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Soma
Deus Ex
Hotline Miami
Fallout New Vegas
Outer Wilds
Edit: Since you guys liked it so much, lemme add 5 more. Its cheating but they really deserve the attention
Disco Elysium
Stanley Parable
The Talos Principle
Return of the Obra Dinn
Spec Ops: The Line
Dwarf Fortress
Elden Ring
Quake
Chrono Trigger
Metal Gear Solid 3
The Outer Wilds (obviously)
The Talos Principle
Dark Souls
Factorio
Dwarf Fortress (This last one is tough and I don't know if this is the right choice. The other four are correct.)
An honorable mention to Death Stranding. It isn't in my top games, but I think it deserves to be more influential. It takes the boring part of most games, which is traversal, and builds the entire game around it. It'd be higher if it didn't become so trivial by the end, but also designing your network that makes it trivial is part of the fun. More open world games should take more lessons from it and it'd solve some of the biggest issues of open world game: traversal just being a waste of time and boring.
Talos is so good that it should be required to play and study in school.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Minecraft
Stardew Valley
Metal Gear Solid
Glad to see a lot of Chrono Trigger! Playing through that now and it is impressive for such an old title.
In no particular order:
In no particular order:
Yes, that's 6. Sue me.
Honorable mention: Baldur 3, Dwarf Fortress, Mario 3, Deus Ex, Day of the Tentacle
Blocked, deleted, reported to better business bureau
I hope you know there's a free and open-source remaster of Rollercoaster Tycoon called OpenRCT2
It's amazing
Quake
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Unreal Tournament
Outer Wilds
Half-Life
Would be two lists for me. One for "best", as in they were great, gave me joy or strong emotional responses, but their replay value is not great:
"Best" as in can't get enough of it and would take to a remote island:
Twisted Metal
Starsiege: Tribes
Half Life 2
Fallout New Vegas
Skyrim
Honorable mention to old school WoW. It was the people I played with who made it great.
Half-Life 2
Minecraft
Mario 64
OG WoW
Final Fantasy VI (FF3 in NA, 1994, SNES)
Terraria
Lost Kingdoms 2
Rengoku 2
Dark Souls 2
Underrail
I just realized I like sequel games and Underrail 2 is in the works and I know I'm getting it.
EverQuest (PC)
Final Fantasy 7 (PS1)
GoldenEye 007 (N64)
Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Heroes of Might and Magic III
World of Warcraft vanilla (2005)
Europa Universalis IV
Path of Exile
Path of Exile 2
Ocarina of Time
Chrono Trigger
Smash Bros. Melee
Crash Bandicoot 2
Pokemon Red/Blue
Honorable mentions:
Seems i am one of the ImSim-Minority here :-D
I couldn't do 5, so I did 7. The top 3 are solid, I think, in terms of games I thought about a lot while I wasn't playing them and couldn't wait to get back to. They constitute the best time I've had in games.
Then the next three were formative experiences, I think, but I haven't played them since they came out. They probably don't hold up, but that's okay because they were landmarks in the past.
And then Overcooked is exactly the kind of structured chaos I love in a multiplayer experience. I would never play it solo, but I have a lot of great memories playing it with friends. It was fun with my chaos friends that are just trying to make it through the level as best they can while things are on fire, but it also had enough meat that my process friends and I could optimize and figure out runs to "crack" the levels and get maximum orders through. Delightful.
(stopped gaming for 10 years)
(Not in a specific order):
Super Metroid
Zelda Twilight Princess
Fallout New Vegas
Doom Eternal
Metroid Prime
Dark Souls
Super Smash Brothers: Melee
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Guitar Hero 3
Fallout: New Vegas
No particular order, also I'm grouping some of them together because no one can stop me:
Half Life series (yes, even Blue Shift)
Monster Hunter series (but mostly World)
Abiotic Factor
Prey 2017 and the Dishonored series
Fallout 1, 2, New Vegas, and kiiinda 4 (with some mods installed)
Honorable mentions: Songs of Conquest, Path of Exile 2, Neo Scavenger, Team Fortress 2, Dark Souls 2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series
Morrowind
project zomboid
Startcraft 2
stormgate (during the beta only)
factorio
Theres also a game called drift wars which is an rts made by literally 1 guy but we'll see where that goes.
Final fantasy tactics
Bloodborne
System shock 2
Silent hill 2 (the original)
Metal gear solid 3 subsistance
I'm missing a metroidvania in there, which is my favorite genre, but i have played so many it is hard to pick 5.
Mass Effect 2
Civilization IV
Fallout 3
Super Mario World
Monster Hunter Rise
The exact 1-5 order will vary based on mood, but here are my general top 5:
The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
Journey
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Spiritfarer
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
In no particular order
Chrono Trigger
Splatoon
Ocarina of Time
StarCraft Brood War
Dragon Age: Origins
Honorable mentions: Mario 3, mass effect (1 and/or 2), tales of graces, Diablo II, tetris
Coincidentally I started playing my top three for the first time starting this year. Its been great finally playing these titles everyone else has been enjoying for years.
Uhh, that's hard... I guess I would say, in no particular order:
Half life 2
Portal 2
Super Metroid
Witcher 3
Mario Kart 64
None of these are in any particular order besides Terraria, which is easily #1. Aside from Portal 2, these are games I can play more or less endlessly. Replayability is very important to me.
