I don’t think it’s possible to accurately tally up the thousands upon thousands of hours spent playing video games in my lifetime. I’ve owned fourteen platforms in my time and have quite literally poured my heart and soul into all of them. There have been games I’ve given weeks or months of my life to, and others that I’ve offered a mere glance to, before packing them back into their case, never to be played again.
Retrospectively, I’ve bought or been given games that – unbeknown to me – I’d still be playing time and again, many years later. What might seem the most ordinary of titles could prove to be a hidden gem for me, and I’ll revisit it once every so often. Conversely, a title could be so superb in all aspects possible, that it makes clear sense that I’d want to experience it several times over. Here are five of the games I just can’t help but go back to.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
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"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
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I would absolutely love to play the GTA SA HD on PS4 but they ruined sprinting and bicycles by reassigning them to Right Trigger. can't even fast pedal on bikes and can't quite reach the highest sprint speed no matter how hard you try.
Yup GTA SA is my go to game as well, so many fond memories and everytime I replay it its like taking a trip down memory lane. MGS 1 & 2 is this for well along with GTA 3.
San Andreas is the only game I've gone to a midnight launch for, and I wasn't even old enough to buy it but the store sold it anyway. Played it all night when I got home.
I was over GTA by the time SA came out and can't seem to get into older games. I tried to play my favorite game from yonder-year, Simon's Quest, but it looks awful.
For me it would be Dark Souls 3 or Bloodborne. FromSoft knows how to give an up to date game that good 'ol nostalgia. Fallout 4 was and still is crap. I've yet to try Skyrim, though.