Whether you started with a 2600 and a joystick in your hand, an N64 with a blistered palm or building your first PC in your teens, what is that one video game you’ve played at some point that to this day sits at the top of your list.
I started with a super nes - super mario world will always be my game!
Super Metroid. Still holds up after so long.
I was hoping someone said this one lol Super Metroid was so good even my mom and my aunt got hooked on it right along with me!
Undertale still holds a special place in my heart after all these years.
It made me care about its characters in a way that no game had ever done before, and few have since. The cool and replayable story, along with a great soundtrack are other things that I like. Only criticism I really have of the game is the questionable graphics, but I’ve never been the type to care too much about graphics anyways.
Stardew valley was a really fun game to play with my wife
Stardew valley
Dishonored, I absolutely adore that game, and it still looks so good because of the art direction they took with it. Funny enough, it was the same art director as Half Life 2
Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Had no idea what I was getting into and have been chasing that same experience ever sense.
Probably Life is Strange. It did a lot for me in my mid-late 20s.
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
This was just a groundbreaking game. I know the graphics aren’t as nice as Skyrim, but the world has more depth and the guilds are all full games in themselves.
Such a big open world, fully populated with flora and mystical fauna (Minotaurs and unicorns), an endless supply of side-quests.
Oblivion destroys Skyrim in the following places:
- Much more interesting and in-depth Thieves Guild, Assassin’s Guild, Fighter’s Guild, and Mage’s Guild.
- Being a vampire is infinitely better than being a goddamn werewolf
- Skyrim leans too heavily for the Nord race, while Oblivion’s story leaves race selection more open-ended. I always want to be an Argonian but it felt weird to be an Argonian in Skyrim.
I still open up Oblivion here and there and play for a little bit, it never really gets old to me. My last major playthrough was in 2018, I want to start up a new one.
I spent like 15 years of my life on World of Warcraft through all the good and bad, but it was the friends I made and the late night messing around that was the fun.
I started Wow casually during Cata. MOP was the first MMO launch I experienced and it blew my mind. I played the first few months of each expansion through Legion, but never really did anything outside of quick queue LFG stuff.
Once the pandemic hit, I had some free time and returned to Shadowlands. People say it was the worst expansion but I met such fun and incredible people and I thought the dungeons were amazing. We all went our separate ways when Dragonflight came out and so I stepped away. It wouldn’t be the same without those awesome people.
But WoW definitely holds a special place in my heart because of the bonds you can form through the various activities.
I’m so old I played vanilla wow. I still had like my private tags last time I logged in
Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Skyrim
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Mass Effect. The one game I wish I could entirely erase my memory of and do it all again. <3
Mass Effect is the only game I ever played where I read -every single entry- of lore in the encyclopedia. First game with achievements I did 100% on as well. I built my own Normandy models, even… both of the SR-1 and -2.
I hope ME4 is a return to form when it releases. I also hope the TV series I’ve heard about treats the franchise well… The story would do well as a prestige title IMO so I’ll be super bummed if they don’t do it justice.
Did you know there are books? They’re alright. Nothing terribly earth shaking about em but they’re fair.
“You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it”
It’s been years since I’ve played ME, but this scene will never not give me chills…
I’m okay with giving it a once every two years run, that’s enough to forget it enough to enjoy it all over. Leviathan is easily the best dlc made for any game, imo. Witcher e’s blood and wine being a close second.
Walking around the Citadel in Mass Effect 1 is one of my favorite gaming memories. It felt like I really was free to explore a giant space city. It felt so massive and open.
For myself: Illusion of Gaia (SNES).
I hear a lot of people talk about Soul Blazer and Terranigma when talking about this trilogy but IoG was always my favourite. I still have the soundtrack on my phone after all these years.
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I think that it’d have to be something with a lot of replayability, which doesn’t lose value to me after one playthrough.
Also, it can’t be a genre where the game was limited by technology. I mean, I remember Wolfenstein 3D being amazing when it came out relative to other games of the time – walking around in a 3D world was so mind-blowing – but the novelty of that technology has long-since worn off, and there are many more-impressive 3D games today.
I guess roguelikes are probably about the top of the heap there, and my favorite is probably Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I still regularly play that, which seems to me to be a good test of whether it’s still at the top of my list.
