What a lazy ass question
Greatest video game ever played?
Submitted 5 months ago by Jonessevereignity@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Kelly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Agreed, without better defined scope the question is just asking for:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_video_games_considered…
Its a fun read but its already available.
Defaced@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Damn 2004 was a banger of a year for video games.
Aermis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Man why is did the list go so thin in the later years? Straight up nothing for 2021?
grandel@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
What a lazy ass comment
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Dwarf Fortress.
They’re even making sequels to “the carp stands up” now. They added exercise to the game, and now carps get ducking 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.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Joust
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
/thread
Nothing left to see here folks. Question answered correctly. Let’s all move along.
B312@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
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.
TetraVega@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Otherwise known as M$
Vitaly@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Team Fortress 2
otp@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Star Control 2
The Ur-Quan Masters
Free Stars
SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Minecraft, circa 2015. It was a religion.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Barbie horse adventures
kwedd@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Deus Ex
deafboy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
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.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 5 months ago
My favorite game, the game I can always come back to, is The Elder Scrolls III - Morrowind
Hupf@feddit.org 5 months ago
Wealth beyond measure, sera.
bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
WHAT A GRAND AN INTOXICATING ANSWER
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
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.
Wiz@midwest.social 5 months ago
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.
P1nkman@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
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.
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Metal Gear Solid 3
ladicius@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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 world…
Jeffool@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Vagrant Story.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That game is one of my saddest histories. As a bit to young to play it I bought it and found it immensely boring hust 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 fist boss fight. Put it aside and never picked it back up again. Still have the game somewhere. No PSOne tho’
Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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.
Minnels@lemm.ee 5 months ago
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 :(
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You just need to carry one of each weapon. Sticking to one will get you walled early on because weapon type resistances matter a lot.
archonet@lemy.lol 5 months ago
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, but those who have played them know what I mean.
tal@lemmy.today 5 months ago
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.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 months ago
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.
AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Portal
Breath of the Wild
Alan Wake 2
lukstru@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Slay The Spire. Really excited for the sequel.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tie between Final Fantasy X and Morrowind.
bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Cosigned for mw
Wilhelm_scream@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
The Last of Us series
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve only seen the show. Is the game as good as the show?
technomad@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
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
WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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 way 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.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Last of Us part 2.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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
MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 months ago
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.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
No idea. Too many to pick from.
gcheliotis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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 came out, when we knew next to nothing about what to expect, it was an almost revelatory experience.
passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Space station 13
bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Portal (1&2)
grandel@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Portal is amazing, also the community DLC but unfortunately not my greatest.
I’d go with something like Satisfactory or Dota 2 (gasp).