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What is your favorite game?

A topic by NotExplosive created Dec 01, 2015 Views: 16,160 Replies: 94
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I have a few games I really liked, but haven't thought about them much since. These are Portal, Bastion, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Megaman X and some others I don't remember.

But if I'd have to pick a favorite, I'd have to pick two (or three). Civilization V, Fallout: New Vegas and Undertale. Civilization I probably love so much since it was the first 4X I properly got into, and still play to this day. Fallout: New Vegas was just such a good RPG, and the graphics didn't bug me as much as in FO1/2.

Undertale seems like just the greatest game. I guess I can't judge it as a game, since I've only seen let's plays and streams, but man, that game is something else. I'm kinda disappointed that I didn't play it by myself, but I really wish I had. It was a great experience even though I wasn't the one playing the game.

It changes a lot over the years. First it was Kingdom Hearts, because I'd never played a game that felt so large-scale before then- The world was also really detailed and the environments were small and tight, sort of like an adventure game. Everything about the way that game was built stayed with me in my future work.

Then it was Psychonauts, which apart from having really great, imaginative worlds, had such great writing. The plot moved forward because of the characters, not because it "had to", as was often the case with the games I played before then. There was no filler, either, and it was completely unpredictable and weird not only in terms of story, but the layout of hub worlds/collectables/quests etc. That game really showed me what games were capable of and pretty much changed everything for me.

After that, I got into indie games out of a desire to see just how much story you could cram within a small game. Iji & Cave Story were the games that represented that ideal to me the most.

Nowadays I can't pick one. It's often things I can just pick up and play whenever I feel like it. Skullgirls, Nuclear Throne, Downwell, and so on.

Until this very year, that had been my general attitude, I couldn't really classify games as being better then one another, as they did very different things, and I liked each of those different things, a lot. It was more of a case of "what cool thing am I playing this week? it feels like a new favorite!"

That's one of the things I hoped to address in this thread. I too have a new favorite every week/month/day/hour. But (for me, at least) there's always been one game that sticks out.

I did say until this year though.

I've changed how I look at my favorites now, such that at least I can nail down the top 10.

Which ones had the most profound impact on me in some way? since not many manage that.

And of course as I said before, Eternal Senia blew me away, so it was obviously #1, but that was only this year.

Maybe a thread on "what really sticks with me from games." might put a light on the matter.

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Final Fantasy VI.

That's easy! (old gamer here) - Played tons of games back in the 386/Pentium days, but for 10 years plus I played one game - Paradox's original Victoria An Empire Under the Sun (and I'm counting the revision Victoria: Revolutions in with this) That's right. Only game I played for a decade plus! Probably put in a dozen hours every week. Thank goodness my son convinced me to check out Steam last year at this time. Now I'm sitting on 3200 games to make up for that lost decade.

My favorite is Godshita: http://mygodzillagames.com/godshita

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My favorite game of all time is first edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, which I first played in 1982. The game is so much my favorite that I bought the 5th edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, and Monster Manuel for my 13 year-old son.

It is because of the grandfather of roleplaying games, that I make RPGs. Playing a Neutral Good cleric, might also explain why I am also an ordained minister.

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long time since anyone has responded to this post butffor me it's hard to really say. I guess it's between these games (no order)

  • Illbleed
  • Zettai zetsumei toshi series
  • Crono triger
  • Psychonauts
  • Silent hill 2
  • Shadow of colossus
  • Mother 2&3
  • Haunted grounds

But somesome game I seem to play over and over again aren't exactly my favorite but there fun and I keep coming back to it

  • Berserk
  • Lady bug
  • Communist mutants from space
  • Pacman
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I most like the Path of Exile (PoE) I play PoE all the time, so much that when going to the store I convert the prices on PoE Orbs ^^ The patch will be released in a month. Best PoE Shop what I know is https://Odealo.com

My favorite game is The sims 2. I spent so much time on it... I even drew a comics about the adventures of my families... Great memories =)

My favorite games of all time are Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 and Robot Arena.

First, sorry for bad english. Second, I have lots of favorite games that marked each part of my life. I discovered who I am thanks to them. And I still love and would play with no problem. But let's get started by order.

1) Childhood

- Donkey Kong Country: the first game I beat. I love those Nintendo games that much. I mean... they have lots of secrets and I just made 101% of completion at 2013. I was born at the 90s, so you can imagine the time I took to discover, thanks to the internet. And I guess it's something that I miss in games nowadays... those top secret things..

- Street Fighter II: if DKC was the first game I beat, SF was the first game I beat a boss. I can't say I beat the game, since I only used to play with Ryu and Chun-Li. But this game and another one that's coming are special for another special reason, they inspired me to become a game designer. So yeah, it was thanks to Street Fighter that I make games.

- Tekken 3: so we finally reached the second reason I wanted to be a game designer. But this game made me into another special part of my life, discovering my sexuallity. I never felt anything, until I saw a topless Heihachi and figured out that I was not like the other boys. But because I was just a child, I didn't know I was that different and couldn't understand these feelings. Too bad Heihachi is a villain.

