I love variety and I could never point to one game being my favorite. What about you guys? :3
Dragons Dogma. It’s an undercooked game, no doubt, but the ambition and exe ution of what is complete is unmatched.
Factorio. 10k hours and I still play it over and over again when I get cravings or when there’s. No other games to play.
2nd is Minecraft and 3rd is rimworld
Of course all of them HEAVILY modded.
Now this is my taste to a tee
What’s your favorite mods for them?
Slap on an allthemods for Minecraft any day. Ive told myself I need to beat factorio and rimworld first before I do a modded playthrough (rimworld I did, but still chugging through space age). Otherwise I’ve really enjoyed the multi-player rimworld mod
If you need any help with any of it message me, besides rimworld I know some stuff but I been having problems with nodding it on my Linux install for some reason. I played a shit tons of different mod packs on Minecraft. Allthemods is the best all around mod pack although easy for me. Expert packs are fun though.
Yup, Super Metroid. Game is basically perfect. i have other near favorites like Hollow Knight and Dead Cells that have generally remained in place too, but Super Metroid is amazing and always a fun, perfectly atmospheric time.
I used to say it was a toss up between A Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, and Super Metroid, because they’re all 10/10 games. I just haven’t been able to do the latter two lately. They’re not hard, I just don’t stick with them.
If you also play A Link to the Past, you should know there is a Randomiser that combines them. You start in Super Metroid. Going into a map room takes you to a random fortune teller and vice versa. The way both games are coded, none of their items share an ID, so you can find Metroid items in Zelda and Zelda items in Metroid. And it just works. Of course Link can’t use power bombs and Samus can’t use the Hookshot. The items are game specific. The goal is to beat Ganon and then Mother Brain and escape. I really can’t do that one.
Chrono Trigger not being present in the toss-up here is nearly a crime. If you like the others that you’ve mentioned, and haven’t played that one, definitely do. I don’t know if I’d call it my favorite game ever, but it’s very easily top 10, and might be my #1 top choice for the SNES.
I don’t disagree that Chrono Trigger is the better/more well received game, I beat it once (got one ending of, what, 13?), but I don’t like turn based. I do like Chrono Trigger, but I don’t love it. Of course it’s an essential SNES title, just not my genre.
Wat do you mean randomizer?
Well… it randomises things. I don’t know if there is a dedicated Super Metroid one, but if you’re familiar at all with A Link to the Past, it’s like this… the first chest (in Link’s home) is always gonna have the lamp. If you skip it, the chest in the dungeon after you get the sword is the lamp — otherwise it’s 5 Rupees (and vice-versa, if you get the lamp in dungeon, it’s 5 Rupees back home). Then there are chests with keys, the compass, the map, Rupees, and a few have items (think Spazer, Varia suit, Ice beam etc. in Metroid — Link has his powerups, Samus has hers). Okay so there is a pool of chests. It gets… random. The uncle who gives you a sword is considered a chest, too. So you might get a sword upgrade in the first dungeon. However, it has logic. It’ll never force you to go through a dark corridor without the lamp. It’ll never make you go through a dungeon that requires the Hookshot without the Hookshot (imagine being forced to go through Norfair, I think it was called, without the Varia suit… doable but VERY painful). So that’s the Zelda randomiser. The Zelda+Metroid one combines both games like I said.
Look into it. If you use an emulator, you can use the randomiser. All the emulators I know of support it. I’ve done runs on my iPhone with Delta and I’ve done them on the Super NES Classic/SNES Mini. But there isn’t just one randomiser. It’s seeded, so you can make one, run it, and whether you finish or not, you can go back and generate another seed.
Here’s the Zelda one. I had that bookmarked: https://alttpr.com/en
Note that for that one, you will need a Japanese version of A Link to the Past. They fixed some things in the American/European releases. The randomiser translates the Japanese to English so you don’t have to worry about that. But it also means you can do certain logic breaking glitches. You can even tell the randomiser to allow for this, so without knowing how to bomb jump or do “free flippers” the game could be impossible. That’s an option and it’s off by default, but it’s used by more experienced runners. Free flippers is the only glitch I can pull off reliably, so I leave it off.
