Nothing has ever hit me harder than Disco Elysium, and I don’t think anything else ever will. Everything from its themes of failure and depression and addiction and clinging to the past to its surprising message of hope in the face of unrelenting nihilism resonated with me on a molecular level. And the Final Dream is just the single most impactful, emotional and heart-rending moment I’ve had in any game ever. The culmination of the entire game distilled into one scene, and even the whole pathos of that one scene concentrated into three closing words:
World of warcraft. Simply for the escapism. But also because I’ve made friends with whom I still talk to 20 years later. At this point they’re my oldest friends since life happened to some of the others.
Oh yeah, that was a really interesting choice. You had to actually sacrifice something tangible to you as a player to get the “good ending” i really had to think over that one for a while
Minecraft got me into programming when I was like 14. I'd probably have gotten into it regardless but it was the trigger for what has been a 14 year journey so far so I'd definitely say it changed my life
Had Hollow Knight for a while but never played it so I wanted to go through it before starting Silksong. I can see now why people were so excited for this game
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri. It made me realize that the future is not going to be people on spaceships. It will be bizarre and beautiful post-human intelligences. That’s what made me choose to study biology (although in retrospect I should have bet on silicon rather than carbon).
I’ll vote for the Civilization series as something that changed my life. It wasn’t a single profound experience when I “completed the game”. I’ve done that a number of times in multiple different versions of Civ. It was more the “aha” moments along the way. Learning about wonders of the world, hearing about different cultures. Thinking about how X led to Y. Civ taught me a lot of things, but more importantly, it made me curious so that I learned things outside the game.
No shame in looking up solutions on YouTube. Some of their puzzles can be brutal. I hated anything timing based. They dropped those in the second game thankfully.
There is great satisfaction to coming back to a puzzle and finally figuring it out yourself though.
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