Your Favourite Games

[Infinity 324]

Slay the spire is great

[MURDERCAT]

I definitely considered it on my top 5, but I'm not nostalgic enough about it yet

[Ythan]

P5 is pretty enjoyable.

[MURDERCAT]

I should play KOTOR again tbh.

Tutorial holds up, the systems in this game are so cool still

[Ythan]

I guess I'll say Mafia too.

[northsidegal]

It's probably clear I have an affinity for detective games

excellent tastes!

to me well-done detective stories are just really hard to beat because i just feel that solving mysteries / figuring things out is so intrinsically satisfying. games i think might just be the best avenue for detective stories because the interactivity is taken to another level, whether it be from even a relatively trivial amount of interactivity (like in a visual novel like ace attorney) to the entire story arguably depending on you, just like in mafia.

[Ythan]

Bloodborne

This game was like made for me. Dark Souls was one of my favorites and BB imo improves on the gameplay in many ways and the flavor is just literally exactly what I asked for it's I think an excellently done interpretation of a writer who is so often badly shoehorned into games by just slapping tentacles onto things.

[lendunistus]

trust me when I say that this game is actual garbage. i probably have even more hours on ps4 tbh

now, my actual favorite games:

1. Rayman Legends - one of the greatest 2D platformers i've ever played. it's just good.
2. LittleBigPlanet 3 - i've probably invested hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours into this game. this is supposed to be a 2d platformer but people have made first person shooters on this thing (albeit relatively scuffed ones). this game carried me through having to sit at home while sick
3. Ratchet And Clank (ps4) - just fun.

there are also some others like undertale and dicey dungeons which i feel are notable just because of their soundtracks but eh

[Ythan]

Bloodborne

This game was like made for me. Dark Souls was one of my favorites and BB imo improves on the gameplay in many ways and the flavor is just literally exactly what I asked for it's I think an excellently done interpretation of a writer who is so often badly shoehorned into games by just slapping tentacles onto things.

And every time I play I stomp something that was really difficult last time and that's very fun.

[MURDERCAT]

Little big planet co-op was amazing

[lendunistus]

Little big planet co-op was amazing

LBP3 added online co-op, I never really tried it (only did a couple games here and there) but from what I've heard, it's comparable to smash ultimate online matches

never tried local co-op since I don't have friends

[Cheetory6]

1. Portal
2. The Witness
3. Outer Wilds
4. Obra Dinn
5. Valheim (100% recency bias but it's taken over my life)

Honourable mentions to Rocket League, Disco Elysium, Undertale, Antichamber, Slay the Spire, Jackbox, Hyperlightdrifter, Civ 5, Baba Is You, Crusader Kings 2 and the Jackbox series.

[Fluminator]

I honestly haven't played many games since 2012ish, so my list might be out of date.

My list would be

Minecraft: I don't think this game needs much of an intro. Cooperative survival games are just such a fun way for me to hang out with people when I'm not feeling particularly social but still feel bad I'm not being social enough. I like the different atmospheres and the clever mechanics. (Like the fast travel region being hell). I honestly couldn't care less about creating big majestic things. All I care about is efficiency and completing the tasks. Also great to play and veg out listening to podcasts or something. Shoutout to when me/Meme/Menno/Pants/Chev/Xof/Randomidget all died playing on a hardcore world together except Menno who soloed the game after we all got wrecked. (And I think Chev and Xof survived too and lived out their life as farmers)

Crusader Kings 2: I love everything about this game. (I haven't played CK3 yet, and I've still got 100+ hours of playtime to keep me interested in CK2 that I'm content not switching over lol.) It's a Game of Thrones simulator made really well. I love this time period's political historically, I love family trees and lineages and tracking dynasties. The world is just such an interesting place, and how the cultures interact and how you can use that to your advantage politically. It's surprisingly versatile in what you can do politically to get ahead. I recently conquered the Holy Roman Empire in one fell swoop as the Byzantium emperor by forcing everyone to accept the HRE as emperor through bribery, stepping down by manipulating people into revolting against me. This made the HRE to inherit Byzantium, but because he was deeply unpopular and an outsider, the guy I was controlling retook the throne in another coup, and inherited the HRE with it. Felt so good.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Majoras Mask/ Twilight Princess
Ocarina of Time is a great swashbuckling adventure. You'll play through it and be like "dope". (I might have nostalgia goggles for it)
The sequel is what made the games legendary to me. Majoras Mask is such an interesting and artistic game all about the fear of death/growing up/dangers of nostalgia (a lot of good essays about the game) and it really spoke to me as a kid, and the contrast to Ocarina of time was really interesting and represented how much of a contrast between being a kid and adult is. And how important it is to become an adult. You need to play both games to fully appreciate the other imo.
Twilight Princess is the only one I don't have the nostalgia goggles. I played this one relatively recently. It's awesome too.
(LttP is overrated though )