I only ever used the Metroid/Zelda one once. It kicked my arse. I don’t have that bookmarked. This came up in Google and might be the right one, but I can’t be 100% sure: https://samus.link/
Well… it randomises things. I don’t know if there is a dedicated Super Metroid one, but if you’re familiar at all with A Link to the Past, it’s like this… the first chest (in Link’s home) is always gonna have the lamp. If you skip it, the chest in the dungeon after you get the sword is the lamp — otherwise it’s 5 Rupees (and vice-versa, if you get the lamp in dungeon, it’s 5 Rupees back home). Then there are chests with keys, the compass, the map, Rupees, and a few have items (think Spazer, Varia suit, Ice beam etc. in Metroid — Link has his powerups, Samus has hers). Okay so there is a pool of chests. It gets… random. The uncle who gives you a sword is considered a chest, too. So you might get a sword upgrade in the first dungeon. However, it has logic. It’ll never force you to go through a dark corridor without the lamp. It’ll never make you go through a dungeon that requires the Hookshot without the Hookshot (imagine being forced to go through Norfair, I think it was called, without the Varia suit… doable but VERY painful). So that’s the Zelda randomiser. The Zelda+Metroid one combines both games like I said.
Look into it. If you use an emulator, you can use the randomiser. All the emulators I know of support it. I’ve done runs on my iPhone with Delta and I’ve done them on the Super NES Classic/SNES Mini. But there isn’t just one randomiser. It’s seeded, so you can make one, run it, and whether you finish or not, you can go back and generate another seed.
Here’s the Zelda one. I had that bookmarked: https://alttpr.com/en
Note that for that one, you will need a Japanese version of A Link to the Past. They fixed some things in the American/European releases. The randomiser translates the Japanese to English so you don’t have to worry about that. But it also means you can do certain logic breaking glitches. You can even tell the randomiser to allow for this, so without knowing how to bomb jump or do “free flippers” the game could be impossible. That’s an option and it’s off by default, but it’s used by more experienced runners. Free flippers is the only glitch I can pull off reliably, so I leave it off.
I only ever used the Metroid/Zelda one once. It kicked my arse. I don’t have that bookmarked. This came up in Google and might be the right one, but I can’t be 100% sure: https://samus.link/
Well… it randomises things. I don’t know if there is a dedicated Super Metroid one, but if you’re familiar at all with A Link to the Past, it’s like this… the first chest (in Link’s home) is always gonna have the lamp. If you skip it, the chest in the dungeon after you get the sword is the lamp — otherwise it’s 5 Rupees (and vice-versa, if you get the lamp in dungeon, it’s 5 Rupees back home). Then there are chests with keys, the compass, the map, Rupees, and a few have items (think Spazer, Varia suit, Ice beam etc. in Metroid — Link has his powerups, Samus has hers). Okay so there is a pool of chests. It gets… random. The uncle who gives you a sword is considered a chest, too. So you might get a sword upgrade in the first dungeon. However, it has logic. It’ll never force you to go through a dark corridor without the lamp. It’ll never make you go through a dungeon that requires the Hookshot without the Hookshot (imagine being forced to go through Norfair, I think it was called, without the Varia suit… doable but VERY painful). So that’s the Zelda randomiser. The Zelda+Metroid one combines both games like I said.
Look into it. If you use an emulator, you can use the randomiser. All the emulators I know of support it. I’ve done runs on my iPhone with Delta and I’ve done them on the Super NES Classic/SNES Mini. But there isn’t just one randomiser. It’s seeded, so you can make one, run it, and whether you finish or not, you can go back and generate another seed.
Here’s the Zelda one. I had that bookmarked: https://alttpr.com/en
Note that for that one, you will need a Japanese version of A Link to the Past. They fixed some things in the American/European releases. The randomiser translates the Japanese to English so you don’t have to worry about that. But it also means you can do certain logic breaking glitches. You can even tell the randomiser to allow for this, so without knowing how to bomb jump or do “free flippers” the game could be impossible. That’s an option and it’s off by default, but it’s used by more experienced runners. Free flippers is the only glitch I can pull off reliably, so I leave it off.
I only ever used the Metroid/Zelda one once. It kicked my arse. I don’t have that bookmarked. This came up in Google and might be the right one, but I can’t be 100% sure: https://samus.link/
I played a bunch of 2D Metroid this year for the first time. Super Metroid definitely stood out as the best of the bunch, although I did miss some of the quality of life features from Zero Mission.
