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Disco Elysium. There are so many good quotes, particularly out of the thought cabinet, that I remind myself of on like a weekly basis.
I was in a bad place the first time I played through it. The Precarious World and One More Door stick in the back of my mind constantly, and I cried like a baby the first time I read "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?" Never before has a game so emotionally resonated with me, this hope in the face of crushing despair, despite everything.
Neon white was super fun, still working in 100% for the good ending.
The Witcher 3 (mainly the DLCs), the story was so good, like it's the only game I can remember where I was waiting to play it every weekend just for the story.
Ocarina of Time - the music is so amazing, I can still remember all of it.
Runescape Classic (like 2002) for making me impervious to scams - you get scammed by some players once and that sticks with you.
Man, I feel so stupid. When I played the Witcher 3 and finished the main storyline alongside all the non-DLC side quests, I was so impressed that I went "Man, this was amazing. This is as good as it gets. This was the best video game I have ever experienced by far! I want it to stay that way. I'm not gonna drag it on and leave it here." and didn't play the DLCs! And then went ahead and sold my PS4!
Ever since all I've been hearing from people who also played the game is how awesome the DLCs are. Everyone says they're even better than the main storyline. I feel like a massive idiot lol.
Disco Elysium, easily. I think about it daily, and it was just written so powerfully.
"See you tomorrow", such a casually delivered line that's so heartbreaking in context.
Red alert 2 and counterstrike will be with me forever. I played those games so much growing up that I always find myself going back to them.
Firewatch, Hellblade, the Mass Effect trilogy, Cyberpunk 2077 to name a few. ME and CP77 are probably the ones that lodged themselves hardest in my mind by far.
Have you played the "new" Deus Ex games, HR and MD? I'd slot them right in for my version of your list. Also Zero Dawn and Forbidden West.
Immediately reading the title, Outer Wilds was the first to come to mind. There's nothing quite like it, and I wish I could relive the feeling of playing it for the first time again.
Shovel Knight stuck with me more than I think the developers even expected. Maybe because I went through a rather distressing breakup at the time.
Shovel Knight ending
Shovel Knight's girlfriend isn't a cliche damsel. She's the capable Shield Knight and his partner. They used to go on adventures together as a team.
During the game, the platforming challenges that are hard, are hard because Shovel Knight is alone. With Shield Knight, platforming and fighting becomes easier and most of the levels would not have been so hard. The end fight is teamwork build on building up each others' strengths and fill in each others' weaknesses.
Yeah yeah, I know I probably read more into it than they put into it, but I did and it stuck with me.
Oblivion has lived in my head since the moment I first played it back in 09. Finally started teaching myself how to make mods for it last year and now it takes up even more of my brain!
For me, it's Mirror's Edge, particularly Mirror's Edge Catalyst. I even go running IRL to the soundtrack.
I'm yet to play Mirror's Edge but I love Solar Fields and that OST is amazing
Ar Tonelico. I was very into world building in high school. And this game hits the closest to my imagination at that time. I just can't forget that feeling years after. Regardless of the weird visual novel-y parts of it
Bloodborne has the most haunting atmosphere of any game I played and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first played.
This is mine. It’s such a disgusting, horrifying world…
That I felt almost homesick for when I played other games for months afterwards.
Alpha Protocol, cause and effect and replayability just made it one of the best of all time in my opinion.
To be honest, for me it's got to be the ending to Nier Automata. That was...intense, thankfully I wasn't spoiled even after playing it so late.
Ports of Call on the Commodore 64. One of the first video games I ever played. Set up a shipping company, buy a ship, buy low and sell high and get better ships. Occasionally you have to take control of the ship (incredibly rudimentary, but it was 1986, give them a break) to dock or leave port, avoid a collision or avoid reefs, but for whatever reason I keep coming back to it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085260/Ports_of_Call_Classic/
Metroid Fusion, TLoZ: Wind Waker and Mass Effect 2; the latter still being my favorite action RPG to date.
I’ll never forget loading Myst on my performance 5200 and getting lost
Eastward is an indie game I got because I saw someone recommend it on Lemmy a couple years ago. The pixel art was amazing, and some of it had a very unique eerieness. The story was heartwarming at times and creepy at other times. The only real complaint I had was that so much of the story remained unexplained after the ending, I really wanted to see all the little pieces of plot tied together.
Thief. The first three, at least. (*)
Splinter Cell as well.
Basically, Splinter Cell got me into what became my favorite genre: stealth.
Then I went and played Thief because stealth, and just everything about those games furthered my love for not only stealth, but it was my gateway to immersive sims as well.
Also, the level "Robbing the Cradle" in Deadly Shadows will always stick with me. As someone who hates survival horror, that level was both fucking incredible and also a nightmare that I had to use a walkthrough to get through quickly.
KOTOR got me into RPGs, and New Vegas came around and has stuck with me ever since.
And Skyrim I guess, since I've played it way too many times.
Should probably add Prey (2017) as well. Incredible game. For that matter, Dishonored. Both have a permanent place in my mind. And when I say Dishonored, I mean the first two, although I also enjoyed Death of the Outsider.
(*) I actually enjoyed Thief 2014 for what it was. Not nearly on the level as the originals, but it was still okay, if a sadly forgettable entry which kind of put the nail in the coffin for future releases.
Loom
It's been, what, 30 years? I still think about that game pretty frequently.
The closest is Ghost Trick I guess? But frankly while being another masterpiece, it didn't stick THAT much more than the others, after a month or two even the 10/10 games come to mind only if I think of a related topic.
The most influencial would be Etrian Odyssey IV since it got me into giving JRPGs another go, after years of not being impressed by any of the classics (Final Fantasy 4-5, 6 kept my attention until the endgame, Golden Sun...), and now I basically beat them (mostly Atlus' so far) on a bimonthly basis. I guess EO in general sticks the best, but it's hard to label one game since I quickly went and started playing all of them.
Hugos House of Horrors was the first video game I played — I was probably 7 or so and my mother would perm this ladies hair every few weeks. She was a family friend and was in a wheelchair, so we would go to her house. She had a computer that had this game on it and I was just mesmerized by the whole creepy/campy vibe.