Game, Outer Wilds

Movie, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Outer Wilds and Piranesi.

• Game: Return of the Obra Dinn
• Book: House of Leaves
• TV: Twin Peaks
• Movie: The Matrix

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.

Game: To the moon

Book: The Culture novels by Iain M. Banks

TV: Star Wars Rebels

Movie: Alien

Game: Super Mario Galaxy
Book: The Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
TV: The West Wing
Movie: The 5th Element

Game: Life is strange Book: Hyperion TV Show: Stargate SG1 Movie: ~~All of them? ... Primer~~ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (if you know, you know)

Metal Gear Solid 3.

I played it overnight, I was alone, and it thunderstormed that night around the time I reached The Sorrow. I couldnt stop. It was so good and I was into it. Nothing else has been more memorable.

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

Game is such an unbelievable slam dunk for me. Outer Wilds.

But if I could forget two, it'd be Outer Wilds twice because it's an incredible story

The whole experience of starting up my new (used) N64 for the first time on my blurry old CRT TV and see that huge 3D Mario face pop up that I could squeeze and pull. This was a truly magical console for me.

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.

Game: Baldur's Gate

Book: Dune

TV: Fraggle Rock

Movie: Fight Club

Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Book: Ender's Game TV Show: Tom Baker Doctor Who Movie: The Sixth Sense

• Star Trek
• Ultima Underworld
• Myst
• Fallout
• Jurassic Park (book)

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.

Kinda experienced Portal 2 again for the first time when I played through it in VR. Such an amazing game!

Game: Noita
Book: The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (RIP, you deserved more time)
TV show: Cowboy Bebop, I think
Movie: Honestly, I can't think of one.

In order of priority, I'd put The Player of Games at the top by a wide margin (seriously, it's an amazing book by a brilliant author), followed by Noita, with Cowboy Bebop at the end.

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.

• Game: TLOZ:BOTW
• Book: 1984 by George Orwell
• TV Show: Attack on Titan and Neon Genesis
• Movie: Contact, Interstellar.

The first BioShock game. I don't know how I managed to go so long without it being spoiled for me, but man, I'm glad it wasn't.

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.

Satisfactory.

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

At this point, there are definitely plenty, but I'd personally say my top picks are definitely (in no particular order):

• Brok the Investigator

• Franklin (yes I'm a child at heart sometimes)

• New Vegas and the DLCs

• Borderlands (on xbox360 w/ all 4 DLCs, have been playing on and off for over a decade and still have way too much stuff left)

• An American Tail (definitely in my top 3, if not my absolute favorite 3D animated film ever)

• 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

Subnautica, without question.

Book: 1984 Movie: Sinister Game: Borderlands 2 Tv show: (Is an animated serie ok?) Gravity falls

Wheel of Time book series.

Got way into it when I was younger, got them as soon as new ones came out but after re-reading the first like 10 books multiple times and the repetitive descriptions, the long journey just killed it for me before it got more wrapped up in the later books. Still love it when I go to try and reread it, just get flustered out around book 7. Would love to just be able to do the entire run now with that same enthusiasm I had before, like finding a great show with lots of seasons to binge.

• Game: The Outer Wilds and DLC
• Book: Goosebumps - Night in Terror Tower
• TV Show: Battlestar Galactica (2003)
• Movie: Requiem for a Dream

Black & White 2

Tarzan of the Apes

Cowboy Bebop/Trigun

The Avatar

Game: The Outer Wilds and its DLC. Also Undertale as close second Movie: Summer Wars. Redline close second. Tv Show: Frieren - After journeys end

Game: Gunship 2000

Book: the Murderbot Diaries

TV: Firefly

Movie: ~~Casablanca~~ no! Little Shop of Horrors!

Just a game and book come to mind for me right now, plus a music album.

Game: Star Control 2

Book: Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter

Album: Floating World by Anathallo

Game: Wolfenstein the online part. Cant remember what title, but it was on pc in the 2000s oh it was Amazing Book: Goosebump TV Show: Werner Movie: The perfect storm

I Saw the TV Glow, I was just talking about not liking that I’ve been desensitized to it a bit.

Game: a tie between Doom 93 and Super Metroid

Book: Different Seasons by Stephen King

TV show: The Sopranos

Movie: a tie between Terminator 2 and Spoorloos