Hi Tjaart, to answer your question, I think the experience that blew my mind and will stay with me forever is when I played Final Fantasy VII (my first RPG) and first arrived on the world map after leaving Midgard. I was used to short beat-em-alls on old consoles, and fighting games on Playstation, so to me a game had to be two or three hours long. With FFVII, I was already 6 or 7 hours in (which had taken me weeks because I was a kid and didn't play a lot), and thought it was almost the end of the game. And suddenly I found myself in a 3D world, and saw that the place I had been playing in for weeks was only a tiny dot on a huge world map. It was a shock and I was overwhelmed by the scale of the game.
I have to say, the first time I saw the hyperspace jump sequence in Elite Dangerous made a pretty huge impression on me as well. I wasn't playing and saw it on Youtube, but it convinced I had to get the game. I remember thinking it was possibly the most impressive thing I had seen in a game.
