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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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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Mass Effect 2

[-] Platypus 2 points 1 week ago

Masterpiece and my actual favourite game.

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

Obligatory Dark Souls nomination. It is an almost perfect depiction of the hero's journey with a captivating world filled with little moments of environmental story telling.

Runner up would be Metroid Prime 1 which similarly creates a very believable world you inhabit while playing.

[-] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Flashback A plateform game with a nice story telling. Graphics and music was unbelievable

[-] blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Either Skyrim or Minecraft.

RTS certainly is Total Annihilation.

[-] _____@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

unfortunately people won't answer past "what game did you grow up with?"

I think the most recognizable game was the most culturally impactful so my vote is for SMB, even SM64 completely changed gaming

(not a Nintendo or Mario fan btw)

[-] Aiala@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Doom, obviously.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe Halo 3? The amount of content, the custom games, the competitive gaming, all of it was just so good and loved by so many people.

[-] wabafee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

RuneScape

I don't personally play it anymore but it having still players to this day and thriving proves it.

Edit: On second thought it's probably Java Edition Minecraft. Thing spawn an industry around it. Now people's livelyhood depend on it. A generation learning java programming just to make plugins or mods. I bet this also what increase the number of java developers. Probably inadvertently also introduced to Blender. Being accessable and sandbox made that possible.

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Halo 2

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