I am just curious about people’s taste here, since this community looks sane compared to other “loony-toons” gaming subs or forums online.
You don’t need to explain yourself just name them.
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- Catalyst7985@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
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
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
Frankly I got very bored with it and did not finish. Maybe it’s because I’ve never felt “existential dread” or maybe it’s because I had already run into and come to terms with the Teletransportation paradox as a thought experiment so the concept wasn’t new, but the horror completely missed me so all I had was the walking around and getting increasingly frustrated at the character’s ignorance. I looked up the plot synopsis after I had enough and it’s just… yep.
- kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish9 days
I just finished this game for the first time tonight and I don’t get it… I mean I get the point of the story being that there are no “correct” choices in this circumstance. Absolutely fantastic story. But the game itself wasn’t exactly difficult? I felt like it was holding my hand through the puzzles.
- Catalyst7985@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
Its mostly a walking simulator. Pretty sure theres better horror games out there. Soma is only about the story.
- BillionaireStew@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES version)
- Tetris (Licensed NES version)
- Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Monochrome Gameboy version)
- Quake / Quakeworld
- Metroid 3
- Elting@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
The first Hotline Miami is so fucking good. Such a tight game. In the second one the enemies can see you from off screen and it makes it unplayable to me.
- BreakerSwitch@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
It’s my go to for explaining the difference between “difficult” and “punishing.” Levels are rough, but they go fast and restart in an instant.
- deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 days
Spec Ops: The Line unfortuately does not hold up in 2026 like the others you mentioned. I played it a couple years back after hearing so much about it and it’s decidedly mid.
- Catalyst7985@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
Its not for everyone but I disagree that it doesn’t hold up today.
- deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
I’m curious, what holds up? The gameplay is dated, guns don’t feel particularly good, level design isn’t anything special, graphics are merely typical for the day, and you’re railroaded on the storyline so IMO nothing feels that impactful. When the only way to progress the level is to commit a war crime, and then I’m supposed to feel bad about it as if there was an alternative, it just sucks.
I can see how in its era, for console gamers, it was unique. I was very underwhelmed when I got around to playing it a couple years ago. IMO, it didn’t really say anything new and it didn’t do it in a particularly compelling or innovative matter.
Just one person’s opinion.
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish9 days
When the only way to progress the level is to commit a war crime, and then I’m supposed to feel bad about it as if there was an alternative, it just sucks.
This feels a lot like saying “books can’t have an emotional impact, you just read the words in the order they were written”.
- deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 days
This isn’t a book, it’s a video game, and video games had meaningful choices decades before Spec Ops: The Line was released. Books also have well fleshed out characters with clear motivations. Spec Ops: The Line does not have this, IMO.
Middling gameplay, graphics, and story, low replayability, the only part that felt good was the music.
Seriously, what’s the draw here? The twist? Feels gimmicky to me. It’s a C+ game at best, and it’s listed in that comment among a solid string of A+ games.
- Catalyst7985@lemmy.zipEnglish5 days
Its about the message, the art that shows a new perspective to our world. What you are looking for imo is fun.
- deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
I guess that’s my biggest issue; it didn’t show any new perspective. It was very predictable and didn’t tell a new story, at least for me coming into it as a seasoned PC gamer. “Middle eastern imperialism is bad” doesn’t really hold up when compared to a game like Deus Ex that predated it by years.
I can see how it would have been great for a console gamer in that era, but it’s drastically overhyped and doesn’t compare one iota to the other games listed in the original comment. It’s a C tier game. Go back and play it today, very little holds up.
- gastroglizzy@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
Based af putting Doom 64 above Doom 2016. I’m right there with you, I think Doom 64 is terribly underrated. The soundtrack for 64 is my favorite in the franchise.
- brachypelmide@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
Honestly the atmosphere of Doom 64 is unrivaled. I need to replay it again some day.
11 daysDwarf Fortress
Elden Ring
Quake
Chrono Trigger
Metal Gear Solid 3
- antiphon@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
- Chrono Trigger
- Megaman X
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 days
Excellent, the second really shined as a proper sequal.
What about Cuphead?
And also, anything not in your list you’d recommend on the Castlevania front?
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
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.
- Euler_eix@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Talos is so good that it should be required to play and study in school.
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
Absolutely! 2 was good also, but it didn’t affect me as much as the first. I wish more games, puzzle games in particular, would try to tackle philosophical concepts like it does. Some might have interesting lore in their world, but they don’t actually try to make you think about the real world.
- Euler_eix@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Interesting. I feel the second game’s lore was even more thought provoking. In any case, the game is more relevant than ever
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
It could just be the timing of it. When one came out, I was ~20, and I was much more interested in the concepts of religion.
When two came out I was much more educated. I love philosophy, and basically always have, which is part of why I like the games, but I had also gone deeper than the games would explore for the most part. It’s still fun, but the thought experiment isn’t as interesting once you’ve done it before.
But also, they cover different topics. I don’t think either is really better at this, but either one could hit harder for different people and at different times in their life.
