What are the best/highest quality Video Games ever made? (lemmy.world)

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Feel free to list a few video games from different genres. Best is definitely subjective and I'm sure there are many "Best" games for various categories.

Half Life: Alyx for example is widely considered the "Best" VR game. Many would agree it's the best Action VR game, but it wouldn't be the "Best" for puzzles.

To make it easier I'll list the types of Genres for Video Games from Wikipedia. Please do give suggestions for some of the highest quality games you've played from various categories:

Action: Platform games, shooter, fighting, survival, etc
Action-Adventure: Survival horror
Adventure: Interactive, real time, 3d, text adventures, etc
Puzzle: Exploration, trial and error, breakout, logical games, etc
Role-playing: Action RPG, MMORPG, tactical, sandbox, etc
Simulation: Management, life simulation, vehicle simulation, etc
Strategy: Real time, turn based, wargame, grand strategy, etc
Sports: Racing, competitive, sports games, etc
MMO: Massively multiplayer online game
Openworld: Sandbox, creative, open world, etc

Note: Non-exhaustive category list. There are more such as card games, board games, etc. Please check the wiki link above for more categories to get ideas for the "best" games.

I personally would recommend Subnautica (Open World), Half Life: Alyx (VR Action-Adventure), The Witcher 3 (Role-playing), Black Mesa (Action), Titanfall 2 (Action), Portal 2 (Puzzle), Battlebit (MMO/Action), and Half Life 3 (Fictional Game).

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[-] Candelestine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So, an interesting point of detail, is a game "gooder" when it perfectly executes its formula after countless iterations, like FF6 did, or is it better when it innovates in a new way, bringing together new ideas into a magical, if occasionally rough-around-the-edges, novel new approach that others start copying, as Doom did?

Also, are we looking at them from the perspective of their time, where Pac Man was once the pinnacle of gaming itself, or from a modern, more objective perspective, where Pac Man struggles to provide the same value as BotW does almost half a century later?

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Portal 2 is no doubt a fantastic puzzle game. But so is Myst, and Myst did a lot more with a lot less technology.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you haven't played Riven yet, that game was a huge improvement on every aspect of Myst IMO. Still completely holds up

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m old enough to have played both on release :)

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