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• polle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Factorio of course.

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• vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ll cheat because picking just 3 is impossible.

  1. Nethack / Alundra (PS1) / Sim City 2000 / Transport Tycoon Deluxe / Prey / Doom 2016 / Elite / Dwarf Fortress / Rimworld

  2. System Shock / Ultima 3-8 / Alpha Centauri / GTA5 / Titanfall 2 / Control / Eye of the Beholder / Sensible Soccer / Star Control 2 / Total Annihilation

  3. Undertale / Bioshock Infinite / S.O.M.A. / Nemesis the Warlock (entirely because of the title song) / Pirates! / Stardew Valley

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  • GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Alpha Centauri

    I still have no idea why they just let the IP drift into oblivion, and chose to keep milking Civ instead…

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    • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, it’s possible that its legendary status relies on that. A bit like Firefly.

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• a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. Prey 2016 - I love the designs, the art, the story, the lonely feeling in space, the soundtrack (Mick Gordon!).
  2. Nier Automata - The only game that ever made me cry - multiple times. Great Soundtrack too!
  3. Grim Dawn - for me personally the best ARPG ever made, and they are working on a new expansion, after all this time!

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  • 0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I like you!

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    • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      umm thanks i guess 🥹

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• fishsayhelo@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In no particular order ( mostly cos i think ranking beyond a certain degree of precision hurts the art involved ):

  • NieR Automata
  • NieR Replicant (ver 1.22… , realistically)
  • The Talos Principle ( one of the most suprisingly brilliant games that too many people haven’t played)

  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:

  • Crosscode
  • Citizen sleeper
  • What Remains Of Edith Finch
  • Portal & 2

  NieR automata literally changed my life, so it kinda deserves it’s own top spot, but placed as is in spirit of the question.

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• lowspeedchase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Ultima Online: One of the greatest lore and social experiences of my life
  • Project Zomboid: Been playing for over 10yrs and still come back for a new character every few months
  • FO: NV
  • CIV V
  • L4D2

  For what has my attention currently:

  • BG3: Trying my damnest for a durge run but I keep picking middle-evil responses instead of full-evil, too hard for me to be a baddie

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  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Good-aligned “resist the Durge” works out better anyway imo and feels like the intended canon playthrough.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not gonna rank them because I can't.

  Age of Empires II I've played since release and still do occasionally.

  Everhood 1 everything about it I love. During covid things got very dark for me personally and this game just hit perfectly on some stuff plaguing my mind at the exact right time I most needed it. The devs were one hit wonders unfortunately. Coming from that, the sequel was atrocious.

  Thief 2: The Metal Age. It's like crack to this brain of mine. Yes I play The Dark Mod too.

  Runners up:

  LISA: The Painful

  Diddy Kong Racing

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thief 2 is just incredible. Many games try, but none can dethrone the stealth game king.

    And I totally forgot about Diddy Kong Racing, but yeah. It’s legitimately a better game than Mario Kart 64.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Aye and it helps the fans are so passionate making new maps to play for both Thief games and TDM.

      DKR holds up so much better. It's just mire realised too. Way more stuff to do. MK64 is skeletal more like an arcade game really. Wish it'd get some reverse engineering love as much as I enjoy the fan made map packs for MK64.

      With DKR once you get used to the car drifting camera movements, bunny hopping the hovercraft, letting go of the gas before hitting boosts, and learning the plane can also trigger ground boosts you'll feel like a god.

      I see a lot of people shit on the hovercraft while I'm over here bunny hopping sharp corners jumping up to smash into walls on purpose like a psycho so I don't slow down ping ponging all over. It's such a joy.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Control, the horizon games and stardew valley.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My top 3 are based on “for their time”.

  Morrowind

  Portal

  Halo 2

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• LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • NieR: Automata (Replicant is also as good)
  • Metal Gear Solid 2
  • Yakuza 0

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• Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only three is a cruel restriction; I grant myself at least a top four.

  • Morrowind
  • The Neverhood
  • Diablo 2
  • Hyper Light Drifter

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  • piyuv@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve tried getting into hyper light drifter but quickly got lost. Do you have any tips?

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    • Zerfallen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I used this interactive map to help me in some areas: hyper-light-drifter-map.de

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• kinther@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. Earthbound. I replay it every few years for nostalgia and just a feel good game.
  2. Xenogears. Hands down one of the best stories for an RPG.
  3. SOMA. The dark, post apocalyptic world is so gritty, I just love it. The ending really left me speechless.

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  • burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Really glad to see someone say Earthbound. I love that game and have really enjoyed sharing it with my kids. I started them young on it while teaching them to read. I’ll sit with them and narrate the game and it really helps them a lot with learning to read. Just got to Happy Happy Village with one of them the other day.

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    • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That and Moonside are my favorite locations!

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• Agosagror@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Mindustry, it’s open source as well, must have sunk close on a thousand hours into it. Incredible Game, has a good modding scene as well.
  • Trove, the opposite of Mindustry, in that the game sucks, I do not recommend. However the game had so much potential and it sort of half realized it before becoming a cash grab. Does a good job of releasing LOADS of dopamine for very simple game play. That said I am now looking into Veloren - which appears to try and be a better version of trove, although taking voxel MMORPG in a new direction. It’s also open source so, yeah.
  • Minecraft - with mods. Nothing quite beats tech mod mania. I hope some day luanti gets to be a real competitor on some level, but till then.