2) Puberty

- Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: When I discovered this game I was immediately fallen in love. I never played an open world game before. The freedom, the countryside, the desert and those radios... I always connect places with songs... so GTA was like a treasure for me.

- Resident Evil 4: This is the game that made me want to play more horror games and activated my desire to do level design and horror games.

- Crash Twinsanity and Crash of The Titans: I always loved animal characters and that's another reason I liked Tekken for having Kuma and Roger. But then, thanks to this game I discovered I was a furry. I mean, at that time I already knew I liked MILFs and muscle mature men, but then... Crunch Bandicoot.

- Silent Hill: I love this game. I mean... I can see parts of this game in every indie horror game. Resident Evil has this aspect of feeling fear of being killed. But Silent Hill.... maaaan. You just feel uncomfortable since the very first moment. It's not about feeling fear of jumpscares or getting killed. it's about being horrified all the time.  I'd compare thoe games to a war zone. Resident Evil -like games are like when you are in a present shooting. Silent Hill is the aftermath, when everything is destroyed and you are not fearful, you're not at the risk of death, but you are going to be traumatized for the destruction it caused and the decomposing destroyed and suffering corpses that you saw.

3) End of High School and College

- Sonic CD: I played the remastered version, so I don't like the american soundtrack. Actually, my first contact with Sega games was after 10 years since they ended developing consoles. I have no regrets. Anyway, I loved this game because of the japanese OST and the time travelling and butterfly effect thing of changing the future. Too bad they didn't make a butterfly character. I guess it'd fit more to the story and the hole concept.

- Persist: Since I attended a Game Design college, I had contact with a thousand indie games. This small Flash one inspired me to make small games focused in storytelling and nice pixel art.

- Five Night's at Freddy's: I don't care that much about the third and fourth installment, but I do love the two games. Not only for the creative use of point and click and the inspiring theories from matPat, but this game has something different from other horror games. The jumpscare is a punishment. So yeah, it's not scripted like other horror games. It's a horror game about skill. I believe there are previous games like FNAF that uses skill to avoid jumpscaresr, but FNAF was the first one I've met.

- Undertale: Now this game is my newest favorite of all time. Every part of the game, except for some toxic fan base, inspired me. It saved me from bad times, since I live in a hard country to make money and my family was about to be thrown out of our rented house. Undertale was the game that told me to be determined, not to give up on life. It taught me that's not wrong to feel hope and to dream. That forgiveness may not harm your pride that much. And also, concluded the fierce odyssey of discovering myself, who I am, what I like and all those things. It was thanks to this game that I felt courage to tell people besides my family that I am different and it helped me to figute out that it's not wrong to be different. And it also made me feel interested in more RPG games. I really loved playing Earthbound, for example.

Anyway, I wrote a lot. But thanks... this was good for my soul. :D

Runescape is pretty fine

I play really different games like Dota, Counter StrickeKaboo Casino or Minecraft and many another...  A lot of my free time I spend playing

I really can't narrow it down to just one but for sheer hours sunk into it in my youth, I guess I'd have to go for Pirates! (not the more recent "Sid Meier's Prates!", although that was good too).  Spend so long and it never felt old somehow, with the different time frames, diverse challenges depending on your nationality, reenacting famous voyages, all within a dynamic game world.  So yeah, there are about 20-30 games that could be my "favourite ever" depending on my mood at the time, but I'm going to go with the original Pirates! on the Atari ST.

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Portal 1/2 - Still sticks with me as one of the greatest games I've ever played.

Iconoclasts - Made by a single guy over 7 years, it is nothing short of a masterpiece. He absolutely nailed the art, the music, the characters, the game design and the story, a truly remarkable title.

Furi - The best boss rush game I've played. I love the atmosphere and the feeling of the whole experience. Very fun and challenging, great visuals and character designs.

IWBTG - I can't say much here. Objectively certainly not a good game, it manages to defy every game design point but it is extremely dear to me.  

Alice: Madness Returns - Love the aesthetics and the atmosphere.  

Nier (2010) - I'm probably one of the very few people who enjoyed the original game much more than Automata.

And of course, the obligatory Soulsborne series, 2d anime fighters (melty blood, guilty gear, blazblue, uniel etc), and probably a few more games that I can't think of right now.

Sir, I was not finished wit Static Falling, That why wasn't have any link to it Sir, I ill remove the summery.

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I kind of burnt myself out on gaming right now. Recently, I have been 

playing a lot of the older COD games, like COD 2, WAW, etc.

And I have a few favorite over all:

Halo

Tomb Raider

Gears of War

Hyperdimension Neptunia

Project Gotham

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Sonic the Hedgehog

Mario

Crash

I have many favs, but If I would to say which would be my favs it would be, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit 2 (the old one) and The Thing The Game (2002). I haven't played NFSHP2 since i was like 12 or 13 so it was quite a long time ago and I'm currently playing The Thing The Game on my Windows Vista o_o , yea I said Vista. It's weird cause it runs faster on vista than windows 10. 

My favourite game is Slotozilla

My favorite is The Long Dark  as my former favorite was Warlords Battlecry III 

Hollow Knight! I love everything about this game!

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