For me it’s Chrono Trigger. I always want to play it. I want to show it to my children. I hope it will be regarded as a masterpiece for generations to come.
Skyrim
Ha! Beat me to it!
I still haven’t had time to pick that up…
I need to do that!
If you wait a couple years there might be a new release for you to grab.
Do it. I think it still holds up well. Could be my nostalgia talking tho.
The tank game on Wii Sports (reminiscent of Atari Tanks but coop)
PS1 Final Fantasy Tactics (especially with mods, particularly FFT 1.3)
PC Master of Magic (especially with community mods, Caster of Magic is a favorite)
SNES Super Mario World
SNES Super Bomber Man
I would say Borderlands 2. This game is so good in terms or story and gameplay creating its own type of game + the graphics that are sort of cartoon/drawing like definitely makes it timeless for me. I would still restart a gameplay today if it wasn’t for the 4 or 5 times I finished it at the time it got released haha
Super Metroid is a game I have played over and over again for years. I recently played it again and I loved it so much I’ve been going back and playing all of the side scrolling Metroid games (again).
I actually just beat AM2R for a second time followed immediately by Samus Returns.
When I get through all of them I’m hitting Dread (which I only barely started when it first came out and I haven’t finished yet) and then moving to the Prime series.
I can’t get enough of Metroid, but Super Metroid is the greatest of them all. Even with the slightly dated controls, I find myself playing that game more than any other.
My second favorite game is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I play it almost as often as I do Super Metroid.
Fallout 1 and 2. I’ve played them so many times over the decades. FF7 and Baldurs gate 1&2 are others I’ve done a few times.
Pumped for Baldur’s Gate 3 next month. I’ve avoided absolutely anything talking about the game. I want to go in blind. It’s got a hell of a legacy to live up to though.
This is going to be a weird one considering the graphics, but hear me out, the original Deus Ex. Something about the game just feels so well put together that the graphics take a back seat to the gameplay. There is a reason the community around the game has fought so hard to keep it running on modern hardware.
The original DE is still one of my favorite games of all time. It’s truly a masterpiece.
Civ 1 and 2. I’ve been playing since about 2003 and I still play about 15 hours a week on my steam deck
I played Civ 1 the other day and the AI was so bad it was un-fun. Civ 2 might be better.
I personally didn’t like Chrono Trigger that much.
For me, it has to be the old arcade games. So:
- pacman
- super contra
- Tetris
- space invaders and/or break free
- Street Fighter II
We rented a house with some family (tons of kids) and the arcade cabinet was a huge hit, and I’m pretty sure it’ll remain a huge hit for the next 20+ years.
Skyrim, actually. It’s quite dated by today’s standards, but just recently I started another playthrough on a whim and ended up playing 20h or so even though I’ve played the game a bunch of times for several hundreds of hours throughout the years already.
Will be interesting to see if TES6 will replace Skyrim as the sort of mainstream culturally relevant icon of gaming.
After all Morrowind and Oblivion were both massively popular cornerstones of gaming in their own right in their time, but Skyrim has definitely overtaken them as fas as mainstream recognition goes.
It’d be cool if it did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did somewhere down the line.
Oblivion was good, but even at the time of the release the graphics, especially faces, are potato. Skyrim is probably peak graphics at release, and still beautiful even now. Gameplay is a little dumbed down, but still enjoyable for both casual and hardcore gamers. Combine that with active modding scene and continuous support from Bethesda, Skyrim ages longer than any game has right to be.
Mega man X! The musics are so fucking good
Mega Man X has aged so fucking well. The controls still feel so tight. There are hidden secrets in the levels, and the ultimate secret if you find all of them.
This was the first game.i ever played, so I’m definitely biased, but this is still probably my favorite game of all time.
I even learned many of the songs on guitar.
Gran Turismo 2 - I have no idea why to this day, I play it atleast weekly. To me, everything about this game is timeless from the Soundtrack, selection of cards to the graphical style (it has to be played on a CRT mind you OR an emulator with some mods to fix textures and clipping properly.).
Ironic that a game entirely based around time is timeless.
To me, it’s the n64 era, I think. Sm64, both Zelda games… Probably a dozen or so more that I’m forgetting, but those games will endure forever, I believe.
For me fallout 3 played the originals when they first came out (yes I’m old) and loved fallout 4 but fallout 3 will always be my favorite because not only did they resurrect a classic but they did it amazingly well
The best crack? OG WoW.
The Jak and Daxter series. Gameplay still holds up, story and world building still holds up, and it’s been made easily available to later generations of consoles. Heck even the in-game animations hold up shockingly well, Jak’s movement feels so fluid and organic compared to a lot of other older games that tend to feel a bit janky compared to modern games.
Older games in the Ratchet and Clank series also hold up pretty well too, though they’re a bit harder to access unless they’ve been made available on the ps4/ps5 since I last played them, otherwise I have to dig out my ps3 to play the first 3 games.
I replay both game series pretty regularly and they’re always equally as fun to play no matter how many years have passed.
if you aren’t aware, the ps3 you can dig out from the internet works really well and lets you get higher rest and a more fluid experience, even on a pc that isn’t top of the line
The PS3 emulator, RPCS3, runs most of the entire Ratchet and Clank series very well. The only ones I really had issues with were A Crack in Time (it’s just not as optimized) and Into the Nexus (again, not too optimized, but more so. Had some frame rate issues). RPCS3 is only getting better and better!
I have to say I haven’t tried many games on it, which I probably should since the ps3 was at the time known for it’s exclusives, but I did devour Wipeout HD fury on it ad it was incredibly smooth
I’ve played quite a few games and have only had major issues with a couple. A lot of times there is a patch available in some way for issues, or a setting to change, but these are almost always listed on the RPCS3 wiki so it makes it super simple. Of all of the emulators that I have used over the years, this one is by far my favorite!
Definitely check out OpenGOAL. It is the best version to play right now (even better than the remasters for PS3/4). It is basically a native port for Windows and Linux.
