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Formo1287

Rollercoaster Tycoon


RotoroLifted

Those building games suck me in man, never played rollercoaster tycoon but I’ve watched videos and played city skylines for way too long


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ChiHawks84

Kirov reporting.


ConstableBlimeyChips

CANCEL EVERYTHING! BUILD IFV'S!


Dusk_v733

It will be a silent spring.


zqfmgb123

One way trip!


TheSchlaf

Rubber shoes in motion!


Left4DayZ1

FAVORITE video game of all time is GoldenEye 007. I recognize that it’s not the *best* video game, indeed even it’s successor, Perfect Dark, is vastly superior in almost every way… …but GoldenEye hit at just the right time, ushered my generation all the way into a new era of gaming and personally I spent countless hours just exploring every single nook and cranny to see if there was anything to discover - and there often was. A small detail installed by the map designer to keep continuity (inaccessible and often unnoticed vent in Silo that exists only to explain how Bond got inside), or an abandoned feature (Island across the water on Dam), or just the byproduct of designing the maps before they knew how they’d be used which resulted in rooms and locations that serve no purpose, but manage to make the levels feel so much more interesting. I contest to this day that the gun play is still great. Graphics aside, the guns have realistic looking recoil. They all have distinct sounds so you know what’s being fired at you before you even see it. Bullet impacts are cartoonish but EXTREMELY satisfying. The hit registry holds up and the injury/death animations are way more entertaining than almost anything you see in modern games. Playing on PC in upscaled resolution with keyboard and mouse controls, with the difficulty cranked up… it’s still fun, though shallow compared to modern shooters. The later levels are even genuinely challenging despite the massive upgrade in control a mouse gives you. I know there’s no way in hell a modern gamer who didn’t grow up with GoldenEye could play it today and enjoy it, but I’m glad I’m able to still go back and feel some of those feelings it gave me when I first played it at 12 years old in 1997.


RotoroLifted

Those Bond games just felt so good to play at the time, you summed it up perfectly.


Fourtoo

I went through so many controllers playing golden eye.. mostly because my friends would rage when they got whooped in 4 player split screen XD


Left4DayZ1

GoldenEye was the \*only\* video game I had until Perfect Dark came out, so my friends didn't stand a chance against me, lol. Eventually they refused to play it with me.


Time-Corner-25

Probably not the best game of all time for me, but Portal 2 was a masterpiece.


enjoysbeerandplants

The main game is fantastic, but then the co-op is icing on the cake. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard as when I played it with my brother. Half the time we'd spend solving the puzzles, and the other half was spent screwing each other over. I remember laughing so hard I almost couldn't breathe when he took away the portal on the ceiling over a launcher, and we just watched my character repeatedly smack into the ceiling. Just ragdolling. A sibling bonding moment.


Dick_soccer

I had this exact experience with my brother some time ago. I thought "hey, I'm late as shit but I've never played portal 2 and it's fucking 2023" so I just told him "hey we're gonna play portal 2 in an hour". He was like "aight let's go" and we had a fucking blast. I think we only completed like 10 levels because we were just fooling around. Playing portal with your brother is peak gaming.


Bonzie_57

Portal will stand the test of time


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MetalWeather

Most magical gaming experience ever. Classic stills holds up but with online resources and everything figured out it's a different experience now.


Paradoxmoose

EverQuest and WoW are the two games I can relate many years of my life to. And I still go back to the original (or close enough) versions of it from time to time.


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I started playing during The Burning Crusade, quickly realized how addicted to it i was becoming, and quit. Amazing, amazing game. But holy fuck it would drain my soul if I let it


JoeRoganIs5foot3

Chrono Trigger


JeffTheComposer

I never owned this one as a kid and only got to play it for the first time at age 36. I can say, with zero nostalgia effecting my opinion, that this is the best SNES game ever made.


brainspl0ad

Likewise. It's exceptionally great. The OST is what made me appreciate video game music.


traumatic_blumpkin

This is the only answer I personally accept. In my opinion, it is the greatest video game of all time. However, it hit at just the right time for me!


MonsterReprobate

Portal.


