@drbunnig maybe?

Ok, got caught up playing Persona and kinda forgot about this the last few days. Let's do some catch up.

49. Nier Automata

Played this one for the first time last year. Thoroughly loved the writing, the way the story is layered, and how you just peel it all back more and more as you progress through different "endings." Very cool, unique experience, that really is in many ways the ultimate representation of what you can do with gaming as medium. The gameplay got a bit boring for me at a certain point, which is really the only reason it's not higher in my rankings.

48. Titanfall

I know the sequel is everybody's darling because of it's stellar campaign, but for me, TF was all about the MP, and I very much preferred the first game in that respect. I honestly loved everything about it, and my friend group put hundreds and hundreds of hours into this title. It's really a shame this franchise is currently on ice, cus I don't think I've had as much fun with any shooter since this game came along.

47. Wasteland 3

Man...I think it took roughly half a year or so for this game to be in a technical state that allowed me and my buddy to actually go through this game in co-op without non-stop crashing. Many games have a reputation these days for being utterly busted at launch, but this was honestly the worst experience I've ever had with bugs and crashes in my entire life. I say all this, because once we did get to actually enjoy the game, it's fucking fantastic in pretty much every way imaginable. The writing, the player agency, the music, the gameplay loop, the dark humor. It's truly a top tier RPG. If my first impression hadn't been so sour, and I didn't have to wait so long to really get into it, this would also shoot way higher on my rankings.

46. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

All I can really say about this game, is that's quintessentially cool. Slicing and dicing - in the most literal possible sense - your way through the world of Metal Gear was just fucking awesome. I'd kill for a Star Wars game that lets me do this with a lightsaber. If you wanna feel like a badass, there are few games I would recommend over MGR.

45. Alien Isolation

I came to the Alien franchise pretty late. My first real interaction with it was the movie Prometheus, which I thought was just alright, and didn't really leave me wanting to explore it further. However, during a bit of gaming drought for me personally a couple years later, I picked up Alien Isolation on a whim for like 20 bucks. I went in with 0 expectations, and I loved pretty much every moment of it. The atmosphere, and tension are just world class. Even as someone who doesn't generally connect much with horror games, I was utterly immersed in this game, to the point that I actually went back afterwards and watched all the old Alien movies for the first time ever. And since the first 2 of those are so damn brilliant, it just made me love this game even more for introducing this series to me in a more befitting way than Prometheus did before it.

44. Prey

A good friend of mine bought this for me the year it came out. I played roughly the first hour, loved it, and then promptly ignored it to go play other stuff. I didn't return to it for what I estimate was roughly 3 years and change. Wow. Talk about delayed gratification. This is one of most all-consuming games I've ever played. Once I really sunk my teeth into it, I literally couldn't put it down until I had done absolutely everything. Seen all the endings, found all the secrets, played with all the powers, explored every inch of the station. It's one of the most rich sci-fi experiences in gaming, and that's all I really wanna say about it. If you haven't played it, go do so.

Well I'm guessing some sort of footy game... but as there's so many of them I wouldn't know what to guess. FIFA would licence music, Pro Evolution would have music too... so I'm not sure where to go from there. Championship Manager maybe? I haven't played one of those in so long though, no idea if they have audio.

Which Prey though? The one by Human Head Studios or the one by Arkane? I started playing the one by Human Head Studios and must say - it is an interesting take with a lot of strange ideas. And that space station gobbled together from stuff from different planets is just crazy. About the Arkane one I don't know much, except that it has nothing to do with the first game except the name, that Bethesda forced down on Arkane.

It's not quite Championship Manager, but...

Ah, yes...I suppose I should have clarified that. I was talking about Arkane's Prey. Never played the original namesake. 

I tried out The Elder Scrolls Online simply because it was available to me, fully expecting not to like it much and put it away quickly. You see I am not much of an online player, I prefer Solo play for the most part. Yet the solo experience of the game offered me enough to pull me in.

I admit, that it was probably down to me encountering the game so late. I mean it is out for many years now, nearly a decade. In that time it got a lot of updates, DLCs, extensions. So the game I encountered probably was very different from what the launch game was like. But well, I only got to it now, so I am in luck and can experience a much more developed game.

As I said, I don't give too much about the multiplayer aspects of the game, although I try it out from time to time. But the game offers a lot of exploration, something I am liking a lot. It helps that ESO can access a world with lore that was developed over multiple games by now and can just replicate this great worldbuilding instead of starting at zero. And the resultis a world that feels real, with history and lived in.

And they make use of it. I started in Morrowind and therefore it is so far the region I have explored the most, so let's use it as an example. This small part of the world is home mostly to Dunmer (dark elves) and dominated by volcanic ashlands. Here I can learn about the Chimer, the fair skinned predecessors of the Dunmer. I can see how the Dunmer are organized in different great houses that control certain cities, and these houses have distinct architecture visible in their cities. But also the Ashlanders, Dunmer that still live in tribes and worship the good Daedric Princes instead of the living gods of the Tribunal. The house elves recently abolished slavery (except House Telvanni), mostly enslaving Argonians. There are still conflicts around this, Dunmer that still want to employ slaves. But also Arginian settlements near elvish cities. All of this is a colorful tapestry to build the world and give the player quests to follow. And the world feels filled and thought through. I even met a person shoveling silt strider poo. Because someone has to do it.

I also love how the game develops recurring characters, that you meet regularly in the world. I like the Khajit Razum-dar, who always is near trouble and has a job for you. But there are quite some characters that get a proper development and can be met again and again. This is fun, the 'I know you' effect.

The game is enormous. This is probably down to the years of development, it now has a lot of quite meaty regions. As I wrote, I started off in Morrowind, but ventured into some other regions by now, but I am far from having explored the game in full. So content wise you have a lot before you run out of things to discover.

I should mention though the monetization as a major downside. I am fine with a monthly fee for an online game as such in form of ESO Plus. But Bethesda doesn't stop here, the Crown shop (the in-game currency you can buy with real money) offers ridiculous stuff. And to outrageous prices - remember this are all just digital goods. Bethesda should concentrate on the subscription model and reduce the other monetization schemes. But I guess they are most lucrative.

Despite that I really enjoy exploring Tamriel and meeting all these characters. Once I have fully explored the game (which can still be a while) I am not sure if there is more to it for me, although I may consider playing with another class again. We'll see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnpTgepe1tA&ab_channel=BethesdaSoftworks

Well, let's see which games are next:

#47: Guessed by coolbeans: Project Zomboid

#46: Guessed by S.Peelman: The Battle for Wesnoth

#45:
This is it's own game instead of just a port.

#44:
The genre I could describe as monarchy simulator.

#43:
You controlling what is basically a big orange mouth.

Just spit-balling here:

44 - Yes, Your Grace (?)

43 - Q*bert (?)

My first hints were intentionally vague, so it is no surprise you missed in both cases. But interesting choices indeed. Yes, Your grace is indeed a monarchy simulator, but I have a totally different style in mind. Q*bert I had to look up, but yes my description would fit. Good guesses, but totally not what I had in mind.