Tribal Wars

For me, the Civilization V intro, lots of lan parties and online sessions where we suddenly found ourselves playing while the birds were waking up to the mørning sun outside our window.

I don't even remember the name of the game, but it was a gba game where you played as a blacksmith and you had to craft your own weapons and go down some mine to collect materials and progress the story. I was 18yo at the time, had just started living alone, didn't have internet or TV or anything to do. Downloaded that game at work then went home to play it and suddenly I had to leave for work again. It was the first time I stayed up all night playing something. I remember dozing off that next day and even writing stuff about swords in the middle of some work documents.

Civilization IV

Halo CE, BF2 and WoW

Spent sooooo many hours as a kid playing Wing Commander: Prophecy. I still have dreams about the missions and the video cut scenes. Picked it up on GOG about a year ago and the controls sceme was still in my muscle memory.

For me it was the Star Wars Rebellion main menu. I played that game tons back in the day on a PC that couldn't handle much more. Starting it up locked me into just wanting to finish a game in one night.

The PlayStation 2 intro. I never had one and still haven’t even all these years later, but that was a console I’d play at my cousins’ houses and we would often play late into the next morning. Hearing that intro is pure nostalgia to the highest degree. Since we didn’t have it at our house, it was even more so the reason to play so late on a weekend.

I remember being obsessed with Sims Bustin’ Out and that was one of a few games we’d play late. That or one of the GTAs like III or Vice City and then I was able to sneak San Andreas for myself on Xbox and that was a game I played a lot too.

Definitely the Ocarina of Time intro for me. It was the first game to give me a real sense of adventure as a kid, and that theme song remains forever burned into my memory.

Definitely tf2

Usually community servers are empty but pub players are practically infinite

Guild wars 1

Command and conquer : red alert

Diablo (the original)

Hands down, the Descent 2 PC/DOS intro, game released in 1996. They were ahead of their time, awesome game still to this day in my book.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lT5U4LMiF7M

Breath of the Wild.. so many nights were spent lying in bed playing that game until I heard birdsong! 😅

Minecraft, satisfactory, factorio are ones that come to mind that keep me up too late as an adult. The TES games are ones I remember from my childhood. Morrowind was my jam back in the day, as was NWN.

Minecraft, though it's because I usually open it after sunrise if I'm still awake. most of the time if I'm up all night I'm really deep into surfing the web to the point of like, obscure sites about aliens or something.

Nier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8XTbluLDyE

The opening rant of Kaine refers to something in the late game and it's soulcrushing, but I love it and how they chose to scream at you on the first launch of the game when you don't even know who's speaking. That sets the tone.

Crossposted to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

Devil May Cry

Whenever I hear any sound from that game, I am immediately triggered in remembering the from dusk till dawn game nights me and a friend had. Hearing the birds sing was a sign we had to maybe stop and get some sleep. Biking home through the city while the sun rises after a game binge night was surreal.

First Gran Turismo.

Resident Evil

Civ 3,4,5 for one ...more... turn. Or for the PlayStation boot sequence loading into MG:S for the 14th play-through.

None. I get hit hard by melatonin and can’t stay up no matter how jazzed I am playing a game. Latest for me was probably like 1:30a and Resident Evil or Tomb Raider. I do remember sleep overs where a friend was still playing when I woke up. Don’t remember the game though … probably Final Fantasy VII.

A Cobra Mark III rotating on the screen as a green wireframe model on black background.

Starcraft 1 & Warcraft 2

none. staying up past sunrise is insane. even for work