Gaming

Red Dead Redemption. Probably stuck with me more than any other game Ive played. The story, the characters, the world, all of it.

Really hope it gets a rerelease

So many people mentioning Outer Wilds, think I will have to revisit that. There are a lot of honorable mentions like HL2, SOMA and Ocarina of Time. But for me, the outstanding mention would have to be the original Elite on the Sinclair Spectrum. For such an early, technically simple game it had so much depth and gameplay, and challenge (took me weeks to master that damn docking procedure without crashing!).

Shadow of the Colossus. The entire vibe of the world just got to me.

Loom

It's been, what, 30 years? I still think about that game pretty frequently.

Ar Tonelico. I was very into world building in high school. And this game hits the closest to my imagination at that time. I just can't forget that feeling years after. Regardless of the weird visual novel-y parts of it

The entire Witcher trilogy, but especially the Witcher 3. Replaying after reading the books adds so much depth the world and the political decisions you are forced to make. The world is beautiful, the ambient sounds and soundtrack are so good ("winds howling") and the story is gripping.

Shadow of the Colossus

For me, it's Mirror's Edge, particularly Mirror's Edge Catalyst. I even go running IRL to the soundtrack.

Shovel Knight stuck with me more than I think the developers even expected. Maybe because I went through a rather distressing breakup at the time.

Yeah yeah, I know I probably read more into it than they put into it, but I did and it stuck with me.

Life is Strange Might have just been I played it at a point in my life that I could really relate to it but characters have stuck with me since playing it. Looking back, it could have been so much more then it was in terms of choices and such. But I still think overall it was great

Persona 5 Royal. I normally don’t like JRPGs but there is something special about this one game. The design, the music and the gameplay never failed to put a smile on my face

Xenoblade Chronicles. A world so alive and then that ending... I was 15 and it surely shaped the way I think about the world today

The Last of Us (both parts). Just started a new play through of Part I. It truly is a masterpiece in storytelling

Your dog dying in fable (I think fable 2?) :(

Ports of Call on the Commodore 64. One of the first video games I ever played. Set up a shipping company, buy a ship, buy low and sell high and get better ships. Occasionally you have to take control of the ship (incredibly rudimentary, but it was 1986, give them a break) to dock or leave port, avoid a collision or avoid reefs, but for whatever reason I keep coming back to it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1085260/Ports_of_Call_Classic/

My record must be Photopia. 25 years later, I still feel half a tear forming by thinking too much about it.

Bloodborne has the most haunting atmosphere of any game I played and I haven't stopped thinking about it since I first played.

Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is the easy answer for me. It hit me at just the right time, in just the right way. It was masterfully crafted. The sound track was, at the time, perhaps the best pairing of a video game and sound track ever made.

Spyro, Explorers of Sky, and Yoshi Island to name a few.

Medievil

The original spyro playstation games

Fallout 3. Especially the morale dilemma's I could never bring myself to blow up Nuke town.