Original Borderlands on xbox360. Ain’t no way I’ll find anything I could spend as much time as I have in that game and still love it. Been playing on and off for over a decade, with DLCs included. And this is from me having come from the second game. Just happen to like the atmosphere and storytelling of the original better, for the most part.

Favorite character is specifically Mordecai since I think he has the best ability. Favorite weapon is between one of the fire and corrosive infinite ammo recharge alien weapons.

Zelda 3: A Link to the Past for classics and Cyberpunk 2077 for modern. Though Deus Ex is also a classic now.

So Skyrim must be my favorite because: Every year (I realized this last grind that it is always around December to January) do I start a new mod grind for Skyrim and then play a shit ton for a week or two and then never look back until winter again lol

I saw most added a list so I will too.

The best year of gaming for me was 2006 to around 2012, you will be able to tell by the list. Why around that time is because before then did I not playing games with deep or meaningful stories and after that have I only found a few games that I really like.

Games I haven’t played for a long time now but have a lot of nostalgic memories of (some did I play over and over again that I can not count unless I find all my saves):

• dragon age origin and 2 (fight me, 2 was great)
• mass effect 2 and 3 (especially 2)
• the three assassin’s Creed games with ezio, and black flag
• saint row 3 (4 was fun too but more like a chaotic episode)
• Shin Megami Tensei games mainly persona (3 and 4) and devil survivor (1 and 2)
• sleeping dogs
• golden sun
• pyre
• deus ex
• far cry 3
• tales of the abyss
• 999: nine hours, nine persons, nine doors
• phoenix wright

The list is getting long so I will stop now. It was fun thinking back especially on the megami tensei series, that is a rabbit hole to fall down in, i mixed them up a lot while trying to remember the names haha

I only added the games that woke up a fussy feeling in me (I hope I didn’t forget any important ones).

Also impossible to pick just one, but depending on my mood it’d likely be one of these:

• Half-Life
• Quake
• Outer Wilds
• Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
• GTA III

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.

Terraria is so good, I keep going back to it. Subnautica is also amazing.

I always have a heavily modded skyrim running on every machine I game on. No mater what I can play that game over and over.

Star Control II (1992)

Still hasn’t been beaten yet due to the humor, immersion and in my opinion sublime story,
although “We Love Katamari” came very close with its humor,
enormous fun gameplay and awesome music.

Same goes for “Super Smash Bros. Melee”.
I never owned the game.
I first played it because I decided to join a
3-day LAN party without knowing what was expected,
so I immediately decided to return home with my old laptop until I noticed
this single couch stuffed in the corner with only one game playing for anyone to join,
48 hours later with only a few occasional breaks of 4+ friend groups prying me from the couch,
I decided that the LAN party was still somewhat a success
and that I needed to go home and sleep all Sunday.

I Will forever call Star Control II “The best game of the 20th century”

Though I have to admit that I practically stopped playing computer games
when World of Warcraft came out.

Expedition 33 quickly eclipsed anything that could have been considered my favorite game last year.

Pure art.

Hard to choose from these three: Planescape Torment. Disco Elysium. World of Warcraft Vanilla.

and maybe MGS4 on PS3 was good. :)

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.

RDR2

And it’s not even close

Dark Souls 2 will always be the last and best of the old style soulslikes

If I split my life into 4 chapters:

1. Phantasy star 4 - great story, a game way ahead of its time
2. WoW
3. Oxygen Not Included
4. Satisfactory

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.