To be more specific, when was the last time a game made you want to wish you could just drop whatever you were doing and dive in and immerse yourself and you couldn't think of anything else?
For me it was Stardew Valley. Godamn this game really really made me feel like I was a kid that had just gotten a new and incredible game, is at school or at a family function and just cant wait to get out and play more. I played this game for the first time in December 2016 on the PS4. It was a Friday before I started my vacation from work around Christmas, so at the time I had about 2 weeks ahead of me. I never really liked farming games like Harvest Moon. For some reason I could never get into them. After going back and forth I just bought it, what the hell, give it a shot.
The opening scenes of the game spoke to me. Basically it showed an every day person working a day in and day out office job, is bored and miserable and stagnating and then reads a letter from the character's grandfather inheriting a farm. Basically a chance at a new life, it was very touching.
From the moment I started the game, the way everything was guided, the presentation, the music, how everything slowly started opening, expanding, growing bigger. New locations, new gameplay systems, exploration, all of the characters. It just blew me away and the next thing I knew it was 2am and I had been playing for 4 hours straight. (Pictures below aren't mine)
The next day I had a family function at my wife's parent's for Xmas eve. I was having a good time at dinner but all I could think about all day was diving directly into the world of Stardew Valley again, seeing what other artifacts I could discover, or how deep I could make it in the caves, or what new stuff I could do. That night, I started to feel really sick, and by the time we got home, I was running a temperature and knew something was up. Long story short, I did not get back to Stardew Valley that night as I had gotten some kind of food poisoning.
The next day I just rested in between running to the bathroom to bow to the porcelain god, and trying my best to keep my energy up. Couldn't even concentrate on any gaming or even TV, so I just laid in bed most of the day but kept thinking of how badly I wanted to get back to Stardew.
Finally around 7pm my fever broke and I was starting to feel better and was able to get some normal solid food down. After my wife went to bed, here I was sitting on the couch feeling a bit drained. It was 9:30pm and I finally fired up Stardew Valley again and godamn it felt so nice and warm and comfy. I played the shit out of this game for my entire vacation and it was just such an amazing time. It gave me that feeling of being a kid again firing up Chrono Trigger again after getting home from school on a Friday night. Fucking magical.
Even to this day, I still play it, yet the one trophy for beating Journey of the Prairie King without dying still eludes me. This game is up there with one of my favorite games of all time. I even bought it on the Switch and mobile its that good. I urge anyone who hasn't played this game to give it a shot sometime, even if you dont like farming games, its so much more.
So lets hear what your picks are!
For me it was Stardew Valley. Godamn this game really really made me feel like I was a kid that had just gotten a new and incredible game, is at school or at a family function and just cant wait to get out and play more. I played this game for the first time in December 2016 on the PS4. It was a Friday before I started my vacation from work around Christmas, so at the time I had about 2 weeks ahead of me. I never really liked farming games like Harvest Moon. For some reason I could never get into them. After going back and forth I just bought it, what the hell, give it a shot.
The opening scenes of the game spoke to me. Basically it showed an every day person working a day in and day out office job, is bored and miserable and stagnating and then reads a letter from the character's grandfather inheriting a farm. Basically a chance at a new life, it was very touching.
From the moment I started the game, the way everything was guided, the presentation, the music, how everything slowly started opening, expanding, growing bigger. New locations, new gameplay systems, exploration, all of the characters. It just blew me away and the next thing I knew it was 2am and I had been playing for 4 hours straight. (Pictures below aren't mine)
The next day I had a family function at my wife's parent's for Xmas eve. I was having a good time at dinner but all I could think about all day was diving directly into the world of Stardew Valley again, seeing what other artifacts I could discover, or how deep I could make it in the caves, or what new stuff I could do. That night, I started to feel really sick, and by the time we got home, I was running a temperature and knew something was up. Long story short, I did not get back to Stardew Valley that night as I had gotten some kind of food poisoning.
The next day I just rested in between running to the bathroom to bow to the porcelain god, and trying my best to keep my energy up. Couldn't even concentrate on any gaming or even TV, so I just laid in bed most of the day but kept thinking of how badly I wanted to get back to Stardew.
Finally around 7pm my fever broke and I was starting to feel better and was able to get some normal solid food down. After my wife went to bed, here I was sitting on the couch feeling a bit drained. It was 9:30pm and I finally fired up Stardew Valley again and godamn it felt so nice and warm and comfy. I played the shit out of this game for my entire vacation and it was just such an amazing time. It gave me that feeling of being a kid again firing up Chrono Trigger again after getting home from school on a Friday night. Fucking magical.
Even to this day, I still play it, yet the one trophy for beating Journey of the Prairie King without dying still eludes me. This game is up there with one of my favorite games of all time. I even bought it on the Switch and mobile its that good. I urge anyone who hasn't played this game to give it a shot sometime, even if you dont like farming games, its so much more.
So lets hear what your picks are!
