• comfy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Just to avoid repeating the other suggestions here, Pathologic, less for historical significance or enjoyability and more for artistic significance for the time it was created. (note: I have not played it and probably never will)

    Crash Bandicoot (the game) for technical achievements.

    And I’m just going to mention Marble Marcher (play the community edition), a game with fractal-based physics (as opposed to basically every game ever).

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    7·
    2 days ago

    If I had to identify a game that radically changed the public perception of videogames, that would probably be The Legend of Zelda.
    It was one of the earliest examples of modern gaming, changing the game design from an “arcade” standard to something that was more suited for home consoles.

    • acron@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 days ago

      I could actually use an explanation. I’m not familiar, what makes it so good?

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 days ago

        It’s so deep abd so complicated, and blurs the line between literary and mechanical so expertly, that i cannot explain it without spoiling it.

        Its very good, very literary, and about solving a murder. Your skills are your character’s inner monologue, and they’re all useful, but ypure kind of choosing what clues and what sort of language you get them in, how you interact with and literally read the world.

        So play it, play it without reading anything else about it, and when picking skills, go with what you respond to or what character you want your detective to be. ‘Phillip marlowe’ ‘sherlock holmes’ and ‘dirk gently’ are pretty close to the three pre-sets.

      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
        51·
        3 days ago

        It’s the only visual novel I’ve ever played, but it excels so much at it. The writing, worldbuilding, characters, narrator, and overall “vibe” are fantastically superb. It’s also another one of those games that I can’t help but play for ~5 hours nearly every day until I finish it. I’m no video game connoisseur, so you can find more sophisticated reviews elsewhere. You can pick it up on GOG for like €10 half of the time.

        • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          Hate to break it to you, but you still haven’t played any visual novel because Disco Elysium is a CRPG.

          A visual novel would be VA-11 HALL-A or Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk.

          • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            You’re right, but I thought that it was one of those visual novels because I had to have a dictionary at hand to understand half of the words.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 day ago

      There are also game archives, which aren’t curated as a museum typically is but I think it’s worth considering the Flashpoint Archive for web games to be somewhere in-between. I unlocked one of the games which I believe ended up in there.

  • Crewman@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 days ago

    Deltarune, it’s a generational event. they’ll talk about this game the way they talk about Mother 3

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    5·
    2 days ago
    • the last of us (because I just love it)
    • Star Wars knights of the old republic (it was so much fun exploring none skywalker Star Wars stories)
    • pong (first commercially successful game)
    • baldur’s gate II (because I love it)
    • E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( it is universality recognized as the worst game of all time)
    • the legend of Zelda (it is universally recognized as one of the greatest of all time)
    • world of Warcraft ( the most successful English mmorpg of all time)
    • Warcraft III
    • sim city
    • Everquest ( it is called evercrack for a reason, this game literally gave rise to emotional support groups) The most amazing tidbit about that game. After it had been out three years I saw a guy playing his character in a Wizards of the Coast store, who had a really weird color name over his head. Apparently one got that color when you have looked 500 days on the character. I did the math… that is real time days. That meant he had played that game 1.5 years of the last three. My mouth fell open……)
    • MUD 1
    • minecraft
    • doom
    • call of duty
    • halo
    • minesweeper
    • tetris
    • god of war
    • front mission IV
    • pacman
    • digdug
    • space invaders
    • frogger
    • tron
    • phantasy star online
  • arsCynic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It’s the Lord of the Rings equivalent of RPGs.

    ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

  • Wigners_friend@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    Deus ex human revolution: explores a meta narrative of how you use power in computer games. Your character has incredible capability. You could obliterate every enemy with ease. It’s a completely different game if you try to avoid killing those who are just getting by (sure a security guard will shoot you, but they are expecting lethal terrorists). You use the power you have to avoid killing, not to make it easy.