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
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.
What a lazy ass comment
Joust
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Nothing left to see here folks. Question answered correctly. Let's all move along.
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
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$
Team Fortress 2
Barbie horse adventures
Boulderdash II on C64.
And later, Emerald Mine on the Amiga. So many hours of my life, gone.
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.
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.
Deus Ex
Star Control 2
The Ur-Quan Masters
Free Stars
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.
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
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.
Grim Fandango is an amazing story about life and death and love...
... Built upon an engine where the protagonist walks around at sloth speed. Manny Calavaras just sashays along, and there's no way to speed his ass up. I wish you could hit escape or something to skip him walking in and out of scenes, but nope! I'm forced to watch him drag his feet from location to location.
But the most touching parts of the story stick with me after 20 years.
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...
The Mass Effect Trilogy. By the time I was fighting in London I wondered where this game had been all my life.
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.
Metal Gear Solid 3
Mel Gibson's Safari 3
No love for Washing Machine Emulator?
Slay The Spire. Really excited for the sequel.
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.
Portal
Breath of the Wild
Alan Wake 2
Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary
Shame about nearly everything else Sega has done to the franchise since.
Baldurs Gate 1. D&D Lv. 1-7 campaigns are the best
Space station 13
Asking for the "greatest" sounds quite pretentious
It's probably why people are downvoting this thread
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.
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.
Last of Us part 2.
Valheim and Prey (2017)
Morrowind maybe😎
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?
Recently, I would say Roadwarden, was such a great game with such a unique feel to it.
Satisfactory
Witcher 3 and not so distant second Red Dead Redemption 2.
Factorio.
Dwarf fortress but I haven't played that in a long time. It will outlast most other games however.
Either Chrono Trigger or Pokemon White
My personal favorite will probably always remain the Mass effect trilogy.
