If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save?

Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BurntWits@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨patientgamers@sh.itjust.works⁩

Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.

Inspired by a video by OutsideXbox from a few years ago, I thought it would be a fun idea to see what this community would choose. You can choose to be selfish and pick games you personally want to always play, or try to figure out what games would be best chosen for humanity to save for whatever reason. I’d also love to hear why you chose your games. Do they have a special meaning to you? I want to hear your stories.

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toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pokemon, FF7, GTA San Andreas, Resident Evil 4, Portal

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- SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oooo an SSS-Tier JRPG. I didn’t think of that. That’s a great idea.
  
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- BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Which Pokemon game? Also portal is a great choice, I was very nearly tempted to have portal 2 as my last pick.
  
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  - toxicbubble@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Pokemon Crystal
    
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darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Chrono Trigger - It’s pretty much the perfect RPG: great story, cool art, replayable, not too long or grindy.

Earthbound - I admit I have a lot of nostalgia for this one, but it’s still a game I’ve replayed at least a half-dozen times.

Final Fantasy Tactics - Fantastic story, plenty of character customization, and some extremely broken builds if you know what you’re doing. Also, did I mention the story?

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - THE metroidvania. Great gameplay, soundtrack, and visuals.

Hollow Knight - Fun to play, difficult to master. Has a lot of charm and plenty of secrets to discover.

There are plenty of other games I would love to throw on the list, but some would require a ton of mods or just didn’t quite make the cut for me.
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Syun@retrolemmy.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Morrowind Chrono Trigger The full motion Afterburner arcade machine (that thing was so much fun) A link to the past Tetris

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BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Half-life 2 (Garry’s mod)

Quake 2 (plenty of mods)

Desert Bus (Penn and teller’s smoke and mirrors)

Luanti (Open source Minecraft)

Turtle WoW (So I can quest in vanilla’ish)
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- Lag@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s crazy that there’s still nothing that comes close to Garry’s Mod.
  
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Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Zelda Link’s Awakening … this one somehow has both the most Nostalgia and replayability for me even though I have also played the N64 Zeldas when growing up

Factorio - of course can’t go without Cracktorio

Caves of Qud - really good mix of roguelike and open world RPG. Lot’s of replayability as well.

Diablo 2 Resurrected - one of my favrotie games of all time. Got back into it recently on Switch and it’s just soo good. Also big Nostalgia for me

Mario Kart Double Dash - need to have something I can play with my wife and Mario Kart is just the Couch Multiplayer game. Double Dash is my favorite entry of the series as well

I’d say I hit a solid ish genre mix as well with it. Pity I couldn’t fit an FPS though

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Baldur’s gate 3, tiny Tina’s wonderlands, ff7, annnnd I’m not sure. The fourth and fifth slots are harder.

I would say pacman, but even if you gave me the arcade game for free, I don’t think I could play it worth a damn now. Same with centipede (they were my favorites back in the day, but pacman I was good at).

The original Mario Kart could be in there. And I can’t pretend that need for speed carbon couldn’t compete for a spot either. I think I’d take Kart over Carbon though.

Yeah, fuck it, pacman and Mario kart. Those are the last two spots.

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  if mmo’s that stay online count I might choose 5 mmo’s just for the human interaction part.
  
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Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
OpenTTD, easily. Would be nice if I could sneak in the og assets (music mainly) from Transport Tycoon Deluxe as well, but not critical

Fallout: London - or does that count as 2 as it’s a tc mod + basegame of fallout4?

really drawing a blank on the other ~3 games. Probably some mix of old Lucas Arts adventure games (indy atlantis, day of the tentacle, the dig…), imsims (dishonored, deux ex).
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- calliope@retrolemmy.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Came here to make sure someone said OpenTTD! I got the original when I was about 12 in 1994 and I’ve been playing it on and off since then.
  
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  - Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The ~~factory~~ transport network must grow!
    
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pasdechance@jlai.lu ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Based on current tastes…

Super Metroid

SSBU or a Street Fighter

FFVI (because I still haven’t finished it) or Chrono Trigger

a shmup, any vertical shmup, Crimzon Clover WE probably

Mega Man X
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missingno@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Puyo Puyo Champions - Extra selfish pick, in this scenario now people would have to play it and we'd have a healthy playerbase again. I'd finally get to fulfill my dream of large offline tournaments.

Skullgirls - See above.

