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.

  • Platypus@lemmings.worldOP
    43·
    23 days ago

    One of those games I’ll never understand the hype, I despise Fortnite but I get it. But this, looks just meh

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
      8·
      23 days ago

      I got the game because of a video review that struck me with how little it gave away. Because it bent over backwards to avoid spoiling it.

      I played it for 5 minutes and thought, standard tutorial level design and the models could use some work.

      10 minutes after that I was on my way with a code and just headed to explore. A few minutes later something crazy happened, and I was struck thinking “what just happened”

      A few hours later I was pulling on a thread of exploration when I saw some celestial event that reminded me about another thread of another mystery and made me go “ohhhh, so I need to go here and check this out at a certain point in the orbit”

      One crazy weekend was over and I had felt wonder, sadness, frustration, melancholy and hope in such amazingly timed waves of intrigue and discovery that I wish I could do it again.

      It may not be to everyone’s taste and I get looking at the initial style and thinking there’s cut corners but there aren’t.

      I will spoil one technical detail. The entire solar system is emulated in real time. Things and events are inter connected in ways that I’m personally shocked they ever got the game to run on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a technical masterpiece even if it doesn’t look it at first glance.

    • frank@sopuli.xyz
      6·
      23 days ago

      Not Outer Worlds, which is a shooter, Outer Wilds is a story based… Um… I feel like anything more than that is a spoiler

      Easy best game I’ve ever played.

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      31·
      23 days ago

      Looks? So you’ve never played it? Then you can’t comment. Only way to actually get it is to play it or at least watch someone play it blindly.

        • nyctre@lemmy.world
          11·
          22 days ago

          Yes, really. There’s an exception to literally every single rule. And this game was an exception to many people’s rules. Could be yours too. You won’t know until you experience it. You can pretend you know what it is all you want meanwhile, but that’s all it is, pretending.

          • Platypus@lemmings.worldOP
            13·
            22 days ago

            Again, not really. You don’t have to agree with me but don’t try to tell me what to feel or rate.

            • nyctre@lemmy.world
              11·
              22 days ago

              Again, yes really. I’m sorry you’re offended, but that’s just how some things are. When you don’t understand something, it’s not because you’re stupid, it’s because you haven’t tried to understand it. And you’ve literally admitted to not trying to understand outer wilds.

              And that’s that. It’s fine, you don’t have to. But every thing you think you know or feel about it is made up, since you’ve never actually experienced it. Imagine going on Google maps and rating some place you’ve never been to. Or those people that give ratings to books and movies that aren’t out yet. That’s you in this situation. And well… now THAT is something I’ll never understand.