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What's the greatest videogame of all time?

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.

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Tetris
Just about everyone has either played or heard of it. It is easy enough for young and old people alike to pick up. But it can get so challenging that even nowadays new records are broken regularly.
It's simple. It's fun. And will remain so for all eternity.
- And the poor bastard that created it never made any money off it, IIRC
  
  Kind of. Because the game was technically owned by the USSR he was not eligible to receive any royalties until his prior contracts expired. He has received royalties on it starting around 1996.
- "Life is just loke tetris, it just gets harder until you die" Or something, can't remember where i heard that.
  Apparently some kid managed to "beat" it though so maybe it's wrong now.
  
  Your failures pile up, your achievements disappear.
  
  Yep! 13yo played it and reached the kill screen, absolutely insane accomplishment.

This is such an absurd question. I mean, it's weird in movies and books, weirder in music... but games?
I mean, Tetris. It's Tetris, isn't it?
But then you're out there going "so is Tetris better than Baldur's Gate III", which is a nonsensical sentence.
- That's a good question. Tetris has more levels but then again BG3 has better character customisation.
  
  Weirdly, better sex scenes in Tetris.
- It’s kind of like asking for the best video.
  It wouldn’t make sense to compare TV shows, movies, Youtube videos, TikToks, sporting events, commercials, journalistic footage, etc. all as a single category.
  Idk. So do you ask for “best RPG” or something like that instead? Seems overly specific now.
  
  I feel like this is just a question to learn more about other people. I don't care if someone's favourite is tetris when mine is sonic. I just wanna be reminded of fun games and hear a passionate argument as to why they think it should be top of my list :)
  
  Yeah, for sure. The real answer is the question is superfluous. There is no number one. I'd say you can't even put together a top 10. It's just not a thing you need to do or can do.
- Is it? Minecraft is the most sold game, which to be fair Tetris held for a very long time.
  
  You're kinda making my point, that's another absurd choice to have to make.
  But no, it's Tetris.

Portal
- My pick was portal 2. Only game that made me cry when I beat it.
  
  Man the last boss fight it’s just chef kiss
- I keep meaning to finish the sequel...
  
  YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE SEQUEL?!?!
  No but seriously Portal 2 might be the only game to beat out Portal as the best story/puzzle game ever made.

Well, I think there are multiple potential candidates depending on how you define greatness. I think these few are certainly the most influential:
Super Mario Bros. Possibly the system it ran on was more important, but this game was a system seller for the system that single-handedly saved not only the entire video game industry, but probably the very concept of video games at a time when it was looking like it'd just be another fad that faded away right along with bellbottoms and pet rocks, with what was left of it remaining caged in Japan. Mario 1 was most people's first platformer, I also have to think that the first damn goomba in 1-1 probably holds the crown for the highest kill count of any entity in the universe.
Tetris. Infinitely playable and probably infinitely played, and you can get it to run on damn near everything. Everyone knows Tetris, even people who haven't played it or any other video game.
Doom. Just, Doom. Yes, Quake was more advanced. Yes, Quake was technically the actual technological forefather to the polygonal 3D games we play today, and many game engines still include tiny bits of Quake's original code. But there would be no Quake without Doom. It certainly wasn't the first FPS, but it's the game that cemented the FPS formula for good and firmly established the x86 PC as not only a viable gaming platform, but the king of gaming platforms from that moment until this very day. Ever since Doom, outside of specialized arcade hardware the PC has been the powerhouse platform for the biggest, most technologically demanding games. After Doom game out everyone wanted their own "Doom clone" on their platform just to show that they weren't just another me-too, also-ran.
Street Fighter 2. The genre defining 1 on 1 fighting game template. Enough said.
Chrono Trigger. This game showed everyone not what a console RPG was up until that point, but what a console RPG could be if you put actual effort and creativity into it and didn't just crank out another grindy and soulless, swords-and-sorcery-go-kill-the-dragon yawn fest just to keep your franchise going. Its contemporary Final Fantasy games almost got there (especially 6), but Chrono went the full mile. The feats Chrono Trigger pulled off on the humble SNES as well as many of the innovations it brought forward were far ahead of its time and it took literal decades for the genre to catch up to it -- including quite a few entries from its own studio.
Final Fantasy 7. This game is objectively crap even compared to many of its peers. But there is no doubt that it was the next stepping stone from Chrono Trigger that finally firmly launched the console RPG into mainstream territory, made the genre as a whole truly successful, and was an awful lot of people's first RPG. It probably made a significant and permanent contribution to the formation of weaboo culture, as well.
Half Life 2. No, not the first Half Life. Not Opposing Force and not Blue Shift, either. There was never before any hype and anticipation for a video game like there was for Half Life 2. In the months leading up to its launch it was all anyone talked about. Not Doom 3, not the new Warcraft. Half Life 2. And of course with Half Life 2 came Steam, and we all know how that turned out. Sure, Steam itself started life as a patch delivery and server browsing platform for Counterstrike, but up until Half Life 2 appeared in it, nobody cared. The impact Half Life 2 had on everything is absolutely undeniable, and that doesn't just include the horde of games that came after it attempting to imitate its unbroken linear first person narrative and setpiece based game design as a cash grab, not to mention that phase in first person shooters where seemingly everything suddenly had to have physics puzzles in it...
- Rules: just pick 1 and explain why.
  This post right here, officer.
  
