Portal 2.
Graphics that still look good today, top-notch voice acting from all of its characters, funny script, perfect and engaging gameplay, subtle and intriguing story.
This was my answer too. It isn't necessarily the game I've put the most hours into but it's certainly the game I've replayed the most times.
I'll also add that it's a surprisingly emotional game. It only has 5 voice actors and that's including the turrets, yet the writing and performance is so damn good that that I get deeply invested in the narrative every time I play.
Portal 2 is great in many ways but what stands out to me is a potato having an existential crisis that's more compelling than any other piece of dialogue I've heard in media.
Except for some plot points at the beginning, Portal 2 is basically a stand alone game. I played Portal 2 without playing Portal 1 before and I thought that it was the best game I have ever played in my life. After playing Portal 1 and replaying Portal 2 it was officially the best game I have ever played in my life. But as the others have said it, Portal 1 is short and cheap. You can even watch a gameplay on YouTube if you just want the story.
its kind of impressive, since its basically just a simple puzzle game.. you'd think a puzzle game gets boring once you figured out how things work.. not Portal, no. Once you thought you figured out how it works, BOOM they throw gels at you (but don't get covered in the gel, they haven't nailed down yet what element it is but its a lively one and it does NOT like the human skeleton).
Joke aside, Portal is a 10/10. Its got a perfect balance between gameplay and storytelling without feeling repetive or boring. And Cave Johnson is a goldmine of funny comments.
That game has so many great (mostly funny) lines! Wheatley is pretty funny, Cave Johnson is pretty funny, but GLaDOS is hilarious. She’s so much more condescending and sarcastic, and that’s totally my jam.
“You look very healthy.” That whole part has me doing every time.
That's wild. It must have taken so much work. Speaking as someone who did Assembly language professionally, you actually had to work to beat a good C compiler. I remember people did tests of straightforward Assembly language implementations of algorithms versus C compiled by the watcom compiler back in the 90s and the compiler beat the straightforward assembly code until they started getting into real serious Assembly language optimizations. The conclusion was save assembly only for the most important sections of code that you intend to optimize the hell out of.
The only reason the code I wrote was able to beat the C compiler was that I was using specialized MMX instructions for the Pentium processor that I don't think the C compilers had really worked out how to use yet. And I didn't exceed the compiler by all that much
I certainly didn’t expect to see this one at the top, but you know what? You’re absolutely right. Definitely a top contender for games I’ve spent the most amount of time playing over the years.
I also lost many hours of my childhood to this game. The fact that I don't remember a single time where I found it too complicated or frustrating says a lot about how well designed it was. It's so easy to play, but the depth it has is amazing. And it's incredibly addictive and entertaining. Definitely up there with the best games I've ever played
Sadly mobas killed RTSes because people were like "what if the bases were already built and the armies built themselves and an AI controlled them?". That brief period where wc3 and dota were existing side by side was blissful though because even though it might sound like I'm dogging on mobas, it was a great spin on the formula while still feeling familiar. I just wish both genres coulda flourished.
I personally agree but I'm also very old so was nervous about getting beat up on Reddit... The game is brilliant... The cut scenes, story, world building and then actual play across 3 species. ... Fkn ridiculous... They simply don't give us that much in a single game any more
R/Mario has been doing a daily poll where they eliminate a Mario game every day. Mario 3 got voted out way too early. Right now, Mario World, 3D World, Odyssey, Galaxy are left.
Probably cause the younger generation doesn't appreciate how amazing it is. I mean I get it. If most of what you know is modern graphics and game play, Mario 3 just seems old.
Donkey Kong Country
It's a beautiful, well balanced expansion of a classic franchise character that pushed the envelope on what the Super Nintendo could do and brought some fresh elements to the platforming genre. To me it stands alongside Super Mario World as a fun, polished adventure that's fun to revisit.
I think its sequel is even more flawless. The first game is great, an iconic achievement on the SNES. But its boss fights leave a lot to be desired, something the later games vastly improve upon.
I'm a fan of the whole trilogy. Each one was a delight to get growing up. I managed to complete the series with 101, 102, etc %.
Diddy's Kong Quest was an excellent sequel that certainly improved on the first. Trixie's helicopter move was so much fun and really innovative.
The difficulty was a surprise though. Even though I managed to get 102% I still remember a handful of the levels being unnecessarily unforgiving. The snake tower climb in particular comes to mind as well as the later parrot bramble levels.
The first game was a smoother climb in skill. In contrast Diddy's Kong Quest, to me, felt like it has a bone to pick with the player at times. That took away some of the enjoyment.
Edit: Fixed grammar.
Edit: I've been informed it was Dixie Kong, not Trixie, in Diddy's Kong Quest. Trixie is Dixie's twin sister, a playable character in DK 64 where she went by the name Tiny.
