for me mine are 1. Elden Ring, 2. RDR2 3. BOTW, all because they genuinely blew my mind when playing them for the first time and changed how I saw and played video games.
- Minecraft
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Portal 2
what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?
Submitted 7 months ago by Abraxas@feddit.uk to games@lemmy.world
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penguindog@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 months ago
Tears of the Kingdom was amazing. The only thing BotW did better was how it felt riding on horseback through Hyrule field dodging lasers. But that was the high point, the average experience in BotW was less fun that TotK for me.
TotK really might be one of my top 5.
It’s too hard to really rank every game. I spent a ton of time on Minecraft over the years but haven’t recently. Like over a decade ago I liked gmod and still spent so much time on it but haven’t played recently.
Lately colony management games have been scratching the itch. Do id probably say Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and Oxygen Not Included.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
My top 3 are based on “for their time”.
Morrowind
Portal
Halo 2
M137@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Portal 2 and Warframe. I’m not sure about a third, several contenders. And can’t really say which spot any are in, feels more like they share 1st.
Questions like this are always hard, it’s never a certain answer and it shifts over time, no matter if something new comes along to take a place or not. It’s as fluid as anything else.
Lazhward@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Call me Nostradamus 'cause it’s Silksong.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
So Silksong is going to be a trilogy? Rock on!
Lazhward@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eventually… all we can do is believe.
AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now this is a tough one to be honest. But if i had to pick:
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Hades
Honorable mentions (cant leave these out): Return of the Obra Dinn, Wasteland 2, Darkest Dungeon, and many more…
xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
- Oldschool Runescape
- Halo 2
- GoldenEye 007
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Hello fellow old!
xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It hurts to read this comment… but so do my knees and back.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
No one is going to agree with me, but here I go:
- Counter Strike (all versions): the perfect shooter.
- Terraria: the progression is amazing, but what never ceases to amaze me is how, despite the game’s huge content, it is never overwhelming or intimidating. Just a lot of fun.
- Transport Fever 2: by far my favorite world-builder type game, and it still gets updates!
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Going to have to go with the three that had the biggest impact on me.
1: Doom / Doom 2. In addition to being two of the most influential and important FPS games of all time, they got me into modding, programming, the internet, 3D graphics, shaping my entire future career path.
2: Kerbal space program. No moment in all of gaming had me leap out of my chair and whoop the way landing in the Mun for the first time did. Now that I understand orbital mechanics, I get annoyed at almost all depictions of space flight in movies.
3: Factorio. Got to this one late, on Switch about 6 months ago. I can’t think of any game which has rewired my brain as much. As a programmer, I come away from each play through with entire new methods of solving problems at work. May be the single most in depth and addictive game I’ve ever played.
goombakid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
fishsayhelo@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
In no particular order ( mostly cos i think ranking beyond a certain degree of precision hurts the art involved ):
- NieR Automata
- NieR Replicant (ver 1.22… , realistically)
- The Talos Principle ( one of the most suprisingly brilliant games that too many people haven’t played)
then i suppose one tier below, not consequent of any particular shortcomings, but rather just not being at the same “transendent” level as the above:
- Crosscode
- Citizen sleeper
- What Remains Of Edith Finch
- Portal & 2
NieR automata literally changed my life, so it kinda deserves it’s own top spot, but placed as is in spirit of the question.
lemrondu556@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Forever stuck in mid to late 90s JRPGs, if I had to pick 3
Final Fantasy VI Final Fantasy Tactics Suikoden II
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dota 2 Starcraft: Brood War Vagrant Story
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Minecraft Borderlands 2 Bioshock
honourable mention for Zelda on N64
but the top 3 are based on replayability and just how easy it is to spend time playing them
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
I want to know what titles were knocked out of top place for OP
Ougie@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Arma 3, Battlefield 2, minesweeper
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Control, the horizon games and stardew valley.
washbasin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Dark Age of Camelot
- Diablo 2
Shout out to WarCraft 3!
Obi@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Going by time played it’s probably something like:
- WoW
- Rocket league
- Tony Hawk
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Final Fantasy VII Kingdom Hearts II (or BBS depending on the day of the week) Persona 4 Golden
To be honest these three could be different any day of the week. I play more than just RPGs but because these are heavily story driven they stick in the front of my mind more when it comes to these questions.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Elder Ring, RDR2, and BOTW feels like such a basic bitch gamer list.
ShortYetLongDogs@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
We all gotta start somewhere
wraithcoop@programming.dev 7 months ago
It’s hard as there’s a lot of different games that I like for different reasons, but if I had to narrow it down it’d probably be:
- Minecraft
- Mirror’s Edge
- Dragon’s Dogma
Allero@lemmy.today 7 months ago
- World of Warcraft
- TES V: Skyrim
- Minecraft
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
- MGS3
- Metal Gear: Twin Snakes
- MGSV
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Sons of Liberty is the most cohesive entry in the series IMO. Best story too; prophetic, really.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Metal… Gear… 4?
