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Going to try to think of things from each system I had.
Super Mario World
Donkey Kong 64
Pokemon Yellow and Silver
Crash Bandicoot 2
Sonic Adventure (and the 2nd one)
Chrono Trigger
Mario Cart Double Dash (I feel was the best Mario Cart)
Fallout 3 (New Vegas and 4 were pretty fun too)
I’ve been replaying the Final Fantasy 1-6 bundle on steam.
Hmmm… got into Runescape until WoW and still mess with OSRS occasionally.
Newer games?:
Baldur’s Gate 3 is pretty amazing
Valheim is relaxing to go back to.
There are a lot of games I intend to play but once I started mmos I seem to have stopped playing other things as often.
I managed to somehow beat 1, probably by naming all my characters goofy things and keeping myself entertained.
Then I hit 2 and immediately bowed out. Holy cow that game needs mods to fix it.
WoW of course. But that kind of just feels like an ongoing hobby rather than a standard video game.
Morrowind. Proper answer. That was an amazing experience that I won’t ever really be able to capture again. The world and the story are amazing first of all. But it was also there at just the right point in my life. I’d just finished high school so I had all the time in the world to sink into it. And i did!
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As someone who’s played through most of the Zelda’s since the NES, Breath of the Wild took me a bit to get comfortable with how you need to keep getting weapons.
But other than that, even though it’s different with an open world design, I feel BotW and TotK were both amazing Zelda games.
1 - Dragon Age: Origins. I played it when I was around 13 and it kinda just left a taste in games that only other CRPGs can fulfill nowadays. Amazing story, soundtrack, characters, everything. It was also the series that got me heavily invested into playing mages whenever I can, before, I played warrior every time.
2 - Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. I just love the fantasy this game provides, I will admit that the dialogue can be a little weak at times, but the story and some of the characters are amazing, and the soundtrack is sooooo damn good, listen to “Light of Heaven” to see what I mean, I am as emotionally stunted as they come, but when reading the angel’s backstory that happens very early into the game with this music playing in the background, I randomly felt like crying for the first time in years. Biggest complaint though is the inconsistent difficulty.
3 - Baldurs Gate 3. Scratched that DA:O itch in a way that no other game has so far, on weekends I was going to sleep at 4AM and waking up at 10AM to play it as much as I could, DnD 5E being far more simple than Pathfinder 1E makes it a lot more enjoyable to just pick up and play. The story was really good, but I found too predictable at times, amazing characters though, I actually got invested in most of their stories.
4 - Mass Effect Trilogy. Just amazing story and characters overall to the point where I can overlook the… Rather weak ending. Gameplay was punishing but not annoying, only some fight in ME2 were anxiety inducing because they gave enemies the best aimbot they possibly could, so every time you peek you take like 5 shots to the head and it breaks your shield instantly.
5 - And finally, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, it’s an amazing game but I rated it last of my favorites just because I played it without having the nostalgic factor. It was an amazing story, I loved the characters, but getting it to run on my PC when I first played it was hell, since it never got the official compatibility patch that KOTOR2 did.
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I was OK with the weapons breaking because I remember getting the sticks you needed in ocarina of time for fire what not.
What bothers me is all this cooking and trying to figure out where stuff is and I have the worst hand coordination to cross ravines on trees that I chopped down.
All the dungeons feel like the same. I was just used to like the fire dungeon, the water dungeon, and the mountain dungeon, with unique abilities to get Around.
All those elements are there but it’s just how it’s done is not the way I’m used to. Flipping over the fire boss is classic.
I mean, it’s definitely Zelda, but it just lacks a certain strategic path that I am familiar with in the open world. Just makes me not want to do the quest at all.
It’s one thing to be Skyrim or Morrowind. But for Zelda no. My kids absolutely love it so 
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My brother was so happy when he beat the timer by 1 second. He was shouting and I heard him clear across the house with the door closed. Then the Cheat Codes got released and he was devastated.
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Yeah, but we were the real invincibles. Just like Boris!!
I can still navigate that place like the back of my hand
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Besides WoW, in no order,
Final Fantasy Tactics
Metal Gear Solid
Sonic 2
Gran Turismo: Le Mans
Halo
Front Mission
Skyrim
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Spyro
Tony Hawk
Hogs of War
and i got addicted to Devil Dice at one point. 
Diablo 2, still have disks for the original to play on the craptop with, though Resurrected is pretty faithful for the most part.
Morrowind
New Vegas
Dwarf Fortress
Project Zomboid
Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2
Torchlight 1 & 2
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In no particular order:
Final Fantasy Tactics
Mass Effect Trilogy
Divinity: Original Sin (1 & 2)
Planescape: Torment
Phantasy Star 4
Dragon Age: Origins
Fallout: New Vegas (in particular, the DLC’s)
Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
And pretty much the entire X-Com series
Star Ocean: the Second Story
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In no particular order:
- Ogre Battle 64
- Suikoden 3
- Super Mario RPG
- Final Fantasy 9
- Neverwinter Nights
- Mass Effect Trilogy
- Champions of Norrath
- Time Splitters
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Since no one has mentioned them yet, Marathon, Marathon 2: Durandal, and Marathon: Infinity. You’ll find a lot of proto-Halo in these gems from the mid-90s. And they’re available for free now, via the Aleph One open-source versions.
Lets see…
Cyberpunk 2077
Fable
Skyrim
Sid Myer’s Pirates
Super Mario Brothers 3
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (Original)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007)
Mass Effect (1 & 2)
Grand Theft Auto (all of them, even the original top down versions)
Dragon Age
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Mass Effect Series.
Borderlands Series.
EverQuest.
Cyberpunk.
Twisted Metal series.
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would have to say, in no real order:
Quake
Doom 2
Duke Nukem
Jedi Knight DF2
Everquest
Star Wars Galaxies
Knights of the Old Republic
Borderlands 2
Valheim
if i had to pick 1, it would probably be original Star Wars Galaxies, pre-cu and cu, but before the NGE.
Ohhh boy. Off the top of my head, in no particular order -
Super Metroid
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Streets of Rage series
Street Fighter series
Soul Calibur Series
Super Mario Kart & Mario Kart 64
Mechwarrior 2/GBL/Mercs & Mechwarrior 4
Bioshock
Smite
Pre-2018 Heroes of the Storm
Doom & Doom 2
Heretic & Hexen
Super Mario Bros 3 & Super Mario World
Megaman series
Toejam & Earl
Contra & Contra 3: The Alien Wars
Final Fantasy 4 & 6 (2 & 3 US)
Dragon Warrior
Bayonetta 1 & 2
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Double Dragon 2
Ninja Gaiden 1 & 2
Castlevania 3
Starcraft 2
Road Rash 1 & 2
GTA: Vice City
Neverwinter Nights (I spent way more time making maps and persistent worlds than playing the actual campaign)
I’m leaving out a ton but that’s a decent sample.
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