As far as labors of love go, Stardew Valley is probably the most current example. People paid for this thing years ago, but Concerned Ape keeps adding new features anyway. The retro graphics give this thing a timeless quality out of the box, so it already looks “dated” - this hasn’t stopped the robust player community around it. We’ll probably see this game stay relevant for a long time.
Anon loves The Lord of the Rings
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dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
And that’s before you start talking about modding the game.
The amount of mods for this game is insane. From simple QoL stuff through to full expansions.
No replay of the game has to be the same again.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Do people ever do total conversion modifications anymore? Are there any Stardew Valley mods that turn it into something totally different?
Cypher@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Dwarf Fortress.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Objectively correct answer.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Strike the earth!
pwnicholson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Half-life.
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Yeah this is it for me. Half Life was such a technical marvel and a step change in story telling through gaming.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
☼Dwarf Fortress☼
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
!!FUN!!
Plagiatus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Had to scroll too far for this. It’s the best equivalent of this for me.
mtpender@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Deep Rock Galactic
ROCK AND STONE! oT
christov@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FOR KARL!
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
WE’RE RICH!
ramius345@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Baldurs Gate 3.
Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Terraria
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Java modded Minecraft.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thaumcraft, my love 😍
proti@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One Shot
Outer Wilds
Portalriwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
outer wilds my beloved <3 <3 >.<
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Outer wilds is just ridiculously good. Somehow the DLC matches the OG story’s level of insanely good. Best game I’ve ever played, or probably ever will.
grahamja@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Morrowind
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Half-Life/Half-Life 2 The original Fallout The original Doom Brutal Doom (the campaign) Star Control 2 (The Ur’Quan Masters fan-made modernized version) The Neverhood Subnautica (not Below Zer0) Duke Nukem 3D Total Annihilation Megaman (the first one) Megaman X (the first one)
grahamja@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
You could have said the orange box and saved yourself a couple bullets.
orbular@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
If only I could play subnautica for the first time again. Such an incredible atmosphere. Another one of my favorites is Hollow Knight.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Outer Wilds Inscryption Expedition 33
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Expedition 33
Woah. Would you really put Expedition 33 in the same class as the other two? This is the highest indirect praise I’ve seen of the game.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
absolutely!
it’s of course a very different game from the other two but brilliant nonetheless
i dislike turn based combat, i dislike jrpg, but Expedition 33? i adore. the world building, the story, the voice acting- are absolutely incredible. It’s one of those lightnings in a bottle that suddenly appear out of seemingly nowhere
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. The story is gut-wrenching, the world is rich and engaging, the gameplay is interesting. If I had one complaint it’s that the rare platforming segments don’t quite work… but being a masterpiece isn’t about perfection, it’s about impact, and Clair Obscur hits like a hydrogen bomb.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Really? I’ve seen Clair Obscura praised as a masterpiece.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would too. It’s just really well crafted world building , story, and side content. There’s so much to do and all of it feels fun.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
man i tried so many times and couldn’t get into outer wilds. it’s so fucking boring to get started that when things start getting even remotely interesting I’m already checked out.
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Outer Wilds is best started on rainy evenings around late summer, it took me a couple of tries to get into it as well, i bounced off at least 2 times. but the 3rd time it grabbed me and now it’s my all time favourite game.
basically, don’t stress it :) it’s a brilliant game and honestly after you finish it one day you’ll long for the time when it was still ahead of you as you can only play it once for the first time
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Chrono trigger
snoons@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The announcer at gay bingo knows someone that named their kid Chrono. :(
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I need to know what gay bingo is.
Epp2@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
That’s sad. The characters name is Crono.
vrojak@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Terraria, amazing game that is still supported to this day, best 5€ I’ve spend on a game.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A videogame that was made with complete love and devotion to the medium, made with talent and sincerity, and is a pinnacle of everything it stands, something that will stand the test of time…
And nobody mentioned Stardew Valley? I spent too long looking for it and didn’t find a single mention of it. Absolute mastery of its genre, an incredible amount of dedication spent by the developer listening to the fans, and I can’t imagine it not still holding up 10 years from now, or even 20 years from now.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is great, I love it, but there were so many performance issues with the game even with top tier hardware, and the game was borderline unplayable for others due to these issues. I have a little bias since my save didn’t sync across devices with the steam cloud and I have to start all over. Love the game, but I just can’t believe Stardew Valley isn’t even mentioned.
sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Terraria I feel would be closer as stardew valley is a one man job. Terraria grew as a vision that hasn’t really strayed beyond, but every update instead chisels the stone more. It is a game that took castlevania/mario inspirations and honed it into a perfect conception of 2d sidescrollers but with a liberty. (Akin to stardew being the first real open farming sim)
Redigit did amazing on the original SMBX fangame. Basically took the concept, and removed constraints. You can see the differences in development ethos as new people came on and really created a diverse game. It is so groundbreaking in their conformity that most can only compare to Minecraft, something essentially extradimensional to terraria.
Imagine being so baller you get compared to a game that puts you in control of shaping the world around you. When terraria is a game that predominantly shapes you around the world. Eventually even adding lore to these shapes it forms out of you.
Are you the summoner? The fisher? The knight? The archer? The farmer?
You will be all at some point in your journey of improvement. You will don every hat and for it you will be able to reflect back on your next life and proceed with new knowledge. The Belmont’s curse is never over, and this is our only solace.
thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I kinda feel like Stardew is incomplete, I want to know more about the world, the lore. I also wish that I could have more time in a day to complete what I set out to do.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not every game needs an endless depth of lore that only those without jobs or have other things that fill up their days can dive into. Stardew Valley is a farming simulator, it doesn’t need hundreds or thousands of years of history for you to study up on, and thank the dieties it doesn’t. It meets the prompt provided in the original post.
