Gaming

I'm going way back, almost 30 years.

Phantasmagoria 2: The Puzzle of Flesh

Assuming I remember correctly, some ways into the game, you, the player, realizes your character is the one who has been committing all the horrible, tortures and murders. I stopped playing at that point. I never play "evil". For instance, in FO4, I never took over the Commonwealth with the raiders, raiders are always cannon fodder.

So, it didn't really change my life, per se, but I have remembered it all these years, and still have no interest in finishing the game.

Binding of Isaac.

Played it as I was coming into adult life. This was my first roguelite. It sounds dumb....but it really stuck with me as a life lesson:

You can try your best and make sacrifices, and still end up unlucky with poor rewards. You get the opportunities you get, but even in this seeming randomness, you make choices to make the most of them. Training and skill makes up for some of the poor opportunities. Life is a roguelite.

Now I've got BoI on my Retroid Pocket 5 now. Still playing it.

I've always played video games one way or another, so I consider them all to be life changing. In a general sense, because getting games in my country wasn't easy in the 80's and 90's, and most would bring them from the US, so I learned English through the games, which opened the possibility to hang out (online) with people from around the world.

But I think there's two games that marked me:

Vampire the Masquerade Redemption, because until then I hadn't played any story-driven true RPG. And after I finished it, I moved on to games like Fallout and Dragon Age, which led me to learn about modding, communities, etc.

The Last of Us, because until then no game (no matter how much I loved it) made me feel so intensely. I played it in several days, and each day I was emotionally exhausted. The ending left me speechless. I would wake up every day feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, for about a week or two.

Minecraft lol

I studied cs because of it, hell I even wrote about minecraft in one of my admission essays. Something bionicles to minecraft to stem pipeline as I would call it

I also really like PGR. It's a gacha game but I met a really nice community from it

If we're talking about great story driven games, signalis and nier are always my top favorites.

ahhh Planescape Torment...

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.

Fez.

I made everyone play the intro/tutorial. Most of them thought they broke it.

RDR2 (PC)

I don't know that it "changed my life," but DAMN Yakuza 0's ending hit hard.

Mother 3

• Bioshock and Bioshock 2
• half life 2, especially episode 2 but that's just a cliffhanger
• fallout 3 just great ending event hough a bit nonsensical the build up made it feel importantf
• every single From Software game but then you're just excited for new game plus

Kingdom Hearts. The story is a little confusing at first but replaying them after getting it shows new things. The whole, “My friends are my power!” really resonates with me to this day. 358/2 Days is the best story, and I cry every time I hear Xion’s story. I named my dog Xion because I love the character and what she represents so much. Can’t wait till #4!

Wouldn't say changed my life but the ending of Liberty City in Cyberpunk and Stray, both great story writing

Doom Eternal after completing the game and all the DLC. They put you through HELL (literally) and these levels are a BITCH at the end and the sigh of relief to see this arc of the story finally come to a close is so satisfying.

Doom 2016 was an overall better game from an atmospheric perspective, and it had better direction overall, but Eternal was just fun and hard. If you can bare it on at least ultra-violence the sense of completion at the end of it all is quite gratifying.

Halo 3 to cap off the original trilogy

Jumpman Junior, 1986. thousand yard stare C E D F E F G E D E F D C E D F G F E D C

Also, Friendship with Benefits.

edit holy shit they released FwB 2 in April. BRB.

Most recent: Death Stranding 2

I love that wild shit, and the story is very touching.

The one before that: Xenoblade Chronicles 3

There's so much emotion in that game. Of all the games I have played in the last 37 years or so, I cried more in XC3 than I think I have in any other game. So good.

EverQuest. It has been 26 years with no real breakd now. I fucking love that game.

This question has two answers.

the game that practically changed your life in terms of how it affected you.. and the game that made you change the way you think.

For practicalitys sake, the game that had the most change and influence on my life was, ironically, Second Life. Just through the people I met and experiences I had over the course of the 15-16 years I played it.

I cant really tell you what one had the most profound impact psychologically, I was going to say the Sims or Fallout for the impact they had on like, how I see people vs how I see society. but Im gonna cop-out and go with Mass Effect 2 and 3. since The story is such an "epic" in that it tackles so many philisophical and existential questions, Mainly revolving around what living beings, and in some cases, individual heroes do in the face of death. the whole story is a broad tale of Machines vs Organics, but its done in a very doomsday/armagedon tone. stretched across a sci-fi galaxy instead of just talking about humanity.

I’m still playing it: sons of forest.

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.