Banjo Kazooie/Tooie: If I had to pick one videogame that defined my childhood it was these two. They aren't particularly deep, but they are the most pure unadulterated good time fun. The music by GrantKirkhope is so fun. It was technically a collectathon, but it never felt like it, because you just explore the world and collect things on the way. The collecting never felt like the main point of the game. A bunch of super unique worlds and it was a ton of fun growing up exploring the worlds with friends and getting excited whenever we unlocked a new secret location.
It was the game that brought me to the internet trying to solve Stop'N'Swap and the outlandish theories we'd all create trying to solve it were so funny in hindsight. Literally everything in the game was part of a deeper secret relating to Stop'N'Swap. A picture of Blackbeard in the mansion - must be related to the mystery of stop'n'swap. The music is quieter in this region - maybe it's a clue to stop'n'swap. Images of beta version of development were released - must be a secret world unlocked through stop'n'swap. Lol.
It didn't help that the creators actively egged the mystery on. By the end, it could have been a cure for cancer and people in the banjo kazooie community online would still been disappointed with what stop'n'swap ended up being. But it was a fun ride.

Chrono Trigger: Another game I don't have nostalgia goggles for because I played it well into my teens. I normally hate JRPGs because the random encounters destroy me. I hate it. I can't get through any Final Fantasy game. Chrono Trigger is not like that. No random encounters, each encounter is a pretty beatiful custom fight related to the terrain you're on, and when it's over it's done! You're free to explore without the fear that every step you get sidetracked. That alone isn't what makes the game so good though. It's time travel, and the variety of terrain you go through is interesting. It's pacing is great and short. It's not a long game at all. There's some great twists and it's hard to know where the game will take you next.

Super Smash Bros: Not much to say about this other than it's a ton of fun and best fighter game.

Fire Emblem 4,5,6,7,8,9,10
All the rest with the possible exception of 1,2,3, and 3houses can die. (I haven't played 1,2,3, 3houses lol)
The story and characters are so fun and interesting, the strategy is fun. The king/queen of turn based strategy games. I could go more in depth on each game, but that's getting too long.

[brassherald]

1. Ocarina of Time - Seriously Nintendo, release the Switch port to make all the money
2. Breath of the Wild
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Metal Gear Solid 3
5. Monster Hunter Rise (I guess, it's what I'm currently playing all the time, so I guess it deserves to be here)

[Ythan]

Metal Gear Solid 3

What a thrill

[lendunistus]

Jackbox, and the Jackbox series.

great choice

[brassherald]

Metal Gear Solid 3

What a thrill

Legitimately, this has all my favorite bosses from the Metal Gear Series.

[Ythan]

Metal Gear Solid 3

What a thrill

Legitimately, this has all my favorite bosses from the Metal Gear Series.

The End is maybe my favorite videogame boss fight.

[brassherald]

It was a good one. I also love the attention to detail that if you save during the fight and come back a week later, he dies of old age and they give you a hard time.

[Ythan]

Also to this day I sing the song every time I climb a slightly tall ladder in a game.

[Cheetory6]

great choice

clearly special shoutouts to the OG jackbox were warranted.

[Ythan]

I'm gonna start posting my Bloodborne brags here instead of the glad thread. Okay here goes.

Living Failures living up to their name going down in one attempt. Bl78.

[Ythan]

Maria in three what a fun fight.

[Faraday]

Metal Gear Solid 3

What a thrill

Legitimately, this has all my favorite bosses from the Metal Gear Series.

The End is maybe my favorite videogame boss fight.

Yes.

[Iprobablysuck]

i'll throw my hat into the ring

Super Mario 64

Super Mario Odyssey

Punch Out Wii

WWF No Mercy

Virtual Pro Wrestling 2

Final Fantasy VI

probably many more i'm not thinking of atm