Majesty the Kingdom Sim My first real game that I got any good at. From the era of top down builders like simcity and such. It’s probably not as robust as many other games buy it was by far the most influential game that taught resource management t
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time The n64 was the first home console I got, and this was, as probably many people, first foray into an “open world” other than Mario 64. It was also harder than any other game I’d played before and in retrospective I greatly enjoyed platformers later.
Ratchet: Deadlocked I love the series, I have almost all of them. But this was the culmination of the combat and Upgrade systems and mods that 2 introduced. The black sheep failure of the series, remains probably my most played and most devoted to getting Platinum for.
True games that game complete, without fucking bullshit transactions of cut content designed to suck my wallet dry.
Honorable mentions: Monster Hunter World and Elden Ring Feature rich and challenging. I had never played a Souls game and these 2 were perfect first games for it. I would not have liked these games when I was younger, but now that I’m older and able to plan builds and map progressions, these are great games.
Horizon The Forbidden West I really like the robot dinos. The story’s fine but man the time that went into coming up with “what animals would make great machones” is a creative meeting I’d loved to have been part of. FW builds on its source material in a way most sequels fail. The changing of machines to the “I’m tired of being everyone’s savior but noone else can do it” should resonate with most adults I think.