For me it’s Chrono Trigger. I always want to play it. I want to show it to my children. I hope it will be regarded as a masterpiece for generations to come.
Can’t believe Nethack doesn’t top the list.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
From the art to the music to the plot to the gameplay, it’s just iconic.
Was looking for this!
Definitely Golden Sun.
And it’s direct sequel, The Lost Age.
Considering the limitations of the console it’s incredible just how high quality the game is, the music especially. Timeless masterpiece.
I’m a fan of some even earlier RPGs… Miracle Warriors, Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star II and Ys.
Portal 1&2
Portal 2 is still beautiful 12 years after its release and puzzle games will be relevent even in 50 years.
Caesar III
Honestly after playing newer entries like Pharaoh and Zeus, it’s starting to show its age. But then the Augustus mod came and it feels truly timeless now.
Augustus was sent to us by gods
Morrowind feels like returning home, every time.
Hearing the music and the cry of a silt strider just makes me feel home
I say “You’re not what I expected. You’ve earned my trust!” several times a week, honestly.
The best crack? OG WoW.
Definitely Chrono Trigger for me. I’ve seen most of the endings. One day I will see them all!
Also, portal 1 and 2, tf2 and l4d2.
The original Mario Kart. I could play any course with Donkey Kong without taking my finger off the accelerator – I was a power sliding king.
My husband is currently trying Chrono Trigger for the first time, the music is catchy and the game is too, even though he’s currently stuck right now. We’re big video game fans sharing our passion with our little. We’ve been Mario Kart 8ing together, so fun!
Have you ever played CT? If not, you should do that.
I hope I will be able to do the same when I start a family :) best wishes to you guys
Skyrim, actually. It’s quite dated by today’s standards, but just recently I started another playthrough on a whim and ended up playing 20h or so even though I’ve played the game a bunch of times for several hundreds of hours throughout the years already.
Will be interesting to see if TES6 will replace Skyrim as the sort of mainstream culturally relevant icon of gaming.
After all Morrowind and Oblivion were both massively popular cornerstones of gaming in their own right in their time, but Skyrim has definitely overtaken them as fas as mainstream recognition goes.
Oblivion was good, but even at the time of the release the graphics, especially faces, are potato. Skyrim is probably peak graphics at release, and still beautiful even now. Gameplay is a little dumbed down, but still enjoyable for both casual and hardcore gamers. Combine that with active modding scene and continuous support from Bethesda, Skyrim ages longer than any game has right to be.
It’d be cool if it did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it did somewhere down the line.
Baldur’s Gate. Probably not timeless to everyone, but will always be for me.
Also, Lords of the Realm II. Not sure why.
Agree on Lords of the Realm 2! Just something about it.
Yup, I just replayed the campaign last weekend.
If I ever make a game, it’ll be a LotR2 remake. I have some ideas I’d like to play with these take it in a completely different direction from Total War games, such as:
- play as the merchant
- play as a general in the battles, while someone else handles empire management
- play as a mercenary band
All of these could play together in MP, and each has a separate win condition.
But every time I get excited about building it, I replay the game and it scratches that itch.
Mega man X! The musics are so fucking good
Mega Man X has aged so fucking well. The controls still feel so tight. There are hidden secrets in the levels, and the ultimate secret if you find all of them.
This was the first game.i ever played, so I’m definitely biased, but this is still probably my favorite game of all time.
I even learned many of the songs on guitar.
Also Chrono Cross, definitely one of the better stories Square has written.
Heroes of Might and Magic III.
Something about 3 never clicked with me while I still play the second one all the time.
There’s a game called Heroes Hour on steam that is like the pixel version of an expanded HoMM3, the over world and town building and unit recruiting is all almost the same, but the fights are real-time auto-battler that you can pause to cast spells or give directions to units. Really scratches the itch left by HoMM3
Oh I’m gonna check this out. I actually liked some of the newer homm games too but it was frustrating to play them because of all the bugs. The core gameplay of all of them is just so much fun for me though
If you’re going to buy HOMM3, get it from GOG. The steam version only has the base game, the GOG version has all the expansions. I’d also recommend downloading the HD Mod - it’s still being updated with new features. And there’s Horn of the Abyss - a fan-made expansion complete with new town types and some things that were started but never made it into the official expansions.
It did for me at first then I got mad at it when I felt like all the battles were so unexpected and undefined. There’s no damage, health or dmg/sec listed its just hope your mobs are more mob than those mob
It does feel like the battles are very player dependant until you hit high enough amounts of mobs. Keeping you back line protected is super important. It also does a terrible job of understanding special abilities for mobs or towns. For example there are some mobs with the special ability “immortal” where about 30 sec after they die they will rez, and each time after the chance halves. Using them as a front line with strong ranged is very powerful and can win fights the game says are impossible. Another one is the Pyre faction building, Infernal Gate. It summons units into battle for you based on how much it’s upgraded with sulphur. With just a few upgrades it becomes a practically non stop stream of free units that refreshes ever fight. As long as you keep your real units alive it’s very difficult to lose a fight after a certain point with enough upgrades.
How does it compares with Might and Magic IV?
Heroes (of Might and Magic) is a turn-based strategy game. You start with a hero and a castle, and you objective is usually to take over all the castles on the map. The computer, or other players, will be trying to do the same.
One of the craziest things, is that the game is almost 25 years old, but through the “HD Mod” it’s still getting regular updates, and there’s still annual world championships.
Thanks, I used to play might and magic iv for hours. But everyone recommends III. Just wanted to know why.
