Each has bundled with it, particular and easily recallable sensations. I’m sure there are other games I found a peculiar liking for, but the upper echelon is saved for these few and far between experiences. Perhaps it is the high bar that I am using as a filter. It’s around here I start to struggle to find further entries. ![]() Mass Effect 2 and Halo: ODST have their files, quintessentials from an earlier time. As art is want to do, Outer Wilds and Terraformer created a video/audio palette for a 5 month period of 2019 that proved to be so impactful that a single song playing through my headphones or car speakers prompts a backdraft of emotions flavored like existential dread and the fear I won’t have enough time to do all that I want. Next is a dual function report detailing the overlap of Outer Wilds and Thank You Scientist’s third album Terraformer. A world so deep and full of opportunity that I forgot my own sad existence for just long enough. Skyrim inevitably has a thick file, the game saved my life after all. A reimagination of a beloved formula, an old dog given fresh and violent new tricks. Splinter Cell: Conviction is the easiest to find. The heaviest, most dense reports number fewer than seven, surely. ![]() My mind rifles through the Rolodex of past experiences, rummaging for those few that have a file a little deeper than the rest. ![]() ![]() It’s not every year that you come across a game that has the innate ability to command your thoughts for weeks, even after completion.
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