Stepmania - I was tempted to say Wacca or Chunithm, but in this scenario Stepmania would be ideal for nearly infinite content, as well as offering both keyboard and pad playstyles in one game.

Slay the Spire - My pick for casual second monitor content. I'm also assuming the modding scene is allowed to continue, in this scenario it'd suddenly have everyone making new characters.

Super Mario Maker 2 - Actually took me a bit to think of what the last game should be. Gotta be an endless game, but I didn't want to duplicate genres by just adding another fighting game or puzzle game.
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semisimian@startrek.website ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Tears of the Kingdom and Minecraft would be important to save for their infinite playability due to their physics and craft engines. Final Fantasy 6 for story. Stellaris so people could have a competitive, chess-like monster to wrap their mind around. And Bonk for TurboGrafx16 so everyone could know that game design just doesn’t happen overnight.

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haywire7@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
For me I’d say…

Borderlands 2 Left4Dead 2 Destiny 2 Zombies Ate my Neighbours (SNES) Pokémon (ZA has me at the moment but I’d say keep Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire)

CO-OP shooters with single player elements are what I’d play more than anything else to avoid it being the same thing over and over, Destiny has hit hard times recently but still has a lot to give.

ZAMN is just cool.

I can lose hours shiny hunting and mucking about in the Pokémon games so easily has to be one around.

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- Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I didn’t expect to see ZAMN here lol, it’s a great game though
  
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Based on my currently highest time spend in the game, in no particular order: Terraria, Dark Souls 3, Factorio + expansion, Stardew Valley.

The last one kinda depend on some caveat: Fallout 4(assuming mods also survived), Project Zomboid(if the dev will still working on it), or dying light(assuming some mods also survived). Else Prey 2017.

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kuadhual@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ll pick 5 genre (4x/building sim/strategy, RPG, Sandbox, Sport, and maybe racing) then choose the best open source game in each genre.

A very good closed source, mod-able game will be limited on what technology exist when it was made. While an open sourced game would have a lot of possibilities. It will count as an update, not a new game.

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janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
if anthologies are allowed:

Activision Anthology: Remix Edition Atari Anthology Sega Genesis Classics Namco Museum Archives Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition

I’m a novice gamer, so someone who’s got more experience with retro gaming history could probably come up with a list that includes the greatest possible number of titles for preservation

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Asidonhopo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Nah just destroy them all, maybe I can get my friends to learn Bridge with me. If not, Canasta will suffice.

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MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Forsaken 64 (multiplayer does things with “4th Dimensional” space I’ve never seen elsewhere, else this slot would belong to Descent)

No Man’s Sky (open to others for this slot, but not aware of any that check the same boxes for me)

Minecraft (Factorio mods)

Armored Core (any besides 3)

Starcraft or Dawn of War or Total War … so long as the best of the RTS genre is represented

Wait … no new games ever? Wtf, just kill me. … or rather, why bother rebuilding civilization only to stagnate like so?

My list is tailored towards inspiring a re-launch of the industry. I would rather disappear into Amish society than play the same five video-games forever more.

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Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I could only come up with three for now because it’s no small task!

Squarez Deluxe

TormentorXPunisher

Quake IIx

I didn’t choose anything with crafting or making, because I can still craft and make things in real life. I chose games that provide something that I could never get anywhere else, and also games that for me are infinitely replayable. I would never pick a story driven anything because if that’s the only game I can play for the rest of my days, I don’t want to hear/play the same story 70 times, and RPG combat systems are easy to figure out and game after a while

Squarez Deluxe to me is the greatest shape packing game ever made, it makes Tetris look like Tinker Toys idc fite me. It’s probably three decades old by now and it’s DOS freeware and I still play it. Extreme mode only, my peeps

TormentorXPunisher is the best twin stick shooter I have ever played, and I have played hundreds of them. It has an infinite skill ceiling. I play every day and have done so for about 7 years. I was number two WR on hard mode until my protegé took me down, but I recently ascended on regular mode by 14 ranks. I’m so invested in this game I actually developed a friendly acquaintanceship with the sound engineer Joonas Turner

Quake 2 is just a granddaddy of all amazing FPS with again, an infinite skill ceiling esp in movement. I actually enjoy the movement of Q1 better, but the mod support of Q2 and upgraded engine makes it a game that goes on forever. Team CTF, rocket arena, etc
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