What game(s) no matter what, you will always have in high regard

[Some Dumb Faggot]

i never played diablo 2, but i remember countless nights of eating local pizza, drinking pepsi and playing diablo 3 on his xbox 360 with my friends and neighbors. i wasn't a diablo fan but then again, might be biased

Diablo 3 had a very rocky start at launch, the game was an unbalanced mess with gear never dropping and being forced to used the auction house. Diablo 3 had a great combat system that felt good to use but lacked depth. Anyways, Diablo 3 then gradually improved overtime and became more enjoyable.

Reaper of Souls really helped fix the issues the vanilla game had at launch but had to pretty much rework how all the loot and skills worked. They went too far in the opposite direction and loot was too easy to aquire which it had to be because all the loot made your skills actually fun to use. This made it so that you would quickly get geared then become bored and you had nothing to do within like a few days of play.

Diablo 2 had skills that were already fun to use as soon as you got them, so they didn't need to make the loot drop as much and as a result you had more to do at endgame. Diablo 2 still had fun loot that still was important enough to effect how you built your character.

Diablo 4 is still too early to say but from what I've played it goes for an awkward middle ground that doesn't play to either game's strengths.

 

[beepbopisuckcock]

Not a single one of you niggers has mentioned Homeworld a legitimate 10/10 or Homeworld: Cataclysm a legitimate 11/10. I am disappoint.

 

[Mega Black]

Demon's/Dark Souls/Bloodborne/Elden Ring
Red Dead Revolver - Redemption II
Morrowind, Skyrim, (Oblivion sucks)
GTA San Andreas
Dragon Age Origins
Soul Calibur II

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

@Osama Bin Laden that's sad ur exposure to fallout was with F4. Mine was F3, but I got the first games on GOG for free several years ago then I got enthralled with the franchise. No amount of bethestard shenanigans are gonna erase from my memory that legendary confrontation with the Master in F1.

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yeah, i have new vegas on my 360 if i really wanted to play it again. i was aware of fallout 3 when it came out but never played it as it didn't interest me

Diablo 3 had a very rocky start at launch, the game was an unbalanced mess with gear never dropping and being forced to used the auction house. Diablo 3 had a great combat system that felt good to use but lacked depth. Anyways, Diablo 3 then gradually improved overtime and became more enjoyable.

Reaper of Souls really helped fix the issues the vanilla game had at launch but had to pretty much rework how all the loot and skills worked. They went too far in the opposite direction and loot was too easy to aquire which it had to be because all the loot made your skills actually fun to use. This made it so that you would quickly get geared then become bored and you had nothing to do within like a few days of play.

Diablo 2 had skills that were already fun to use as soon as you got them, so they didn't need to make the loot drop as much and as a result you had more to do at endgame. Diablo 2 still had fun loot that still was important enough to effect how you built your character.

Diablo 4 is still too early to say but from what I've played it goes for an awkward middle ground that doesn't play to either game's strengths.

gotcha, i must've played it way after the patches and such because i never really hear as much distain for diablo 3 as much as i do with the 4th one

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

Wizardry 8 for getting me into RPGs
Heroes of Might and Magic III for getting me into strategy games
Rome Total War for getting me interested in history
Yakuza 2 for getting me into action/beat 'em up games (also for getting me into that awesome series)
Tekken 3 for being the first fighting game I played, Tekken Tag Tournament and Virtua Fighter 4 for being the first fighting games I played seriously
Deus Ex for making me a conspiracy theorist

Some other banger games/series I can always pick up and have an absolute fucking blast playing are Morrowind, Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8, Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence, Dynasty Warriors 8, Samurai Warriors 4, 4-II and Spirit of Sanada, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires 2 and 3, the STALKER trilogy, Gothic 1 and 2, C&C Generals, Zoo Tycoon, Tropico 3 and 4, Jagged Alliance 2, Nioh, Demon's Souls and Dark Souls.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

half life 2, vtmb, deus ex human revolution, nu hitman trilogy, red dead 2, first last of us game, and telltales walking dead

look, me being into the gaming is more of a recent thing as we didnt get the cool shit consoles until 2016 with the ps4 and i only recently built a pc for playing the games. prior to that my choices were the wii and shovelware titles or my dad's old snes with only like 16 games, most of which were sports related or super star wars. didnt exactly have many options till recently when i could actually get and run these titles on said ps4 or on my gamer pc as we were the poor

 

[Snakebottom]

Ron Gilbert tried his hardest to shit all over my love for the Monkey Island franchise with that awful last instalment, reminiscent of how my respect for David Chase dropped a hundred points after watching The Many Saints of Newark. But just like I’ll still rewatch the sopranos until the day I die no matter what shitty films come out, nothing gets me going like that opening scene of MI. “Somewhere deep in the Caribbean…”and then the gorgeous shot of the island at night while the chip tune steel drums swell up and you know you’re in for a blast. Oooh marone!

