How did your favorite game become your favorite game?

[LUNARMYTH]

Or perhaps you have a good memory associated with it.
For instance, my favorite game is Final Fantasy VIII. I was probably 5 years old when the older neighbor kid booted up disc 1 while I was at his house. As soon as that FMV started playing with Liberi Fatali I knew I was sold. I've played FF8 so many damn times, at least once every year since 1999.

P.S: My older brother ratted me out because he saw me summon Shiva and tried telling my mom there was a naked woman on my PlayStation. I mean, he wasn't really wrong but c'mon, haha.

 

[Yousef]

I really really liked it

 

[VampireLord1024]

I enjoyed playing it and liked some characters or had a favorite level within the game.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

I really really liked it

I suppose that's the only reason you need, lol.

 

[Waffles]

There was a very specific moment very early into my very first playthrough of the original Deus Ex when I was expecting an instant game over for my wanton disregard for the mission's objectives... and the game not only let me continue, but addressed what I had done with in-game consequences. How could I not love a game that felt so alive when every other one I was playing at the time would have terminated me right there and then?

 

[orionscum]

Final Fantasy 4 grew into my favorite game mostly due to being forced to replay it numerous times
Every console I've played it on, my PS2, my PS3, my PSP, and even a GBA emulator has somehow died once I reached the Moon.
My PS2's laser burnt out and the memory card failed, my PS3's emulation of the PSX's video bugged out and the game became unplayable, my PSP's battery exploded, and 2 laptops I emulated it on got destroyed right as I reached the Moon.
Eventually I fixed the PS2 and finally beat that omen of death.
It was incredibly worth it and I'm replaying it on my steam deck. Fingers crossed it doesn't explode.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

There was a very specific moment very early into my very first playthrough of the original Deus Ex when I was expecting an instant game over for my wanton disregard for the mission's objectives... and the game not only let me continue, but addressed what I had done with in-game consequences. How could I not love a game that felt so alive when every other one I was playing at the time would have terminated me right there and then?

I too am a sucker for consequential, in-game choices.

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Final Fantasy 4 grew into my favorite game mostly due to being forced to replay it numerous times
Every console I've played it on, my PS2, my PS3, my PSP, and even a GBA emulator has somehow died once I reached the Moon.
My PS2's laser burnt out and the memory card failed, my PS3's emulation of the PSX's video bugged out and the game became unplayable, my PSP's battery exploded, and 2 laptops I emulated it on got destroyed right as I reached the Moon.
Eventually I fixed the PS2 and finally beat that omen of death.
It was incredibly worth it and I'm replaying it on my steam deck. Fingers crossed it doesn't explode.

You knew everything about the game except The Moon at that point, haha. That's terribly bad luck man. Hoping the Steam Deck pulls through for you.

 

[Abecero]

Final Fantasy 8 was my first ever FF, so guess I'm a bit biased and all, but despite its flaws and such, I just love it. The Gunblade will always be the most coolest weapon ever, imo, lol.

For some other games which I consider my absolute favorites:
Crash Team Racing for simply being the best kart racing game *ever,* and that's a fact. Chocobo Racing is another quite favorite of mine, due to nostalgia/childhood, lol, and the credits song is simply amazing.
Klonoa 1 and 2, I simply adore the characters and stories in it, and the second one (due to having played that first) is one of the first ever games to give me "the feels", as its said, and that left me a deep impression on me, eh. Undertale for the same reason, which I was lucky to play blind, before the internet went crazy over it, lol.

Another one is the original Nights into dreams. Amazing soundtrack, great gameplay and beautiful characters and worlds, plus something else: The first time I ever saw the game, was in a videogame magazine, in a retro article reviewing the game, and, to this day I still don't know why, I felt... nostalgic towards the game. A game I had never played nor knew it existed until then. I really can't explain why I felt that way, I think the game its just magical like that, heh.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Final Fantasy 8 was my first ever FF, so guess I'm a bit biased and all, but despite its flaws and such, I just love it. The Gunblade will always be the most coolest weapon ever, imo, lol.

Likewise, when it's your first FF you have no comparison so for you and I it's just a fantastic video game. I welcome you with open arms fellow FF8 kinsman.

