I love variety and I could never point to one game being my favorite. What about you guys? :3
Factorio. 10k hours and I still play it over and over again when I get cravings or when there’s. No other games to play.
2nd is Minecraft and 3rd is rimworld
Of course all of them HEAVILY modded.
Now this is my taste to a tee
What’s your favorite mods for them?
Yup, Super Metroid. Game is basically perfect. i have other near favorites like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells that have generally remained in place too, but Super Metroid is amazing and always a fun, perfectly atmospheric time.
I used to say it was a toss up between A Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, and Super Metroid, because they’re all 10/10 games. I just haven’t been able to do the latter two lately. They’re not hard, I just don’t stick with them.
If you also play A Link to the Past, you should know there is a Randomiser that combines them. You start in Super Metroid. Going into a map room takes you to a random fortune teller and vice versa. The way both games are coded, none of their items share an ID, so you can find Metroid items in Zelda and Zelda items in Metroid. And it just works. Of course Link can’t use power bombs and Samus can’t use the Hookshot. The items are game specific. The goal is to beat Ganon and then Mother Brain and escape. I really can’t do that one.
Chrono Trigger not being present in the toss-up here is nearly a crime. If you like the others that you’ve mentioned, and haven’t played that one, definitely do. I don’t know if I’d call it my favorite game ever, but it’s very easily top 10, and might be my #1 top choice for the SNES.
I don’t disagree that Chrono Trigger is the better/more well received game, I beat it once (got one ending of, what, 13?), but I don’t like turn based. I do like Chrono Trigger, but I don’t love it. Of course it’s an essential SNES title, just not my genre.
I played a bunch of 2D Metroid this year for the first time. Super Metroid definitely stood out as the best of the bunch, although I did miss some of the quality of life features from Zero Mission.
Every game I play is like “this is good, but it’s no Outer Wilds…”
Just finished Outer Wilds yesterday and it definitely shot up to my top 10. Nothing could beat Portal so far though…
I think with Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn I realized that “Information games” are just my absolute favourite genre of games. Portal is incredible, but more a regular puzzle game than an information game.
Overall, bg3. Looking back all the way to pong, I haven’t had as much fun for as long as with bg3.
Not that I want to play it every single time I put in game time. I do like variety too. But in terms of sheer joy of play, bg3 just hits the right points.
I can maybe see a future game topping it, though I suspect that would be a rarity what with the things in games that really hit for me being hard to find in one game. Even bg3 doesn’t hit every single thing that I love in games, it just hits the most important ones. It’s not perfect, but I’ve never required that in a game.
Dragon Age Origins. A lot of game came close to it afterwards in my heart but couldn’t beat it. (Like The Witcher 3, The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wilds and Mass Effect 2)
I genuinely enjoyed every Dragon Age game in its own right (yes, even Veilguard), but agree that DA:O has some kind of special sauce that just couldn’t be recreated afterwards.
Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Surviving Mars, Stellaris and SWTOR.
All of them are my favourite game of all time.
left 4 dead 2 - imperfect as it is, the friends and communities i played and modded versus games with, made it the best, thousands of hours well spent.
I can’t figure out how the devs dropped the ball so hard with Evolve or that more recent L4D clone that also sucked.
same - they had the success formula, and just let it go
It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it’s Deadlock.
The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid’s reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.
Point of clarity for anyone interested: the game is in an invite-only beta. BUT the unofficial discord has people who can invite you. So feel free to come check it out. It’s great :)
You can also go to steam page -> dicussions and there are hundreds of invite threads in the forum. Just add friends any of the people there and they’ll give you an invite. The etiquette is to givr a small item (cs, tf2 etc.) in exchange for it so don’t be surprised if they ask you for a donation. Either way it’s worth it!
Terraria is so good, I keep going back to it. Subnautica is also amazing.
Subnautica is amazing. Wish early access for Subnautica 2 was available on Switch 2.
Not sure if its my favourite , but Gothic 2 will always have a special place in my heart for being my first open world RPG.
Played it before the expansion then several times with. Have been running through the new Gothic 1 remake all week. Most faithful remake I’ve ever seen, but the magic is even worse than before. Play melee or archer and the nostalgia is amazing.
Oh right I forgot they were making a remake… how is it?
If you want more classic Gothic I would recommend the Chronicles of Myrtana mod.
Sanctum 2. Though I do wish for a graphics update.
Can’t pick one but my top are: Fallout New Vegas, Destroy All Humans 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo ODST, BG3, and Saints Row 4.
Edit: can’t believe I forgot Okami, Infamous Second Son, and Simpsons Hit and Run.
Seeing Saints Row 4 here is interesting. I liked the game, but SR3 will always be my favorite. :D
I just like the ability to fuck around, especially with super powers lol
If I split my life into 4 chapters:
- Phantasy star 4 - great story, a game way ahead of its time
- WoW
- Oxygen Not Included
- Satisfactory
Zelda 3: A Link to the Past for classics and Cyberpunk 2077 for modern. Though Deus Ex is also a classic now.
Expedition 33 quickly eclipsed anything that could have been considered my favorite game last year.
Pure art.
Fo sho.
One of the best games I’ve ever played. Absolutely loved it.
I can’t say it’s my favorite cause nothing will ever beat Diablo 2 but it’s definitely top 5.
completely fair. i had to be very honest with myself to be able to say that (for me) it beats all my favorite games from childhood