  If we absolutely have to pick just one, I think Doom is probably the most important of the bunch.
- There is no doom without Wolfenstein...
  
  And there is no Wolfenstein 3D without Catacomb Abyss.
  Most games iterated on a previous entry. But without the stepping stone of Doom, it is unlikely that Wolfenstein alone would have catapulted the FPS genre as far as it's gone nearly as quickly.
- Final Fantasy VII was my first RPG. It had a good (but sometimes difficult to follow) story, lots of quirky characters, Full Motion Video sequences, and a musical score that nears perfection. Hearing those songs today doesn't just remind me of the game, it brings me back to all the emotional moments in the story where I felt like I was actually there, feeling what those characters felt and being there fighting along beside them.
  A lot of how I feel about that game may be related to the fact that I was a teenager when I experienced it, but the lasting impression of that experience is why I think it is one of the greatest games of all time.
  
  Copy this entire comment but replace "Final Fantasy VII" with "Morrowind" and you have my story.
  I never played any Final Fantasy game until I was an adult and a couple years ago I picked up FFVII to finally play it, and three extended breaks and one full restart later and I'm barely halfway through the main story by my rough estimate the last time I played it - which was probably about a year ago. I just can't get hooked into it for some reason that I couldn't tell you. I played and enjoyed FFX (twice!) and I like the newer ones, but new final fantasy is essentially Devil May Cry now so I don't really count those as the same. But I think what it is is I've just been spoiled by newer games and old school FFVII is just too crunchy for me now. Which is weird to say because see above about Morrowind, which I do still play up to the modern day, but it again makes sense because I grew up playing that one.
  As someone who knows and loves the original, do you have opinions on the remake? I played a brief bit of it once at a friend's place and I liked it, it doesn't seem very turn based anymore but I like that I suppose. It felt good to play. I didn't have a reference for it story wise to the original at the time, I hadn't played it yet. I hear it doesn't contain the whole story.
- Brilliant rundown. No notes. 👏
- Steam came out a while before hl2, but agree with everything else you said

Outer Wilds. Any explanation that I give would be massive spoilers, but it captures a genre, aesthetic, and theme that, in my experience, has been virtually unused by any other game before and still remains extremely underutilized
- I came to say Outer Wilds as well. Honestly changed my perspective on what a video game can be and I can't find any other game that gives me that same feeling. The only bad thing about Outer Wilds is you can only really experience it once
  
  I’m four hours in and just don’t get it
- I saw the question, came to post this only to see yours.
  It truly is a unique experience. I jokingly say to my family that if I ever have some kind of temporary amnesia prompt me to play that.
  I also occasionally watch let’s plays of streamers to vicariously experience some of those moments of realization as the story unfolds.
  Seriously play it if you haven’t and avoid streams, videos, etc like the plague. The game progression is 100% knowledge based. So spoilers really do take away part of the experience.
  
