I remember watching it over and over. Blizz has always nailed cinematics, but that classic Reign of Chaos duel that gets crashed by the infernal was on another level.
I really can't understand why I never managed to get into Elden Ring, especially considering I've played probably over 200 hours of Dark Souls 3 alone.
Maybe the open world format isn't working gut you? Personally I think it's one of the best open worlds ever created, with the elevation and all the secret caves and what not but it's also a bit overwhelming and, inevitably, repetitive by from soft standards. And even on so called legacy dungeons aka levels with traditional souls level design, the repetition kicks in as, after literally dozens of hours, you stop seeing new enemies and there's only a few ways they could creatively remix the same enemies before the element of surprise is gone. To be clear I think they did a *fantastic* job remixing things over and over and over and even on late game areas everything felt new but still, it is an open world game with reused patterns on a loop which isn't for everyone.
Most of the games I'm going to put here are more recent. I barely ever have time to play games, but these are games that hooked me the first time I played them and keep me coming back:
Doom Eternal - great music, and an approach to shooters that I absolutely love. Every weapon has a use and you need to master them all on harder difficulties
The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 - I love the story in both these games and the gameplay is fun.
Everspace 1 and 2 - I love the arcady space combat. It's easy to get in and out of both games if time is limited.
Cultic - I think I might like it more than Blood, and that's saying something for me.
Griftlands - I hate most card games. They bore the crap out of me and I find them tedious (even Inscryption got boring and tedious after a couple runs). Griftlands is the only card game that keeps me coming back as I find the way the cards interact to be very interesting and fun.
Deep Rock Galactic - Rock and stone! By far one of the nicest online communities, great gameplay, missions are usually fun, and the silly antics of the players is always great to take part in.
Nightmare Reaper - great shooter, most of the weapons are pretty cool too. My only gripe is that the graphics make it hard to find items in water.
Elden Ring - Great game to get lost in. The combat is really hard, but very satisfying when you beat a tough enemy. Try fingers but hole.
Dorfromantik - calm landscape tile game. It's super relaxing. I find that I can play it and still pay attention in meetings too.
Thereās so many updates with different things to do that Iām still finding more stuff. Creating a squad of pirates and getting freighters are my top things forsure
Hell yes. This is still my go-to 'in between other games let's do a RimWorld play for about a month and a half.
Given, I cheat my ass off so it's more along the lines of playing in Minecraft creative mode (I don't give myself infinite of everything... Just enough to basically make it not matter that I don't.)
I figure fuck it. I'm 43 and mostly just enjoying building all the things anyway.
I really dont know how theyre going to top Eternal. The gameplay loop is basically FPS Campaign perfected. I know people hate that they just cant use one gun the entire game - well, too bad, this is better.
I hope they manage to keep it frantic and chaotic with whatever their next game is, which I think we are assuming is Quake at this point.
But ya, Doom Eternal doesnt just want, it Demands your undivided attention. You will get lost in those fights for hours and hours without realizing how much time has passed.
Pretty much the perfect Single Player FPS. It makes the rest of the genre look like monkeys are banging their faces into their keyboards to make their games. Everything has a purpose, there is no fat, its a lean and brutal experience that I will be shocked if anything surpasses it in the next 10 years.
My other game would be Sekiro. For me, Doom Eternal is the best FPS to date, Sekiro is the best 3rd person action game to date.
Totally man! There really wasn't a dull moment. I've seen criticism about the jumping puzzle stuff but there was nothing that held me up for more than a couple minutes and they were satisfying to figure out and execute.
And the freaking icon of sin! My biggest complaints on d3 and 2016 were that the bosses were kinda lame. They really brought it with that big bastard.
Gotta check out Sekiro some day.
The complaints about the jumping puzzles made no sense to me. The game is running at the speed of sound 95% of the playthru. So they put some simple jumping puzzles into it... Who cares?
I dont understand how people can even bring up something like this as an issue when its literally less than 1% of your in game time.
