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for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.

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[–] RevolverSly@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Dota 2

Starcraft: Brood War

Vagrant Story

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago

The Last Of Us part 1 and 2 and the Witcher 3

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ragnarok Online in the early 00s is the only reason I’m alive to post this comment

Diablo II for sure, what an amazing technical achievement in the year 1999

Theeeen probably Earthbound.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Did you play RDR1? I thought that one was much better than 2, story wise. Not that 2 was bad. Rockstar games are always good imo.

Baldur's gate 3 is also in my top 3, story wise and how well it was made and time spent playing it. I finished the campaign 6 times now, 4 of which with friends playing couch coop.

Also Age of Empires 2 because when I was young I played that game for over at least 3000 hours (if not double) and I still play it sometimes. Just well balanced and lots of good memories from back then, having LAN parties with my friends and playing it for days.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Descent for the movement.

Unreal tournament for getting ten PC's on a token ring for PvP lan.

Warcraft 2 because it's rad and a pirated copy got me a job at the trading card shop.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Going by time played it's probably something like:

  • WoW
  • Rocket league
  • Tony Hawk
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Final Fantasy VII Kingdom Hearts II (or BBS depending on the day of the week) Persona 4 Golden

To be honest these three could be different any day of the week. I play more than just RPGs but because these are heavily story driven they stick in the front of my mind more when it comes to these questions.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Tears of the Kingdom was amazing. The only thing BotW did better was how it felt riding on horseback through Hyrule field dodging lasers. But that was the high point, the average experience in BotW was less fun that TotK for me.

TotK really might be one of my top 5.

It's too hard to really rank every game. I spent a ton of time on Minecraft over the years but haven't recently. Like over a decade ago I liked gmod and still spent so much time on it but haven't played recently.

Lately colony management games have been scratching the itch. Do id probably say Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and Oxygen Not Included.

[–] wraithcoop@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago

It's hard as there's a lot of different games that I like for different reasons, but if I had to narrow it down it'd probably be:

  • Minecraft
  • Mirror's Edge
  • Dragon's Dogma
[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Betrayal at Krondor. A huge world for exploring, at a time when that didn't exist.

Chrono Trigger. The replay value is so high.

Wolf 3D or Doom or Doom 2 or Quake 3, for similar reasons.

StarCraft, at a time when BattleNet was small and the ladder rankings and fights were all global.

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[–] M137@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Portal 2 and Warframe. I'm not sure about a third, several contenders. And can't really say which spot any are in, feels more like they share 1st.

Questions like this are always hard, it's never a certain answer and it shifts over time, no matter if something new comes along to take a place or not. It's as fluid as anything else.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Factorio, Anno 1602, Civ 3

Easy choices for me, but I don’t know how to order them.

Anno 1800 gets an honourable mention for feeling like a great spiritual successor to 1602, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the first game.

[–] electric@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Only 3 choices makes it a tough one since there are many exceptional games...

If I had to erase every experience of all games, the ones I'd keep are (in no particular order): Cyberpunk 2077 Fallout: New Vegas Sunset Overdrive

[–] TechAnon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)
  • Link to the Past
  • Super Mario Bros 3
  • GTA 4

I took into account the impact at the time of release as well as the timelessness of the games.

[–] notptr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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