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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

S tier

  • Lufia
  • Dragon Warrior 3
  • Final Fantasy 3 & 7
  • Sonic Adventure
  • The Guardian Legend
  • Ecco the Dolphin
  • Silent Hill
  • Mario Kart
  • Dark Cloud 2
  • Chronotrigger
  • Zelda: A link to the past
  • Submachine (flash)

A tier

  • Oddworld, Abe’s Odyssey
  • Resident Evil: codename Veronica
  • Banjo Kazooie
  • Mario RPG
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • Earthworm Jim
  • Battletoads
  • Wizards and Warriors 2
  • Megaman 2
  • Populous
  • One Chance (flash)
  • Daymare Town (flash)
  • Abadox - hardest game I ever beat

B tier

  • The Lion King
  • Overlord
  • Oregon Trail
  • Dinopark Tycoon
  • Snowboard Kids
  • South Park
  • Kid Icarus
  • Sweet Home
  • Monster Party
  • Dr Mario
  • Abobo’s Big Adventure (flash)
  • Alice is Dead Ep 1 (flash)
  • Starfox
  • Shadowgate
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Antichamber

and maybe Portal

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's left of edith finch.

Such an amazing game. Absolute masterpiece.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sid Meier's Pirates.

Either version.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sekiro

Few games have such tight game design, story, lore, and characters blended so well into a single experience.

I don't think I even want or need a sequel.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For be it's still System Shock 2

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Prey, System Shock 2, Outer Wilds, and Undertale are fully-realized microcosms where the primary game is unfolding the complex origami of the setting. All of them absolutely beautiful to experience.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Abzû". That's a hill I'm willing to die on. Got to me even more than Journey or Jusant.

Also, thought very differently, "Senua Hellblade" because it perfectly displayed a condition that I could never fit into words.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Metro 2033. Played it in the dark with good surround sound headphones on, and it's positively claustrophobic.

Last Light is good too, but at little too optimistic IMHO. 2033 nails that endless pit of despair feeling, with just enough lucky breaks that you might make it through.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chromehounds was the greatest mech game on shitbox 360 and you can't change my mind.

The sheer variety in player created metas was glorious to behold. Sure, you could play how the game encouraged you to play and hang your weapons in "normal" configurations. But you could also bury whole teams in indirect fire with a triple double from across the map. You could build a little punchy boi buggy with a dick piston, cockpit, wheels, and nothing else. You could even try to sweat the meta in the chicken leg howitzer or the turtle up in the armored crab.

The only limits were creativity and spacer availability lmfaooo

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Half-Life 2, both Psychonauts games, the Arkham series

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Braid. Surprised that it wasn't mentioned yet

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn’t see these listed so I’m dropping some objective masterpieces here:

  • Persona 5 Royal
  • Golden Sun
  • Golden Sun: The Lost Age
  • Horizon Zero Dawn

Edit: Added HZD as I didn’t see it while scrolling through this post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Super Hexagon

It's about as simple as a 'modern' game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it's a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game's.

The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.

With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that's not happening.

The criteria to beat a level is "last for 60 seconds".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We’re including mobile games too, right?

Monument Valley

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Immersive sims: Prey, Dishonored, Deus Ex

Story-driven: The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, Halo, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted, HL2, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Splinter Shock, The Walking Dead

Platformer: Braid, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Limbo

Action/roguelike: Bastion, Hades

RPG: Fallout: New Vegas, Mass Effect

Puzzle: Lumines, Puzzle Quest, World of Goo, You Must Build a Boat, Reigns, Threes, Meteos

Other: Desert Golfing

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[–] Yareckt 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Half-life 3 Mario 69 Pokemon Asbestos Super Smash Bros Bawl (if you ban Metaknight)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Hollow Knight is peak

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Is disco Elysium the one with all the talking? Like multiple books worth of text? No thanks

Btw how is RDR2 not on the list?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Minesweeper.

Simple, endlessly playable.

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