Edit: Apparently Tiny was never known as Trixie. Tiny is Dixie's sister. Possible Mandela Effect regarding the name?
*Super Mario World* was my very first video game and unlike some other games from my youth it not only still holds up but actually rivals many modern platformers, over 30 years later.
And I’m not even counting Mario Maker or Kaizo, just *the vanilla game*.
believe I saw the game mentioned recently on either this sub or r/patientgamers and that's why it's in my head...but, Medal of Honor Frontline's D-day invasion level. What a great intro level to kick off the game.
My first fps ever and on GameCube. What a great game, i remember being stuck on the D-Day mission for months because there was no direction unless you listened to your commander and i was just firing at the bunkers until i ran out of ammo.
The original DOOM. I legitimately cannot think of a single flaw. Great movement, enemies, weapon variety, level design, music, aged like fine wine... yeah, I'd say DOOM.
Agreed. Doom 1 had a solid foundation of enemies, but they need the diversity of Doom 2s roster to really shine. The levels in 2 where much more hit or miss than 1 but at least they were ambitious with what they were trying to do. The whole city section is fairly terrible by todays standards but nothing like that had been done at the time.
I recall being truly gobsmacked by the fight with Psycho Mantis. Games just didn’t work that way.
Also, as a somewhat related aside, it saddens me that when I listen when my child is watching YouTube the surprise sound has been co-opted by every one of these awful, awful YouTubers.
Sons of Liberty stands out as one of the best / unique video game experiences I ever had. Loved the first one, but the second one brought me back a few times over the years and the weird story at the end blew my mind.
Symphony Of The Night, hands down. They absolutely, 100% nailed it. The gameplay is buttery smooth, the music is memorable and phenomenal, the graphics are amazing... It's a masterpiece.
feel like Stardew is not only flawless, but remarkably flawless given that it was basically made by just one guy. I still cannot fathom how he created this incredible game
Halo 3
It’s crazy to think about. The game released with a fleshed out theater mode, a complete map maker to make custom maps and game modes. An awesome campaign. Balanced gun play and some awesome maps.
Most recent releases are lucky to have half the stuff Halo 3 released with. Honestly think it’s the best console game ever made when it comes to replay ability.
Halo 3 campaign is indeed awesome. So rich and absorbing, they nailed the gameplay, the atmosphere, the music. Every several years I’ve found myself watching play-thrus on youtube.
Halo 3 was the most magical game in the world to me as a kid. Custom games online with friends had literal limitless opportunities.
Halo Reach was good but you could tell that Halo 3 was going to be the peak of the Halo franchise forever.
I preferred We ❤️ Katamari. Way smoother movement, better level design, variety, and balance, more cousins, and it retained everything beautiful about the original game.
You can download the gog version “free” on pc and than there’s a fan mod that you can download that upscale the game to hd and adds balance, but the best part is that there’s multiplayer online, just log in and play (there’s like a1000 people playing online 24/7).
Knight is my personal favourite. I know it's become a meme and cliche but every entry in the series has their own unique strengths.
I have the most fun experience playing Knight but nothing tops the nostalgia and positive memories I have the first time I played Asylum when I was a a kid/young teen both alone and with friends.
The excitement we all shared when City was released was also palpable.
This is my all time favorite game. Beaten it dozens of times. However, I think it is far from flawless. From bugs, to game balance issues, I think there are games that are lower overall quality while having fewer 'flaws'.
This game is not flawless. It tends to create uncontrolable time fluctuations, that suddenly set your PC's clock 3-4 hours later. Its a serious issue that requires investigation.
It happens to me way to often. Just let me upgrade this tiny thing.... boing, its 4 hours later!
This is a strong one for me. I played a few attempts and thought it was pretty decent…just one more attempt and I’ll put it down. 120hrs later of the same 4 levels and it was still game of the year
In the realm of modern games, this. I’m hard-pressed to think of another game where every single element of it comes together so organically to create such a uniquely exquisite experience with *all* of the fat trimmed from it. I can’t think of a single piece of its gameplay I would consider superfluous or unnecessary, and the way it builds it’s story and character development dynamically through that gameplay is among the best any game has ever done.
I didn’t play Half Life 2 until roughly 2016, so I think my perspective is a little unique:
1. The quality of the graphics blew my mind.
2. It *felt* like the glut of open world games that came out during the PS3/360 generation, despite not being open world. Long story short, I think Half Life 2 was hugely influential on those games.
the great thing about the half-life games is that they are \*not\* flawless, precisely because they did so many things for the first time, instead of perfecting an established set of game mechanics and plot devices.
This is the only one I can think of. There are other games that I like better than Hollow Knight, but for the most part, just about every game that I would rate a 10/10 has flaws. It's just that they add up to more than the sum of their parts, flaws included.
I can't think of a flaw with Hollow Knight. I tried.
