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Bloodborne, Portal 2, Halo Reach.
Yeah, Reach. Come at me.
Edit: New Vegas, Skyrim, Super Mario: Odyssey. Assassin's Creed 2. World of Warcraft in its prime. Runescape in its prime. Club Penguin in its prime. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2. Bloodborne again.
Listing 4+ because 3 is too few with so many meaningful titles.
Starsiege: Tribes / Tribes 2 - A true successor has yet to exist.
Final Fantasy XI - I miss the magic of Vana'diel.
Furi - Music, story, and gameplay are top notch.
Final Fantasy VII - The original was so much more than I expected.
Jump Ultimate Stars for Nintendo DS.
Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii (I have yet to play the Switch version).
Ace Attorney Trilogy/ Hotel Dusk for Nintendo DS.
Kinda cheating in the third one, but I am not even sure these are my favorites, they are the ones I have played the most that is for sure (maybe honorable mention to Toy Story 2 for PS1 lol).
EDIT: Honorable mentions to Shadow of The Colossus and God of War 2018, heck it is almost impossible to narrow this down to 3 games.
Xenoblade Chronicles for Wii (I have yet to play the Switch version).
It's as awesome a game as it was back then, and the QoL changes are definitely welcome. The new chapter... Exists, I guess. It's fun to play, and it's nice to get more Melia, but the story really feels like filler content.
I was so disappointed by XC2's direction that it mostly made me want to replay the first one again. I had started replaying Wii version, then they announced DE, so I waited and played that one instead. No regrets.
Nowadays, it would be very hard for me to choose between XC1 and 3 for my favourite though. 3 hits right in the feels in so many places, and its main cast is so good.
Portal 2, Half-Life: Alyx, and Dishonored
Brood War
Life is strange
Baldure's gate
Super Mario World, Half-life, GTA 3.
Morrowind
Majora's mask
American mcgees Alice
Honestly, morrowind is so good I can't be sure of 2 or 3
Final Fantasy X
Morrowind
The Last of Us
The first two could be in either order.
The top three games that started it all for me. They not only introduced me to my favourite genres, but I'm still replaying them to this day.
Honourable mentions:
My top three would be Rimworld, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Metroid Prime.
Honorable mentions to Outer Wilds, Hollow Knight, Windwaker, Subnautica... There are so many great games out there that it's hard to pick a top three!
Rdr2, Zelda link to the Past, RimWorld
What Remains of Edith Finch
Kentucky Route Zero
Life is Strange
These are not the games I play the most. In terms of hours it would be Minecraft, Civilization VI, Divinity II: Original Sin, and Sprocket. And I love those games a lot, but they don't bring me the same experience as a well made story-driven game.
What Remains of Edith Finch is a "walking simulator" in terms of gameplay, but it should really be seen as an interactive movie. As Edith Finch, you go back to the house you grew up in as a kid, and where the whole Finch family lived once. The Finch family are generally quite unfortunate and usually meet an untimely end to their lives. As you go through the house room by room, you explore Edith's memories and the last moments of the person who died. It is only two hours long and should be played in a single sitting for the best experience. It is so far the only game where, when it was finished, I couldn't do anything besides sitting behind the screen, staring at the credits that were rolling, feeling bittersweet awe and sadness. It is an experience that I cannot recommend enough.
Kentucky Route Zero, on the other hand, is a bit harder to recommend, because I feel it's much more niche. It is another story driven game that takes a point and click approach to moving around. What makes it tick, though, is the sense of mystery. The game starts with a man named Conway. He is delivering a shipment of antiques - the last one before the shop will close down. He is rather lost, but gets the directions that he must go over highway zero. As you go through the game, you explore the mysterious underground highway and river of Kentucky and meet interesting people along the way - all of them with their own issues. Debt, guilt, addiction, and loss are all handled in this game. It's tricky to recommend, as there is nothing in terms of "actual gameplay." But for those that enjoy an interactive and unique story, it should be on your radar.
And lastly, the most famous one on my list: Life is Strange. I don't think it needs much introduction, but for those who don't know it: It is a game about Max, who discovers she can rewind time to a certain extent, and Chloe, her childhood friend with whom she reconnects. Don't worry about the superpower part too much; it's not a wacky Marvel thing, but rather a tool that is used to influence your environment and the people around you in more subtle ways. You explore Arcadia Bay and its inhabitants and learn more about Chloe as well. The game also presents you with various story choices that influence how people feel about you and react to you. Don't expect Detroit: Become Human levels of choices matter, though.
