I love variety and I could never point to one game being my favorite. What about you guys? :3
So Skyrim must be my favorite because: Every year (I realized this last grind that it is always around December to January) do I start a new mod grind for Skyrim and then play a shit ton for a week or two and then never look back until winter again lol
I saw most added a list so I will too.
The best year of gaming for me was 2006 to around 2012, you will be able to tell by the list. Why around that time is because before then did I not playing games with deep or meaningful stories and after that have I only found a few games that I really like.
Games I haven’t played for a long time now but have a lot of nostalgic memories of (some did I play over and over again that I can not count unless I find all my saves):
- dragon age origin and 2 (fight me, 2 was great)
- mass effect 2 and 3 (especially 2)
- the three assassin’s Creed games with ezio, and black flag
- saint row 3 (4 was fun too but more like a chaotic episode)
- Shin Megami Tensei games mainly persona (3 and 4) and devil survivor (1 and 2)
- sleeping dogs
- golden sun
- pyre
- deus ex
- far cry 3
- tales of the abyss
- 999: nine hours, nine persons, nine doors
- phoenix wright
The list is getting long so I will stop now. It was fun thinking back especially on the megami tensei series, that is a rabbit hole to fall down in, i mixed them up a lot while trying to remember the names haha
I only added the games that woke up a fussy feeling in me (I hope I didn’t forget any important ones).
Deltarune by leaps and bounds
Goldeneye 007 on N64.
No game could pass that one as my favorite because I could never play a game in the specific social context that made that game special (staying up late for hours with your friends physically present next to you).
R-Type II
Tetris
American McGee’s Alice.
I love the atmosphere, the game play, and the soundtrack. It is awesome 🤘
I loved that one when I was in high school! I was really impressed by the level design, and I do remember liking the soundtrack a lot. I haven’t heard it in forever but I’m sure I would recognize it.
I’ve wondered for forever, was there a way to make the secondary fire for the Jabberwock’s Eyestaff actually helpful? The meteors would pretty consistently injure me more than the enemies.
I remember thinking the jacks were the most useful weapon by a longshot.
Portal 2.
Every game I play is like “this is good, but it’s no Outer Wilds…”
Just finished Outer Wilds yesterday and it definitely shot up to my top 10. Nothing could beat Portal so far though…
I think with Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn I realized that “Information games” are just my absolute favourite genre of games. Portal is incredible, but more a regular puzzle game than an information game.
Minecraft. I don’t come back to any other game as much. Minecraft can be what I want it to be more so than any other game I’ve played.
It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it’s Deadlock.
The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid’s reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.
That game absolutely took over my life in terms of games. I liked it from the first minute, because of the art style, movement and all, but i didn’t really get it. I started to get it, and when i really got it, i was like holy shit. The game is so deep, just in terms of movement and tech in the game.
Point of clarity for anyone interested: the game is in an invite-only beta. BUT the unofficial discord has people who can invite you. So feel free to come check it out. It’s great :)
You can also go to steam page -> dicussions and there are hundreds of invite threads in the forum. Just add friends any of the people there and they’ll give you an invite. The etiquette is to givr a small item (cs, tf2 etc.) in exchange for it so don’t be surprised if they ask you for a donation. Either way it’s worth it!
Overall, bg3. Looking back all the way to pong, I haven’t had as much fun for as long as with bg3.
Not that I want to play it every single time I put in game time. I do like variety too. But in terms of sheer joy of play, bg3 just hits the right points.
I can maybe see a future game topping it, though I suspect that would be a rarity what with the things in games that really hit for me being hard to find in one game. Even bg3 doesn’t hit every single thing that I love in games, it just hits the most important ones. It’s not perfect, but I’ve never required that in a game.
It’s gotta be:
Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath
Other honorary mentions:
- Outer Wilds (my best gaming experience so far, but low replayability)
- Skyrim
- Shapez 2
- Prey
- Naev
- The Talos Principle
TES: Oblivion. It’s not even good, but it will always be my favorite
Factorio. 10k hours and I still play it over and over again when I get cravings or when there’s. No other games to play.
2nd is Minecraft and 3rd is rimworld
Of course all of them HEAVILY modded.
Now this is my taste to a tee
What’s your favorite mods for them?
Slap on an allthemods for Minecraft any day. Ive told myself I need to beat factorio and rimworld first before I do a modded playthrough (rimworld I did, but still chugging through space age). Otherwise I’ve really enjoyed the multi-player rimworld mod
If you need any help with any of it message me, besides rimworld I know some stuff but I been having problems with nodding it on my Linux install for some reason. I played a shit tons of different mod packs on Minecraft. Allthemods is the best all around mod pack although easy for me. Expert packs are fun though.
left 4 dead 2 - imperfect as it is, the friends and communities i played and modded versus games with, made it the best, thousands of hours well spent.
I can’t figure out how the devs dropped the ball so hard with Evolve or that more recent L4D clone that also sucked.
same - they had the success formula, and just let it go
Depending on the mood:
- Dwarf Fortress
- Stellaris
- Project Zomboid
