Calling all Gamer Nerds: Favorite Video Game?

[OG-wan Kenobi]

I stopped after 9, sadly. I just bought the 13 but haven't played yet. I don't feel I have the energy to such a huge game anymore. Getting old I guess. Will definitely put the 10 in my wishlist and grab it when on sale tho, if it's that good.

I also tried the MMO, but I can't stand MMOs anymore. Go there, do this, walk there, do that, kill ten of these for no reason, grind some more, rinse and repeat. Feels more like a chore than anything else.

If you get a chance try FF10 I think you will like it and it finally brought voice acting to the series

I totally 100% hear ya on the lack of time/energy for those massive games I think that is why I keep picking up Ace Combat it's just much faster paced and a lot less tedious with short missions

 

[Hophunter]

Original Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. Spent many an hour running along walls mashing the spacebar to find secret rooms.

 

[Kent88]

Since a spammer came through and resurrected this thread... (Edit, that post is now deleted)

Gaming consoles I have owned or had so much access to I might as well have:
NES
Game Boy
Wii
3DS

I enjoyed Super Mario Bros 2&3 a lot. I think I was on the older side of the target demographic for Gen1&2 Pokemon games when they came out, but I enjoyed them. My wife, who doesn't really game, got me into Zelda when we got the Wii, and I played Twilight Princess. She once said that she borrowed a DS from someone while on a school trip and enjoyed it a bunch, so I got her a 3DS after our oldest was born thinking that she might play on that during maternity leave, and she almost never used it. I played Ocarina of Time and Link Between Worlds on it, as well as Shovel Knight, which is a fantastic game for retro game lovers.

We're planning on getting the next gen Nintendo console (Switch2 ?). Top of my list for those games are BotW and TotK. I guess Zelda has supplanted Mario as my favorite Nintendo franchise.

I've also enjoyed some PC games like Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, SimCity 2000, SimCity 4, Mavis Beacon, Nethack, Age of Empires 2, The Battle for Wesnoth, FreeCol, 0 A.D., and Minecraft.

 

[balrog]

Since a spammer came through and resurrected this thread...

 

[Henbrew]

NES - The Legend of Zelda
SNES - Super Metroid
PS1 - Final Fantasy 7
N64 - Super Mario 64 / Ocarina of Time (impossible choice)
PS2 - Resident Evil 4
PS3 - Dark Souls
PS4 - Bloodborne

We have very similar taste! Here are other honorable mentions...

PC - World of Warcraft (was waaaaay too addicted to this when in college)
NES - Super Mario Bros 3
SNES - Mario Kart (spend countless hours playing this with friends)
PS1 - Castlevannia: Symphony of the Night
N64 - Goldeneye 007
PS2 - Final Fantasy X
PS3 - Persona 5 (played on PS5 for the first time recently, AMAZING)
PS4 - Darksouls 3 (don't think I platinumed this one yet but I did for Bloodborne)
PS5 - Elden Ring

 

[Kent88]

@Henbrew have you heard of LoadingReadyRun?

 

[Henbrew]

@Henbrew have you heard of LoadingReadyRun?

Never heard of them but I enjoyed that video! 200 hours into Persona 5 and that's essentially how you start to view the world around you.

 

[Wrendelar]

Havent consoled gamed in years, I'm now strictly a mobile gamer, but here it goes

In no particular order and always XBOX
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Left for Dead 1 & 2
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Bioshock 1 & 2

For mobile games
Clash Royale
Royal Match
Monument Valley 1 & 2
Tiny Thief

Also have found a new board game site that is pretty legit Board Game Arena

 

[Dimax]

Ultima Online - 2001 to present
Bards Tale - was my first, had to use graph paper & colored pencils to map the city and dungeons