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
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Horizon Zero Dawn
The Last of Us (not 2)
Citizen sleeper
Disco Elysium is the better game probably, but since it is talked about a lot (rightfully so), I’ll go with the similar game I played previous to it:
It is the same genre with Disco Elysium (C-RPG or Isometric RPG, whatever you want to call) with also combat on top of it. Set in a bronze-age kind of time. A lot of choices that matter so as much to block whole maps and events completely if one is chosen over the other. A lot of “main paths” that can be gone on. Both positive and negative (favor and wrath) development with factions, faction leaders, companions, etc. that can affect the game and the outcomes. Great main and side cations with quite good stories behind. Combat can take place a lot of time and the game offers deep combat builds, but overall combat is pretty dull imo.
Going beyond the introduction of the game, in my opinion Tyranny has a very rare story in gaming: The evil has already won, and a tyrant-god rules the world now. You are just a lackey with middle-management status (Fatebinder, some kind of an on-field representer of the prophet/primary judge of the tyrant ruler) that judges whether act happen in accord with the will of the tyrant or not.
Real hard decisions to be made in the game. Some Obsidian humor in it. Overall not a feel-good game, like Disco Elysium. Way better soundtrack in my opinion.
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.