 

[Epoch]

This thread is just people naming games they like that are also highly regarded, I expected more controversial games that people like despite it all. For me that's Chrono Cross and to an extent Destiny 2. Specifically during the Shadowkeep year, when all the content was in the game. It was the best content the game had, the entire Forsaken year with three of the best raids and it was just pretty good, it all went to shit afterwards though, and I can't in good conscience recommend a single person even installs Destiny 2 anymore, avoid it like the plague. I also like Drakengard 1 despite it being torture in game form (must be why I liked Destiny 2), and honestly the music is a bop.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

This thread is just people naming games they like that are also highly regarded, I expected more controversial games that people like despite it all. For me that's Chrono Cross and to an extent Destiny 2. Specifically during the Shadowkeep year, when all the content was in the game. It was the best content the game had, the entire Forsaken year with three of the best raids and it was just pretty good, it all went to shit afterwards though, and I can't in good conscience recommend a single person even installs Destiny 2 anymore, avoid it like the plague. I also like Drakengard 1 despite it being torture in game form (must be why I liked Destiny 2), and honestly the music is a bop.

destiny 2 is shit but i respect your opinion

 

[Epoch]

destiny 2 is shit but i respect your opinion

It's always been shit, but I had fun during the Shadowkeep year, then it went to even more shit and they removed the only stuff from the game that was of actual quality.

 

[Psyduck]

The graphics in Majora's Mask suck and the camera is dogshit.

But dude! Majora's Mask is dAaAaArK!!!!

Mine's are Resident Evil 4, only complaint ive ever seen about it is that it gave way to RE5 and 6, but i dont give a fuck, 4 still holds up today

GTA San Andreas and Vice City, even if its just for the ambience alone

 

[Absolutego]

Mine's are Resident Evil 4, only complaint ive ever seen about it is that it gave way to RE5 and 6, but i dont give a fuck, 4 still holds up today

tbh even though RE5 is fucking terrible narratively, that was probably the most fun I've had in a co-op campaign.
The fact that the inventory was so ludicrously restricted let the two of you really specialize. The guy who can aim worth a damn starts investing literally everything into his rifle and magnum, and the other one peaks the shotgun and machine gun.

 

[Pee Cola]

Pong.

Without Pong, we wouldn't have gaming as we know it.

 

[AverageQuarianEnjoyer]

Half-Life 2. There's a small corner of my brain that is at all times dedicated to Ravenholm.

 

[Psyduck]

tbh even though RE5 is fucking terrible narratively, that was probably the most fun I've had in a co-op campaign.
The fact that the inventory was so ludicrously restricted let the two of you really specialize. The guy who can aim worth a damn starts investing literally everything into his rifle and magnum, and the other one peaks the shotgun and machine gun.

100%. Id even argue that RE6 has its co-op moments too, but thats coming from a guy that genuinely enjoyed it in the first place. No shame

 

[wakaran]

This thread is just people naming games they like that are also highly regarded, I expected more controversial games that people like despite it all. For me that's Chrono Cross and to an extent Destiny 2.

I feel like a total retard whenever I name live service games as any of my favorites, despite the fact that at this point it's most definitely true.

 

[Epoch]

I feel like a total retard whenever I name live service games as any of my favorites, despite the fact that at this point it's most definitely true.
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I quit when season of the seraph started because at that point it had gotten so shit that I couldn't even excuse it anymore, seems like the right decision based on what I've seen. I was addicted though, and even I could see that since I would get 'withdrawal' and all the telltale signs and such. Bungie is awful, they preach about mental health and being woke and accepting trannies and stuff, then design their game to be as addictive and expensive as possible. I've since refused to play any live service games, and have completely forgone all 'free to play' games entirely. It was fun when everything was available in Shadowkeep, because there was no FOMO, until they put a timer on everything being removed and everything since has been a 'play it while its still in the game' and it stopped being fun and became an addiction. I still play Destiny 1 occasionally since it scratches the same itch without the extremely toxic and addictive design.

