I just bought Diablo 3 on pc after playing it years ago on PS4. Getting into that this week before Mario. Does that count?

@Danjin44 Resident Evil 7 had me on edge towards the beginning, but for some reason I feel less scared in these games the moment I get a shotgun in hand.

@BogusMeatFactory for what it’s worth this game isn’t scary at all and I’m someone who still gets creeped out during playthroughs of the original game.

@Hasney the good thing about The Evil Within is that it can be knocked out with a few decent sized gaming sessions.

I will most likely still be working through Fire Emblem Warriors and whatever I pick up during the Steam Halloween sale.

I’m gonna try to devote 100% of my time to Mario before moving on to new games though.

I marathoned the last six chapters yesterday and beat the game last night before I went to bed and, without spoiling anything, holy crap did this game end VERY strong. I was a little iffy on the open world nature of things and I found most of the side content to be dull, but the story segments of the game were fantastic. After the beginning hours, I wasn’t expecting much from the story: however, they handled the second half so well. It’s rare to see a game pull off emotion as well as this game does.

A top notch experience.

As a life long Nintendo fan, I originally thought my post (first ever on this site!!) would be about the Legend of Zelda series; however, back in 2010 a series new to me came in and stole my heart: Dragon Quest.

When I was in college I worked midnight shift at a gas station. I had a lot of downtime and was allowed to play my Nintendo DS whenever things were slower between 1am-5am. I got a lot of solid gaming done and I burned through a lot of the bigger RPGs on the system. I remember this was in June when I was on summer break from school. I stopped at Gamestop one day to pick up a cheap DS JRPG to grind through during a block of midnight shifts I was coming up on. I picked up Dragon Quest IV and decided to give it ago and I was immediately hooked. I loved the challenge, polish, music, and how great it felt compared to a lot of modern JRPGs at the time. It took me a week to beat that game and I was craving for more.

At that years E3 we learned that Dragon Quest IX was releasing that July, roughly a week after I finished Dragon Quest IV. I went to Gamestop again and saw there was another Dragon Quest game on DS (V) which I bought immediately. I bought it and gave myself a week to compete it before DQIX and I passed the test with flying colors. That game was even more amazing than DQIV and it is now one of my most favorite games of all time.

I spent the rest of the summer putting 300 hours into Dragon a Quest IX and by the time I returned for my final fall semester of classes, Dragon Quest has dethroned Zelda as my favorite games series. I proceeded to play DQIX for months until DQVI’s DS port came out and I played that as well. The following summer I pulled out my old PS2 and bought a used copy of Dragon Quest VIII and spent and entire summer with it. I played that game daily after work and finally beat it with a final time of 72 hours. It instantly became my most favorite game of all time.

The rest of course is history. Square Enix proceeded to ignore Dragon Quest in the West for nearly six years. The last year has been like gaming heaven for me with the release of Dragon Quest VII and VIII on 3ds and I am greatly looking forward to Dragon Quest XI on Switch.