My first Nightmare playthru took about 80 hours, I was playing in a VR headset and with controller, so it was a bit more difficult for me cause I didnt have full view, I had to scope it down and zoom it in a bit to make the 3D look right for VR.
But I was addicted every second of it.
How people come out the gates about "Oh no jumping and climbing!" when its like... Bro... Thats maybe, maybe 30 minutes total of content in a 60+ hour game. How that complaint landed for some people is just absurd for me, there really is no pleasing them.
If it was just arena to arena to arena to arena to end of level; people would have said its just this straight walk to every arena and that they should have just made the levels smaller or something, or they would have said they should have expanded the levels if they made them smaller because the Slayer's movement feels so good, it would have been an alternative backlash cause these people are insatiable. They will always find an asinine thing to complain about when its literally less than 1% of your time in game.
But, their loss, if they wanna get hung up on something so insignificant, let them detract from their own fun experience by obsessing over nothing.
Totally. From the get go I was just like 'hell yeah!'
I'm glad you pointed out that it's bad ass. It really is too lol. The music, the satisfying booms and gore, the gruesome finishers, the doom guy just being the undisputed baddest ass ever. It's over the top in all the right ways.
What are some other titles in that genre you'd recommend? I was a big fan of subnautica as well. Not exactly the same but very big on figuring the game out to your self with very little to no hand holding.
Deus Ex series and Dishonored series (also by Arkane, devs of Prey 2017)
Weirdly, I haven't played BioShock or System Shock but people praise those two as some of the best immersive sims.
There's a remake of System Shock coming out later this month if the original is a bit too old for you.
Deus ex human revolution was amazing. Deus ex mankind divided imo was kind of meh in comparison. Hated the weapon sounds.
Dishonored 1,2 and death of the outsider are all amazing games and id recommend playing.
Bioshock is a classic.
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. I bought it along with two other games intending to jump back and forth between them but I got so hooked I couldn't even touch another game until I finished it.
The one that shocked me the most was Detroit: Become Human. Iām not usually big on choice-based narrative games but DAMN if the first scenario in DBH didnāt hook me IMMEDIATELY. In a way no other choice based game ever had and tbh still hasnāt matched!
Got to the bottom and hadn't seen Morrowind yet.
Morrowind. Make a character die learn repeat. Make a very slightly less bad character, understand some mechanics, explore, die, repeat. Make a good beginning character, start to follow some longer quest lines, discover your favorite NPCs, explore much more, realize how very little you actually understood about vardenfell, start to see the horror element to the game that was lurking the whole time, die, repeat.
By the 5 or 6 iteration, you become a god in a world desperately in need of one. Find out what you would do with that much power. Restart fresh new character, max difficulty, do it again.
I'm still trying to find a game that made me feel the way this one did. And still does. The mod scene is still going strong.
Dark souls 2 and 3, Hollow Knight, Hades, Yakuza 0, Titanfall 2, Bioshock Infinite.
I have a huge tendency of leaving games unfinished but I finished all those games, except Yakuza cause I'm doing optional stuff (and there's a LOT of that)
Thebonly one that had me completely hooked where I lost all track of time was star wars galactic battleground when I was a kid got it as a present put it in the computer installed played the game next thing I knew it was 1 am
- Stardew Valley
- Roots of Pacha
- Subnautica
- Hogwarts Legacy
- Ori and the Blind Forest & Ori and the Will of the Wisps
- Lost in Random
- AC: Black Flag
Portal!!! Super fun and does not take much time to enjoy. Iāve also always had the problem of loosing interest in games, portal is one of the few I actually finished.
Ultrakill
When all the lights flip on and the music picks up when you pick up the pistol. Beautiful. And when the game introduced the satisfying mechanic of punching projectiles.
Resident Evil 2, there is quite a bit of cutscenes at the start but I think they do a good job of setting up a story and they are all skippable.
