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What's the greatest videogame of all time? (self.asklemmy)

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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.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 115 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

And the poor bastard that created it never made any money off it, IIRC

[-] Godort@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Kind of. Because the game was technically owned by the USSR he was not eligible to receive any royalties until his prior contracts expired. He has received royalties on it starting around 1996.

[-] oo1 5 points 2 weeks ago

"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.

[-] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Your failures pile up, your achievements disappear.

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yep! 13yo played it and reached the kill screen, absolutely insane accomplishment.

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