Board 8 > Your most favorite game of ALL time and why?

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Yeah stupid thing but since we are going for GOTD what better place to ask right?

I have a few games that I like a lot but if I had to choose I would pick Resident Evil 4. This game was and still is phenomenal. The only game that I have bought multiple times. And even today if you asked me to play a game and enjoy it I would pick RE 4. If someone hadn't played a video game at all I would still tell them to play RE 4, even on Easy mode.

So what about you?

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Resident Evil 4.

It's just a blast to play no matter what. I've probably pour thousands of hours across the multitude of platforms I've played/own it on.

Skies of Arcadia rotates as my number 1 as well, but that's mostly nostalgia based, outside of being a great game in general.

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Its close between OoT and NGB but because oot is driven more so by nostalgia ill go with NGB

Ninja Gaiden Black for me is one of the finest action games ever created and an absolute masterclass in slick fast smooth close combat gameplay. Probably beaten it ofer 100 times and i never get bored of playing it. Even to this day looks great on my xbox X and still plays great

Metroid Prime is a close 3rd too

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Metal Gear Solid 3, Resident Evil 4, and more recently Bloodborne have been rotating as my favorite game ever.

MGS3 has the best story of the three, and there's an absolutely absurd amount of charm, cheese, and polish in every facet of its design.

RE4 just feels great to play, and is somehow even cheesier than MGS3. Leon is such a perfect fit in that game.

I've been doing an annual playthrough of Bloodborne ever since it came out, and it feels even better to play now than it did back then. Stabbing a dude with a sword, then pressing a single button to sheathe it into a giant fucking hammer and bring it crashing down on their head is such a wonderful feeling.

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I have to say it's a Guilty Gear or Smash Bros series game. Nothing gets my blood flowing like competition in those. For a while it might have been Ratchet & Clank 3, which I've 100%ed a few times. Okami is also one of my favorites for arguably doing the 3D Zelda-like better than any other game.

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I played Persona 4 when I most needed it - when I was a lonely, jerk of a teenager too full of himself to make friends. Never before has a piece of media encouraged me to get over myself and believe in others so strongly. The agency I felt being able to develop relationships in those games and turn it into a tangible benefit resonated with me and helped me improve myself. I mean, it's a good game on top of that, real good RPG'ing with a fantastic level curve (that Golden mucks up, admittedly), but it's one of those bits of impact that'll stick with me. Resonated with me and actually gave direction of where to go from there - that's the rare bit.

Banjo-Kazooie is also real good, funny bear game with good platforming. Probably the best mix of score attack-style action with the Note Score system and exploration with its collectathon sensibilities without overbloating itself. Turning exploration itself into a collectable with the quiz at the end is absolutely brilliant, blew my mind that the game cared as much about its world as I did growing up.

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Resident Evil 4, but I haven't played the game in a while.

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Resident Evil 4. It does everything perfectly and even the things it doesn't do perfectly it does perfectly
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Final Fantasy 8,, Dont know why, it just is.

Right now?

FF7.

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Resident Evil 2 OG. Peak survival horror.

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Tales from the Borderlands.

I like humor in games and I thought that was one of the funniest I'd ever played. Loved the characters and the setting (though I've never played Borderlands games outside of this).

Killer soundtrack too.

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Batman: Arkham City

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Final Fantasy X, from the gameplay to the story and characters

Kingdom Hearts 1 is my runner up for the absolute magic of it all

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Mass Effect 3 with Final Fantasy X as the runner-up.

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Bioshock

It really just changed the way I perceived games as a medium. It was the first game to make me ever feel guilty for an action (specifically, harvesting a little sister). It changed my idea of what was possible with gaming atmosphere due to the incredible sound design. It told a story more deep and interesting than any I'd see in gaming prior.

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Dark Souls. I bounced off it for like two years, never playing more for two hours. Finally committed after knowing how many people love it and wow was I floored. From Software is now my favorite devs of all time and I play everything they release asap. Just masterpiece after masterpiece

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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

The art, the weapons, the music, the characters, the twist, the enemies, the bosses, the atmosphere.
Everything just sits well with me in this game. It blew me away when I was a kid and it's still the best of it's kind
I enjoy playing this just as much now as ever.

