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
Yeah, despite not playing 1,3, or 4 myself yet (plan to eventually) I feel confident saying that each game had a real message (and perhaps even more than one) which the game was used to convey. And the way V “wraps everything up” is just groundbreaking imo.
Kojima is truly the first strand-type artist.
MGS3 was the best of the bunch by far.