Submitted 9 months ago by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
For me it’s Chrono Trigger. I always want to play it. I want to show it to my children. I hope it will be regarded as a masterpiece for generations to come.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
From the art to the music to the plot to the gameplay, it’s just iconic.
Was looking for this!
Super Mario World! It holds up remarkably well even by modern platformer standards. It feels great, looks great, and is a blast to explore.
I find myself beating that game again every couple of years.
I honestly feel a little disappointed that I scrolled this far and nobody mentioned Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999).
This is an RTS game, which is a dying genre. It’s also a 24 year old game, which after its release two more Age of Empires games have been released as well, and the game itself has been remastered recently. Yet people continue to play the original game to this day, the multiplayer scene and competitions are still active.
If that is not timeless I don’t know what is.
My partner recently got me started playing AoE II - it’s a beautiful game. I’ve never been a big RTS player, but I dig this one.
I still think it’s the best game of the series. It’s absolutely timeless.
Community consensus is that AoE 2’s mechanics are an improvement on its predecessor, but I personally have a weak spot for AoE 1: Rise of Rome expansion. Fewer things to manage, beautiful wonder structures, and cheap axe man hordes.
My dad and I used to play against each other over LAN. Hearing him shouting and cursing from the other room while I razed his city with scythe chariots is such a happy memory. Man, I miss him. To the dads here, play AoE with your kids.
Second this. Rise of rome, from that unforgettable title music, that start screen, wololo, everything about it tickles my pleasure centers. Have very fond memories of this game.
The remaster got so much praise. How big are the og vs. remastered scene? Kinda interested.
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Totally still works as a modern Zelda game. Especially since Nintendo hasn’t really changed the core mechanics since it’s release!
Looks pretty good for such an old game.
DooM (1993), but mostly because of the community. Constant new levels, mods, engine updates, total conversions. Even commercial games released on the engine. It just never stops.
For real. That game will never die.
This is the first Doom, right?
Any links to the community?
First off you’re gonna want to grab yourself a source port like GZDoom so you can run it on a modern PC with all the extra bells and whistles. Go grab the original DooM and DooM 2 off Steam for $10 each if you somehow don’t already have them. A lot of stuff still needs access to the original .wad files.
Then check out Doomworld, the Zdoom forums and modDB for a literal ton of extra content. I suggest checking out Brutal Doom, Rekkr, Ashes, Sonic Robo Blast and Hedon for examples of what the modernised engine can do.
A good level in that game goes harder than any current AAA fps I can think of. Probably the remakes get pretty close, and they blew everyone away because they were a massive improvement to the fps formula, but idk if I’d ever call the remakes “timeless”.
Half Life 2 still looks and plays fantastic even nearly decades later
Half life 1 also! May be the graphics are a bit dated, but for that is the Black Mesa verdion
Heroes of Might and Magic III.
There’s a game called Heroes Hour on steam that is like the pixel version of an expanded HoMM3, the over world and town building and unit recruiting is all almost the same, but the fights are real-time auto-battler that you can pause to cast spells or give directions to units. Really scratches the itch left by HoMM3
It did for me at first then I got mad at it when I felt like all the battles were so unexpected and undefined. There’s no damage, health or dmg/sec listed its just hope your mobs are more mob than those mob
Oh I’m gonna check this out. I actually liked some of the newer homm games too but it was frustrating to play them because of all the bugs. The core gameplay of all of them is just so much fun for me though
Something about 3 never clicked with me while I still play the second one all the time.
How does it compares with Might and Magic IV?
Heroes (of Might and Magic) is a turn-based strategy game. You start with a hero and a castle, and you objective is usually to take over all the castles on the map. The computer, or other players, will be trying to do the same.
One of the craziest things, is that the game is almost 25 years old, but through the “HD Mod” it’s still getting regular updates, and there’s still annual world championships.
Skyrim, actually. It’s quite dated by today’s standards, but just recently I started another playthrough on a whim and ended up playing 20h or so even though I’ve played the game a bunch of times for several hundreds of hours throughout the years already.
Will be interesting to see if TES6 will replace Skyrim as the mainstream culturally relevant icon of gaming type of way.
After all Morrowind and Oblivion were both massively popular cornerstones of gaming in their own right in their time, but Skyrim has definitely overtaken them as fas as mainstream recognition goes.
Oblivion was good, but even at the time of the release the graphics, especially faces, are potato. Skyrim is probably peak graphics at release, and still beautiful even now. Gameplay is a little dumbed down, but still enjoyable for both casual and hardcore gamers. Combine that with active modding scene and continuous support from Bethesda, Skyrim ages longer than any game has right to be.
It’d be cool if it did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did somewhere down the line.
Tetris. Straight original is so simple accessible and addictive. I really haven’t cared for much else they done with it since. It was perfection also out the gate.
Also, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I can play it anytime, anyplace. The gameplay, music, graphics even today just feel so go for being 2D
Game boy version or is there a different console you feel is definitive ?
Gameboy Tetris is king.
I had it on original Nintendo. But the Gameboy version is almost the same (to my knowledge) just without the color pallet.
Also the story of Tetris and how it got lisenced is crazy. The new Tetris movie is a fun (albeit with Hollywood coat of paint) recount.
Miney Crafty
Minecraft stands the test of time between generations. Between late millennials, most of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Funny story; when I first heard about the game (2009 or 10, so before really anyone had heard of it) I thought the name was Mind Craft. Luckily I easily found the correct game and started playing. I think rails came out shortly after. The games come a long way. It’s barely recognizable now.