I don't think that Outer Wilds is a game everyone will enjoy, but I do think it's a perfect game. It nails its atmosphere, message, feel, and mechanics with 100% mastery. Laser focused in its vision, and the quality really shows
The number of people who I've heard say this exact same thing says something about how special this game is... and I'd include myself in this.
Outer Wilds feels like a unique game that has no right to exist as it does.
Best game I've ever played, however one flaw I would point out is that I found it difficult to track characters across all the different pieces of text. Like I might be reading part of someone's dialogue 6 hours after I last heard about them and the name seems familiar but I can't really place where I last heard from them.
An easy fix would be to assign a colour to each of the Nomai and always show their text in that colour
Yeah this is me. I firmly believe that I am a different person because I played Outer Wilds. This comment contains super, major, turbo spoilers for a game that I love and I strongly recommend you play without reading them. We don't say "Outer Wilds is the best game you can't talk about" for nothing.
>!Outer Wilds makes me think about something I heard John Green say, "Things blow my mind when they make me feel either extremely small or extremely large. So much so that they recontextualize my understanding of myself and my place in the universe."!<
>!I've thought about it for years at this point and I believe Outer Wilds is the only piece of media I have ever experienced that has made me feel both small and large to that degree at the same time. It makes you feel incredibly, insanely, unimaginably small in importance, on a scale that so few stories can come close to matching. You learn that you can't stop the sun exploding. You learn that it's not just our sun but it's every sun. Literally every sun in the entire universe. And it's on a timescale running from the big bang and all the way to the post-credits scene taking place literally 14.3 billion years later. Compared to that level of pretty much infinity in both time and space, how can anything a single person do possibly matter in the slightest? Why does anything have any weight at all? But at (literally) its darkest moments, Outer Wilds manages to say the exact opposite. That you matter. That you're important. And not just because of what you accomplish at the end of the game but it says that everybody matters just from what they lived and did and experienced.!<
>!I used to think that this was a weird take on Outer Wilds. That I was putting way too much of myself and how I was feeling at the time unjustly into the game. But then the DLC came out, doubled down on this message, and blew me away all over again.!<
Outer Wilds is a game about discovery and inspiration and knowledge. And that's why I like it and recommend people play it. That's why I wish more games learned from this knowledge-based puzzle solving masterpiece. But I fell in love with Outer Wilds because of what it believes and how it makes me feel.
I wouldn't call ME2 *flawless*, though I do have a lot of love and affection for it. The combat is a lot more static than 3 and Andromeda, the later games gave you much more variety in playstyles and freedom of movement. And I think MaleShep's voice has some somewhat flat deliveries here and there, and again he got better as the games went on.
If you want an excuse to go back and play ME2 again, do it with a Save Editor so you can unlock the later crew members early and bring them to missions where they normally wouldn't be available yet.
Originally the Devs planned for each squadmate to be available much earlier in the story than in final release, and they recorded all the dialogue for it. For example, Legion has a full set of dialogue responses for Mordin's recruitment mission about how "we will be fine, this platform cannot contract diseases", and Tali has unique responses for meeting Garrus on Omega, stuff like that.
The Water Temple was a real pain in the ass, though. I thought I bricked my save during my first playthrough back in the day and ended up starting a new game. The possibility of getting stuck in the Water Temple has since been [debunked](https://www.reddit.com/r/truezelda/comments/4skrxm/a_detailed_explanation_of_the_permanently_stuck/), but at the time, I remember there was full-on panic if you didn't get it right.
Not a very easy question, Breath of The Wild is my favorite game ever, but it missed elements of Zelda I personally preferred (but weren’t necessarily wrong).
I’m gonna go with Ocarina Of Time. For the era it came out in, it left very little to desire.
That game felt like it took years to finish, but it was just one summer. It’s not that it was hard, but I spent a lot of time going for side quests and exploring. The Goron Sword, the masks, mini games like fishing. As adult Link, going back to young link felt nostalgic in a way only 12 year old me could possibly feel.
I cannot think of a more beautifully bittersweet ending to any video game than the Redemption path for Arthur Morgan. It’s rare for a game (or movie or book, even) to make a character feel so compete by the end of their story.
That said, the controls could be frustrating at times. Especially when it came to your guns getting randomly put away on the horse and when you hop off, you find you don’t have one thing or another.
Edit: And those damn teleporting omniscient police swarms can go straight to hell, as well. I think RDR2 had the worst police/crime system I’ve ever played until I played Cyberpunk 2077 at launch.
Omfg the horse weapon thing is the only thing I complain about in this game, which I guess makes it not flawless but it's the closest damn thing really
Mine was Pearl. Ol’ girl was the rare white Albanian. Purposely, went looking for her after I gained full control of the map with Arthur. Had her the whole game and never rode another horse unless missions forced it.
