Want to do a 3x3 thread?
Want to do a 3x3 thread?
9 of your favorite games, or you could do the inverse and do 9 of your most hated games, it's a free thread, go hog wild!
Not making an image, but in no particular order:
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Terraria
Disco Elysium
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
The Magnificent Trufflepigs
Enter the Gungeon
Paradise Killer
Boneraisers MinionsHere's 9 games that aren't my favorite games but games that I have strong memories of and are significant one way or another:
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Sonic 3&K: This is a stand-in for other Genesis games of my childhood like Sonic 2, Rocket Knight Adventure, Contra: Hard Corps, and Ecco the Dolphin. The prototypical nostalgia game of my childhood.
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Doom 1: Everything that has been said about Doom has already been said. But personally, this is a stand-in for all those DOS shareware games way back in the day. Doom was really really really good. Doom was also everywhere. I somehow got Doom 3 times, once as a compliation of shareware games, once as part of its own CD called Doom Fever, and once as three floppies that came with a guide.
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Diablo II: This is a stand-in for Blizzard games when Blizzard didn't suck (Warcraft 2, Starcraft, Warcraft 3) as well as ARPGs. Diablo II is one of those games that I revisit over and over. It's also a game that I've modded. I remember spending hours on a DII modding forum trying to change how the game worked.
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Shining Force II: This is a stand-in for emulation in general. SFII wasn't the first game I've emulated, but it was definitely the one that I remember the most by far and also one that I revisit every once in a while. It helps that the game is good.
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Spider Soltaire: I don't think anyone was expecting this on the list, but hey, there were plenty of times in high school where I played Spider Soltaire, Minesweeper, and all those other games that came packaged with XP during high school, so it deserves to be on the list. This is also a stand-in for those Flash games that proliferated during the early 00s.
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Arcanum: This is a stand-in for isometric CRPGs (Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate, Shadowrun Returns: Dragonfall, Divinity: Original Sin) as well as Troika's CRPG (Vampire: The Masquerade). I mostly picked Arcanum because everyone else have already chosen Fallout 2. The entire genre defined my college years.
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La-Mulana: This is a stand-in for Metroidvanias and indie games in general. I picked La-Mulana because when you tried to play it without a guide at all, it's really not a game but an experienceTM.
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Stardew Valley: There's a period in my life where I did nothing but played Stardew Valley. There's a whole bunch of mods that I messed around with.
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Minetest: This is an open-source clone of Minecraft that I've associated with Linux in general even though it wasn't the first Linux game that I've installed. This was the first game that I've tried to create my own mod, and there was a period of time where I would play this game while listening to Parenti's speeches, so there's that memory association as well.
There's also GTA:VC which is the defining high school game for me. And as for the dishonorable mention, there's L*ague for entirely negative reasons. Fuck L*ague.
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dont feel like making a picture cause i am lazy, but in no particular order: -subnautica -satisfactory -minecraft -deep rock galactic -breath of the wild -beat saber -borderlands 2 -civ 6 -btd 6
I'll probably think of something I forgot in an hour
Honorable Mentions:
You Don't Know Jack 4: The Ride
Dragon Quest VII
Battletech
The Shadowrun series by Harebrained Schemes
F-Zero X
My ADHD prevents me from remembering any 9 specific games out of the thousands I've ever played in my life without prompting.
Instead I will just say the you have excellent tastes in games OP! I'm literally playing Neverwinter Nights for the first time as we speak and loving it.
- Metroid Prime 2 or Fusion, can't decide
- FFX
- Guild Wars 1
- Kotor 2
- Subnautica
- Tiberian Sun
- Warcraft 3
- Civilization 4
- Roller Coaster Tycoon
Still haven't played Disco Elysium, pretty sure I bought it day one just haven't played it for whatever reason.
