The elder scrolls III Morrowind: my favorite video game™, still unmatched for atmosphere, art direction and some elements of writing to me. Peak of its series and as far as I know still unequaled in the RPG genre
ICO: gorgeous, touching, and innovative in its mechanics and level design. A simple game with endless charm. I've yet to finish it but I know for sure it'll leave me a smoking pile of ash. I care
Katamari Damacy: also a simple game with endless charm and great art direction but the technicolor yipee yahoo variant. Hard as fuck but satisfying
Metal Gear Solid: honestly a pain in the ass to play nowadays but in terms of game design, visuals and story it owns. The blend of "makes serious points but the presentation is so corny it's hilarious" and "deeply passionate about being epic action" so unique to the series works so well. My fav of the series for its simplicity and relative goofiness
Honestly there's so many titles I wanted to put here but none of them I played that much so I'll put one I do play a lot: Monster Hunter World. Challenging fun at its peak via being a game it took me actual months to learn how to play but was still a blast. It's fun to suck at this game it's fun to learn this game it's fun to master this game
I’m not sure but I feel like one of the reasons I can’t get in to MH Rise is the maps? Not rly a fan of them and not rly a fan of the wirebug stuff? It feels like it just makes me not need to use the environment at all, no need to find things to jump off of or lead monsters around you can just wail on them and it’s fine, no real mounting system either makes it less fun for me i think