Let's Talk About Games

Mass Effect Trilogy, Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Battle for Middle Earth, and Stardew Valley.

Her Story - Played this game with my wife, and it was one of the most fun games we've played together. Tried the sequel, but it just didn't hit the same.

A Short Hike - Played this at the height of my pandemic depression, and it legit made me cry. It's just so cozy and welcoming that I wish I could explore that island for the first time again.

Everyone is here mentioning really good games. Im going to be dead honest: Minecraft. I remember dropping into this huge unknown world when the game had just dropped, and you didn't know anything about anything. There weren't youtube tutorials on how to craft all kinds of stuff yet, you didn't know what the scary things trying to kill you at night were. All you knew was that you could dig and cut trees and build stuff, and that there was some scary shit out there in the dark trying to get you.

It was just the perfect open-world exploration game.

Horizon Zero Dawn. What an amazing series of reveals you get as the game progresses.

Noita, hands down! Forgetting all the secret and dark knowledge I have now and most often not gathered through my own hard work over weeks and months cannot ever be forgotten enough to allow me the joy of rediscovering it all over again...

Also FF X!

Mass Effect trilogy. Bioshock. Deus Ex (the first game). Disco Elysium: this game made me laugh so hard I ended up crying, made me feel the entire rainbow of emotions. Wish I could experience that again). The Witcher 3.

But yeah, most of all Mass Effect. Still look forward to N7 day each year, but I would give up my entire Steam library to experience the trilogy for the first time again.

I have to go back to the first game I was ever hooked on, and that was soldier of fortune II.

My buddies were all playing quake and unreal tournament... And I wanted something that was more modern and realistic. I picked up sof2 on a whim and played it a little bit. I was still fairly young and didn't understand online multi-player. It was this thought that it was very involved and clumsy, and could be a pain. One night I went to the multiplayer tab, which generated a list of servers. I double clicked on one and the game started to load. I remember being blown away! "Is that it?! Am I really loading in to play other real people?!"

I was instantly hooked. That whole experience was really something.

I know, it probably sounds lame to the younger people here... But growing up, the internet didn't exist... At least until I was about 8.

Alley Cat.

Rdr2

Metroid: Fusion. Amazing execution and innovation for what they had to work with then.

Dragon Quest III - I originally played and completed the Japanese version without understanding Japanese. Now I am waiting for the HD2D remake to re-experience it.

Witcher 3. My first thought after finishing it was that "oh man, I just want to forget this and restart". Played through it about 4 times and gathered all achievements.

Chrono Trigger

I second outer wilds. It's so sad that the game is only best experienced once. The second I heard about the dlc I jumped right into that too. Only for me to have the same feeling after I beat it. There has been no game like outer wilds that left me with such a feeling.