A single game from the future

[BORTZ]

You! You from the future steps out of a time wormhole and hands you a single game box.
"I have to go but I give you this one game. Its from the future, but I want me to have it now!"

What game do you give yourself?
Will you give yourself a childhood favorite to play again, with no memory of? So you can enjoy it once again, with all the childlike wonder?
Do you give yourself a single sealed copy of a game you know will sell for tons of money if you hold on to it?
Do you give yourself a rom hack, a translation of a game in the future, a fan game that you want child you to fall in love with?

*You cannot gift yourself a console too, just the game. So if you give yourself a game for a console that isnt out yet, you are stuck with a game until that console exists in your past.

 

[Deleted User]

For myself, I'd probably give past me a USB Drive with a cracked copy of Sonic Mania. 10-year old me would've been really hyped for that.

Also, I know you said "no consoles," but sometimes I wonder what would happen if I took a low-end PC, traveled back to 1991 or so, and just let everyone freak out at the fact that it can essentially play all games (then) currently on the market.

 

[Deleted User]

I'd give myself Shadow of the Colossus. Everything about that game is just amazing and there wouldn't be any reason not to give it

 

[BORTZ]

For myself, I'd probably give past me a USB Drive with a cracked copy of Sonic Mania. 10-year old me would've been really hyped for that.

Also, I know you said "no consoles," but sometimes I wonder what would happen if I took a low-end PC, traveled back to 1991 or so, and just let everyone freak out at the fact that it can essentially play all games (then) currently on the market.

Yeah maybe that is an idea for a different thread but... I always wondered what my life would be like if in 2004 or something I handed myself a DS phat with a full load of roms, emus, music and movies. Or if you could send back a rasberrypi with a ton of games or something.

 

[Pleng]

Sega Racing Collection featuring HD remasters of Virtua Racing (32X), Daytona USA 2001(Dreamcast), and Sega Rally 2(Dreamcast). Android is the platform but of course they've bothered to spend the two minutes it takes to include proper controller support (two minutes that most developers clearly can't spare...)

It's from the year 2025 so is compiled against Android Yoghurt and supports displays up to 12k, but happily is backwards compatible all the way down to 720p displays and Android Marshmallow so it conveniently can be run on almost all of the devices that I currently own.

 

[Chary]

I think Sonic Mania as said above is the best possible choice. There was nothing more than 5 year old Chary wanted, than another 2D Sonic game that was on the same level Sonic 3K was.

From a different perspective, perhaps I would go back and gift myself the original Fallout or Baldurs Gate, or any other such PC CRPG. They already existed when I was younger, but perhaps playing them at a younger age would have given me more of a predisposition to the genre itself.

 

[ov3rkill]

I'm sensing the future me would send Half-Life 3 to me this 2018.

 

[Costello]

a guy that looks like an older version of me just visited me and gave me a USB drive with a file called Starfield.iso on it
it isn't supposed to be released for another couple of years... should I install it? or is it a virus?

 

[Deleted User]

For myself, I'd probably give past me a USB Drive with a cracked copy of Sonic Mania. 10-year old me would've been really hyped for that.

Also, I know you said "no consoles," but sometimes I wonder what would happen if I took a low-end PC, traveled back to 1991 or so, and just let everyone freak out at the fact that it can essentially play all games (then) currently on the market.

woah, thats kinda trippy, imagine playing a game from the present and bringing it to the past, also i wonder more about that companies game, what would they do?

 

[VinsCool]

I would give 10 year old me a flash drive full of demoscene stuff, so I could get into it much earlier, hopefully so today I could make better music compared to what I can do right now.

 

[JellyPerson]

Half-Life 3. Right now I would love to play HL3.

 

[Deleted User]

woah, thats kinda trippy, imagine playing a game from the present and bringing it to the past, also i wonder more about that companies game, what would they do?

Just imagine showing Super Mario Odyssey to someone who was already blown away by Super Mario 64. That would be quite a sight.

Or, better yet, show your average Smash Bros. from 2002 fan the trailer for Ultimate. I can't imagine what that might've felt like.

 

[AutumnWolf]

Ummm...

An USB with a next-gen Zelda game titled "The Legend Of Zelda: The Endless Sky" + a working emulator

Now I just need a monster PC...

 

[BORTZ]

I guess it doesn't really matter, but I was kinda interested in what real game that exists right now that you would travel back in time and give yourself. But the hypotheticals are fun too. Maybe post a real and one that doesn't exist yet?

 

[FAST6191]

The VR game that will inevitably end the human race.

This time with enough warning I might be able to program it such that I can fix it, if not I will send myself back with a copy so I can get started now.

 

[DinohScene]

This is a tough one...

Me boyfriend would gift himself FO3.
I'm debating if I should gift meself Okami, I forgot about it the game until ~2013 or 2014 orso when I played it on PS3.

 

[shaunj66]

Sonic Mania Plus because screw waiting another 17 days.

 

[BORTZ]

Sonic Mania Plus because screw waiting another 17 days.

 

[Pleng]

I guess it doesn't really matter, but I was kinda interested in what real game that exists right now that you would travel back in time and give yourself. But the hypotheticals are fun too. Maybe post a real and one that doesn't exist yet?

I guess you could have worded the OP better... The first sentence, to me at lest, very clearly sets the scene that I, in the present, am witnessing a visit from my future self...

You! You from the future steps out of a time wormhole and hands you a single game box...

 

[BORTZ]

I guess you could have worded the OP better... The first sentence, to me at lest, very clearly sets the scene that I, in the present, am witnessing a visit from my future self...

Sure, I wasn't super clear. It's not a big deal, seeing what people would gift themselves hypothetically is cool too.