The Witcher 3! I never played 1 or 2. However 3 did a great job of story recap and finishing up said story. DLC was a must as well. All in all, I was engaged with the story.
And of course, RDR2.
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I loved RDR but every time I try to play RDR2 I struggle to stay engaged for more than a couple hours. Then it's 6-12 months before I play it again. Still haven't finished a single play thru. Just can't put my finger on why.
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd mix. It sounds stupid, I know, but hear me out. I really sucked at this game at first. My friends use to play every weekends at the arcade, so I really wanted to get better. So I really trained hard and became the best player in our group. People gattered around the arcade when I was playing. I was good enough for tournaments.
Now when I face something difficult, I'm confident I can overcome it if I really want to. I wasn't like that before. Thanks Konami.
In recent memory God of War got me pretty good. The struggles that Kratos would go through attempting to communicate with his son reminded me all too well of my dad's relationship to me. I'm fortunate enough that I don't have the same issue with my children, and that game definitely had me doing some self reflection.
Halo 3 to cap off the original trilogy
Man that game was 10 levels of fucked and creepy all wrapped in existential crisis and the definition of who is 'you'? Still fucked up on that game, but damn was it good.
Can't say any one game was life changing for me. They are more a collection of experiences that I reflect upon. Hundreds of games, that have refined me my thoughts and feelings over the decades.
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Huh, that one's been on my back burner. I'll have to load it up.
Definitely worth it. Pretty short but is well written. Go in as blInd as you can.
Recently beat Portal (first one), for the first time. Please play if you haven't!!!
Portal 1 and 2 are both phenomenal. But my feeling at the end was less "Wow that changed my life" and more like "damn it's over, I wish there was another game like that out there"
If you check steam, there's 2 or 3 portal games outside the legit 2 that are super fun. One valve even approved as canon IIRC. One of them you go back and forth in time with a third portal type. One of them is even multiplayer.
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One that should get way more attention: Little King's Story. It presents as a cutsie Pikmin-like, but is actually a dark, metaphorical tale about abuse and trauma.
Most recently, the final choice in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 gutted me.
Expedition 33 is my answer for sure. That game consumed me.
I mustbe weird, because I see people talking so good about expedition 33, but my experience with it was so terrible, that I had to force myself to finish it, but only because I feel uneasy if I don't do things until the end.
I mean, different strokes and all that. Not every game lands with everyone and it wouldn't be art if it did.
It was truly special to me and I still think about it often months later. I still listen to the OST while studying.
It's perfectly fine to not connect with it. Doesn't make it bad or make you wrong. I don't like lots of stuff that others seem wild about. It's fine.
Thanks for your words. Anyway, the ost really was great, that part is incontestable
Just some of them: Hollow Knight, Undertale, Ori and the Blind Forest, BioShock, Dead Space, Max Payne, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee.
+1 for Hollow Knight. Beautiful game that was more fun to explore than any other I've played.
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Spec Ops: The Line. Probably kinda dated now but there were multiple moments in that game where I had to cool down after some heavy shit happens.
I really want to play this game. I haven't found a copy of it anywhere. I can't believe it was pulled down online due to licensing 🙄
Dark Souls.
I used to play mostly FPS. Now it's all soulslikes and practically nothing else.
Dark Souls is special and many people have gone into it to great depths. It's a flawed game for sure but it's perfect even with those flaws.
Dark Souls, for me, ruined all other games. It took me months to want to play anything else.
Sky: Children of The Light
There's something about the ending that makes it perfect
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