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Credits of the last game I played: "Oh what a beauty, I've never seen one as big as it before..."
Mine is Cosmic Fantasy 2, for the TurboGrafx-16 CD System, was a game that I was given when I was not even a teenager yet, and I beat that without any guides, without any walkthroughs, without any support, and nobody helped me.
I believe it was the first game that I beat on my own.
I tried replaying it for nostalgia's sake, and the interface is so clunky and bad.
It uses a static card system for the enemies, nobody moves, the pacing is very slow, battles are frequent and pretty grueling, but I still remember the music, and I remember that it was the first game I ever played that had full motion video in it, even though it was anime full motion video, and the story was actually fantastic.
I honestly wish they would reboot this game or remake this game. There's like an entire Cosmic Fantasy series of role-playing games that were huge, like in the 90s, I guess, early 2000s, something, and they just freaking disappeared. And in English translation, we only got Cosmic Fantasy 2.
There's a lot of good story to mine, and the best part is it's a crossover where, like, some worlds have magic and some worlds have technology and people go back and forth between them and there's all sorts of different interesting creatures and stories that each world is experiencing.
A Plague Tale: Requiem.
I wouldn't say it changed my life, but I couldn't get myself to play another game for some time after both Plague Tale games back-to-back.
That game had me completely enraptured until we go to people controlling the rats, and using them as ocean waves crashing through the village.
It went so far off the fuckin rails. I just couldn't. I had to just walk away.
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Omori, not much to add, it was the first game to give me goosebumps, or only game so far, and truly feel sad
Getting the good ending in The Witcher 3. So much relief.
Completing the Chains of Promathia expansion of Final Fantasy XI back when that was pretty uncommon among the playerbase (like 2005 or 2006)
Games, books and movies don't change your life. At most it makes you think about something a little deeper. A little longer.
Life events change your life. A child. Death. Life. Love. Hate. War. Hope. Loss. Peace. Safety. Destruction. And money. Or lack of.
The most impactful game I played, which story I still really remember after 25 years? Homeworld. Hiigara. Our home.
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