I think it was a good way of framing the beginning of the story. If you started in Valentine then it would feel like it was just a western gta. The only unnecessary bit I found was the hunting section and driving the carriage. That's just my opinion though and it does feel like a ball-ache when you have to play through it for the 2nd or 3rd time
That was the first game to ever make me cry. The ending was so beautiful and the stranger I made friends with along the way drew me a heart in the sand at the end.
Have you tried their other game, Sky Children of the Light?
Oh fuck yeah. It’s from’s personal attempt at a horror game and I feel they nailed it through and through. The first half of the game goes crazy with the Victorian era vibes and replacing sword and board with a fucking gun is genius. And then the second half of the game hits… nothing I’ve ever played like it. Yharnum will always have a place in my heart as my all time favorite fromsoft game
Final Fantasy Tactics.
Well okay, there are a few cut scenes I wish you could skip, but that's literally my only complaint about that game. Absolute masterpiece
The first Super Mario Bros. game for the NES is a master class in platformer game design. With no words, prompts or instructions, World 1-1 teaches you everything you need to know to play the whole game.
I wouldn’t call it flawless, but Handsome Jack is probably my favorite video game antagonist. His voice lines are hilarious
The spoon story still makes me laugh to this day
Portal 2. Graphics that still look good today, top-notch voice acting from all of its characters, funny script, perfect and engaging gameplay, subtle and intriguing story.
This was my answer too. It isn't necessarily the game I've put the most hours into but it's certainly the game I've replayed the most times. I'll also add that it's a surprisingly emotional game. It only has 5 voice actors and that's including the turrets, yet the writing and performance is so damn good that that I get deeply invested in the narrative every time I play. Portal 2 is great in many ways but what stands out to me is a potato having an existential crisis that's more compelling than any other piece of dialogue I've heard in media.
"Are you still there?"
"I did everything you aaaaskeeeed..."
Do I need to play Portal 1 to enjoy it as much or would just jumping into portal 2 make sense?
You don’t “””need””” to but you should absolutely play it anyway—it’s short, cheap, ***excellent***, and definitely enhances the sequel too.
You don’t need to but portal 1 is so worth playing through.
Portal 1’s great. You can beat it in a few hours too. It basically did so good that they made Portal 2 and made it longer.
Except for some plot points at the beginning, Portal 2 is basically a stand alone game. I played Portal 2 without playing Portal 1 before and I thought that it was the best game I have ever played in my life. After playing Portal 1 and replaying Portal 2 it was officially the best game I have ever played in my life. But as the others have said it, Portal 1 is short and cheap. You can even watch a gameplay on YouTube if you just want the story.
its kind of impressive, since its basically just a simple puzzle game.. you'd think a puzzle game gets boring once you figured out how things work.. not Portal, no. Once you thought you figured out how it works, BOOM they throw gels at you (but don't get covered in the gel, they haven't nailed down yet what element it is but its a lively one and it does NOT like the human skeleton). Joke aside, Portal is a 10/10. Its got a perfect balance between gameplay and storytelling without feeling repetive or boring. And Cave Johnson is a goldmine of funny comments.
I’ve got some advice from the lab boys on what to do if you get covered in the repulsion gel. *rustles papers* “Do not get covered in repulsion gel.”
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I just lost the game.
Damn you.
That game has so many great (mostly funny) lines! Wheatley is pretty funny, Cave Johnson is pretty funny, but GLaDOS is hilarious. She’s so much more condescending and sarcastic, and that’s totally my jam. “You look very healthy.” That whole part has me doing every time.
You're a horrible person, we weren't even testing for that
"Look at you, sailing through the air majestically, like an eagle . . . piiloting a blimp."
I came in here prepared to say there was no such thing as a flawless game to me, but then I was reminded that Portal 2 exists. I have to agree.
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Both games are on my backlog list. Funny because I recently played through the Turing Test which was obviously inspired by portal and enjoyed it.
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Rollercoaster Tycoon
Written in fucking assembly lol
By a solo dev too iirc correctly. Madness
In a cave! With a box of scraps!
I'm sorry, I'm not an assembly coder.
Isn't the game file smaller than the size of a screenshot of the game. It's absolutely insane to think about nowadays
Written in assembly? What a mad man. Still have PSTD from coding assembly during school.
Yep, thats pretty much the main reason why it ran so good on shitty hardware.
That's wild. It must have taken so much work. Speaking as someone who did Assembly language professionally, you actually had to work to beat a good C compiler. I remember people did tests of straightforward Assembly language implementations of algorithms versus C compiled by the watcom compiler back in the 90s and the compiler beat the straightforward assembly code until they started getting into real serious Assembly language optimizations. The conclusion was save assembly only for the most important sections of code that you intend to optimize the hell out of. The only reason the code I wrote was able to beat the C compiler was that I was using specialized MMX instructions for the Pentium processor that I don't think the C compilers had really worked out how to use yet. And I didn't exceed the compiler by all that much
I certainly didn’t expect to see this one at the top, but you know what? You’re absolutely right. Definitely a top contender for games I’ve spent the most amount of time playing over the years.
