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One for me would be New Vegas, since it taught me what good writing was

New Vegas
GTA3
Super Mario World
Metal Gear Solid

Dmc 3 ubisoft port

Oh yeah osrs and rs3 too I guess

Persona 4

Outer Wilds

Xenogears, Final Fantasy 7, Suikoden 2, Silent Hill 2 and Red Dead Redemption 2

Persona 3
NieR Automata
Final Fantasy 7

All three of these had a personal effect on me.

New stuff wise I would say BG3.

Oldies it would def be FF8.

Zelda (most of them)
Xenogears
Xenosaga (all of them)
Final Fantasy (a bunch of them)
Kingdom Hearts (1 and 2)

I wonder if I should play DMC3, I'm not the best at action games though.

Zelda: LttP
Mario RPG
Mario 64
FF7
GTA3
Binding of Isaac
BotW

These are the ones that come to mind that completely re-wired my brain on gaming or introduced me to a completely different kind of game.

Ocarina of Time

For me specifically, MMX5, WoW, and LoL.

FF7 altered the course of my life for sure. I'm still not sure whether it had a good or bad effect. It's why I ever visited this website.

Thief and Deus Ex

JS2 posted...

Persona 4

P4G for me as well, I felt like I had developed a relationship with the characters and was sad to no longer be able to spend time with them

Alucard188 posted...

NieR Automata

Another good one

TLoU2.

I've seen the term "media literacy" thrown around not long before it came out, and the discourse around it helped me appreciate the concept.

besides that, maybe Divinity: Original Sin 2.

I really got into CRPGs, my current favorite genre, because of it.

Megaman X1 - It took everything the original Megaman franchise did, and enhanced it. Simple tricks were added like the dash and wall climb. Nothing super fancy, but enough to change the experience enough that many of those things are added into sidescrollers these days as the norm.

Sekiro. It just taught me what a true video game should be.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
MGS3
Tekken 3

It's also a recent one, but I can already tell BG3 changed my brain chemistry. This would've been Dragon Age: Origins before BG3 came out.

Oh and yeah Persona 3 for showing me that I don't actually hate turn-based games.

Ivany2008 posted...

Megaman X1 - It took everything the original Megaman franchise did, and enhanced it. Simple tricks were added like the dash and wall climb. Nothing super fancy, but enough to change the experience enough that many of those things are added into sidescrollers these days as the norm.

Also the only megaman game where you dont go to a boss warp room.

Street Fighter was there to go all-in on during a bad breakup, made me a fighting game diehard for life.

For me? SOMA. I've never been the same since.
Oh yeah also Undertale.

Oh I forgot to mention Omori.

Metal Gear Solids
Diablo 2
Final Fantasy 7 and Tactics
Mass Effect 1 only
Binding of Isaac
Enter the Gungeon
Elder Scrolls all of them

Hotel Mario

For me personally:

Pokemon Blue -- gateway drug
World of Warcraft -- learned how to be a sweaty tryhard and work
Rock Band -- discovered how much i enjoy playing music
Dark Souls -- internalized a whole bunch of existentialist, absurdist philosophy
The Stanley Parable -- realized that no choices actually matter in video games, and the medium is pretty devoid of creative design.
Disco Elysium -- "Oh, so this is actually what good writing is supposed to be, and the rest of video games as a medium is sophomoric as fuck."

TBH most of my "life changing" video games have been me falling out of love with video games.

I thought Final Fantasy VII's story was above and beyond what you would expect from a video game at the time.

I once hooked up with a girl after betting her that she had to kiss me if I beat her in Tetris.

It ended up becoming the first time I touched a boob, so I would consider that life changing.

stevo6452 posted...

I thought Final Fantasy VII's story was above and beyond what you would expect from a video game at the time.

I thought it was incredible when it released. Then in my jaded late teens/early 20, I thought it was "overrated" after playing other RPGs. Then I came back around after replaying it and realized it really was amazing, and even way better than I gave it credit for when it came out.

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No More Heroes 1 and RE4 are literally the reason I tell people that Wii games aren't that bad. Both do motion controls fairly well, and to be honest, those games are the reason that the Wii controller is one of my favourite controllers.

world of warcraft

that shit ruined my life

Persona 3 for having mature themes that meant just as much to me as a kid as they do now that I'm an adult

Playing Reload just solidified this for me

Maybe "life changing" in the sense that it significantly impacted the way I played games and changed the direction of my gaming interest.

Super Mario Bros
Commander Keen
Super Mario Land
Link's Awakening
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Xenogears
Planescape: Torment
Skyrim

I could see Celeste being quite impactful

Pokemon, despite being a Japanese game, helped me understand English better since attacks such as Swagger and Endeavor exist.

I asked my mom what every word I didn't know was. One of them was "affair", said by a Rocket Grunt. I asked her and she told me the cheating definition, when it reality it was the business definition. I was confused until I looked in a dictionary.

the original Zelda was the first game i got really 'lost' in, and is where i found my love for exploration in gaming.

