Gaming

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.

Yup, Super Metroid. Game is basically perfect. i have other near favorites like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells that have generally remained in place too, but Super Metroid is amazing and always a fun, perfectly atmospheric time.

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.

Every game I play is like "this is good, but it's no Outer Wilds..."

Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Surviving Mars, Stellaris and SWTOR.

All of them are my favourite game of all time.

It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it's Deadlock.

The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid's reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.

Dragon Age Origins. A lot of game came close to it afterwards in my heart but couldn't beat it. (Like The Witcher 3, The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wilds and Mass Effect 2)

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.

Can't pick one but my top are: Fallout New Vegas, Destroy All Humans 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo ODST, BG3, and Saints Row 4.

Edit: can't believe I forgot Okami, Infamous Second Son, and Simpsons Hit and Run.

FF7 (original)

Final Fantasy 9. I was seven years old and had never experienced anything comparable. 100% a nostalgia driven choice but I still remember those thoughts and feelings.

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

Pure art.

Sanctum 2. Though I do wish for a graphics update.

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

and maybe MGS4 on PS3 was good. :)

Not sure if its my favourite , but Gothic 2 will always have a special place in my heart for being my first open world RPG.

I’ve got a list. Only the first one is in order, the rest the order doesn’t matter.

Super Mario Bros 3

Chrono Trigger

Cyberpunk 2077

Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask (Ship of Harkinian/2Ship2Harkinian especially)

RimWorld

Factorio

Dungeons and Dragons.

RDR2

And it’s not even close

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

Difficult to choose a single one. But a game that has been my stable side game for ages, that I constantly keep in circulation and that no other game has come close to replicating the feel of for me has been Enter the Gungeon.

Portal 2.

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

Celeste is a perfect game. My only complaint is that "it's just a platform game", which I don't find that interesting anymore compared to games like Deltarune. Still, it brings me lots of joy, even on replays.

Star Control II (1992)

I will forever call Star Control II "The best game of the 20th century"
It can be beaten but it will always remain my litmus test.

It's sublime story combined with the musical immersion,
sci-fi, adventure, humor and elements of mystery made it
feel you were the star of a sci-fi movie that was
on par with if not better than 20th century star wars and star trek.

Several games have come close over the years,
but those games are mostly great due to the sublime gameplay.

"We Love Katamari" came very close with as combined with
the gameplay just had very very memorable music on par with Star Control II,
and overall fun atmosphere.

Now to be fair, I hadn't played "Katamari Damacy" so the experience
might have been dulled for the second installment if I had,
yet the sheer fun I had with what the game was setting me up
for what I could roll up next was an adventure in itself.
But I do believe that "We Love Katamari" is the superior installment
of the series even if I hadn't played any of the others just by having
listened to a few songs of the two others.
They were okay, but "We Love Katamari"
is a five-star album on top of a fantastic game.

"Super Smash Bros. Melee" managed to beat everything in gameplay that came before.
The first time I played it was at a big LAN party as small side entertainment.
I skipped the LAN and played this for 48 hours straight.

I have to admit though that I practically stopped playing computer games
when World of Warcraft came out.
There's some other games that I truly enjoyed later, but I have to say
that most of them are in the SSBM category of perfect gameplay,
not as much an 'adventure immersion' that the former two had.

I'm struggling to pick a single game, but this three(ish) games I could play forever:

• Pokémon Blue/Red/Yellow: essentially the same game. I'm pretty sure I have played over 1,000 hours of these games so far, especially since I've played them in different languages and trying to achieve different goals — lots of fun challenges to try here. Oh, yeah, let's add OG Pokémon Green there which I played in Japanese a couple of years ago.
• Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal: as with the first generation games, I've played these ones to exhaustion. In fact, I'm playing them right now. 200 hours in and counting!
• Xenoblade Chronicles: the "modern" game which has left the biggest impression on me. I put 100 hours into it and could do it again.

Minecraft. I don't come back to any other game as much. Minecraft can be what I want it to be more so than any other game I've played.

It's gotta be:

Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath

Other honorary mentions:

• Outer Wilds (my best gaming experience so far, but low replayability)
• Skyrim
• Shapez 2
• Prey
• Naev
• The Talos Principle

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.

R-Type II

Tetris

Depending on the mood:

• Dwarf Fortress
• Stellaris
• Project Zomboid

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

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

Deltarune by leaps and bounds

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).

Tough one actually,

I got a few, but these are my top picks:

• OG GTA San Andreas (IMHO, the best map and story) has lots of stuff to do, including an online community long before GTA Online was a thing.

• Sleeping Dogs (quite an underrated game even though it is getting more attention recently).

• An old-school platformer one: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (great OST, fun game to play)