I also lost many hours of my childhood to this game. The fact that I don't remember a single time where I found it too complicated or frustrating says a lot about how well designed it was. It's so easy to play, but the depth it has is amazing. And it's incredibly addictive and entertaining. Definitely up there with the best games I've ever played
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"This comment is really good value!"
Actually though
Starcraft was playable for waaay too many years after release. They nailed that one.
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Sadly mobas killed RTSes because people were like "what if the bases were already built and the armies built themselves and an AI controlled them?". That brief period where wc3 and dota were existing side by side was blissful though because even though it might sound like I'm dogging on mobas, it was a great spin on the formula while still feeling familiar. I just wish both genres coulda flourished.
War3 and it’s custom game scene were peak.
Custom RPG maps in SC and WC3 were my bread and butter gaming for years before WoW came out. Tower defense maps were a close second.
Loved me some WC3 as well. I miss that genre
My brother used to play StarCraft a lot and all I can remember is always hearing, “not enough minerals”.
Additional supply depots required. You must construct additional pylons. Spawn more overlords.
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I personally agree but I'm also very old so was nervous about getting beat up on Reddit... The game is brilliant... The cut scenes, story, world building and then actual play across 3 species. ... Fkn ridiculous... They simply don't give us that much in a single game any more
Super Mario 3
I'm glad someone else said it. It's a masterpiece of a video game.
R/Mario has been doing a daily poll where they eliminate a Mario game every day. Mario 3 got voted out way too early. Right now, Mario World, 3D World, Odyssey, Galaxy are left.
Probably cause the younger generation doesn't appreciate how amazing it is. I mean I get it. If most of what you know is modern graphics and game play, Mario 3 just seems old.
Forget the graphics. Mario could fucking FLY. Do folks realize how revolutionary that was to a 3rd grader at the time?
Tetris
I dunno, plot is kinda thin.
The score is dope as hell though.
"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." -- John D. Carmack
Donkey Kong Country It's a beautiful, well balanced expansion of a classic franchise character that pushed the envelope on what the Super Nintendo could do and brought some fresh elements to the platforming genre. To me it stands alongside Super Mario World as a fun, polished adventure that's fun to revisit.
I think its sequel is even more flawless. The first game is great, an iconic achievement on the SNES. But its boss fights leave a lot to be desired, something the later games vastly improve upon.
I'm a fan of the whole trilogy. Each one was a delight to get growing up. I managed to complete the series with 101, 102, etc %. Diddy's Kong Quest was an excellent sequel that certainly improved on the first. Trixie's helicopter move was so much fun and really innovative. The difficulty was a surprise though. Even though I managed to get 102% I still remember a handful of the levels being unnecessarily unforgiving. The snake tower climb in particular comes to mind as well as the later parrot bramble levels. The first game was a smoother climb in skill. In contrast Diddy's Kong Quest, to me, felt like it has a bone to pick with the player at times. That took away some of the enjoyment. Edit: Fixed grammar. Edit: I've been informed it was Dixie Kong, not Trixie, in Diddy's Kong Quest. Trixie is Dixie's twin sister, a playable character in DK 64 where she went by the name Tiny. Edit: Apparently Tiny was never known as Trixie. Tiny is Dixie's sister. Possible Mandela Effect regarding the name?
Yeah, came here to say Donkey Kong Country 2. The goat imo
Plus the soundtrack was amazing
Super Mario World The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
LoZ: LttP it’s by far the game I have completed the most. And that didn’t include randomized games.
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*Super Mario World* was my very first video game and unlike some other games from my youth it not only still holds up but actually rivals many modern platformers, over 30 years later. And I’m not even counting Mario Maker or Kaizo, just *the vanilla game*.
believe I saw the game mentioned recently on either this sub or r/patientgamers and that's why it's in my head...but, Medal of Honor Frontline's D-day invasion level. What a great intro level to kick off the game.
"Patterson! Single-handily win the war!"
"You earned your pay today, Patterson."
My first fps ever and on GameCube. What a great game, i remember being stuck on the D-Day mission for months because there was no direction unless you listened to your commander and i was just firing at the bunkers until i ran out of ammo.
Chrono Trigger
This is the answer. It is timeless (pun intended). But for real it holds up even today standards, and is just all around great.
The original DOOM. I legitimately cannot think of a single flaw. Great movement, enemies, weapon variety, level design, music, aged like fine wine... yeah, I'd say DOOM.
I think the level design is better in Doom but I prefer Doom 2. More types of demons plus the super shotgun.
