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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since everyone's just saying their favorite game, I'll say The Finals!

It's fuckin great! It's the first FPS in years that gets me legit excited to play. I like that the game requires decent strategy, movement, and teamwork to get wins and not just good aim/luck. Everything about it feels fresh. Best of all it's freaking free. A free AAA game in 2024 that's more than decent and has an awesome dev team? Sign me up!

It's wild to me that it's not huge compared to games that go mainstream (not gonna mention names. lol), but I'll appreciate it while it's here.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not a single game but a series. Legacy of Kain is still my absolute favorite not because of replay ability or anything like that but because of the story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

"What madness is this?" 😉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Command and conquer generals zero hour

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary. (Chronicle is a close second)

Puyo Puyo Tsu is the greatest competitive puzzle game ever made. Such a simple set of mechanics gives way to an incredible amount of depth. I think its greatest strength relative to the rest of the genre is how much importance it places on actually paying attention to and adapting to your opponent. Some of my favorite other puzzle games are guilty of feeling more like a game I play adjacent to my opponent rather than against them, and I'll give them a pass if the core gameplay loop is fun enough, but I consider Tsu king of the genre for having the most true versus in its versus mode.

But Tsu's skill curve is terrifyingly impenetrable for beginners, it's one of the hardest competitive puzzle games to learn. Just understanding how to make chains is extremely daunting, and that is but the tip of the iceberg. Paying attention to what your opponent is up to while still being able to concentrate on what you're doing is an order of magnitude harder, and that's kind of where the real game begins.

20th shines by being the most comprehensive package full of additional content for players of all skill levels alongside the classic Tsu ruleset. There's a whopping 20 different game modes to play around in, many of which are much more immediately fun for a beginner to pick up, get hooked on, and hopefully enjoy the game enough to want to eventually learn to scale the mountain that is Tsu later.

Sadly, this game never got released in the west, and none of the games that have come anywhere close to it. And I think that's a large part of why the series is struggling to gain any kind of recognition in the west, we've never seen the best of what it has to offer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There are to many genres in gaming so if we reduce the scope to only card games (which is obviously the only relevant genre), It's slay the spire obviously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm tempted to say either The Witcher 3, Grand Theft Auto V, or Metal Gear Solid 5 (if you can look past the fact it's unfinished).

All three are exceptionally polished, have huge, highly detailed world's to explore, cinematic moments with blockbuster action scenes, smooth and balanced gameplay, are suitable for gaming noobs and veterans, and has moments to goof off and dick around.

It's hard not to be biased, though I'll state I don't personally like GTAV, I think it's perhaps too ordinary for my tastes and feels too restrictive in its mission structure.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Masterpiece and my actual favourite game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mario Galaxy for me. Idk I just like it, especially the music

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Come on, Nintendo. Release some of those old games on PC......

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The next soulslike from FromSoft that doesn’t molest you with the camera. They proved it’s possible with shadow of the Erdtree.

Jokes aside, Slay is absolutely incredible. How a developer managed to make a strategy game as replayable as this before 2000, I don’t know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Runescape. It's been around for more than 20 years and still is one of the most active online games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At 152GB: hitman 2

Really tho, tetris has been at the top for a while

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Wait, you do by install size? What's the best game in the range 20-23GB, about what I have left on my SSD?

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