• theblips@lemm.ee
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    Celeste. Emotional narrative that seamlessly blends with the gameplay, which implementa never before seen accessibility configuration, enhanced by one of the best soundtracks ever. All while being cheap, indie, and one of the best speedrun games ever made

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    There are a lot of answers, mine will be drowned but… there it is. In no particular order :

    • Final Fantasy X
    • Clair Obscur : Expedition 33
    • Baldur’s Gate 3
    • Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 (but you had to be there when it came out)
    • Metal Gear Solid 3
    • Shadow Hearts : Covenant
    • Kya : Dark Lineage (the bugs were a feature)
    • Horizon : Zero Dawn
    • Megaman (any megaman will do)
    • Crash Bandicoot Trilogy
    • Spyro Trilogy
    • Pokemon Yellow/Crystal/Emerald
    • Pokemon Jade (yes that bootleg version)
    • The Last of Us (pt. I & II)
    • Astroneer
    • GTA : Vice City
    • Unreal Tournament 2004
    • CS 1.6 played in the most dirty lan at your disposal
    • Control
    • Tetris
    • Neverwinter Nights 2
    • Dragon Age : Origins
    • Quake III
    • Bomberman
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    • Portal 1/2 of course.
    • Grim Fandango. (Flawed yes, but absolutely a masterpiece)
    • Psychonauts.
    • Fallout New Vegas.
    • System Shock (the original).
    • The Longest Journey.
    • Mass Effect. Maybe.
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      Portal 1 & 2 were the first to my mind as well. I really like this list, actually.

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        Glad to hear it.

        I’m tempted to add Red Dead Redemption 2 to the list, but it’s too new for me to decide yet.

        I think it belongs. It was the greatest storytelling game I’ve played in a decade or more.

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    So I think it’s actually really important that the games that would be considered objective masterpieces would have to overcome any language barriers and be an experience approachable by anyone. You can learn the mechanics to enjoy the gameplay without words
    So:

    • Portal
    • Journey
    • Binding of Isaac
    • Shadow of the Colossus
    • Metro 2033 (which I have sat on and I believe even if it was entirely in Russian you would still get it )
    • DOOM (original you don’t need words you shoot)
    • Super Mario Bros. 3
    • Katamari Damacy

    Then there are dialogue option stories that are fantastic stories that I could consider greats but shareable masterpieces is hard to say as they rely on you speaking the language both literally and then gameplay wise:

    • Stanley Parable
    • Outer Wilds
    • Tales From the Borderlands
    • To the Moon
    • Talos Principle
    • Golf Club Wasteland
    • Dead Space
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    Okay, now do it all on a bell curve.

    What’s the most absolute medium game, to which all other games are compared to, and if worse, fail, or are better and pass?

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      Oooooh I like that question. I feel like it would have to be some kind of Call of Duty, right? Some absolutely mediocre slop that still has enough mechanical satisfaction and mind-numbing explosion-and-cliché-filled story to keep you somewhat entertained, yet still remaining completely forgettable.

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    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
    Disco Elysium
    Alpha Centauri
    Super Marios Bros 3
    Bloodborne
    Ori 1 & 2
    Fallout 1 & 2
    Planescape: Torment
    The Outer Wilds

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      Atari: Frogger NES: RBI Baseball / Tecmo Bowl.

      Genesis: Phantasy Star IV
      N64: Ocarina. PSX: FF IX.

      PSP: Lumines

      Saturn: Panzer Dragoon Dreamcast: Rez and Skies of Arcadia

      PS2 Vice City

      XBOX: PD Orta 360: Child of Eden / Shadow Complex

      PC agree with all yours. Would add Syndicate, Witcher 3, & red alert DS: Dawn of Sorrow Neo Geo: Last Blade 2

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      This is the game I used to convince my film nerd friends that games can be art too. They really enjoyed playing through it!

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    Spec Ops: The line

    Basically the “committing war crimes isn’t funny after all” game

    This is your fault, god-damnit 🫵

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    I’d say :

    • The first Deus Ex and its first prequel Human Revolution
    • Mafia I
    • Max Payne 1 and 3
    • Crash Bandicoot 1
    • Age of Empires II
    • GTA III
    • Doom 1/2
    • First Half-Life
    • First Unreal
    • Doom 3
    • Duke Nukem 3D
    • Morrowind
    • Skyrim (modded and fixed, vanilla is pure garbage)
    • Blood Omen 1
    • Silent Hill 1 and 2
    • Resident Evil 1 and 4 (and their remakes)