Does anyone regard certain games as almost sacred?

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FFX always gives me fuzzy feelings when I think about it. I haven't played through it in years, and don't really possess a strong desire to acquire and play through it again, but I have such fond memories of it for some reason. Sometimes I'll listen to "To Zanarkand" or something else from the soundtrack and instantly get filled with nostalgia.

Also, I always see Tidus get dissed on message boards, and my inner-monologue always jumps to a whiny, defeated 12-year old saying "Screw you guys, Tidus was awesome."

There are some games that I cannot see flaws in. I guess that's what it means to call something a "gem". They may have flaws, but I had such a wonderful experience playing them for the first time that I cannot perceive them. The three examples that spring to mind are:

Day of the Tentacle
Metroid Prime
Braid

Someone mentioned Shadow of the Colossus. I would include that game, except that there were two things about it which bothered me. One was that the "Old English" that Dormin speaks in is terrible, and if you know anything about the ways in which English verb conjugation used to work, you will cringe every time he speaks. The other was the camera. Actually, both of these things were fixed for the PS3 remake. So I wish that my first experience with the game was the remake and not the original. Too late now.

Valkyria Chronicles, Panzer Dragoon Saga (for rarity reasons), Pier Solar (same reasons). Smash Bros Melee, Final Fantasy X.

Not many I guess

Assassin's Creed is sacred. It can do no wrong.

Morrowind.

For me without a doubt, all the NHL games and even before it's out, NHL 13. Theme Hospital and The Sims. I seem to worship them

I can think of 4 games that I absolutely prize over anything else.

1. Illusion of Gaia (SNES): Omigod this game utterly HYPNOTIZED me as a kid. And that's hard to do, I have a very limited attention span and a hard time focusing on any one thing for a long period, normally I dont do well with RPGs (or even Zelda-ish games as this one is). This one though, was something special. There's never been anything else quite like it, not for me anyway.

2. Baroque (PS2/Wii): Easily one of my favorite games of all time. I love roguelikes, and I love action games with active combat and lotsa stuff to dodge, and this game achieved mastery of both. And then wrapped it up in an excellent visual style and a somewhat horror-ish theme and a unique setting, and lots and lots of challenge. I've spent well over 300 hours with this one by this point.

3. Minecraft (PC): Because HOLY CRAP it's like this game was designed specifically for me to play. Randomly generated worlds to explore (a feature I tend to love in any game that uses it), tons and tons and TONS of different things to do, absolute freedom to do whatever I want whenever I want, so long as I have the proper equipment and items (as opposed to many games where you cant do such-and-such thing until some story element decides you can), lotsa monsters to fight and challenge to be had, and.... the list just goes on and on. And that's just the vanilla version of the game (AKA, the normal version without mods). When I feel like making some changes, I can load up a seperate modded world, that might have things like new enemies, new blocks, new mechanics, or all sorts of crazy stuff. Minecraft isnt for everyone, but there's a reason it's so popular, and for me, it is absolute perfection. ......except when it crashes. Quite the buggy game, really.

4. Mushihime-sama (PS2/360/PC-MAME): I'm a big fan of the shmup genre. I have been for awhile now. Heck, the only reason I still HAVE a 360 at all is because it's the console that all of my expensive import shmups are on. I'm willing to pay quite alot of money for a good game in this genre. The original Mushihime-sama, made by Cave, is the game that sealed the deal for me with this genre. The moment I saw some random videos of high-level players doing amazing things against ridiculously impossible bosses, I was forever hooked. I do think that it's sequel, Mushihime-sama Futari, and a bunch of other Cave titles (and some non-Cave titles) are better than this one, but this is still the one that really "did it" for me, so it's special.

Short answer: the Street Fighter series.

I wouldn't necessarily say sacred, but these are my favorites and a lot of them are particularly special:

Super Mario Galaxy
Zelda: Majora's Mask
Zelda: The Wind Waker
Zelda: Skyward Sword
Okami
NieR
Final Fantasy 6
Chrono Trigger
Pokemon Gold
Metal Gear Solid/Twin Snakes
MGS3
MGS: Peace Walker
Killer7
No More Heroes
Red Dead Redemption

The donkey kong country trilogy on the snes are games I consider very sacred. No other games out there put me in such a wonderful and relaxed mood. Donkey kong country 2 is perfect.

Super Mario 64 for me. I can link some very fond memories in my life to this game, not quite related to playing the game itself, but I can hear a certain piece of music from the game and recall a life event from that period when the game was popular. Hearing most sounds from the game and seeing certain levels bring me back to a time that was comforting to me.

The games I can consider sacred and my favorites are:

Super Mario Bros.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Sly Cooper 2: Band of Thieves
Ratchet: Deadlocked
Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario World
Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct Gold
Super Mario Kart

Bioshock, HL2, Portal