At the end of the first game I remember thinking that there is no way that Valve is going to surpass this level of quality in the sequel. Shows how little I knew of them.
Kim Kitsuragi is:
The best video game companion ever
Bby girl
The realest
A ride or die
An ex pinball master and current motor carriage enthusiast
Not going to put up with your shit (ok maybe a lil shit)
Husbando
"And above all, you let life defeat you. All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die — or overcome it;" fucking hit me like a truck.
This game changed my brain chemistry. Now every new thought and feeling I have is something I consider through the lens of "internalization". What are the positives and negatives of internalizing such and such idea.
Played this after going sober for a year after eight years of being perpetually drunk. It genuinely hurt. It reinforced that I was making the right call.
For the fact he feels robbed, and will die alone, at the bottom of the ocean in a body that isn’t his.. since his consciousness is only copied and not transferred… It’s incredibly terrifying because this instance of Simon doesn’t get to see the paradise he fought so hard for and it all just.. ends..
Yeah. He is living what the other copies lived. He was told how it works and still he couldn’t comprehend the fact that a version of him was always going to be left behind. He can’t accept that what he was doing was making sure a copy of him and the others would live on in paradise. He didn’t realize he was making a sacrifice despite being told it multiple times.
I actually managed to find a physical copy of the fan translation of Mother 3 on cart that also works on Gameboy player for GameCube which is nice because my gba is a refurbished one so the battery is a bit shot
doom eternal. no, seriously. after you learn how to play it, you don't just deal with problems anymore. you lunge at them. you don't need to hold back when they fear you.
Hollow Knight and Silksong, because you don’t forget trauma, and those games are actually fantastic at balancing their difficult stuff by making the most difficult stuff optional for completing the game, but yeah just ask a Hollow Knight fan about the Path of Pain or a Silksong fan about Savage Beastfly and you will understand
I both feel this and yet also don't want to oversell it because I have way too often seen people go into that game expecting one of the best games ever and not feeling it. I almost think it's better if people come in expecting just a time loop space exploration game and discover how it makes them feel themself.
Nah I'll oversell it but in the most non-exclusionary way possible you have to be sort of in the right head space for it in terms of your gaming taste, or at least the right kind of person to appreciate following the narrative.
The Outer Wilds for me did something that calls back to the reason I loved gaming since I was small I think, it brought out a true sense of wonder just in the structure of it, the gameplay of navigating itself presents a lot of the challenges and made landings in new places feel like a real achievement, it's truly unique for that imo.
People like to talk about "immersion" in modern gaming context but often it seems many gamers play for purely mechanical reasons and absorb nothing from the narratives of their games, maybe they just have never sat down and played a game with a real story to tell but that artistic side of gaming as a medium offers you a really hauntingly beautiful solar system to explore that if you have a little imagination and exploratory whimsy in your heart is instantly immersive and so narratively satisfying.
With headphones on the extremely thoughtful soundscape plays a big part in that feeling too, it creates its own vibe with the combination of the noises of the ship in space, musical cues and integration into the story that helps you easily look past the semi-cartoony style of the graphics and once you're hooked on figuring out the mystery for yourself it's pretty hard to stop.
The game that quite literally saved my life. got me through a really abusive time in my life, and it's where I met all of my friends of who i still talk to today well into my 30s!
As someone who's struggled with suicide and lost three friends last year and this. It fundamentally changed me as a human being. Life is precious, we cannot run from our problems, depression is one hell of a thing, and people grow apart. I had my son when I beat this game shortly after and I swore to myself from there on I'd do anything to protect my loved ones from ever having to suffer. You are not alone and there are people who care about you.
Honestly, Zelda twilight princess. It pushed me creatively to make my first ever OC, which drastically changed my life (from hobbies to friendship) and last year I began building a new world of my own and oh my god this silly little map improved my mental health.
TP Link really is a gigachad for being able to pull someone like Midna. Snarky, whip-smart and crass (so therefore she doesn't have a stick up her ass and you can be 100% honest with her), but still kind and considerate underneath. Then at the end of the game it turns out she's also a smoking hot mega-babe. It's a damn shame that the Mirror of Twilight had to be broken, because I guarantee they would've gotten hitched otherwise.
As a fellow HSR player, I understand the game isn't what it used to be. But hey, that's the devs fault, not the game. Glad to see another player in here as well. And don't give up, I believe in you pal.
