Final Fantasy 7, the first two Fallout and Disco Elyisum, Shenmue to an extent, but the Yakuza / Like A Dragon franchise probably tops all of them. I had stopped paying attention to video games after the dreamcast (I considered Shenmue the apex of what I liked in video games and couldn’t find something similar), discovered the Yakuza franchise through Judgment in early 2020 and I was hooked, it was everything I had ever dreamed of in a game. I bought a PS4 specifically to play them, bought 0 to 6 during covid lockdowns and pretty much blasted through the franchise in a year. Rekindled my interest in games and in Japanese stuff, made me take my ass back to martial arts and generally pay more attention to how I behave and look after bad breakups and depression. Disco Elysium came very close to the same impact, I might add.
All of them, really. 0 is the craziest, but all of them are just great. Even 3 which is widely considered the “worst” one is still a masterpiece, especially for its time.
Magic: The Gathering - Arena, but in a different sense. I have played it a decent amount ever since I moved away from the city and have been unable to play with people over the table. I learned that it wasn’t really the game itself which made me interested in Magic, but the interactions with people.
I have since quit the game and haven’t really paid attention to its direction since.
Cyberpunk is the only game in recent memory where I felt like I was not playing into my interpretation of who I wanted the character to be, but rather who I wanted to be as V. Games like Red Dead 2 let me drive the character’s outcome and I definitely has an emotional response to Arthur’s journey (one of my favorite games of all time), but it felt like the character’s story. Cyberpunk did a stellar job at making it feel like my story.
I think about CP77 to this day. I sometimes even miss Johnny. He’s with you the entire time and it’s a really fascinating bond to experience as a player.
How it changed my life: I have a much deeper appreciation to go into nature and feel more confident
Also having that deeper understanding to put together an earth quake survival kit.like you never know if you have to bail and you just gotta be ready to evacuate and survive.
Other games: Titan fall 2. I bawled at the end. I’m just now playing it through again. And I’m not one to replay a game but I would with that one given the bond. Never thought I’d cry at a game but that one …that one was special for me.
That’s fantastic. It’s a survival game ? I remember loving to roam the ashlands in Morrowind and that might have contributed to my tendency to walk everywhere. But nature itself, I’m not sure. I remember fondly the lush hills of Cyrodiil, the enchanted woods of Albion (Fable), but I don’t think any of these really turned me on nature as much as having an edible, strapping on my trekking shoes and getting lost in the forest around my home
Yup it’s a survival game but it has a peaceful option in it so you can just set it to roam and build to your heart’s content.
Elden ring as well has some similar breathtaking moments. not that any of that can be replicated in our earth nature but it is a game that I think of when I think of a beautiful game to play for just sitting there and beholding artist effort and content.
Enderal and its not even close. It shows a world that is in a deep decline and an apocalypse that is all but inevitable but manages to still feel hopeful in a way. Throughout the game there is this theme of how even if everything might fade at some point your interpersonal actions are still meaningful. The Rhalata sidequest alone easily outmatches most games that where published by “real” game studios and the main story just seals the deal.
Osu!, but not in the good direction… the game might have deleted what little confidence I have left in myself and gave me crippling perfectionism issues. Also permanently changed my music taste. May or may not have set me up on a hyper-competitive career path as well so there is that. Upside is… I’m fun at the club and the arcade maybe??
It wasn’t the story of the game that was life-changing, but I met people on PSO that encouraged me to pursue a different career. Without them, I don’t think I’d be the person I am today.
I don’t even mind the second disk because without it, it was shaping up to be 300 hours long and tedious. As it is, I think it wraps things up nicely without leaving too many threads hanging. What a fantastic game! It’s the only PSX game I still have a physical copy of.
I am an emotional person, and I regularly cry during movies, shows and books. But this is the first and only game to day, where I cried. I don’t mean just teary-eyed, actually crying. And on more than one occasion.
It made me want to be a better person. Hopefully I am succeeding.
Cyberpunk 2077 is close second.
I didn’t play Expedition 33 yet, but I saw the prologue and it was very emotional. There is a really good chance this game will be on my list too.
I couldn’ finish Enderal, because I did not want to make one of the two shitty decisions in the end and cried about it. “Just a mod” had me in tears and sobbing twice.
FWIW, I straight up did not like Enderal. And yet, I would still recommend you try it. If you didn’t particularly enjoy Skyrim because it was too open, and instead prefer a more story driven game, Enderal could be your next favorite game.
