MaximusPayne
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The Last of Us might get dethroned by the sequel. If this happens, I will be ok.
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Which is your favorite game and do you think it will ever get dethroned?
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Cert.in.Death
Member
Personal top 5:
FFIX
Dark Souls
Halo:CE
Pokémon Red+Blue
The Last of Us
Doubt any of those games are going to move either up or down, so if something does unseat my favorite game, it will have to be something I dont know of yet.
FFIX
Dark Souls
Halo:CE
Pokémon Red+Blue
The Last of Us
Doubt any of those games are going to move either up or down, so if something does unseat my favorite game, it will have to be something I dont know of yet.
DecoReturns
Member
Fire Emblem Path of Raidance.
There's a chance. I mean there's gonna be a ton of games to play in the future. Unless I gave up gaming which could happen as I've play far less games as the years go by.
There's a chance. I mean there's gonna be a ton of games to play in the future. Unless I gave up gaming which could happen as I've play far less games as the years go by.
whatever6352
Member
The Last of Us and maybe by TLOU part 2.
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Rocket League.
Unlikely.
Unlikely.
Irishonion
Member
Nothing has come close to Final Fantasy XI, for me.
shiftplusone
Member
100% my favorite game of all time and nothing will ever come close it seems.
the reboot prequel series being shelved is what you people deserve for calling HR "the first one"
#2 is TIE Fighter, It wont move ahead of Deus Ex, and I dont see anything overtaking it so its pretty locked in also
Albino_Yeti
Member
MGS4.
Doubt it gets dethroned because of the extensive history of the MGS series that MGS4 uses to excel.
Doubt it gets dethroned because of the extensive history of the MGS series that MGS4 uses to excel.
ThisIsMyDogKyle
Banned
Metroid Prime and highly unlikely.
Funyarinpa
Member
The House In Fata Morgana if visual novels count.
Persona 4 Golden if they don't.
And sure they definitely can change, I mean it changed thrice in the last 4 years (Virtue's Last Reward to P4G to THiFM)..
It makes me happy that it might happen again.
Persona 4 Golden if they don't.
And sure they definitely can change, I mean it changed thrice in the last 4 years (Virtue's Last Reward to P4G to THiFM)..
It makes me happy that it might happen again.
Tie between ChronoTrigger and Super Metroid. I have to this day never played a RPG or whatever the hell Metroid is and enjoyed them as much as those two games. And somehow i can pop in their cartridge, especially CT, and get sucked in within an hour even after all this time and beating each game more than 20 times.
Never thought it would happen but BOTW is the first game that made me think it was possible. Have to see how it ages before I give it the crown. I put it in last night to try and get the last few shrines and it still feels magical. Excited to see how it ages.
Never thought it would happen but BOTW is the first game that made me think it was possible. Have to see how it ages before I give it the crown. I put it in last night to try and get the last few shrines and it still feels magical. Excited to see how it ages.
Lionheart1827
Member
Chrono Trigger
Probably not as old Square is dead. The stars just aligned when this game came out. Legendary soundtrack, interesting story, plot and characters, multiple overworlds based on time travel, perfect pace and perfect length with just enough sidequests/content to feel satisfied branching away from the main story, excellent combat system, a billion endings all easily facilitated by New game +.
JRPGs really dont get better than that.
Probably not as old Square is dead. The stars just aligned when this game came out. Legendary soundtrack, interesting story, plot and characters, multiple overworlds based on time travel, perfect pace and perfect length with just enough sidequests/content to feel satisfied branching away from the main story, excellent combat system, a billion endings all easily facilitated by New game +.
JRPGs really dont get better than that.
silver moose
Member
If I'm honest, and put away nostalgia for older games, probably The Witcher 3.
And no, unless Cyberpunk 2077 just blows me away, I don't see it being dethroned any time soon, if ever.
And no, unless Cyberpunk 2077 just blows me away, I don't see it being dethroned any time soon, if ever.
Se_7_eN
Member
Unfortunately, a game of this caliber will never come around again.
I miss Silent Hill.
Cipher Peon
Banned
Silent Hill 2 and hopefully.
Silent Hill 2 represents everything wonderful and awe inspiring about this medium. The goal shouldn't just be to admire it and let it sit on a pedestal, but to accept it as a rival and hopefully one day surpass it.
I believe in video games and their makers.
Silent Hill 2 represents everything wonderful and awe inspiring about this medium. The goal shouldn't just be to admire it and let it sit on a pedestal, but to accept it as a rival and hopefully one day surpass it.
I believe in video games and their makers.
I can't think of a specific favorite game, but I do know of 3 of my favorites
PSO ep 1&2, which will never be dethroned (as has been painfully proven by PSU & PSO2, they just don't have the heart or charm the original PSO had)
Morrowind, which was so strange and wonderful, I was heavy into Lovecraftian fiction when I first played Morrowind, so the sixth house, dreamers, and all of that was right up my alley. Also feeling like a foreigner in a foreign place has a magical quality to it, and though the sequels to Morrowind have improved significantly, they still don't capture that alien feeling Morrowind had. (Also game design has changed a lot, and most items and enemies are leveled with you now, so you'll rarely get to experience the feeling of breaking into a bank vault at level 1 and walking out with a full daedric set)
Sudeki, which isn't even that great of a game, but it was a mixture of RPG + FPS and it has a strange charm about it, a lot of games these days do the RPG/FPS hybrid, but none off the top of my head let you play a mage using your staff as a rocket launcher, while using special abilities to throw out giant fireballs, also letting you choose which of 4 characters you played as with 2 third person melee characters, and 2 characters who played like a FPS was super interesting. There's also the really strange and beautiful nature of the world, everything is medieval and high fantasy, but there's also a steampunk vibe to it, and i adore it for that.
