Gaming

Factorio. 10k hours and I still play it over and over again when I get cravings or when there's. No other games to play.

2nd is Minecraft and 3rd is rimworld

Of course all of them HEAVILY modded.

Yup, Super Metroid. Game is basically perfect. i have other near favorites like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells that have generally remained in place too, but Super Metroid is amazing and always a fun, perfectly atmospheric time.

Every game I play is like "this is good, but it's no Outer Wilds..."

Overall, bg3. Looking back all the way to pong, I haven't had as much fun for as long as with bg3.

Not that I want to play it every single time I put in game time. I do like variety too. But in terms of sheer joy of play, bg3 just hits the right points.

I can maybe see a future game topping it, though I suspect that would be a rarity what with the things in games that really hit for me being hard to find in one game. Even bg3 doesn't hit every single thing that I love in games, it just hits the most important ones. It's not perfect, but I've never required that in a game.

Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Surviving Mars, Stellaris and SWTOR.

All of them are my favourite game of all time.

Dragon Age Origins. A lot of game came close to it afterwards in my heart but couldn't beat it. (Like The Witcher 3, The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wilds and Mass Effect 2)

Portal 2.

It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it's Deadlock.

The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid's reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.

left 4 dead 2 - imperfect as it is, the friends and communities i played and modded versus games with, made it the best, thousands of hours well spent.

Can't pick one but my top are: Fallout New Vegas, Destroy All Humans 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo ODST, BG3, and Saints Row 4.

Edit: can't believe I forgot Okami, Infamous Second Son, and Simpsons Hit and Run.

FF7 (original)

Hard to choose from these three: Planescape Torment. Disco Elysium. World of Warcraft Vanilla.

and maybe MGS4 on PS3 was good. :)

Not sure if its my favourite , but Gothic 2 will always have a special place in my heart for being my first open world RPG.

Star Control II (1992)

I will forever call Star Control II "The best game of the 20th century"
It can be beaten but it will always remain my litmus test.

It's sublime story combined with the musical immersion,
sci-fi, adventure, humor and elements of mystery made it
feel you were the star of a sci-fi movie that was
on par with if not better than 20th century star wars and star trek.

Several games have come close over the years,
but those games are mostly great due to the sublime gameplay.

"We Love Katamari" came very close with as combined with
the gameplay just had very very memorable music on par with Star Control II,
and overall fun atmosphere.

Now to be fair, I hadn't played "Katamari Damacy" so the experience
might have been dulled for the second installment if I had,
yet the sheer fun I had with what the game was setting me up
for what I could roll up next was an adventure in itself.
But I do believe that "We Love Katamari" is the superior installment
of the series even if I hadn't played any of the others just by having
listened to a few songs of the two others.
They were okay, but "We Love Katamari"
is a five-star album on top of a fantastic game.

"Super Smash Bros. Melee" managed to beat everything in gameplay that came before.
The first time I played it was at a big LAN party as small side entertainment.
I skipped the LAN and played this for 48 hours straight.

I have to admit though that I practically stopped playing computer games
when World of Warcraft came out.
There's some other games that I truly enjoyed later, but I have to say
that most of them are in the SSBM category of perfect gameplay,
not as much an 'adventure immersion' that the former two had.

American McGee's Alice.

I love the atmosphere, the game play, and the soundtrack. It is awesome 🤘

If I split my life into 4 chapters:

1. Phantasy star 4 - great story, a game way ahead of its time
2. WoW
3. Oxygen Not Included
4. Satisfactory

Zelda 3: A Link to the Past for classics and Cyberpunk 2077 for modern. Though Deus Ex is also a classic now.

Sanctum 2. Though I do wish for a graphics update.

Terraria is so good, I keep going back to it. Subnautica is also amazing.

I’ve got a list. Only the first one is in order, the rest the order doesn’t matter.

Super Mario Bros 3

Chrono Trigger

Cyberpunk 2077

Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask (Ship of Harkinian/2Ship2Harkinian especially)

RimWorld

Factorio

Dungeons and Dragons.

Halo reach. I wish with all my heart I could play it again with no knowledge of how the story went. It's the one of two games to ever make me tear up with emotion.

Difficult to choose a single one. But a game that has been my stable side game for ages, that I constantly keep in circulation and that no other game has come close to replicating the feel of for me has been Enter the Gungeon.

RDR2

And it’s not even close

Depending on the mood:

• Dwarf Fortress
• Stellaris
• Project Zomboid

Original Borderlands on xbox360. Ain't no way I'll find anything I could spend as much time as I have in that game and still love it. Been playing on and off for over a decade, with DLCs included. And this is from me having come from the second game. Just happen to like the atmosphere and storytelling of the original better, for the most part.

Favorite character is specifically Mordecai since I think he has the best ability. Favorite weapon is between one of the fire and corrosive infinite ammo recharge alien weapons.

I always have a heavily modded skyrim running on every machine I game on. No mater what I can play that game over and over.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Expedition 33 quickly eclipsed anything that could have been considered my favorite game last year.

Pure art.

Minecraft. I don't come back to any other game as much. Minecraft can be what I want it to be more so than any other game I've played.

Celeste is a perfect game. My only complaint is that "it's just a platform game", which I don't find that interesting anymore compared to games like Deltarune. Still, it brings me lots of joy, even on replays.

Warframe!

Tough one actually,

I got a few, but these are my top picks:

• OG GTA San Andreas (IMHO, the best map and story) has lots of stuff to do, including an online community long before GTA Online was a thing.

• Sleeping Dogs (quite an underrated game even though it is getting more attention recently).

• An old-school platformer one: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (great OST, fun game to play)

I'm struggling to pick a single game, but this three(ish) games I could play forever:

• Pokémon Blue/Red/Yellow: essentially the same game. I'm pretty sure I have played over 1,000 hours of these games so far, especially since I've played them in different languages and trying to achieve different goals — lots of fun challenges to try here. Oh, yeah, let's add OG Pokémon Green there which I played in Japanese a couple of years ago.
• Pokémon Gold/Silver/Crystal: as with the first generation games, I've played these ones to exhaustion. In fact, I'm playing them right now. 200 hours in and counting!
• Xenoblade Chronicles: the "modern" game which has left the biggest impression on me. I put 100 hours into it and could do it again.