Not bagging on people who enjoy deep lore in games, you do you, but I only get about 1-3 hours a week to play so that shit is not for me anymore. I need a game I can very easily pick up, get some shit done, and be okay putting it back down again before not too much time is up.
onemancult@crazypeople.online 2 weeks ago
You might be interested to know that concernedape’s new game haunted chocolatier will be set in the same world.
Captain_Stupid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Minecraft
frostphunk@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Half life and half life 2
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Doom. The game that solidified a gaming genre and has become a benchmark for computers. ‘Can you play doom on it?’
reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A benchmark for computers? When it’s been played on calculators and printers?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes, those calculators and printers have now been benchmarked.
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The best PC game OAT: Disco Elysium
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Which you should totally pirate, according to the devs themselves.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’m not sure but I think I heardthat they reconciled somehow?
amphetaminisiert@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
It’s currently 90% off on steam btw
alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’d argue there isn’t one. Not on the scale of LotR. It cannot be overstated how unlikely it was that it happened the way it did.
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
World of Warcraft was a LOTR moment for me, thousands of hours of different content in a fantastic world. The extensions killed it ofc.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The Witcher universe is nearly an identical type of Norse style fantasy, with elves, dwarves, and giants, and 3 is a long epic quest across 3 huge regions. One of my first thoughts when I first played was that it feels like LOTR meets Game of Thrones.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Ocarina of Time. I’m biased because of nostalgia, but I genuinely think it’s the best game ever created. It took everything that was great about the SNES classic A Link To the Past, brought it into 3D as an early N64 game, and improved literally everything. The atmosphere, the gameplay, the story, the time mechanic, the music… It’s not perfect, in fact these days it’s trivial to break many things in it with glitches, but I think it’s absolutely the best.
TimeNaan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Deus Ex
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Welp, time to reinstall!
But no, seriously, DX Revision recently got a fairly major update.
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The Secret of Monkey Island
radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 weeks ago
Look behind you!
thefluffiest@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
How appropriate. You fight like a cow
Prox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ocarina of Time
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are too many to mention.
MechWarrior 2 Dragon Age: Origins Daggerfall Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Baldur’s Gate 3 The Longest Journey Dark Souls Civilization 2 & 4 Alpha Centauri The Outer Wilds Fallout 1 & 2 Alien: Isolation Super Mario Bros. 3 Death Stranding Doom (1993) Phasmophobia Psychonauts X-Com: UFO Defense The Witcher 1 & 3 Disco Elysium
PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I like your taste. These are some bangers lol.
If you haven’t, you should play Armored Core 6. It’s a FROM game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways.
But it’s also a mech game, and it feels like one, in all the best ways! Every button assaults your enemy, every motion feels fluid, fast, effortless - or huge, heavy, clunky - your mech is your mech, and many thoughtful builds can become OP. The customization is bananas. And yet - some fights will remain challenging.
With all sincerity, easy 10/10 game for me, I proceeded from NG -> NG+ -> NG++ directly, which is a first for me and I’m an oldish dude. AND I felt thoroughly rewarded by the end of NG++. It’s a literal perfect game, just unreasonably fun and well-crafted.
Zink@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I’m going to have to try that game. I played a bunch of the original but I think nothing in between.
aim_at_me@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
Half Life?
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
The first xcom game is still the best one. More units equals more fun
ampy@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Death stranding is awesome
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Thanks for mentioning Alien: Isolation! It’s my favorite game. After many years, I’m finally attempting a silent Nightmare low% run! I’m almost done with M16. Cheers!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not Witcher 2?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Definitely not 2. Not for lacking of passion, though. They just didn’t pull it off.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Age of Empires 2, despite being Microsoft owned, is easily one of the best strategy games of all time and has very clearly stood the test of time. It’s over 25 years old and people kept playing it a lot even before the HD remakes. I remember reading that the folks that made the 1st game often had to choose between “actual history or hollywood history” for some details, often going for hollywood because it made for a more fun experience.
I suspect Factorio might stand the test of time as well, and it’s clearly something made by someone who really understands the medium. I haven’t begun my factory yet.
polle@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Factorio
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Without a doubt the Witcher games.
Walop@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
This is what can be done when the actual developers and artists are given a chance without executive meddling and forced monetization.
Edge004@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Super Metroid
Antagnostic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Baldur’s Gate 3
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of folks are listing their favorite games but this is the one that truly fits. Unusually long development time by a studio known for DnD-simmiliar RPG games getting the next installation for the series that defined the genre. Cast voice actors for several years, ones that are still playing their characters on a variety of platforms. And just chock filled references, in-jokes, and faithful updates on old characters.
Everyone involved with it clearly loved what they were doing.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It got people not previously interested in DND to actually enjoy DND.
Dalkor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also, as a literal interpretation, it occurs over 3 arcs.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No joke, I installed the open-beta/pre-release years ago, played for a bit, and uninstalled it. When the actual release dropped, I had the most intense déjà vu about it all because I forgot that had even happened. I had to go back to my Steam library to puzzle it all back together.
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The real question is what is Larian’s equivalent to Peter Jackson’s “Meet the Feebles”?
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Part of the reason development took so long was due to them using early release for the right reasons. They listened to the player base and changed the game based on feedback from the fans