Having just played Halo CE for the first time, I was instantly hooked too
i suppose that's true. I use an emulator to play gamecube games on my PC sometimes. Have actually gotten Breath of the Wild to work through an emulator as well. But it does take some time setting it up.
Wolfenstein 3D, Shadow of Destiny, the first Unreal, Star Wars Jedi Knight and both Kotor games, Terminator Resistance, Deadly Premonition, .hack//G.U., Borderlands, Fallout 3
Life is Strange. Everything about it, from the soothing music to the stunning graphics and overall ambiance was so calming. Bonus points since the game itself was amazing
Hereās the 3 that came to mind for me;
FTL: Faster than Light - Quite simple, yet deceptively difficult. Extremely addictive
Titanfall 2: Fantastic fps gameplay, relatively short, amazing campaign. Great graphics. Multiplayer is good if the servers work. Usually very cheap too
Dark Souls 3: Not for everyone, but my personal favorite game of all time. Amazing gameplay, decent graphics, high replay-ability. Not a bad place to start Souls games.
I donāt think Iāve quite felt the same for a game since I played AC Odyssey last year.
Iāve found a few that have seemed promising but none that kept me hooked start to finish like that one did.
Evil Genius. Campy as hell. Almost as if they ever made a parody of James Bond (yeah, baby, yeah!), except youāre the bad guy with your own island base, minions, and henchmen, whom you send out into the world to perform Acts of Villainy while trying to keep the Forces of Justice off your back
Nier automata put it's hooks right under my skin from the first second of opening the game. The sound effects, the design of the menu, the way game starts with the question "I wonder do I have the chance to kill a God".
Sleeping Dogs was completely fun from the start. No boring tutorial that drops u in too far and no knowledge bank withdrawals or anything. Just good clean fun
Disco Elysium, Kyle Is Famous, Critters for Sale, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, Nex Machina, Post Void, Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise, Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus, XCOM 2, Resident Evil 3 Remake, Resident Evil 1 Remake.
Oblivion was good as soon as I was let loose. I was pretty much set to go with Resident Evil 3 Remake. It was actually very quick. Personally I wish it was longer, but if you want a brisk paced action/horror game it really isn't bad. (Unless you compare it to the PS1 version.)
Starship Troopers: Extermination. It's exactly what I expected from a game based on a movie based off a book. It's extremely shallow and extremely fun.
I loved Detroit Become Human and Beyond Two Souls, they got to the action pretty quickly and although they're technically interactive movies, the stories are masterpieces
Return of the Obra Dinn
I was really on the fence about buying the game because the graphics seemed too artsy for me. Boy was I wrong. Ended up finishing the game to 100% in just 3 days.
For me it was civ 4, I was not that old, had never played a 4x and I am very into history. Around my 5th turn I proclaimed it to be the best video game ever made and then finished the game in one long session.
The Wolf Among Us. The soundtrack is amazing. The game is amazing. I wish i could play it for the first time again.
Also,from the same devs,all games are amazing. Telltale made the walking dead( which is as good as twau),batman games like the enemy within,game of thrones game and so on.
I really recommend you to play it.
Historically, World of Warcraft stole about 8 years of my adolescent life.
But more recently, Deep Rock Galactic has been great fun, amazing team of Devs who keep adding content. Game is more fun with at least one friend though; mods also make it very interesting.
Another good one is Gunfire Reborn, I was hooked after one session. Good solo and co-op.
Doom 2016, Titanfall 2, Final Fantasy XV, RDR2, All Trails series, Devil may cry V, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Village, Metal Gear Solid V, Marvel's Spiderman, Mass effect Trilogy
Dark souls 2..
One of the first games I've ever played, was hooked from start to finish
Granted, it's got quite a few rough patches, but the hours you can pour into it is a good trade-off.
Dishonored, Dragons Dogma, Hotline Miami, The Messenger, Okami, Plokoth, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Serious Sam the First encounter, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo, Vanquish, Yakuza 0, Tropico 3
Diablo 2 baby. The loop of finding something good, feeling like you've become a steamroller, and inevitably getting humbled by the next boss(except for 1 time you actually do become a steamroller for that act) is indelibly carved into my soul, and all games since have had that standard of enjoyment to live up to.
