PixlBit

You are always moving onto the next thing lol. But hey, you have experience with a much wider range of games than I do.

Cary, I expect you to be the king of Pac-Man 99!

Now that I've shelved Octopath, I have to decide what to play now. Ys VIII is definitely a possibility, but there are so many possibilities! 

It's definitely more of a "reimagining" but I guess that doesn't roll of the tongue as well lol

Stage Select

You are a cruel man, Julian Titus, to force this choice upon us! But I find that my top three has not changed in the last twenty years, which I think speaks more to the power of nostalgia than a lack of quality games in these last two decades.

3. Super C (NES) - My older brother and I played this game so much back in the day, slowly getting better and better till we could finally beat it. To this day I can pick it up any time and play through without using a continue. It cemented my love of run-n-gun games and is still the archtype of the genre in my mind.

2. Final Fantasy VI (SNES) - This is probably the most important game of my young formative years. The characters and story were so far beyond anything we had ever seen before and the music had a huge hand in shaping my tastes (we often used cassette tapes to record game music and FFVI was foremost among them). We played through it so many times and even just thinking about it makes me want to go fire up my SNES Classic.

1. Metroid Prime (GameCube) - No game has ever blown me away like Metroid Prime. The look and feel and sound of the game were spot on, sucking me into the world of Tallon IV. The action was tight and satisfying without being the focus of the game and you could go as deep or shallow as you wanted with the story and worldbuilding. I was all in. Plus I played through it a few years ago and it holds up incredibly well. Yes, it is so firmly entrenched in my mind as my favorite game that it's really not fair to newer games I play, but I also firmly believe it deserves the spot. Metroid Prime is just as excellent with or without rose-colored glasses.

Cage Match

Chex are delicious and Quest 64 left a bad taste in my mouth, so I'm going with Chex Quest.

Good good! You were always terrible at math! Play it every day!

By the time I got around to wanting Lunar on the PSP (I was late to the system) it was already pretty expensive 

Man, that list of OG Xbox games has some really big names and some really obscure stuff. Nice mix.

I always get bored with the LEGO games.

No side quests?!? I don't think I could stay so focused lol.

There's a self-destruct feature in Steamworld Dig that, I think, is specifically for when you get stuck. I don't think I ever used it but my kids did when they tried it. Got themselves stuck pretty frequently.

SteamWorld Dig was the first of that loose series that I've played. I'd like to play all the others eventually.