MGS2 was my favorite in the series if only because I spent 100+ hours in the VR missions :P
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I'm doing it manually every time, sorry to get your hopes up. I share this account with my teammates so we're signing posts with our personal info to make it clear who's posting.
Eric Neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)
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+1 for Majora's Mask, I'm wearing a Majora's Mask shirt right now :D
Eric Neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)
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Ahhh, Spelunky HD is definitely a tie with TBoI in my head, but this write-up is so good, I'd definitely read you on some other games I don't already know about and love!
Thanks! I don't write nearly as much as I'd like to (keeping busy with game dev, which I suppose isn't something to complain about!), but I'm hoping to do a "game of the year wrap-up list" like I did last year. Keep an eye out for it!
Eric Neuhaus (@donkeyspaceman)
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Spelunky and FEZ are two of my favorites as well.
I've always wanted to get into Monster Hunter (I even got a PS2 modem for the first one, that and the weird online co-op Resident Evil game) - the Souls series is one of my favorites and I recognize kinship at least in the combat system between the two series', but I've never really been able to stick to MH.
Yeah I'm certain I'll love souls whenever I get the chance to actually play one of them. Monster Hunter seems to have similar combat and difficulty, which I'm totally into. Monster Hunter is a lot easier to play if you have a friend or two to do online play, although I've gotten hundreds of hours in solo play.
I think I have an evolving list out there that goes somewhere from top 10, to top 50. Bear in mind I have a large game collection (my backloggery: http://www.backloggery.com/chillin_chum , reports over 1000 games, though admittly I have an odd way of counting them, and I haven't necessarily played then all yet either, still, bigger then most people's collections.), and having more games equals a more dercerning attitude, but also finding just a lot of favorite's that can't compare to each other.
However, I'd rate most of my tope 10 as "6/5" because they went beyond being a good game, and gave me something to really remember them.by, sometimes emotionally.
But this october, I played a game that goes above even those, it stands on it's own for many singular honours, not other game does what it does. It's a 7/5 for me, although, it still has flaws, possibly serious ones, but they did not remove what I experienced.
The game is a free anime style rpgmaker game on steam, called Eternal Senia
Yeah.......that doesn't exactly sound special, does it?
I thought this too, when I saw it suggested on steam's front page, but being that I'd started to feel a little more curious in these anime-ish games out there, I thought it looked interesting, as I found the artwork used in the ad VERY striking.
(Huh, putting in the link embed it, sweet!! :D )
I mean....just look at those eyes! There's something so innocent.......yet, holding something deep and hidden within them, my sub-consciousn reconized this, though I have only gotten aware of it in retrospect, looking at the image now; and at least from my perspective, this promotional material is flawless in attracting eyes but comunicating what it's about, even if only on a deep level (as opposed to suggesting what the actual game is like, but oh well. you do see her wearing armour, which is very telling, at least.)
I still was going to ignore it, so it scrolled by, then I scrolled down....but wait a minute.
it said it was free to play.
I immediately went ahead and got to the store page, I found the gameplay trailer, and the user reviews extremely convincing, so I downloaded it and tried it.
And WOW.
You know what NotExplosive said about cave story?
Characters music, made by one person in thier spare time?
Yeah, that's exactly what my exerience with this game was like. When I saw that post......I had to say this.
In addition, sorry Tesselode, but undertale (or so it seems to me.), abuses it's determination theme by just saying "everything, or at least all these save points, fill you with determination!"
Eternal Senia, meanwhile, plays the determinator trope straight, then subverts it, then deconstructs it, then reconstructs it back together, and all within a short 3-5 hour time frame (it was 7 hours in my case, but I play games very, very slowly.)
......and it only uses that word in TWO instances, yet it has it as a central theme, "determined" and "determination" once each, that's it. It plays with that theme in a subtle......but extremely profound manner.
And it's a game that has filled me with more hope and encouragement then any other game that I've played in the past 15 years, or in other words, ever.
