WereKitten on 09 January 2011
Several games can aspire to the title. The Half Life series, ICO and SotC, Zelda:OoT, Mario64, FF XII. And I loved Dungeon Master, MGS3, SimCity, System Shock, Planescape: Torment, Grim Fandango, The Bard's tale, Ultima VI and VII and more or less the entirety of Infocom's and Magnetic Scrolls' production.
But in the end, if I have to keep it personal and focus on the experience more than the intrinsic value of the game itself, then it would be Elite, on my Amiga. That was a game that totally blew me away, showed me that there were self-sufficent worlds in mere hundreds of kilobytes. It got my undivided attention for a long while and my admiration forever.
