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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Halo 3 to cap off the original trilogy

[–] oplkill@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Borderlands pre sequel clap trap dlc ends ending titles

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m not a gamer and I know I’m missing something when I see this comment section!

[–] Flames5123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Games are an incredible story telling medium. So many things work in games better than they can in any other medium like diverging storylines and personalized content. Role playing games are an entirely different beast.

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[–] ghosthacked@lemmy.wtf 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mass effect trilogy.

MGS

OG ff7

Days Gone

TLOU

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[–] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

The first time I finished all the left 4 dead campaigns felt epic

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The vanishing of Ethan Carter.

I was thinking about the ending for days. I wish someone else could experience it for the first time so I can finally talk about it with someone. This game is so good, audio, graphics and story wise, it's a shame it's not widely known.

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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Minecraft lol

I studied cs because of it, hell I even wrote about minecraft in one of my admission essays. Something bionicles to minecraft to stem pipeline as I would call it

I also really like PGR. It's a gacha game but I met a really nice community from it

If we're talking about great story driven games, signalis and nier are always my top favorites.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago

Civ 1 was what got me into gaming, and influenced a lifetime passion of history and studying, as well as strategy/4x/gsg gaming.

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Binding of Isaac.

Played it as I was coming into adult life. This was my first roguelite. It sounds dumb....but it really stuck with me as a life lesson:

You can try your best and make sacrifices, and still end up unlucky with poor rewards. You get the opportunities you get, but even in this seeming randomness, you make choices to make the most of them. Training and skill makes up for some of the poor opportunities. Life is a roguelite.

Now I've got BoI on my Retroid Pocket 5 now. Still playing it.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fez.

I made everyone play the intro/tutorial. Most of them thought they broke it.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I’m still playing it: sons of forest.

How it changed my life: I have a much deeper appreciation to go into nature and feel more confident

Also having that deeper understanding to put together an earth quake survival kit.like you never know if you have to bail and you just gotta be ready to evacuate and survive.

Other games: Titan fall 2. I bawled at the end. I’m just now playing it through again. And I’m not one to replay a game but I would with that one given the bond. Never thought I’d cry at a game but that one …that one was special for me.

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[–] Zdvarko@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Wouldn't say changed my life but the ending of Liberty City in Cyberpunk and Stray, both great story writing

[–] Cactus_Wolf@lemmy.cafe 7 points 3 days ago
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

While I never saw the credit rolls (because the game doesn't have it), Dwarf Fortress definitely changed something in my head.

From my initial attempts where I couldn't even figure how to make my dorfs get food or dig, to reaching a point where most of my forts would be retired due to low FPS and, to this day, only failed attempts at taming an evil biome for more than 2 years, the game showed that procgen, by itself, is not an excuse for shitty looking worlds or terrains. Hell, the procgen can even generate interesting stories and situations, though no longer absurdly awesome ones like the story of Cacame Awemedinade. Quote:

Cacame, at the ripe old age of 12, he became a Guard. Two years later, an elven attack from the Field of Kindling's city of Fish of Magic injured him in the lower body and killed his wife Nemo Ruyavaiyici (who was then eaten by Amoya Themarifa, the elf who killed her). Maddened with grief, Cacame set off to the nearest front as soon as he healed enough to fight.

During his first combat he took up his fallen commander's legendary warhammer[name?] and slew many elves with it, being noted as the battle's fiercest and deadliest warrior; for his deeds, the dwarves' second-in-command acknowledged that Cacame would best put the warhammer to use and should keep it.

Two years after that, in 99, the Battle of Both Kings was fought. In this battle Cacame struck down King Nithe of Field of Kindling (who was finished off by another dwarf called Sibrek Handpages, though); however the other king slain was the dwarven king himself. The dwarves decided that Cacame, by now dubbed "The Immortal Onslaught", should take over as their king.

Once made King, Cacame left in a brief quest to resurrect his wife. He returned riding a zombie wyvern, but without achieving his goal. In 111, at the age of 28, he moved his capital to the Gamildodók (Trustclasps) Fortress.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I don't know that it "changed my life," but DAMN Yakuza 0's ending hit hard.

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[–] taxet_@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Death Stranding. Ok not sure if that actually really changed my life, but it left me in a bit of a mixed emotional state.

See the thing is that I became a dad not that long ago and during the pregnancy and maybe a year or so after the birth of my kid I had this somewhat irrational fear of finding my kid just dead at some point in the crib or something like that. I fought past that fear eventually and the kid is now three and as healthy as one can be.

Then was it 2024 or something when the Director's Cut was released on Xbox. I never had a PlayStation (not for any other reason other than I just never happened to get one) so I was exicted to finally start playing this game I've heard so much about. I bought the game and played whenever I had time (if you have kids, you know how it can be) and loved the game, especially for the atmosphere and the sort of weird lore that was exciting to uncover for me.

Rest of the post contains spoilersThen I got the the part where you have to cut the umbilical cord of Mama's BT baby.

I wasn't prepared for that at all and it kinda just broke something in me. I had to stop playing and didn't play for like at least 6 months or so. It brought back too many of the feelings and fears I had previously gone through so I just needed to take a break. Like don't get me wrong, I actually DID like the scene for the beautiful moment it was and think it was amazing storywriting, it just caught me so off guard that I had to take a moment or ten.

After the break I kept going and the game still managed to keep me hooked and the story just kept getting better and better imo.

And then the ending.

I cried. A lot. I have never ever cried out loud to any piece of media, but I could literally feel Sam's emotions when he noticed that BB wasn't moving and was likely dead already. That was pretty much exactly the fear I had so you'll probably understand why it hit me so hard. And then when I hear that cry come from the game, the relief I felt was something I can't really describe well.

And after that I was sitting there in the living room, tears in my eyes, laugh-crying and just... wow. I don't know, if I'd played the game when it came out in 2019 before my kid was born and before the pregnancy and everything, I would've probably just thought it to be maybe a decent story and maybe tear up a bit at the end. But with all the other stuff that piled on before I got to play the game, it just added it's own effect to the experience. I really don't know if I can say that I was changed in any meaningful way, but I do kinda think that it might have at least helped me deal with the past fears a bit better so maybe in the future if I need to face them again, I can do it with more confidence.

One thing that I can say for sure at least is that I loved the game and I kinda wish I could play it again for the first time. The emotional roller coaster might've been a bit rough at times but damn it was a good one.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago

Silent Hill 2. And not even just the first time.

And not even just the original game, the remake also had me like this.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How it affected me: Mr Wobbly Hides His Helmet. Many, many hours of enjoyment. But it also got me into trouble on a few occasions.

The game that changed the way I think: Go. I even got my first great job because I beat someone at Go, so he thought that meant I was smart. He was the hiring manager for a project that required international travel and which gave me high visibility within the company. But what it really meant was just that he wasn't a particularly strong Go player. I'm still an OK player, though one of my sons now plays at master level (which, he says, means that not all 12-year-old Koreans can beat him).

[–] zululove@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Halo 1 legendary mode co-op fuck yes

[–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

EverQuest. It has been 26 years with no real breakd now. I fucking love that game.

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[–] metoosalem@feddit.org 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The Talos Principle 1 and 2

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