In my case it’s definitely DayZ. It’s an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.
I’m not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you’ve spent hours into a character you seriously don’t want to get killed. The map is massive and there’s only 60 other people at best so you often don’t even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It’s often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.
It’s also the only game where I’ve genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I’ve also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I’ve just realized is close to me. I haven’t felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.
I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.
I still have several sessions that I have on repeat in my memories, most just walking through the forests and hiding from random parties, or trying to hunt someone from the random gun shots
And like you said the map is immense but If I was dropped in the same place in real life I would know my way around immediately.
In my case it’s definitely DayZ. It’s an open-world zombie-survival multiplayer game.
I’m not a huge gamer myself but that one has always stood out to me above all the others. Once you’ve spent hours into a character you seriously don’t want to get killed. The map is massive and there’s only 60 other people at best so you often don’t even run into anyone - only hear the occasional gunshot in the distance. Wearing headphones lets you hear 360-degree sounds and the proximity voice chat I think is pretty cool feature too. It’s often jokingly called hiking simulator since you, for the most part, just run in a forests.
It’s also the only game where I’ve genuinely felt bad about shooting another player. Self-defence is a different case but just cold blood murder only because I can has multiple times left me feeling kinda shitty, so nowdays I just try and talk to people and then usually I get shot instead. I’ve also often felt absolutely terrified, hiding in a corner of a room in a house hiding from another player who I’ve just realized is close to me. I haven’t felt anything like that with any other game and have felt that DayZ is quite unique in that sense.
I must add, thought, that those flight simulator cockpits that people have built for themselves seem kind of intriguing too.
I still have several sessions that I have on repeat in my memories, most just walking through the forests and hiding from random parties, or trying to hunt someone from the random gun shots
And like you said the map is immense but If I was dropped in the same place in real life I would know my way around immediately.