Whether you started with a 2600 and a joystick in your hand, an N64 with a blistered palm or building your first PC in your teens, what is that one video game you’ve played at some point that to this day sits at the top of your list.
Dishonored, I absolutely adore that game, and it still looks so good because of the art direction they took with it. Funny enough, it was the same art director as Half Life 2
Gotta go with Morrowind. It was a pretty formative experience during my early teenage years, and it’s one of the few that I boot back up for a fresh run about once a year. Instigating the downfall of the Tribunal has become something of an autumn ritual for me. I know the world map layout of Morrowind better than I remember the layout of some of my own childhood homes.
It’s a little clunky and not enjoyable for a lot of people that jumped into Elder Scrolls with Oblivion or Skyrim, but for old school fans, it’s still probably the single greatest product that Bethesda has ever released. Fallout New Vegas makes a close second place on that list, but at least in my opinion, Morrowind holds the crown and given modern Bethesda’s tendencies I don’t expect that to change.
Elden Ring
Ocarina of Time.
Honestly, I just didn’t like the hub-wield element of MM as much as the geography of Hyrule in OoT. It had much more interesting social quests, and combat was smoother, but it just wasn’t what I was there for.
It probably didn’t help that I didn’t have a Memory Pak, and didn’t get to play MM until I got the GCN Collectors Edition disc like 10 years after it originally came out.
Morrowind. Morrowind’s world just feels alive and as someone who knows the game inside out that game just feels home