What game really had an impression on you?

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I played Bioshock Infinite today after all this time, as before I couldn't play it, and it wasn't until the paris scene it really touched a nerve. A feeling of complete bliss, a wishful dream and the belief that everything is ok and the world is happy

Such brilliant writing and game design.


So what games really touched a nerve with you? If any
 
Journey.

It starts out a little strange and weird, but takes a powerful hold on you. Ultimately it ends up becoming very emotional, a real experience.
 
Ocarina of Time.

That game was such an enormous milestone in immersive world design at the time it completely blew me away.
 
Deus Ex. Hadn't played anything like it before, not really played anything like it since. While I enjoy the modern Deus Ex games too they're just not quite the same.

As for more modern games probably Life Is Strange, been a long time since I've got so into a game, the characters, the story. It was just fantastic.
 
It's too hard to narrow this down to one. In no order:


Secret of Mana. I played it multiplayer with my brother during the summer holidays. The most magical, perfect game. It captures everything great about child-like adventure and if there's a better video game soundtrack, I've yet to hear it. Honourable mention to FF6.

Ico. Sombre, touching. It showed how gown-up video game stories could be and how they should be told - through gameplay, not cutscenes.

Rez. Rez blew my mind. On the Dreamcast, on the PS2, the remake on 360, and now, today, on PSVR. Unique, timeless.

Street Fighter 2. Nothing else needs to be said.

Mario 64. During the NES and SNES days Mario was the 2D platform game. And then suddenly it was in 3D, completely different yet exactly the same. A genius Mario playground. The fact that Nintendo managed this again with Ocarina of Time shows how on form they were at this point. No other developer has managed a similar feat, and they did it twice.

Golden Eye. See Street Fighter 2.

The Last of US. The Last of Us is similar to Ico in many ways. They both tell a story through gameplay and how the lead characters interact with each other. It's the most touching, well told, grown-up story I've experienced in a video game.
 
Metal Gear Solid on the PS1, just fantasticly immersive great story, really pulled at the heart strings at times (Yeah, I think when I first played it through I cried at the Sniper Wolf death scene).

Honorable mention to the return to Shadow Moses in MGS4, getting goosebumps even typing it! :D
 
The original Diablo on ps1. Still remember shouting to my mate " Ruuuun!" during our first play through together when coming down to one of the lower floors and being met by a massive horde of horned demons throwing a full screen of lightning bolts at us instantly. Don't think any game scared me as much since. The music and feeling of the game was immense.
 
Metroid Prime - Gamecube. I have played this for hours and hours and then replayed it some more. It was a damn hard game, and also enormous. Took a guide to actually finish the thing in the end. But I enjoyed every single second of it. At the time as well it was beautiful, and is still a good looking game now IMO.

Funnily I fired it up the other day and THAT feeling of nostalgia when the menu system opened and then the opening sequence coupled with the narration and music...gave me goosebumps, absolutely incredible!

Other games. Ocarina of time as already mentioned. That was truely something special. Also Wind Waker. For being bold with the cell shading. I am so glad they did.
 
The original gta was so different to anything else out playing that as a 13-14 year old kid was epic. GTA 3 took it to the next step.

Shenmue on dreamcast was wow at the time all the little details was mind blowing.

Mario 64 I think it was the first game that did 3D well imo.

And metal gear solid on ps and final fantasy 7.

Last of us. Properly my fave modern game by some distance.

Quake 3 the game that got me into online gaming.

Star wars knights of the old republic. Played this pretty much non stop on xbox till i finished it i remember getting towards the end and wishing there was still another 40 hours to go :)
 
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Metroid Prime - Gamecube. I have played this for hours and hours and then replayed it some more. It was a damn hard game, and also enormous. Took a guide to actually finish the thing in the end. But I enjoyed every single second of it. At the time as well it was beautiful, and is still a good looking game now IMO.
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Good call man. I remember playing the first few hours and being so blown away I deleted my save to play it over again!
 
Unreal Tournament (99), COD4 Modern warfare and Fallout 3 made enough impression on me to still go back today, as does The Last of Us. Metal Gear Solid (Ps1) was also an awesome game.
 
Thief (the original two) - I had to play on the work PC and I got so stuck in I once spent a whole weekend hiding from Security in my office.

Freelancer - First 'modern PC' I owned, first space game with better graphics than a 48k Speccy... WOWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

Mass Effect - Certain character death scenes.
 
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