Nier: Automata, like the final ending. I've 100% this game three times and each time I end tearing up, thinking about a world where would could all come together and help eachother, then I look at the news and that dream is immediately shattered.
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World of warcraft. Simply for the escapism. But also because I've made friends with whom I still talk to 20 years later. At this point they're my oldest friends since life happened to some of the others.
Completing the Chains of Promathia expansion of Final Fantasy XI back when that was pretty uncommon among the playerbase (like 2005 or 2006)
Duke Nukem 3D.
I’m not a gamer and I know I’m missing something when I see this comment section!
I don't know that it "changed my life," but DAMN Yakuza 0's ending hit hard.
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Binding of Isaac.
Played it as I was coming into adult life. This was my first roguelite. It sounds dumb....but it really stuck with me as a life lesson:
You can try your best and make sacrifices, and still end up unlucky with poor rewards. You get the opportunities you get, but even in this seeming randomness, you make choices to make the most of them. Training and skill makes up for some of the poor opportunities. Life is a roguelite.
Now I've got BoI on my Retroid Pocket 5 now. Still playing it.
The first two that come to mind whenever this discussion comes up are Dragon Age: Origins and Bioshock.
If it were possible to erase memories, I'd erase my memories of these games and play them for the first time again.
DA:O is peak CRPG. I love that game so much. I should do another solo nightmare playthrough, with a different class this time...
OG Resident Evil 4 left a hell of an impression on me as a kid. That and OG God of War, I was hooked for life.
Blue Prince’s « ending » had me like that.
Then people say when you get to 46 you barely just beat the tutorial.
Reaching Room 46 the first time is the first of like three or four natural jumping-off points, I'd say. You can totally stop playing there if you're satisfied, but if you want to keep digging you can go so much deeper.
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Dark Souls: Remastered After waiting years to try I really can git gud
Silent Hill 2. And not even just the first time.
And not even just the original game, the remake also had me like this.
Salt and Sanctuary
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. It made me realize that the future is not going to be people on spaceships. It will be bizarre and beautiful post-human intelligences. That's what made me choose to study biology (although in retrospect I should have bet on silicon rather than carbon).
I'll vote for the Civilization series as something that changed my life. It wasn't a single profound experience when I "completed the game". I've done that a number of times in multiple different versions of Civ. It was more the "aha" moments along the way. Learning about wonders of the world, hearing about different cultures. Thinking about how X led to Y. Civ taught me a lot of things, but more importantly, it made me curious so that I learned things outside the game.
- NieR Gestalt
- NieR Automata Ending E
- Silent Hill 2 (the original, not the remake)
- Doki Doki Literature Club!
- A Girl Who Chants Love At the Bound of this World: YU-NO (the original, not the remake)
I dont know about changing my life, but they certainly had incredibly impactful/emotional endings IMO.
lol when the mirror finally drops in Path of Exile
There's a number of the games that notably effected me after completion. Star Fox (SNES), Halo: Combat Evolved, Morrowind, KOTOR 1&2, Halo 3, Call of Duty 4, Bioshock, Dead Space, Hotline Miami, Undertale.
I'm probably forgetting some.
A Plague Tale: Requiem.
I wouldn't say it changed my life, but I couldn't get myself to play another game for some time after both Plague Tale games back-to-back.
That game had me completely enraptured until we go to people controlling the rats, and using them as ocean waves crashing through the village.
It went so far off the fuckin rails. I just couldn't. I had to just walk away.
I think that's what happened to me also... I remember rats and then I kinda lost interest
Minecraft got me into programming when I was like 14. I'd probably have gotten into it regardless but it was the trigger for what has been a 14 year journey so far so I'd definitely say it changed my life