What game(s) no matter what, you will always have in high regard

Heavy Gear 1/2. Everyone else was a Mechwarrior fan. I was a Heavy Gear fan. I still am. I liked the missions better, I liked the lore... at least as well, if not better.

Rocket Jockey. What a weird game. And it sadly will never get a sequel or remake, I'm sure - there have been two or three attempts, both as a commercial game and as a fan thing, and none have ever gone anywhere. But it's a very... unique game. It's held back a little by the somewhat janky engine, particularly looking back on it, but there really isn't anything else like it.

 
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Ready 2 Rumble Boxing and Hydro Thunder were my jam back when I first got a Dreamcast as a kid and are still high quality games, even if their graphics are aged at this point. Phantasy Star Online was my Diablo 2 when I was growing up. Virtual On was awesome as well, remember playing that with my dad in an arcade one time and revisiting it today I still love it.

Future Cop: LAPD, Omega Boost, Klonoa, those Jumping Flash games, Koudelka, those are the ones that spring to my mind first when I think of the PS1 library. I also genuinely love Crash Bandicoot 1 despite how much of an absolute ballbuster it is.
 
Battlefield Bad Company 2 - Rush Mode
  • Good example of fun and meaningful asymmetry, attackers vs. defenders. Both sides with a sandbox.
  • Fun and varied gunplay with a high skill ceiling
  • Destruction mechanic that suits gameplay rather than hype trailers. Topple a building to destroy what's inside, clear trees for a better field of fire, blow up a wall to eliminate the enemy's concealment, etc.
  • Fun voice acting. Awesome animations and radio chatter between rounds and stages.
  • Wookie suits
The game is still as fun as ever, and I'd say technically superior to everything since despite its age.

EA is finally shutting their services December 8th, but there's enough of a diehard cult following that there is a community platform to carry the torch. You can transfer your soldier too.
 
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Homefront's gameplay might've fallen flat, but I will always treasure it for having the best opening cutscene I've ever seen.
 
Well, Morrowind

But also VTMB, L4D2, Portal 2, TF2, Kenshi, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Splatoon 2, most 3D TLoZ and Mario games.
 
>thread about games that you like no matter what which implies these are not popular
>its all games that are super popular and highly regarded by everyone except dipshit contrarians

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Anyway, here is my list
  • Sonic Adventure 2: still the best 3D sonic game, was the last time anyone at SEGA gave a shit about the franchise.
  • Homeworld 2: still better than 1, fight me.
  • Doom3: I been replaying the VR mod and it has aged like fine wine, even games that came after it don't look this good.
  • Gears of War 2: the first was a tech demo, 3 was meh, everything else was shit.
  • CoDMW1: MW2 sucked, MW3 was cringy, I don't care about any nostalgia zoomies have.
  • MGS Peace Walker: funny how the best MGS is the portable one, and yes that includes MGS3 which is incredibly overrated.
  • GTAIV: its better than V, Niko is the best protag of the HD series by far.
  • Hardspace Shipbreaker.
  • Dead Space 3.
 
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Vanquish will always be one of the best games of all time, and the best shooter ever made. It’s very hard for a game to be as fun, fast-paced, and filled with soul as vanquish is. There’s very few games I call masterpieces but that’s one of them.

Final Fantasy X is extremely nostalgic for me. That’s when the series peaked. No matter how shitty the voice acting is, pretty much everything about this game is great. I’d put it in the same tier as vanquish as the best in its genre. The intro of the game hooked me when I played it for the first time. Tidus speaking while To Zanarkand plays in the background is unforgettable.
 
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Dark is a stealth vampire game, its as close to a Vampire the masquerade game without the license. To many it is either a bad game or a below average game but to me its good enough. The protagonist is voiced by Geralt from The Witcher.
 
I don't think a game's ending has ever satisfied me as much as Dark Souls 3 did. It was a stellar finale to the franchise.

The stakes felt so much higher than in the previous games. People are not only going Hollow, but mutating. Everything that ever was is collapsing in on itself. It has an apocalyptic urgency; "this is it. There will be no more cycle after this. It's do or die."

I disagree that the DS1 callbacks were just fanservice rehashes. I thought they were tying up loose ends and concluding the story arcs.

The Ringed City just blew me away. The vistas of the Dreg Heap, the final battle with Slave Knight Gael in an endless field of ash, and bringing the Dark Soul to the Painter so a new world can be made... it was beautifully bittersweet.

And that soundtrack:


Stop it, Miyazaki-san! My penis can only get so erect!
 
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Heavy Gear 1/2. Everyone else was a Mechwarrior fan. I was a Heavy Gear fan. I still am. I liked the missions better, I liked the lore... at least as well, if not better.

