What is your choice for the best videogame ever made?

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

My choice hands down goes to Bioshock, that game is the only one i've ever called a masterpiece. The setting, the pacing, the story and the way it's presented, the gameworld, the writing, the artstyle sound design and lighting is all so god damn amazing and perfectly layered. The only way this game could be better is if there was more of it. It's one of the earliest proofs that videogames can tell truly compelling stories and present them in a way that can only be considered art. It's fucking awesome and if you somehow haven't played it you really should fix that.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

Bioshock 2. It’s like Bioshock, but the combat is actually great.

 

[Spunt]

The original X-COM, (aka UFO Enemy Unknown). Specifically the PS1 port if you had the PS mouse. Fixed the bugs, improved the sound and cutscenes. The result is pretty much a flawless game.

 

[Insuficiencia renal]

Factorio.

 

[isalaide]

Zelda: Link's Awakening

 

[Happy Little War Painter]

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic.

 

[Soggy Floppa]

Super Metroid

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

I wouldn't say it's the best, but it's the best one that I've played in a long time. Subnautica.
I got lucky because I don't really watch youtube or pay attention to video game media. Subnautica was free from Epic and a few months ago I was bored and going through my backlog of unplayed games and decided to try it. I only heard that it was "minecraft underwater" so I expected it to be garbage and would delete it pretty quickly. It's not minecraft underwater. It's one of the few games that actually made me feel fear, not jumpscare loud noise retard fear, but genuine sweaty palms oh fuck I'm scared fear. I also like that you get to figure out the game entirely on your own, there's no hand-holding, you explore, you discover, you decipher the clues and move the story forward.

Below Zero was a complete turd and let down and stripped out all of the factors that made Subnautice great. I'm hoping Subnautica 2 will let me relive the experience in at least a satisfying way, though I doubt it.

 

[The Cringe Connoisseur]

Bioshock 2. It’s like Bioshock, but the combat is actually great.

It's a tough choice for me but man the writing and the way everything fits together in the first one is just pure perfection to me. 2 is a damn fine game as well though and people should definitely play the entire series because it's actually unique and original unlike most of the rest of the crap floating around these days.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

It's a tough choice for me but man the writing and the way everything fits together in the first one is just pure perfection to me. 2 is a damn fine game as well though and people should definitely play the entire series because it's actually unique and original unlike most of the rest of the crap floating around these days.

2 definitely isn’t as strong without the context of 1 to back it up. I just really enjoyed 2 more.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

It's so tough. Chrono Trigger is the safe answer, but I can say Final Fantasy X...

 

[Ultrapenguin]

Probably Dark Souls, or at least the DS series.
The mood/themes and rhythm of the games always resonated a lot, multiplayer with invasions is integrated in a really novel and freeform way (being able to beat up teams of scrubs to show your contempt is a bonus), I enjoy the lore and presentation, in general the whole thing is one of the few examples I can think of that almost transcends the medium. It feels weird to even call Dark Souls a videogame.

It's one of the few games that actually made me feel fear, not jumpscare loud noise retard fear, but genuine sweaty palms oh fuck I'm scared fear.

That's true but that fear sort of starts to dissipate a little the first time you hunt a leviathan down with a stasis rifle, a knife, and an inventory full of those little green exploder pods at which point you realize you've become the alpha predator.

Also as the game enters the final third it bottlenecks into a process of slowly maneuvering through cramped underground tunnels while recieving only token upgrades which sort of sucks. In that section Sea Dragons are very janky, they'll just float through the walls or floors like it's nothing. I died 3 times over the course of the game back when I played it, once after getting lost in a tunnel and running out of oxygen, and twice when a sea dragon clipped through the solid floor and immediately roasted me with a fireball.

Now excuse me while I go outside and peel some lava leeches off my submarine.

 

[Cats]

For me it would be World of Warcraft just because of how big a part of my youth that game played and how no other game comes ANYWHERE close to the amount of fun I had and the wide range of emotions I was able to feel during the several years I played from launch, into Mists of Pandaria when I'd quit and come back randomly throughout each expansion. Unfortunately it's just not the same game anymore nor is it the same community. All my friends have quit a long time ago and for that and many other reasons I will never go back at this point in time, but good god the nostalgia associated with it and those memories still overwhelm me sometimes to this very day.

It's really hard to accurately describe just how novel and special the experience of WoW shortly after launch and up through to Burning Crusade was if you didn't live through it. It was insanely popular; everyone and their grandma was playing it. The way the world pvp was set up was wonderful, the ranking system, everything. Nothing will ever be able to recapture the feeling of playing WoW circa 2005 with my friends. I was in a Something Awful guild full of really funny people who were a blast to hang out with, long before SA turned into a tranny commune. Being part of those two communities during that time was just so fun. We did so many fun things together as a group, talking on vent etc. Never had more fun with a video game in my life.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Bioshock 2. It’s like Bioshock, but the combat is actually great.

I didn't play Bioshock until over a decade after it had released and I already knew all the twists and stuff and still found it to be an amazing experience. Bioshock 2 I knew nothing about, I've never really heard people talk about it outside of "eh it's ok but not as good as the first one." I ended up loving it so much more than the first one, it definitely has to be one of the most underrated games of all time.

I haven't played the remake just because I feel zero need to, but RE4 is pretty much perfect. I've heard the remake is good too so maybe I'll play it someday but I can sit down and play the original any time

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Not a videogame, but those shareware/100 game CDs from way back were absolutely fantastic as a kid. You had no idea what you were getting into when you went through those folders.
You could start the day with a racing game, get lucky finding an Asteroids clone halfway through the list, and before you go to bed you suddenly know all the rules of Mahjong.

 

[Blue Miaplacidus]

the first time you hunt a leviathan down with a stasis rifle, a knife,

Yea I didn't know you could kill them. I went into it completely blind and after stabbing them a hundred times and them not dying I didn't think they could die. It's definitely a game where the experience hinges on what you know about it. If I had read about it or watched other people play it I know I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much. It was also a very weird experience of expecting to rescue some NPC quest givers only to find out that I'm truly alone and everything wants to eat me, that's when I started reading through my logs more carefully and putting the story together.

 

[Runescape Sperg]

I think I'd have to go with team fortress 2
The gameplay is just too good. Low skill floor to make casual players have a good time and a nearly infinite skill ceiling with some of the most interesting mechanics in any game I've played.
Tf2's movement mechanics are like crack to me. I haven't played it in years but I twitch like a crackhead yearning for the pipe when I think about rocket jumping, surfing damage or trickstabbing. Even something as simple as just running around and jumping feel so smooth.
Add to that all the different classes with varied loadouts and playstyles to give you hundreds of ways to splatter other players across walls and you have a nearly perfect game.
Even putting gameplay aside tf2 has its own identity and community no other game can even hope to replicate. The art style, music and personalities of in game characters are iconic. The meet the team videos are some of the best video game related media I can think of. There's a reason tf2 had such a massive cultural impact.
It's a shame it's gone to shit nowadays. I doubt I'll ever play it again with the state it's currently in

 

[Tanuki Mixed Nuts]

Bloodborne. The best of fromsoft's modern games.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

not runescape

You betray your namesake.

 

[Green Kitbash]

Against my better judgement which would be to vote for Resident Evil 4 I am going to have to throw a curveball and vote for

Outrun