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• tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Quake
  • Minecraft
  • Fallout

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Favourites

  Witcher 3

  Witcher 3 was one of the first “big games” I got to experience. I still think of the characters occasionally and it has some very memorable quests. It’s been on my “to replay” list for a while to see if it still holds up against my memories of it.

  Nier: Automata

  This is another early “big game” I played, though I didn’t finish it then. I won’t spoil it, but at some point I was up against a boss, way under levelled and didn’t feel like grinding. However I started a new playthrough this year, got further along and it’s still very good. The story telling and world building are simply excellent, combat is fun (except a certain section I won’t spoil) and I really want to see what else happens in my current play through. My only gripe is that keyboard & mouse sucks without an overhaul mode, which unfortunately doesn’t work on Linux.

  Other games

  I couldn’t think of a third game, so here’s a list of other good games that don’t quite make it.

  • Cyberpunk 2077: I like it, but it hasn’t really had as much of an impact as my two favourites.
  • Baldur’s Gate 3: Very good contender for my 3rd favourite spot, but I need to play through it a bunch more times.
  • Dishonored: I haven’t thought of this game in a while. It’s still very good, just not a contender for favourite.
  • Skyrim: One of my higher playtime games, but I see it more as a modded sandbox à la Minecraft that’s fun for 2 weeks.
  • Receiver 2: Very neat gun mechanics with an important central message
  • 1000xResist: Interesting story and message, though you won’t play this for the gameplay. Some awe inspiring visuals occasionally

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• BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Really hard to narrow it down, but I think this would be it:

  1. Elden Ring. Before the DLC this would’ve been a toss up for where on the list to put it, but SotE made me confidently place it as my favourite game of all time. I’ll avoid any other Souls games in this list for the sake of diversity but Dark Souls 1 & 3 and Sekiro were all in contention for first place before the DLC. They’d make up spots 2-4 on my list, but I’ll omit them for this one. Elden Ring renewed my love of video games, at a time where I was getting a bit burnt out from playing them. When the DLC came out I played it day one, which I never do for anything, and it completely blew me away, even more so than the base game. The world design of SotE is incredible, the views are breathtaking, and the bosses are the best in the whole series. I cannot fully express just how much I love this game when you take into account the DLC. I’m not sure anything will ever take its place on the throne, but then again I would’ve said the same of Skyrim before I played any Souls games, so only time will tell.
  2. Skyrim. Probably a boring or predictable choice, but with over 5k hours it’s kinda hard to not include it. I’d probably add Oblivion immediately after this one, but again, I want to make the list interesting so I’ll avoid it here. Skyrim also helped me through the darkest point in my life, so I’ll always hold the game close to my heart, even if new games come along to displace it on my list. I’ve spent so much time modding this game, and it’s one of the things that first brought me and my wife together when we started dating. It might not be my top spot anymore, but it definitely had the biggest impact on my life.
  3. Hitman: World of Assassination. This spot was hard to fill honestly. When I think of my favourite games, I usually just think of the Souls series and Skyrim/Oblivion. There’s lots more games I love, but the top spots are all well above the rest. It’s kind of like movies. I have four movies I absolutely adore, and they’re on the highest pedestal. There’s lots more movies I love too, but they don’t compare. Ask me for my top four, that’s an easy answer. Top five? Near impossible. Same deal here, so I just went with playtime and Hitman is my highest remaining game at around 1500 ish hours. It feels weird to call it my third favourite game ever (or I guess seventh because of the other games I’m omitting from this list but you get the point), but so does any other game I considered for here, so I’ll include some honourable mentions below. But back to this game, I feel Hitman is the perfect game for what it is. It can be serious for sure, you’re a hitman taking on contracts, but it can also be completely ridiculous too. One minute you’re tinkering with a race car to make it violently explode on the track to kill your target without anyone suspecting foul play, the next minute you’re dressed as a flamingo exiting the mission by literally flapping your wings and flying from a helipad. 47’s permanent seriousness in the most ludicrous scenarios is peak comedy honestly. Going to a high society Parisian fashion show dressed as a children’s clown and punching out the CEO is a totally normal thing you can do in this game, it’s amazing. And if you don’t like that vibe, you can be a total badass and do a full blown shootout, or a stealthy assassin and eliminate your targets from the shadows with none the wiser. It’s the ultimate hitman/assassin sandbox game.

  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.

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

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    • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Kingdoms of Amalur was better and released almost the same time and wasn’t a buggy disaster.

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• _ed@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I tend to run an unranked top 10 so three of those would be.

  • Elite (1984). Very cool graphics engine, combat and gameplay.
  • The Chaos Engine (1993) IMO The best bitmap brothers games when they were kings of the 16 bit era. -Metroid Prime (2002) Great environments, design and soundtrack.

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• Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Disco Elysium

  Hi-Fi Rush

  …third is hard. Maybe Mass Effect Trilogy. Maybe Rogue Trader/Pathfinder WOTR.

