20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 20: A game that truly scared you

Red Barchetta

Red Barchetta

Talk less, smile more.
Hi. So I did something similar to this nearly two years ago and I honestly feel like reposting that version of this at some point very soon just to revisit it, but this one just popped up on my Twitter feed and it made me want to just revisit the whole concept. SO, completely ignore the "GET TO KNOW ME! 1 like = 1 answer" thing because we are absolutely not doing that. Instead, we're doing this as a "1 question a day" sort of thing, where you answer the challenge for that specific day! This is a neat thing that took off with the last one two years ago and I think it would be neat to redo this two years later and with some new people, so that's what we're going to do. I'll be updating the topic name daily with the new challenge when it is time to switch to a new one. These will probably go the full 24 hours or so, depending on when I get the opportunity to change them. Either way, I will definitely give you the full 24 hours. If you don't answer in that 24 hours, that's a-ok, just answer it whenever, even if you join in late! You're definitely encouraged to explain your answer, too. Anything to make it funner!

I'll be plopping my answer for this first one eventually when I can think of something, but here are the challenges:

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The first challenge: A game that had a lasting impression on you!
 
Re: 20 Day Video Game Challenge - A game that had a lasting impression on you

The two Mario & Luigi games that have remakes, but the originals. Remakes are good, but they don't give a last impression if the original is played. If I had to chose one, Superstar Saga.
 
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Hmm... This is a pretty tough question, but if I were to choose one, I would pick Insaniquarium Deluxe. It's basically about feeding fish and shooting aliens that threatens the fish, and while it sounds pretty silly, it's fun in practice. Did I mention that this game is the brainchild of the one who would eventually make Plants vs Zombies?

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The reason for the odd pick is due to how it reignited my passion for playing games, since it is not a very demanding game yet it is also very fun. It's also pretty much my gateway for smaller dev games and thus indies, because it is a testament that games can be fun even in a small package. I picked this game because I have previously played the PDA Insaniquarium, and when I found out that it has a Deluxe version of the PC, I didn't hesitate to play it. From there, I found out that there is a world of smaller-scale PC games.

I figured that since the others will eventually have Mario games as their picks, I would contribute something entirely different.

Thank you for reading.
 
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This is a tough pick. I went with Grand Theft Auto V and its fantastic, gigantic, overly detailed overworld that plays very well and has a crapton of mods to support it (Los Santos is my favorite video game setting, period) and I just love exploring the city while also having an accurate avatar of myself to represent as one of the many denizens. Even so, I could have went with Metro 2033 Redux for its desolate, dreary, yet beautiful atmosphere and its excellent world building and use of horror elements. I could have went with Left 4 Dead 2 for reintroducing me towards shooting things and simply just having a blast with it. I could have picked Garry's Mod for its equal freedom as Grand Theft Auto V but with an even bigger modding community. I could have went with Spore and its expansion pack Galactic Adventures as my first serious PC game and how my character is heavily based on that. I could have also went with pretty much any Mario game, particularly the spin-offs, which has been with me all my life and shaped me to be the Baby Luigi lover I am today and why I'm posting in this forum and why I'm into video games in general.

However, I just picked the one that has the freshest memory in my mind, and that's the game where I watched a sunset in a beach or simply driving around obeying traffic rules as I love strolling around in a great environment, free from any video game objectives, free from any obligations, free to do whatever I want.
 
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Mario Party 5, as it wasn't just my first video game ever, but it also made me interested in the Mario series to begin with.
 
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (and honestly every other dr game but esp this one). the concepts introduced throughout the series REALLY got me thinking.

like man imagine waking up one day and realizing that the entire world, everyone you knew, and everything, was completely gone. you exit your house and cant even believe because the world is fucked up beyond belief and knowing that even if you do venture out that there's no end to it and no real point in leaving where you are at the moment. it's a truely fascinating and despair inducing thought. but even beyond that, the revelation that v3 was actually the 53rd season of danganronpa was..kind of scary. not in like a "oh gods wheres my teddy bear" kind of way but more of a "am i really morally correct" type of way. i mean thinking about the fact that you yourself were basically enjoying the torment of these (albeit virtual) characters is truely unsettling imo and it kind of makes me glad they ended the series then lol. and the last impression it left on me was the characters reaction to the end, in all of the games. throughout the series the whole theme of "yo is life really this fucked up if it is i cant handle it" plays repeatedly. in each case it ends with not a happy ending, or even neccessarily a bad one, but a "You know what, bad or good we can handle whatever is next" ending. which imo is a great philosphy that i had never really thought of applying to my life before because i've always simply tried avoiding bad situations rather than just rolling with them. applying that philosophy since then has actually been quite liberating and i'm glad something as simple as a visual novel was able to influence me in such a powerful and positive direction.
 
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Paper Mario for the nintendo 64
 
Re: 20 Day Video Game Challenge - Day 2: Favorite female video game character

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