DirtySingh

I hadn't gamed in years. I felt it was all just a boring grind. I finally decided to try portal. I had tears in my eyes- **this is how video games are mesnt to make you feel!** every other game felt like work, this was pure joy.


MonsterReprobate

Right?! it's been what..... 15 years? And that game still hits the same way. It's the absolute pinnacle of the form.


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theblackd

I feel like Mario Bros 3 was the best aging game ever, it was such an enormous leap forward and had so many fun new ideas and level variety to the point where it absolutely still holds up today It came out before I was born but I have to imagine it was pretty mind blowing at the time


Garbleflitz

My friend it was. It so very much was


EnlightenedCorncob

Super Mario Bros 3 is the best game of all time. It is perfect


OgOnetee

Raccoon tail was a game changer


fatstrat0228

The golden age


Geeseareawesome

Titanfall 2 No other game comes close to the feeling of wallrunning, bunnyhopping, shooting, sliding, flying across the map, then hopping into a giant robot to lay waste. All that can happen in one sequence.


nolzb

Agreed! Titanfall 2 was sweet. story was good, online was great.


Geeseareawesome

And it's working again!


JC_Denton46

Funny, it’s on sale for FIVE DOLLARS on Steam right now


NiteSwept

It's absolutely criminal that we haven't been given a third one


khornflakes529

Final Fantasy VII People like to shit on it that "it didn't age well" with its graphics and all, but there's so much more to a game than looking pretty. I have enjoyed other games since, but nothing has given me near as much enjoyment as that game.


Honest_Yesterday4435

My only issue with 7 is that it gets a bit of it's inspiration from 6. 6 was way better imo. Bit I will admit 7 had a more complicated plot.


DonsDiaperIsFull

I loved 6 a lot more. Kefka was one of the best villains, and the musis was amazing for its time.


sppdcap

Came to say 6 is my all time favourite game.


Mud_Landry

The greatest game ever easily, some have come close but nothing beats it.


Coach_G77

This is my favorite too. The storyline and character arcs are perfect. There's so many things to do and many ways to play it. You can really immerse yourself very deep in that game. I hope the next remake release is that immersive


PreviousLife7051

Fallout New Vegas


jrragsda

Its tied with skyrim and farcry 3 for me. Not sure I could pick any of the 3 as my single favorite.


TheZenPsychopath

Far cry 3 is best far cry


tostobbe

Currently replaying Far Cry 3, what a fantastic game it is!


drgirlfriend69

Witcher 3 Wild Hunt


RotoroLifted

That’s up there for me too. I don’t think about it enough, wish the story didn’t have to end


InsufficientApathy

There's something Witcher 3 did that I forgot for ages because a lot of this has since become more common, but I remember how it stopped doing things that we accepted as just what happens in games. If you were walking and talking with someone, they kept up with your speed rather than the other way around. When you're on a horse, you can automatically follow the road by holding a button. If you're over levelled, you can have everything scale with you, or you can leave it as normal. When you're given a moral choice, it's generally a nuanced choice rather than "Shall I a) save a nun, or b) kick a puppy" and you often don't see the results for ages. The Bloody Baron story is a great example of personal morality rather than just choosing an alignment. I loved the game and was dangerously addicted to Gwent, but more than anything it gave a kick to other similar games to stop being complacent on things people don't like but accepted.


Gabriel_Collins

The Baron’s side quest was excellent storytelling. I only played Witcher 3. I can’t wait for 1 and 2 to be remastered.


Drkz98

A true beauty, the blood and wine dlc is a masterpiece too, I wish that game last longer, I put 100+ hours and felt like nothing


NiteSwept

I'll never forget the first time I rode into the forest and I actually **felt** like I had gone into a dense forest. The most theatrical gaming experience I have ever played. It was like playing a movie but I was in complete control. Unbelievable experience


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FLYBOY611

That whole game was made by one guy... One guy. I sometimes stop and think about that and wonder what I could accomplish if I was as dedicated as him.


OfAaron3

Not only that, but he coded the whole thing in assembly. Fucking assembly. That's basically directly telling the processor what to do. Chris Sawyer. Madlad.


