Leave Me Alone, I’m Gaming
What else were you expecting us to begin with?
Who Wrote What?
In Chronological Order:
Sweeney - Intro/Tagline, Maniac’s Favorite, Gasmask’s Favorite, Lunatic’s Favorite, Outro
Hall - hisPanicAttak’s Favorite
We all want to play - Just NOT Together!
Video Game Content has been the Backbone of Entertainment Industries. Between the Walkthroughs from Gas Legion and the chaotic Multiplayer videos from The Crazy Entertainment, you can tell that Video Games really helped us all in ways we wish we could explain - Since we aren’t doing that right now, How about we share what our Favorite Single-player Games are. Single-Player Games are an absolute must in the world of Gaming. We all get sick and tired of each other and need that escape. These are the games we would choose over everything else; In order of the release of each game that each of us adore the most (This also is in the order of when everyone started gaming).
First off, we are going back in time a little bit to show you where cicmaniac’s love for video games came from. Buckle Up, this is the tamest excerpt of the entire blog.
A 2D platform game came out in 1997 in Japan, then in 1998 in the United States, which was released for the Nintendo 64. This game is Yoshi’s Story. Although this is best played with others, cicmaniac fell into this game in 2002 playing the story all alone, and the rest was History.
We do not want to give too much away - In case you decide to try this classic yourself.
In order to complete a level, the Baby Yoshis have to eat exactly 30 fruits scattered through the level. Before starting a level, the player has to select a Baby Yoshi. Each Yoshi has a different taste when it comes to fruits and Shy Guys, and it recovers more health (and scores more points) if it eats a fruit or a Shy Guy that is of its own color.
Go through the Replayable Story-Mode which contains 24 Total Levels or Test yourself in the Trial Mode by replaying Levels you have unlocked with a challenge. There's even a practice mode if you are struggling to understand how to play or just want to perfect a specific move without any enemies taking you out.
You can get this Game on an old Nintendo 64 with the old-school GamePaks, or as a Digital download on some older and newer consoles such as Wii, WiiU, and Nintendo Switch.
16 Years after the release of cicmaniac’s Favorite Game launched, A Game everyone has heard of, The Last of Us released in 2013 for the Playstation 3. Of course this became Gasmask’s Favorite because he has something in common with it - Repeating himself is also a huge part of his Life-cycle. It has been re-released 8 Times since and has 1 Sequel. It was also adapted as a Television Series, and a series of comic books called The Last of Us: American Dream which has a total of 4 issues.
The Last of Us is a third-person action-adventure survival horror video game developed by Naughty Dog. The Story follows Joel and Ellie as they navigate a post-apocalyptic United States, facing infected humans and moral dilemmas while seeking a potential cure for a deadly fungal outbreak.
The game explores trust, survival, sacrifice, and the human cost of a post-apocalyptic world, emphasizing the emotional bonds between characters over traditional zombie horror tropes. It is widely acclaimed for its storytelling, character development, and moral complexity.
Overall, the story is worth playing if you haven’t before. Given the mainstream of this IP and the fact it will probably be re-released 8 more times by 2040, there's no need to continue explaining this game. You can get this game on any Playstation from the PS3 to PS5, or on PC.
We are a Third of the way through and you may be wondering, what would a Lunatic even like? Well in 2017, we found out exactly that.
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world, but instead of dreary grey wastelands and fighting over the last can of chicken noodle soup, you get lush, vibrant forests, majestic mountains, and-oh right-giant, murderous robo-dinosaurs.
Welcome to Horizon Zero Dawn, a 2017 action-RPG masterpiece by Guerrilla Games set in the 31st century. Mother Nature has successfully reclaimed the Earth, while human civilization has hit the reset button back to tribal societies. It's essentially the Stone Age, but with the added peril of getting trampled by autonomous mechanical megafauna that have taken over the food chain. You've got hunter-gatherers, sun-worshippers (the Carja), tinkerers (the Oseram), and survivalists (the Banuk), all trying to coexist with wildlife made of armor plating and synthetic muscle.
