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I have two. First is Portal2. I had so much fun in that game. The second is Half-Life: Alyx. That is the game that taught me how immersive a VR game could be. I particularly enjoyed one part where I was in a pitch black tunnel with only a narrow flashlight beam to try and spot the head-crab that I could hear somewhere nearby in the darkness. But the whole game was a fantastic experience.

RDR2

I never should have left Horseshoe Overlook.

Outer Wilds. Such a great game. I won't post any spoilers but there were moments I actually held my breath. I had feelings I havent had in any other video game. It was bittersweet to finish. I still haven't done the DLC - I've been saving it for a good time.

Subnautica. There wasn't really anything left to do, story-wise, but I wasn't ready to go.

GTA IV

It was strange - I'm not much of a gamer anyway, but I'd never felt that way before after finishing a game. I really fell in love with NYC, even though it's not at all the kind of place I'd want to live in.

Still, I had this sad, melancholic feeling hanging around for probably a week after.

Control

A sequel is coming.

Edit to add: Days Gone - great story and game

Skyrim. Yeah I know there's a ton to do and the real game is side quests and leveling up etc etc. But after I killed Alduin I kinda looked around and was like "wait is that the end of the main quest?" First game I ever had to google if I had beaten it.

Titanfall 2. Such a well-crafted and deftlessly-executed story that lasted just a few hours. I really wish they had poured effort into making it the exceptional single-player experience it could have been instead of just another arena game.

Tomb Raider (2013). You finally fully upgrade all of your gear and get to use for what feels like ten minutes before the game ends. I tried wandering around finding bandits to murder, but they rarely spawned... :( Such a fun game though.

Baldur's Gate III, takes a long time to get started.

Its towards the very end of act 2 when the game feels like you've finally finished the "tutorial" section and are ready to play for real.

They needed another 6 to 9 acts easy.

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT (link)

If you love old early 3d boomer shooters, deep-fried memes, and brazil, you will thoroughly enjoy this one. Looks like a string of trippy community maps some rando would patch together, but it's actually well-made and executes the shitposting perfectly. It runs on quakespasm (source port for quake), and is pretty much a total conversion mod for quake.

Probably not the type of game you were expecting, but it's really short and there are very few things like it. It's cheap and can run on basically anything. Would recommend

Kingdom Come: Deliverance (and its sequel). The story is compelling, the world is historical, there isn't any magic or fantasy to it - you just get better at combat and that raises your societal status. Some of the characters are amazingly well written.

Last of Us, both Part 1 and 2, were incredibly bittersweet endings. Was happy to see the stories conclude, but loved the games so much I definitely wanted more.

Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3 probably fit the category too. Not bittersweet endings really, but the games were so much fun I didn't want them to end.

BG3, The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy 3. Wait do I have a 3 problem?

Weirdly enough : Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. It's an absurdly long game, each run lasting for more than 75 hours, but it ends like half an hour after your unlock the last level for your characters and you basically never get to experience playing as a true late-game party. I never played the DLCs though, so maybe that's no longer true

The first RDR.

To the point that I still haven't beaten the second one, intentionally. I'll do so whenever RDR3 is on the horizon.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Horizon: Forbidden West because the story,music, voice acting, and gameplay really pulled me in. I felt a lot of emotions that I hadn't felt in a long time because of this game. When it ended I felt like I was losing something dear to me lol

Baldurs Gate 3 left me wishing for more, but that is entirely because the third act was so damn rushed compared to the rest of the game.

I wish Unpacking had gone longer, but I’d be afraid it would either mean Sadie breaking up with her partner or packing up for her after she died. It was bad enough unpacking her in that jerk’s apartment.

Both "Dishonored" games

You are supposed to finish them?

superhot, i think, haven't played it in a while

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

All the way through it felt like there was more coming until there wasn't, it just fizzled out.

Mirror's Edge. The ending scene in the game with the helicopter, I thought I was only halfway through, until I saw the credits roll in. I was like "WTF? THAT'S IT? THAT'S HOW IT ENDS??"

Then I played Mirror's Edge Catalyst, which I think perfectly carries on from that horribly fumbled ending, but the gameplay just feels too overengineered to be enjoyable, they ruined the fighting mechanics, and the part that hurts me the most is that a majority of the original art direction was lost, it just feels like it was trying to blend in with all the Cyberpunk 2077 clones.

In both cases I'm sure it's because of EA

Thief: Deadly Shadows

Kingdom hearts 2. It was immersive and amazing from the start and idc how many times I replayed it I will never get that feeling back. The animation , the story and action was awesome back in the day.

Just beat Simon in Clair Obscur last night actually. It was an awesome fight the whole way through, but eventually I made it through. The sad part is there's truly nothing left, it was as hard a fight as it could possibly be. Now I need a new game.

Esoteric Ebb 🥹🙆🏼‍♂️

edit: Oh! I completely forgot! Dispatch about broke my gawdamned heart it was so perfectly beautiful at every step. 😱🙇🏼‍♂️

Bloodborne for sure. Everything about that game, minus the 30fps lock on PS4, is fantastic in my eyes.

Elden Ring.

Like... That's it? only 1153 hours before I got bored? Where's the rest of the game, Micheal?

The DLC left more questions than answers. Tons of huge monuments and you get to them expecting maybe a cool item, but then it's just a plaque with a single sentence like "Merangue the Wise ate a muffin here" but then nothing anywhere even tells you who the fuck Merangue the Wise is or why eating a muffin is significant.

This is what I want more of. Fuck the boss fights, I just wanna learn about all the randos named once and never heard of again.

Last of us pt2 for me