Submitted 1 month ago by Abraxas@feddit.uk to games@lemmy.world
for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.
For me it’s always about how much fun I had playing them, so right now and in no order:
Honorable Mentions:
In no particular order ( mostly cos i think ranking beyond a certain degree of precision hurts the art involved ):
then i suppose one tier below, not consequent of any particular shortcomings, but rather just not being at the same “transendent” level as the above:
NieR automata literally changed my life, so it kinda deserves it’s own top spot, but placed as is in spirit of the question.
Minecraft Borderlands 2 Bioshock
honourable mention for Zelda on N64
but the top 3 are based on replayability and just how easy it is to spend time playing them
Control, the horizon games and stardew valley.
Really hard to narrow it down, but I think this would be it:
Honourable mentions: Portal 1 & 2, Pokémon SoulSilver, Hollow Knight, Dishonored, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Inside, Gunpoint, any Forza game before the most recent one (haven’t played it), all the Bungie Halo games, and many more. I just love video games I think.
Skyrim is such a weird game. I don’t even like it anymore but I hold it in such good regard for just being there at the right time
Kingdoms of Amalur was better and released almost the same time and wasn’t a buggy disaster.
Factorio Minecraft And 3rd is split between rimworld and baldur’s gate 3
Copy Kitty
Anno 1800
Satisfactory
Elden Ring, Dwarf Fortress, and Disco Elysium.
I don’t get to play games much nowadays but I was a rank 50 lone wolf back in the day. Good times.
fistful of frags is strangely addictive, what weapon do you main?
I haven’t played in a couple of years so I don’t even remember all the different weapons. I just loved the challenge. I found the game by accident on steam, tried playing and got totally crashed. It took me couple of months to be able to stand my ground and finish the round in the top half. Really hard but as you say, really addictive. I don’t have that much time for games now but if I do one day I might get back to FoF.
Doom Crosscode Cave Story
crosscode mentioned, hell yeah!
Ragnarok Online in the early 00s is the only reason I’m alive to post this comment
Diablo II for sure, what an amazing technical achievement in the year 1999
Theeeen probably Earthbound.
Hey fellow RO player.
I quit when my hometown Morroc got obliterated on iRO. I’ve tried coming back once right after the server mergers, but I don’t know what kind of methodology they’ve used when determining name conflicts, I’ve lost quite a few character names to what I assume were randoms from other servers banking on taking over the names. Pissed me off way too much. Tried coming back a second time about a year ago, but I was unable to figure out my character account passwords with the warp portal changes and what not.
Descent for the movement. Unreal tournament for getting ten PC’s on a token ring for PvP lan. Warcraft 2 because it’s rad and a pirated copy got me a job at the trading card shop.
Betrayal at Krondor. A huge world for exploring, at a time when that didn’t exist.
Chrono Trigger. The replay value is so high.
Wolf 3D or Doom or Doom 2 or Quake 3, for similar reasons.
StarCraft, at a time when BattleNet was small and the ladder rankings and fights were all global.
My best friend and I used to spend summer afternoons trying to figure out the answers to all the riddles on the chests. We sucked at it but when we finally managed to crack one, the feeling was euphoric.
The music was awesome. I used to listen to the CD while I slept.
Factorio, Anno 1602, Civ 3
Easy choices for me, but I don’t know how to order them.
Anno 1800 gets an honourable mention for feeling like a great spiritual successor to 1602, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the first game.
I can’t deny that nostalgia has to do with the first two fossils in the list, though I still maintain that I like them more than their latest counterparts in their franchises.
Not Half Life though: it was ~15 years old when I first played it, no nostalgia there.
Still, between the many games I would gladly build a monument to, those are games that I can play beginning to end without getting bored, annoyed or burnt out (as long as you allow me to use the Ship Of Harkinian randomizer for Z:OoT, otherwise replace that game with Perfect Dark ig).
Only 3 choices makes it a tough one since there are many exceptional games…
If I had to erase every experience of all games, the ones I’d keep are (in no particular order): Cyberpunk 2077 Fallout: New Vegas Sunset Overdrive
Really hard to have any real favorite. But the games I’ve played the most in my life:
Super Mario Bros (NES)
Diablo Franchise
Destiny 2
Geoscape song is such a vibe
No one is going to agree with me, but here I go:
Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.
1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.
2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.
3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.
Elder Ring, RDR2, and BOTW feels like such a basic bitch gamer list.
We all gotta start somewhere
It’s hard as there’s a lot of different games that I like for different reasons, but if I had to narrow it down it’d probably be:
Oldschool RuneScape
kinda makes me sad that this seems to be the only mention of osrs in this thread.
That was literally why I wrote a comment! I saw zero mentions of osrs
I guess most people play single player games, even though osrs is getting new all-time player peaks every other week these days.
Gonna show my age a bit here.
Chromehounds. Nothing since has filled that 20 story tall mecha hole in my heart. The way you could build your hound into the role you wanted to play really hasn’t been done well in any game since
MAG (massive action game). Ps3/ps4 128vs128 matches online? It was such a clusterfuck and I loved it.
Binding of Isaac and all its expansions. Game has been a solid and consistent time sink in my life for more than 10 years. Quirky and infinitely replayable.
Star Wars Pod Racer Halo Reach Word of Warcraft
Pod racer was the first game I was better than my younger sibling and when I bought my very first CD (Green Day). I spent hours playing that game with my CD on repeat.
Halo Reach was the first Halo game I was really into and first console modern game played. I spent so many hours playing online and IRL with friends.
World of Warcraft is the game I’ve played the longest. I’ve been playing since a few months after launch. Even though I initially thought it was “too cartoony”, it has kept me entertained for decades. Some of my favorite books are from Warcraft lore. I’ve played countless hours with friends, but now I play solo more than anything. I chase achievements, transmogs, and pets.
The Last Of Us part 1 and 2 and the Witcher 3
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Morrowind
Final Fantasy X
The Last of Us
The first two are interchangeable first and second.
Next two are Final Fantasy VIII and inFamous 2, again interchangeable.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Morrowind was such a game changer for me. I’m still bummed that Bethesda dropped the best things about it for their later games.