If they ever bring EVERYTHING back once they release their final shitty expansion and just leave the game as feature complete I might play it again, but that seems incredibly unlikely. I've tossed around the idea of re-installing if they ever bring back Scourge of the Past, since its my favorite raid and my friend never got to play it, but then I remember I would have to grind a shitload and stuff, and then get disinterested again.

Long story short, Destiny has never been good, but it had some high points where it was fun (7/10), those have passed and will never happen again, don't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Or just play D1 since thats feature complete and not FOMO laced, if you really need to play Destiny for some reason.

 

[HarblMcDavid]

Difficult question as many games I love haven't aged exactly well, that said...

MGS2 easily tops the list. Maybe I'm old, but the graphics have largely stood the test of time, the gameplay is still on par with action games today, though the pressure sensitive stuff has not aged well (and that's really about it). Someone already said it, but you just don't get 'em like this anymore, and it is a pinnacle of mirror polished design and execution.

Deus Ex, this is a gimme, insanely detailed and well designed especially considering the limitations of the time.
Human revolution has a special place in my heart but it is not THAT blemish free to always be well regarded, a remake that fixes all the fuckiness would take that spot, but they tried already and made it worse bug-wise, lmao. As an achievement hunter of sorts I'm WELL aware of how broken parts of the game are, and that keeps it out of the running for this question.

Ace Combat 4. Music, storytelling (simple as it is, it's effective and well done, I remember it to this day), tone, gameplay, almost everything is perfect, and it stands the test of time. Ace Combat 6 plays better, but I forget the story completely as much fun as I have playing it, I like 5's story better but everything ELSE was worse than 4, Zero has possibly the best final showdown of all of them I've played, and it gets closer than the rest as a game that sticks out for its excellence in I remember the story, the gameplay and new stuff like different types of weapons were nice, buuuuuut the music is not universally re-listenable with few exceptions (ZERO), puts it just out of the running.

Ape Escape (though sequels are basically identical and look better), one of the few times there was a conscious decision to make something different, and it WORKED. Probably my favorite platformer of all time, and the only thing which hasn't really aged is the graphics from the first game, controls are still crisp and perfect

Farcry. Beat everything around it to pulp when it came out, and outside of the lack of quicksave, this shit stands the test of time. The AI can FUCK on higher difficulties, massive open environments, it's still an excellent playthrough even considering its sequels, they just aren't quite the same thing.

Starcraft/Brood War. My puny ability to play this game means that what I actually enjoyed of it wouldn't put it on this list necessarily, but watching what people can do with it tells me that it absolutely does belong, even over 2 decades later people STILL find new ways to get better and that's crazy considering the only balance patch in years, of sorts, was to fix the shit Brood War never fixed like Valks not working at all when remastered came out.

 

[Wesker]

Silent Hill 2 - Simple ingredients cooked to perfection. Still the reigning heavyweight champ of the Survival Horror genre without even a close second. It's so good that in essentially ruined Silent Hill from then on since everything is in it's shadow.

Resident Evil 2002 - It's not even my favorite of the RE games, but to me it's the peak of what the core RE games was all about.

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - There isn't another game out there that took the massive leap forward from every conceivable angle the previous game tried to accomplish. It's cinematography, the music, the directing, all of it makes it the pinnacle of the series for me. It's narrative still is incredibly relevant 22 years later. Yeah I didn't like Raiden either at first, but his role is just to make Snake a deeper and cooler character from afar. The series never saw the record breaking sales ever again. V sold a lot, but it's like quadruple dipping on several platforms when SOL was only on two for nearly 15 years.

Devil May Cry 3 - The king of hack and slash games. Much like SH2, ruined the series from then on since everything just pales in comparison. DMCV tried really hard to capture that and failed miserably to becoming easily one of the worst of the series.

Metal Gear Rising - A game I thought I was going to despise since it was a post MGS4 game and thought it would just wreck the ending, when it barely even acknowledges it. I dumped hundreds of hours into it and had a blast. I find it as a close second to DMC3 in the hack and slash genre. It's a lighthearted game that isn't completely up it's own ass that's just a good time and memes. And one of the best OSTs ever done for a game.