 

[Pill_Furly]

Street Fighter Alpha 3

loved street fighter and had 2 turbo on the Snes and wanted one for my PS1 and my god this game changed my life

I didnt think anything could come close to an arcade game yet alone build on it with the World Tour mode and just all the extra modes available to play

it only supports DPad but as a Bison/Guile player I just couldnt do it so I had to buy a 3rd party controller from Toys R Us called the Baracuda 2 cuz you could use the anulog stick as your DPad and boom now I can play as Guile easy peazy

so damn good and played so much I got pretty good with half the roster and im still learning new ways to play to this day

Shin Akuma thats all

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Street Fighter Alpha 3

loved street fighter and had 2 turbo on the Snes and wanted one for my PS1 and my god this game changed my life

I didnt think anything could come close to an arcade game yet alone build on it with the World Tour mode and just all the extra modes available to play

it only supports DPad but as a Bison/Guile player I just couldnt do it so I had to buy a 3rd party controller from Toys R Us called the Baracuda 2 cuz you could use the anulog stick as your DPad and boom now I can play as Guile easy peazy

so damn good and played so much I got pretty good with half the roster and im still learning new ways to play to this day

Shin Akuma thats all

I was a wee lad, too young to understand Street Fighter, my saving grace was using Blanka's down special electricity move as a spam, haha.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, maybe because of the sprite work, the colours, the items, the dungeons and the bosses

The world felt so huge, the exploration stuff is really fun! Despite all the flaws, I'm glad that they even tried making a top down Legend of Zelda game for the GBA, one of the last game to have such an incredible sprite work

 

[ConanTheDestroyer]

Final Fantasy 6 for me. It was my first FF and I remember being obsessed with it. To the point I was playing it during exam times even when I shouldn't have . Quite a few people I have talked to rate their first FF as their favourite as well, probably because of all the good memories associated with it.

 

[Karnik]

My favorite games belong to the Super Robot Taisen series, above all because they contain the protagonists of the mecha anime series of my childhood (eighties) and retrace their plot, although intertwined with each other. Especially SRW Alpha Gaiden, SRW A Portable, because they were translated into english and therefore understandable.

 

[glokglakglak]

there's just no explaining how ff9 is my favourite
you just gotta be a kid all over again and play it to understand it i guess

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Final Fantasy 6 for me. It was my first FF and I remember being obsessed with it. To the point I was playing it during exam times even when I shouldn't have . Quite a few people I have talked to rate their first FF as their favourite as well, probably because of all the good memories associated with it.

I still haven't played more than an hour or so of 6. It is on my bucket list though, I started from 8 and went back for 7 after that. I've heard much praise for 6 and it's in my collection.

My favorite games belong to the Super Robot Taisen series, above all because they contain the protagonists of the mecha anime series of my childhood (eighties) and retrace their plot, although intertwined with each other. Especially SRW Alpha Gaiden, SRW A Portable, because they were translated into english and therefore understandable.

I did grab a couple of the English translations for this series. Glad to see its praise. Another one for the backlog for sure.

there's just no explaining how ff9 is my favourite
you just gotta be a kid all over again and play it to understand it i guess

No need to explain anything my friend. 9 is second only to 8 for me. I even went for the ridiculous jump rope achievement on Steam and hate myself for it, lol.

 

[Dyne]

Contra - my first simultaneous co-op game. It was so hard but so much fun to play together! Now I can beat it without dying once (sometimes)

A Link to the Past - it was this huge epic adventure. It felt so much bigger than anything on the NES. I used to talk about it with my friends at recess and compare secrets we found. This is still my favorite Zelda.

Final Fantasy 4 - my first JRPG. I fell in love with a genre I didnt know the name of. My little brother claims he learned how to read by playing this game lol. We were so bad at it and for some reason we'd get stuck and decide to start over from the beginning.

Chrono Trigger - this felt like the JRPG perfected. I never owned it as a kid, so I'd rent it and get as far as I could before we had to return it. Then we'd rent it again and I'd pray my save file was still on it. Usually it wasn't and I'd start over (worth it!)

