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What's the greatest videogame of all time? (lemmings.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...I sadly didn't know about the series until the new ones in 2012. I've played the hell out of them and do want to go back and play the DOS ones sometime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The remakes are solid for sure but they're pretty different games that don't quite fully capture the spirit of open ended gameplay you could do in the originals.

For example:

Grenade relay involving 5 soldiers passing across the map until it lands at the foot of a Muton your out of actions scout ended his turn next to
Blow a hole in the roof of a landed UFO and drop your soldiers in behind aliens watching the doors expecting a conventional assault
Drive a tank into a single family home to dig out an alien hiding in a closet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Amazing. Some of my favorite experiences in the new ones have also been creative problem-solving, like rocketing open a hole in a wall to allow my snipers to see through, or trying to carry my injured/dead soldiers with the good loot to extraction when I have to cut my losses and run.

Sounds like I should just go ahead and play the old ones too. I started one up earlier this year, but it wasn't clear what all the buttons did, and I didn't have the focus to figure it out. I need to look up the manual or watch a video or something.