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• anakin78z@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Morrowind - the first game that let me leave the path. It completely changed RPGs for me, and I loved it.

  Solasta - this game captured the D&D feeling like no other game has. My wife and I have spent hundreds of hours playing this together.

  Dragon Age: The Veilguard - this game touched me emotionally, more than any game before it. The whole 3rd act is an emotional rollercoaster. Plus it has one of my favorite action sequences ever, in The Siege of Weisshaupt.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Skullgirls - Simply the best fighting game ever made. There’s so much depth in a comparatively small roster that I could basically never get bored or see every viable strategy in it.
  2. Baldur’s Gate 3 - Tried and true RPG mechanics combined with the best version yet of Larian’s engine that encourages free form problem solving. And on top of that, they managed best in class presentation in NPC dialogue and had some of the best writing in the genre. This will be a tough act to follow, especially since I don’t think their last two Original Sin RPG systems were anywhere near as good as D&D 5e.
  3. Elden Ring - It’s been a great couple of years for two of my favorite games of all time to come out within a year and a half of each other, but this is another one of those games where there’s just so much to see and so many ways to solve the problem in front of you. Pattern recognition for where to find your next reward is up to you; your next goal is up to you; how you conquer the bad guy in front of you is up to you.

  All three of these games just respect your intelligence and are composed of systems deep enough to give you countless ways to solve their challenges.

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• kionay@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Satisfactory
  2. Stardew Valley
  3. Baldur’s Gate 3

  Not that they’re the best games, but they’re definitely my favorites. Though if I’m being honest there’s a large gap between number one and number two, and anything other than Satisfactory feels like it could move in the top 10 depending on my mood.

  So I guess if I’m being honest with myself it’s more like

  1. Satisfactory ~massive gap~ 2-∞. any other traditionally well-liked game, depending on my mood on a given day

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Europa Universalis IV
  2. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  3. Lords of the Realm II

  EUIV will probably be replaced by EUV when it comes out.

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• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Halo 2, Minecraft, and Factorio.

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One has to be Crusader Kings III considering the amount of time that died in that game. I did Lingua Franca (world domination) when mods and savescumming voided achievements, my whole empire fell apart literally 20 seconds after I achieved world domination lol, could barely hold it together to achieve the feat.

  The other one is probably Rocket League. Low skill floor, skyhigh skill ceiling, wonderfully designed esports game. If you could still freely go in and out of casual games, I‘d probably still play it. But I peaked and don‘t feel the need to play ranked anymore and casuals started to feel like ranked.

  After these two I can probably name ten more but I can‘t say which takes a top 3. League of Legends, Counterstrike 1.6, Battlefield 3, HITMAN, Dark Souls II (yep lol, I could probably draw a map of this game from memory), NIOH 1/2, Monster Hunter World, Sleeping Dogs, Muse Dash, all these games killed countless hours with fun, but it‘s hard to put one above the other. Apart from League of Legends, that one takes the rear.

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• tty5@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Civilization (the OG dos version)

  Planetside 2

  Warframe

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  • 0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PS2 does rule <3

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• exu@feditown.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Favourites

  Witcher 3

  Witcher 3 was one of the first “big games” I got to experience. I still think of the characters occasionally and it has some very memorable quests. It’s been on my “to replay” list for a while to see if it still holds up against my memories of it.

  Nier: Automata

  This is another early “big game” I played, though I didn’t finish it then. I won’t spoil it, but at some point I was up against a boss, way under levelled and didn’t feel like grinding. However I started a new playthrough this year, got further along and it’s still very good. The story telling and world building are simply excellent, combat is fun (except a certain section I won’t spoil) and I really want to see what else happens in my current play through. My only gripe is that keyboard & mouse sucks without an overhaul mode, which unfortunately doesn’t work on Linux.

  Other games

  I couldn’t think of a third game, so here’s a list of other good games that don’t quite make it.

  • Cyberpunk 2077: I like it, but it hasn’t really had as much of an impact as my two favourites.
  • Baldur’s Gate 3: Very good contender for my 3rd favourite spot, but I need to play through it a bunch more times.
  • Dishonored: I haven’t thought of this game in a while. It’s still very good, just not a contender for favourite.
  • Skyrim: One of my higher playtime games, but I see it more as a modded sandbox à la Minecraft that’s fun for 2 weeks.
  • Receiver 2: Very neat gun mechanics with an important central message
  • 1000xResist: Interesting story and message, though you won’t play this for the gameplay. Some awe inspiring visuals occasionally

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• neatchee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Wing Commander 4 - At the time, I was very young, and this game changed how I looked at videogames. For my little brain, the FMV cutscenes and genuinely decent acting (ffs, it has Mark Hammil) somehow made it click that games could have compelling narrative
  • Kingdom Hearts - this game changed my life in many ways. I can genuinely say I wouldn’t be doing what I do today if it weren’t for this game and my involvement in the fan community around it. This game is very special to me because of its themes and major plot beats, and how those interacted with my life at the time. This game taught me that you could go beyond “compelling narrative” and break my heart with a video game lol
  • Natural Selection 2 - I wish this game were more popular in its prime. This is the epitome of what I think good competition looks like, and a great manifestation of what I personally love in esports

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your title says “What are in you are top 3 favourite games of all time”.