RDR2 is the only game for which I ever took the day off work for launch day. Totally worth it. I bought eclairs, dropped the kids off at a parkour class, and just drank it all in. So good. Still haven’t finished it, just on principle. I can say I still have more to play.
Yeah RDR2 is the one for me. I had a pretty on-the-nose experience though as I got diagnosed with TB just weeks before playing through Arthur’s illness. When he started coughing 😬
Death Stranding. Ok not sure if that actually really changed my life, but it left me in a bit of a mixed emotional state.
See the thing is that I became a dad not that long ago and during the pregnancy and maybe a year or so after the birth of my kid I had this somewhat irrational fear of finding my kid just dead at some point in the crib or something like that. I fought past that fear eventually and the kid is now three and as healthy as one can be.
Then was it 2024 or something when the Director’s Cut was released on Xbox. I never had a PlayStation (not for any other reason other than I just never happened to get one) so I was exicted to finally start playing this game I’ve heard so much about. I bought the game and played whenever I had time (if you have kids, you know how it can be) and loved the game, especially for the atmosphere and the sort of weird lore that was exciting to uncover for me.
Rest of the post contains spoilersThen I got the the part where you have to cut the umbilical cord of Mama’s BT baby. I wasn’t prepared for that at all and it kinda just broke something in me. I had to stop playing and didn’t play for like at least 6 months or so. It brought back too many of the feelings and fears I had previously gone through so I just needed to take a break. Like don’t get me wrong, I actually DID like the scene for the beautiful moment it was and think it was amazing storywriting, it just caught me so off guard that I had to take a moment or ten. After the break I kept going and the game still managed to keep me hooked and the story just kept getting better and better imo. And then the ending. I cried. A lot. I have never ever cried out loud to any piece of media, but I could literally feel Sam’s emotions when he noticed that BB wasn’t moving and was likely dead already. That was pretty much exactly the fear I had so you’ll probably understand why it hit me so hard. And then when I hear that cry come from the game, the relief I felt was something I can’t really describe well. And after that I was sitting there in the living room, tears in my eyes, laugh-crying and just… wow. I don’t know, if I’d played the game when it came out in 2019 before my kid was born and before the pregnancy and everything, I would’ve probably just thought it to be maybe a decent story and maybe tear up a bit at the end. But with all the other stuff that piled on before I got to play the game, it just added it’s own effect to the experience. I really don’t know if I can say that I was changed in any meaningful way, but I do kinda think that it might have at least helped me deal with the past fears a bit better so maybe in the future if I need to face them again, I can do it with more confidence. One thing that I can say for sure at least is that I loved the game and I kinda wish I could play it again for the first time. The emotional roller coaster might’ve been a bit rough at times but damn it was a good one.
Boy oh boy, don’t play the second one. It’ll tear your heart out, throw it in a blender and force feed it back to you through a straw! The game is absolutely amazing but the emotions that 2 brought to the table were stronger than anything I’ve ever played.
Even though it was such a rollercoaster, I watched a friend beat it, and we cried together too. I’d give up a lot to play it again for the first time. Just, be prepared. If you dare!
Honestly I would expect nothing less given the first game. It’s very likely I will play it eventually if it ever makes its way to the Xbox or if I happen to find myself owning a PlayStation, which means it’ll probably take a while. Regardless, thanks for the heads up!
I was thinking about the ending for days. I wish someone else could experience it for the first time so I can finally talk about it with someone. This game is so good, audio, graphics and story wise, it’s a shame it’s not widely known.
Dance Dance Revolution 3rd mix. It sounds stupid, I know, but hear me out. I really sucked at this game at first. My friends use to play every weekends at the arcade, so I really wanted to get better. So I really trained hard and became the best player in our group. People gattered around the arcade when I was playing. I was good enough for tournaments.
Now when I face something difficult, I’m confident I can overcome it if I really want to. I wasn’t like that before. Thanks Konami.
Still addicted to Maze Mice. It has definitely been worth the purchase.
I have also been slowly chipping away at the latest release of Plants vs Zombies Universe. Difficult fan game and I’m love it so far. Just wish I could get it to run through either wine or proton without needing to figure out the right prefixes and other such things to get it to actually run under Linux. I really hope they’re able to release a full game before EA and/or Talkweb ( the people currently behind pvz2 chinese edition ) put the kibosh on the project.
Otherwise it’s just been the occasional Slay the Spire or Dungeon Clawler runs.
I also just installed Sonic Lost World and need to figure out how to get the mod that improves things like not losing speed when turning right or left working. The 3DS version I got on console from Hshop is fun and all, but I wanna try the PC version. Got the DLC mod working, so I can run through those when I’m ready.
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