What game holds a special place in your heart?

We all have that one game that holds a special place in our hearts. What game is it for you?

For me, it’s Metal Slug. Growing up, every Monday, my parents would drag me to the laundromat after work. As a kid, it was a pretty boring, but I had my toys, origami books, and coloring books to keep me entertained. However, my favorite thing to do was playing the Metal Slug arcade machine with my dad.

My dad was great at the game, and he taught me how to play. Though I improved, I could never keep up. When I’d inevitably die, he’d let me take over his side to let me have a bit more playtime. My favorite part was when he’d share stories from when he lived in another country and would go to the local arcade.

Those moments are cherished memories, and even today, whenever I visit an arcade, Metal Slug is the first game I play, despite still being terrible at it haha

Honorable mention goes to Mario 64, another game that holds a special place in my heart. I got an N64 from a garage sale, and playing Mario 64 while at home, with my mom’s “chore” music in the background ignited my love for gaming

Khtkiller,

Close Combat: A Bridge to Far. It’s a real time strategy game with a larger regional map where you control simple supply lines and troop movement between battlefields. My two brothers and I would sit and watch each other play for hours because we just had the one computer back in the late 90’s/early 2000’s. We made a stupid rule that you had to be present to get your turn so we would often wait nearby for several hours for our chance at glory/survival.

float,

Secret of Evermore (SNES). The atmosphere, the gameplay, the characters… It’s an absolutely awesome game.

ThisThingCalledLife,

Persona 4 Golden!!!

Snoopy,
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Baldur’s Gate 1. It was my childhood game, i played it when i was 12 years old and it was amazing and very hard. I haven’t progressed beyond the first chapter with the kobold’s mine and Boo’s quest but i enjoyed replaying it every summer, at the beggining.

And i finished it once for all when i was a student. The game was amazing. Time pause, speech, character creation…

And the second is the mmo Dofus, very cool turn based strategy game. :)

vivadanang,

Never finished bg1 or 2 but enjoyed them both in my youth so I figured I’d hammer through them - beamdog had them on sale for $5 recently. This way I can justify buying bg3 lol.

Snoopy,
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Finish them you won’t regret it :) i never played bg2 but it was an amazing adventure. Bg3 is different and more deepth with relationship, it does look like DO2. :)

CancerMancer,

Freelancer. Exploring through the jump holes and all the beautiful systems in-game was very satisfying. Nothing else has really hit the spot.

Duckytoast,

For some reason, Adventure Quest, yes that old flash game :p.It got me hooked when I was 7yr old and I find myself coming back every now and again.

agentshags,
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AQ3D is pretty fun, never played the OG though, but was looking into downloading it the other day

mister_newbie,

King’s Quest III

It was the first game I remember playing solo without help, I really sunk my teeth into it. I was 8 and it had been released a few years prior, so it was also the first game I bought with my own money when I found it in a bargain bin at a computer convention show in the late 80s.

My Dad was busy and couldn’t install it for me right away, so it was also the game that got me started using MS DOS (everything I ran prior was installed by my Dad and launched via [IIRC] WordPerfect Shell).

Yes, I’m old.

vivadanang,

haha that damned wizard, I always thought it was just bad luck but apparently KQ3 has some really squirrly RNG that causes a lot of grief. DOS games were my gateway to learning the command line too, bad command or file name? a youth wasted brilliantly.

pomodoro_longbreak,
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Disco Elysium. It’s like a rich, dense cake frosted with depravity and layered with melancholy and hope. The VO work combined with the delectable dialogue really can’t be beat. You’ll know within the first minute if it has you.

PRUSSIA_x86,

The Talos Principle for sure, and now i hear they’re coming out with a sequel!

eV_Ohm,

MYST. I still think about this game and the sequels weekly. I would sit next to my dad and explore, take notes, read books, and become completely immersed in the worlds of MYST.

late_night,
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Yes! That little tune at the beginning with the Cyan logo is engraved in my brain.

I didn’t speak English when I played the game and I would call my mom over every time I found a new page and make her translate. But then they were just chopped up words and there wasn’t much to translate, and I so desperately wanted to understand because it seemed important.

eV_Ohm,

MYST. I still think about this game and the sequels weekly. I would sit next to my dad and explore, take notes, read books, and become completely immersed in the worlds of MYST.

CADmonkey,

Alex Kidd in Miracle World for the Sega Master system.

And get off my lawn.

directive0,
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Marathon.

sailingbythelee, (edited )

I’m old and have enjoyed many, many games over the years. However, the one that hit me hardest in the feels was The Witcher 3. The ending where Geralt realizes that he has to let Ciri make her own decisions, scary as they are… wow, it was so well done. It’s one of the best examples of how a game can become art on the same level as cinema and literature.

Edit: I want to add another. The first game that made me feel actual dread was the original Quake, especially when played in a dark room. The soundscape was incredibly immersive. I remember literally moving my own head to try to peer around corners.

ChaoticEntropy, (edited )
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andthenthreemore,
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Do you mean Homeworld

ChaoticEntropy,
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God damn it, autocorrect… -_-

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