- Undertale
- Outer Wilds
- Warframe
- Mother 3
- Teamfight Tactics
- Pokemon Diamond
- Hearthstone
- League of Legends
- Bioshock
Can't put Disco Elysium up there because as much as I think it's one of the best written games of all time, the game itself is such a drag to play through that I could never finish an entire playthrough myself. I genuinely think it would be better as a full-on Visual Novel instead of a 2.5D Point 'n Click adventure. The running is slow, the pathing is super finnicky, the skill checks just make me groan and roll my eyes.
My top 9 games that I think are most influential on me, in no particular order:
- Dishonored
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Portal 2
- Disco Elysium
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Minecraft
- Mirror's Edge
- Persona 5
Some additional games that I wanted to include but didn't make the cut:
- Stardew Valley
- Katamari Damacy
- Divinity Original Sin
- Yakuza 0
- Prey (2017)
Favourites:
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Fallout: New Vegas
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Hollow Knight
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Dark Souls 2
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Wasteland 2
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Prey (2017)
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Resident Evil: Revelations 2
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Homeworld: Cataclysm/Emergence
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System Shock 2
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Binding of Isaac (Repentance)
Least favourites:
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Halo 4
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Homefront
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Door kickers
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How to Survive
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Dead Island: Riptide
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Warhammer: Vermintide 2
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Dead Space 3
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Salt and Sanctuary
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Middle Earth: Shadow of War
Honourable mentions (games that aren't quite my top 9):
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Disco Elysium
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Half-life 2: Episode 2
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Rimworld
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Kenshi
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Divinity: Original sin 2
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Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
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Barotrauma
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Dead Cells
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NieR: Automata
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Dragon's Dogma
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It's just Banished nine times
a few of these are core and unchanging (tekken 3, ctr, uncharted 2, bloodborne), some are recency bias (bayonetta, celeste). There are a lot I would include that didnt make the cut but that I love no less eg wind waker, super mario sunshine, super mario galaxy, shadow of the colossus, return of the obra dinn, vtmb. DS2 i think is controversial, but it was the first soulsborne I played and it holds a special place, warts and all
I think Hexbear doesn't accept media hosted on other instances (?)
Muh favorites in order:
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Omori
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Final Fantasy VII
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
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Hollow Knight
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
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NieR Automata
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Silent Hill
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Dragon Age 2
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
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And since we have carte blanche, I'll ruffle some feathers with my most hated:
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Persona 4
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Persona 5
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Final Fantasy IX
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Bioshock Infinite
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Trails to Azure
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Ys Seven
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Jak II: Renegade
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Kingdom Hearts II
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Far Cry 3
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In text:
Starcraft, Metal Gear Solid 2, Super Mario World Castlevania SotN, Diablo II, Dota II Prince of Persia, Unreal Tournament, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (+ Knuckles)I don't know if this list is true to my soul (considering it doesn't even have Dark Souls in it), but I'm tired and wanted to contribute a grid anyway. There is an underrepresentation of modern games because MGS 5:TPP killed gaming for me. Also modern games tend to suck. If I want a forced walking section through a terrible story, I will play a game made from 2016 on. If I want a good story I will read a book, not play a game.
9 honorable mentions:
- Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
- Grim Fandango
- Kenshi
- Dark Souls
- VTM: Bloodlines
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
- Arcanum
- Geneforge
- Satisfactory
Real sloppy editing and now that I stand back and look at this, there is a real sharp contrast between all of these but fuck it, this is the final product:
OTHER NOTABLE PICKS:
- Project Zomboid
- Tropico (any, really)
- Cook Serve Delicious 2
- Rebuild 3
- Egypt: Old Kingdom
- Night in the Woods
- Battle Brothers
- 7 days to die
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Sid Meier's Pirates
Mega Man Battle Network 3, Dungeons of Dreadmore, Monday Night Combat
Pokken, pokemon battle revolution, Streetfighter 6
Mario Sunshine, Nidhog, Nuclear Throne.
I'll make a cute jpeg of everything later.
in no particular order, but I love that my list is coincidentally all different gameplay genres
funny that watching my parents play everquest together, one of my earliest memories as a boy was "i want to be like her when i grow up" (referring to the pretty elf lady in all the art}