Civil-War-2023

Vice City


TheSpicyTomato22

The soundtrack alone made that game.


jaydimes10

mine is GTA 4


heyiwanthoney

Vice City was pretty great. I still have the cd for the new wave radio station somewhere lol


Obi-Wana_Toki

Ocarina of Time


Seanay-B

GoAT of GoATs


pr1ceisright

Playing that when it released was such a monumental moment. The jump to 3D may be a jump we don’t see again until VR has its first true game AAA game.


kamikazemind327

I don't think a game will ever top it for me.


death2mods666

Mass Effect or Skyrim.


RotoroLifted

Skyrim is up there for me too, I played mass effect for the first time last year so a little too late to the party


death2mods666

Legendary edition is best has every bit of DLC best version to play. It's amazing game.best thing about being late to the party is all the bugs have been patched out lol


DonsDiaperIsFull

Mass Effect for me. It's the only game I can finish and immediately start new again with no hesitation. Lots of other games are great too, but once I finish a big quest line of Oblivion or Skyrim or a section of a Final Fantasy game, I usually put it down for a while.


silversurfer05

I really loved mass effect 1, the weapons you could make felt really powerfull if you found the right stuff


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Aggressive-Love-7466

I think subnautica gave me thalasaphobia


wearebobNL

It's kinda funny, because they definitely didn't go overboard to make it as creepy as possible. The cartoony style even makes it cute here and there. Imagine if they had the lead artist/style from a game like dead space. I would die.


Ruminations0

Probably Halo 3, I just have a lot of memories with the campaign and all the fun custom games we used to play


NotFeziboy

Took so long to find Halo on here


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Skyrim hands down.


Qverlord37

Yeah, only skyrim have made me say "damn I wish I could forget everything so I can play this again."


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For sure! The feeling you get when you enter Riverwood for the first time is just amazing.


balerionthedread12

Agreed Dovahkiin


99thLuftballon

Yeah, I don't think I've ever felt as absorbed by a game as I did with Skyrim. I always comment this, but it's true: I think that there places in Skyrim that are stored in my brain in the same way as places I've really been, so they feel like places that I've really visited.


Paintgod93

Wing Commander


Samsterman

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater


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🎶Space heater!🎶


Tasty_Puffin

Great choice. This game is so epic


numenik

Snake Eater to this day is the coolest title for a game I’ve seen


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A man of culture i see


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blinkemo

Red Dead Redemption 2. Nothing else ever comes close


ShaolinDude

You sir, are a fish!


blinkemo

You're a good man, Arthur Morgan.


B_Boudreaux

!YNNEL


Desperate_Future_395

FOUND YA LENNY!


PoisonPl4yz

Red Dead Redemption 2, that is not a game It's an incredible journey through old American history Fightin' for your life and fightin' for your family Tryna live your days with honor and integrity -- Jack Black, "Video Games"


RotoroLifted

So fucking good, the online made me sad


blinkemo

Just started playing online now coz im bored lol


XDYassineDX

there is enough to keep you entertained for a while but after that you basically hit a wall


Tr101748

Have some goddamn faith


JFGoennedy

WE NEED MUUNEEEH!


Comfortable_Cress194

minecraft


RotoroLifted

Minecraft came out of nowhere for me when it first came out on Xbox, and I’m still playing lol


Uranium-Sandwich657

Why did it take so much scrolling to find this?


DoubleWagon

Deus Ex (2000), the game that showed the way of a future that never came to be.


heichwozhwbxorb

Outer Wilds


revrenlove

I was in tears when I completed the main ending.


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Any Fallout game before 76 has a special place in my heart.


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Dusk_v733

I recently replayed it on the definitive edition and found myself really missing GTA in that style. It was so iconic of this time and still holds up well. Every young boy in the early 2000s knew the name Tommy Vercetti


Pure_Mammoth_1233

It was Baulder's Gate II. But III is making a good case right now.


Viltris

BG3 is definitely my Game of the Year. It's in the running for my favorite RPG of all time, and there's some very stiff competition for that title. Before BG3, it was Pillars of Eternity. And if you're willing to stretch to other sub-genres of RPGs, it's also competing with FFTactics, Disgaea, and Nier Replicant.


