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Rules: just pick 1 and explain why.

I've been playing since the NES and despite being from a low income family I had the luck of being able to play and own many consoles over the 3 decades of my life, plus some pc.

If you ask me right now? Resident Evil 4 (2005).

A before and after in gaming, to this day still extremely fun to play even for casuals but 20 years ago it was THE masterpiece. And everyone took notice of it, everyone played it, even players that didn't cared about resident evil. The gameplay was so good that it got photocopied by everyone right after in the action genre.

Arguably the last big innovator in videogames minus Minecraft and... PUBG (Fortnite did it better I know).

Try to NOT pick your favourite game, that's a different thing.

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[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

As someone who never played the games as a kid, I can be more or less impartial in saying that Mario Bros. was probably the gaming industry's big break.

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Maniac Mansion or Zack McKraken on the Commadore64. At the time...at that age... we were living in the future, and it was amazing.

[–] cliffracerflyyy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Level9831@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Guild Wars (the original) Just so nostalgic to me. Gameplay is fun even after all these years.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

earthbound. my first RPG that I understood, plus SNES is GOAT.

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[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since everyone's just saying their favorite game, I'll say The Finals!

It's fuckin great! It's the first FPS in years that gets me legit excited to play. I like that the game requires decent strategy, movement, and teamwork to get wins and not just good aim/luck. Everything about it feels fresh. Best of all it's freaking free. A free AAA game in 2024 that's more than decent and has an awesome dev team? Sign me up!

It's wild to me that it's not huge compared to games that go mainstream (not gonna mention names. lol), but I'll appreciate it while it's here.

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[–] unknown1234_5@kbin.earth 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just cause three. blow shit up, kill bad guys, just enough story to explain it all. even better, it strikes a good balance of minimal story and compelling story, which a lot of games like that kinda suck at.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Quake 1.

The game is kinda meh, but the modability spawned an endless amount of awesome stuff to this day. Even Half-life is basically just a Quake mod.

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[–] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ocarina of time. All Zelda games since are to some degree compared to it in terms of how successful it is monetarily, gameplay and story-wise. So many modern adventure games are based on this one game. It’s the game that finally made target tracking in 3D work. It’s so well thought out, that a blind streamer is able to play the game probably better than I ever will. If most common people know of “zelda” it’s because of this game. There are so many memes from Zelda in general. It’s one of the few games from my childhood that I will replay for the rest of my life.

[–] Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Dark Souls remastered taught me how to look at life differently. I now accept failure as part of the process of growing, not something that should be avoided at all costs.

Also it taught me how to parry like a G.

[–] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Twisted Metal or Resident Evil

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ultima IV. All the JRPG stuff started here.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I think it's time to dust off my Ultima playthroughs. I'm coming for you Iolo you bitch.

Anyone else play Shephard because it's weak AF but then you can get that sweet ass Dupre instead of having to carry those fuckers as a paladin?

Make the codex my bitch

Seriously fuck you Iolo.

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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Marathon, by Bungie. From the box it came in, to the hugeness of the spaceship, the coolness of the story, all the secrets, and the fan community that sprang up to research and theorize.

And then they made it open source so anybody could play it on any computer.

It's not favorite game to play any more, but it was the greatest game to me.

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Command and conquer generals zero hour

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Final Fantasy 1 - It wasn’t the first RPG, but it pretty much defined the series. It still has tons of playability, I revisit it more or less every 5 years. I still have yet to beat Warmech, and only have encountered him a handful of times.

But most of all, it’s the game that saved Squaresoft. If it had failed, we would have missed out on so many great games, including ones also mentioned in this post.

Runners up have to be Donkey Kong, which brought us Mario, which in turn restored vitality into the at home console game industry, and Double Dragon, which brought us PVP and Co-op combat.

Honorable mention would have to be that Simpsons arcade game where Marge can fight with the vacuum cleaner and TMNT 2 - Two classic, very difficult, drain your change jar games. I’d throw Mega man 2 into that mix as well.

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