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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The Mass Effect Trilogy. By the time I was fighting in London I wondered where this game had been all my life.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Breath of the wild.

Played it on a friends new Switch and bought a Switch and that game three days later. I was so immersed in this weird and wonderful world...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

/thread

Nothing left to see here folks. Question answered correctly. Let's all move along.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Barbie horse adventures

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Biggest surprise: Final Fantasy tactics. Bought it for PSOne, PSP and Android.

Time spent playing: WoW

Story: (though category to pick one) Deus Ex

Honorable mentions: Day of the Tentacle Minecraft Final Fantasy VII Diablo Mass Effect series Portal series Half Life series

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Star Control 2

The Ur-Quan Masters

Free Stars

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Witcher 3 and not so distant second Red Dead Redemption 2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My personal favorite will probably always remain the Mass effect trilogy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've only seen the show. Is the game as good as the show?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

The game was better than the show, which the show was actually based from. I liked the show too, but definitely give the game a go if you get a chance.

The second game was a very difficult storyline to play through, however. I'm glad I did, but temper your expectations and expect to suffer a lot. Lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have only play Last of Us 1 during PS3 era. I was a 20 year old kid back then I guess. I cried and sobbed through the game. I remember it having such a huge emotional impact on me. May be I was too emotionally disturbed at that time, who knows.

Your mileage may vary, but i thoroughly enjoyed the game. Didn't enjoy the show as much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Last of us part 2 is a great story as well. It gets a lot of hate online, but a LOT of that hate is cuz the game not only has lesbian characters, but it also has a trans character, and a woman with muscles character. And that's just way too much woke apparently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are a lot of ways to measure that.

I guess one reasonable metric is how long I probably played it. Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far and an old computer pinball game, Loony Labyrinth probably rank pretty highly.

Another might be how long after its development it's still considered reasonably playable. I'd guess that maybe something like Tetris or Pac-Man might rate well there.

Another might be how influential the game is. I think that "genre-defining" games like Wolfenstein 3D would probably win there.

Another might be how impressed I was with a game at the time of release. Games that made major technical or gameplay leaps would rank well there. Maybe Wolfenstein 3D or Myst.

Another might be what the games I play today are -- at least once having played them sufficiently to become familiar with them -- since presumably I could play pretty much any game out there, and so my choice, if made rationally, should identify the best options for me that I'm aware of. That won't work for every sort of genre, as it requires replayability -- an adventure game where experiencing the story one time through is kind of the point would fall down here -- but I think that it's a decent test of the library of games out there. Recently I've played Steel Division II singleplayer, Carrier Command 2 singleplayer, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and Shattered Pixel Dungeon. RimWorld and Oxygen Not Included tend to be in the recurring cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

A "pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre" category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

No love for Washing Machine Emulator?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Baldurs Gate 1. D&D Lv. 1-7 campaigns are the best

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary

Shame about nearly everything else Sega has done to the franchise since.

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