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.
Probably Doom for being one of the first games with real mod support
Ocarina of time. All Zelda games since are to some degree compared to it in terms of how successful it is monetarily, gameplay and story-wise. So many modern adventure games are based on this one game. It’s the game that finally made target tracking in 3D work. It’s so well thought out, that a blind streamer is able to play the game probably better than I ever will. If most common people know of “zelda” it’s because of this game. There are so many memes from Zelda in general. It’s one of the few games from my childhood that I will replay for the rest of my life.
Runescape. It’s been around for more than 20 years and still is one of the most active online games.
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.
Marathon, by Bungie. From the box it came in, to the hugeness of the spaceship, the coolness of the story, all the secrets, and the fan community that sprang up to research and theorize.
And then they made it open source so anybody could play it on any computer.
It’s not favorite game to play any more, but it was the greatest game to me.
The Witcher 3.
I mean, come on, it has to be Minecraft. One of the most influential games of all time. There really is nothing like it
Command and conquer generals zero hour
I always answer with Super Mario World. It’s the best game. I won’t elaborate.
Gothic 2.
Portal 2 is THE highest rated game on Steam.
Doom or Tetris were probably the most influential ones?
Haven’t seen TIE Fighter mentioned yet.
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!
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.
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.
