Metal Gear Solid 1, 3 and 4 all affected me pretty differently and intensely, and I identify with them a lot. Subsistence in particular is just a world I love spending time in.
Similarly with both the Metroid and Zelda franchises, in both their two-dimensional and three-dimensional variants. I'd be hard pressed to choose a specific entry out of any of these as my favourite.
More recently, Alpha Protocol and Darksiders gave me feelings I haven't felt in a long time, and actually pushed me through single-player campaign. I'm pretty notorious for starting games and giving up after a few hours. Specifically, I spent a long, snowy weekend by myself in a warmly lit flat with a couple bottles of wine, Alpha Protocol and a sofa. Not usually one for solitude, but I had a blast over those couple of days.
... and obviously (S)SF4, which is just my favourite game ever and probably contributed a decent portion to my steadily diminishing university grades.
My game is definitely Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2. Those games had awesome story decent gameplay, and really fun Co-Op experiences. And the weapons were super awesome too. They were also my first shooter I got to play cooperatively so yeah. Also Mass Effect is great, BioWare really makes it feel like it is your game.
Deus Ex. Twists and turns and secret organizations I never heard about at the time. But then there's Half-Life which I must have played like 10 times and enjoyed each playthrough. Or Mass Effect. Or KOTOR. Or Assassin's Creed 1.
the mass effect series,and assassins creed. Those series i find so compelling story wise and game play wise. i feel liek I have a personal connection to so many characters in the respective series. I'd also say dragon age origins. but Not dragon age 2 at all. that game to me is still one of the biggest disappointments ever.
The Elder Scrolls games are definitely my type of entertainment. They allow for such freedom and have well-constructed worlds with history. It's all very convincing. Sometimes I love just walking through the forest in Oblivion while it rains. The music, OH the music. Jeremy Soule is a God and produces some of the most beautiful tracks I've ever heard.
Super Smash Bros. Melee, probably. Too many fond memories of that game, though I haven't played it in a long time. Lately, I feel it could be Uncharted 2. Similarities in plot, characters, etc., aside, it's my Raiders of the Lost Ark for videogames, in that I can play it and always feel satisfied afterwards. If I complained about UC2, I feel like I'd just be nitpicked minor stuff that doesn't matter, personally.
Elder Scrolls and Frictional's games (Penumbra and Amnesia).
Elder Scrolls is almost like the fantasy universe I would come up with. Tamriel is just so nasty and crazy in every aspect, and even the elves, who are usually the pretty, perfect angels in other RPGs, are a bunch of jerks. Did you know that Wood Elves in their home province eat their own dead? It's true!
And since I'm a big fan of early 20th-century/late 19th-century horror fiction (Lovecraft, MR James, EF Benson, etc) Penumbra and Amnesia obviously resonate a lot with me because they're the only games that really provide that style of horror.
I would say Majora's Mask, but that isn't really "made for me" so much as it hooked me in a way I can't really explain. Je ne sais quoi you might say. If you were French.
Mass Effect -I couldn't ask for anything more. All the choices you make and it's such a great universe. You can be your own personal Dath Vader or Hans Solo. It works great for me becuase I usually go back and play it again, trying to be completely evil with all my choices. I just about came when my eyes started turning red from all my evilness. The combat is also getting better each game. I would also buy this game if it was just a dating sim.
I have to say. Bioshock 1 and 2 are pretty high up on the list for me. I love walking around Rapture and listening to those audio logs, and strategically setting up traps.
That is a tough call. I'm going to go with Ninja Gaiden Black. It does not speak to me on every level. Story, music, etc. But it's brillantly designed, to the point that modern games have yet to top it.
Bioshock for me, as many have said the setting and music are amazing and it is a time period of seeming blissfulness but with heavy dark undertones.
The main reason that it speaks to me though is the concept of exploring an ideal in its most radical form, this is something that truly fascinates me, and is why I love the franchise and can't wait for infinite.
Fallout 2 or Silent Hill 2 is my game. I always compare other titles to them and they are on the highest level of esteem for me. I just feel them like somethng more than other titles. For examples every time i listen to SH2 ost I get shivers and this strange feelings.
Psychonauts. I think what makes it "snap" with me so good is how cheery and happy it is. And then you find this dark, depressing thing underneath which makes it so much more real. Psychonauts got hauntingly sad stuff going on, and the way that fits with the comedy and humor of the game is just brilliant. Also Fallout 2 and Majoras Mask. I cannot get enough of those games.
I'd say it's out of Silent Hill, Condemned or Dead Space for me. The story (as far-fetched as all of them are), atmosphere, art style, sound/music design and pacing of all three completely reels me in each time.
A big mention goes to Oblivion too. Really love that game and can't wait for Skyrim.
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