It’s so deep abd so complicated, and blurs the line between literary and mechanical so expertly, that i cannot explain it without spoiling it.
Its very good, very literary, and about solving a murder. Your skills are your character’s inner monologue, and they’re all useful, but ypure kind of choosing what clues and what sort of language you get them in, how you interact with and literally read the world.
So play it, play it without reading anything else about it, and when picking skills, go with what you respond to or what character you want your detective to be. ‘Phillip marlowe’ ‘sherlock holmes’ and ‘dirk gently’ are pretty close to the three pre-sets.
It’s the only visual novel I’ve ever played, but it excels so much at it. The writing, worldbuilding, characters, narrator, and overall “vibe” are fantastically superb. It’s also another one of those games that I can’t help but play for ~5 hours nearly every day until I finish it. I’m no video game connoisseur, so you can find more sophisticated reviews elsewhere. You can pick it up on GOG for like €10 half of the time.
If I had to identify a game that radically changed the public perception of videogames, that would probably be The Legend of Zelda.
It was one of the earliest examples of modern gaming, changing the game design from an “arcade” standard to something that was more suited for home consoles.
Shadow of the Colossus was such a landmark game. The few little changes to the standard video game formula combined together just made for an absolute masterpiece.
Sid Meiers Alpha Centuri, it’s the best 4x game of its era and is a perfect example of how well games from the 90s can play, in many ways it feels like a modern game made with severe technical limitations. Today the graphics are outright bad (they weren’t exactly jaw dropping at the time either), and the UI lacks a couple of modern sensibilities and QOL features but everything else is top notch.
The story of the whole series spans decades and decades, and even watching a video laying out an abridged version of that story takes like 6 hours to watch.
Something as long running as that and with lore that goes that deep should definitely be preserved at all costs.
Specifically for older titles, I’d definitely say a game like, if anyone could find the original first version to ever be released of the game and not one of the many rip-offs/clones, Tetris. It’s probably, as far as I’m aware, the most copied/cloned/ripped-off game in existence.
As for newer titles ( 2000 onwards ), I can’t think of any that I think should 100% be in museum. Most of the titles I can think of aren’t good enough, in my opinion, to go into a museum. I’m not an expert on judging what should go into a museum, but I couldn’t think of a single title that would fit in any exhibit.
Edit:
Tetris is already in the video game hall of fame. Should have figured. Definitely deserves its place there. Even so, someone with a floppy of the original or clone of the floppy or digital backup should definitely see if there are any museums willing to take a copy because the original is something I think would be a shame to completely lose.
Star Wars knights of the old republic (it was so much fun exploring none skywalker Star Wars stories)
pong (first commercially successful game)
baldur’s gate II (because I love it)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ( it is universality recognized as the worst game of all time)
the legend of Zelda (it is universally recognized as one of the greatest of all time)
world of Warcraft ( the most successful English mmorpg of all time)
Warcraft III
sim city
Everquest ( it is called evercrack for a reason, this game literally gave rise to emotional support groups) The most amazing tidbit about that game. After it had been out three years I saw a guy playing his character in a Wizards of the Coast store, who had a really weird color name over his head. Apparently one got that color when you have looked 500 days on the character. I did the math… that is real time days. That meant he had played that game 1.5 years of the last three. My mouth fell open……)
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Disco Elysium. I don’t think that I need to explain why.
I could actually use an explanation. I’m not familiar, what makes it so good?
It’s so deep abd so complicated, and blurs the line between literary and mechanical so expertly, that i cannot explain it without spoiling it.
Its very good, very literary, and about solving a murder. Your skills are your character’s inner monologue, and they’re all useful, but ypure kind of choosing what clues and what sort of language you get them in, how you interact with and literally read the world.
So play it, play it without reading anything else about it, and when picking skills, go with what you respond to or what character you want your detective to be. ‘Phillip marlowe’ ‘sherlock holmes’ and ‘dirk gently’ are pretty close to the three pre-sets.