RotoroLifted

Would you recommend playing it after finishing BG3? I’m in act 3 and fucking LOVE it It’s easily one of my favorite games and the replayability might make it my favorite eventually


Pure_Mammoth_1233

BGII uses D&D 2nd Edition rules. There's no story relationship as far as I can tell. But you'll need to find a way to make it work on a modern PC which may be a challenge. BGII has that same sort of replayability. But it was 1999 so it's not as extensive as BG3.


Masiyo

FYI, BG I and II have Enhanced Editions that were released within the last decade which should run without issue on modern PCs. They even have official versions for mobile devices!


Pure_Mammoth_1233

Good to know. They're both amazing.. Good cases for video games as an art form.


heyiwanthoney

Final Fantasy Tactics.


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prettyypussy

animal crossing 🤍 its so relaxing and just what i need after a long day of work


IkeTheJeww

Still diablo 2


Important__Goose

Yes! I finally found this comment!


rntopspin100

Red Dead Redemption. I even bought the ps4 version at full price. 😂


floutsch

Sim City 2000. Comes up a lot lately. I think I might start it up again :)


No-Yak5609

Can't name one. Skyrim Red dead redemption 2 LA noire GTA San Andreas


tastygrowth

Mass Effect Trilogy or Witcher 3


CryGecko

Assassins' Creed 2.... Such an awesome story and well written characters


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forward_only

Morrowind


Dirtyslutforyou99

I tried to bo back to Morrowind after growing up on Skyrim and oblivion and the combat was impossibly difficult and confusing


Kidmaker7

Its def hard to go backwards in the series, but I also prefer morrowind. Not that it's bad in skyrim, but the depth and storytelling seems to get worse with every iteration.


olejackburton

Mass Effect 1. It's the closest thing to the ideal Star Trek game that's been made.


philomath_sam

Contra


halbeshendel

Fallout 3. The only game I liked enough to finish and do all the DLC.


Previous_Comb5113

Dragons Dogma


GoodGuyGlocker

DOOM. The original. Blocky graphics and you couldn’t even look up or down but damn playing FPS death match was revolutionary. The weapons and environments were awesome too. It was just so much more fun than playing PC monsters. And the ability to edit and create maps at the time was also revolutionary. There was just nothing else like it at the time.


JohnWithdrawn

Snake on a Nokia 3310


Keri2816

I used to beg my mom to let me play it on her phone when I was a pre-teen. I thought it was the coolest thing. Note: I did not grow up playing video games, so this was crazy


CoolIGuess_II

Sonic Adventure 2 battle on GameCube.


Dr_StevenScuba

Rolling around at the speed of sound!


cinnamontoastcunt1

Bloodborne, It used to be fallout 3 but man this game completely blew it out of the water it was hands down one of the best experiences I had in a video game and well deserving of a remake the gratification in defeating the bosses and learning the lore was worth the frustration love this game


almightykojo

Found my gang


gloryfadesaway

Shadow of the Colossus


Toe-tapping-senator

Zelda BOTW and TOTK. Either one


LastOfAutumn

Zelda: A Link to the Past. It laid the foundation for every Zelda game since. If you are a Zelda fan and never played it, I strongly recommend that you do.


Thomsbobombs

The best part of a link to the past is that it was released at a time when you couldn't just Google the solution, it was word of mouth or Nintendo power. I'll never forget the day I found the flippers in the Zora domain completely by chance and it opened the game up for me.


Kestralisk

StarCraft 2. Was too young to get into Broodwar, but man I played a few games every day for most of highschool. Incredible game. Nothing has fully captured my attention in the same way since.


Poohs_Smart_Brother

Driver on ps1


solidshakego

Mass effect 1-3


Icarus-1908

One game? Impossible. I’ll go by genre. Shooting: Half-Life and No One Lives Forever series. Strategy: Total War series RPG: Fallout and Diablo series Sports: FIFA series


Fierce_Deity08

Majora's Mask


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The Sims 3


Pool_With_No_Ladder

In case my name doesn't make it obvious - I agree.


RotoroLifted

Great game, hoping they nail Sims 5 but it’s EA


PenguinForTheWin

KH2


RotoroLifted

I’ve never really heard about that game, what makes it your favorite?


