What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Playing Minecraft multiplayer in 2010 blew me off my socks and I will never experience anything as intense as that, video game wise.

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• Bonje@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dishonored

  This was a pinnacle showcase of how interactive a game could be. The sandbox design not only encouraged your creativity but met it beat for beat. This was also the game that made me understand how much world design and atmosphere matter. Making a world feel believable with environmental story telling is incredibly difficult but so satisfying. To this day, not been dethroned.

  Team Fortress 2

  Balance, class design, character design, game mode design, and a touch of jank; all in the name of what is the most fun. I see this as the grandfather of Deadlock and The Finals; both games I come back to more often than TF2 but who’s DNA matches closest.

  UNBEATABLE

  Trusting your audience with regards to story telling and leaving things unsaid. Also importance of a banger soundtrack.

  Sekiro

  Importance of tactility and flow. Quick, slow; quick, quick; slow. Technically a rythm game too.

  Z.A.T.O.

  A showcase of how little you need to make a game and still have it feel impactful. Also importance of picking a target audience and nostalgia. Also visual novels rule.

  NieR Automata

  Do NOT **** android women

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• neatchee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A discord community I’m in has been sharing 3x3 cover image grids of the games that “define you”. I’ll just paste my response from there:

  I’m not bothering to share an image because it would just be 7 Kingdom Hearts titles, Tribes 2, and Oregon Trail

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• LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Silent Hill 2 Metal Gear Solid 2 Xenoblade 2 Monster Hunter Rise Super Mario World Super Metroid

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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some that I don’t think I saw mentioned, roughly in the chronological order I played them in:

  • Mario 3
  • Kirby Superstar
  • Super Mario RPG
  • Baldur’s Gate
  • Lords of the Realm 2
  • Diddy Kong Racing
  • Tales of Symphonia
  • Undertale

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• Labotomized@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I really thought there’d be more OSRS representation here! Been playing forever and still love it.

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• it_depends_man@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Starcraft
  • Gothic
  • Magic the Gathering
  • Warcraft 3 + dota
  • FTL
  • Nuclear Dawn / Natural Selection 2
  • Supreme Commander
  • Eve Online
  • Factorio

  I could list a few more RGPs, like Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas and the Witcher games that are also top tier experience, but they all sort of the do the same thing, in that a story you might expect from a novel or movie, can be told in a game, but also the game offers more interactivity.

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• Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Aaaaaaaa slop Games have shaped how how I view games. I consider any aaaaas company to product trashy predatory garbage and I just never give them money or care to play it. they have pushed me to Indy studios, single dev teams etc… they deserve my money… not trash like ubisoft, ea, rockstar and so on…

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• BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. First really high quality storytelling I saw in games. Setting is so unique I never saw really any copycats

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• BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Clair obscur.

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• Jaegeras@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Minecraft and Terraria are to me the definitive mining/crafting games you can find.

  Stardew Valley sets the bar for farming sim.

  The Messenger holds a nice contender of a well-balanced game, one of the best in its ranks.

  There will be no better ARPG contender to me than the Diablo series, even if Diablo has made some questionably dumb choices.

  The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall/Fallout 1 and 2 are some games that demonstrate the importance of depth and how your choices matter in their games. Something I feel nearly all RPGs should have.

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Based on how many times I have started the game, but never finished
  . Stardew Valley . Terraria

  Based on number of hours played
  . Modded Minecraft . No Mans Sky

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• DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Morrowind
  • Final Fantasy 7 (the original not the aweful Remake)
  • Final Fantasy 9
  • Secret of Mana
  • Secret of Evermoor
  • Planescape Tornment
  • MegaMan X
  • Gothic
  • German trading simulators (Hanse, Fugger 2, Vermeer, etc.)
  • all the many games on my C64

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  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ff9, here too!

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• RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Minecraft, Warframe and old school Runescape.

  Everything else I’ve loved over the years has fallen out of favour with me, but I’ll happily dive into those 3 for a few hundred hours again

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• kionay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used to have a hard time ranking my favorite games. Often the order would change based on how I was feeling at that time.

  That all changed when I found Satisfactory. I no-lifed that game for months. Never before have I felt as though a game had been made for me.

  Now my ranking is

  1. Satisfactory
  2. (a huge-ass gap)
  3. Hades 1&2 4-∞. idk like every other game that is conventionally good?

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The legend of dragoon.

  Chrono Cross.

  GTA-all of them, (all rockstar games)

  Gran Turismo-all of them.

  Final Fantasy 7,8,9

  Metal Gear Solid-all of them. (Except survival)

  Minecraft.

  DayZ.

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  • wazoobi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn, I hadn’t heard Legend of Dragoon mentioned like ever and Chrono Cross is always ignored or dismissed in favor of Chrono Trigger. Definitely loved those games though. Nice list!

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    • WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thank you :)

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• TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sonic - halo - wow - Skyrim - crusader kings

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Little Big Adventure 2.

  It’s a massive game with both a 3D open world and isometric gorgeousness. Some character progression (not experience points), full voice acting, and a lot of character.

  In many ways it set the bar for me in terms of how much a game should contain and the level of quality I expected.

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• Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Halo

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• tobz619@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  • Devil May Cry 3
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
  • Battlefield Bad Company 2
  • Battlefield 3
  • Final Fantasy VII: OG and Remake
  • Breath of the Wild
  • A Link To The Past
  • FIFA 07 and Pro Evolution Soccer 6
  • Mirror’s Edge

  I think these are very much the games that just have immaculate systems that are simple and rewarding, yet coupled with a layer of polish that when all the parts are combined, you’re left with something even greater.

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• Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Metal Gear Solid Series

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• Evorin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  DUSK was the game where shooters finally clicked with me, I’ve played many of them before, whether it was CoD, Serious Sam or DOOM but DUSK is where it finally all clicked and I started to enjoy them. Chrono Trigger completely changed my outlook on RPGs from boring grindfests with pointless texts where you get confused every second to making it my fav genre and finally Yakuza and Zelda BotW completely changed how I viewed open world for better or for worse

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• orochi02@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mischief makers

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• PixeIOrange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Pharaoh, sims (1), sim city, minecraft. And gta of course, every part except Chinatown wars.

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• fta@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Super Smash Bros — I play better when I play to get better and have fun. Worse when I try to win. Was a great lesson in general.

  Hollow Knight & Silk Song — art and music and such tight games

  Slay the Spire — hedging bets and long term thinking in a way that’s much more nuanced than standard RPGs

  Sekiro — like playing an instrument

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• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Rhythm Doctor is the baseline I would want from how Early Access is done. Also an amazing game with a simple control scheme

  osu! showed me that even putting the same thing over and over to improve yourself could be really addicting.

  Chrono Trigger showed me even with hardware limitations you can achieve stunning visuals.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Factorio kinda set the early access bar so high I doubt another Dev team could come close to their early access stability and openness with the FFF.

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