Would love to hear some of the names! I have a few I keep on rotation recently:
Tyumi
Han
Han-Tyumi
Gila
Dragon
Love it! Are these on ESO or another game? I’ve got:
The Gizz Gator
Sadie Sorceress
Fishes-for-Fishies
The Organ Farmer
Venusian One
Queen Gila
Flying Microtonal Banana
Peri Helia
My husband has:
Boogieman Sam
Venusian Two
Petrodragonic Apocolypse
The Holy Explorer
Motor Spirit
The Reticent Raconteur
Nonagon Infinity
Okay, yeah we maybe have more toons than we need on our accounts. LOL
Those are great! Cyboogie would be another good one thinking about it 
I have made characters on Diablo 3, Marvel Snap… just made a Baldurs Gate 3 character too.
I haven’t played MMOs in a bit (other than FFXIV which I dabbled in semi-recently). I’ve never played ESO but I’ve heard it’s pretty cool.
I f’n LOVE my steam deck. I do need an SSD card tho - Baldurs Gate 3 takes up the whole internal drive 
I wanted to throw Armored Core 6 on there too 
I’m passing for now. In a year or so hopefully will be improved and have a bunch of sick mods.
i played about 80 hours. story was decent but lacked much depth. solid 8/10. very heavy rpg lots of dialogue… they could have polished it for another year imo. i was over hyped for this game. worth playing still
I have a steam deck as well and it’s fantastic. All my indies and emulated games are now played on it, as well as older games I never got around to.
I’m finally playing through Dark Souls Remastered on it for the first time.
Well praise the sun to you my friend!
Since I don’t do that much gaming these days, here’s a similarly loose all-time thing for me that I just threw together:
There’s a couple of thousand hours of my life just in this chart alone, and I’ve tried to mix ages and platforms a bit (though I now realise I’ve totally missed Nintendo, which is newer to me but the Switch generation could be mixed well into this, BOTW, Tetris 99, Odyssey…).
Some of these represent entire series that I have been dedicated to like GTA and THPS, others are some formative one-offs or standouts like Cel Damage and Timesplitters, and then just a few best-ever selections: Halo 3, Factorio, Portal, The Talos Principal etc, so very roughly I have sorted the best near the top.
Definitely shows my age a bit haha, PS2 era was peak, generation after that was also great, then I have only passively engaged with the one after that, and not at all with current gen.
Celeste and Firewatch are two favorites of mine as well!
No idea how I discovered Timesplitters 2, but I think it was pretty current, never felt a need to play any of the others lol as even fairly recently I still play it. I loved every part of it, insanely creative blends of puzzle objectives and dynamic level designs, the wild spread of characters and weapons, soundtrack, and particularly the arcade-like aspects that are completely missing from modern FPSs (apart from crappy battle pass systems).
I missed out on Goldeneye in its prime, and after years of hearing about how great it was, I only found out a few years ago that Timesplitters 2 was made by the same team and is essentially a spiritual successor, which instantly made it make a lot of sense. I have tried Goldeneye since it came to Nintendo Switch Online, and I can feel the hype. But yes, the archaic controls certainly hold both games back.
Yeah, for both Ratchet/Jak I played the first three mainline games to an obsessive completionist level. I certainly remember playing Sly, but it hasn’t stuck with me anywhere near as much.
UT was my first FPS/arena shooter, oddly enough I was playing it as a very young chlid when it was current but never really stuck with that genre of hardcore strategy/technique shooters though. I started getting back into it while the new open crowd sourced UT was being made, but of course the world was more ready for Fortnite instead… There’s still nothing quite like UT99, and I just don’t understand where the market for that kind of thing vanished to, I guess it somehow split into Doom and Counter Strike?
My lockdown game was Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which didn’t really stick with me beyond that necessity, and I have enjoyed Stardew much more before and since. Especially with the sensical and just really good multiplayer system. When that launched my partner and I were more than happy to go through it all again together.
This list of games isn’t in order and will probably change within an hour or so. Just kind of put things on there as I thought about it. I had Wind Waker on there as well (clearly I am a Zelda fan) but had to take off some Zelda to fit on other games. Also wish I had some room on there for Metroid and some more indie games.
lmao OSRS has a stake on filling my whole chart by itself too. Over the years I have sporadically fired it up to see if the spark is still there, and unless you’re playing multiple hours per day its just not.
BOTW was my first Zelda game and I went fully deep on it (TOTK is really the only thing I have been playing since it came out, but not that much). I’ve dabbled in some of the others with NSO, and OOT definitely surprised me, but I didnt finish it (or any other old ones). The idea of Wind Waker interests me, but not enough to seek out emulating it or anything. I really liked the Link’s Awakening remake, but I actually got stuck in the last dungeon and have found it impossible to want to pick it back up as I can’t remember how it worked/don’t want to start the whole game again, I know what the ending is so it feels a bit pointless to just use a guide to get there too.
The only time I fully committed to Pokemon was gen 2, so I feel you there.
Heh, I remember playing things like UT, Quake, etc in high school Computer Science class. Fun times. As far as 007 goes, I agree that Goldeneye doesn’t exactly hold up, but I suspect a later game like Nightfire (while obviously old) might work better since it has more modern controls.
Stardew > ACNH for me as well, but the original Animal Crossing was something special. The town just felt more alive but in NH after you play long enough it kinda just feels empty for some reason. Maybe it was because I played it while I was younger and didn’t have real responsibility yet. I actually got Pikmin and the first Animal Crossing on the same day so it’s kinda cool both made my list.
I think it felt empty because as soon as everything settles (everyone getting a house, full island access etc.), the villagers just stop reacting to anything in a meaningful way and you’re just grinding for customisation/museum completion. I know they’ve added some content, but I haven’t been bothered to check what it is in a couple of years. Just one of those situations where all the things they did a really great job of are overshadowed by the nagging feelings of what could have easily been done a lot better.
Stardew in theory sounds a lot more boring as its the same people, relationships, and reactions every time, but they are just so exquisitely put together and its basically impossible to fit everything into one playthrough anyway. The AC villager archetypes just turned out so hollow and meaningless.
Very from the hip. Definitely saw some on other lists that I could have included!
I’m not done with baldurs Gate 3 but it seems like a shoo in.
How much Tribes did you play? My brother was hardcore into Tribes.
Also, I think I might have to check out Intergalactic Fishing…sounds addicting.
I can’t really say how much Tribes I played, but I loved that game and was addicted for months. I’ve got some great memories of it.
Intergalactic Fishing is the game I’ve played most on Steam. It’s one of my very favorite games ever. During the pandemic, this fun, little community formed around it, and I made some great friends. The game itself has an incredible depth for how it looks, and people are still searching the galaxy for the elusive 30 pounder.
I got Intergalactic Fishing on sale and played a few hours over the last few days. I think I’m already addicated.