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Breath of the Wild. That game absolutely consumed my life for weeks on end. The amount of things it let's you do that other games would never even think of is insane.

Not far behind it is Outer Wilds which is probably the most affecting game I've ever played. A year later and I still can't stop thinking about it and yet I can't play it again because the game only truly works when you don't understand what's going on.

Sitting behind those is Blast Corps on N64 because smashing up buildings is just good stupid fun, I still complete it once every couple of years.

Resident Evil Remake

To put it simply, it has gorgeous graphics no matter which version you play thanks to fantastic camera work & some of the most detailed pre-rendered backgrounds ever, superb soundtrack, extremely challenging survival horror gameplay with so many tricks and surprises to keep you on edge at all times, a wonderfully reworked story that's creepy & subtle with the overall best files in RE history, and it has so much extra content and modes that are endlessly replayable.

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I used to have simple answers to this question, but it's become more contextual over time. A lot of games have their time and place. And they all have tradeoffs! I would need to split them up into genres.

For such a basic question, this inspired a lot of thought

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FF7

The back of the case said so

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Last.

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Chrono Trigger

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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest

Absolute platforming perfection.

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MGS3

Fun story aside, there's such a truly insane amount of little things to learn about the design that makes every inch of the game feel plastered with legitimate passion. Starving guards later in the game by blowing up supply sheds early on, poisoning a boss with rotten food, CROC HEAD, hidden views during cutscenes, secret items galore, a hidden nightmare level, literally killing a boss by skipping a cutscene and sniping him hours earlier than you were supposed to OR waiting real-life days for him to die of old age. Honestly just absolutely everything about The End.

I could and have gone on for hours just talking about how many minute examples of brilliant design there are in this game. Nothing had ever been made quite like it before and nothing's replicated the depth of its ocean of kooky ideas since.

Runners up (though some for very different reasons) include Majora's Mask, REmake, Bloodborne and Yakuza 0.

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Unironically Undertale. I'm not going to pretend it's objectively the BEST GAME EVER, but damn did it hit all the right parts for me. The story, the characters, the humor style... it felt like a game almost custom-built for me.

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ok but for real FFX with Trails (in general, SC in particular) close behind
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Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, Paper Mario II or Super Mario World depending on the day.

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Probably Witcher 3.

Actually i dont have a single favorite, i have made a list of my favorite games of all time and to choose one its tough because they are different and i like each one of them for different reasons, but they all score 10/10 on my scale. Won't bother to explain atm.
Examples:
MGS3
Suikoden 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Portal 2
New Vegas
Bloodborne
Dark Souls
Castlevania SOTN
Mass Effect 2
Final Fantasy 6
Maybe Morrowind can sneak in as well.
Maybe Majoras Mask can as well.

Those are some really valued games to me.

Final Fantasy VII

I downloaded it on Ps4 a couple of years ago, and I remember that I was so excited to come home from work just so and discover everything again, for the 12th time or so.

I just finished the Remake and its excellent!

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rance 10

even disregarding the story elements, the gameplay, music, and art are god tier

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Super Mario 64

Christmas 1996 when I opened the N64 with Mario, Pilotwings, and Wave Race was the most magical ever. Everything about that game blew me away. It felt like something out of a dream to me because I had never seen anything other than 2D games. And while the graphics are definitely dated these days, I still have a blast playing it every single time.

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Won't bother to explain atm.

Username checks...out?

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Probably Witcher 3.

Actually i dont have a single favorite, i have made a list of my favorite games of all time and to choose one its tough because they are different and i like each one of them for different reasons, but they all score 10/10 on my scale. Won't bother to explain atm.
Examples:
MGS3
Suikoden 2
Baldur's Gate 2
Portal 2
New Vegas
Bloodborne
Dark Souls
Castlevania SOTN
Mass Effect 2
Final Fantasy 6
Maybe Morrowind can sneak in as well.
Maybe Majoras Mask can as well.

Those are some really valued games to me.

Not actually sure if username checks out...