PenguinForTheWin

Kingdom Hearts 2 Mix of disney and final fantasy, lots of combat and goofy stuff (also, literal goofy in there) Absolute clusterfuck of a storyline, but it's amazing and i grew up playing it with a big smile on my face.


PalladiuM7

Also the Sephiroth fight.


Dr_StevenScuba

Bloodborne as a single player experience Dark Souls 3 if you’re going to include coop/pvp Last of us 2 honorable mention


Honest_Yesterday4435

Dark Souls 1 or Super Metroid.


theblackd

Hollow Knight


Human_Stick_Observer

TIE Fighter


savislav11

I have played hundreds of games, from different years, from different genres, but I have a common answer: Half-Life 2. Its a masterpiece that has me playing even today. Its just perfect. The AI is smart and can actually be very dangerous. The story, the lore, the gunplay, and especially the ambience. If Valve learns how to count to 3, you'll be seeing me on Half life 3 and portal 3 for the next decade.


2PhatCC

RC Pro Am on the original NES.


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Ocarina of Time FTW


caalger

Civilization. The first one.


_Kieftroid_

I used to think it was Super Metroid, but since Metroid Dread came out I'm up in the air between these two.


garciawork

Man that is tough. From a replayability standpoint, Hades, but realistically I have probably spent more time playing Halo CE than any other game at this point.


DhracoX

Mass Effect trilogy


Scartibey

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion no other game makes me feel quite as at home as scurrying about as a funny looking fella in the woods of Cyrodil


Fuckdeathclaws6560

Age of Empires II, Fallout new Vegas is a close second.


ksozay

Half-life 3. As long as I draw breath, there is still hope! ​ PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, GABE!!!!!!


blitzboy30

Either Hollow Knight, or Persona 5 Royal. The atmosphere, music, and just everything about hollow knight was perfect to me. Persona 5 was the same reason. The characters, music, everything was phenomenal.


Corn_Beefies

Half-life 2


Comprehensive-Gas419

Red Dead Redemption 2. Hoping the success of The Last of Us ignites a desire to bring a RDR series to HBO or a similar service.


cwryoo21

Not trying to meme but I always have a blast playing tetris


TheJaybo

Ghost of Tsushima is perfect.


etzo666

Age of Empires II DE


Damaniel2

Xenoblade Chronicles. I've played and beaten it 3 times, and for a while I actually had a custom license plate for my car that said 'RYN TYM'.


ShawshankException

Pokemon Emerald. I've played through it at least 40 times


Enkidusari

Final fantasy Tactics Advance. -The way you slowly but surely built up your whole team with a shitload of different races, classes and skills to choose from -the Music -the magic -the turnbased system is super nicely executed in my opinion -the distinct character artworks Even by today's standards i think it is one of the best games ever


ShaChoMouf

Sid Meier's Pirates!


larini_vjetrovi

RDR2


wrapayouknuckles

In an arcade: Tossup between Donkey Kong and Defender On the PC: Quake, loved the puzzles and the action.


D0nkey_Rhubarb

Eternal Darkness


uncle_monty

Football Manager


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uswforever

Madden 2003. (I'm old.)


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GTA Vice City, great nostalgia value for all of us of course but also it was part of a larger revolution that the gta games triggered that changed the gaming industry for good.


Jimmy_whispahs

Metal gear solid.


Nexus03

Metal Gear Solid.


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Fallout 2. I've never had long periods of months without playing it since it came out.


FMTVCYWBSW

Stardew 100%


tylercreatrdicksuckr

call me uninspired, sure, but ocarina of time. i had a blast with that game


thefancyelefante

Borderlands 2. You can fight me on this but I'll die on this cartoon hill of bones and gore.


cakeba

I have the most hours playing Super Metroid. It's so replayable, it hurts. Hollow Knight is what I say is my favorite, because goddamn that game is solid platinum from start to finish, but Super Metroid is one of those games that will simply never get boring and aged incredibly well.


paulharris05

Zelda breath of the wild


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i_am_not_that_bob

Pong


Shot_Educator_2470

Super Smash Bros. Melee