Fez - beautiful art, beautiful music [0], nostalgia with a modern take
Journey - beautiful game that does not center on combat
Braid - good art, great puzzles and a game mechanic that is fully realized and explored (time rewind)
Cuphead - gorgeous art, like playing a Fleischer brothers cartoon
Monument Valley - simple but perplexing puzzles wrapped in gorgeous art
One Hour One Life (and, smaller in scope but Passage) - an MMO where you spawn as a helpless baby then grow into a full adult in one hour. The game forces others to cooperate or else you die within the first few minutes [1]. Passage was one of the first games that took me aback [2].
Not sure if "memorable" is the right word for it but "addictive" and "things I play too much" are: Beat saber, Pistol Whip, Crypt of the Necrodancer (all beat games)
For nostalgia reasons: Doom, Angband, Nettreck, (original) Legend of Zelda.
Games I haven't played but have heard are good: The Witness, Legend of Obra Din, Undertale, Transistor, Night in the Woods, Dwarf Fortress
The AAA games, or their equivalent, are like blockbuster movies to me: well scripted, well animated, have lots of "game feel" but ultimately lacking in the artistry it takes to make a memorable game. AAA games can have an impact on people in that way but I suspect this is mostly due to someones first exposure to a full game which usually happens in their teen years. You can probably guess my age from the games I like for nostalgia reasons.
EDIT: added features I like about the games and some links
According to Hollywood one does not simply homebrew Phenylacetone. In movies like The Witness or the TV show Breaking Bad their entire plotlines revolve around people killing to get a drop of the stuff. It's not like it's anything new or that ephedra is some kind of natural produce that grows on trees. Skimming through your article it sounds like these cartel chemists are dropping dead in their laboratories trying to make it and producing a final product that's more like krokodil if anything.
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Fez - beautiful art, beautiful music [0], nostalgia with a modern take
Journey - beautiful game that does not center on combat
Braid - good art, great puzzles and a game mechanic that is fully realized and explored (time rewind)
Cuphead - gorgeous art, like playing a Fleischer brothers cartoon
Monument Valley - simple but perplexing puzzles wrapped in gorgeous art
One Hour One Life (and, smaller in scope but Passage) - an MMO where you spawn as a helpless baby then grow into a full adult in one hour. The game forces others to cooperate or else you die within the first few minutes [1]. Passage was one of the first games that took me aback [2].
Not sure if "memorable" is the right word for it but "addictive" and "things I play too much" are: Beat saber, Pistol Whip, Crypt of the Necrodancer (all beat games)
For nostalgia reasons: Doom, Angband, Nettreck, (original) Legend of Zelda.
Games I haven't played but have heard are good: The Witness, Legend of Obra Din, Undertale, Transistor, Night in the Woods, Dwarf Fortress
The AAA games, or their equivalent, are like blockbuster movies to me: well scripted, well animated, have lots of "game feel" but ultimately lacking in the artistry it takes to make a memorable game. AAA games can have an impact on people in that way but I suspect this is mostly due to someones first exposure to a full game which usually happens in their teen years. You can probably guess my age from the games I like for nostalgia reasons.
EDIT: added features I like about the games and some links
[0] https://music.disasterpeace.com/album/fez-ost
[1] http://onehouronelife.com/
[2] http://passage.toolness.org/
According to Hollywood one does not simply homebrew Phenylacetone. In movies like The Witness or the TV show Breaking Bad their entire plotlines revolve around people killing to get a drop of the stuff. It's not like it's anything new or that ephedra is some kind of natural produce that grows on trees. Skimming through your article it sounds like these cartel chemists are dropping dead in their laboratories trying to make it and producing a final product that's more like krokodil if anything.
ISTR thinking the documentary “The Witness” by her brother was good. It’s on Prime.