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What games are just objective master pieces?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nobody can answer that question objectively.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t see Goldeneye on your list.

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  • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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 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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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I always forget how absolutely awesome Escape From Butcher Bay is until I’m reminded of its existence and its shockingly unfair to that game.

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      • dantheclamman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’d kill for a new Riddick game!

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  • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Super Metroid is still the first that comes to mind. Amazing experience from start to finish.

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  • Harimau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Super Metroid

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    • samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Do you think Return of the Obra Dinn would belong alongside these or is that game too flawed by comparison?

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      • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Haven’t actually played these two but from what I gather, they definitely fit the list!

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  • technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨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.

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  • Phunter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I tried playing it, but the combat… the combat, man, I can play many games, finished Elden Ring, played ton of CS1.6, Dota 2, Terraria Infernum… but Sekiro I could not finish.

      I’ve heard it’s a rhytmic game, but I suck at those, too.

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  • PushButton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Antichamber

    and maybe Portal

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  • Skkorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Hollow Knight is peak

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  • InfiniteHench@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Bloodborne Bioshock Hollow Knight

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  • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s pretty wack that we haven’t since had a game that captures many of the better elements of Chrome hounds.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Left4Dead2 (also L4D1)

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    • hank_the_tank66@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      EXCEPT…for when your computer teammate jumps in front of you while you’re shooting and accosts you for it, then a second later they literally mow down a bunch of infected by shooting through you with no consequences.

      So I have to knock it down to a 9.9/10

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Nethack

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    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      check out Caves of Qud if you’re into NetHack

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    • BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Indeed!

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  • user_name@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Minesweeper.

    Simple, endlessly playable.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Disco Elysium is definitely closer to the visual novel spectrum of video games than it is to something like Tetris. But make no mistakes, its narrative and impact would be much lessened were it delivered in any other medium. It is absolutely a perfect example of how you use video games to make art.

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      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        My biggest issue is I game late at night when everyone else is in bed, so a game like that would knock me out

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      • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        How do you even begin to care about anything in that game when you are basically mashing buttons for hours and just listening to people complain about how shit life is?

        I get its an art piece of living the existence you are thrown into but it feels like a confusing mess even gameplay wise for the starting hours that people that have finished it I feel miss how unfun it is at first.

        I didn’t even know why I was now stuck on the other side of a wall in a union dispute and I just couldn’t be bothered to restart the game to try something else after how long it took to get dressed the first time.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

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  • CatZoomies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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

    • Persona 5 Royal
    • Golden Sun
    • Golden Sun: The Lost Age
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  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    For be it’s still System Shock 2

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    • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Have you played Prey? Only other game to scratch that same itch for me.

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      • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Prey 2017 or Prey 2006?

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sid Meier’s Pirates.

    Either version.

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    • breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was going to say Sid Meier’s Civilization, but both of them qualifies really.

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  • weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The Spyro the dragon trilogy for me is just an absolute masterpiece.

    Final Fantasy VII, IX and X are three master pieces

    Metroid prime and fusion

    Fatal Frame trilogy on the PlayStation 2, Forbidden Siren, Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil 2 are amongst the best of the best

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I do think the Spyro games are probably the absolute best of the collect-a-thon genre. Joyful and fun and with fun puzzles. I am worried I am too biased to say it though since I have 120%/100%/117% beat the games multiple multiple multiple times.

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      • weirdbeardgame@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hey, you and me man xD

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    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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    • stormdelay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s really good, I played it again recently after not touching it for maybe 10 years, and finally beat the last difficulty in an attempt to prove to myself I’m still not old

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I thought at first you guys were thinking of this, and I was puzzled. Then I looked it up.

      Crivens, it’s like a combination of Tempest and Flappy Bird, but since it’s a Terry Cavanagh game it’s also been whacked over the head soundly with VVVVVV.

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Super. Hexagon.

      It’s hard to explain the relief I felt upon beating the last level. I can fairly easily survive for 300s in the first one, but I’ve never gotten close to beating the last one again.

      There’s also a “spiritual successor” called Open Hexagon that’s extendable by the community if you want more, though I haven’t played it myself.

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      • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop)

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  • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Braid. Surprised that it wasn’t mentioned yet

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  • Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Half-life 3

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  • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    • Sonic the Hedgehog ( Genesis/Mega Drive )

    • Chuzzle Deluxe

    • Borderlands

    • Baba Is You

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Honestly, many of them you know full well, but that’s because yes, they are that good:

    • Minecraft
    • TES III Morrowind and TES V Skyrim
    • The Witcher 1 and 3
    • Deus Ex Human Revolution and Mankind Divided
    • Cyberpunk 2077
    • Dishonored 1 and 2
    • Warcraft III and World of Warcraft

    Completely deserve their legendary status

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’d say games that have set the standard for their genre, and have not been surpassed, would be the only ones that count.

    • Half Life 1 and then again with 2
    • Half Life Alyx
    • Age of Empires II
    • Baldur’s Gate 3
    • Warframe
    • Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando
    • Knights of the Old Republic
    • Fallout: New Vegas
    • Crash Bandicoot: Warped
    • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
    • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and then again with Tears of the Kingdom
    • Elden Ring
    • Hollow Knight
    • Dirt Rally
    • The World Ends With You (the original NDS version)
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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    SOMA was great

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    • jacksilver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I feel like Soma was a decent metaphysical question wrapped in a okayish walking simulator.

      It got a lot of praise, but basically boils down to the question “what makes you you” with nothing else about it standing out.

      If the gameplay isn’t a driving factor of making the game objectively good, then I don’t think it counts.

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      • MintyAnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The lack of gameplay is fine, and very much important to call out for any new players. There’s a whole genre of “you’re playing a movie” that SOMA fits nicely into

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      • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Personally I think story can make a game stand out far more than graphics or gameplay. I also disagree that the game boiled down to one question. While it was the primary focus of the narrative, the underwater laboratories and world building/history was amazing.

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    • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I’ve been craving another experience like SOMA but unfortunately nothing even comes close. It was probably the coolest and most disturbing story I’ve ever seen. Finishing that game gave me an existential crisis for like 2 days after. It was that good.

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  • LeDoudou@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How come no one has mentioned “Life is strange” yet? Also, “A plague tale”.

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    • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The intro to a plague tale… Jesus.

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  • rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Out of recent ones, Blue Prince

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    • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s such a good puzzle box but I don’t think I would call The Room, a masterpiece while it’s still yet another great puzzle box game.

      They are masterpieces in puzzles but maybe not games? I dunno why I don’t consider them.

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