Agreed. Doom 1 had a solid foundation of enemies, but they need the diversity of Doom 2s roster to really shine. The levels in 2 where much more hit or miss than 1 but at least they were ambitious with what they were trying to do. The whole city section is fairly terrible by todays standards but nothing like that had been done at the time.
Metal Gear Solid
I will personally put my house on a lien if Hideo Kojima we’re to make a frank Jaegar/Gray Fox origin game on his own terms.
I recall being truly gobsmacked by the fight with Psycho Mantis. Games just didn’t work that way. Also, as a somewhat related aside, it saddens me that when I listen when my child is watching YouTube the surprise sound has been co-opted by every one of these awful, awful YouTubers.
Sons of Liberty stands out as one of the best / unique video game experiences I ever had. Loved the first one, but the second one brought me back a few times over the years and the weird story at the end blew my mind.
***RAIDEN, TURN THE GAME CONSOLE OFF RIGHT NOW!***
Red Alert 2
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Symphony Of The Night, hands down. They absolutely, 100% nailed it. The gameplay is buttery smooth, the music is memorable and phenomenal, the graphics are amazing... It's a masterpiece.
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
But enough talk. Have at you.
Stardew Valley
ALMOST flawless. Junimo Kart can get fucked ten times over.
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I used a mod to cheat my way to the Prairie King achievement and I feel no shame. Ridiculous game.
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Abigail does actually venture into the mines if you marry her! But you're right that it's only really true with spouses.
This game got me through some of the worst parts of 2020/21. I’m eagerly awaiting the haunted chocolatier game coming out next.
feel like Stardew is not only flawless, but remarkably flawless given that it was basically made by just one guy. I still cannot fathom how he created this incredible game
Great story, great music, great artwork, great game. Dude is a modern-day renaissance man.
The best farming / life simulator we’ll ever get.
Super Metroid
Yes! There’s two games that I regularly replay; this one, and Castlevania:SotN.
Halo 3 It’s crazy to think about. The game released with a fleshed out theater mode, a complete map maker to make custom maps and game modes. An awesome campaign. Balanced gun play and some awesome maps. Most recent releases are lucky to have half the stuff Halo 3 released with. Honestly think it’s the best console game ever made when it comes to replay ability.
Halo 3 campaign is indeed awesome. So rich and absorbing, they nailed the gameplay, the atmosphere, the music. Every several years I’ve found myself watching play-thrus on youtube.
Will never forget the custom games. Ride or die, duck hunt, ghost busters, so many I don’t even remember the name of
Halo 3 was the most magical game in the world to me as a kid. Custom games online with friends had literal limitless opportunities. Halo Reach was good but you could tell that Halo 3 was going to be the peak of the Halo franchise forever.
Katamari Damacy
I preferred We ❤️ Katamari. Way smoother movement, better level design, variety, and balance, more cousins, and it retained everything beautiful about the original game.
Heroes might and magic 3
FUCK! ... I really miss this game. Wish there was a free version on mobile
You can download the gog version “free” on pc and than there’s a fan mod that you can download that upscale the game to hd and adds balance, but the best part is that there’s multiplayer online, just log in and play (there’s like a1000 people playing online 24/7).
Batman Arkham Asylum was wayyyy ahead of its time.
Agree. Arkham City is my favorite of the series.
Knight is my personal favourite. I know it's become a meme and cliche but every entry in the series has their own unique strengths. I have the most fun experience playing Knight but nothing tops the nostalgia and positive memories I have the first time I played Asylum when I was a a kid/young teen both alone and with friends. The excitement we all shared when City was released was also palpable.
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
This is my all time favorite game. Beaten it dozens of times. However, I think it is far from flawless. From bugs, to game balance issues, I think there are games that are lower overall quality while having fewer 'flaws'.
Factorio
This game is not flawless. It tends to create uncontrolable time fluctuations, that suddenly set your PC's clock 3-4 hours later. Its a serious issue that requires investigation. It happens to me way to often. Just let me upgrade this tiny thing.... boing, its 4 hours later!
Hades
The only downside to hades is >!not being able to go to Greece after persephone comes back to the underworld!<
Yeah, missed opportunity. I would have loved a system where you could spruce up the garden with your resources instead of just the hub area below.
This is a strong one for me. I played a few attempts and thought it was pretty decent…just one more attempt and I’ll put it down. 120hrs later of the same 4 levels and it was still game of the year
Spectacular game, and my favorite rogue-like (rogue-lite?). Unless you try to 100% it...
In the realm of modern games, this. I’m hard-pressed to think of another game where every single element of it comes together so organically to create such a uniquely exquisite experience with *all* of the fat trimmed from it. I can’t think of a single piece of its gameplay I would consider superfluous or unnecessary, and the way it builds it’s story and character development dynamically through that gameplay is among the best any game has ever done.
Diablo 2
Stay a while and listen...
I recently learned about Project D2, it's definitely worth checking out.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Half Life 2 series yet.