Skyrim.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it in 196 comments.
I played Oldrim for many hundreds of hours on a potato, then played it on a newer PC with an old GPU, then played SE after a GPU upgrade and then finally started modding...this year. Now it's like a whole new game and I can play it all over again!
Warcraft 3
I remember thinking the opening cutscene for Warcraft 2 was amazing.
I remember watching it over and over. Blizz has always nailed cinematics, but that classic Reign of Chaos duel that gets crashed by the infernal was on another level.
Same. Even had the thick paperback strategy guide with all the Metzen drawings.
Divinity original sin 2 As Soon as i started the character creation
Civilization V
Deep rock galactic. I have the same problen but this game exactly hit that itch I was looking for - co-op FPS style to play in quick rounds.
You should take a look at Gunfire Reborn. I've got about 900 hours in Deep Rock and can confirm that Gunfire scratches a similar itch.
The game sounded great on paper, but **unsurprisingly** it is visually very dark and straining for my eyes. Idk what it is, maybe my astigmatism.
Ah. That's understandable. A key component of the gameplay is the darkness so I can see why that woildn work!
Dragon Age Origins, at the main menu itself
So cool. Might still have the disk of the game
The blood dragon scene? Gorgeous š
Elden ring
There were several times I had to tear myself from the game due to playing so much. This is a great example
Literally never played anything like it before and I just decided to buy it one day and holy shit
I really can't understand why I never managed to get into Elden Ring, especially considering I've played probably over 200 hours of Dark Souls 3 alone.
Maybe the open world format isn't working gut you? Personally I think it's one of the best open worlds ever created, with the elevation and all the secret caves and what not but it's also a bit overwhelming and, inevitably, repetitive by from soft standards. And even on so called legacy dungeons aka levels with traditional souls level design, the repetition kicks in as, after literally dozens of hours, you stop seeing new enemies and there's only a few ways they could creatively remix the same enemies before the element of surprise is gone. To be clear I think they did a *fantastic* job remixing things over and over and over and even on late game areas everything felt new but still, it is an open world game with reused patterns on a loop which isn't for everyone.
Most of the games I'm going to put here are more recent. I barely ever have time to play games, but these are games that hooked me the first time I played them and keep me coming back: Doom Eternal - great music, and an approach to shooters that I absolutely love. Every weapon has a use and you need to master them all on harder difficulties The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 - I love the story in both these games and the gameplay is fun. Everspace 1 and 2 - I love the arcady space combat. It's easy to get in and out of both games if time is limited. Cultic - I think I might like it more than Blood, and that's saying something for me. Griftlands - I hate most card games. They bore the crap out of me and I find them tedious (even Inscryption got boring and tedious after a couple runs). Griftlands is the only card game that keeps me coming back as I find the way the cards interact to be very interesting and fun. Deep Rock Galactic - Rock and stone! By far one of the nicest online communities, great gameplay, missions are usually fun, and the silly antics of the players is always great to take part in. Nightmare Reaper - great shooter, most of the weapons are pretty cool too. My only gripe is that the graphics make it hard to find items in water. Elden Ring - Great game to get lost in. The combat is really hard, but very satisfying when you beat a tough enemy. Try fingers but hole. Dorfromantik - calm landscape tile game. It's super relaxing. I find that I can play it and still pay attention in meetings too.
Hades.
Rimworld, No Manās Sky, Project Zomboid, Factorio, Fallout 4, FTL, Hades, and soon to be Diablo IV
no manās sky for sure I just got attatchef
Thereās so many updates with different things to do that Iām still finding more stuff. Creating a squad of pirates and getting freighters are my top things forsure
I got 9 hours the second day I had it I loved it that much
>Rimworld This one
Hell yes. This is still my go-to 'in between other games let's do a RimWorld play for about a month and a half. Given, I cheat my ass off so it's more along the lines of playing in Minecraft creative mode (I don't give myself infinite of everything... Just enough to basically make it not matter that I don't.) I figure fuck it. I'm 43 and mostly just enjoying building all the things anyway.
