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[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

S tier

  • Lufia
  • Dragon Warrior 3
  • Final Fantasy 3 & 7
  • Sonic Adventure
  • The Guardian Legend
  • Ecco the Dolphin
  • Silent Hill
  • Mario Kart
  • Dark Cloud 2
  • Chronotrigger
  • Zelda: A link to the past
  • Submachine (flash)

A tier

  • Oddworld, Abe’s Odyssey
  • Resident Evil: codename Veronica
  • Banjo Kazooie
  • Mario RPG
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • Earthworm Jim
  • Battletoads
  • Wizards and Warriors 2
  • Megaman 2
  • Populous
  • One Chance (flash)
  • Daymare Town (flash)
  • Abadox - hardest game I ever beat

B tier

  • The Lion King
  • Overlord
  • Oregon Trail
  • Dinopark Tycoon
  • Snowboard Kids
  • South Park
  • Kid Icarus
  • Sweet Home
  • Monster Party
  • Dr Mario
  • Abobo’s Big Adventure (flash)
  • Alice is Dead Ep 1 (flash)
  • Starfox
  • Shadowgate
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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Spec Ops: The line

Basically the "committing war crimes isn't funny after all" game

This is your fault, god-damnit 🫵

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I didn’t see these listed so I’m dropping some objective masterpieces here:

  • Persona 5 Royal
  • Golden Sun
  • Golden Sun: The Lost Age
  • Horizon Zero Dawn

Edit: Added HZD as I didn’t see it while scrolling through this post.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

None. There's no such thing as an objective master piece. Games are art which is, by definition, subjective.

Edited to add, well this was way more controversial than I thought it would be.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

A masterpiece could just refer to a piece of art from a master. It could refer to the quality of an engineering project, or the skill involved in the work's creation. Are these not objective qualities?

I don't really think the Mona Lisa is a great image, personally (it's a boring portrait), but I can still recognize that it was masterfully done.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This gets trickier with games, because an experienced game designer can, for instance, look at the UI design and graphics programming of a Ubisoft open world slopfest, and say those parts were masterfully done (even if the overall game isn't so fun). And, even the best of video games have bits of them that weren't as good.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Super Hexagon

It's about as simple as a 'modern' game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it's a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game's.

The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.

With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that's not happening.

The criteria to beat a level is "last for 60 seconds".

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[–] msage@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

Games I haven't seen mentioned yet:

  • Fez - cute little 2D/3D platformer. It's amazing and very wholesome

  • Stalker: Shadow of Chenrobyl - dunno what exactly is it, perhaps the settings and the grit, but it has a special place in my heart. It's about average FPS, but not too long and for me enjoyable

  • F.E.A.R. - very good FPS, with amazingly scripted enemies, decent horror elements (not compulsory - you might miss some of them if you're not looking).

  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - for me the best 3rd person action adventure ever. Best combat hands down (or head, or torso, you choose), streamlined blade dance at your fingertips. You play with your enemies, and you get many tools. There are some locked camera issues.

  • Touhou: Lost branch of time - If you liked Slay the Spire, but wished for colorful mana, this is the game for you. It has anime artstyle, I usually focus on the cards, though it might turn some people off

  • Dota 2 - Dunno if it was mentioned and I didn't see, but the mechanics are absolutely amazing, the things the game lets you get away with are incredible. 10/10, but other people might bring your experience down. Specially friends. Can play against custom (workshop) bots. Still takes too long to git gud. I studied the game for 10 years and still sucked.

  • Divinity 2: Original Sin - also haven't seen a mention, everybody talks about BG3, I haven't yet played it, but D2:OS was also a masterpiece. Haven't played a lot of TRPGs, this was a blast, with easily set up multiplayer. Played through it twice completely, with many abandoned runs.

  • CS 1.6 - remember that? I lost my childhood to that. They don't make counter strikes this good anymore.

  • Synthetik - top-down rougelike shooter, with amazing weapons and physics and classes and enemies and mechanics and 2 person multiplayer

  • Dwarf Fortress - the real objectively best game :D strategy simulation of the 3D box world, predecesor to both Minecraft and Terraria, but with A LOT more sand in your box. They are still extending it. And it's on Steam if you want a UI.

  • Terraria (Calamity mod) - Terraria is obviously a great game, but what makes it 20/10 is the mods. Calamity specifically. Tripple the content, 5x the difficulty (20x if you try Infernum), amazing multiplayer experience. Don't install Infernum if you haven't beaten at least Revengeance on Calamity. Trust me, it will fuck you up.

  • Yakuza 0 - how could I forget about this masterpiece? Story done absolutely right, that game had no business making me feel so strongly about it. Cool combat, very funny moments, but I cried during it. If you haven't tried it, check it out. You won't regret it.

  • OpenTTD - Trains. Do you like to create and manage big rail systems? This is for you. And your friends. Only noobs use planes. Only psychos use boats. Nobody uses only vehicles.

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[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Antichamber

and maybe Portal

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago

We’re including mobile games too, right?

Monument Valley

[–] pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

Braid. Surprised that it wasn't mentioned yet

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Genesis/Mega Drive )

• Chuzzle Deluxe

• Borderlands

• Baba Is You

Those would be some picks I would say are objective masterpieces, but that's subjective, I guess.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Half-Life 2, both Psychonauts games, the Arkham series

[–] user_name@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Minesweeper.

Simple, endlessly playable.

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