  Thanks! I have it but haven’t played it yet. This may be what finally gets me out of my video game rut!
- I’ve heard so many friends say this. And I have the game but it’s like I forget it’s there and so I’ve never played it. I need to fucking play it…thanks for not spoiling anything and reminding me :)
- Yep. By far the best game ever made. It's not even close. It's truly an experience. I wish I could play it again. I've watched so many streams of people playing it for the first time just trying to recapture some of the magic for myself.
- Yeah not a big gamer, but I've enjoyed what I've played so far. Loved Myst and Riven when I was younger, and it scratches that itch. I think I only played like 10-15 hours before I got too busy to play anything. I should really get back on it to see it through
- One of those games I'll never understand the hype, I despise Fortnite but I get it. But this, looks just meh
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.

It got to be Goat Simulator for sure:
Top notch graphics.
Full of features, even some not intended by the developers.
You can hurt and get hurt, so it's BDSM-friendly.
Open sandbox.
It's more recognisable than Tetris. Tetris is easy to confuse with some Tetris knock-off, Goat Simulator is instantly "yup, this is Goat Simulator".
It's deeper in lore and philosophy than Chrono Trigger.
Zelda's worldbuilding pales in comparison with Goat Simulator's.
Requires more strategy than Diablo and FFA combined.
You play it as a goat dammit. Everything else is just fluff.
- For me it's between this masterpiece and Untitled Goose Game.
  
  The unofficial sequel to Untitled Goose Game is Little Kitty, Big City.
- Despite this being a joke, I gotta try it now.
  
  I was looking through my friends list in Steam. I found out I have a family member with 2700+ hours in Goat Simulator. I don't even know how to begin to ask about this.

Grand Theft Auto 3.
You had to be there to see how absolutely groundbreaking that was at the time. Gaming had suddenly grown up.
It was like all the obvious limits in other games all just got pulled away at once. Explore a full city in 3D, drive around, shoot people, steal a tank.
And the sequel only improved on it, but I've honestly never been so awed by a game before or since. It's like they were the first dev to finally figure out what the PS2 hardware was for. Everything before just felt like a slightly nicer version of what had come before. This was new.
- I didn't even look in this direction but I think you're right

Zelda, the entire series/franchise. The OG RPG. Many argue it isn't an RPG because the original you couldnt level up but when I think of RPG, I think you are a character and you go on an adventure. It also serves as a good gateway to fixed RPGs where everyone basically has the same story. And to strategy video game as a whole. Also, it was Nintendo's first RPG, when PlayStation and Xbox still did not exist. And the Best console is Nintendo since it lasted so long. Many of the other consoles feel like less of a game and more like your are in an interactive movie.
- The entire series, are you sure about that?
  
  Freshly picked Tingles Rosy Rupeeland is a masterpiece and the most important game in the series, I will not hear otherwise

Goldeneye
- I know we all put in an absurd amount of time in the facility but perfect dark is objectively better
  
  Disagree, as someone who loved both. It was a fun advancement, but that doesn't replace the peak gameplay of Goldeneye.
  
  Perfect Dark was peak multiplayer experience on the N64, but trying to go back and play now is terrible...
  Split screen games run at like 15 frames a second and I wonder how I put so many hours into it.
  
  Goldeneye suffered from trying to exceed the N64. It’s an upgrade overall but the performance really struggles, Goldeneye didn’t really see that (prox mines excepted)
- License to kill : Pistols
  What were your go to game settings?
  