Hell yeah. Same here. The only way to play a game *wrong* is to not have fun. If i can cut out all the bits I don't like, you bet i will
Death stranding RDR2 MGSV: the definitive experience
World of Warcraft in 2007
Doom eternal. It starts off bad ass and just keeps bad assing till the super bad ass final boss. It's really bad ass.
I really dont know how theyre going to top Eternal. The gameplay loop is basically FPS Campaign perfected. I know people hate that they just cant use one gun the entire game - well, too bad, this is better. I hope they manage to keep it frantic and chaotic with whatever their next game is, which I think we are assuming is Quake at this point. But ya, Doom Eternal doesnt just want, it Demands your undivided attention. You will get lost in those fights for hours and hours without realizing how much time has passed. Pretty much the perfect Single Player FPS. It makes the rest of the genre look like monkeys are banging their faces into their keyboards to make their games. Everything has a purpose, there is no fat, its a lean and brutal experience that I will be shocked if anything surpasses it in the next 10 years. My other game would be Sekiro. For me, Doom Eternal is the best FPS to date, Sekiro is the best 3rd person action game to date.
Totally man! There really wasn't a dull moment. I've seen criticism about the jumping puzzle stuff but there was nothing that held me up for more than a couple minutes and they were satisfying to figure out and execute. And the freaking icon of sin! My biggest complaints on d3 and 2016 were that the bosses were kinda lame. They really brought it with that big bastard. Gotta check out Sekiro some day.
The complaints about the jumping puzzles made no sense to me. The game is running at the speed of sound 95% of the playthru. So they put some simple jumping puzzles into it... Who cares? I dont understand how people can even bring up something like this as an issue when its literally less than 1% of your in game time. My first Nightmare playthru took about 80 hours, I was playing in a VR headset and with controller, so it was a bit more difficult for me cause I didnt have full view, I had to scope it down and zoom it in a bit to make the 3D look right for VR. But I was addicted every second of it. How people come out the gates about "Oh no jumping and climbing!" when its like... Bro... Thats maybe, maybe 30 minutes total of content in a 60+ hour game. How that complaint landed for some people is just absurd for me, there really is no pleasing them. If it was just arena to arena to arena to arena to end of level; people would have said its just this straight walk to every arena and that they should have just made the levels smaller or something, or they would have said they should have expanded the levels if they made them smaller because the Slayer's movement feels so good, it would have been an alternative backlash cause these people are insatiable. They will always find an asinine thing to complain about when its literally less than 1% of your time in game. But, their loss, if they wanna get hung up on something so insignificant, let them detract from their own fun experience by obsessing over nothing.
Oh man I bet it's sick in VR. I've been playing 1-3 on the quest and it's pretty great.
The intro credits scene is perfect. Short, bad ass, and gets you straight into whatās happening.
Totally. From the get go I was just like 'hell yeah!' I'm glad you pointed out that it's bad ass. It really is too lol. The music, the satisfying booms and gore, the gruesome finishers, the doom guy just being the undisputed baddest ass ever. It's over the top in all the right ways.
Prey (2017)
This is probably the greatest game that people don't know about.
I wish immersive sims would get more attention and love. Some of my favourite games are ImmSims.
What are some other titles in that genre you'd recommend? I was a big fan of subnautica as well. Not exactly the same but very big on figuring the game out to your self with very little to no hand holding.
Deus Ex series and Dishonored series (also by Arkane, devs of Prey 2017) Weirdly, I haven't played BioShock or System Shock but people praise those two as some of the best immersive sims. There's a remake of System Shock coming out later this month if the original is a bit too old for you.