Every game I play is like “this is good, but it’s no Outer Wilds…”
Yup, this one.
If I can play a game where I both have sweaty palms desperately trying to match the needed fast paced escape velocity for a solar station landing, but also have quiet moments where I put down the controller and think about my life while waiting patiently for an end I know is coming… Then that is the best game.Just finished Outer Wilds yesterday and it definitely shot up to my top 10. Nothing could beat Portal so far though…
I think with Outer Wilds and Obra Dinn I realized that “Information games” are just my absolute favourite genre of games. Portal is incredible, but more a regular puzzle game than an information game.
Overall, bg3. Looking back all the way to pong, I haven’t had as much fun for as long as with bg3.
Not that I want to play it every single time I put in game time. I do like variety too. But in terms of sheer joy of play, bg3 just hits the right points.
I can maybe see a future game topping it, though I suspect that would be a rarity what with the things in games that really hit for me being hard to find in one game. Even bg3 doesn’t hit every single thing that I love in games, it just hits the most important ones. It’s not perfect, but I’ve never required that in a game.
Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Surviving Mars, Stellaris and SWTOR.
All of them are my favourite game of all time.
Dragon Age Origins. A lot of game came close to it afterwards in my heart but couldn’t beat it. (Like The Witcher 3, The Legend of Zelda Breath of The Wilds and Mass Effect 2)
I genuinely enjoyed every Dragon Age game in its own right (yes, even Veilguard), but agree that DA:O has some kind of special sauce that just couldn’t be recreated afterwards.
Portal 2.
It used to be Counter-Strike but now I think it’s Deadlock.
The game is still in closed beta but valve really nailed everything about it. The movement, the combat, the strategy, the art style. I wish I had young kid’s reflexes still but even so the game is absolutely brilliant.
That game absolutely took over my life in terms of games. I liked it from the first minute, because of the art style, movement and all, but i didn’t really get it. I started to get it, and when i really got it, i was like holy shit. The game is so deep, just in terms of movement and tech in the game.
Point of clarity for anyone interested: the game is in an invite-only beta. BUT the unofficial discord has people who can invite you. So feel free to come check it out. It’s great :)
You can also go to steam page -> dicussions and there are hundreds of invite threads in the forum. Just add friends any of the people there and they’ll give you an invite. The etiquette is to givr a small item (cs, tf2 etc.) in exchange for it so don’t be surprised if they ask you for a donation. Either way it’s worth it!
Hard to choose from these three: Planescape Torment. Disco Elysium. World of Warcraft Vanilla.
and maybe MGS4 on PS3 was good. :)
Ive been telling people that Disco Elysium is “basically planescape torment but without the party and combat”
I’ve got a list. Only the first one is in order, the rest the order doesn’t matter.
Super Mario Bros 3
Chrono Trigger
Cyberpunk 2077
Ocarina of Time/Majora’s Mask (Ship of Harkinian/2Ship2Harkinian especially)
RimWorld
Factorio
Smb3. Fuck yeah. Top of my list and tied with SimCity 4.
Can’t pick one but my top are: Fallout New Vegas, Destroy All Humans 2, Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Kingdom Hearts 2, Halo ODST, BG3, and Saints Row 4.
Edit: can’t believe I forgot Okami, Infamous Second Son, and Simpsons Hit and Run.
Seeing Saints Row 4 here is interesting. I liked the game, but SR3 will always be my favorite. :D
I just like the ability to fuck around, especially with super powers lol
left 4 dead 2 - imperfect as it is, the friends and communities i played and modded versus games with, made it the best, thousands of hours well spent.
I can’t figure out how the devs dropped the ball so hard with Evolve or that more recent L4D clone that also sucked.
same - they had the success formula, and just let it go
Expedition 33 quickly eclipsed anything that could have been considered my favorite game last year.
Pure art.
Fo sho.
One of the best games I’ve ever played. Absolutely loved it.
I can’t say it’s my favorite cause nothing will ever beat Diablo 2 but it’s definitely top 5.
completely fair. i had to be very honest with myself to be able to say that (for me) it beats all my favorite games from childhood
Zelda 3: A Link to the Past for classics and Cyberpunk 2077 for modern. Though Deus Ex is also a classic now.
