What is your favorite video game and why?
What is your favorite video game?
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@JoeBob
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Big fan of how the story was told through much of the game with the time loop setup. Each interaction with NPCs felt novel and interesting in a way I'd never seen before, particularly as their stories developed. The gameplay was among the best in Zelda in general (until the most recent games) as it utilized a wide assortment of masks that could sometimes make for big differences in playstyle. I also just generally loved the gravity the villain displayed. We've gotten so used to Ganon over these games, but Majora could be legitimately scary at times, almost like a force of nature. And some of the scenes with the Happy Mask Salesman lives rent free in my brain.
It's a tossup between TF2 and minecraft. The reason is that both games are really good to "hang out" in. Your Minecraft world is inherently cool and it's nice to just sit and take in the scenery while the characters in TF2 make it a really fun environment.
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@Dr.Franklin
I'm surprised by how high-quality Minecraft feels with how simple the mechanics are compared to other games. Half of it was coded by one person and it's still the highest selling game of all time.
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@JoeBob
I know you asked for one, but I dont have just one.
My favorite offline video games are:
1. Vampire - The Masquerade Bloodlines
I mentioned this one before, but I do hold view that it is one of the most perfect games ever made, as you get many guns to use, many types of weapons, you can even complete the game with fists alone. Then there are vampire powers which are just great to observe, and the game itself has what I consider to be a very interesting story.
2. Fable the lost chapters
Pretty much the best game in Fable series, and almost anyone who plays it thinks its good, despite being an old game.
3. Age of mythology
A strategy game with soldiers, beasts, dragons, creatures, titans.... not many strategy games can beat that.
4. Star Wars Jedi Academy
An old game with beautiful lightsaber combat.
5. Dishonored
I like the combat system in this game, and powers too are somewhat good
6. Star wars battlefront 2
I only played the old battlefront 2, but the new version which came out with improved graphics is probably good too.
7. Classical games such as Spiderman, Batman...
I really liked a lot of these games, even tho I kinda forgot how they are originally called.
As for online games, I would say:
1. Smite
The game which balances out tactics with action combat, plus many characters in the game with different powers. So I have spent 300 hours in this game, according to Steam. Its a free to play game, and you can even unlock any God you want for free, as you obtain favor by playing games and you can either get God by using 5500 favor, which is bad option, as you can instead rent a God for 3 days using 300 favor, which is much better as renting lets you play with any God you want very quickly. Just after you had your fun with one God and earned 300 or more favor, then rent another using 300 favor and play with him until you earn another 300 favor, which is just few games usually. Plus the game itself gives you free favor every day, and you get lots of favor by just leveling up your profile or completing tutorial. Its one of those online games which is truly free to play.
2. League of legends
Somewhat inferior to Smite in graphics, but similar in gameplay and I would say fun to play even tho I am not playing it right now, as I just have Smite installed.
3. Vampire - Bloodhunt
Its one of those battle royale games, but sadly I dont meet minimum requirements to play it on PC, however it seems very good.
4. Yugioh dueling nexus
I like to play yugioh sometimes, and dueling nexus is basically a site for quick online duels.
As for smartphone games,
1. Eternal Senia
A very simple game which is role playing game but also action as you have to react and press buttons quickly.
As for PS1, PS2, PS3...games
I would say games like God of War, Final Fantasy, as they seem great on emulators.
As for nintendo...
Games like Yugioh world championship 2011 are some I played. I never had nintendo, but I did use emulator to play games from nintendo.
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@whiteflame
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. Big fan of how the story was told through much of the game with the time loop setup. Each interaction with NPCs felt novel and interesting in a way I'd never seen before, particularly as their stories developed. The gameplay was among the best in Zelda in general (until the most recent games) as it utilized a wide assortment of masks that could sometimes make for big differences in playstyle. I also just generally loved the gravity the villain displayed. We've gotten so used to Ganon over these games, but Majora could be legitimately scary at times, almost like a force of nature. And some of the scenes with the Happy Mask Salesman lives rent free in my brain.
Ocarina of Time >
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@ILikePie5
Ocarina of Time >
Love that game too, but I disagree.
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@whiteflame
Love that game too, but I disagree.
