Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.
Inspired by a video by OutsideXbox from a few years ago, I thought it would be a fun idea to see what this community would choose. You can choose to be selfish and pick games you personally want to always play, or try to figure out what games would be best chosen for humanity to save for whatever reason. I’d also love to hear why you chose your games. Do they have a special meaning to you? I want to hear your stories.
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Pokemon, FF7, GTA San Andreas, Resident Evil 4, Portal
Oooo an SSS-Tier JRPG. I didn’t think of that. That’s a great idea.
Which Pokemon game? Also portal is a great choice, I was very nearly tempted to have portal 2 as my last pick.
Pokemon Crystal
Minecraft and then just build games inside of it?
Fair enough. I haven’t played Minecraft in a while so I sort of forgot it existed when I wrote my comment but it’s definitely a great pick for here.
Tears of the Kingdom and Minecraft would be important to save for their infinite playability due to their physics and craft engines. Final Fantasy 6 for story. Stellaris so people could have a competitive, chess-like monster to wrap their mind around. And Bonk for TurboGrafx16 so everyone could know that game design just doesn’t happen overnight.
Factorio. Not sure I’d need anything else
I really want to try it out but I’m worried it’ll ruin my life. It looks fun but I really don’t have a ton of time these days for gaming and I don’t want to get super hooked on a game I know I’ll spend way too much time on.
I couldn’t get past the browness of the graphics. Satisfactory on the other hand…
I recently started it with the caveat that I’m not allowed to pay without my brother. So he comes by once or twice per month and we go crazy for a few hours.
If I did it myself I’d lose my job.
I think you may have made a typo of “pay” instead of “play” :) Either that or I’m mistaken about what kinda game factorio is…
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Hope you have a lovely day! ☺️
You can play Factorio in coop? Is it good? This games looks like very personnal.
Yeah you can. For us it worked because we focus on different parts and then meet up, discuss and give feedback or help.
But you need to do it with someone you get along well with.
It is 3am, and after ~60 hours over the last two weeks I have launched my first rocket and gotten the game complete screen. I smile and slowly blink dry, crusty, tired eyes. Finally, I can rest. I have to be to the airport in four hours.
Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.
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That’s insane. I’ve beaten Bob’s+Angel’s (with a limp to the finish line) in 123 hours. There are many hundred items and thousands of total recipes, many with byproducts in B+A. How is Pyanodons that much longer?
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6 or 7 runs of Bob’s and Angel’s? That’s crazy, why did you play it so many times? I gotta get back to attempting to build a mega base in my save :)
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if anthologies are allowed:
Activision Anthology: Remix Edition
Atari Anthology
Sega Genesis Classics
Namco Museum Archives
Nintendo World Championships: NES EditionI’m a novice gamer, so someone who’s got more experience with retro gaming history could probably come up with a list that includes the greatest possible number of titles for preservation
could we have a link to the video you mentioned?
- Half-life 2 (Garry’s mod)
- Quake 2 (plenty of mods)
- Desert Bus (Penn and teller’s smoke and mirrors)
- Luanti (Open source Minecraft)
- Turtle WoW (So I can quest in vanilla’ish)
It’s crazy that there’s still nothing that comes close to Garry’s Mod.
Zelda Link’s Awakening … this one somehow has both the most Nostalgia and replayability for me even though I have also played the N64 Zeldas when growing up
Factorio - of course can’t go without Cracktorio
Caves of Qud - really good mix of roguelike and open world RPG. Lot’s of replayability as well.
Diablo 2 Resurrected - one of my favrotie games of all time. Got back into it recently on Switch and it’s just soo good. Also big Nostalgia for me
Mario Kart Double Dash - need to have something I can play with my wife and Mario Kart is just the Couch Multiplayer game. Double Dash is my favorite entry of the series as well
I’d say I hit a solid ish genre mix as well with it. Pity I couldn’t fit an FPS though
- Chrono Trigger - It’s pretty much the perfect RPG: great story, cool art, replayable, not too long or grindy.
- Earthbound - I admit I have a lot of nostalgia for this one, but it’s still a game I’ve replayed at least a half-dozen times.