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol. I always hallucinate and see an imaginary 4 next to peace walker since it technically should be if they decided to keep the numbering consistent
afox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Crab… Battle…
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Broke muh knife
GrammarPolice@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thank you for enlightening me with this masterpiece. I will forever repeat this every time i replay the game while struggling to kill those crabs for food in that godforsaken cave
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Really hard to narrow it down, but I think this would be it:
- Elden Ring. Before the DLC this would’ve been a toss up for where on the list to put it, but SotE made me confidently place it as my favourite game of all time. I’ll avoid any other Souls games in this list for the sake of diversity but Dark Souls 1 & 3 and Sekiro were all in contention for first place before the DLC. They’d make up spots 2-4 on my list, but I’ll omit them for this one. Elden Ring renewed my love of video games, at a time where I was getting a bit burnt out from playing them. When the DLC came out I played it day one, which I never do for anything, and it completely blew me away, even more so than the base game. The world design of SotE is incredible, the views are breathtaking, and the bosses are the best in the whole series. I cannot fully express just how much I love this game when you take into account the DLC. I’m not sure anything will ever take its place on the throne, but then again I would’ve said the same of Skyrim before I played any Souls games, so only time will tell.
- Skyrim. Probably a boring or predictable choice, but with over 5k hours it’s kinda hard to not include it. I’d probably add Oblivion immediately after this one, but again, I want to make the list interesting so I’ll avoid it here. Skyrim also helped me through the darkest point in my life, so I’ll always hold the game close to my heart, even if new games come along to displace it on my list. I’ve spent so much time modding this game, and it’s one of the things that first brought me and my wife together when we started dating. It might not be my top spot anymore, but it definitely had the biggest impact on my life.
- Hitman: World of Assassination. This spot was hard to fill honestly. When I think of my favourite games, I usually just think of the Souls series and Skyrim/Oblivion. There’s lots more games I love, but the top spots are all well above the rest. It’s kind of like movies. I have four movies I absolutely adore, and they’re on the highest pedestal. There’s lots more movies I love too, but they don’t compare. Ask me for my top four, that’s an easy answer. Top five? Near impossible. Same deal here, so I just went with playtime and Hitman is my highest remaining game at around 1500 ish hours. It feels weird to call it my third favourite game ever (or I guess seventh because of the other games I’m omitting from this list but you get the point), but so does any other game I considered for here, so I’ll include some honourable mentions below. But back to this game, I feel Hitman is the perfect game for what it is. It can be serious for sure, you’re a hitman taking on contracts, but it can also be completely ridiculous too. One minute you’re tinkering with a race car to make it violently explode on the track to kill your target without anyone suspecting foul play, the next minute you’re dressed as a flamingo exiting the mission by literally flapping your wings and flying from a helipad. 47’s permanent seriousness in the most ludicrous scenarios is peak comedy honestly. Going to a high society Parisian fashion show dressed as a children’s clown and punching out the CEO is a totally normal thing you can do in this game, it’s amazing. And if you don’t like that vibe, you can be a total badass and do a full blown shootout, or a stealthy assassin and eliminate your targets from the shadows with none the wiser. It’s the ultimate hitman/assassin sandbox game.
Honourable mentions: Portal 1 & 2, Pokémon SoulSilver, Hollow Knight, Dishonored, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2, Batman Arkham Asylum and City, Inside, Gunpoint, any Forza game before the most recent one (haven’t played it), all the Bungie Halo games, and many more. I just love video games I think.
Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Skyrim is such a weird game. I don’t even like it anymore but I hold it in such good regard for just being there at the right time
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Kingdoms of Amalur was better and released almost the same time and wasn’t a buggy disaster.
Drigo@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
- Oldschool RuneScape
- Factorio
- Baldur’s gate 3
xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Oldschool RuneScape
kinda makes me sad that this seems to be the only mention of osrs in this thread.
Drigo@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
That was literally why I wrote a comment! I saw zero mentions of osrs
I guess most people play single player games, even though osrs is getting new all-time player peaks every other week these days.
GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com 7 months ago
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Minecraft - Was my absolute childhood and I met so many good friends and learnt a lot throughout my time playing the game.
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Skate 2 - The controls are perfect, the vibe is amazing, it’s just one of my overall favourites.
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GTA V - The first R rated game I played. Both this game and Fallout 3 were massive inspirations for me focusing on 3D environments as a Game Dev student.
Honourable mention to Little Big Planet which absolutely shaped my childhood
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thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Factorio Minecraft And 3rd is split between rimworld and baldur’s gate 3
lb_o@lemmy.world 7 months ago
- Portal
- Disco Elysium
- Drone Perspective
nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nier Automata Deus Ex GOTY (and Human Revolution) Red Dead redemption 2