I'm 37 years old and have been gaming since I was 4 or 5 (My dad brought an Atari home. He got bored with it quickly, I didn't).
A list of games that have been influential to me, have captured my imagination in the way only games can, and have kept me genuinely entertained even long after I had completed the game itself. I'm a very creative person and games that offer me a chance to create or go about solving issues on my own tend to be my favorites.
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My favorite game. Absolutely. I have well over 200 hours clocked in this game and there are more to come. I grew up idolizing Conan the Barbarian and I always played a Barbarian on table top DnD. When I make up characters in other fantasy games it is always a brutal barbarian/melee warrior. This setting brought all of that alive. The dragons were incredible, the setting was savage and noble, and story was incredible. I wish Bethesda would release new content continuously like WoW patches and expansions. I'd never stop playing this game.
This game is so engrossing. I was immediately drawn into the world. Just riding my horse from one point on the map to another without fast travel was so beautiful, I found myself skipping the fast travel option frequently. I love this game and devoured it in a few weeks and then devoured the 1st expansion in less than a week and am eagerly anticipating the 2nd expansion.
I have replayed this game once a year since it was released in 2000. I love the music, the story, the characters, and the magic. Moments of npc banter can be truly hilarious (Minsc and Boo) and touching (Aerie or Jaheira) and it always draws you in. The combat is extraordinarily fun and can be balls-out brutal when fighting a Dragon or very powerful Lich.....as it SHOULD BE.
Before Baldur's Gate, before Dragon Age, there was Ultima. Released in 1992, Ultima VII has elements that still haven't been recaptured in any game since. The NPCs are extremely interesting and the quests are nothing short of epic...and very real. I spent years enjoying this game and discovering new things about this open world. If I had a computer that could still run it in all it's 386 glory, I'd start playing it again immediately.
The game is so good I'm not sure I have the words to properly convey just how enamored I am with it. Gameplay, the story, the stark and brutal setting that is deeply, deeply mature. The visuals are beyond anything else that will come out this year or years to come, I'm quite sure.
I have been a fanboy to Westerns for nearly all my life. RDR was able to suck me into the wild west and the story of John Marsten better than some movies I've watched. This is the first game I've felt compelled to get 100% complete my first playthrough.
Dragon Age: Origins is a wonderful adventure. The morality is vague and the characters are worthy of exploring their pasts. It builds on the base of Baldur's Gate.
Geralt is a hunter. This game really sucked me into the world of The Witcher. I was astonished to find seemingly trivial choices I made early in the game would have serious overreaching consequences much later in the game. I love how they handled adult themes like racism, sex, and violence in such a blunt and grown-up fashion. The game is among my "need to replay this at least once a year" games and I very much enjoy every playthrough.
I preferred the darker tone of ME2 and the combat. I liked the missions very much and loved...LOVED exploring other planets and finding a side mission. All the NPCs were very well done and I enjoyed playing through their individual missions. I loved how my decisions could impact the entire story and the survival or my character or the NPCs was never a sure thing.
The God of War series is so great and God of War III is the culmination of all of the series' greatness. The visuals, the gameplay, the epic action. It's all so great and it is a game I will come back to again and again.