for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.
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Minecraft and Factorio are definitely my top 2, after that it gets difficult. Probably Mario Kart (not necessarily a specific one, but if you’d ask me to nail it down it’d be Double Dash (for the nostalgia) and 8 Deluxe (currently best imo) at the top).
These are the only games I have consistently played for over a decade and that I keep coming back to in one way or another because I enjoy them so much. And that to me is the most important aspect of a game: my actual enjoyment of it
Edit: Honorable Mentions:
- Chants of Senaar
- Opus Magnum
- Sea of Thieves
- Supreme Commander
- The Settlers Series (preferably 3-4)
Now this is a tough one to be honest. But if i had to pick:
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Hades
Honorable mentions (cant leave these out): Return of the Obra Dinn, Wasteland 2, Darkest Dungeon, and many more…
Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.
1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.
2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.
3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.
- Portal 2
- Hollow Knight
- Minecraft
Ultima IV
Phantasy Star Online
Destiny (not Destiny 2)Hell yeah PSO! My friends just got back into Phantasy Star Universe on the private Clemantine server. It’s glorious :D My top 3:
- Mother 3
- Outer Wilds
- Stardew Valley
Elden Ring, Dwarf Fortress, and Disco Elysium.
Breath of the Wild. Kingdom Hearts. Gris.
For just being great in immersion and story.
Not gonna rank them because I can’t.
Age of Empires II I’ve played since release and still do occasionally.
Everhood 1 everything about it I love. During covid things got very dark for me personally and this game just hit perfectly on some stuff plaguing my mind at the exact right time I most needed it. The devs were one hit wonders unfortunately. Coming from that, the sequel was atrocious.
Thief 2: The Metal Age. It’s like crack to this brain of mine. Yes I play The Dark Mod too.
Runners up:
LISA: The Painful
Diddy Kong Racing
Thief 2 is just incredible. Many games try, but none can dethrone the stealth game king.
And I totally forgot about Diddy Kong Racing, but yeah. It’s legitimately a better game than Mario Kart 64.
Aye and it helps the fans are so passionate making new maps to play for both Thief games and TDM.
DKR holds up so much better. It’s just more* realised too. Way more stuff to do. MK64 is skeletal more like an arcade game really. Wish it’d get some reverse engineering love as much as I enjoy the fan made map packs for MK64.
With DKR once you get used to the car drifting camera movements, bunny hopping the hovercraft, letting go of the gas before hitting boosts, and learning the plane can also trigger ground boosts you’ll feel like a god.
I see a lot of people shit on the hovercraft while I’m over here bunny hopping sharp corners jumping up to smash into walls on purpose like a psycho so I don’t slow down ping ponging all over. It’s such a joy.
I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II
Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II
What the hell was it about that game? There was just something addictive. I barely even played it online, but I could just sink hours into it.
Right? I never tried it online for years either, though my friends and I did a lot of local co-op. Even though online is in the name, I actually think the offline is what really makes the game.
Anyway, there was just something beautiful to me about that drop chart. You could hunt specific things with specific characters, and the rates made most of it feel rare but findable.
I don’t know how they struck that sweetspot so perfectly. Had all the hook of an mmo while still being grounded and approachable.
I bet there’s private PSO servers you could hop back into. I’m currently playing PSU on Clemantine and it’s an amazing nostalgia experience.
My friend and I played split screen for years in high school on a tiny 12" CRT. I’ll never forget finally beating the Ruins on extreme difficulty. He had to revive me 10 times during the boss fight because one attack would always 1-shot me. It was a 15-minute white-knuckle struggle, and it was incredible.
Riven, Shadow of the Colossus, and Guilty Gear Strive.
(in no particular order)
Riven: The Sequel to Myst is INSANE
Currently I’d say minecraft, witcher 3, and… warframe probably :3
In no particular order
Yay warframe! :3
Warframe is not a game, it’s a drug
A wonderful, wonderful, drug. :D
spoiler
I just got to the hex quest :3. haven’t done it yet tho
Very nice! Just as a heads up in case you don’t know, there are two different endings. One at the initial end of the quest, and then once you get them up to rank 3! I hope you enjoy Tenno! :3
- Mindustry, it’s open source as well, must have sunk close on a thousand hours into it. Incredible Game, has a good modding scene as well.
- Trove, the opposite of Mindustry, in that the game sucks, I do not recommend. However the game had so much potential and it sort of half realized it before becoming a cash grab. Does a good job of releasing LOADS of dopamine for very simple game play. That said I am now looking into Veloren - which appears to try and be a better version of trove, although taking voxel MMORPG in a new direction. It’s also open source so, yeah.
- Minecraft - with mods. Nothing quite beats tech mod mania. I hope some day luanti gets to be a real competitor on some level, but till then.
Dark Cloud
Dark Cloud 2
I don’t like it actually but I have over 5k hours in Dota 2.
I don’t like it actually but I have over 5k hours in Dota 2.
Average dota 2 experience.
I really think someone needs to make a modern evolution of Dark Cloud. Maybe the technological limitation was actually a benefit though, because a modern game would probably try to do open world, full 3d construction, and things like that. The technology at the time required that they keep it fairly simple but also really well designed.
There was a petition for a Dark Cloud 3 a while back, apparently the creators were hip to the idea.
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Did you play RDR1? I thought that one was much better than 2, story wise. Not that 2 was bad. Rockstar games are always good imo.
Baldur’s gate 3 is also in my top 3, story wise and how well it was made and time spent playing it. I finished the campaign 6 times now, 4 of which with friends playing couch coop.
Also Age of Empires 2 because when I was young I played that game for over at least 3000 hours (if not double) and I still play it sometimes. Just well balanced and lots of good memories from back then, having LAN parties with my friends and playing it for days.
