For me, its probably Halo 3, Call of duty Black Ops 2 and GTA V
Factorio.
What do you mean, there are other games? No time for those. The factory must grow!
My Factorio gameplay loop be like:
- well thought out start for the first few science packs
- hit constraints but continue growing with some elegance
- this should be enough refinery output
- fuck
- spaghetti
- early game nodes are depleting
- remember I’m shit at building railways
- “this mile long belt is a good solution”
- more spaghetti
- I’ve been playing non stop for a week
- burnt out; going to take a short break
- 6-12 months later- let’s finish this
- wtf happened here…
- restart
180 hours played and I still haven’t launched a rocket, and I loved every minute of it and can’t wait for the next go-round.
I guess I should try this game
Just a heads up 180 hours is rookie numbers when it comes to this game.
The nickname cracktorio is pretty accurate, I like to call it the factorio time slip, where I just go in to check my factory for 5 minutes and suddenly it’s 3am and i need to get up for work in a few hours.
It is both my favourite game and my most hated game. The factory must grow.
Megaman 2, Chrono Trigger, Zelda A Link to the Past and a special mention to Duke Nukem 3D and Star Wars X-Wing on MS DOS.
Ah. A fellow person in their 40’s. Nice to meet you.
Minecraft
Apex LegendsFactorio
Subnautica
Edit: I misread this as the most you’ve played. I’m high and stupid
High and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Shadow of the Colossus
Hollow Knight
Sekiro
Shadow of the Colossus
I still get shivers just reminding how awesome that first look to the first colossus was… I was like… I need to kill THAT with this crappy bow and this weak sword??? (The arrows didn’t drain any significant life and the sword always bounced while hitting things).
Solid choices
Doom, Portal, and Half Life 2.
The Outer Wilds
Factorio (which who really needs another game after this one? Once you’re done with vanilla you just install an overhaul and start again.)
Dwarf Fortress
No “The”, just “Outer Wilds”.
Shit, you’re right. How did I mess that up? The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds always have collisions in my head, though only one of those games are worth playing.
Mario 3
Chrono Trigger
Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)
I consider these my top 3 not because they’re the best, but what they meant to me when they released. Each game was so important to me when they came out. Mario 3 and Sonic were so influential because of the gameplay and presentation. Chrono Trigger was my first JRPG and was the first game soundtrack I became obsessed with.
There are a lot more but others include Halo 2, Unreal Tournament, Team Fortress 2, StarCraft, Age of Empires II, SimCity 2000, Link’s Awakening, Wind Waker, Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and Metroid Prime.
Kerbal Space Program
If I had to pick one moment in all of gaming that felt like a real achievement, landing on the Mun for the first time was is something I’ll never forget.
Doom 1993
Sure there was Wolfenstein, but Doom just blew our doors off when it released. Countless hours late night in the computer lab playing deathmatch, my first introduction to creating mods and maps, so many great memories.
Subnautica
Not my usual style of game, but this one is special. First time I played I did an hour or so to understand the basics, then restarted on permadeath. It took a very long time, but I eventually beat the game in a single life. The entire time was spent in a constant state of zen like terror.
Some honorable mentions would be GTA Vice City where I was heavily involved with the modding community, the Mass Effect Trilogy as the most epic story on gaming, Far Cry 2, the Dark Souls series, Infinifactory, and Cities Skylines.
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
Fallout New Vegas
Diablo 2: LoD
Faf!
In no particular order:
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- Minecraft
- Gothic II (or The Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos, but that’s a mod)
With honorable mentions (also in no particular order):
- Portal 2
- Heroes of Might and Magic III
- Pokémon Platinum (Previously I would put Emerald Version, but I’ve recently started to play Platinum and it’s best one yet, didn’t touch later ones though).
- Far Cry 3 (and Blood Dragon)
- The Witcher 2 (Haven’t finished TW3 yet)
HOMM3!
Sims 3, Skyrim, Fallout 4
Narrowing to 3 is always difficult but these tend to shuffle around in the top spot
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The Outer Wilds
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Disco Elysium
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Legend of Zelda, Majora’s mask
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My picks came easy:
Diablo 2
Half Life 2
Witcher 3 (got me back into adult/dad gaming two years ago)
Blizzard and Westwood got me hooked as kid:
Dune 2, WarCraft 2, StarCraft, C&C Red Alert
Might and Magic: World of xeen (clouds of xeen + darkside of xeen). I still replay it today on dosbox. An amazing mix of fun, things coming toghether and hard battles, an extensive and complex objects system, classes, and lots of great ideas. All in a 90’a game.
Eye Of The Beholder 2
Wing Commander 1 & 3
Am i old enough?
Hard to pick just three, but I’ll go with the following today:
- Final Fantasy VI
There’s a roughly 4 hour stretch in this game of tension-despair-catharsis that absolutely blew my mind. I’m still trying to chase that feeling playing video games almost 30 years later. Plenty to like about the rest of the game, too.
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
One of those very rare games that clicked for me in every single aspect of the game: script, plot, visuals, gameplay, music and more. Going to revisit this one soon with the next-gen update.
- Freespace 2
The one that’s likely aged the most poorly out of the three, but once upon a time this game was unrivaled in making you feel like you were in the thick of a slugfest flying around in a fighter craft. Surprisingly interesting setting and story, too. I keep hoping we get more like this some day.
I hope to the gaming gods that Squadron 42 can recapture the feelings that the old Freespace games did. The desperation, the feeling like you are part of something… nobody else has even TRIED to do anything like that since.
It’d be nice, although Chris Roberts hasn’t released a full game in 20 years (and I did rather enjoy Freelancer).
I was hoping Starfield was going to be a big hit to at least make the setting more attractive, but in this stacked year, I’m not even sure how many GotY nominations it’s going to get.
Fs2 hasn’t aged at all, fire up Knossos and load yourself some war in heaven, if you dare.