Enter Aloy: a brilliant, bow-wielding outcast from the strictly matriarchal Nora tribe. Raised by her fellow outcast and surrogate grumpy-dad, Rost, she was trained to be the ultimate survivor. Aloy’s initial quest is deeply personal—she just wants to figure out her mysterious origins. But, in true RPG fashion, trying to find out who your mother is quickly snowballs into a desperate bid to stop a rogue, omnicidal AI named HADES from hitting the cosmic "Delete" button on organic life. Again. To keep humanity from becoming a footnote in a machine's databank, you'll guide Aloy through a gorgeous open world filled with ruins of the "Old Ones" (us). Combat isn't just mindless button-mashing; it’s a strategic dance. You’ll use a delightfully anachronistic but highly effective arsenal of bows, slings, and tripcasters to exploit location-based weaknesses on the machines. The strategy usually boils down to: find the glowing, angry bit on the giant robot, and shoot it with a cleverly designed explosive stick.
The game weaves in a robust skill tree system, allowing you to tailor Aloy's abilities across three main disciplines:
Prowler: For the sneaky players.
Brave: For those who prefer to tackle a robotic T-Rex head-on.
Forager: For the pragmatic gatherers and healers.
If you venture into The Frozen Wilds expansion, you even get a fourth tree, Traveler, which focuses on making your overridden machine-mounts even more formidable.
You can get this game on PS4, PS5, and PC. Unshockingly, this game also got a sequel, weirdly a Lego Game, and a VR Game no one played.
Lastly, Cult of the Lamb released in June of 2022 with the T for teen(13+) rating by the ESRB. Coming from someone who doesn’t play games very often it took 2 years for this Heaven on Earth (H.O.E.) if you will to find this masterpiece. Cult of the Lamb is a roguelike action adventure game where you play as a possessed lamb who builds a cult to repay a debt to a deity. The gameplay incorporates dungeon-crawling combat with resource management. The game was published by an Australian Studio Massive Monster. The game was adapted into multiple different comic books most notably Cult of the Lamb Pilgrim which was released alongside the games DLC Pilgrim Pack.
In the story you are the last of your kind, you are saved from being sacrificed by The One Who Waits. You are then tasked with building a loyal following in his name and destroying the heretic that opposes you.
The game gives you the ultimate power fantasy over your followers. If a follower is starting to get on your last nerve you can punish your followers with a few options, one you can lock them up and make an example of them, another option which is hisPanicAttak’s favorite is to force the follower to eat poop, and lastly you can always sacrifice a follower.
This game is one of our team's favorite couch co-op, we would highly recommend it to everyone who would like to try something new after a long hard day at work. You can pick up the game on Playstation 4 and 5, IOS via Apple Arcade, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and macOS.
So there you have it—the complete, slightly unhinged spectrum of our team's anti-social tendencies. We just took you on a chronological journey from delightfully force-feeding fruit to baby dinosaurs, to surviving a fungal apocalypse for the eighth consecutive time, to dismantling robot T-Rexes with glorified explosive sticks, and finally, to reaching peak enlightenment by making cute woodland creatures eat actual feces.
Truly, video games are the pinnacle of human art.
As much as we love the chaotic, scream-into-the-mic energy of multiplayer lobbies, there really is a unique kind of peace in retreating to your own digital corner of the universe. Sometimes, you just need to be the sole main character without someone entirely out of your league completely destroying you. Whether you are piecing together the ruins of human civilization, crying over Joel and Ellie, or just trying to manage a cult without your followers unionizing, single-player games remain the absolute best palate cleanser for the human experience.
Go touch grass if you must, but we'll be busy hitting "New Game."
Tell us what you’re favorite single-player game is, and share what the game means to you. We might as well get to know some of you as well.