Until Dawn - Got it for Christmas from my wife several years back. Didn't think I would even like it. It took me completely off guard with the mid game twist of what the game really was about. I really dug the spiderweb of different choices that can change the flow of the game. It's a shame Supermassive Games decided to just shit out four hour, $30 games from then on. It's the best execution of that David Cage cutscene game genre imo.

Alien: Isolation - The last of the really, really good horror games. An Alien game that in a vacuum, is better than all the films since it drives home how scary the Xeno could really be. Alien the original does a great job, but the game takes it into another dimension. The sound engineer, the composer both deserve awards. I love the fact the tension music gets louder with the proximity to the Xeno. I'd love a sequel, but even if not, it's still a masterpiece and doesn't necessarily need a follow up.

 

[Sundae]

Gex Enter the Gecko 64 - the first video game I ever played, so it holds a special place in my heart.

Glover - enjoyed it back in the day. It's an odd game, but once you get used to it can be good.

Rayman 2 - one of my favorite games. Great story, level design, music, and a great cast of characters. Holds up very well.

Banjo-Tooie - if I had to pick a favorite game, this is it. Took an already great game (Banjo-Kazooie), and made it bigger.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - one of the best games on the N64, has stood the test of time very well.

Donkey Kong 64 - has it's faults, but it's a personal favorite. Personally I liked having a lot of collectables to get, it added length to the game (just personal opinion, though, I can see why most think it's too much).

Super Mario Sunshine - while I prefer SM 64, Sunshine is still a great game that holds plenty of nostalgia for me.

Cubivore - a hidden gem on the Gamecube, this bizarre little game once held the title of my persona; favorite game, and while it's no longer at the top of my list, it's still a favorite.

Animal Crossing - my favorite in the series. The later games added in some great features, but I'll always prefer the original, mainly for its weird atmosphere and music.

Wario World - another hidden gem on the Gamecube, the combat is simple but so satisfying. Never get tired of grabbing the giant bosses and either tossing them or pile driving them into the ground.

Ty the Tasmanian Tiger - another personal favorite, a 3D collectathon in the vein of Banjo-Kazooie and Super Mario 64. Was also one of the first Gamecube games I ever got.

Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death - one of my favorite shooters, and it introduced me to the Judge Dredd comics.

Ratchet: Deadlocked - one of the first PS2 games I played and my first R&C game. I like the increased focus on combat and am a sucker for stories/plots where the main character is captured and forced to fight in gladiatorial style combat.

Psychonauts - another hidden gem with a very creative premise. Played it the summer after graduating high school, so it brings back some good memories.

Grabbed By The Ghoulies - got this game one day when I went with my grandma to take our dog to the vet. Our dog was hit by a car and killed a month later, so this game holds memories of spending time with her.

Okami - one of my favorite games, and absolute masterpiece where everything - gameplay, artstyle, graphics, music, characters, enviroment- is top notch. Clover went all out making this gem.

We Love Katamari - my favorite PS2 game. Love the laid back nature of the series and how bizarre it is, the soundtrack is incredible and it brings back some great memories as I played it around the time I graduated high school.

Rabbids Go Home - as much as I detest what happened to the Rayman series because of the Rabbids, I enjoyed this game. It's a fun little Katamari Damacy-esque game. A hidden gem on the Wii and one I hope to see get an HD port someday.

de Blob - a fun, lighthearted game where you restore color to a city after an army of ink creatures wanted to make everything black and white. Has a smooth, mellow soundtrack and is a great game to play when one wants to unwind.

Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars - great little action-adventure game from the Wii era. HAs a great atmosphere that pays homage to 1950's B-movis.

Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon - didn't care too much for the first two Legend of Spyro games, but I enjoyed this one. I liked that we finally got to play as an older Spyro with free flight, shame

Minecraft - been playing it since September 2011. It will always be a personal favorite.

Solatorobo: Red the Hunter - my favorite DS game. An underrated gem that deserves more love.

Yo-kai Watch 2: Psychic Specters - my favorite jrpg and favorite 3DS game. I got into the series back in Spring of 2019, and played this game religiously. Loved the setting, story, characters, and music. Sad to see that this series burned out so quickly, especially here in the West.