For me, I had the pleasure of going in completely blind and playing the prequel first. While I can understand that playing the prequel after the original can make the prequel feel underwhelming, it worked out for me. In the prequel, you play as Chloe before Max returns to Arcadia Bay and get to know her and her story. Then you go into Life is Strange already caring about Chloe, which elevated the experience significantly for me. So, to those that played it too, you know the choice I made at the end ;)
Probably the most memorable, in no particular order: Dark Souls, Prey, Dishonored, The Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077
Super Metroid is the greatest game ever made and I will die on that hill.
Runner up is Fallout New Vegas
3rd is Factorio
All great games in different genres, I've spent more hours in those games than any other game.
Chrono Trigger, Super Mario 3, Wild Arms
FF6 - didnt play it untill its gba version but quickly fell in love with the game. It might have been my kid brain but i found the story to be amazing.
Castle wolfenstein enemy territory - this was an online fps from the early 2000s, i dont know what game ive sunk the most hours in, but this could be it. I loved this game so much that i just could never get into any online console fps.
Mass effect 2 - i loved the first game for its atmosphere and setting, then a few years later this masterpiece came out expanding the universe while overhauling the gameply in such a way it made my teenager self get all emotional. Then the third one came out next year or something and pissed me off with its ending but whatever.
Honorable mention
Fromsoft studioe's games - i think i can safely say im now in a committed relationship with soul games, but they werent my first loves.
Rimworld (with all the mods (regular Rimworld doesn't crack the top 3 IMO))
Portal 2
Outer Wilds
Portal 2, vanilla wow when it was new, half life series.
Playing Alan wake 2 right now and all the remedy stuff is fantastic too, but Alan wake 2 is their magnum opus. Also dota, but I don't play any more for mental health reasons 😅
Just for fun, most over rated game : breath of the wild
Nier Automata, Mass Effect Trilogy, and Ai The Somnium Files.
Gemstone III
Star War Galaxies
Gauntlet
Gothic 1, for getting me into PC gaming as a whole.
World of Warcraft, for the sheer impact that game had on my life, even if it's been years since I last played it.
Skyrim, for introducing me to the Elder Scrolls universe.
Hmm tough question: Xcom enemy unknown/within, dragon age origins/expansions, darkest dungeon. Those I’ve beaten and come back to multiple times and they are still fun.
Runners up include Pokémon lg, Zelda lttp, bg3, slay the spire, mass effect, civ, and stellaris
Super Mario 64
Ocarina of Time
Majora's Mask
I'm sure I could come up with a better list of I really thought about it, but (in this order) Terraria, Minecraft, and Portal 2. Honorable mentions to Deep Rock Galactic and The Binding of Isaac Rebirth.
It’s hard to think about a 2nd and 3rd game, but the number 1 game that has influenced my life is WoW. As bad as it is nowadays, and has been for a while I still can’t really imagine not playing this game in some way. I’ve had an active subscription for probably 95% of the time for the last 14 years, and the release of classic only ignited my love for this version of WoW. I even stuck to Era when servers transitioned to TBC because I wanted to play classic so badly I put up with playing on a server that had like 2 guilds total in the beginning.
Though I started playing FF14 a couple months ago, and while some issues are similar to retail it seems a lot more like it has old-school communities. Maybe I’ll get used to the (imo inferior) PvE design, which is the main reason I don’t see it as my new main game yet.
Other than that maybe Portal (1 & 2), H1Z1 or og MW2 I guess, just for how fondly I look back to the time when I played them.
BioShock Infinite, Stellaris, and RimWorld
If I can name a runner up: Fallout NV. Only reason it doesn't get full marks is because the weapon modification falls short compared to 4 (whereas everything else in 4 falls short of NV).
World of Warcraft
Red Dead Redemption 2
Stardew Valley
Thinking about the question I realized that my favorite game of all time (Secret of Mana) is actually not the best game I have ever played. The game I have played for the most hours and shaped my life more than any other (World of Warcraft) is also not the best game I have ever played. The game peaking at number 2 for most enjoyment and most time played for me is Diablo2. For reference the best game I ever played probably has to be Minecraft, coming in at 3rd :)
Metal Gear Solid 3, Celeste, and Mass Effect 2
Fallout New Vegas, Dark Souls/Sekiro (can't decide), Hotline Miami
DiRT : Rally
DiRT : Rally II
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Definitely Age of Empires
KOTOR 2, Kingdom Hearts BBS, Halo 3 (mostly the memories of multiplayer though)
Also ask me this on a different day and I'm likely to give you a different response.
Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyrie Profile, and Suikoden 2!
Still waiting for all of these to someday port to Steam. 😅
Dark souls, dishonored, Zelda (probably lttp or oot).
Also probably minecraft
Chrono Trigger
GTA V
And then like a dozen others vying for 3rd. Maybe OoT just because I feel like I can't not have a Zelda in my top 3.
Mobile: vampire hunters
Psvr: skyrim
Playstation: horizon
Deep rock galactic
Europa Universallis 4 (with the dlc)
Space station 14