- Final Fantasy Tactics - Fantastic story, plenty of character customization, and some extremely broken builds if you know what you’re doing. Also, did I mention the story?
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - THE metroidvania. Great gameplay, soundtrack, and visuals.
- Hollow Knight - Fun to play, difficult to master. Has a lot of charm and plenty of secrets to discover.
There are plenty of other games I would love to throw on the list, but some would require a ton of mods or just didn’t quite make the cut for me.
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Tough. If this is all I get forever I’ll go for replay over best games ever.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, good 5k hours
Monster Hunter World(Iceborne), like 5-10k in that
NieR Automata, less so for the replayability and more for the music
FFX For same as above
Aaaaand hm. Oh I want some childhood. Majora’s Mask.
- Deus Ex - this game will last forever, especially with mods (like my Randomizer mod lol)
- StarCraft 2 - I just love watching the esports, and with no other esport games available I guess this would be pretty huge
- The 7th Guest - this is a bad pick but I’m obsessed with the game
- Doom - I mean, come on, obviously
- maybe some kind of builder game, I’m not into any currently but someone else said Factorio and that sounds like a good pick as a game you can keep playing forever, or maybe Stardew Valley or something accessible like that so everyone can play forever, or OpenRCT2
I’m sure you’ve played The 11th Hour, but have you played The 13th Doll or The 7th Guest VR? Not as good as the OG, but worthy sequels.
Yeah those are great too! I bought my Quest 3 headset just for T7GVR and played it on release day lol.
I actually run the Lemmy community for these games !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com
and the Discord community https://discord.gg/Hss5cJg
- Puyo Puyo Champions - Extra selfish pick, in this scenario now people would have to play it and we’d have a healthy playerbase again. I’d finally get to fulfill my dream of large offline tournaments.
- Skullgirls - See above.
- Stepmania - I was tempted to say Wacca or Chunithm, but in this scenario Stepmania would be ideal for nearly infinite content, as well as offering both keyboard and pad playstyles in one game.
- Slay the Spire - My pick for casual second monitor content. I’m also assuming the modding scene is allowed to continue, in this scenario it’d suddenly have everyone making tons of new characters.
- Super Mario Maker 2 - Actually took me a bit to think of what the last game should be. Gotta be an endless game, but I didn’t want to duplicate genres by just adding another fighting game or puzzle game. Though if we’re allowing romhacks to count as part of the game, if new romhacks can continue to be made, substitute Super Mario World instead.
Hmm, tough one. I’m going to maximise replayability and this assumes all DLC too
- RimWorld
- Factorio
- Balatro
- FTL or Slay the Spire
- Civ 6 or Cities Skylines
Honourable mention to several JRPGs from Squaresoft
Edit: I’m now reading the thread and second guessing everything. But gonna keep my original list
JRPGs can be annoying to play multiple times.
Civ 6 (or some other strategy game like Age of Empires) and Factorio are great choice for this though.
I could only come up with three for now because it’s no small task!
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Squarez Deluxe
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TormentorXPunisher
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Quake IIx
I didn’t choose anything with crafting or making, because I can still craft and make things in real life. I chose games that provide something that I could never get anywhere else, and also games that for me are infinitely replayable. I would never pick a story driven anything because if that’s the only game I can play for the rest of my days, I don’t want to hear/play the same story 70 times, and RPG combat systems are easy to figure out and game after a while
Squarez Deluxe to me is the greatest shape packing game ever made, it makes Tetris look like Tinker Toys idc fite me. It’s probably three decades old by now and it’s DOS freeware and I still play it. Extreme mode only, my peeps
TormentorXPunisher is the best twin stick shooter I have ever played, and I have played hundreds of them. It has an infinite skill ceiling. I play every day and have done so for about 7 years. I was number two WR on hard mode until my protegé took me down, but I recently ascended on regular mode by 14 ranks. I’m so invested in this game I actually developed a friendly acquaintanceship with the sound engineer Joonas Turner
Quake 2 is just a granddaddy of all amazing FPS with again, an infinite skill ceiling esp in movement. I actually enjoy the movement of Q1 better, but the mod support of Q2 and upgraded engine makes it a game that goes on forever. Team CTF, rocket arena, etc
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