Hahah I know. I loved Stone Tower in MM though. Great music. Great concept, etc
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@JoeBob
When I was a kid I remember Pong, and those old games. Atari, Coleco Vision, then Nintendo. I got into Sega Saturn for a while. Lots of games, you either remember or not. I'm not much of a gamer, though I did become sort of addicted to the PS2. Only God of War and Grand Theft Auto. Vice City and San Andreas were like home away from home for me. I like the artwork and sort of quasi-adventure. I have a PS3 now. And still the same franchises. But they have become so real and complicated I don't play as much as I did with the PS2. So, yeah. I'm old. Not much of a gamer.
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Two of my favorites were "Black Site area 51" and "SSX Tricky" I have long since quit playing video games. Got into it hard and left just as quick.
Never been there and never done that.
And I don't suppose that I will ever bother.
I spend enough time at DebateArt.
I have several favorites, even multiple for each platform. I gotta say though, one of my favorite games, and the one I typically say is my favorite although there are several, is Bioshock Infinite.
Bioshock Infinite was written very well and is a great end to the Bioshock series. I loved all the time and universe jumps, and the ending was great, even tying into the first two games in the Burial at Sea DLC.
two of my favorite movies are Everything Everywhere All at Once and Inception, so you can see where my mind likes to go when it comes to storytelling.
Otherwise, I loved Detroit: Become Human, and other similar games. If you have a good story to tell and a beautiful way to let us play it, you got me hooked.
On the other hand, I'm not much of a fan of Bethesda games. The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series are great, especially Fallout. I love that game's universe, I watched the TV show (and loved it) and generally really like Fallout. However, the games seem counterintuitive, can be quite difficult, and takes a hella long time to finish. Maybe I'm just impatient with poor writing though.
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@JoeBob
Mariokart.
It is the only game I play with my seven brothers.
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@JoeBob
It changes over times,
Currently I'm really enjoying Age of Empires 2 (Definitive Edition).
I'm pretty bad at it, but I'm still enjoying it.
I'm just not interested in getting too skilled at it, learning build order and ideal troop type numbers.
Same with Mortal Kombat, I never learned how to juggle.
But again, been fun.
Three games stand out recently,
One, 1 V 1 Arena,
Where I played Teutons and the enemy kept spamming huskarls and pikemen, teutonic knights, monks, and rams made short work of them.
If they'd changed their strategy earlier, I'd not have been surprised by them winning, their score was twice mine.
Two, 4 V 4 Arena,
When an enemy built a castle near my walls, but I managed to muster a number of rams and troops to bring it down,
Then they built a second castle, right next to my walls,
I just deleted 3 of my walls, and using my rams, brought it down quick, rebuilt my walls.
Three, 4 V 4 Black Forest,
I managed to build walls pretty far ahead, and an enemy took umbrage with that, tried to take it down, but I defended and sallied forth twice,
Interrupting their boar hunt, and later stealing a cow.
Ended up winning those three,
But my win ration is actually pretty bad, ah well, still fun.
Multiplayer games with steep level curves. Savage XR, Star Wars and those niche MMORPG gun-blazing 4v4 requiring long duels lasting over hours were all my favorite. I wasn't as good as the regulars, but I was often chosen to guard/delay an enemy objective while the more seasoned veterans devote themselves to winning outright. Nowadays, it's Grand Theft Auto with some mods. I do a little bit of roleplay online, but only with friends i met irl.
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@JoeBob
Super Mario Maker 2 rn. Infinite Mario is awesome.
I’m into D&D boardgames right now. Boardgames are going to have a comeback if subscription based games get out of control.
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The Mass Effect games (the original trilogy; let us pretend that Andromeda never happened) will forever remain the ones I recommend first when someone asks me for game recommendations. They have absolutely everything one needs in a game: great story, dialogue and characters, extremely detailed sci-fi elements, killer soundtrack, fun gameplay, constant sense of epicness... Nothing else that I have played comes close to offering this much in one game series.
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@MayCaesar
The ending of game three pissed me off so much I never revisited the franchise. But excepting the ending, it was a fabulous trilogy.
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@Castin
@MayCaesar
I never actually 'played Mass Effect 3,
Though I enjoyed 1 and 2.
