I know I had Legend of Dragoon in my last one, but that one is always susceptible to being switched out for it's replacement, which is kind of what my first true clingy video game became. Either way, let's get this on the road.
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne:
I know I always talk about how I'm a lorewhore when it comes to Warcraft. Well it's true. I am. I also played more than 12,000 matches online in my War3 tenure. That's all you need to know when it comes to this game with me. Best stories presented in the Warcraft franchise and the best introduction of new races and units to a game with it's expansion. Best game of all time for me.
Legend of Legaia:
When my transition from SNES to PSOne was complete, I had few games that I could really play much. I got Gran Turismo, which was one of the fucking hardest games of my life to complete, and then I got appendicitis. As I sat in the hospital room staring at my continuously bleeding navel, my dad walked in one day with a Playstation magazine that had Qui-Gon Jinn on the front. I read through it excitedly because I fucking love Star Wars and found that it came with a demo disc. I put it in. There was a video for Centipede which scared me and some other shit. Then this demo for something called Legend of Legaia.
Best. Demo. Ever. I played it at least 100 times before I saved up twenty-one bucks in cash to go buy it for 19.99. I never had a memory card for at least two years with my PSOne and I would start the game and leave my Playstation on for weeks at a time 'til I beat it. Never turned it off. When I finally got that memory card for Christmas, I started the game over and saved over every single part of the game that I thought was important. I filled my memory card with Legaia. I 100%'d Spyro. Deleted it so I could save over the area where you find out Noa's parents are dead (TOO LATE FOR SPOILERS). As many times as I've replayed KotOR, Fable, Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Mario RPG, or Pokemon, none of them ever brought me back to play it as much (save Warcraft III, Diablo II, and AoE2) as Legend of Legaia did. My favorite RPG of all time with it's intriguing combat system that required you to put in your own combination of moves to create super and miracle moves.
So close to being my favorite game of all time.
Mass Effect 2:
Goddamn you guys know how I feel about this already.
Diablo II and Lord of Destruction:
If it wasn't obvious in my Warcraft III paragraph, I didn't have much to do in high school, so I played War3 and D2 a lot. I'd say...about....1.6:1 WarIII. Just take everything you saw about me loving War3 and put it with D2.
I was also a dick there. One time, as my Hardcore 93 Nec, I dropped Tyreal's Plate in a Hell Cow level and lead the King to the portal. Let seven people in saying they would get it for free if they could get to it, but if they died I got to loot them. Seven people went in at once, seven people died at once. Great night.
Also one time, on the same nec, some dick wanted to trade his GFClause sword for my Anni. Since Anni was only trade-able by being dropped, we both did that. I turned his sword into an Iron Golem and picked up the Anni.
OOoooooh man was that awesome.
Now I'm tired of typing, so I'm gonna do this when I get home from my trip.