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Portal (1&2)
Portal is amazing, also the community DLC but unfortunately not my greatest.
I'd go with something like Satisfactory or Dota 2 (gasp).
Dwarf Fortress.
They're even making sequels to "the carp stands up" now. They added exercise to the game, and now carps get fucking ripped as fuck just swimming upstream, so when they start walking on land they're there to just destroy you and everything you hold dear.
I wasn't going to say df but I'm realising now after thousands of hours in that game there's STILL new things to learn, that was a wild ride thank you
Minecraft. Even with all the shitty updates there is so much to be done in Minecraft that it’s honestly mind boggling. Almost anything is possible especially with mods. Only downside is Microsoft’s greedy ass owns it
I feel compelled to mention Luanti here, just in case it's not on your radar. Also VoxLibre.
It's uh, well it's done.
And it's fully open source so it continues to grow.
And it's lighter and faster and has cleaner network code than MineCraft.
And it doesn't have M$ enshitifying it.
Disclaimer: I love this game and want to see the community grow and grow forever. It's so good and I want to keep playing it until I die.
Edit: I forgot to mention it's completely free and runs great on Windows, Linux, SteamDeck and Android.
Otherwise known as M$
Boulderdash II on C64.
I never had a C64 and was pretty jealous of this series.
I played a few DOS based clones and various ports and they were pretty cool but from what I've seen everything they've done with the franchise since 2000 has been soulless.
Star Control 2
The Ur-Quan Masters
Free Stars
Deus Ex
My favorite game, the game I can always come back to, is The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind
Wealth beyond measure, sera.
WHAT A GRAND AN INTOXICATING ANSWER
Breath of the wild.
Played it on a friends new Switch and bought a Switch and that game three days later. I was so immersed in this weird and wonderful world...
Grim Fandango. Despite the weird tank controls, it created such an amazing world - and all in a point-and-click adventure. My home PC is named Manny, our NAS is Eva, the router/firewall is Glottis, and so on.
Also, Psychonauts. Just a perfect 3D platformer.
Have you played Psychonatus 2? How does it compare? I haven't, but I've been wanting to, but I also have limited time, so I'm looking for the next game after Baldur's Gate 3, which I'll complete in the next 3-4 months with my availability lol
I have. In fact, I backed the development of it.
Definitely worth playing. Maybe a bit less memorable than the original, but also a bit more consistent. There are no huge difficulty spikes like the Meat Circus in the original.
The story is a bit more complex, and a bit more muted. Most of the levels are less memorable. But absolutely worth the time to play and enjoy.
Baldur's Gate 3. Hands down. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably number 2. That said, I have more hours in World of Warcraft than every other game combined. It was an entire lifestyle for a few years back in the day. But WoW was good because of the people, not because of the gameplay.
Metal Gear Solid 3
The Mass Effect Trilogy. By the time I was fighting in London I wondered where this game had been all my life.
Joust
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Nothing left to see here folks. Question answered correctly. Let's all move along.
I'll probably always think that Tetris is the greatest video game ever. The inherent dramatic arc that comes with watching the blocks stack up is tension directly within you the player, not you watching tension unfold for characters on the screen. It's different every time, even if the shape of the arc is similar, because you improve as a player. It's the kind of emergent involvement the most designers could only aspire to create.
That said of course Shadow of the Colossus is also a favorite. That one probably feels a little more obvious, but I'm okay with that.
BioShock Infinite and Spec Ops: The Line are the only two games I've played that I would consider "art" in the truest sense of the word. Video games in general are creative works, and they all have debatable levels of "greatness", but those who have played these two know what I mean.
Vagrant Story.
That game is one of my saddest histories. As a bit to young to play it I bought it and found it immensely boring just slogging through the dungeon at the start. Didn't understand the weapon system. Eventually after several tries I got into the city proper but couldn't handle that first boss fight. Put it aside and never picked it back up again. Still have the game somewhere. No PSOne tho'
Similar story for me. I bounced off this game several times, going back to it repeatedly because (to this day) Matsuno's games are some of my all-time favorites. Then maybe 15 years after release, I realized I'd stopped just short of the crafting station which was such a strong hook for me I ended up with multiple spreadsheets!
Unfortunately, as I began to realize as I delved into the game, it had a lot in common with looter ARPGs, a genre that ages so rapidly. I probably would have loved the game back in 2000 but didn't give it enough of a chance back then. By the time I did, it was just too dated.
I was also too young when I got this game and it is one I would like to return to. Don't have my psx any more either :(
You need to carry one of each weapon type. Unlike most games you can't brute force through weapon resistances.
Team Fortress 2
Slay The Spire. Really excited for the sequel.
Tie between Final Fantasy X and Morrowind.
Cosigned for mw
Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary
Shame about nearly everything else Sega has done to the franchise since.
Portal
Breath of the Wild
Alan Wake 2
Cyberpunk 2077 for me, it has everything, an amazing story with great characters, fantastic gameplay, a banger soundtrack, and an interesting world that's fun to explore and feels like a real place.
Detroit: Become Human
It was the only story ever that has pulled me in completely. I wasn't just playing it, I was living it. It took me 2 more days to come down to earth after finishing it.
