Games you can talk about forever.

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

Simply put, there are games that just leave a mark in your soul and will never come out.

For me, that game is Silent Hill 2.

I know, I know, it's like the video game equivalent of saying how deep Ayn Rand is. But there are still so many mysteries that I think need to be delved into that I don't think enough people touched. Like the inclusion of Angela and Eddie compared to James' crime. One did what they did for survival, and the other did a crime that some of us have done by driving late at night. In no shape or form anywhere near what James did.

So that always made me wonder if they were real at all. Or just counterpoints to James' crime. If you played the game and you think about it, it makes sense. The meek victim who did what it took to survive vs the picked on who could have chose to walk away but instead lashed out.

Yeah, it's already discussed and heavily pointed to in the game that they are already there to mock James in such a manner, but I want to go as far as to say they never existed at all. Images given life to further torment James.

... I can go more into it... but at this point I wanted to ask you all the games that you can never get enough conversation over.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

Jagged Alliance 2.

Still hasn't been equalled as a tactical RPG to this day. Much like X-Com (both the original and the remake) it's one of those games that, if you meet a fellow fan, you'll risk spending hours exchanging war stories about battles going tits up for the most hilarious or awesome reasons.

 

[American Tanker]

Spec Ops: The Line...

Spoiler: Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai...

Oh, this game got me in a way no other game had before or since. Finding out that you've been playing as the villain of the story all along, that Colonel Konrad was just a figment of Walker's imagination that he tried to pass the blame off to...

This game fucked with my head in ways I can't even describe. If you still haven't played it yourself, for whatever reason, just go out and do it. Deconstructs the military shooter genre very effectively. Made me have to rethink all the shooters I play.

 

[Erttheking]

Fallout New Vegas and Mass Effect, the two games that really got me to care about story in games. Granted, when I get to ME3, things get a lot more sour.

 

[jademunky]

Planescape: Torment

Everything from the planes of belief and how one's own beliefs impact reality in weird and surprising ways to the multiple incarnations of the player character himself to the discussions between the party members and their views on reality, Pharrod, Stale Mary, Reekwind (reference to Discworld's "Rincewind") Trias, Hargrimm, the sensory stones where you actually get to experience what a rat bastard you were in prior lifetimes, the fact that your best friend (and holy shit, he IS the truest friend you could ever ask for) is a floating-back-talking-disembodied-undead-skull-from-hell who insists on calling you "chief"!

Yeah, it was my favourite game 18 years ago and it still is.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

Probably Halo 3, Gears of War 2 and MGSV.

 

[Marik2]

The Metal Gear Solid series.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

The Mass Effect trilogy. I can discuss it for hours.

 

[CritialGaming]

The Witcher 3, Final Fantasy 7, World of Warcraft.

 

[Tanis]

Chrono Cross:
The number of endings gets a lot of love, but I adore the characters.
While, mechanically, there ARE superior team builds, I love how each character has his/her/it's own little story that adds to the world.
Plus, the music and the graphic style are so damn good.

 

[Yoshi178]

The Metroid Games.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

The Yakuza games. And if we're allowing visual novels, Danganronpa. I can go into pretty great detail on both of those. There's also The World Ends With You, the game that saved my life.

 

[sanquin]

-The Mass Effect trilogy, yes even the ending of 3. In fact, I rather enjoy bashing the ME3 ending from time to time.

-The Witcher series. I see number 1 as an underappreciated game. Had it come out a few years earlier it would have probably been lauded at the saviour of rpgs. The other two are awesome, even if they have flaws.

-World of Warcraft. I'm less interested when I stop playing for a while of course. But when I do play I can talk about it for ages. And even outside of that, the game has such a long history already. So much to talk about.

-Nosgoth. I loved that game and am still sad that it got cancelled before it was out of beta. I get that a game can't sustain itself with only 500 or so concurrent players, but that was kinda their own fault by focusing on the ingame store too much and not doing enough to fix the game's bugs and to market it.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

MGS series
SoulsBorne series
The Witcher series
Mortal Kombat series
God of War series

They all have interesting lore, and a good variety of gameplay. I also find Horizon: Zero Dawn?s lore surprisingly deep, but I?m not done with it yet. The data points really flesh out the backstory and give context to the past civilization, and the vantage points give it weight. Hearing about an ancient place and seeing how it?s been affected over time really clicks with me.

I also agree with OP?s option, but for the overall series as well.

 

[Mikeybb]

The first Xcom for the reasons stated here.

Jagged Alliance 2.

Still hasn't been equalled as a tactical RPG to this day. Much like X-Com (both the original and the remake) it's one of those games that, if you meet a fellow fan, you'll risk spending hours exchanging war stories about battles going tits up for the most hilarious or awesome reasons.

I didn't get as deep into jagged alliance 2, but I do remember it fondly.

When left for dead 2 first came out, I remember there was always a new story of how a mission went right/horribly wrong at each session of our gaming group.

Oh, Civilisation the series too, of course.
Even if it is akin to Rimmer telling stories of his risk campaigns, I have so many tales of empires that nearly were.

 

[Saelune]

Well, Morrowind alone ofcourse. Add in the rest of TES and fugetaboutit.

Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle, one of the first JRPGs I played and will never forget, it still looks good and the music is amazing. I have a feeling that now I'll find it grindy but I've played it twice when I was young.

And there it is. There is what could turn us, two people normally so ideologically opposed, into people who could stand eachother, atleast for a time.

That game does like, EVERYTHING, and its all good! Time travel, literal world/settlement building, crafting, photography, party swapping, collecting creatures, golf, mecha building, dungeon crawling, etc!

Ya know, they put out a slightly updated version on PS4.

I still get the intro song stuck in my head sometimes...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

The Silent Hill and Resident Evil franchises - Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4 in particular.
Also God of War and the BioShock games.

 

[Cold Shiny]

I could talk about Bioshock Infinite for a very long time. Not just because of the game, but also because of the polarizing opinions that surround it.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

The Silent Hill and Resident Evil franchises - Silent Hill 2 and Resident Evil 4 in particular.

Hello, I would like to be your friend. And by friend, I mean I would like to discuss the dubious manner of morality governing the resort town of Silent Hill.