Great characters and story, fun to interact with and experience.
Had to reload a couple times I think, after stumbling into romantic relationships, unintentionally.
I 'think the combat was fun, but it's been a while since I played, I remember the story and characters more.
Was fun running around, finding out more and more or the world and lore.
Enjoyed the amount of 'choice the games gave.
I think I would have preferred they 'never showed Quarian faces.
I really like Civ. Probably Civ 5 was my favorite, but I never played 4 which was apparently great. Also played 3 and 6, which I enjoyed. 7 is apparently a shitshow.
Anything Fire Emblem or Danganronpa. Since at this point we're probably not getting any more Danganronpa, I'm open to other game made by Kazutaka Kodaka since the style is very similar.
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@Swagnarok
Fire Emblem
Been playing it since the one with Lyn and Hector - forget the name it was so long ago. I really liked Three Houses - was getting tired of the shipping and 'breeding' mechanics of the newer ones up to that point, which was starting to get a bit creepy. My favorites though were probably Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. Amazing story, a return to the series' roots while introducing interesting new mechanics.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
Three Houses is my favorite too, though the online fandom (re: the people who've played all of the game and are knowledgeable enough to compare them on a technical level) seems to rate it poorly. Breeding is a rather cynical way of framing it, as (in Awakening) two characters simply get married and the kids they'd hypothetically have at some point in the future travel to the past. The description of how it works in Fates is arguably a bit closer to breeding, but that game is creepy for other reasons too.
While I haven't played Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn (I did watch most of a playthrough of the former), I'm not sure if they're a "return to the series' roots", if by that you mean the Kaga era games. Sure, PoR has a linear story unlike Blazing Blade and lacks a Gaiden-style overworld unlike Sacred Stones, but all this really tells me is that it's mechnically and narratively simple, something that not all Kaga era games were.
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@Swagnarok
I just remember minmaxing the best kids by pairing up parents to get better attributes in the children - traits maybe, or stats? I can't remember, it's been a while. I felt like a child rancher managing a herd of human livestock instead of a general commanding troops, lol.
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@Swagnarok
While I haven't played Path of Radiance or Radiant Dawn (I did watch most of a playthrough of the former), I'm not sure if they're a "return to the series' roots", if by that you mean the Kaga era games. Sure, PoR has a linear story unlike Blazing Blade and lacks a Gaiden-style overworld unlike Sacred Stones, but all this really tells me is that it's mechnically and narratively simple, something that not all Kaga era games were.
It's the fact that there was no way to farm experience. You started out, you moved on to the next chapter, you had access to shops then you didn't. It felt very much like the first one I played and apparently the ones that were released prior to that in Japan. I wouldn't even call it simple - it made gameplay itself more complicated. If you wanted to level up a weaker character like Astrid you needed to do it within the process of the story and had limited opportunities to do so. This required more creative gameplay and clever use of terrain to bring them up to speed before the enemies got too strong. If you wanted a weapon from a shop, you needed to have saved up enough to grab it when you had access, or to make hard decisions about selling items to scrape together enough money and buy it.
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@ResurgetExFavilla
I always enjoyed Civilization 3,
Though stacks of doom were annoying,
And diplomacy felt limited, stop declaring war on me from the other side of the world!
Civilization 4, also fun, but 'again, blasted stacks of doom.
Fall from Heaven 2 mod was fun.
I 'vaguely recall Civilization 2 as a kid, but don't think I played it much.
I don't 'think I've played any of the other Civilizations games.
I’ve changed my mind. Terraria.
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@Mharman
Fire choicd
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@Castin
@Lemming
I honestly have never understood the blowout over the ending. Not particularly original, true, but functionally very similar to that of Deus Ex: Human Revolution - which came out just a few months before and had its ending praised. And with all the DLCs it made a lot of sense and, I thought, brought a fitting end to the trilogy.
Also, the game (especially ME1) has gotten significantly better with the Legendary Edition update. Totally worth replaying!
I love other Bioware series as well. KOTOR was what got me into CRPGs in the first place, and I loved all Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age games (except for the latest one which, let's pretend, never happened), as well as the hidden gem called Jade Empire. And Baldur's Gate 1/2 - well, those are classics.