Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
3rd International Volunteer Brigade (Hexbear gaming discord)
Rules
9 of your favorite games, or you could do the inverse and do 9 of your most hated games, it's a free thread, go hog wild!
Also not going to make an image, sorry, but:
Final Fantasy 7 (original),
Metal Gear Solid,
Rome: Total War,
GTA: Vice City,
Team Fortress Classic,
Day of Defeat
Lost Technology, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy X
Hell Let Loose, Yakuza: Like A Dragon, Ogre Battle 64
Gundam Battle Operation 2, Fear and Hunger, Total War series0
Ogre Battle 64
Hell yeah
Lost technology is.my personal hidden gem game i wish ppl would try it
Nostalgia picks
The memes jack
The DNA of the soul
Still haven't played Disco Elysium, pretty sure I bought it day one just haven't played it for whatever reason.
honestly struggled to think of a ninth one. Middle row are my top 3, with DE as my number one. Played lots of games but looking on it I have some pretty basic redditor tastes when it comes to some of my faves.
It's just Banished nine times
I think Hexbear doesn't accept media hosted on other instances (?)
Muh favorites in order:
Omori
Final Fantasy VII
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Hollow Knight
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
NieR Automata
Silent Hill
Dragon Age 2
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
And since we have carte blanche, I'll ruffle some feathers with my most hated:
Persona 4
Persona 5
Final Fantasy IX
Bioshock Infinite
Trails to Azure
Ys Seven
Jak II: Renegade
Kingdom Hearts II
Far Cry 3
My top 9 games that I think are most influential on me, in no particular order:
Some additional games that I wanted to include but didn't make the cut:
Can't put Disco Elysium up there because as much as I think it's one of the best written games of all time, the game itself is such a drag to play through that I could never finish an entire playthrough myself. I genuinely think it would be better as a full-on Visual Novel instead of a 2.5D Point 'n Click adventure. The running is slow, the pathing is super finnicky, the skill checks just make me groan and roll my eyes.
Favourites:
Fallout: New Vegas
Hollow Knight
Dark Souls 2
Wasteland 2
Prey (2017)
Resident Evil: Revelations 2
Homeworld: Cataclysm/Emergence
System Shock 2
Binding of Isaac (Repentance)
Least favourites:
Halo 4
Homefront
Door kickers
How to Survive
Dead Island: Riptide
Warhammer: Vermintide 2
Dead Space 3
Salt and Sanctuary
Middle Earth: Shadow of War
Honourable mentions (games that aren't quite my top 9):
Disco Elysium
Half-life 2: Episode 2
Rimworld
Kenshi
Divinity: Original sin 2
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Barotrauma
Dead Cells
NieR: Automata
Dragon's Dogma
a few of these are core and unchanging (tekken 3, ctr, uncharted 2, bloodborne), some are recency bias (bayonetta, celeste). There are a lot I would include that didnt make the cut but that I love no less eg wind waker, super mario sunshine, super mario galaxy, shadow of the colossus, return of the obra dinn, vtmb. DS2 i think is controversial, but it was the first soulsborne I played and it holds a special place, warts and all
In text:
Starcraft, Metal Gear Solid 2, Super Mario World
Castlevania SotN, Diablo II, Dota II
Prince of Persia, Unreal Tournament, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (+ Knuckles)
I don't know if this list is true to my soul (considering it doesn't even have Dark Souls in it), but I'm tired and wanted to contribute a grid anyway. There is an underrepresentation of modern games because MGS 5:TPP killed gaming for me. Also modern games tend to suck. If I want a forced walking section through a terrible story, I will play a game made from 2016 on. If I want a good story I will read a book, not play a game.
Real sloppy editing and now that I stand back and look at this, there is a real sharp contrast between all of these but fuck it, this is the final product:
OTHER NOTABLE PICKS:
hell yeah civ 4 bts
highest point in the genre imo
If there was a single game I could pick, I'd pick Civ 4. It's in the center for a reason (unlike the others)
9 honorable mentions:
Mega Man Battle Network 3, Dungeons of Dreadmore, Monday Night Combat
Pokken, pokemon battle revolution, Streetfighter 6
Mario Sunshine, Nidhog, Nuclear Throne.
I'll make a cute jpeg of everything later.