• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 hours ago

    Baldur’s Gate 3. Hands down. Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably number 2. That said, I have more hours in World of Warcraft than every other game combined. It was an entire lifestyle for a few years back in the day. But WoW was good because of the people, not because of the gameplay.

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    8 hours ago

    Asking for the “greatest” sounds quite pretentious

    It’s probably why people are downvoting this thread

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    2·
    2 hours ago

    The Mass Effect Trilogy. By the time I was fighting in London I wondered where this game had been all my life.

  • Pringles@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    21 minutes ago

    My personal favorite will probably always remain the Mass effect trilogy.

      • WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        I have only play Last of Us 1 during PS3 era. I was a 20 year old kid back then I guess. I cried and sobbed through the game. I remember it having such a huge emotional impact on me. May be I was too emotionally disturbed at that time, who knows.

        Your mileage may vary, but i thoroughly enjoyed the game. Didn’t enjoy the show as much.

        • Mister_Feeny@fedia.io
          3·
          7 hours ago

          Last of us part 2 is a great story as well. It gets a lot of hate online, but a LOT of that hate is cuz the game not only has lesbian characters, but it also has a trans character, and a woman with muscles character. And that’s just way too much woke apparently.

      • technomad@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        The game was better than the show, which the show was actually based from. I liked the show too, but definitely give the game a go if you get a chance.

        The second game was a very difficult storyline to play through, however. I’m glad I did, but temper your expectations and expect to suffer a lot. Lol

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    There are a lot of ways to measure that.

    I guess one reasonable metric is how long I probably played it. Close Combat II: A Bridge Too Far and an old computer pinball game, Loony Labyrinth probably rank pretty highly.

    Another might be how long after its development it’s still considered reasonably playable. I’d guess that maybe something like Tetris or Pac-Man might rate well there.

    Another might be how influential the game is. I think that “genre-defining” games like Wolfenstein 3D would probably win there.

    Another might be how impressed I was with a game at the time of release. Games that made major technical or gameplay leaps would rank well there. Maybe Wolfenstein 3D or Myst.

    Another might be what the games I play today are – at least once having played them sufficiently to become familiar with them – since presumably I could play pretty much any game out there, and so my choice, if made rationally, should identify the best options for me that I’m aware of. That won’t work for every sort of genre, as it requires replayability – an adventure game where experiencing the story one time through is kind of the point would fall down here – but I think that it’s a decent test of the library of games out there. Recently I’ve played Steel Division II singleplayer, Carrier Command 2 singleplayer, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, and Shattered Pixel Dungeon. RimWorld and Oxygen Not Included tend to be in the recurring cycle.

    • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      The greatest single-playthrough game would be a fun category. I think my picks for that might be What Remains of Edith Finch, Gone Home, Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars, or Grim Fandango. Fire Watch would probably get an honourable mention.

      A “pinacle of a (mostly) defunct genre” category might be a good one too. I would argue that Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is the best isometric RTS games ever made.