  No odd-job.
  
  Best was stack with LTK snipers (including DD44 and the klobb, which could shoot around corners), or a close second was basement with remote/prox mines or rocket/grenade launchers.
  
  This, or throwing knives.
  Or double health with remote mines.
  Remember how you could all run out of ammo and the deathmatch would devolve into a slappy fight?
- Get down...!

Portal 2 is THE highest rated game on Steam.
Doom or Tetris were probably the most influential ones?

Mario bros 3 - it felt like a SNES game
- I feel like the NES version was better than the SNES one actually
  
  100% agree. SMB3 on NES just had so much more stuff going on compared to SMW on the SNES. Mini games galore, secrets up the wazoo, and the muthafuckin' SHOE. For reals using that bad boy was like stepping into a goddamn Gundam.
  
  What is/are the difference(s) between the NES SMB3 and the Super Mario All-Stars SMB3?
- God I fucking loved that game.
- That was one of my front runners for a long time, but after recently playing them side by side, SM World is much better.

Other people have already said it, but it's Tetris.
Its the only game ever made that I would describe as "perfect".
It takes seconds to learn how to play, while the skill ceiling is in the stratosphere. It's endlessly replayable, the music is iconic, and it's available for basically any platform made in the last 40 years.

Doom (1993).
Why: I'm still playing it. Most people know it, and it's the grandfather of all FPS games.
- Wolfenstein 3d would like a word.
  
  Wolf was Doom's predecessor, yes, but Doom was far more influential. I remember at the time "first person shooter" didn't exist as a genre so everything was just a "Doom clone", even Duke Nukem 3D IIRC.
  
  Doom is Wolfenstein but refined and better

Prior to August 8th, 2006: Chrono Trigger.
Post August 8th, 2006: Dwarf Fortress.
Dwarf Fortress is, mechanically, almost everything I think a game should be. And the only reason it's only almost is because it's not finished yet.
- This right here; and I would offer that Cataclysm DDA is either as good or just a tiny bit below
  
  I think of CDDA as mostly Dwarf Fortress with vehicles. Just as complex in the combat, but not as complex in world gen or with civilizations (because zombies who cares lol), but the vehicle building and sim is as far as I would expect DF to have, if it had vehicles.
  I once made a giant mobile fortress that could just drive straight through most anything that wasn't made of metal.
- OP asked "of all time", so what about after 2050?

Doom.
It was the first 3(well, 2.5)D shooter. Plus, I can hear E1M1.
And using the shareware license for distribution widely helped it's popularity and it had multiplayer.
Honorary mention to Carrier Command ( the first one with like a 5 polygon island and a 40 polygon volcano).

Halflife 2 + Incl Episodes

Mount and Blade Warband.
So many games you start off or become something great. In Skyrim you're the dragonborn, you become great but you were always going to. The world is huge and immersive, but you're always going to be important in the world.
In warband, you're a nobody. You'll always be a nobody unless you do something. Trade, fight, quest or scheme. The world will continue with or without you. Your favourite faction might get wiped out and you can do something about it or not. There's no guarantee of victory, and what you decide as a win condition is up to you.
It is the ultimate sandbox, but the original is janky. The solution; mods. An incredibly dedicated modding community elevates this game into my most played game. The lord of the rings mod is both the best way to get into the game and in my opinion the best video game adaptation of a movie (just in front of kotor).
TL:DR: Warband makes it ok to suck and makes you earn your victory. You might not think that's fun, but trust me it can be.
- Dam you. Its on my wishlist and I dont need to buy more! Loved the original too

I always answer with Super Mario World. It's the best game. I won't elaborate.
- Super Mario World is my answer to "If someone who never played a video game before asks you to introduce them to gaming, what will you start with?"
  Possibly becasue it's a major entry point for me into gaming, but it's also colorful, specifically designed to be beginner and child friendly, it's whimsical, the controls aren't that complicated (though there is a deep end to that pool) and being a 2D platformer it's maybe not nausea inducing to people not used to 3D graphics.