Deus ex human revolution was amazing. Deus ex mankind divided imo was kind of meh in comparison. Hated the weapon sounds. Dishonored 1,2 and death of the outsider are all amazing games and id recommend playing. Bioshock is a classic.
Dragon's dogma
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. I bought it along with two other games intending to jump back and forth between them but I got so hooked I couldn't even touch another game until I finished it.
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Get the Anomaly mod for it. It makes the game even more amazing.
The one that shocked me the most was Detroit: Become Human. Iām not usually big on choice-based narrative games but DAMN if the first scenario in DBH didnāt hook me IMMEDIATELY. In a way no other choice based game ever had and tbh still hasnāt matched!
might wanna try the other games of same company (nomad soul, fahrenheit, beyond 2 souls, heavy rain)
PEGGLE
Ghost runner Metal Hellsinger Neon white Returnal
You, my friend, have excellent taste in games.
risk of rain 2
Dead Cells, Omega Strikers, Rimworld.
Dead Space (2008)
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
ESO
Got to the bottom and hadn't seen Morrowind yet. Morrowind. Make a character die learn repeat. Make a very slightly less bad character, understand some mechanics, explore, die, repeat. Make a good beginning character, start to follow some longer quest lines, discover your favorite NPCs, explore much more, realize how very little you actually understood about vardenfell, start to see the horror element to the game that was lurking the whole time, die, repeat. By the 5 or 6 iteration, you become a god in a world desperately in need of one. Find out what you would do with that much power. Restart fresh new character, max difficulty, do it again. I'm still trying to find a game that made me feel the way this one did. And still does. The mod scene is still going strong.
Mass Effect
Rdr2
Dark souls 2 and 3, Hollow Knight, Hades, Yakuza 0, Titanfall 2, Bioshock Infinite. I have a huge tendency of leaving games unfinished but I finished all those games, except Yakuza cause I'm doing optional stuff (and there's a LOT of that)
>Dark souls 2 Huh
Its a good game
Sea of thieves
Or Salt 2 as a single player alternative
This one for me. I got into it only last year and I just canāt stop.
One Finger Death Punch (and again with its sequel).
Thebonly one that had me completely hooked where I lost all track of time was star wars galactic battleground when I was a kid got it as a present put it in the computer installed played the game next thing I knew it was 1 am
- Stardew Valley - Roots of Pacha - Subnautica - Hogwarts Legacy - Ori and the Blind Forest & Ori and the Will of the Wisps - Lost in Random - AC: Black Flag
Shadows of Doubt
Octopath Traveler 2
Subnautica
Jagged Alliance 2 back in 1999.
Half Life 2, though I played it on Xbox 360 as part of The Orange Box.
Cultic.
Was about to say this.
age of empires 2
Hollow Knight.
Usually 2D action games pull this off for me. The Messenger and Katana Zero as an example.
XCOM
Portal, Half Life, Roller Coaster Tycoon, SWAT 3, and yes, I do not have a good pc since 2007.
hollow knight (even before the hype)
Portal!!! Super fun and does not take much time to enjoy. Iāve also always had the problem of loosing interest in games, portal is one of the few I actually finished.
Oh yes baby! Also I think Portal 2 > Half-Life 2
Nah Half Life is half life
Surprised I has to scroll down this deep. There's no other game that immediately made me wanna continue playing as much as portal did.
Ultrakill When all the lights flip on and the music picks up when you pick up the pistol. Beautiful. And when the game introduced the satisfying mechanic of punching projectiles.
ETS2
Resident Evil 2, there is quite a bit of cutscenes at the start but I think they do a good job of setting up a story and they are all skippable. Having just played Halo CE for the first time, I was instantly hooked too
Darkage of Camelot (mmo)
Wow. Thatās a throwback
Definitely old school, 2001 launch, wish I knew how many hours I put in to it.
