I felt like I'd lost real friends once it was over. Everything about it, for over 100 hours, is nearly pitch perfect. A true game-changer.

THE masterwork of third-person action/RPG combat. Sci-fi philosophy at some of its finest, a shining beacon for the medium. Nothing before or since has matched it.

The type of game that blows your mind the first time through and coming back it still feels so fresh even with an aging coat of paint.

Some of the best roleplaying I've ever gotten to do in a game. Bought it after most of the bugs were fixed and had a first experience akin to my first time in Skyrim. Adore this world and its people.

Not even done and it's easily one of the best games I've ever played.

Some of the most fun I've ever had playing video games. This was my first experience with RE4 and was so good I started it right up from the beginning once I finished. I'm praying they make more of these VR ports.

What else is there to say? It's Minecraft.

A puzzle game you can actually return to more than once. Blew my mind as a teen and still makes me giddy as an adult.

The gameplay totally kills this game for me. It's visually stunning, the performances are unbelievably good, and the score is masterful, but the gameplay feels like 2002, and there are too many bizarre design choices that take me out of the cowboy life at every turn. Wish I could love this like others do.

Literally changed game and puzzle design forever.

A masterclass in satire, somehow still looks stunning (after several heavy updates) a decade later, and GTA Online has its hooks in me. Definitely some dated and constricted game design, but missions and contexts are varied enough to keep you locked in the whole way through.

The greatest 3D platformer of all time.

It's beating my ass but I'm loving it in a way that the other Souls-like don't click with me

Similar issues to RDII, gorgeous world and characters and lore, but the gameplay feels toothless and overly micro-managing, role-playing feels useless as a defined character, and the UI makes me sad.

The ending is terrible and it doesn't dive into the emotional maturity I'd like for a story like this but it's so much fun with a friend or partner the entire way through that the story misgivings only take it down a peg.