What game feels 'timeless' to you?

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Baldur’s Gate. Probably not timeless to everyone, but will always be for me.

  Also, Lords of the Realm II. Not sure why.

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• Wilshire@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The BioShock series is a timeless masterpiece

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• IAccidentallyCame@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fallout 1 and 2. I’ve played them so many times over the decades. FF7 and Baldurs gate 1&2 are others I’ve done a few times.

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  • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pumped for Baldur’s Gate 3 next month. I’ve avoided absolutely anything talking about the game. I want to go in blind. It’s got a hell of a legacy to live up to though.

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• Milky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Earthbound will always be a top game for me.

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  • Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ditto. That’s my favorite SNES RPG.

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• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ironic that a game entirely based around time is timeless.

  To me, it’s the n64 era, I think. Sm64, both Zelda games… Probably a dozen or so more that I’m forgetting, but those games will endure forever, I believe.

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• specseaweed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Legend of Zelda. My kid finished Breath of the Wild and Tears and wanted more, so I put him on the original.

  Hasn’t aged a day. Still mind blowing. Still a ton of fun.

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• raiun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Binding of Isaac. I keep buying it on all platforms. No single run is the same. More expensive than it should be these days but it is my crack.

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• Xanvial@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FF9 and FF Tactics for me

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  • XanderCrews@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    FF Tactics is a masterpiece!

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• c4lvaruga@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pokemon RB and Gold/Silver feel timeless to me.

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• Logster998@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Halo: Reach aged very well despite being the black sheep of the excellent OG Halo Trilogy. The more faster pace, exceptional visuals (how this was done on a 360 I do not know), and absurd customizability keep it running today, especially with Forge, Custom sandbox, and now mod support. Everything being coop + splitscreen helps too.

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• MurphysLyfe@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Civ 1 and 2. I’ve been playing since about 2003 and I still play about 15 hours a week on my steam deck

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  • dudinax@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I played Civ 1 the other day and the AI was so bad it was un-fun. Civ 2 might be better.

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• counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reading the title, I thought of Chrono Trigger as well. I guess we think alike.

  Sometimes I fondly think of its gorgeous soundtrack as well.

  I hope my future kids will like this classic as well.

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• TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Borderlands 2

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• Prasaedonium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Minish Cap, I rarely play things twice but those two are just so pretty and well done. I play them every few years.

  I’d like to try Chrono Trigger but for some reason I just can’t get into it

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  • McDuders@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Didn’t know FF:TA was an Isekai the first time I played it and that somehow added to the experience lol

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• Rubezahl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Heroes of might and magic III. I play it 25 years later and it would be great to share some time on it with my child, one she grows up.

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  • Ageroth@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mega man X! The musics are so sick

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  • dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mega Man X has aged so fucking well. The controls still feel so tight. There are hidden secrets in the levels, and the ultimate secret if you find all of them.

    This was the first game.i ever played, so I’m definitely biased, but this is still probably my favorite game of all time.

    I even learned many of the songs on guitar.

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• Blaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Caesar III

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  • azayrahmad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Honestly after playing newer entries like Pharaoh and Zeus, it’s starting to show its age. But then the Augustus mod came and it feels truly timeless now.

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    • Blaze@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Augustus was sent to us by gods

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• Salami456@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is going to be a weird one considering the graphics, but hear me out, the original Deus Ex. Something about the game just feels so well put together that the graphics take a back seat to the gameplay. There is a reason the community around the game has fought so hard to keep it running on modern hardware.

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• Clovermite@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Surprised no one has said Super Metroid yet. The game just excelled at atmosphere.

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• walkercricket@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would say Borderlands 2. This game is so good in terms or story and gameplay creating its own type of game + the graphics that are sort of cartoon/drawing like definitely makes it timeless for me. I would still restart a gameplay today if it wasn’t for the 4 or 5 times I finished it at the time it got released haha

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• Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines

  Love that game, even if its combat system is pretty dated. The world and the writing are top notch. If you get it, make sure you get the community patch so it’s not buggy.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I personally didn’t like Chrono Trigger that much.

  For me, it has to be the old arcade games. So:

  • pacman
  • super contra
  • Tetris
  • space invaders and/or break free
  • Street Fighter II

  We rented a house with some family (tons of kids) and the arcade cabinet was a huge hit, and I’m pretty sure it’ll remain a huge hit for the next 20+ years.

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• spacedancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The original Star Craft and Brood War. I grew up playing those games so they have a special place in my memories.

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  • Kilamaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Good for you. Personally, I feel they aged horribly, the controls, but today’s standard, are barely usable. If a new game came out with such controls, I’d probably flat out refuse to play it.

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    • azayrahmad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For me, the controls are probably the only outdated thing in StarCraft, which is why it was fixed in StarCraft II. Oh and probably the very 90s soundtracks and early CGI cutscenes.

      Other than that, I personally think StarCraft is one of the best games of all time. The plot, voice acting, character and unit designs are absolutely timeless. StarCraft is one of very few games that I can confidently say I’m suck at, yet still enjoy playing, with cheats if necessary.

      For those who want to try StarCraft but put off by the outdated gameplay, I suggest installing StarCraft II (now free) and also installing StarCraft Mass Recall which is the remake of original StarCraft and Brood War expansion in StarCraft II engine.

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• DaniloT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ever played Chrono Trigger randomized? After playing it so many times it was fun playing with a new perspective

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• zazaserty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Undertale. It will always be beautiful even if it doesn’t have detailed graphics.

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• MudMan@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Streets of Rage 2 feels remarkably good to play today. Homeworld 1 and 2 are great to play today, too, especially since RTSs are so rare. The remasters do clean up the visuals a lot, but for the time gap between the originals and the remasters the originals hold up amazingly well.

  And then puzzle games. The TGM tetris series may as well be a new release. Puzzle Bubble 1-4 actually look and sound better than the new sequel that came out this year.

  And if we fast forward to more modern 3D games, Batman Arkham City, which is now twelve years old (damn) would be a perfectly current open world game if released now, and Burnout Paradise, which is now fifteen years old (double damn) is such a nice racing game that when they remastered you could barely tell the difference.

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• IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also Chrono Cross, definitely one of the better stories Square has written.

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• SpunkyBarnes@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The best crack? OG WoW.

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• edythecullen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still play through Final Fantasy VI at least once a year.

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• PSYDUCK@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gran Turismo 2 - I have no idea why to this day, I play it atleast weekly. To me, everything about this game is timeless from the Soundtrack, selection of cards to the graphical style (it has to be played on a CRT mind you OR an emulator with some mods to fix textures and clipping properly.).

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