# What is your favourite video game? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 21, 2026, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285 "2026-05-21T16:03:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/21 "2026-05-24T23:09:02Z")
> [@Meatwater](#): > > Baldur’s Gate 3 > EVE Online I’d add these to my list. I gave up on EVE though…just too much work. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/22 "2026-05-24T23:16:31Z")
My top 5 are probably: Witcher 3 The Mass Effect trilogy Total War: Warhammer (Immortal Empires) Cyberpunk 2077 Baldur’s Gate 3 ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2026, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/23 "2026-05-24T23:51:23Z")
I agree. I put in maybe 100 hours in, but the potential in the game is what I find inspiring. [I was super into the shooter they put out.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_514) ---
**Author:** ![by-tor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/by-tor/32/266_2.png) [@by-tor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/by-tor)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/24 "2026-06-03T05:59:17Z")
Runners-up: Baldur’s Gate 2 Baldur’s Gate 3 GTA Vice City GTA San Andreas Master of Orion II XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within Civ 2 Freelancer Bushido Blade 2 Asteroids Winner: Final Fantasy 7 ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/25 "2026-06-03T07:11:42Z")
It’s a 3-way tie between BG3, Skyrim and Horizon:Zero Dawn ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/26 "2026-06-03T12:04:57Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Castle Wolfenstein (any version but especially the original) The Apple ][ original with the overhead view? I played a lot of that for sure. My faves for PC games are probably the Mass Effect series, Half Life series, and Portal series. I’ve probably played more Joust and Punchout! than most other games, in the arcade on on emulators and various home machines. Wizardry on the Apple was a good one, and Kareteka, oh man, so many. Hmm, I don’t think I can pick one. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/27 "2026-06-03T22:50:11Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Horizon:Zero Dawn Oh yeah - definitely that one, too. It’s funny. The conventional wisdom is that the video game industry is dominated by either Japan or the United States - and that everyone prefers games from either one or the other - but somehow, many or even most of my favorite games are actually European: from Poland (Witcher and Cyberpunk), Belgium (BG3), the UK (Total War) or the Netherlands (the Horizon games). There’s something to be said for European craftsmanship, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/28 "2026-06-03T23:45:48Z")
It’s eras for me, not sure if I can fill all of them in but here goes. The dark ages (ZX spectrum, Sega Megadrive) Attic Attack, Lords of midnight, Elite, Jetset Willy, Knights Lore. Then alcohol stopped that, coming to the PC Dawn Dune 2K, Monkey Island 2, Doom, Day of the Tentacle The late 90s, 3d gfx: Quake 2, Unreal Tournament, NOLF 2, Red Alert, C&C, Half Life Then into the mainline modern age: Bioshock, Portal 1/2, GTA 2, 3 and its variations, Far Cry 1, 3 & 4, Batman Arkham Asylum Recent Prey (and Mooncrash), Doom Eternal, Satisfactory, Wolfenstein (old blood/new order), Subnautica. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/29 "2026-06-03T23:52:38Z")
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**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/30 "2026-06-03T23:56:01Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Castle Wolfenstein (any version but especially the original) This is the original: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf7z8kjza2c](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf7z8kjza2c) ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/31 "2026-06-04T00:37:59Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Horizon:Zero Dawn How did I forget that beautiful game? The little fragments of ancient stories you picked up were so well done I had to check and see if they were lifted from science fiction novels. They weren’t. And then the way the collected stories all dovetailed into a larger story about what happened in each compound/station, which itself dovetailed into a perfect climax of the main storyline. Oh I loved that game. Plus I shot a robot dinosaur with a bow and arrow while riding a different robot dinosaur. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/32 "2026-06-04T00:43:35Z")
Yup. That’s the one. My school had a computer lab with Apple II computers and my friends and I would stay after school and play that. Fun times! ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/33 "2026-06-04T02:07:52Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > How did I forget that beautiful game? And the followup was such a disappointment. I’ve stalled at it, it’s one of those “climb up high and then controls make you jump to your death” type of games.So many times I’ve got frustrated at jump across gap controls or went wandering off the wrong way. Such a pity, I really liked the original, and thought “how can the sequel be THAT bad”. And it was. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/34 "2026-06-04T04:42:28Z")
Not my experience at all. When I said Horizon:ZD I really meant the whole franchise - _Zero Dawn_, _Frozen Wilds_ and _Forbidden West_. I love the storyline of the last one better, even. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/35 "2026-06-04T05:30:43Z")
Don’t forget _Burning Shores._ Hooray for Hollywood! I agree - while the sequel lacked the first’s amazing backstory mystery (the best literary science fiction writing I’ve seen in a video game), it’s still a very solid, very fun game. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/36 "2026-06-04T10:55:09Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Not my experience at all. When I said Horizon:ZD I really meant the whole franchise - _Zero Dawn_, _Frozen Wilds_ and _Forbidden West_. I love the storyline of the last one better, even. Wait, what? I missed Frozen Wilds as a thing. So you didn’t have problems with Forbidden West? Did you play it on the PC? My controls were awful, ten minutes of climb, crappy jump, and it wasn’t the jump, it was the likes of the sudden reversal and I end up jumping right out the wrong way. Happened a lot. I guess I must be highly intolerant of bad controls. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/37 "2026-06-04T12:59:45Z")
> [@Smid](#): > > So you didn’t have problems with Forbidden West? Nope. If anything, climbing was better in Forbidden West than Zero Dawn. And the other movement mechanics made getting around way more enjoyable - the Pullcaster, Glider, frigging _flying_! > [@Smid](#): > > Did you play it on the PC? No, Playstation. I would never play that kind of game on a PC. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/38 "2026-06-04T14:01:53Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > No, Playstation. I would never play that kind of game on a PC. Sounds like the PC version is a shit port. I had a lot of problems with the controls, so at least I know now. ---
**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/39 "2026-06-04T14:07:06Z")
The PC controls for HZD were terrible, especially if you were using mouse and keyboard. It was so bad that Aloy didn’t walk straight for the first month of release, so you were walking obliquely everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285/40 "2026-06-04T14:24:33Z")
That’s not my experience. I’ve played both games on PC, several times, and I never had any problems using mouse and keyboard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-video-game/1030285.md?page=3)