Rocket Jockey. What a weird game. And it sadly will never get a sequel or remake, I'm sure - there have been two or three attempts, both as a commercial game and as a fan thing, and none have ever gone anywhere. But it's a very... unique game. It's held back a little by the somewhat janky engine, particularly looking back on it, but there really isn't anything else like it.

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I only got to play a little bit of Heavy Gear 2 due to my computer being old and crotchety back then, but from what I did experience it was an amazing game. Shame it didn't take off much further than the games and that little TV show. It deserved better.

I have a lot of games I enjoy and hold in high regard, but as a throwback to a lesser-known title, I'd have to say Z. It's a fun little game where American robots are killing each other, the game is a bit unusual in that you had to capture territories to produce timer-based reinforcements, and you could hijack/commandeer vehicles depending on unit matchup as well as destroy the environment. It was full of character and plenty of entertainment, a game well worth trying at least once.
 

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Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2, it was even ignored for the remaster trilogy (or would've been a remaster trilogy if they actually included B2). It's the best one by far.

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>thread about games that you like no matter what which implies these are not popular
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Anyway, here is my list
  • Sonic Adventure 2: still the best 3D sonic game, was the last time anyone at SEGA gave a shit about the franchise.
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SA2 is one of the most highly regarded games in the series, your own reasoning often being cited. If any Sonic belongs in this thread it's Sonic Pocket Adventure, often overlooked or dismissed as a rehashed demake.

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Final Fantasy X is extremely nostalgic for me. That’s when the series peaked. No matter how shitty the voice acting is, pretty much everything about this game is great. I’d put it in the same tier as vanquish as the best in its genre. The intro of the game hooked me when I played it for the first time. Tidus speaking while To Zanarkand plays in the background is unforgettable.
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I think the voice acting is good, maybe a little flat at times but overall pretty solid, especially Tidus and Auron.
 
A Link to the Past
NBA Jam
Super Mario 64 and Sunshine
Ocarina of Time
Bayonetta
GTA V
Saints Row, the one with the aliens
Super Princess Peach
Bejewled
Pokémon Puzzle League
Mario Kart Double Dash
TMNT: Turtles in Time?
Dr. Mario
The Simpsons Hit and Run
 
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SA2 is one of the most highly regarded games in the series, your own reasoning often being cited. If any Sonic belongs in this thread it's Sonic Pocket Adventure, often overlooked or dismissed as a rehashed demake.
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Most modern sonic fans say is mid, that the story is cringe (more 'meh' in my opinion but who plays a sonic game for the story lmao) and blame the camera because they can't play a game that isn't running on a rail and pressing buttons that flash on the screen.
 
The more I think about it, the longer the list gets:

Deus Ex
Vanquish
Zone of the Enders
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Dark Arisen
Demon's Souls
Nioh
SSX Tricky
Dynasty Warriors 4
Ketsui
Ginga Force
Eschatos
Strania: The Stella Machina
Border Down
Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne
Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
Dragon's Crown
13 Sentinels
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Ultrakill
Devil May Cry 1, 3 & 5
Ridge Racer 4
Daytona USA
Wipeout Pure
F-Zero GX/ AX
Metroid Fusion & Zero Mission
Armored Core: The Last Raven
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
Oracle of Ages & Oracle of Seasons
Vagrant Story
FFXII
 
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Sonic Adventure. The first game (despite being incredibly jank) on the Dreamcast still holds to my heart as the first true 3D Sonic game, and that opening still kicks my ass to this day.

NFL 2k5. Everything about this game was just fucking great (if you liked football). The presentation, the way the camera moved, the ESPN integration.. it was better than Madden (as far as AI and controls went), and I HATE to this day that EA still has the NFL license exclusivity because it killed NFL 2k.

Eternal Champions. It was oddly unique with its over all plot and characters. The soundtrack fucking rocks, and I'm still pissed it hasn't seen a revival or at least a tease of one. The Sega CD version of it likely fucked with that possibility.

Road Rash (any of them). My GOD, why hasn't there been a revival of THIS particular franchise, I'll never know.
 
Bloodborne (especially with the DLC's)
Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and 5
Shin Megami Tensei III and V (playing V: Vengeance now, might be my favourite game of all time so far)
Dark Chronicle (Dark Cloud 2 in the US)
Tekken 4
Silent Hill 2 and 3
Zone of the Enders 2
Okami
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3
Gran Turismo 3 and 4
Soul Calibur 3

Those are the games that I really really enjoyed. They have flaws (most of them are from the PS2 era), but they all had a massive impact on my gaming life.

I could be happy never playing any other games except these.
 
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Xenogears and its hilariously bad spiritual successors.

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You shall be as Gods.
 
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