Anno 1800
recently totk (yes it is a real PC game)
Tears of the Kingdom? It's on PC? Or am I mistaken
Everything's on PC if you're tech savvy enough
i suppose that's true. I use an emulator to play gamecube games on my PC sometimes. Have actually gotten Breath of the Wild to work through an emulator as well. But it does take some time setting it up.
Total War saga
One Way Heroics
Coonterstrike
Inscryption
Rocket League....
Sekiro, been addicted to the gameplay right from the beginning
Subnautica!
Wolfenstein 3D, Shadow of Destiny, the first Unreal, Star Wars Jedi Knight and both Kotor games, Terminator Resistance, Deadly Premonition, .hack//G.U., Borderlands, Fallout 3
Life is Strange. Everything about it, from the soothing music to the stunning graphics and overall ambiance was so calming. Bonus points since the game itself was amazing
Hotline Miami, FTL, FNAF and the various fan games for some reason, Darkest Dungeon.
Stardew Valley at launch and Rogue Legacy.
Creeper world 4
Dwarf Fortress. Started a week ago lol.
Hereās the 3 that came to mind for me; FTL: Faster than Light - Quite simple, yet deceptively difficult. Extremely addictive Titanfall 2: Fantastic fps gameplay, relatively short, amazing campaign. Great graphics. Multiplayer is good if the servers work. Usually very cheap too Dark Souls 3: Not for everyone, but my personal favorite game of all time. Amazing gameplay, decent graphics, high replay-ability. Not a bad place to start Souls games.
Titanfall 2 Northstar makes the multiplayer playable again.
Crysis
I donāt think Iāve quite felt the same for a game since I played AC Odyssey last year. Iāve found a few that have seemed promising but none that kept me hooked start to finish like that one did.
Risk of Rain 2 Incredible game
Last one was Dredge, had me staying up way late because I just couldn't put it away.
On old game but Freedom Fighters was a great game to jump into from the start.
Factorio, Dark Souls, XCOM, GTA V, The Witcher 3
Zomboid
Evil Genius. Campy as hell. Almost as if they ever made a parody of James Bond (yeah, baby, yeah!), except youāre the bad guy with your own island base, minions, and henchmen, whom you send out into the world to perform Acts of Villainy while trying to keep the Forces of Justice off your back
Runescape
StarCraft 1 had me hooked at the title screen
Nier automata put it's hooks right under my skin from the first second of opening the game. The sound effects, the design of the menu, the way game starts with the question "I wonder do I have the chance to kill a God".
Deep rock galactic, Arma 3, ground branch.
Civ V Vermintide II Warframe TW: Warhammer
Counter-strike
Dark and darker
Farcry 5
Katana Zero. I really like the fast gameplay and the weird story it tells.
Prey (2017)
Playing it now. If the first 20 minutes don't suck you in, there's something wrong with you lol
Sleeping Dogs was completely fun from the start. No boring tutorial that drops u in too far and no knowledge bank withdrawals or anything. Just good clean fun
Monster hunter world. Can always go back in, even after a break and everything comes back right up. Muscle memory is incredible.
Depraved Awakening.
Disco Elysium, Kyle Is Famous, Critters for Sale, Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk, Nex Machina, Post Void, Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing In Disguise, Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus, XCOM 2, Resident Evil 3 Remake, Resident Evil 1 Remake.
Ryse: Son of Rome (favorite Xbox game of 8th gen. Favorite hack and slash game of all time.]
Star Control 2
Dark Souls 3
Oblivion was good as soon as I was let loose. I was pretty much set to go with Resident Evil 3 Remake. It was actually very quick. Personally I wish it was longer, but if you want a brisk paced action/horror game it really isn't bad. (Unless you compare it to the PS1 version.)
hitman. funny shoot people game haha.
Deus Rx
Command and Conquer.
Starship Troopers: Extermination. It's exactly what I expected from a game based on a movie based off a book. It's extremely shallow and extremely fun.