That pinball game on windows xp
- https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
- Them as likes this should also check out Maxis Full Tilt Pinball and its sequel, Full Tilt Pinball 2.
  These are the actual commercial games with the engine upon which Space Cadet was based.
- I read somewhere that back then Microsoft was looking to buy some game to include on windows and everybody was showing then games that are more "videogame-ish", with some level of violence or stuff like that, which Microsoft didn't want. Eventually some guy at Microsoft had just rejected another game and said something like: "can't someone just create a pinball game or something?" and someone overheard and created what we now know as Space Cadet Pinball.
- How many levels did you get in it?

Fallout New Vegas.
If we are just talking about replayability, I have never put as many hours into another game as that one.

Probably Doom for being one of the first games with real mod support
- And fear. Actual fear. I remember the demo scaring the shit out of us.
  
  MP was top shit. game was revolutionary
- it also went open source later!

Final Fantasy Tactics. The original, not the kiddy Tactics Advance games.
Great tactical combat, great soundtrack, amazing story. Plus, abusing the job system to make broken character combos is absurdly fun.

It doesn't hold up but while it was happening I don't think there was a better gaming experience than Vanilla WoW. Obviously for some it wasn't the first MMO experience, but for many it was, and it was pure magic.
The random friends made, and mortal enemies you would drop everything you were doing to try and kill. Spending 6 hours clearing a dungeon(read wailing caverns) for the first time with random people you met in chat. Getting your first mount, walking into molten core with 39 other people and killing your first raid boss. Getting your first epic. The stupidity of barrens chat/whatever the equivalent the scumbag alliance had. The first time you had guild mates come to your rescue when some no-life higher level person was camping you and it devolving into an impromptu war between everyone in the zone and their friends. That time you pulled off an epic 1 v 2. Shit talking all the other classes in your guilds class chat during raids.
The drama ohh the drama, the e-gf/bf that became peoples husbands and wives, the guild leaders wife e-humping half the guild. Relationships destroyed because someone would rather spend their time in azeroth that just about anything else.
Drooling over the gear the best players on the server had. Battling on the front lines of alterac valley all night, going to bed and rejoining the same battle, sometimes to cheers from your fellow soldiers that you had rejoined the fight.
I don't think there will ever be anything like it again, we know too much, have access to to much info, but for that brief period in time wow was the greatest game ever.
- Wow took over my life for a while there, and then again with WoTLK. The 2v2 and 3v3 arenas were so much fun. The cool thing was that it wasn't grindy in the beginning, you could just run quests at your level and level up at a reasonable pace while exploring the game. I had played Everquest before WoW and that game required so much grinding just to get a level, sometimes it would take weeks.
- FFXIV is better. I like the fights better and the lore better. It's a great social platform, but I think it has jumped the shark. Still a great concept. For very similar reasons.

Super metroid

Half life. It revolutionized the genre and spawned a ton of games thanks to mods, ie counterstrike

The Witcher 3.

Abe's Oddesy
It has a fart button. Need I say more?
- "Hello."
  "Hello."
  farts
  "Hahaha!"
  
  *removedslaps*
  "Grr!"
- "the outer ring, stupid, stand in the outer ring!"
  munch's oddesy

I don't think "greatest game of all time" is really a thing.
As you mention pubg for example it was a simply copy as well.
Does it take originality to the The greatest? Does it take being popular?
What does it actually take to the greatest?
- Agree. To add to this, I might really like RTS and say star craft is the best game of all time. And you might like action RPGs and say Diablo 2 is. Or whatever else.

Minecraft
not only does it have crazy sales, the fact that I enjoyed it when I was 8 and continue to enjoy at 18 means something
- 1000%. Almost nothing else has stayed as popular and as relevant for as long as Minecraft. Truly one of the GOATs.

