We all have that one game that holds a special place in our hearts. What game is it for you?
For me, it’s Metal Slug. Growing up, every Monday, my parents would drag me to the laundromat after work. As a kid, it was a pretty boring, but I had my toys, origami books, and coloring books to keep me entertained. However, my favorite thing to do was playing the Metal Slug arcade machine with my dad.
My dad was great at the game, and he taught me how to play. Though I improved, I could never keep up. When I’d inevitably die, he’d let me take over his side to let me have a bit more playtime. My favorite part was when he’d share stories from when he lived in another country and would go to the local arcade.
Those moments are cherished memories, and even today, whenever I visit an arcade, Metal Slug is the first game I play, despite still being terrible at it haha
Honorable mention goes to Mario 64, another game that holds a special place in my heart. I got an N64 from a garage sale, and playing Mario 64 while at home, with my mom’s “chore” music in the background ignited my love for gaming
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Thank you for sharing!
Outer Wilds, I refuse to elaborate because it will ruin the experience.
I have yet to play it and every time I see someone bring it up in a comment or video I instantly close it haha.
I love going in blind into new games and I’ve heard this game is a great experience
PLAY. IT.
I can confirm that going in blind is a great way to enjoy it. I played it for my book club, having never seen a trailer, screenshot, or even recalled the text.
Two come to mind.
First is Monkey Island. It’s the first game I ever finished all by myself. The opening scene with the theme music still gives me goosebumps.
The second is Daggerfall, the first game I devoted an ungodly amount of hours to. I spend all my time exploring every nook and cranny of that world, playing the tourist, borrowing huge amounts of money in some tiny country with no intend on paying back, splurging that money on houses, boats, clothes, armor and whatever else I wanted :)Life is Strange. For me it was the most emotion I ever got out of any medium ever
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It’s crazy how much of this game was exactly what I needed. I had lived not far from the Oregon coast during the time this was set. Spent a lot of time there. I left a couple years before this game out, just long enough to start missing it deeply. The visuals and the dialogue especially were so on point that it was deeply nostalgic for me. The story about losing and reconnecting with friends, the nerdy shit, all the anxieties, even the animist undertones, I connected with all of it. This game is even a big reason why I started following voice actors, as I was so impressed by Ashly Burch in this role. Chloe is why I played Before the Storm and the Farewell episode, too.
This is the closest a game has ever felt to being tailor-made for me. It was a step on my mental health journey. I started journaling after playing this. And I started moving on.
I’ll definitely check it out now! You make it sound like a great game
I don’t want to oversell it! So much of how the game connected with me was due to unique circumstances and a lot of coincidences.
It’s not a bad game, though. Got pretty decent reviews.
Planescape: Torment
The game changed the nature of who I am.I’m surprised and delighted to see this so high up! This was the first RPG I ever really got immersed in, and what an incredible ride it was.
What can change the nature of a man? This game, apparently
Updated my journal
Just noticed your username, what a great character. The whole arc with the unbroken circle of zerthimon… I might need to go ahead and reinstall.
It’s one of the few games where I genuinely cared for the characters.
Most RPGs these days, I end up becoming some variation of murderhobo because by the end I’m fed up with every other NPC or faction.Love the Planescape setting, love the characters.
I played Numerana… but it didn’t scratch the itch.
I didn’t finish it, maybe it got better, maybe it’s not for me.It’s been a few years since I reinstalled, maybe I should.
There have been so many great games but I don’t think I’ve had as much fun in video games than I did in Minecraft or Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
BC2 was so damn good holy shit. My guys have war stories from that game lol
Sadly the BF series hasn’t been the same since.
I still remember my first Minecraft worlds. I first played it on my iPod, then on my PC a couple years later.
I fell in love with the game twice. I think that it is my most played game of all time.