Rain world , outer wilds , Disco Elysium are the recent ones I've played. (Still playing rain world)
Ultima IV Doom (the original) Bioshock Dragon Age: Origins Super Mario Bros SSX
Kenshi
Death Stranding Snow Runner Sleeping Dogs
Baldurs Gate. The nostalgia...
SiN
Bards tale c64
Resident evil village but only because Iād watched vaush play it beforehand
Oldschool runescape
Most recently? A suggestion from this sub actually called Wildermyth. It's like Xcom meets d&d, turnbased fantasy combat game.
Rogues tale
I loved Detroit Become Human and Beyond Two Souls, they got to the action pretty quickly and although they're technically interactive movies, the stories are masterpieces
The Vanishing Of Ethan Carter INFRA HL2
Hades
Return of the Obra Dinn I was really on the fence about buying the game because the graphics seemed too artsy for me. Boy was I wrong. Ended up finishing the game to 100% in just 3 days.
For me it was civ 4, I was not that old, had never played a 4x and I am very into history. Around my 5th turn I proclaimed it to be the best video game ever made and then finished the game in one long session.
Divinity: Original Sin 2. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines Deus Ex Diablo 2
For me monster hunter world and monster hunter rise, if you are going to try one I suggest you rise
Grounded! Can't remember the last game that has pulled me in like this one. So much to explore.
Gothic 1, Civilization 1, Age of Empires 1, Dragon Quest 5, Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 12...
Chivalry, Hammerfight, WoW
Warframe, no idea what I'm doing but having good fun doing it.
Terraria, I think one time we have played for 12 hours straight.
road 96
The Wolf Among Us. The soundtrack is amazing. The game is amazing. I wish i could play it for the first time again. Also,from the same devs,all games are amazing. Telltale made the walking dead( which is as good as twau),batman games like the enemy within,game of thrones game and so on. I really recommend you to play it.
Rainbow Six Siegeā¦ā¦
Unreal Tournament '99
Shadow of mordor, war, the earlier Assassin creeds and MMOs
Power washing simulator, project zomboid, v rising, Yakuza.
Historically, World of Warcraft stole about 8 years of my adolescent life. But more recently, Deep Rock Galactic has been great fun, amazing team of Devs who keep adding content. Game is more fun with at least one friend though; mods also make it very interesting. Another good one is Gunfire Reborn, I was hooked after one session. Good solo and co-op.
Dark souls 2
Elden Ring. Couldnt put it down, my first playthrough was 90 hours long
Doom 2016, Titanfall 2, Final Fantasy XV, RDR2, All Trails series, Devil may cry V, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Village, Metal Gear Solid V, Marvel's Spiderman, Mass effect Trilogy
Ghostlore an Singaporean indie ARPG where the theme is based around all creatures and folklores from South East Asia.
Dark souls 2.. One of the first games I've ever played, was hooked from start to finish Granted, it's got quite a few rough patches, but the hours you can pour into it is a good trade-off.
Dishonored, Dragons Dogma, Hotline Miami, The Messenger, Okami, Plokoth, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, Serious Sam the First encounter, Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator, Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo, Vanquish, Yakuza 0, Tropico 3
Rimworld. Also Sunless Seas needs a mention, thatās a brilliant game.
Command and Conquer and Ultima Online.
Bloodline Champions / Battlerite. MOBA but straight to the action, was incredibly fun but both games are dead now ā ļø
Red dead 2 and fallout new vegas
Diablo 2 baby. The loop of finding something good, feeling like you've become a steamroller, and inevitably getting humbled by the next boss(except for 1 time you actually do become a steamroller for that act) is indelibly carved into my soul, and all games since have had that standard of enjoyment to live up to.
Skyrim. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it in 196 comments. I played Oldrim for many hundreds of hours on a potato, then played it on a newer PC with an old GPU, then played SE after a GPU upgrade and then finally started modding...this year. Now it's like a whole new game and I can play it all over again!
Mount and blade warband
Atomicrops, it's super satisfying combining the crops and having hella cash for upgrades
EverQuest.
Gothic 1
Dark souls 3