Post your all-time favorite videogame and tell us

post your all-time favorite videogame and tell us
>when did you first play it?
>what made you want to play it?
>what did you think of it at the time?
>what do you think of it looking back now?

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SM64 is still the top for me. Don't think it needs too much of an explanation.

Legend of Mana.
>1999 when it was released
>it looked fun and colorful
>"This game is so magical holy shit"
>"Combat is underwhelming but this game is still so magical holy shit"

DayZ
>when did you first play it?
shortly after the mod was released
>what made you want to play it?
It's the most realistic survival game, I love permadeath, I love the stories that come out of the gameplay (like in M&B), I love the roleplaying possibilities
>what did you think of it at the time?
No survival game will ever surpass it.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
No survival game will ever surpass it.

La-mulana remake
>late 2012 or early 2013
>I had seen the game being touted as one of the best hardest games of all time so I thought why the heck not
>I was filled with a sense of wonder and adventure I hadn't felt with videogames since I was a child. The gameplay was challenging, the music was great, the levels had a special atmosphere to each of them, finding new areas felt rewarding, the world was greatly designed, and there were so many puzzles to solve and items to find.
>From a game design perspective, it's a masterpiece in level design, world design, puzzle design, character progression, and combat progression. In it's 20+ hour length it only has 4 or so "flaws" in its game world, which while they do detract from the experience, it's a miracle they didnt have way more given the scope of the game.

>when did you first play it?
Around 2002, one of my first dreamcast games.
>what made you want to play it?
I saw pic related on a magazine and I was like "holy shit I want to be a space elf with a laser sword, gimme that shit now"
>what did you think of it at the time?
HOLY SHIT I GOT A MOTHERFUCKING DOUBLE-BLADE SWORD IM FUCKING SPACE PALADIN VERSION OF DARTH MAUL NOW THIS IS THE HYPEST SHIT EVER
>what do you think of it looking back now?
HOLY SHIT THERE IS A THUNDER KATANA THAT SHOOTS ANIME SWORD WAVES THAT WAS EXCLUSIVE TO JAPANESE SERVERS THIS IS THE HYPEST SHIT EVER

I loved this game too, easily my favorite mana game.

Ghost Trick
>when did you first play it?
December 2012 I think? Might have been 2013
>what made you want to play it?
Saw a few people raving about it and I already liked Ace Attorney a lot so I just ran into it eventually.
>what did you think of it at the time?
I was floored by everything about it and it quickly usurped my other favorites. I'm kinda sad I got it for only a dollar, it's worth far more.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
Still great but it doesn't lend itself to replays past the second one

Resident Evil 2
>I was 4 at my moms friends house
>I liked the way Claire and her disk looked
>I liked it even tho i never got past the first area with the crashed rig
>still my all time favorite game and i can beat it knife only now

>Paper Mario
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>seeing the commerical as a 9 year old got me hyped as fuck
>Mario losing outright in the prolouge blew my fucking mind and the entire game was charming

I'm glad I can still go back to that game and not get bored. A shame what happened to the series starting from Sticker Star.

should add i liked watching my moms friend and her play it to for the what i thought of it at the time

World of Warcraft
>shortly after the wow South Park episode aired
>see above
> I thought vanilla was garbage and played Runescape instead
Picked it back up during BC and has been my favorite game since, I've enjoyed every expac except WoD. I still think it's a fun game, fuck nostalgia retards they are fart sniffers.

C&C Tiberian Sun
>when i was 8 or 9
>i enjoyed the music and the detail Westwood put into effects like the screams of dying infantry and unit selection sounds
>this is the best game ever
>still play it to this day, just not as often

Star Wars Battlefront 2
>when did you first play it?
05 after RoTS released on dvd and bonus disc had the Utapau demofor xbox.
>what made you want to play it?
I love Star Wars and really prefer background characters that actually get shit done.
>what did you think of it at the time?
Greatest game ever and I would go over to my best friend's house almost every weekend to play Battlefront 1&2 with him. We even had the fucking psp version and would play it together.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
Released a year after the first game but the maps aren't as good, ai is a little rough but still pretty smart, thank god they added sprint because getting anywhere fast in the first game was rolling like in OOT, and it's still my favorite game of all time. Really wish I played online during its hayday but couch co-op with my friend will always be cherished.

Choosing 3 is cheating I know. It so hard to choose though.

Halo 3
>2007
>Played earlier games in the series and friends had it
>Best game ever, spent all my time on it.
>It was good at the time. It was the friends that made it good though.

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Dota 2
>2012
>Got a beta key. Hated it. Friend tried it on my laptop, so we played it for a day. Ended up getting into it.
>Its addictive, not always fun, but very rewarding. The feeling of a good match in it is something I've never been able to find elsewhere. Other games can be fun, but nowhere near as satisfying to do well in.

