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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.
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.
Well, I think there are multiple potential candidates depending on how you define greatness. I think these few are certainly the most influential:
There is no doom without Wolfenstein...
And there is no Wolfenstein 3D without Catacomb Abyss.
Most games iterated on a previous entry. But without the stepping stone of Doom, it is unlikely that Wolfenstein alone would have catapulted the FPS genre as far as it's gone nearly as quickly.
Outer Wilds. Any explanation that I give would be massive spoilers, but it captures a genre, aesthetic, and theme that, in my experience, has been virtually unused by any other game before and still remains extremely underutilized
I came to say Outer Wilds as well. Honestly changed my perspective on what a video game can be and I can't find any other game that gives me that same feeling. The only bad thing about Outer Wilds is you can only really experience it once
I saw the question, came to post this only to see yours.
It truly is a unique experience. I jokingly say to my family that if I ever have some kind of temporary amnesia prompt me to play that.
I also occasionally watch let’s plays of streamers to vicariously experience some of those moments of realization as the story unfolds.
Seriously play it if you haven’t and avoid streams, videos, etc like the plague. The game progression is 100% knowledge based. So spoilers really do take away part of the experience.
It got to be Goat Simulator for sure:
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This is a joke answer. Don't take it seriously.
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.
Goldeneye
I know we all put in an absurd amount of time in the facility but perfect dark is objectively better
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.
Portal 2 is THE highest rated game on Steam.
Doom or Tetris were probably the most influential ones?
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.
Doom (1993).
Why: I'm still playing it. Most people know it, and it's the grandfather of all FPS games.
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.
Halflife 2 + Incl Episodes
Doom.
It was the first 3(well, 2.5)D shooter. Plus, I can hear E1M1.
And using the shareware license for distribution widely helped it's popularity and it had multiplayer.
Honorary mention to Carrier Command ( the first one with like a 5 polygon island and a 40 polygon volcano).
Mount and Blade Warband.
So many games you start off or become something great. In Skyrim you're the dragonborn, you become great but you were always going to. The world is huge and immersive, but you're always going to be important in the world.
In warband, you're a nobody. You'll always be a nobody unless you do something. Trade, fight, quest or scheme. The world will continue with or without you. Your favourite faction might get wiped out and you can do something about it or not. There's no guarantee of victory, and what you decide as a win condition is up to you.
It is the ultimate sandbox, but the original is janky. The solution; mods. An incredibly dedicated modding community elevates this game into my most played game. The lord of the rings mod is both the best way to get into the game and in my opinion the best video game adaptation of a movie (just in front of kotor).
TL:DR: Warband makes it ok to suck and makes you earn your victory. You might not think that's fun, but trust me it can be.
I always answer with Super Mario World. It's the best game. I won't elaborate.
That pinball game on windows xp
Final Fantasy Tactics. The original, not the kiddy Tactics Advance games.
Great tactical combat, great soundtrack, amazing story. Plus, abusing the job system to make broken character combos is absurdly fun.
Fallout New Vegas.
If we are just talking about replayability, I have never put as many hours into another game as that one.
It doesn't hold up but while it was happening I don't think there was a better gaming experience than Vanilla WoW. Obviously for some it wasn't the first MMO experience, but for many it was, and it was pure magic.
The random friends made, and mortal enemies you would drop everything you were doing to try and kill. Spending 6 hours clearing a dungeon(read wailing caverns) for the first time with random people you met in chat. Getting your first mount, walking into molten core with 39 other people and killing your first raid boss. Getting your first epic. The stupidity of barrens chat/whatever the equivalent the scumbag alliance had. The first time you had guild mates come to your rescue when some no-life higher level person was camping you and it devolving into an impromptu war between everyone in the zone and their friends. That time you pulled off an epic 1 v 2. Shit talking all the other classes in your guilds class chat during raids.
The drama ohh the drama, the e-gf/bf that became peoples husbands and wives, the guild leaders wife e-humping half the guild. Relationships destroyed because someone would rather spend their time in azeroth that just about anything else.
Drooling over the gear the best players on the server had. Battling on the front lines of alterac valley all night, going to bed and rejoining the same battle, sometimes to cheers from your fellow soldiers that you had rejoined the fight.
I don't think there will ever be anything like it again, we know too much, have access to to much info, but for that brief period in time wow was the greatest game ever.
Super metroid
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The Witcher 3.
Half life. It revolutionized the genre and spawned a ton of games thanks to mods, ie counterstrike
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
I don't think "greatest game of all time" is really a thing.
As you mention pubg for example it was a simply copy as well.
Does it take originality to the The greatest? Does it take being popular?
What does it actually take to the greatest?
Tetris.
Diablo
The first multi-player lobby over battlenet. Epic lore, great gameplay, created an entire genre.