  You were thinking of “your”, which is possessive. “You’re” is a contraction of “you” and “are”; the apostrophe is a hint there.

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  • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Given that this is Lemmy and we have advanced technology - I hope OP edits the title to fix it.

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• BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not gonna rank them because I can't.

  Age of Empires II I've played since release and still do occasionally.

  Everhood 1 everything about it I love. During covid things got very dark for me personally and this game just hit perfectly on some stuff plaguing my mind at the exact right time I most needed it. The devs were one hit wonders unfortunately. Coming from that, the sequel was atrocious.

  Thief 2: The Metal Age. It's like crack to this brain of mine. Yes I play The Dark Mod too.

  Runners up:

  LISA: The Painful

  Diddy Kong Racing

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been curious about LISA: The Painful for a long time.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thief 2 is just incredible. Many games try, but none can dethrone the stealth game king.

    And I totally forgot about Diddy Kong Racing, but yeah. It’s legitimately a better game than Mario Kart 64.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Aye and it helps the fans are so passionate making new maps to play for both Thief games and TDM.

      DKR holds up so much better. It's just mire realised too. Way more stuff to do. MK64 is skeletal more like an arcade game really. Wish it'd get some reverse engineering love as much as I enjoy the fan made map packs for MK64.

      With DKR once you get used to the car drifting camera movements, bunny hopping the hovercraft, letting go of the gas before hitting boosts, and learning the plane can also trigger ground boosts you'll feel like a god.

      I see a lot of people shit on the hovercraft while I'm over here bunny hopping sharp corners jumping up to smash into walls on purpose like a psycho so I don't slow down ping ponging all over. It's such a joy.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Factorio, Anno 1602, Civ 3

  Easy choices for me, but I don’t know how to order them.

  Anno 1800 gets an honourable mention for feeling like a great spiritual successor to 1602, but I have a ton of nostalgia for the first game.

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• Stety@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Factorio Outer wilds Horizon zero dawn

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Smb3.

  HL2.

  Team Fortress Classic.

  Falcon 4.0 gets my respect for forcing me into advanced computer tinkering and sending me into my career eventually.

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• kratoz29@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Jump Ultimate Stars, this is the dream game for any Otaku, the fact that we can still play it in 2025 thanks to custom servers is a blessing.

  2. God Of War 2018, I was having a bad streak gaming related due to personal and work life, but when this game was released I got it immediately, something that I rarely do (patient gamer gang), anyway, this game kept me awake late nights, I know this is not something that one should brag about, but I was enjoying it completely thus the nights felt that happened too quickly.

  3. Toy Story 2, this game will never age for me, I honestly don’t know if it should deserve this spot, but if there is a game that I have replayed the most in my life, this would be it, the platform mechanics and graphics are top notch for me (and hey, PS1 graphics are making a comeback, so no shame at all with that style).

  Maybe another game deserves that last spot, but those 3 games were the 1st ones that came to my mind.

  Honorable mentions:

  Mario Kart DS

  Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trilogy

  Hotel Dusk & The Last Window (can you guess my favorite console by this point?)

  Pokémon Soul Silver

  TWEWY

  Time Hollow

  All the other God of War games (even Ascension)

  Batman Arkham saga (even Origins)

  The Witcher 3

  Xenoblade

  And a bunch others that would make this list absurdly big, which is not the main point of this post.

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• Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Morrowind
  Final Fantasy X
  The Last of Us

  The first two are interchangeable first and second.

  Next two are Final Fantasy VIII and inFamous 2, again interchangeable.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Morrowind was such a game changer for me. I’m still bummed that Bethesda dropped the best things about it for their later games.

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Gothic 2, and by extension, Chronicles of Myrtana
  • The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  • Both are equally as monumental, so it’s shared between Obra Dinn, and Outer Wilds

  That being said, i’ve excluded any mmos out of this list, purely because sometimes i struggle to call them my favorite games, despite having playing several thousand hours of each. Some of them have been unbelievably impactful at certain times in my life, but i’m afraid the embers are getting cold now

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• _ed@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tend to run an unranked top 10 so three of those would be.

  • Elite (1984). Very cool graphics engine, combat and gameplay.
  • The Chaos Engine (1993) IMO The best bitmap brothers games when they were kings of the 16 bit era. -Metroid Prime (2002) Great environments, design and soundtrack.

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mostly based off hours played: EU4, Borderlands 2, Bioshock.

  I excluded League of Legends even though I probably have the second most hours in that. Toxic as shit and I’m glad I gave it up.

