Take the Gamer Challenge! ‌🎮‌

[MichalGebacki]

Hello, Community Friends! Once again, we invite you to take a look at some after-hours activities. Let’s share the names of our favorite games, both current obsessions and those that used to make time fly… years ago

Post one or a few game names (photos, print screens of cover arts are welcomed as well)! Promote contemporary stuff or go a little bit nostalgic… And don’t worry repeating! It will only highlight how meaningful some titles are for whole generations. And traditionally, everyone who takes the challenge receives a unique “Gamer” badge and 100 bonus points as well!

Let me start with something so obvious and yet so timeless: GTA San Andreas, of course.

[Mike_L]

So many to choose from, so little space!

Favorite childhood game: The Legend of Zelda, Ocarina of Time.
I’m currently listening to an album with a more epic take on Zelda songs: Spotify

Most hours spent in one game: I guess an MMO, probably World of Warcraft or The Lord of the Rings Online

Currently playing: Diablo 4 and Factorio. Diablo 4 is great in couch co-op. Factorio makes me feel like I’m an engineer in my spare time as well.

[Akos]

Hard to choose but,

The first one: Countles hours/days/weeks… in Diablo 2, not the new Resurected version, but the classic one, i think i replaced my mouse like 2 times because of this game.

The second one: maybe the Half Life (the full series), the story is just amazing, with amazing gameplay. (and Counter Strike, because it was a mod for this game at the beginning.)

The third one: World of Warcraft, i think, this game took quite a few hours of my life… The grind was real

Now Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom, and Diablo 4 ofc.

[Ana.Kuzmenchuk]

This challenge topic sent me down the nostalgic rabbit hole, beware

As a late-late millennial, my childhood still happened in the pre-PC games era. Instead, I had Sega console!

Hours were lost to these games:

Then a neighbour of mine got the first PS, and we got obsessed with:

And in my teens, of course:

[Ana.Kuzmenchuk]

Remembered another one 😂

[dannemca]

My gaming skills (and availability) has gone long time ago…

These are the ones that still present in my mind from when I was a kid, playing in a small tube TV at my parents room;

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy:

The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy (NES)

I started to learn english with this one. In order to complete the tasks, you should pay attention to the instructions, so to avoid being lost or enclosed somewhere in the game, I had to use a dictionary. I have a lot to thank for from this game for this.

When I got my hands in a computer, these were the ones that I spent more time on.

Carmageddon

Carmageddon

Believe me or not, I have learned to drive with this game. Doing exactly the opposite I was supposed to do when playing.

The Incredible Machine

The Incredible Machine

That’ another one that I remember part of my (young) life was spent out. I loved the challenges by each level.

You know what.. I think I will find this one out and start playing it again… That’s your fault, @Michal_Gebacki

[AntonioSousa]

Not really a gamer. But I played this a lot:

I recently discovered that Tetris was taken to new levels in the last decade. With hypertappers, Tetris seems to have started a whole new era, and the values obtained since then were absolutely unimaginable when I was playing it: Tetris Champion: Winners of the Classic Tetris World Championship

Some years ago, I was also much into chess:

Nowadays, I don’t play a lot…

[dannemca]

I have just watched the Tetris film yesterday. Great movie, btw.

[MichalGebacki]

I’m facing it regularly, don’t blame the timeless perfection of this game! 😅

[AntonPineiro]

Hi, these should be in my list:

• Championship Manager: Season 01/02

• Age of Empires II: The Conquerors

• Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines

Best regards

[AntonioSousa]

@dannemca,

Nice coincidence!

[Kenny_Gillette]

Time to make me feel old.  My favorite games are story games.  Originally they were by Sierra: King’s Quest, Space Quest and Police Quest.

King’s Quest

Space Quest

Police Quest

Then Links 386

I started playing games again a few years ago on PS4.  Favorites: Uncharted IV (why I got back into gaming), Star Wars Battlefront II, Spider-Man, and Red Dead Redemption II (Hope they remaster the first one).

Uncharted IV

Star Wars BattleFront II

SpiderMan

Red Dead Redemption II (I think my favorite game of all time.  Finishing my 3rd play through right now).

Notable mentions:

Nintendo games: Super Mario Bros., Contra, Punch-Out, etc. 25 Best NES Games of All Time | Den of Geek

PS4: God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Last of Us, Assassin’s Creed series, Tomb Raider series.

Guess I have played a few games

[ricuevas]

Tetris

Zybex

Montezuma

Quake III Arena

Need for speed underground

[pahofmann]

Great challange! Another one where the list could go on and on :dynaspin:

For competitive I really enjoy(ed) Starcraft 2 and World of Warcraft, those probably have the most time invest as well

Favorite childhood game I agree with @Mike_L, Ocarina of Time was amazing. That also led to my triforce.

Also Knights and Merchants was really fun for an early RTS:

Currently I’m playing Diablo 4 and Factorio always comes back for me, the factory must grow!

[Mike_L]

Oh, I forgot Starcraft 2. The number of hours I spent in there with ladder, direct strike and co op must be quite substantial as well. I’m looking forward to Stormgate as it’s created by many of the same people. It’s been quite some time since I’ve been excited by a new RTS.

[Islam_Zedan]

What a lovely challenge . for me as an old Gamer (Ps3, Ps4, Ps5, Xbox and for sure PC) i have some great figures to mention: God of War, Red dead redemption and Max Payne​

[marina_pollehn]

Currently these two ofc

And for some reason, even though it was waaaay before my time, PacMan remained a favorite.

[Kenny_Gillette]

PacMan is a favorite too!

[pahofmann]

Yes, excited for Stormgate as well. The dev talks for it sounded pretty good as well

[PedroDeodato]

What better to promote Community gamification, than games themselves, huh?

Happy to see that some of my all time favorites are already on the list!

I’ve played World of Warcraft for SEVERAL years: my main was a very happy Tauren Warrior (tank).

Met very nice people through the game, and also brought a lot of my IRL friends to play! Lots of fun!

I even got an Horde T-Shirt when I got my Mists of Pandaria expansion pack, back in 2013! For the Horde!

However, my heart will always go to the best WoW expansion ever: Wrath of the Lich King!

What a blast!

Being a World of Warcraft gamer, naturally I also delved into the realms of League of Legends (back when LoL was just an excuse to have a break from WoW, while we waited for instance queues).

In WoW, I was a tank and helped protect others… in LoL I’ve always played support: not much of a damage person, here!

But I loved being a part of a team, and supporting my team (literally) throughout every match!

Played LoL since Season 1, and kept playing also for several years.

In the meantime, I also played some CS:GO, but my all-time favorite FPS is, definitely, Crysis!

Wonderful graphics, but - most important - very thrilling and exciting, keeps you hooked from the first minute!

Saved the best for last, the game that introduced me to what gaming is all about: living a story!

Do not be fooled by my first two choices, which are online and focused on competing!

Even in those, you are always either a caracter in some story or - better yet - part of a team: a team member (in every team, in every context, really) is always a sort of a character in some story (most of the times, a story much bigger than the character itself).

The first game that led me to this crazy storytelling/storyliving world was a very simple, friendly but albeit wonderful game: Sly Cooper.

I first got it when I was something like 7 or 8 years old, and played it at least once a year since: to revive those cheerful childhood moments, and to remind myself of what a warm feeling it is to go through with a great story!