My favorite game is Civ 3. I could play it endlessly. It has this unforgettable sense of scale, like something genuinely huge is happening in the world of the game. It's also the only Civ where I actually enjoy playing the modern era, because of the absolutely insane bombers, mobilization, and railroads.
Though there isn't much left for me to do — beat Sid, and I'm done (((
I also love games with an incredibly powerful gameplay core: Bayonetta, NG1 and NG2 (the OG versions, with some caveats), Thief 2, RE4 (2005 and 2023), streets of rage 4, Sifu, God Hand. Squad, men of war assault squad 2, Magicka, armored core 6, splinter cell chaos theory, vanquish, Guild 2.
And classic old-school rpgs, but I'm already tired of writing all this
As for movies, I often come back to Evil Does Not Exist (2017). And my favorite book is Daily Scepter by the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Pashkovskyi. The way he HATES everyone is just incredibly beautifully written. I love rereading it, and I even like his boomer-ish, naive neologisms