What is your favorite game?

[TheStationPlay]

My favorite is Micro Machines V4. Its this obsure PS2 game that i grew up with. I need to get one for my collection...

[CatHaRtIcSeraph]

Favorite Game? No division for genre or just as a catch all? Like choosing a favorite book or movie; it's tough to take all the great experiences I've had over the years and cherry pick one above the others.

From debating over a Bulbasaur or Squirtle in Pokemon Red, to pursuing Lu Bu as Ma Chao in Dynasty Warriors 3, saving Hyrule in multiple timelines, slaying Demons and the Covenant, to now perfecting FashionFrame and the art of Gwent it is hard to put one over the others. Maybe I haven't found my perfect game or am just too sentimental to past memories, hard to say.

[Oysterhead]

Sure, you couldn't have known. Just never mention the name Arcania to me ever again.

[7Archangels]

Final Fantasy X really got me into gaming and that is still my favorite game to this day. Yes, I want a FFX-3. :P

[TheMightyWyvern]

Its the only one Ive played so i guess i like it because i wasnt expecting much because i didnt play the others

[Silent Goddess]

Ace Combat 5 or Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. I kinda like them both equally.

[Lastie]

Fallout 1 and 2.. and WoW was my guilty pleasure in tbc, wotlk days.

[Nintendo Xbot]

It's really close, but I'd have to say Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is my favorite game (though Breath of the Wild is a very close second, but in the end, Ocarina has great dungeons and BOTW has mediocre shrines).

[Aimi]

Deus Ex is mine, I have played it since I was a young kid when I got it for free from my parents in Ion Storm bundle that someone gave them as they didn't want it. The only one that might compete with Deus Ex might be GTA: Vice City as it was the first game I can remember playing on my fathers PC.

[RepentantSky]

I'm a huge sucker for RPG's and since I'm on the wrong side of 30, there was a time when JRPG's were about the only option for the genre. Western RPG's didn't start picking up and becoming quality titles until I was already out of High School. With that in mind, my favorite RPG is also my favorite game, but it's not one game, but three that tell a complete story, and that would be the .hack GU series, which is technically 4 games now, hence my avatar. I just like the story, the atmosphere, the characters, all of that.

[Oysterhead]

*blood pressure rises* Arcania is not made by the same devs, but was made in the short time period where Piranha Bytes lost the license to their creation. The gameplay, or anything in the game, really, has nothing in common with Gothic, except a few names and this is basicly the worst thing you could have told me ^^

[MacSalad]

I've been playing games for quite a while. I started with Atari playing games like Moon Sweeper, Warlords, and Asteroids. One of my favorite games as a kid was the original Bionic Commando on the NES. I would say recently one of my favorites has to be Bloodborne.

[TheMightyWyvern]

The only gothic game I have played is arcania gothic 4, I like it.

[Oysterhead]

I complete Gothic 1 once in a year since release, never gets old.

It warms my heart to see Gothic in the first two pages on this international forum!

Gothic, the unrivalled pinnacle of video games, the holy Grail of action RPG, the best product digital media or any media has ever produced or will produce, .the game, which destroyed all future RPG's for me, facing their compared, absolute inferiority.
Soon it will be 20 years and nothing even comes close. Sadly even the developers Piranha Bytes seem to have lost their way, together with the people who made Gothic what it is.
Allthough their most recent game, Elex, has been a huge improvement over their last two games Risen 2 and 3, it still maybe 10% of what a good Gothic game should be in my opinion. Just like the trend seems to dictate, it is lacking RPG features, aswell as the many characters and dialogue, good combat system (yes I like the old Gothic 1+2 combat system), well designed, compact game world, simulation of NPC's and interaction with the world. Not taking you by the hand and having some trust in the player (no god damn map markers and shit like that. Just a map. If you buy one. NPC's explain the way etc).

I love Gothic's setting, the grim, rough colony of convicts imprisoned in a magical barrier to mine ore, who revolted against their captors and formed their own society with it's own logical hierarchies and rules. I also love the german voiceacting which is not comparable to the piss poor job they did on the english one, which has it's own goofy charme, though.
The sequel Gothic 2, together with it's addon "Night of the Raven", improves on everything except the main story, which only serves to dive into the great atmosphere of Gothic anyways, so it's not really a problem.

To this day there is an active modding community who made amazing stuff like the directx11 patch or l'hiver which greatly improve visuals aswell as many Story mods with hundreds of hours of gameplay.

I could write pages and pages about Gothic and my thoughts on it, but I think the less you know, the better the experience would be, so I'd just suggest that you play it, since you probably didn't. If you can get the german version with subtitles, that would probably help. Also I think it is best played with keyboard only.

I am not sure how much of my love for Gothic is nostalgia, but I know one thing:

Gothic will always be my number one.

[^Hellersche]

For me my Favorite Game is Final Fantasy X on PS2, 280 hours of Playtime got all the weapons and stuff and i still hate the Chocobo race to this day as the most annoying Minigame ever in a Videogame. xD