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• AliasVortex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. RimWorld - I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game care so much about making the player feel like part of the story; just all around amazing. Damn near everything is configurable and for anything that isn’t the modding community probably has a fix for (and then some).
  2. Terraria - Certainly has its quirks and annoyances, but I like that it has sandbox elements to be creative and do whatever, but also always feels like the game has an objective to work towards. I’ve probably played though at least half a dozen times between solo runs and multiplayer games with friends/ family and I just keep coming back to it.
  3. Stardew valley - it’s just cozy with a slight hit of nostalgia. I have childhood memories of staying up entirely too late monopolizing the TV/ GameCube playing Harvest Moon and this scratches the same itch. Beyond that you can feel the love and attention to detail that the dev has poured into the game. Plus the skill ceiling is pretty low, so even my non-gamer friends/ family can play and have a good time.

  Honorable mentions:

  • Factorio
  • Slay the Spire
  • FTL

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope you played Terraria with mods, like Calamity.

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• al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Beat Off The Wiener was a game I enjoyed as a youth as well.

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• Hubi@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Mafia 1 from 2002, that game really shaped my taste in games when I was a kid
  2. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Essentially a perfect video game from start to finish IMO.
  3. Alan Wake 1 or 2, genuinely hard to pick one.

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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Cyberpunk 2077, just by hours played and number of replays.

  2. The Horizon games. I just adore the world and Aloy.

  3. Great Gianna Sisters for hours played and the music.

  I also loved the Portal games, they might be a contender for third place.

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  • tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Haven’t played Gianna Sisters, but I’ve heard the soundtrack for the newest one was made by the incredible Machinae Supremacy.

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• Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  • Halo 2
  • TLoZ:OoT
  • Half Life

  I can’t deny that nostalgia has to do with the first two fossils in the list, though I still maintain that I like them more than their latest counterparts in their franchises.
  Not Half Life though: it was ~15 years old when I first played it, no nostalgia there.

  Still, between the many games I would gladly build a monument to, those are games that I can play beginning to end without getting bored, annoyed or burnt out (as long as you allow me to use the Ship Of Harkinian randomizer for Z:OoT, otherwise replace that game with Perfect Dark ig).

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Street Fighter II for getting me into fighting games. While I don’t play that version anymore it is a favorite because of how much I did play it and later fighting games.

  Valheim - hundreds of hours of enjoyment from the first moment I was dropped into the world by a giant crow. So much fun time with friends, building stuff, and just exploring. Such a well done game with fantastic lighting, sound, and things to do. Only long tine gripe is fighting on slopes!

  Helldivers 2 - yeah, another more recent game but it is also just the exact thing I am looking for in a mutiplayer game with friends. Nearly everything is viable in most difficulties, the game has mechanics for accidental team kills, the setting evolves, but in a way that encourages participation in scheduled events without forcing it, and the devs have listened when the player base pushes back on changes that don’t mesh with the tone of the game.

  Enjoyed a lot of other games too, but those are ones that hit specific things that I love and enjoyable to replay over and over and over and over…

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• purplerabbit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s hard to tell because I have played a lot of games but that comes to mind immediately right now. I would say:

  1. Red Dead Redemption 2.
  2. Garry’s Mod.
  3. Titanfall 2.

  Red Dead Redemption 2 is a game that I absolutely fell in love with and it’s one that I regularly go back to just lose myself in and still find new things in it.

  Gary’s Mod is an odd pick for me because I almost thought about leaving it out because I cannot like don’t see it as a game. I have thousands of hours on it and most of my time has been spent exploring empty maps. It’s more of a tool of relaxation for me than anything else but it’s deeply meaningful to me. If I had to summarize it, I would say that the Source engine is my home.

  Titanfall 2 is simply the best FPS I’ve ever played. Both multiplayer and solo. It’s amazing. I have spent weekends just playing the main campaign on max difficulty on loop without ever getting bored and the multiplayer was fucking fantastic.

  <i'm gonna cheat and give some honorable mentions. :3>

  - Thief: The Dark Project - Terraria - A Short Hike - Portal 2

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  • 0li0li@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If Titanfall 2 had full bot support, I would not play any other shooter…

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    • purplerabbit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My dream, right there.

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• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Final Fantasy XI
  Shovel Knight
  Hades

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• C4551E@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  3 is really tough, but I’ll say:

  1. Hollow Knight
  2. Noita
  3. Super Metroid

  Other GOATs of mine are already mentioned by others. Y’all have impeccable taste

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Chrono Trigger
  2. Xenogears
  3. Vagrant Story

  Nier:Automata gets an honorable mention.

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  • kinther@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Xenogears is an amazing story. I never got into the other games in the series. Do you know if they are worth it?

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    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      XenoSaga is worth it, though it suffers the same fate as Xenogears being rushed at the end. Xenoblade is definitely worth it. None of them cross over but they have the same themes and motifs, plus a little fan service for series old heads.

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• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Metal Gear Solid 3, Subnautica, Papers Please.

  I love the Metal Gear series but the Cold War setting of 3 works so well with the theme of the game. It also features crab battles and the ladder boss.

  Subnautica really captures the feeling of being lost in some alien world and slowly making it your new home. The electronic voice assistant manages to send chills up your spine with lines like “oxygen.”

  Papers, Please explores complex moral decisions in such a simple way. I wish to live my life more like Jorji.

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