FFVI was the first JRPG i enjoyed. i tried IV, but was too young to appreciate story and thought the 'guys running up to attack the air' was stupid. a few years later, i was enticed by the aesthetics of VI and gave it a shot. JRPGs became my favorite genre for like 20 years.

Dark Souls because it showed me Soulsborne, which became my new favorite genre.

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Pokemon red/blue
Ico

Pre-patch Aeterna Noctis. I played it day 1, beat it before the first patch, and 100%'d it blind before the month was over(which was also the last day of the year). It immediately became my second favorite Metroidvania.

Final Fantasy XIV for me.

Japanties posted...

Disco Elysium -- "Oh, so this is actually what good writing is supposed to be, and the rest of video games as a medium is sophomoric as fuck."

It's kind of amazing how much better the writing in Disco Elysium is compared to almost 100% of all other video games. There is clearly a market for games with superior writing but it seems like none have been made since Disco (or perhaps it has but its some hidden indie game barely anyone has played).

Ultima 3. My first introduction to RPGs. My friend had a apple 2e. I would visit and he would let me play it. I pretty sure I finished it. I think at the time he had 1-4 and 5 was coming out soon. So 84-85

Deadly Towers is my white whale. I know It's one of the worst games ever made but there is something there that keeps me coming back. The invisible doors were not a good idea. The slow attack :( I still play it from time to time.

FF6. The only game where I'm up to dbl digit playthroughs. It came at a time when I moved from home to a town that was small. There wasn't much to do really. I'd get home from work and play and replay and replay. At the time I could only afford 3 games. FF6, CT and Illusion of Gaia. I still have them all.

PSO. First introduction to online gaming
EQOA. First MMO.
Star Ocean 3. First game With "achievements" I was obobsessed ith getting them all.
And Tactics Ogre. A game I've had a love and hate relationship with. Ps1 hated it. Gave up and sold it. PSP. Favorite game of all Time. Reborn? While It's a good bit the PSP version I would have rather had a straight port. Now when I could no longer play the PSP version (vita broke). I went back and played the 2 previous versions. I ended up finishing them. Funny though I think it took getting myself familiar with its story and systems to truly enjoy it. I think it will always be the GOAT for me

Megaman Battle Network 3

Very captivating game during my youth. I played it heavily in elementary school

Dragon Ball Z Budokai

It's story mode was so great and very emotional. Especially the final battle with Gohan vs Cell

Grand Theft Auto 4 PC

I put countless hours into this game, modding it, online, using it as a benchmark and stress test for my PC. Expanding my passion for PC Gaming and Computer hardware. Overall I'd say the time I spent with this game and on the PC I played it on helped dictate the direction I went career wise focusing on computers and IT

Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 1,2,3

Timeless classics that I cannot overlook

These are the main two

YellowSUV posted...

It's kind of amazing how much better the writing in Disco Elysium is compared to almost 100% of all other video games. There is clearly a market for games with superior writing but it seems like none have been made since Disco (or perhaps it has but its some hidden indie game barely anyone has played)

And we won't be getting a sequel, because the studio was corrupted to hell, involved in an embezzling scheme, fired key staff, including the writer and the lead artist, and a couple months back they laid 25% of the company off and dropped plans for a standalone expansion and a sequel.

Disco Elysium is just going to be one of those things that we're never gonna get more of because it's too fucking good for this sinful heap of dirt.

YellowSUV posted...

It's kind of amazing how much better the writing in Disco Elysium is compared to almost 100% of all other video games. There is clearly a market for games with superior writing but it seems like none have been made since Disco (or perhaps it has but its some hidden indie game barely anyone has played).

Is good writing worth being the most boring game ever tho?

Crimsoness posted...

Is good writing worth being the most boring game ever tho?

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Crimsoness posted...

Is good writing worth being the most boring game ever tho?

Crim with the rare bad take :(

I played a lot of pretty difficult games on the NES (castlevania 3 in particular was a struggle for kid me. It didn't help matters that it was the style of the time to boost the difficulty for north america just so companies can give rental places the middle finger. RPGs was like, the only real exception with the stereotype that console gamers outside of japan didn't "get them"), but battletoads was pretty much my dark souls in that its the one game that taught me patience, never giving up, and to just try again when I failed.

Metal gear as a series was pretty much this funny gundam picture but in video game form for me, lol:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9d1bd2ca.jpg

I was slowly getting into role playing games as a kid, but chrono trigger was responsible for cementing my genuine love for the genre. A good story, likeable characters, great art style, cool cinematic shots that they was achieving on the SNES like the shot of magus' castle when you first get to it. Just like seeing a good movie but in video game form w/ fun gameplay.

Had I played phantasy star 4 on the genesis first it would have did the same thing as chrono trigger for me. Good stuff all around.