• I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    20 minutes

    World of Warcraft. After it, a lot of player retention mechanics became super obvious in other games for me, especially because a lot of said games were copying “the king of MMOs”

    Dwarf Fortress is my main go-to example of procgen done right. Whenever there’s discussions of “game X sucks and is lifeless because it’s mostly procgenned”, I look back at DF. Lazy procgen is the problem.

    I know at some point I saw a game with absurdly high damage and health numbers, I can’t remember which one it was, whether a mobile thing around 2014 or a korean mmo, but that was the point where I very easily understood “big number better” is total bullshit

    Elder Scrolls Morrowind was the first game I’ve played that gave almost complete freedom to the player, with lots of things carrying consequence, especially in relation to NPCs. That shopkeeper you killed? Still dead. This essential NPC that is a literal demigod? Yeah, you can kill him, have fun in this broken timeline you just created where you can no longer advance the main quest.

  • BruisedMoose@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 hours

    My Younger days:

    • Legend of the Red Dragon
    • Police Quest 1
    • Anarchy Online
    • Bard’s Tale (OG)
    • Shadowgate
    • Metroid
    • Forgotten Worlds
    • Super Mario World
    • Paper Mario TTYD
    • Guitar Hero
    • Tony Hawk’s Underground
    • Star Wars: KOTOR

    More recently:

    • Cave Noire
    • AC: Odyssey
    • Fallout 4
    • Cloverpit
    • Offline Games (Android)

    Mostly tried to stick to a single release per platform for the earlier games. I’m sure I’ve missed some.

    Newer games…I know the AC and Fallout titles aren’t most people’s favorites, but I love those worlds. Games are all about comfort for me.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 minute

      Ohhh shit someone else who has visited Rubi-Ka? Loved that game when I was younger

  • showmeyourkizinti@startrek.websiteEnglish
    3 hours
    • Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar - yes I’m older then dirt but I played my first real video game on an Apple IIe and it was a revelation real puzzles and my first choices with consequences
    • Tetris - ok so a great game doesn’t need a story or puzzles or anything but good game play
    • Gauntlet: Red Elf needs food badly. My first exposure to cooperative gameplay.
    • Pokemon:RBY - I love the mechanics and they were the best turn based combat.
    • Halo - Great storyline’s really do help but the gameplay was a real game changer for me I enjoyed how if you wanted to you could get through a level in several different ways.
    • The Last of Us - Literary Characters that I came emotionally attached to. There’s a reason the first season of the TV series was so good it was because the writing of the game was just so good. I still remember the finale in the operating room when I (Joel really but I was so invested) found Ellie I was angry I was mad and I shot the nurses because I was so mad. I’ve, to this day, never felt so inside a character in any media as I felt then.
    • Spiritfarer - My first cozy game and the only game I’ve ever played that made me stop and think about what just happened. I don’t ever want to spoil the game for anyone so all I’ll say is it’s less then the cost of a Happy Meal on steam and worth more for your soul then you can put a price on.
  • Simulation6@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4 hours

    Based on how many times I have started the game, but never finished

    • Stardew Valley
    • Terraria

    Based on number of hours played

    • Modded Minecraft
    • No Mans Sky
  • Magiilaro@feddit.orgEnglish
    4 hours
    • Morrowind
    • Final Fantasy 7 (the original not the aweful Remake)
    • Final Fantasy 9
    • Secret of Mana
    • Secret of Evermoor
    • Planescape Tornment
    • MegaMan X
    • Gothic
    • German trading simulators (Hanse, Fugger 2, Vermeer, etc.)
    • all the many games on my C64
  • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5 hours

    Minecraft, Warframe and old school Runescape.

    Everything else I’ve loved over the years has fallen out of favour with me, but I’ll happily dive into those 3 for a few hundred hours again

  • pasdechance@jlai.luEnglish
    6 hours

    I’ve been playing games since the 80s. I wouldn’t call myself a gamer. Here are a few personal hallmarks…

    • Crash ‘n’ the Boys: Street Challenge on NES was the first time I had fun playing multiplayer.
    • Metroid II: Return of Samus was the first game I was addicted to. Super Metroid is still my favourite game.
    • UMKIII was the first game I actually got pretty good at.
    • Starcraft. My brother played this and I loved being a spectator, in hindsight I realized that gaming could be a sport that people would watch at this moment.
    • Quake and Descent were the first times I got motion sickness playing games!
    • Counter-Strike because everyone played it at university.
    • FFVII because I never played it and it is apparently kinda famous…
  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 hours
    • TIE Fighter
    • GoldenEye 64
    • Diablo II
    • NetHack
    • Doom/Doom II
    • Descent/Descent II
    • Galactic Battlegrounds
    • Super Mario World
    • Dark Age of Camelot
    • World of Warcraft
    • PlanetSide
    • Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (yes, it’s my favorite game in the series, fight me)
    • Wing Commander: Privateer
    • Torchlight II
    • Hammerfight
    • Carmageddon 2
    • Freelancer
    • DoomRL
    • N/N++
    • FreeSpace
    • Katawa Shoujo
    • Unreal Tournament
    • Minecraft
    • Cave Story
    • FTL
    • Dark Souls
    • Slay
    • Terraria
    • Ender Lilies
    • The Binding of Isaac (and Rebirth)
    • Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
    • Dead Cells
    • Hollow Knight
    • Kerbal Space Program
    • Transformice
    • Soldat
  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15 hours

    Questions like these always reveal the core audience of millennials and older Gen Z.

    • Gonzako@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14 hours

      Caught me, I’m a CIA plant doing statistical anilisis on the fediverse

  • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
    14 hours

    Super Mario Bros 1, 2 & 3
    Super Mario World
    Mortal Kombat 1 & 2
    Wolfenstein 3D
    DOOM
    Commander Keen
    Starcraft
    Diablo 1 / 2
    Unreal Tournament 2003/4
    Counter-Strike
    Half Life
    Everquest
    World of Warcraft
    The Secret of Monkey Island
    Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis / Last Crusade
    LOOM
    Resident Evil 1 & 2
    Legend of Zelda 1
    Ocarina of Time
    Mario Kart (SNES & 64)
    Ogre Battle 64
    WCW/NWO Revenge
    Portal 1 & 2
    Grand Theft Auto 2, 3 and 5

    Yeah I’m old. Some modern ones:
    Breath of the Wild
    Valheim
    Outer Wilds

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12 hours

      Your not old, your me!. Most of these plus some others definitely, plus a bunch of modern ones as well. Shocked you only liked Half-Life 1 and not 2. I thought 2 was mind blowing at the time and still feel like it’s the first game to bring us into the modern era of games to this day.

  • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    Dungeon master 1 & 2 The Secret of Monkey Island
    Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis / Last Crusade
    LOOM
    The dig Escape from Tarkov The Division Ultima 7 Wing commander series Strike commander Battletech crescent hawks inception/revenge Mech commander Payday 2

  • kionay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 hours

    I used to have a hard time ranking my favorite games. Often the order would change based on how I was feeling at that time.

    That all changed when I found Satisfactory. I no-lifed that game for months. Never before have I felt as though a game had been made for me.

    Now my ranking is

    1. Satisfactory
    2. (a huge-ass gap)
    3. Hades 1&2 4-∞. idk like every other game that is conventionally good?
  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 hours

    Playing Minecraft multiplayer in 2010 blew me off my socks and I will never experience anything as intense as that, video game wise.