooters and only played it because it was in the pile of old games someone essentially dropped off on me. But I understood rather quickly that this game was something special, especially with the player's choices actually making a difference. I remember a moment when I was playing around with cheats and at one point spawned a Paul Denton next to his dead body in the lab under UNATCO just to be funny and when he started talking to me as if he hadn't died, a quick online search revealed that I didn't even know how deep your influence truly went.
I still don't really like or play first person shooters, but that's now mostly because Deus Ex has set my standards very, very high!
Î was going to mention this one. Just the flexibility of approaches it permitted was revelatory to me.
On a more dubious note, it also unlocked sides of me that I wasn't aware of before.
Honorable mention to the first civ which was, for me, what the Risk boardgame had prophecied.
Deus Ex touched on a lot political issues. Another game from that era with a similar feeling of having to fight against the government is Nomad Soul. It's not as good as Deus Ex, but it features David Bowie which is a plus.