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • Uncharted (series)
  • RDR2
  • Minecraft

  Honorable mention: No Man’s Sky

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  • JGCG@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No Mans Sky is a serious contender. They never gave up on it and it shows.

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    • FollyDolly@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I just got back into No Mans Sky having not playing since release and I was blown away. Base biulding!? I can have PETS!? It’s like a whole new game.

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• Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Disco Elysium sits completely unchallenged at the top spot as the most meaningful experience I’ve had playing a video game. I resonated deeply with its themes and its main character as someone who has struggled with depression, addiction, obsession and trouble moving on. It’s an astonishing achievement in both writing and in the use of a game as a storytelling medium, an one of the best ever examples of “video games as art”.

  The rest of the list is almost impossible to order, because there are so many different ways to rank them. Games I’ve played that I think are the objectively best? Games I would like to just sit down and play right now the most? Games that made the biggest impression on me as a person, especially growing up?

  Regardless, it’s probably any two out of:

  • Dark Souls 1
  • Baldur’s Gate 2
  • Civilization 5
  • Bioshock 1
  • STALKER SoC/CoP/Anomaly
  • Alan Wake 2
  • Fallout: New Vegas
  • Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
  • EVE Online (up until 2015 or so)

  Will probably add Expedition 33 to it in the future, but need the dust to settle on it first.

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• Plagiatus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Minecraft and Factorio are definitely my top 2, after that it gets difficult. Probably Mario Kart (not necessarily a specific one, but if you’d ask me to nail it down it’d be Double Dash (for the nostalgia) and 8 Deluxe (currently best imo) at the top).

  These are the only games I have consistently played for over a decade and that I keep coming back to in one way or another because I enjoy them so much. And that to me is the most important aspect of a game: my actual enjoyment of it

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  • Super Smash Bros. Melee
  • Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II

    What the hell was it about that game? There was just something addictive. I barely even played it online, but I could just sink hours into it.

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    • emb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Right? I never tried it online for years either, though my friends and I did a lot of local co-op. Even though online is in the name, I actually think the offline is what really makes the game.

      Anyway, there was just something beautiful to me about that drop chart. You could hunt specific things with specific characters, and the rates made most of it feel rare but findable.

      I don’t know how they struck that sweetspot so perfectly. Had all the hook of an mmo while still being grounded and approachable.

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      My friend and I played split screen for years in high school on a tiny 12" CRT. I’ll never forget finally beating the Ruins on extreme difficulty. He had to revive me 10 times during the boss fight because one attack would always 1-shot me. It was a 15-minute white-knuckle struggle, and it was incredible.

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• giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  cyberpunk 2077 eve online counter strike source

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• MrSusan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. GTA San Andrays
  2. Halo 3
  3. AOE 2

  These games are rooted in my childhood and connected to memories of simpler times and good friends. I Still play video games but I don’t think I could ever experience the same level of joy and excitement that I got from gaming as I did when I was younger. These days I’d rather just go for a nice walk with my dog like the boring old man that I am.

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  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    took too much scrolling to find AOE 2

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• Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No one is going to agree with me, but here I go:

  • Counter Strike (all versions): the perfect shooter.
  • Terraria: the progression is amazing, but what never ceases to amaze me is how, despite the game’s huge content, it is never overwhelming or intimidating. Just a lot of fun.
  • Transport Fever 2: by far my favorite world-builder type game, and it still gets updates!

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• Weirdfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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• thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Factorio Minecraft And 3rd is split between rimworld and baldur’s gate 3

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• eRac@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  1. Mirror’s Edge
  2. Lingo (2?)
  3. And Yet It Moves

  ME has stuck with me as my favorite game for fifteen years now. I love it visually, the soundtrack is incredible, and the gameplay is fantastic.

  Lingo and its sequel are a bizzare, unmatched puzzle experience. I don’t know what else to say there.

  And Yet It Moves is… something else. An indy platformer from the heyday of Indy platformers. It is an interesting example of how story can influence art style.

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  • Quicky@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mirror's Edge is such an incredible game. The aesthetics and pace were utterly absorbing

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  • anguo@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Do you maybe mean Limbo?

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    • eRac@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, Lingo. Two games, both in the past few years. It’s confusing word puzzles in an equally-confusing world.

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dark Cloud

  Dark Cloud 2

  I don’t like it actually but I have over 5k hours in Dota 2.

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  • Endmaker@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t like it actually but I have over 5k hours in Dota 2.

    Average dota 2 experience.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I really think someone needs to make a modern evolution of Dark Cloud. Maybe the technological limitation was actually a benefit though, because a modern game would probably try to do open world, full 3d construction, and things like that. The technology at the time required that they keep it fairly simple but also really well designed.

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    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There was a petition for a Dark Cloud 3 a while back, apparently the creators were hip to the idea.

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• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Currently I’d say minecraft, witcher 3, and… warframe probably :3

  In no particular order

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  • QuantumStorm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yay warframe! :3

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    • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Warframe is not a game, it’s a drug

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      spoiler

      I just got to the hex quest :3. haven’t done it yet tho

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