Tetris.

cracks the downvote finger knuckles
- A bunch of sensible suggestions actually. Dammit.
  
  Don't be sad, here, just for you:
  Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
  Cities Skylines 2
  Starfield
  FIFA 24
  Aliens: Colonial Marines
  Raid: Shadow Legends

Civilization series.
- One of the first PC games I played in 92.. can't believe I'm still playing it
- So many hours gone....days probably
- Civ IV defined my middle school years.
- Played on switch, waste of money for me lol
- So many hours on civ II. Never did beat deity. Such a fun game

Diablo
The first multi-player lobby over battlenet. Epic lore, great gameplay, created an entire genre.
- Roguelike games are named after Rogue, not Diablo.
  
  But Diablo took it and made it real time, creating hack and slash action rpgs. I've never heard anyone refer to Path of Exile or similar as a roguelike. Diablo's development might have started as a roguelike but making it real time turned it into something new.
  
  Usually Diablo and Diablo-likes are called ARPGs, a term that originally just meant "Action RPG" but is now mainly used to describe games similar to Diablo. Isometric, real-time, character builder RPGs.
- I would counter & say Diablo 2 is the better game for expanding on everything that the original did & making it better by adding more.
  Diablo is also the first game I can think of with a paid expansion. Hellfire was a 3rd party created add-on to put more content into the game. If you want to talk about creating a "genre", that's the conversation to have.

Haven't seen TIE Fighter mentioned yet.

I mean, come on, it has to be Minecraft. One of the most influential games of all time. There really is nothing like it

GTA San Andreas.

Someone already said my true #1. But if I ignore that one.
EverQuest. What a crazy game. So many ideas that are just brilliant but people don't do anymore. The enchanter is my favorite power set on any character in any genre and nothing touches it. I wish the design philosophy didn't move away from systems that enable that kind of game play.

Metal Gear Solid. Every stealth game that has come out since has borrowed something from MGS. Also it is the first game I can really remember that nailed that cinematic video game feel we see so often these days.
- MGS also brought us what I lovingly refer to as the "Metal Gear Solid Voice Acting Benchmark."
  Is your big budget first party title not voice acted? Why the fuck not? Konami managed to make every single line of dialog in Metal Gear Solid voice acted, without exception, apparently by hiring randos off the street if they had to. So what's your excuse?
  I'm lookin' at you, Nintendo.
  
  Absolutely! The voice acting was like nothing else at the time! MGS totally raised the bar and changed the landscape for what we come to expect out of a game. It's a true masterpiece.

Well, I guess my answer could change depending on you how define "best," but I think my answer has to be Dwarf Fortress. I've been playing it longer than some posters on here have been alive! The emergent narratives of your forts and your dorfs combined with the constant drip-feed of updates makes it endlessly replayable. The main game theme has been my last-call morning alarm basically since I had a cell phone that replaced an alarm clock. It's a game I come back to time and again that has yet to get old. If anything, it's getting too complex for my stupid ass lol
- I second this. I only started playing it once it was in steam, it just wasn't on my radar before that. Now I wish I had found it back in the day.

Earthbound. The soundtrack is supreme
- It's a masterpiece of a game. I still recommend it to people and it holds up. I even bought a pirated copy of the print strategy guide for a play through.

I think an interesting way to define the greatest game of all time would be a game that captures your attention the longest and provides the largest variety of ways to play.
To that end, I would say StarCraft 1.
My personal reasoning is I love games that have user generated content to keep you coming back to enjoy fresh experiences. StarCraft 1 had a game mode called use map settings where you could play maps made using the built-in level editor. There was enough complexity in the level editor that basically the sky was the limit.
You want to play a tower defense? StarCraft 1. You want to play an RPG? Which franchise do you want to play, cause a lot of them are on StarCraft 1. You want to play an action adventure game? StarCraft 1. The list goes on lol
I've never personally played it, but I feel like another example of this would be Roblox and another one that I have would be Gary's mod.
- Vtec paintball, sunken defense, and Sal'dun RPG maps were my jams back in the day!