(I also think the puzzles in two were too easy, but that’s probably because I had experience with one and the DLC. One had much more complicated things, but some were also frustrating, so I’m glad some were not continued with two. Even completing all the bonus puzzles in two felt fairly trivial. I wish the game lasted longer so they had more time to ramp up difficulty after introducing new elements.)
- Euler_eix@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
All good points and agree with you.
I liked how the second one touched on terraforming and the dilemma between preserving the natural state vs curating the world for our needs.
I feel the next one is probably going to focus on free will and the nature of existence. But I can only speculate.
I keep telling people it’s much more than just a puzzle game
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish11 days
Yeah, they’re philosophy games with puzzle elements. They’re good puzzle games on their own, but there are so many good puzzle games that that alone doesn’t make you stand out.
- kieron115@startrek.websiteEnglish9 days
Outer Wilds made me cry like a baby at the end. I wish memory erasing tech was real so I could play it for the first time again.
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish9 days
I am so excited and anxious for whatever they make next. The bar is set astronomically high. If they didn’t make the DLC and have it at the same level as the base game I wouldn’t be as excited, because I wouldn’t think anyone could repeat it. They have though, so I’m hopeful they can again. It must be stressful for them trying to live up to that.
- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish10 days
I thought about talos, and while it’s a great game and a very high score, I just can’t get myself to put it next to what I would call the greatest of all time like sm64, oot, and ff7. Talos is too one note. So while it’s likely top most tier in whatever genre that is, it’s also weirdly not that well rounded and I would almost call it a niche game
- Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish10 days
I think a lot of the best games ever are niche. If you’re interested in what Talos wants to talk about, it’s amazing. But Factorio is an absolutely horrible game for a lot of people who aren’t interested in that too. It doesn’t mean it isn’t an amazing game. I would argue that “niche” should be a badge of honor, not an insult.
- ytsedude@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Zelda: A Link to the Past
Minecraft
Stardew Valley
Metal Gear Solid
- Artaca@lemdro.idEnglish11 days
- Half-Life: Alyx (less story, more just an a outstanding VR experience)
- God of War 4
- Disco Elysium (inarguably my all time fave)
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Bioshock
Glad to see a lot of Chrono Trigger! Playing through that now and it is impressive for such an old title.
- prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish11 days
Looking forward to playing Alyx for the first time in a week or so
- chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
When I was a kid, I was sure that Descent would take off more than Doom. Maybe the worst prediction I ever made, but I still stand by the spirit of it.
- bagelberger@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
have you played Overload from the creators of Descent? quite fun!
- nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
I thought that Descent was way better than Doom. We used to play it after work and it was fantastic.
I’ve never been a first person shooter fan though.
- gnutrino@programming.devEnglish11 days
In no particular order:
- Subnautica
- Outer Wilds
- Xcom 2 (+WOTC)
- Dark Souls
- Factorio (+ Space Age)
- neidu4@piefed.socialEnglish11 days
In no particular order:
- Half Life
- Factorio
- Kerbal Space Program
- Quake
- Minecraft
- Rollercoaster Tycoon
Yes, that’s 6. Sue me.
Honorable mention: Baldur 3, Dwarf Fortress, Mario 3, Deus Ex, Day of the Tentacle
- Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish11 days
I hope you know there’s a free and open-source remaster of Rollercoaster Tycoon called OpenRCT2
It’s amazing
- MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Quake
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Unreal Tournament
Outer Wilds
Half-Life
- kossa@feddit.orgEnglish10 days
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:
- Enderal
- Ocarina of Time
- Death Stranding
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- The Witcher 3
“Best” as in can’t get enough of it and would take to a remote island:
- Factorio
- Kerbal Space Program
- Civ V
- Oxygen Not Included
- Valheim
- FrederikNJS@piefed.zipEnglish11 days
- Outer Wilds
- Subnautica
- Factorio
- Half-Life 2
- Blue Prince
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
This is very disturbing and now I wanna learn to count in base 12.
- 11 days
Place your thumb against the tip of your little finger. This is 1. Move down the fingers for 2 and 3. Repeat on the ring finger for 4, 5, and 6. The middle finger covers 7, 8, and 9 while the index finger covers 10, 11, and 12. On your other hand, place the tip of your thumb against the tip of your little finger. This is now 12. Moving down gives you 24 and 36 as the right hand continues. This is a pretty slick way to track data up to 144 occurrences without worrying about losing count, provided that you can hold your hands in the correct position.
- billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
I knew I had seen something like this before!!! As soon as you started describing this it immediately clicked. I had an Indian friend show me this in college in the early 90s.
Thanks for that trip down memory lane 😄
- aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
Wouldn’t that just be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1a, 1b, etc.?
- ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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.
- mHtt@lemmy.caEnglish11 days
Half-Life 2
Minecraft
Mario 64
OG WoW
Final Fantasy VI (FF3 in NA, 1994, SNES)
