Hollow Knight and Ori Will of the Wisps pop up in my head constantly. They're atmospheric masterpieces.
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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.
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Red alert 2 and counterstrike will be with me forever. I played those games so much growing up that I always find myself going back to them.
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.
Shovel Knight ending
Shovel Knight's girlfriend isn't a cliche damsel. She's the capable Shield Knight and his partner. They used to go on adventures together as a team.
During the game, the platforming challenges that are hard, are hard because Shovel Knight is alone. With Shield Knight, platforming and fighting becomes easier and most of the levels would not have been so hard. The end fight is teamwork build on building up each others' strengths and fill in each others' weaknesses.
Yeah yeah, I know I probably read more into it than they put into it, but I did and it stuck with me.
My record must be Photopia. 25 years later, I still feel half a tear forming by thinking too much about it.
Your dog dying in fable (I think fable 2?) :( They make this lovable companion who is your best mate and he just... Dies, still messes me up
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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
Bioshock Infinite
Red Dead Redemption 2
Nier:Automata
I still remember vividly how ending E broke me back then. Maybe because I have weight of the world in my playlist.
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Interstate '76. I love the whole vibe of it.
The Last Guardian. So many plot points were left a mystery never to be solved...
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The ending of Unreal 2 (the single player game) when your team have all died and left messages for you to listen to as you fly away alone on a spaceship
The closest is Ghost Trick I guess? But frankly while being another masterpiece, it didn't stick THAT much more than the others, after a month or two even the 10/10 games come to mind only if I think of a related topic.
The most influencial would be Etrian Odyssey IV since it got me into giving JRPGs another go, after years of not being impressed by any of the classics (Final Fantasy 4-5, 6 kept my attention until the endgame, Golden Sun...), and now I basically beat them (mostly Atlus' so far) on a bimonthly basis. I guess EO in general sticks the best, but it's hard to label one game since I quickly went and started playing all of them.
For me it's still Anarchy Online after almost a decade since I played it last. The atmosphere in the game and community was amazing. After that I would say mass effect, rdr2 and the elder scrolls series
The Last of Us (both parts). Just started a new play through of Part I. It truly is a masterpiece in storytelling