I’m not necessarily talking about moment-to-moment gameplay or mechanics (though I could see some interesting points being made about, for example, RTS gameplay or RPG character building influence how you approached “strategy” in your own life).
What I’m trying to get at are the games you felt really had something to say.
For example, while I’m by no means the biggest fan (only ever played 2 and V), playing MGS V recently (and catching up on the background a bit) has created this sense in me, and I wondered where else one might have experienced that from vidya
“There’s only one (or two, or three) Superman / Matrix / Alien / Indian Jones movies” - I didn’t really understand why people cared so much when I was younger, but when you see it happening right in front of you, and you’ve grown up a bit, it really is disgusting what gets done to some of these great stories like you mention - but at least we can draw a line and say “I don’t care how much money you parasites spent for this skin suit, the original story is still ours”