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Half-Life
Bloody hell, I didn’t realize it’s that old. I played it in high school, feels like yesterday.
Play Black Mesa, you deserve it. Not only it’s Half-Life like you’ve never seen it, but there’s also a completed Xen campaign.
I did, it’s amazing. Also just replayed HL2 with some fancy graphics mod, pretty cool stuff.
Yeah, this is the make us feel old thread.
We’re only a couple months from the launch lineup for the ps2 qualifying here.
My hope is that this becomes a living document that will show up in search engines and make people aware of lemmy and can be reffered to when people ask “what should i play?” Thats why the title says “best” instead of “most popular.” There’s a lot of hidden gems posted already.
My thought when reading the title of the thread was “If Half-Life fits the bill, it’s half life.”
Revolutionary game.
Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995
I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.
However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.
It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don’t have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.
Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda
The SNES library of RPGs will always be peak gaming. Chrono Trigger & Earthbound fight for the top spot for me, #3 depends on the day.
PS1’s rpg library is nothing to scoff at, either. Square’s golden years (3 mainline final fantasy, tactics, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve and more), Suikoden, Persona, Breath of Fire 3, Valkyrie Profile.
Best JRPG of all time and I’ll die on that hill 🤣
I never played it, what are everyone’s thoughts on the 2018 pc version? Some reviews don’t like the port?
Doom
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Nintendo 64
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
There are better Zelda games. ALTTP is clever, for sure, but the path through the game has too many obtuse moments. I don’t know how I would have gotten through it the first time without Nintendo Power magazine. I liked Link’s Awakening and Link Between Worlds more, though without Link to the Past, we wouldn’t have those games.
Now, the Super Metroid and A Link to the Past Randomizer is an incredible achievement and a must-play for people who have finished both original games.
Reporting!
Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost. Unit. Lost.
Our base is under a tack.
Mission. Failed.
I think that phrase just chipped away at my delicate teenage self esteem back in the day. Something new to bring up in therapy: being bullied by RTS games.
I can hear Hell’s March just from the screenshot
Click the screenshot!
Starcraft
This game started esports.
I would argue Quake or Street Fighter 2 holds that distinction, but it’s close.
Castlevania Symphony of the Night - PlayStation
How do I upvote twice?
Use an alt account, but this would technically count as vote manipulation.
Super Mario World. The perfect platformer.
SMB3 & Kirby’s Adventure both deserve to share that title.
Super Metroid - SNES
Metroid 2 - Return of Samus for Gameboy too. I loved it.
Goldeneye - N64
Boooo! The World Is Not Enough was superior in every way. Fully-voiced dialog and a working physics engine, on the freaking Nintendo 64! No Oddjob bullshit in multiplayer, either.
Never understood why everyone sleeps on TWINE and praises GoldenEye. Every single time. Y’all missed out on a really good sequel.
Edit: *sigh* See what I mean? Why does everyone hate this game!?
The only sequel was Perfect Dark.
See? This is what I mean! Shame on you for never giving TWINE a chance.
and TimeSplitters, of course!
Tetris - Gameboy
Final Fantasy 7 - PlayStation
SkiFree (PC)
Check out Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders for modern SkiFree vibes!
I mean… if there’s no yeti trying to eat me it just won’t feel the same…
Remember to press F to go faster
There’s also a really nice skiing game called ‘skiing’ (no joke) by featherweight games. The ads aren’t too bad, and I think they did a really good job of capturing the rhythmic back and forth of slaloming.
Skiing Yeti Mountain?
Ah, thanks, that’s what it’s called in the program seller on the phone. It just appears as ‘skiing’ on the desktop underneath it’s button.
Thanks for the recommendation and I’ll check it out. Skiing would be a terrible name to search…lol
This game occupied a big chunk of my early years. Fear the yeti!
I think it’s still fun today. Maybe only for a few minutes, but it never fails to entertain me.