It’s the only visual novel I’ve ever played, but it excels so much at it. The writing, worldbuilding, characters, narrator, and overall “vibe” are fantastically superb. It’s also another one of those games that I can’t help but play for ~5 hours nearly every day until I finish it. I’m no video game connoisseur, so you can find more sophisticated reviews elsewhere. You can pick it up on GOG for like €10 half of the time.
Hate to break it to you, but you still haven’t played any visual novel because Disco Elysium is a CRPG.
A visual novel would be VA-11 HALL-A or Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk.
You’re right, but I thought that it was one of those visual novels because I had to have a dictionary at hand to understand half of the words.
Stardew Valley
Portal
Tetris
Hell yes on portal
And you will be cake
If I had to identify a game that radically changed the public perception of videogames, that would probably be The Legend of Zelda.
It was one of the earliest examples of modern gaming, changing the game design from an “arcade” standard to something that was more suited for home consoles.
Devil May Cry, definitely! Something that begun as one of many RE4’s demos, ended up as an inspiration for other series, such as Bayonetta!
Dark Souls: it proved that gamers are still craving challenge and created its own genre as well.
Metroid & Castlevania: without them, we wouldn’t have one of the greatest genres of all time!
Onimusha: my favourite one. It’s a living proof that hope dies last. We’ll get another entry after 20 years! (Dawn of Dreams was released on 2006)
I can only speak about my favorite genres:
Action games: this one is easy—Devil May Cry 1.
Shmups: Hmm… Battle Garegga? I’d actually rather go for a CAVE shmup seeing how influential they were, but I could be biased: DoDonPachi.
Fighting games: hmm… a bunch could go in here, but if I have to choose one, it should be Street Fighter II. Biased pick is Guilty Gear Plus R.
Tempest, especially if the museum lets us play it on a genuine arcade machine; and Shadow of the Colossus.
Shadow of the Colossus was such a landmark game. The few little changes to the standard video game formula combined together just made for an absolute masterpiece.
Sid Meiers Alpha Centuri, it’s the best 4x game of its era and is a perfect example of how well games from the 90s can play, in many ways it feels like a modern game made with severe technical limitations. Today the graphics are outright bad (they weren’t exactly jaw dropping at the time either), and the UI lacks a couple of modern sensibilities and QOL features but everything else is top notch.
All of Metal Gear Solid.
The story of the whole series spans decades and decades, and even watching a video laying out an abridged version of that story takes like 6 hours to watch.
Something as long running as that and with lore that goes that deep should definitely be preserved at all costs.
Pong Pac-man Super Mario Pokemon Dark Souls Tetris Wii Sports Halo The Sims
Masterpiece. Not the funnest, but certainly the best game I’ve ever played.
Specifically for older titles, I’d definitely say a game like, if anyone could find the original first version to ever be released of the game and not one of the many rip-offs/clones, Tetris. It’s probably, as far as I’m aware, the most copied/cloned/ripped-off game in existence.
As for newer titles ( 2000 onwards ), I can’t think of any that I think should 100% be in museum. Most of the titles I can think of aren’t good enough, in my opinion, to go into a museum. I’m not an expert on judging what should go into a museum, but I couldn’t think of a single title that would fit in any exhibit.
Edit:
Tetris is already in the video game hall of fame. Should have figured. Definitely deserves its place there. Even so, someone with a floppy of the original or clone of the floppy or digital backup should definitely see if there are any museums willing to take a copy because the original is something I think would be a shame to completely lose.
Populous! (It’s also available in GOG as part of their old game restoration)
A few come to mind
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I wouldn’t say so - I was fully engaged throughout my entire playthrough.
That’s all of my favorite games! I would never leave the museum!
We got another one girls, get em in the hug pit!
Same list (except front mission, thats brand new to me)
Want to add Phantasy Star Online - first online console game. Nearly gave it to Chu Chu Rocket before Google told me no.
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All my picks are in your list, except Quake 3 (purest PvP)