Xenogears - this game was way too deep for me. It still is lol. But I love the story and characters and philosophy and music and mechs. I usually dont wish for remakes (I prefer originals most of the time) but I wish they would remake it with a fully fleshed-out "disc 2"

I could go on and on. I always have trouble picking just 1 favorite anything

 

[BlissfulBandit]

Dark Cloud 2 just felt magical as a kid, I loved that game so much I wanted to live in it. But above all I'm most thankful that it drove me to learn english.

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Dark Cloud 2 just felt magical as a kid, I loved that game so much I wanted to live in it. But above all I'm most thankful that it drove me to learn english.

Hell yeah. I have yet to ever finish Dark Cloud 2 but I love both of them. Dark Cloud 1 itself is a fantastic game.

 

[ElysiumGD]

Despite the fact that I was pretty much born into the 7th/8th console generation (my first console game was Need For Speed Most Wanted '12), I've started taken an interest in older games, especially older racing games like the Black Box-era NFS games, Burnout, Midnight Club & Tokyo Xtreme Racer, the latter of which is my main focus atm as I'm playing thru some of them on PCSX2. I play newer games when I feel like it, but by in large most of my time is spent playing older games.

I never really have a favourite anything, but if I had to think one of one game right now, it would be Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2, known as Kaido Battle: Touge No Densetsu in Japan. For a game released in 2005 by a relatively small developer, it has an impressive amount of depth, from sponsor sticker placements influencing the amount of money you'll get from said sponsors to a dozen or so mountain pass & rally courses, solid car list, different event types & a day/night cycle very similar to what Need For Speed Heat & Unbound would implement; sanctioned events at day, high-stakes rivalries by night, albeit without cops or an open world. It's a long game as well, only finished it last weekend. I would recommend it for anyone who wants to get into other Japanese racing games other than Gran Turismo.

 

[MistHunter]

Super mario world was quite the experience.
every exit, every secret, every alternative route.

I had both dreams and nightmares, reaching the edge of the game and asking myself:
"is there something more, beyond the map boundaries?".
new levels, new secrets, new possibilities.

and today, there is lunar magic and super mario maker 1 & 2.
missing those dreams, though.

then, in my dreams, sometimes the background was in the height seen from ralph the raven
(yoshi's island, world 5-8), in a more astounding way.
just looking new continents, new areas, beyond dinosaur land...

 

[LUNARMYTH]

Super mario world was quite the experience.
every exit, every secret, every alternative route.

I had both dreams and nightmares, reaching the edge of the game and asking myself:
"is there something more, beyond the map boundaries?".
new levels, new secrets, new possibilities.

and today, there is lunar magic and super mario maker 1 & 2.
missing those dreams, though.

Super Mario World is just one of those games that you boot up and go:

The dopamine I get from envisioning it on a CRT has few rivals.

 

[MistHunter]

Super Mario World is just one of those games that you boot up and go:

The dopamine I get from envisioning it on a CRT has few rivals.

Truly agreed.

 

[Kaimeli45]

well my favorite game of all time was two games The legend of Zelda twilight princess and Mega man Zero, twilight princess was the first game i bought with my own money! and it took me a long time to pass it on when I was a child because I didn't know english XD and I had to guess what to do

And meet Mega man Zero when i saw my dad play it on an emulator on his phone and I said "can I play?" and he said ''sure'' after that I fell in love with the saga and played ALL of them

 

[LUNARMYTH]

well my favorite game of all time was two games The legend of Zelda twilight princess and Mega man Zero, twilight princess was the first game i bought with my own money! and it took me a long time to pass it on when I was a child because I didn't know english XD and I had to guess what to do

Haha, nice. Wicked truth is I have never finished a Zelda game! But I have gained ground in several of them, I enjoy Oracle of Seasons/Ages a lot. I'm also a big fan of Mega Man 8 - Anniversary Edition on PS1.

And meet Mega man Zero when i saw my dad play it on an emulator on his phone and I said "can I play?" and he said ''sure'' after that I fell in love with the saga and played ALL of them

This gave me a good chuckle because my dad has no idea what an emulator is.