Minecraft, circa 2015.
It was a religion.
Ooh. Good pick.
I satisfy my nostalgia for previous versions of Minecraft with Luanti.
Barbie horse adventures
Space station 13
I’d say Baldur’s Gate 3.
With Demons’ Souls a close second. For those of us who got to play that game before Dark Souls became a thing, when we knew next to nothing about what to expect, it was an almost revelatory experience.
Baldurs Gate 1. D&D Lv. 1-7 campaigns are the best
The Last of Us series
I've only seen the show. Is the game as good as the show?
The game was better than the show, which the show was actually based from. I liked the show too, but definitely give the game a go if you get a chance.
The second game was a very difficult storyline to play through, however. I'm glad I did, but temper your expectations and expect to suffer a lot. Lol
I have only play Last of Us 1 during PS3 era. I was a 20 year old kid back then I guess. I cried and sobbed through the game. I remember it having such a huge emotional impact on me. May be I was too emotionally disturbed at that time, who knows.
Your mileage may vary, but i thoroughly enjoyed the game. Didn't enjoy the show as much.
Last of us part 2 is a great story as well. It gets a lot of hate online, but a LOT of that hate is cuz the game not only has lesbian characters, but it also has a trans character, and a woman with muscles character. And that's just way too much woke apparently.
Recently, I would say Roadwarden, was such a great game with such a unique feel to it.
Mother 3
it feels like it was made for my brain specifically to enjoy it lol
Morrowind maybe😎
Riftsmud.net:4000
I was always a discworld mud player... Lots of time there. But I bounced around many :-P
I tried finding others but kept coming back to the one. Helped that i read a lot of fantasy and they used a lot of content i was already familiar with, but it was also the remorting system that entranced me
Yeah, there was something special about the communities that built up around these games...
I simply cannot agree more
Valheim and Prey (2017)
Biggest surprise:
Final Fantasy tactics. Bought it for PSOne, PSP and Android.
Time spent playing:
WoW
Story: (though category to pick one)
Deus Ex
Honorable mentions:
Day of the Tentacle
Minecraft
Final Fantasy VII
Diablo Mass Effect series
Portal series
Half Life series
U played a2?
There are a lot of ways to measure that.
I guess one reasonable metric is how long I probably played it. *Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far and an old computer pinball game, Loony Labyrinth* probably rank pretty highly.
Another might be how long after its development it's still considered reasonably playable. I'd guess that maybe something like *Tetris or Pac-Man* might rate well there.
Another might be how influential the game is. I think that "genre-defining" games like *Wolfenstein 3D* would probably win there.
Another might be how impressed I was with a game at the time of release. Games that made major technical or gameplay leaps would rank well there. Maybe *Wolfenstein 3D or Myst*.
Another might be what the games I play today are -- at least once having played them sufficiently to become familiar with them -- since presumably I could play pretty much any game out there, and so my choice, if made rationally, should identify the best options for me that I'm aware of. That won't work for every sort of genre, as it requires replayability -- an adventure game where experiencing the story one time through is kind of the point would fall down here -- but I think that it's a decent test of the library of games out there. Recently I've played *Steel Division II singleplayer, Carrier Command 2 singleplayer, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and Shattered Pixel Dungeon. RimWorld and Oxygen Not Included* tend to be in the recurring cycle.
The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.
A "pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre" category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.
Mel Gibson's Safari 3
No love for Washing Machine Emulator?
What a lazy ass question
Agreed, without better defined scope the question is just asking for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_best
Its a fun read but its already available.
Damn 2004 was a banger of a year for video games.
The year of half life 2
Man why is did the list go so thin in the later years? Straight up nothing for 2021?
The criteria for inclusion:
This excludes every new title until six publications update their list. Then of course the title has to be good enough to be included on those lists.
Oh. Maybe if I read the criteria of being on that list before just indulging in it I would have understood. Thanks.
What a lazy ass comment
No idea. Too many to pick from.
Tomb Raider 1.
I'm replaying the remastered trilogy for the first time since I was a teenager. The level design is outstanding. Very clever re-use of the same areas, just at different heights.
It's inspiration from side-scroller prince of persia (also played this obsessively as a young child) is palpable. The movement system is revolutionary.
And the enemy progression is hilarious. First you fight some bats, then you fight some wolves, then you fight *motherfucking Velociraptors,* then a goddamned *T-Rex*. And thats not even close to the weirdest enemy you'll fight. Boss battles are evenly spaced until they aren't. when you have two boss battles immediately one after the other.
And then eventiually, you get to the *pulsating flesh caves...*
Yeah. Tomb Raider is wayup there.
I remember being relieved when I survived the encounter with the bear, knowing that it was definitely going to be the scariest creature I would encounter. Lol.
Factorio.
Dwarf fortress but I haven't played that in a long time. It will outlast most other games however.
My personal favorite will probably always remain the Mass effect trilogy.
Witcher 3 and not so distant second Red Dead Redemption 2.
Satisfactory
Either Chrono Trigger or Pokemon White
Last of Us part 2.
Asking for the "greatest" sounds quite pretentious
It's probably why people are downvoting this thread