I love variety and I could never point to one game being my favorite. What about you guys? :3
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
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.
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.
Legend of Grimrock 2. It was high school though, so I was really into sword-and-sorcery. It is very old school design, meant to be nostalgic for games I was too young to ever play. Very clicky. You’ll see. It ends up feeling like a rhythm game almost.
TES: Oblivion. It’s not even good, but it will always be my favorite
Portal 2.
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.
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!
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.
Final Fantasy 9. I was seven years old and had never experienced anything comparable. 100% a nostalgia driven choice but I still remember those thoughts and feelings.
Celeste is a perfect game. My only complaint is that “it’s just a platform game”, which I don’t find that interesting anymore compared to games like Deltarune. Still, it brings me lots of joy, even on replays.
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
If I split my life into 4 chapters:
- Phantasy star 4 - great story, a game way ahead of its time
- WoW
- Oxygen Not Included
- Satisfactory
Depending on the mood:
- Dwarf Fortress
- Stellaris
- Project Zomboid
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.
I always have a hard time putting things into rankings, because different games have different qualities that make them hard to compare to each other, but if I had to choose, there is one game that I keep coming back to and is pretty much my “comfort food” game: Twinkle Star Sprites.
