The Games Everyone Should Experience For the First Time

You can tell this guy must be very attractive cause of those amazing intros, am I right?

01:19: Inscryption 04:10: Prey 07:50: Doki Doki Literature Club! 11:00: Outer Wilds 14:20: Subnautica 18:00: The Elder Scrolls Oblivion 20:00: DEATH STRANDING 23:08: Baldur's Gate 3 30:55: Mass Effect 34:43: A Plague Tale: Requiem 37:07: Horizon Zero Dawn 39:10: NieR:Automata 41:20: Cyberpunk 2077 44:30: Alan Wake 2 47:25: It Takes Two 49:40: Wasteland 3 51:56: Dyson Sphere Program 58:03: Weird West

Damn - goosebumps when I heard the banjo line from outerwilds, it's been a long time, but what a masterpiece.

I hope Cyberpunk, Witcher 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance, ME LE, and Prey are on this list!

For me, It was Nier Automata that showed me what a game can be. Such a thought provoking masterpiece of a game

Great list. Outer Wilds, for me, even after decades of gaming, became one of the most memorable games. The second I hear music from the game I remember where I was exploring at the time and how much I enjoyed it. There were a couple of games on here that I wasn't aware of and it sounds like they're worth a try.

Since discovering your channel a few weeks ago I've picked up Prey, Mass Effect 1-3, Cyberpunk, Subnautica, Weird West, Mad Max and Valheim. Thanks for all the great recommendations.

Looks like a lot of work and love went into getting cinematic moments from all of the games mentioned. Great video, well presented.

Oblivion helped me through a difficult time. I'd abruptly gone from being very active and outdoors a great deal to unable to sit upright more than 15-20 minutes. My husband bought me an Asus laptop and Oblivion, a game our niece enjoyed. I spent a lot of time wandering around Cyrodiil. Never under estimate the benefit good video games have for the disabled.

I will never forget the Mass Effect series. It will always hold a special place in my gaming heart!

Shadow of the Colossus was quite possibly the most influential game in my life. If you haven't played it, PLEASE check it out via either the PS2 original, the PS3 remaster, or the PS4 remake. It's such a beautiful game that sticks with you long after playing it

I wasn't a big fan of rogulite card games too, but inscryption really blows my mind when i played it for the first time. One of the best game i've ever play

Hugely recommend Soma, even for people who aren’t hugely into horror. It will break your brain and make you question everything you know about what a person is. It’s so good. And so underrated. In my top 5 games of all time, for sure.

In my personal opinion, I'd say outer wilds had the biggest impact on me, it's truly mind blowing

If you haven't already you should really play What Remains of Edith Finch. A masterpiece in storytelling and narrative!

Grounded is the one game i wish i could forget and play all over again for the first time. The discovery, mystery, and sense of wonder reminded me of what i felt playing games as a kid

Prey is my favorite game experience ever. There are so many great ones but Prey's atmosphere and locations were just perfection. I went in blind and was kinda board at first which made it so exciting when I realized I was actually playing an incredible game.

Really great video. For me, the most memorable games were Mass Effect and especially RDR2. The story and feeling the game gave me were just different and it felt like a 60 hour long movie with a great world.

Nier Automata is one of those games I sorely wish I could go back and experience for the first time again, it resonated with me so much and genuinely changed my outlook on life and made me a more optimistic person (this was probably due to picking it up in lockdown, when I was dealing with a bunch of shit stuff that covid just made even worse, but I'll always be grateful to this game for being one of the few things that picked me up in those moments). That game left its mark on me in ways i can't full articulate to this day. Oblivion was also my first Bethesda game and always holds a special place in my heart for that, I'll always hold it up as the best one even if subsequent TES and Fallout games have improved on it in many ways. The world is so beautiful, and the score amplifies it so well, I'd regularly spend hours just walking between places soaking it all in. Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 have also shot right up to the top of my favourite RPGs ever, on my 2nd playthrough of both atm and I can see myself regularly replaying them every year-2 years now like I have Mass Effect/KOTOR/etc. in the past. My other 'everyone should experience these' games are: Lost Odyssey - the pinnacle of what JRPGs can do with storytelling. Dealing with themes of grief, loss, and acceptance of both, I regularly go back to replay it despite it being a 4 disc long behemoth. It came to me exactly when I needed it to process a lot of the things it deals with, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say it shaped me into who I am now. Red Dead Redemption 2 - it's really a shame that I don't see Rockstar doing anything like this game again, everything feels damn near perfect and the character writing is some of the best of any game I've seen Bloodborne - now confession time, I've not even actually finished this game (other stuff came out and distracted me and i'm not amazing at soulsborne style games to begin with) but after only getting into it at the start of this year, after many attempts at Dark Souls and Demons Souls in the past, I finally get what it is about these games that people adore. The atmosphere, setting, subtle storytelling and lore that you have to dig into and think about. Yeah I'm getting my ass handed to me constantly but I'm enjoying every minute of it.

Damn, that was one of the best videos I’ve seen in awhile. You have simultaneously given me that warm feeling inside of games I’ve played and cherish fondly while given me a dozen new games I have to add to my already too long to tackle backlog. Seriously inspirational and impressive video! On a side note, Yakuza is definitely a series I recommend immensely and it would leave you with a multitude of feelings that not many other video games can achieve. Definitely worth a try (or another go) if you haven’t already.