I really wish minecarts were given more love for their original uses, transportation and mining
My husband is currently trying Chrono Trigger for the first time, the music is catchy and the game is too, even though he’s currently stuck right now. We’re big video game fans sharing our passion with our little. We’ve been Mario Kart 8ing together, so fun!
I hope I will be able to do the same when I start a family :) best wishes to you guys
I have a few answers, but I agree that Chrono Trigger is one of those games you come back to again and again. I think there are many excellent games which wouldn’t qualify because they are too firmly rooted in their time, or perhaps don’t feel timeless due to the limitations of their interface, but here are a few titles that are not just my favorites but I also think compare boldly across systems, genres, and time. I may have got carried away :|
Sega Master System:
Sega Genesis:
PC Engine / Turbografx 16:
NES:
SNES:
PSX:
PS2:
Xbox:
PC:
That’s a damn long list, but I see Grim Fandango in there and thus I must upvote!
Good job. Saved.
Baba Is You. It could be 30 years old - or could have been produced in 20 years - but still would be the same and Great!
I would say Chrono Trigger, but if Chrono Trigger was timeless, what would be the plot? :P
Re-volt was so good!
You could also cover mods like Skywind, where fans basically port an old game to a new engine.
For me it’s Chrono Trigger.
I see what you did there.
I think Toy Story 2 for PSX holds pretty well as a platformer, graphics wise ofc not, I hope I’m not being blinded by the nostalgia.
Doom (1993), Diablo (1996), amongst others like Chrono Trigger people have mentioned.
I mean, Doom is like a meme at this point “can it run Doom?” And so on.
Skyrim
I still haven’t had time to pick that up…
I need to do that!
If you wait a couple years there might be a new release for you to grab.
Do it. I think it still holds up well. Could be my nostalgia talking tho.
Ha! Beat me to it!
I take timeless to mean that it is still just as good today as the day it was released and that the game’s quality isn’t related to the time period in which it was released or the hardware it was released on. Dates and hardware are included in case you want to go play them. (You should if you haven’t)
-Soul Calibur (1999 , Dreamcast) -Project Gotham Racing (2001, Xbox) -Top Gear (1992, SNES) -Tempest 2000 (1994, Jaguar) -Rock N Roll Racing (1993, SNES) -Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994, PC) -Tetris (1989, Gameboy or perhaps the NES version) -Silent Hill 2 (2001-ish, PS2 or Xbox) -The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002, Xbox or PC)
I’m sure there are more, but I’ll stop here.
I absolutely love Morrowind, but I’m torn whether to call it timeless. It’s got a clunky interface, but that interface is also so much a part of the feeling that grips you when you play it.
The graphics are definitely not doing it favors at this point. It was definitely fun to get into for a bit though. I literally started playing Morrowind for the first time about 3-6 weeks ago.
I‘ve went back to Secret of Mana a lot… Coop-able JRPGs were extremely year for a very long time. Maybe they still are.
probably my favourite game. the music and art style always make me happy.
A lot of people have mentioned Legend of Zelda games but I want to say that Wind Waker has held up so much over the years. One of my favourites
Super Metroid is a game I have played over and over again for years. I recently played it again and I loved it so much I’ve been going back and playing all of the side scrolling Metroid games (again).
I actually just beat AM2R for a second time followed immediately by Samus Returns.
When I get through all of them I’m hitting Dread (which I only barely started when it first came out and I haven’t finished yet) and then moving to the Prime series.
I can’t get enough of Metroid, but Super Metroid is the greatest of them all. Even with the slightly dated controls, I find myself playing that game more than any other.
My second favorite game is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I play it almost as often as I do Super Metroid.
The Jak and Daxter series. Gameplay still holds up, story and world building still holds up, and it’s been made easily available to later generations of consoles. Heck even the in-game animations hold up shockingly well, Jak’s movement feels so fluid and organic compared to a lot of other older games that tend to feel a bit janky compared to modern games.
Older games in the Ratchet and Clank series also hold up pretty well too, though they’re a bit harder to access unless they’ve been made available on the ps4/ps5 since I last played them, otherwise I have to dig out my ps3 to play the first 3 games.
I replay both game series pretty regularly and they’re always equally as fun to play no matter how many years have passed.
if you aren’t aware, the ps3 you can dig out from the internet works really well and lets you get higher rest and a more fluid experience, even on a pc that isn’t top of the line
The PS3 emulator, RPCS3, runs most of the entire Ratchet and Clank series very well. The only ones I really had issues with were A Crack in Time (it’s just not as optimized) and Into the Nexus (again, not too optimized, but more so. Had some frame rate issues). RPCS3 is only getting better and better!
Definitely check out OpenGOAL. It is the best version to play right now (even better than the remasters for PS3/4). It is basically a native port for Windows and Linux.
Definitely Golden Sun.
Considering the limitations of the console it’s incredible just how high quality the game is, the music especially. Timeless masterpiece.
Mike Tyson’s Punchout. I still play it occasionally as an adult and it’s still just as fun as when I was a kid.
Diablo 2, I love the grind and come back to it every few years.
My dude. Chrono Trigger is my Lord of the Rings of video games. I keep coming back to it now and then because it’s such a good playthrough.
Definitely Chrono Trigger for me. I’ve seen most of the endings. One day I will see them all!
Also, portal 1 and 2, tf2 and l4d2.
The original Mario Kart. I could play any course with Donkey Kong without taking my finger off the accelerator – I was a power sliding king.
Morrowind feels like returning home, every time.
nerdschleife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Portal 1&2
Citronnier@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Portal 2 is still beautiful 12 years after its release and puzzle games will be relevent even in 50 years.