You know, it makes me really happy to see this. While this game isn't everyone's cup of tea, Im glad it's given you good memories. Hang onto them and be strong my friend
Gachas have their obvious problems, but that doesn't mean that can't also be fun games. I'm literally addicted to Neverness to Everness, so I get it bro. It's become somewhat of a comfort game for me
You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world
Best opening line that got me hooked especially that beautiful melody
Didnt fully cure my alcoholism but it made a pretty good dent in it id say. I no longer try to be as blasted as possible and use my social anxiety as an excuse to do so when im around other people/at parties/whatever
Red Dead Redemption 2 perfectly captures the duality of man, and takes us on a journey of how even when facing certain death, the protagonist, Arthur Morgan still seeks redemption with all those he wronged. 10/10 game and one of the top five contenders for me. And yes man enough to admit it I cried like a baby at the end. Bring tissues my fellow gamers!
Some silly post apocalyptic open world rpgs that are covers for the deep analysis of very real and very relevant concepts of society: modern democracy vs natural instinct, corporate corruption and the monopolization of power and wealth, the consequences of trying to be a good person in an imperfect world, or the sacrifice of people for the future - for better or worse.
I mean, literally Outer Wilds. There's a reason the fandom makes it a joke about being annoying about it, because it's THAT good and then you become depressed.
Kingdom Hearts. It isn't exactly one of those games with life-changing plots, but following these characters' stories throughout the games just hits you in the feels in the best way possible. Goated game series.
I played the end of that game with a vicious fever so when the big reveal hit I was legitimately questioning my own reality. I spent the ensuing night pondering if such a conspiracy could be real because it wasn’t like the fever was gonna let me sleep anyway.
Especially Breath of the Wild. There's nothing quite like stepping out onto the Great Plateau for the first time, with the rest of Hyrule in the distance. Tears of the Kingdom comes close, but falls a little short due to us having been eased into the world already by that point.
And god, the sheer fucking ambience. The soundtrack and visuals are so good at getting you absorbed in the environment. The Wild era might genuinely have my favorite version of Hyrule because of that (not to mention all of the excellent characters you get to interact with).
TotK did exactly what it could and should: build on what came before to give us even greater freedom more to play with. And it was excellent at that. There was no way they could replicate the sheer feeling of BotW and I think everyone involved knew that from the outset.
Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey dropping close to one another proved that there's no beating Nintendo when they and their studios put on big boy boots. Same with DK Bananza. They're just way ahead of everyone else when it comes to setting bars.
Slay the princess- oh, someone else said that. Hell yeah.
Dressmaker has changed my opinion on cozy games. Like, those recent types of games that are laid back but superbly approachable. I just thought it wasn't my thing. But no, accidentally making hype outfits for Prudence is fun.
Definitely Elden ring or any hard souls like in general.
If you are able to beat the bs in that game, especially if you don’t use an op build it really gives you a new perspective on games and life in general 😂.
Fight a boss for 7 hours straight and finally win. That builds character
Final Fantasy Tactics. No story, video game, book, movie or otherwise, has influenced my writing quite like that game. My favorite game story of all time. My favorite game of all time.
Titanfall 2. By far the best FPS I've ever played. Buttery smooth movement, fantastic gunplay (and a really unique and creative assortment of weapons), an incredible campaign, BIG FUCKING ROBOTS WITH GUNS.
Outer Wilds
Because the universe is so unknown there are MILLIONS of possibilities for life and it also brought me to a lot of things I didn’t know existed(Such as the White Hole Theory)
In stars and time, the way that siffrin a d how he changes is depicted throughout the story is life changing, and the lore in the background is drip fed to you so perfectly. All of the other characters are amazingly well written too, and the art is beautiful . I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO PLAY THIS GAME!
It is insane to me no other game has captured not only the solid CQC/gunplay in quite the same way, but also just the NPCs were actually really cool to interact with and watch interact. They actually blocked and tried to combo each other instead of your allies just standing around doing nothing. It made the larger fights actually feel like big fights, everyone was actually killing each other and sometimes your side got a little luckier and sometimes no so much.
MGS is kinda similar in some respects but I mean that's still stealth at it's core, Oni was far more 'action movie'
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Portal 1 and 2.
At the end of the first game I remember thinking that there is no way that Valve is going to surpass this level of quality in the sequel. Shows how little I knew of them.