Did any other moment in gaming astonish you than realizing the size of the San Andreas map?

[Mr. Manhattan]

I remember playing the game and generally being once i left Los Santos and realized i was still driving in the highway for 5-10 minutes...
I couldnt believe the PS2 could handle all that space

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

Zelda OOT when the fairy woke link up and he exited the hut,and I saw the village for the first time. Game came out when I was in 8th grade. Had been anticipating it since I saw the first screenshots in 96/97. That moment trump's just about all gaming moments for me.

 

[International Playa]

Yh driving city to city, if u damaged ur car in the forest at night with no other cars around u were fukked lol.

Soundtrack was sickkkk GOAT game

Just going gym n hitting weights n eating was sick to me

 

[Zero]

GTA still hasn't topped SA

 

[getmoney310cpt]

GTA5 is cool but they should have kept the San Andreas formula with the map the casinos the weights the food everything even could take a flight from city to city

 

[RoidJonesJr]

Never finished the game, my disk scratched before I could

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Nah breh,

When you first leave Midgar in FFVII...and understand you JUST STARTED and that entire disc was nothing compared what is in store...and see the size of the world....and when you get the airship

 

[Brandeezy]

Skyrim's map size and how many quests there were

 

[MenacingMonk]

At the time, yeah, it was crazy. But that all changed when I discovered FO3.

 

[obarth]

The first moment you leave the vault in Fallout 3

 

[Aba_juggin]

Los Santos nice remember driving all the way back from San fierro through he countryside in my modded lowrider

 

[Zero]

Nah breh,

When you first leave Midgar in FFXV...and understand you JUST STARTED and that entire disc was nothing compared what is in store...and see the size of the world....and when you get the airship

My man got an exclusive look into that 2018 DLC

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

I remember playing the game and generally being once i left Los Santos and realized i was still driving in the highway for 5-10 minutes...
I couldnt believe the PS2 could handle all that space

I'm a nerd so I knew at that time that open world games take up, generally speaking, the least amount of space in those times. repeating assets over and over.

I'm going to offer three answers here.

Most astonishing from a gameplay perspective.
GOAT Moment

For me, the gamer, just on some nostalgia shyt, it is probably Legend of Zelda, The Wind Waker, when you can finally walk around the original Hyrule Castle, following the timeline



For perhaps the defining moment as far as elevating gaming as an artform?

Would you kindly from Bioshock 1, contains spoilers.

 

[winb83]

Playing Mario 64 for the first time back when it was released.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

GTA still hasn't topped SA

They took the Jay z route. Dumbed it down to double their dollars.