Borderlands. Couch co-op with my brother was pretty much what videogames was to me as a kid, and borderlands was always our favorite. I can’t wait to have a platform I can play borderlands 3 and the tiny Tina game on with him over the Christmases when hes back in town (I know they’re not quite as good, thats perfectly okay)
These days, hollow knight is also genuinely very special to me. I don’t think there’s any game I hold in the same kind of place of reverence
Batamas geo
Sim city 2000
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle for the GameCube. I had rented it during Spring Break one year. I also got sick during that same Spring Break. Playing that game helped me though the sickness and kept me occupied when I probably would’ve went stir crazy otherwise.
MYST. I still think about this game and the sequels weekly. I would sit next to my dad and explore, take notes, read books, and become completely immersed in the worlds of MYST.
Disco Elysium. It’s like a rich, dense cake frosted with depravity and layered with melancholy and hope. The VO work combined with the delectable dialogue really can’t be beat. You’ll know within the first minute if it has you.
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I recently finished Tomb Raider 2013! I actually uploaded a review here haha
I had a lot of fun with it and I was thinking about finishing it 100% but I started playing something else instead. Maybe on my next run I will do that
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Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
It got me into RTS and the novels as well.
Also David Lynch’s batshit insane original movie.
Also David Lynch’s batshit insane original movie.
yeah, seeing the miniseries and the new film has given me a lot more appreciation for how fantastic Lynch’s execution really was. Still one of my all time favorites and I love the books (er, original herbert, not the son as much).
If you liked that stuff, check out Herbert’s other writing, specifically the Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star. Any universe that posits a Bureau of Sabotage that fights against the galactic bureaucracy becoming too effective gets my respect.
Ghost Squad, also an arcade game.
For roughly 3 years of my life in college… after class, I’d go to the local arcade, spend $1, play roughly ~1 hour of the game… beat my old high score and go home. I did look up world-records and I’m a nobody on the world-record list, but I was #1 through #50 on that machine on the high score list, no one else at that arcade could even take out my #50 score.
SNES – Super Mario World. I got to the point of ~12 minute speedrun, also no where near record-breaking world record or anything, but I’d like to think I’m better at that game than most people. Before college, my routine when I got home was to speedrun the game and beat it within ~15 minutes.
Factorio is probably the “long running game” that I put a lot of effort into.
The only games I ever reached “advanced/expert” level in were BlazBlue, Puyo Puyo, and Tetris. I wish I had the guts to actually go to a major tournament for Blazblue (the most popular of the three games I reached expert status into…). I’d expect that I probably was strong enough to qualify for Evo but I wouldn’t expect to be in the top 32 even… just barely a qualifier. I was a regular training partner / punching bag for a few top-of-the-USA players on my friends list. I would lose 80%+ of the time but I was strong enough to occasionally eek out a victory vs top-level play (though you’re never quite sure if the expert is feeling bad and letting me win, lol). I did play at some local tournaments though and knew I was near top of my state/local neighborhood at least. So I think I qualify for the expert ranking, though there is a huge tier of difference between “top of USA” and “top of local tournament”.
EDIT: In terms of USA players, I’d regularly qualify for Puyo Puyo and/or Tetris tournaments. But I’m not top10 or anything crazy. Of course, USA-play is much weaker than overseas players. I’m not that good with regards to speed, only ~1 minute 40-line clear, but I think my downstacking and opening-theory is stronger than most people in Tetris and I can regularly beat faster players than me. Note that Puyo Puyo Tetris is a relatively slow Tetris game so top-tier PPT players are only ~40-seconds 40-line clear in this game, there’s a lot more focus on downstacking efficiently since line clears are so slow.
I can sometimes 14-chain in solitaire Puyo / training mode, though my style is mostly harassment / beginning to screenwatch at the midgame for Puyo. Again, expert level in USA, but only maybe “advanced” as far as Japanese players go. I’m relatively bad at chaining but I think my midgame is good enough to qualify me for the expert level. I never outchain players of equal ranking to me, but instead perform crushing power-2 or other harassments while they’re vulnerable on the 2nd level.
I also tried to reach advanced levels in Starcraft: BW and Age of Empires 2, but alas, I’m not that good at RTS. I’d say the games are still close to my heart due to the many hours / months / years of practice I put in, but I’m a nobody in these games.
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