Or

Runescape
2003?
I think I saw a friend playing it
Back when I started it was just an endless adventure. Now its satisfying to progress in some aspects, and relaxing to grind out others. Also cool people to find.

That was one of my favorite games too. Me and my cousin spent every weekend trying to beat each other at galactic conquest. Such a shame EA had to shit up the series it had so much potential.

Ace Combat Zero
Around February or March
AC sounded like a fun series and people say Zero is the best one
At first I hated it because I sucked at the controls, but as I got better at it I started liking it a lot more
It's got the perfect fusion of gameplay and narrative, it's still the most fun AC game and I hope they bring back the Ace Style system for AC7

C&C tiberian sun
the game was beautiful

>Super Mario Galaxy
Purely out of nostalgia. It was the game I played the most as a kid. Aside from the how much fun the level design and spin move is, the thing that really sets it apart is the incredible atmosphere. I used to just stand around and use the camera to look everywhere in a level, I'd never run out of stuff to find. It really felt like you were exploring a faraway galaxy.

I know it's not nearly the best game in technical terms, but it's the game that's closest to my heart.

out of many, probably Half Life, or Portal.
>when did you first play it?
I played HL2 before half life, but i watched so many machinimas and freeman's mind that I picked it up probably in 2010, and really enjoyed the precursor to HL2. I played Portal on the Orange Box after getting it on a trip to Los Angeles, when I was 12 or so.
>what made you want to play it?
I knew who gordono freekmang was and I wanted to play TF2, so orange box was everything i've ever wanted.
>what did you think of it at the time?
fucking amazing, it took me days to solve the Portal puzzles, and I really enjoyed the GLaDOS' sense of humor, it really grew on me.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
it made me who I am, and helped me make the friends i currently have, without portal, I wouldn't have bought portal 2, and that's what me and my best Sup Forumsro played together that sparked a great fucking friendship. i replay then annually, i always enjoy it.

Sin and Punishment.
>when did you first play it?
Probably about 2011.
>what made you want to play it?
I kept hearing good things about it over the years, and decided to emulate it out of boredom.
>what did you think of it at the time?
I thought the story was insane, had great music and was surprisingly fun to play.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
I more or less feel the same way about it, except I understand the plot better. I still suck at the battleship stage.

I'll get shit for this but here goes
>Favorite game: TF2
>when did you first play it?
When it first came in 2007
>what made you want to play it?
It looked appealing and I was getting out of being poor, it was the first thing I could buy day 1 on a PC.
>what did you think of it at the time?
I thought it was fucking amazing. I had played other games before but this was the first time I actually played something that had decent production value and something that wasn't shitty F2P games. The game was simple but fun and had a fair amount of depth despite its simplicity. Thinking back to those days always gives me nostalgia for those more enthusiastic times where it seemed like games were only going to get better and there were hardly any worries about getting fucked by bad practices.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
I still think fondly of TF2 but not so much from all the things that has happened to it. I still credit it for allowing to experience other things like source mods like Empires when they were at their prime and playing them has led me to meet a lot of people. Also serves as a reminder to me that even something that seems infallible can even fall.

Dead Rising
>when did you first play it?
Probably around 2008/2009, One of my buddies had it. First time I played it was at his birthday party he had invited the usual group of friends over along with some other classmates and some girls. So while they were all hanging out in the hot tub I stayed inside and played Dead Rising.
>what made you want to play it?
I like the Romero zombie movies and have always had an interest in photography also at the time I really wanted to be a photo journalist, so a game where I play a photo journalist trapped in a mall for 3 days killing zombies seemed like it was specially made for me.
>what did you think of it at the time?
When I finally bought my own 360 and actually sat down and played it I thought it was perfect and mind you I played this on a shitty old crt tv that took ten minutes to even turn on.
>what do you think of it looking back now?
The game has it's flaws definitely the controls are dated, the dodge move gets in the way when trying to navigate, the ai sucks, unskippable Otis dialogue as well as a handful of other things. Despite all the games flaws it's still my all time favorite game.

My first experience with tf2 was with the orange box on the 360 it was the first shooter I ever played online and dumped hundreds of hours into it. I have yet to see another game have as many hackers as tf2 on console. No other game comes close.

realMyst Masterpiece Edition / Myst
I've always hear the series was great and it had good reviews as a remake.
I loved every second, playing the game without walkthroughs is mindblowing.
I still think it is a must play, but replay value is dismal but such is life for puzzle games.

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CSGO is my favorite game of all time but the older CS games would be if theu weren't dead