Exploring World of Warcraft just out of beta in the Elf staring zone will always be very special to me. An mmorpg in early 2000’s was a very new and exciting thing
Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?
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#62Top 3 :
- FPS : Duke Nukem 3D in solo or multiplayer, unmatched fun, terrific background music on a good MPU401 midi card (Gallant SC8000 / Guillemot Maxi Sound 32 Wave FX PnP, better MIDI samples at that time than SB AWE32). And its buggy/hard to use "Build" map editor that gave nighmares to every map designer wannabe.
- Hack and Slash : Diablo II, first game I believe that introduced grinding.
- RTS : Total Annihilation with Core Contingency. What's better than stopping your foes with a swarm of Krogoths ?
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#63Halo: Combat Evolved. It had so many elements that would become standard to many FPSs. And The Library still creeps me out.
Halo 3 is still the best one, though.
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#64Outer Wilds. I think I discovered it after reading a similar comment in a previous thread. It's a great space exploration game that has enjoyable and forgiving flight mechanics, really interesting and sometimes mind-bending environments and puzzles, and a fantastic soundtrack. You'll wish you could play it for the first time again after you finish it.
Absolutely.
When I was first put onto the game I was lamenting the state of media lacking alternatives to "punching your way to a solution". This game is a first person shooter that replaces guns and violence with science equipment and archeology. It is a breath of fresh air.
Also, I love surface to surface space travel, and have to say that I found more enjoyment from a solar system of ~9 imaginatively unique planets with distinct biomes and gravity to the slew of other popular procedurally generated alternatives.
I recommend it to just about everyone and have known many people who stopped because the flight mechanics were difficult initially; abandoning the game saying "this must be for people who can actually fly this thing". Truthfully, you will get good at controlling your ship and suit, but also, crashing is ultimately a hilarious "part of the gameplay".
The music is excellent and integrated into the gameplay in a meaningful way. I found myself playing the game with a guitar nearby so I could take a moment to jam with the characters in the game.
The expansion is perhaps my favourite planet, but play through the main game first!
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#65Disco Elysium. I have returned to it recently, and I'm still amazed by how good the writing is. There are simply no other games out there that tackle these themes and build a world so closely resembling one I'm living in. Teenagers on amphetamine and mephedrone, surviving the worst hangover of your life only to get drunk again, aching for a love that you destroyed yourself, barely scraping money to pay rent, corrupt…
This was the only game I played on Stadia. The cryptid part at the end definitely made me feel some kind of way.
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#66Desktop Dungeons blows my mind because it is so incredibly well balanced and I have no idea how it can be. It's a puzzly kind of "coffee break roguelike." It marries an emphasis on the puzzly aspect of gameplay (e.g. enemies don't move) to the typical rogue-like fashion of explosive combinatoric possibility in a perfect way that just doesn't make sense. The result is that you'll often find yourself looking at impossible-seeming situations and still finding a way through. I've not had as much relief-extacy with any other game, including adrenaline-trembling hands, despite -- or maybe because of -- the fact that it's entirely turn-based.
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#67Fez - beautiful art, beautiful music [0], nostalgia with a modern take
Journey - beautiful game that does not center on combat
Braid - good art, great puzzles and a game mechanic that is fully realized and explored (time rewind)
Cuphead - gorgeous art, like playing a Fleischer brothers cartoon
Monument Valley - simple but perplexing puzzles wrapped in gorgeous art
One Hour One Life (and, smaller in scope but Passage) - an MMO where you spawn as a helpless baby then grow into a full adult in one hour. The game forces others to cooperate or else you die within the first few minutes [1]. Passage was one of the first games that took me aback [2].
Not sure if "memorable" is the right word for it but "addictive" and "things I play too much" are: Beat saber, Pistol Whip, Crypt of the Necrodancer (all beat games)
For nostalgia reasons: Doom, Angband, Nettreck, (original) Legend of Zelda.
Games I haven't played but have heard are good: The Witness, Legend of Obra Din, Undertale, Transistor, Night in the Woods, Dwarf Fortress
The AAA games, or their equivalent, are like blockbuster movies to me: well scripted, well animated, have lots of "game feel" but ultimately lacking in the artistry it takes to make a memorable game. AAA games can have an impact on people in that way but I suspect this is mostly due to someones first exposure to a full game which usually happens in their teen years. You can probably guess my age from the games I like for nostalgia reasons.
EDIT: added features I like about the games and some links
[0] https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/fez-ost
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#69street of rage 2 on sega megadrive 2. best 16-bit beat'em up game ever made.
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#70Chess, growing up, was a big one. But I guess you mean video games (: Hard to pick "the" most memorable, so here's a small list: PC: Homeworld — the scope and "space-y" feel, and how well you could control things down to details. Seemed impossible at the time. Likewise for Total Annihilation. Command & Conquer — glorious pixelated gruesome deaths (: King's Quest and Myst-style games — I remember drawing maps and taki…
+1 for Heart of Darkness - there is a re-implementation of it called hode [1] that lets you play it on modern systems