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I dont know, let @Skelligepirate tell you about this

Favorite games of all time (The GGOATs)
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII
Persona 4
Dark Souls

Tier just slightly below the GGOATS
Metal Gear Solid
Persona 5
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Super Mario Odyssey
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy X
Suikoden II
Xenoblade Chronicles

I call these my absolute 12. The best games Ive ever played out of over 1000 games I have beaten in my life.

MGS3

The only way it can be improved is with crouch walking. Crouch walking with a normal control scheme and not running at 15-20fps, that is. We don't speak of the 3DS port.

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I dont know, let @Skelligepirate tell you about this

Living up to your username again I see:D

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Yeah, choosing one over the others is too tough. I'll do a list of tied favourites:

Animal Crossing: Wild World
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
Crash Team Racing
Dark Souls
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy XII
Forza Horizon 3
Grand Theft Auto V
Halo 3
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft
Kingdom Hearts II
RuneScape
Shadow of the Colossus
Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
World of Warcraft
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A few years ago I would've said Mother 3 without a second thought but I don't think it's that simple anymore. When it comes to the story it's still on top though, so it's one of the three games I'd consider my favorite ever.

The other two are Hollow Knight and DDLC. Hollow Knight just plays, looks, sounds, and feels absolutely fantastic, looking at pure gameplay it comes out on top and it's really not even close.

DDLC is there for the emotional impact it had, no other game has made me rethink so many things about myself, other people, and just the world in general, and I think it's safe to say that no game ever will.

All three are games that could be my all-time favorite, but there's no way I could pick one of them over the others.

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Skyrim

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Skies of Arcadia. Always

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Shonen_Bat posted...

DDLC is there for the emotional impact it had, no other game has made me rethink so many things about myself, other people, and just the world in general, and I think it's safe to say that no game ever will.

there's a certain VN that DDLC copied most of its story beats from that's coming out fairly soon

"YOU and ME and HER: a love story" in english, "Kimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi" in japanese. comes out in early may

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I don't enjoy games as much as I used to, so it's probably still MGS2

Completely changed how I look at games. RE4 is a very very close second. Honestly it might be a tie. I love them both so much.

(XIII is like number 4 or 5)

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Kamekguy posted...

I played Persona 4 when I most needed it - when I was a lonely, jerk of a teenager too full of himself to make friends. Never before has a piece of media encouraged me to get over myself and believe in others so strongly. The agency I felt being able to develop relationships in those games and turn it into a tangible benefit resonated with me and helped me improve myself. I mean, it's a good game on top of that, real good RPG'ing with a fantastic level curve (that Golden mucks up, admittedly), but it's one of those bits of impact that'll stick with me. Resonated with me and actually gave direction of where to go from there - that's the rare bit.

Banjo-Kazooie is also real good, funny bear game with good platforming. Probably the best mix of score attack-style action with the Note Score system and exploration with its collectathon sensibilities without overbloating itself. Turning exploration itself into a collectable with the quiz at the end is absolutely brilliant, blew my mind that the game cared as much about its world as I did growing up.

Yep, Persona taught me you need friends if you want to make stronger demons with your social links.

Shadow of the Colossus does so much with so little. To my mind it's not only the best game ever, it's also the smartest game I've ever played. I think its only flaw outside slightly janky controls is that it's the epitome of a one and done type game, but I'm fine with that.

I also wanna shout out SMT Nocturne, a game in my top 5 that I doubt is gotta get love itt. What a phenomenal RPG, Atlus was at its best when it kept the anime trappings to a reasonable minimum.

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The Legend of Zelda

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World of Warcraft. The most immersive, incredible game I've ever played. I was blown away by every aspect of it back in 2006 when I first played. It was so far ahead of everything else at the time. The towns, the soundtrack, the races, the interface, the addictiveness.

I once played for 24 hours straight, by far the longest I've played a game non-stop.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIsj1ehlVnk

This literally was me in 2006. When you're playing that game, time seemed to stop and you don't even realize it's gone by.

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I could name 4 or 5 on any given day, but its most likely Starcraft/Brood War. Getting a C- ranking on iccup was still by biggest accomplishment in gaming.

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