What’s a game that made a visual or musical impression on you? Or maybe it had a story that has stayed with you for years.
Share your favourites, maybe post a screenshot to the community? Generate some engagement :D
Red Dead Redemption 2
Riding through the country with big storm clouds rolling in was just something else.
Outer Wilds. I cried for 30 minutes when I beat it. It’s so poignant, sad, and hopeful all at the same time.
Nier Automata: the music, the way the world permanently changes as you progress through the story, as well as the art style all are all just chiefs kiss
Nier:Automata was a game I dismissed at first because of the main charachter. The last game I’d played that everyone made such a big deal over the atttactive female charachter was Tomb Raider (the first one on PS1) which I found to be a boring game.
But Nier:Automata showed me I was wrong, it’s a stunning game from many different standpoints, and it was all done without playing up 2B as a sex object. She’s a normal “person” with goals who has been put in a situation that she needs to figure out, instead of being a pair of boobs or legs that someone handed a couple of guns to.
I am currently playing it and oh boy, it is truly a nice game, sadly I mixed it with BOTW (playing those two at the same time) and that was a mistake on my part, I thought Nier was more hack n slash than open world RPG… Now I’m struggling to finish both 😅
Regardless both are top notch games.
Bastion.
One of the very few video game soundtracks I listen to. I sang Build The Wall to my first kid as a baby to get her to sleep. The choice at the end of the game literally made me walk away from my PC for a while and just kind of stare at nature lol. Not many games have had the kind of impact my first playthrough of Bastion had.
Bastion never managed to catch me, Transistor did it for me tho. I burst into tears when the credits rolled and Paper Boats revealed itself as a duet between Red and her unnamed lover, after her not saying word for the entire game it hits so damn hard.
Bastion and Transistor didn’t take for me, but I recommend Hades to everyone who will listen.
All the characters are memorable and it’s amazing to find all the interactions. I’m so surprised such a story focused game is so fun to play.
Ah I was just going to ask in the other comment chain about if all Supergiant Games made the same impression as Transistor did for me, but seeing from the discussion here I’m inclined to think that they are all pretty good with something grabbing some people in and other things grabbing other people in the other game.
Another World really shaped my game preferences.
ICO is still an absolute masterpiece.