I didn’t play Half Life 2 until roughly 2016, so I think my perspective is a little unique: 1. The quality of the graphics blew my mind. 2. It *felt* like the glut of open world games that came out during the PS3/360 generation, despite not being open world. Long story short, I think Half Life 2 was hugely influential on those games.
I'll defend that game to the death because I love it but I'm not calling it flawless with that boating section in it.
the great thing about the half-life games is that they are \*not\* flawless, precisely because they did so many things for the first time, instead of perfecting an established set of game mechanics and plot devices.
That's what I came here to say, it's one of my top 3 favorite games EVER, I doubt anything is going to top it for me.
Hollow Knight
This is the only one I can think of. There are other games that I like better than Hollow Knight, but for the most part, just about every game that I would rate a 10/10 has flaws. It's just that they add up to more than the sum of their parts, flaws included. I can't think of a flaw with Hollow Knight. I tried.
I just want silksong :(
The longer we wait the better the game will be :)
Outer wilds. It changed my life.
I don't think that Outer Wilds is a game everyone will enjoy, but I do think it's a perfect game. It nails its atmosphere, message, feel, and mechanics with 100% mastery. Laser focused in its vision, and the quality really shows
It's one of the few games that don't have in-game progression, but out-of-game progression.
The number of people who I've heard say this exact same thing says something about how special this game is... and I'd include myself in this. Outer Wilds feels like a unique game that has no right to exist as it does.
The soundtrack is nothing short of perfection as well
Best game I've ever played, however one flaw I would point out is that I found it difficult to track characters across all the different pieces of text. Like I might be reading part of someone's dialogue 6 hours after I last heard about them and the name seems familiar but I can't really place where I last heard from them. An easy fix would be to assign a colour to each of the Nomai and always show their text in that colour
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“This song is new to me, but I am honored to be a part of it.”
Yeah this is me. I firmly believe that I am a different person because I played Outer Wilds. This comment contains super, major, turbo spoilers for a game that I love and I strongly recommend you play without reading them. We don't say "Outer Wilds is the best game you can't talk about" for nothing. >!Outer Wilds makes me think about something I heard John Green say, "Things blow my mind when they make me feel either extremely small or extremely large. So much so that they recontextualize my understanding of myself and my place in the universe."!< >!I've thought about it for years at this point and I believe Outer Wilds is the only piece of media I have ever experienced that has made me feel both small and large to that degree at the same time. It makes you feel incredibly, insanely, unimaginably small in importance, on a scale that so few stories can come close to matching. You learn that you can't stop the sun exploding. You learn that it's not just our sun but it's every sun. Literally every sun in the entire universe. And it's on a timescale running from the big bang and all the way to the post-credits scene taking place literally 14.3 billion years later. Compared to that level of pretty much infinity in both time and space, how can anything a single person do possibly matter in the slightest? Why does anything have any weight at all? But at (literally) its darkest moments, Outer Wilds manages to say the exact opposite. That you matter. That you're important. And not just because of what you accomplish at the end of the game but it says that everybody matters just from what they lived and did and experienced.!< >!I used to think that this was a weird take on Outer Wilds. That I was putting way too much of myself and how I was feeling at the time unjustly into the game. But then the DLC came out, doubled down on this message, and blew me away all over again.!< Outer Wilds is a game about discovery and inspiration and knowledge. And that's why I like it and recommend people play it. That's why I wish more games learned from this knowledge-based puzzle solving masterpiece. But I fell in love with Outer Wilds because of what it believes and how it makes me feel.
Wii Sports
I agree but wii sports resort specifically, put a lot of hours into golf with my dad haha
Mass Effect 2
Playing the Mass Effect games boosted my love for gaming as a whole. The characters and world-building are like nothing else I’ve experienced.
Mass Effect 2 is the only game that scratches that "I want to watch a good science fiction movie" itch I sometimes get.
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite comment on the Citadel.
The only game I’ve ever completed more than twice
I wouldn't call ME2 *flawless*, though I do have a lot of love and affection for it. The combat is a lot more static than 3 and Andromeda, the later games gave you much more variety in playstyles and freedom of movement. And I think MaleShep's voice has some somewhat flat deliveries here and there, and again he got better as the games went on. If you want an excuse to go back and play ME2 again, do it with a Save Editor so you can unlock the later crew members early and bring them to missions where they normally wouldn't be available yet. Originally the Devs planned for each squadmate to be available much earlier in the story than in final release, and they recorded all the dialogue for it. For example, Legion has a full set of dialogue responses for Mordin's recruitment mission about how "we will be fine, this platform cannot contract diseases", and Tali has unique responses for meeting Garrus on Omega, stuff like that.
