Do I get the mods, too (because, realistically, who plays games only unmodded? Children? Console gamers?)?

So, if yes, half life and half life 2.

If not…

1. Minecraft - this feels like a no brainer. Also needs to have some mod packs. I would choose some fat as fuck packs. But if I only was allowed to choose one, I would choose one of the biggest mod packs that has the most mods in it.

2. Counter-Strike: Source - has to have all custom maps currently available. There’s nearly an infinite amount of content there. But even without custom content, I still think a core pvp FPS is necessary to this list.

3. Some kind of an mmo. One that has instances of large quantity of player content that can be saved. Social games are incredibly important, to at least me. I don’t love WoW. I don’t really play MMOs, either, except for one, and it’s largely because my partner loves it. So, maybe Guild Wars 2.

4. A co-op dungeon crawler that can be used for role playing. So, maybe like… Neverwinter Nights? Or maybe Phantasy Star online…2? Diablo…?nahhh… PoE maybe.

5. Some kind of very simmy racing game with simulation physics. Beam.Ng?

The “no new games will ever be made” is a hard one, because I instinctually want to save games that could be used as inspirational “seed” games for people to use as ideas to make new games.

My instinct is to treat this as a “all games are dying. What games would you take to restart?” But in reality, this is “what are your favorite games?” There’s a lot of nuance between those two questions, and the lists would be extremely different. So, my list is kind of trying to merge those two concepts.