It's a game that has changed me, for the better, where I saw a hole in my heart become filled because of what I reconized from this game (no, the game didn't literally do that, it just helped me do that myself.), and the more I think about it, the more I reconize the themes I must have noticed sub-consciously.
It's my GOTY of 2015 and well.....ever, because not only is it a good game (with dare I say....FUN gameplay), but I also think it's an Important game, because it takes a look at humanity's nature, and it's struggles.
But if I had to describe it all simply, I can count on one hand how many games, nay, how many pieces of any fiction that have been able to make game,hed a tear.
Eternal Senia?
.........that game made me cry out, almost uncontrolably in excess of 3 times.
(Noteworthy: I'm a male, I am not usually sensitive, but that's because I sub-consciously blocked that and became stoic to avoid the emotional pain, this game along with a few things beforehand, unlocked the floodgates, and that's what has helped me feel better and happier then I ever had in years. I now fully except that emotional side of me, and, and yes tesselode and anyone else who knows in that discord group, this has everything to do with my recently discovered gender fluidity.)
But not only that, but thinking about it afterwards, listening to the music and remembering the scenes where it plays, even writting about it now still causes such a strong reaction from me that I usually shed a tear.....yes I seriously just about did just now. XP
And thus, as a result, amoungst other things, I wished Senia were a real sister of mine. Thus,she's my one and only onne-chan, which isn't that different from a waifu admittly, but she's a teen in-game, and I'm a 22 adult male.....so that would just be creepy otherwise. XP
And my discord avatar is from that steam picture/banner, with her face cropped out from it. XP (might use it here, maybe?)
Anyway, I could go on for hours and hours about this game, but it'd be better if you just tried it yourself. I SWEAR, you owe it to yourself to at least try it. Don't let this chance go to waste! Try it NAW!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/351640/
(Any feedback on how I worded this would be appreciated, I'd like to become a games critic of some sort one day, wether asas a hobby or job.)
I think I would have been around four years old. I distinctly remember playing before I entered Kindergarten. I remember being at my grandparents for some family-get-together, and my uncle was living with them at the time had a TV and NES hooked up in a side room to avoid having to interact with the rest of the family. I watched him play and I recall watching him bomb a mummy and get a key.
My parents are gamers as well, so we picked up an NES pretty early on and I was able to convince my uncle to loan us Zelda after he had beaten it. Racing through it against my parents and then NG+ is still one of my fondest gaming memories.
Starcraft is on my list =) ! It's one of the first video game I saw, when my older brother was playing it. Since, I often play it.
I'll also put Diablo II in the list too. Even if I don't usually play hack'n slash, I can't get enough of it =). I think the game that stick the most are those who let us express ourselves so we can "digest" the game and make it our own.
What do you think fellers ?
your favorite right now since that's basically just asking what have you been playing recently, (at least for me it would be) and while I would also love to hear about that in this thread I'm asking a different question: What game is and always will be your favorite? That one game you keep coming back to after years and years? Tell us about it auto clicker word unscrambler
Until this very year, that had been my general attitude, I couldn't really classify games as being better then one another, as they did very different things, and I liked each of those different things, a lot. It was more of a case of "what cool thing am I playing this week? it feels like a new favorite!"
I did say until this year though.
I've changed how I look at my favorites now, such that at least I can nail down the top 10.
Which ones had the most profound impact on me in some way? since not many manage that.
And of course as I said before, Eternal Senia blew me away, so it was obviously #1, but that was only this year.
Maybe a thread on "what really sticks with me from games." might put a light on the matter.
This question gets really tricky if I drop some of the nostalgia choices (Golden Axe, Fighting Force) or my recent "hooks" (Awesomenauts, Terraria, Don't Starve). And I don't even game that much!
I'll have to go with Worms 1. I remember writing down condensed strategy guides from gaming magazines to my notebook before I even had a PC to play them on. Later came failures trying to "carry" a pirated version in a bunch of floppy disks to my 486 beast. I can't put a finger on what exactly fascinated me about the game, but I think it was a mix of turn-based strategy, awesome characters, battling my friends, crazy weapons and oozing charm + humor in every aspect of it.