I would usually have said Earthbound or Chrono Trigger, but this year I've been playing Sea of Stars and it truly seems better. I never thought I'd say it. The writing, art, music, gameplay, movement, puzzles, characters, all are aimed in the exact same direction as what CT was trying to do and it goes farther in every way.
- How could anything exceed Chrono Trigger? Gotta check this out!
  
  They were pretty deliberate about having very similar creative aims, standing on the shoulders; they even got Yasunori Mitsuda to help with their soundtrack. The game keeps on surprising me with its self awareness, beauty, and a depth of gameplay that keeps unfolding long after you think you have the measure of it.

Red Dead Redemption 2, no contest.
The game world is so close to feeling real… the physics and horse handling feel basically perfect. They took their time to make you feel like you were in 19th century America.
- I'll disagree with that, it's sooo slow. Perhaps it's just my ADHD but man it hurts to play sometimes 🥲
  
  Yeah I agree. The world is incredible, but the missions and gameplay not so much.
- Tedious gameplay almost ruins it
  
  That's the problem with asking such a subjective question. What you hate others love. I thought my friends raving about the slow pace of the game were insane. Who would like that. Then I played and fell in love with all of it.
  Where you saw a turnoff, plenty more saw enjoyment.

DOOM(1993) : You all know why. It was First revolutionary FPS game.

My answer is SNAKE BYTE!

Just TWO keys, none of that FOUR KEY nonsense from other snake games.
It doesn't matter how old I get, I will always go back to Snake Byte and spend hours playing it when I do.
- I was thinking before reading the comments and nothing came close to Tetris in my mind. This is probably the true 2nd place

Quake 3 arena on Dreamcast. 4 player split screen with low gravity and unlimited ammo turned on was something that controlled me and my group of friends lives for years. Not the best game ever to some but definitely to me. Also to get the low gravity and ammo unlocks you had to play a huge maze on the vmu screen. We spent hours mapping out those mazes 1 square inch at a time. They were literally enormous but you could only see 1 inch at a time on that tiny but genius vmu. We even carried our controllers everywhere just in case a game broke out at a party. Each controller was customized with sharpies and shit too. Miss those days so much.
- Unreal Tournament on Dreamcast was amazing too. I played online non-stop.
  
  Unreal was def in rotation but quake was always our preference.

SuperMaeio 64
Because
- Old school mario is GOAT, but not 64. The Nes, Snes and specifically: Gameboy platformers which were the highlight of bus rides to school for me.
  
  for me, i'd put super mario galaxy up there too. but really tetris will be around for centuries.

Pong.
- Pong II: The Pongening.
  
  So 3 would be PONG3R?

the greatest, highest earning, and most influential game of all time is Clash of Clans. It earns about $5mil a day.
Titles like Elden Ring, Zelda, Bioshock, KoTOR, God of War, Skyrim and the Witcher are obscure also-ran games that titans of the game industry (people who fund video game development) consider them failures.
EDIT: I changed some stuff.
- Skyrim and Zelda obscure?
  Also I'm not going to challenge the earnings of Clash of Clans, but, why is it the most influential?
  
  Because it's taught everyone that the cash cow is low effort, microtransaction laden "free" to play games loaded to the gills with slot machine and gatcha mechanics and other psychological manipulation tactics.
  If you as a game publisher want to make big bucks, you have to make one of those. Which is why everything is becoming exactly that nowadays.
- I've had the same clash of clans base since I was like 9 lol

Castle Wolfenstein, it took 2D and made it POV 3D, really can't explain how much of a reality changer that was at the time, and since. Only had to wait an hour for the 1MB file to download over a 24.4k Modem from a pirate BBS, but then you were fucking golden.

Left4Dead2. Infinitely replayable, multiplayer without being toxic (except Versus mode), simple enough for n00bs to not be a burden most of the time.

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