Which game have you purchased which made you say "WOW!"? And WHY?

[Vindictus]

Within the past 5 years.
For me it was many years ago when "Planetside 1" was released.
So many people were playing, our whole attack was bogged down and if you poked your head out or tried to move the tracers were flying so thick you were bound to be hit.
I have never seen a battle so huge since, a true MMO with thousands of players at that time.
Thanks

[EASY PETE]

WOW(world of warcraft)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjlMQ07CPV0
Wow death count

[Ç!ｲ!乙3η-ﾒ]

Alyx has to be the game that made me say WOW..

https://store.steampowered.com/app/546560/HalfLife_Alyx/

The immersion and level of detail maintained throughout the game amazed me.

[[JDM]_The Sk8aholic]

Bendy and the ink machine OR doki dokki literature club I mean me a 12 year old I got a soft spot for horror but I think doki doki is creepier because monika knows your REAL name sayori hangs herself then yuri stabs herself and natsuki with the neck thing is just :( but bendy it's creepy in a ''family friendly'' way like moving cutouts the wooden plank in chapter 1 got because I forgot it was there but these are both games that make go ''WOW!''

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doki dokki literature club

Spoilers dude. Don't ruin the the experience for other people.

[Tahl]

Classic Quake/Doom, MassEffect, HalfLife2/Megaton Rainfall and Sacred/Unreal2TA.

Quake/Doom. Can anyone say traumatizing your child. UnrealT is what shaped a lot of the gamer I am today but I started with Quake before that.

MassEffect, at the time was actually one of the first real story driven Action/RPGs Id ever played(in 3D) and despite buying it largely on a whim, it became one of the most memorable games Iv ever played.

HalfLife2 and Megaton Rainfall. I dont really find Horror games compelling or impactful at all. Either because they are predictable or because they cant rip themselves away from the same gameplay tropes every damn time. But younger me vs RavenHolm and landing on BlackHoles are some of the more chilling experiences Iv had. RavenHolm is just the best and I got to play it when I was young enough to experience the cheeks clench at the mere sound of a drownspout shaking. Megaton on the otherhand is not so much 'scary' as it is unnerving. Sitting alone in the dark and gliding through space only to have a FiShInG blackhole sneak up on you. Not to mention its one of the only things in the game that can actually kill the otherwise invulnerable player character.

Sacred and Unreal2 The Awakening. Played both when I was younger. Sacred shaped me a lot and FlOoTeD me up a bit too. Unreal2TA is an almost proto-MassEffect like shooter with a crew and space shananagans to boot. Now imagine the end of the game sees your entire crew get killed saving you without any player choices to cause it. Now imagine being... maybe early-mid teens ish. Wiped the smile off my face, thats for damn sure.

Probably more but from memory thats a bunch of games that I did not expect to have that kind of impact while shopping. WOW!
Also World Of Warcraft. Because WoW. Sorry... ban pun man.. I know...

[Convenient Spider]

Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 2.

0, for a prequel to tie in with K1 and K2, just bursts onto the scene with gratuitous flair and then straps you in for a wild ride (the story, the animation, even the combat is just so good!)

K1, I'll admit, did feel less impactful than 0 did (it felt like more of the same, some fights were very tedious without certain skills; story and animation were still top notch, though.)

On the other hand, K2 crashes through a window, picks up K1, politely sits it down in a chair and steals the show. Made in the Dragon engine, K2 had more lights, more street life, a seamless overworld that you could actually enter the shops through doors... I can't say enough good about it! For a remake it absolutely blew me away.