Rules: just pick 1 and explain why.
I’ve been playing since the NES and despite being from a low income family I had the luck of being able to play and own many consoles over the 3 decades of my life, plus some pc.
If you ask me right now? Resident Evil 4 (2005).
A before and after in gaming, to this day still extremely fun to play even for casuals but 20 years ago it was THE masterpiece. And everyone took notice of it, everyone played it, even players that didn’t cared about resident evil. The gameplay was so good that it got photocopied by everyone right after in the action genre.
Arguably the last big innovator in videogames minus Minecraft and… PUBG (Fortnite did it better I know).
Try to NOT pick your favourite game, that’s a different thing.
Tetris
Just about everyone has either played or heard of it. It is easy enough for young and old people alike to pick up. But it can get so challenging that even nowadays new records are broken regularly.
It’s simple. It’s fun. And will remain so for all eternity.
“Life is just loke tetris, it just gets harder until you die” Or something, can’t remember where i heard that.
Apparently some kid managed to “beat” it though so maybe it’s wrong now.
Your failures pile up, your achievements disappear.
This is such an absurd question. I mean, it’s weird in movies and books, weirder in music… but games?
I mean, Tetris. It’s Tetris, isn’t it?
But then you’re out there going “so is Tetris better than Baldur’s Gate III”, which is a nonsensical sentence.
That’s a good question. Tetris has more levels but then again BG3 has better character customisation.
Weirdly, better sex scenes in Tetris.
When you rotate the T like one just right. 🥵 💦💦💦
Unironically true
I wanted to post a DOS game here I remembered called Sextris where the pieces were cartoony naked men and women in positions representing the shapes of the tetris pieces. But all I could find when I searched were versions of the regular game where nudie photos were slowly revealed as you cleared lines.
Hah. I remember Sextris. The great thing about it is that it was entirely unsexy, mostly just for laughs and actually not a bad version to play, for the standards of the time.
It’s kind of like asking for the best video.
It wouldn’t make sense to compare TV shows, movies, Youtube videos, TikToks, sporting events, commercials, journalistic footage, etc. all as a single category.
Idk. So do you ask for “best RPG” or something like that instead? Seems overly specific now.
Yeah, for sure. The real answer is the question is superfluous. There is no number one. I’d say you can’t even put together a top 10. It’s just not a thing you need to do or can do.
Portal
My pick was portal 2. Only game that made me cry when I beat it.
It got to be Goat Simulator for sure:
- Top notch graphics.
- Full of features, even some not intended by the developers.
- You can hurt and get hurt, so it’s BDSM-friendly.
- Open sandbox.
- It’s more recognisable than Tetris. Tetris is easy to confuse with some Tetris knock-off, Goat Simulator is instantly “yup, this is Goat Simulator”.
- It’s deeper in lore and philosophy than Chrono Trigger.
- Zelda’s worldbuilding pales in comparison with Goat Simulator’s.
- Requires more strategy than Diablo and FFA combined.
- You play it as a goat dammit. Everything else is just fluff.
Note
This is a joke answer. Don’t take it seriously.
For me it’s between this masterpiece and Untitled Goose Game.
Despite this being a joke, I gotta try it now.
I was looking through my friends list in Steam. I found out I have a family member with 2700+ hours in Goat Simulator. I don’t even know how to begin to ask about this.
Grand Theft Auto 3.
You had to be there to see how absolutely groundbreaking that was at the time. Gaming had suddenly grown up.
It was like all the obvious limits in other games all just got pulled away at once. Explore a full city in 3D, drive around, shoot people, steal a tank.
And the sequel only improved on it, but I’ve honestly never been so awed by a game before or since. It’s like they were the first dev to finally figure out what the PS2 hardware was for. Everything before just felt like a slightly nicer version of what had come before. This was new.
Mario bros 3 - it felt like a SNES game
I feel like the NES version was better than the SNES one actually
100% agree. SMB3 on NES just had so much more stuff going on compared to SMW on the SNES. Mini games galore, secrets up the wazoo, and the muthafuckin’ SHOE. For reals using that bad boy was like stepping into a goddamn Gundam.
I think they meant smb3 that was included in super mario all stars, not smw :p
Yup
God I fucking loved that game.
Prior to August 8th, 2006: Chrono Trigger.
Post August 8th, 2006: Dwarf Fortress.
Dwarf Fortress is, mechanically, almost everything I think a game should be. And the only reason it’s only almost is because it’s not finished yet.
Portal 2 is THE highest rated game on Steam.
Doom or Tetris were probably the most influential ones?
Goldeneye
I know we all put in an absurd amount of time in the facility but perfect dark is objectively better
Disagree, as someone who loved both. It was a fun advancement, but that doesn’t replace the peak gameplay of Goldeneye.
Perfect Dark was peak multiplayer experience on the N64, but trying to go back and play now is terrible…
Split screen games run at like 15 frames a second and I wonder how I put so many hours into it.
Get down…!
Other people have already said it, but it’s Tetris.
Its the only game ever made that I would describe as “perfect”.
It takes seconds to learn how to play, while the skill ceiling is in the stratosphere. It’s endlessly replayable, the music is iconic, and it’s available for basically any platform made in the last 40 years.
Minecraft
not only does it have crazy sales, the fact that I enjoyed it when I was 8 and continue to enjoy at 18 means something
1000%. Almost nothing else has stayed as popular and as relevant for as long as Minecraft. Truly one of the GOATs.
Doom (1993).
Why: I’m still playing it. Most people know it, and it’s the grandfather of all FPS games.
Wolfenstein 3d would like a word.
Wolf was Doom’s predecessor, yes, but Doom was far more influential. I remember at the time “first person shooter” didn’t exist as a genre so everything was just a “Doom clone”, even Duke Nukem 3D IIRC.
Zelda, the entire series/franchise. The OG RPG. Many argue it isn’t an RPG because the original you couldnt level up but when I think of RPG, I think you are a character and you go on an adventure. It also serves as a good gateway to fixed RPGs where everyone basically has the same story. And to strategy video game as a whole. Also, it was Nintendo’s first RPG, when PlayStation and Xbox still did not exist. And the Best console is Nintendo since it lasted so long. Many of the other consoles feel like less of a game and more like your are in an interactive movie.
The entire series, are you sure about that?
Halflife 2 + Incl Episodes
That pinball game on windows xp
How many levels did you get in it?
I read somewhere that back then Microsoft was looking to buy some game to include on windows and everybody was showing then games that are more “videogame-ish”, with some level of violence or stuff like that, which Microsoft didn’t want. Eventually some guy at Microsoft had just rejected another game and said something like: “can’t someone just create a pinball game or something?” and someone overheard and created what we now know as Space Cadet Pinball.