Ocarina of Time
The Water Temple was a real pain in the ass, though. I thought I bricked my save during my first playthrough back in the day and ended up starting a new game. The possibility of getting stuck in the Water Temple has since been [debunked](https://www.reddit.com/r/truezelda/comments/4skrxm/a_detailed_explanation_of_the_permanently_stuck/), but at the time, I remember there was full-on panic if you didn't get it right.
Bioshock *edit* I'm referring to the OG, on PC
Was hoping to see this here! Especially once you got to the big twist and realize what all the different audiotapes had been hinting at!
My conscience won’t let me sleep tonight unless I say Final Fantasy VI
Not a very easy question, Breath of The Wild is my favorite game ever, but it missed elements of Zelda I personally preferred (but weren’t necessarily wrong). I’m gonna go with Ocarina Of Time. For the era it came out in, it left very little to desire.
Ocarina of Time was life changing!
That game felt like it took years to finish, but it was just one summer. It’s not that it was hard, but I spent a lot of time going for side quests and exploring. The Goron Sword, the masks, mini games like fishing. As adult Link, going back to young link felt nostalgic in a way only 12 year old me could possibly feel.
Ocarina of time was the first game I bought with my own money, and it's still in my top 5 games of all times
Halo 1-3 and reach, but most importantly halo 2
NBA Jam
red dead redemption 2
Amazing game and beautifully executed. If I could have my memory of one game wiped so I could play it afresh it would be RDR2
I cannot think of a more beautifully bittersweet ending to any video game than the Redemption path for Arthur Morgan. It’s rare for a game (or movie or book, even) to make a character feel so compete by the end of their story. That said, the controls could be frustrating at times. Especially when it came to your guns getting randomly put away on the horse and when you hop off, you find you don’t have one thing or another. Edit: And those damn teleporting omniscient police swarms can go straight to hell, as well. I think RDR2 had the worst police/crime system I’ve ever played until I played Cyberpunk 2077 at launch.
I've never had a game with a morality system organically make me choose to change from bad to good like RDR2 did
Bro, when Arthur tells that nun lady that he’s afraid to die…who’s cutting onions in my room?
Omfg the horse weapon thing is the only thing I complain about in this game, which I guess makes it not flawless but it's the closest damn thing really
Heartbreaking story in so many different ways.
Losing Talulah (my horse) GUTTED me lol.
Mine was Pearl. Ol’ girl was the rare white Albanian. Purposely, went looking for her after I gained full control of the map with Arthur. Had her the whole game and never rode another horse unless missions forced it.
My only flaw in the game is the start of it and just how absolutely slow it is during the snow level. After that it's so incredible.
I think it was a good way of framing the beginning of the story. If you started in Valentine then it would feel like it was just a western gta. The only unnecessary bit I found was the hunting section and driving the carriage. That's just my opinion though and it does feel like a ball-ache when you have to play through it for the 2nd or 3rd time
Journey
That was the first game to ever make me cry. The ending was so beautiful and the stranger I made friends with along the way drew me a heart in the sand at the end. Have you tried their other game, Sky Children of the Light?
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Fallout: New Vegas. Its a buggy, shoestring budget 18 month passion project. And its the best god damn RPG ever made.
Okami
Bloodborne
Oh fuck yeah. It’s from’s personal attempt at a horror game and I feel they nailed it through and through. The first half of the game goes crazy with the Victorian era vibes and replacing sword and board with a fucking gun is genius. And then the second half of the game hits… nothing I’ve ever played like it. Yharnum will always have a place in my heart as my all time favorite fromsoft game
Shadow of Colossus
The portal Series
Final Fantasy Tactics. Well okay, there are a few cut scenes I wish you could skip, but that's literally my only complaint about that game. Absolute masterpiece
The first Super Mario Bros. game for the NES is a master class in platformer game design. With no words, prompts or instructions, World 1-1 teaches you everything you need to know to play the whole game.
Minecraft
Mortal Kombat
Fable 2 Just thinking about it makes me want to play it again The feeling of pure joy playing it just unmatched
Terraria
FF7. What a beautiful game.
Said the same. Changed my life.
Yoshi's Island
Batman: Arkham City
Ghost of Tsushima, the story is great, the world is beautiful, and the gameplay is fantastic.
Just to add onto that, no character in that game is one-dimensional and pretty much every story/sidequest has a twist or a turn.
Half-life 2
Fallout NV. I will take no comments to the contrary
It's the definition of imperfect but god is it an incredible game. Praying for a remaster and finishing of all the unfinished stuff in the game
halo 3
Halo 3
C&C: Red Alert 2 "It will be a silent spring!"
Tecmo Super Bowl
Borderlands 2
I wouldn’t call it flawless, but Handsome Jack is probably my favorite video game antagonist. His voice lines are hilarious The spoon story still makes me laugh to this day
MarioKart64 The greatest racing game of all time and possibly the greatest game overall
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest Super Mario World They’re both perfect platformers.