Games

Somewhere between Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress lies the perfect life simulation.

Tetris in a walkway. Any format, really. It's just great.

I don't think I have any favorites, there are too many great games to determine the best game, well... VA-11 Hall-A. It's one of the few games that really touched me and affected my emotions deeply. Also, I love this game ost, one of the best game soundtracks ever, imo.

The answer to that question depends on your tastes, your current situation (amount of free time, mood, etc...) and many more. There's no such thing as the "best" when it comes to a subjective piece of media.

I can't even decide on my favourite game, because what I like and what I want to play depends on the aforementioned factors. I may be interested in a strong narrative today, on puzzles tomorrow, and on a crazy platformer game next. Different games resonate with me differently depending on when I play them.

Games that really stayed with me are (in no particular order) Xenogears, Metal Gear Solid, CrossCode, Digimon World, Oddworld Abe's Odyssey, Ace Combat 4-6, The Talos Principle, Ori and the Blind Forest, Threads of Fate, and I also spent a crazy amount of hours on Stronghold, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin and Medieval II Total War. There's, like, at least half a dozen different genres in that list and all those games are very different from one another, but all had different qualities that resonated with me for one reason or the other.

There is no such thing as a 'Best Game Ever', but it's Mass Effect 2

Portal and portal 2 those are the best ever, a story line everyone can get behind, likable characters. Good game loop. They are just masterclasses.

Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary. They took the best competitive puzzle game ever made and added a ton of goodies to make it the best package deal. 20 variant game modes, 24 character stories, a comprehensive set of tutorials, a devilish set of chain challenges, and a final challenge where you play against max level CPU while it's allowed to cheat.

It's a tragedy this game was never released in the west, and I can rant for hours about Sega has criminally neglected the series with the half-assed slop they put out now because they know that crossovers will sell better than the main series ever will.

I'm taking this topic to be less of "what's the most important video game" (which we already had a long discussion post about recently re: the BAFTA award thing) and more of "what's the best game to just sit down and play right now". In which case, probably Portal 2? I can't think of a much better candidate in terms of being a perfect execution of what it sets out to do with an appeal that can be compelling for absolutely everyone regardless of taste.

Been gaming since 1984 or some such.

By number of hours played: Factorio

By number of hours I can monologue about a game at you: also Factorio

By how much I think it affected gaming industry and culture: Doom

This again? Anyway, sure... Tetris or doom for importance. Not really the best. That goes to rdr2 for being one of the best selling games of all time while also being almost universally loved by both critics and fans. Not my personal favourite game, but objectively speaking, the title should go to rdr2, I think

Bad Rats.

On a more serious note, my personal best of all time would be SimCity 3000.

Soma, TF2, Fallout 2, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, Deus Ex, StarCraft: Brood War, Civ 5 would all be in the top 10 (in no particular order).

Either Witcher 3 or Baldurs Gate 3.

FFXIV, but this doesn't mean much because it's dependent on what genres you like.

Most historically significant? Ultima 4, Wizardry 1, Pool of Radiance, Mario 1, Metroid 1, FF4, Chrono Trigger, FF7, Mario 64, Zelda OoT, Counterstrike, Starcraft, Diablo 1, WoW, Cave Story, World of Goo, Minecraft, Skyrim, Dark Souls, Zelda BotW