PSO ep 1&2, which will never be dethroned (as has been painfully proven by PSU & PSO2, they just don't have the heart or charm the original PSO had)
Morrowind, which was so strange and wonderful, I was heavy into Lovecraftian fiction when I first played Morrowind, so the sixth house, dreamers, and all of that was right up my alley. Also feeling like a foreigner in a foreign place has a magical quality to it, and though the sequels to Morrowind have improved significantly, they still don't capture that alien feeling Morrowind had. (Also game design has changed a lot, and most items and enemies are leveled with you now, so you'll rarely get to experience the feeling of breaking into a bank vault at level 1 and walking out with a full daedric set)
Sudeki, which isn't even that great of a game, but it was a mixture of RPG + FPS and it has a strange charm about it, a lot of games these days do the RPG/FPS hybrid, but none off the top of my head let you play a mage using your staff as a rocket launcher, while using special abilities to throw out giant fireballs, also letting you choose which of 4 characters you played as with 2 third person melee characters, and 2 characters who played like a FPS was super interesting. There's also the really strange and beautiful nature of the world, everything is medieval and high fantasy, but there's also a steampunk vibe to it, and i adore it for that.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Souls games/Bloodborne
Probably not. Maybe a Bloodborne 2
Probably not. Maybe a Bloodborne 2
cryptosporidium
Member
Destroy All Humans 2
I highly doubt any game could be as good as DAH2.
MGS2-3 are close
I highly doubt any game could be as good as DAH2.
MGS2-3 are close
uncleslappy
nethack is my favorite dark souls clone
Super Mario Galaxy
And its mostly about vibes. I know SMG2 is technically the better game, but nothing makes me happy like the first one.
Odyssey has a good chance to replace it, but its a big hill to climb.
And its mostly about vibes. I know SMG2 is technically the better game, but nothing makes me happy like the first one.
Odyssey has a good chance to replace it, but its a big hill to climb.
I still remember getting this game in college and knowing absolutely nothing about it.
I was working in a hospital during winter break and playing it when I got off. Almost got into a serious car accident at the end of the week because I was just not sleeping enough because of how awesome this game was. I just couldn't stop playing the further I got into it. And because of New Game+ I continued to play it for the rest of the year maxing out everyone and trying to find all of the endings.
One thing we miss in todays games is the lack of knowledge. Surprise and novelty definitely counts for something. That was really common before the internet when you often would buy a game based on the art on the box or the name of the developer, but it is less common today with all of the information we have.
That said I agree with everything you said about CT. I still don't think a better RPG has been made since it came out. And as I said I can still pop it into my SNES or DS and get sucked in within an hour, which to me is amazing for a game that was released in the 90s.
Majora's Mask
Maybe one day we'll get another Zelda with a not predictable story and that plays with my expectations of both the series and videogames in general in fascinating ways. More Link's Awakening type stories, less BOTW type stories.
Will it be surpassed for me? I dunno but I will say that Undertale made me feel things that I'll never forget.
Maybe one day we'll get another Zelda with a not predictable story and that plays with my expectations of both the series and videogames in general in fascinating ways. More Link's Awakening type stories, less BOTW type stories.
Will it be surpassed for me? I dunno but I will say that Undertale made me feel things that I'll never forget.
Barry Burton
Member
It is still Ocarina of Time, and I believe that the next Zelda game could very well dethrone it if they build off of BotW's foundation and improve upon the areas where it came up short. At about the 50 hour mark, I really thought BotW would be the game to do it, and I think it would have if a few things here and there were better.
Creepy
Member
My favourite game has been "dethroned" every few years since starting gaming.
Street Fighter II
Doom
Darkstalkers
Duke Nukem 3D
The House of the Dead
Dead or Alive 2
Raiden III
TESIV: Oblivion
Deathsmiles
Bayonetta
Saints Row 3
Persona 4 Golden
Senran Kagura SV/EV
I still love all these games, I just tend to get more invested in the new thing I like, then move on again.
Street Fighter II
Doom
Darkstalkers
Duke Nukem 3D
The House of the Dead
Dead or Alive 2
Raiden III
TESIV: Oblivion
Deathsmiles
Bayonetta
Saints Row 3
Persona 4 Golden
Senran Kagura SV/EV
I still love all these games, I just tend to get more invested in the new thing I like, then move on again.
sublimit
Banned
My favorite game is
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I don't know if it will ever be surpassed and honestly i don't really care. I mean there are still plenty of games "below" Team Ico's games that i absolutely LOVE and i'm sure more of that same very high caliber of games will be coming out in the future.
Not saying that no other game will ever surpass SOTC but for me it's highly unlikely and that's totally fine.
I don't know if it will ever be surpassed and honestly i don't really care. I mean there are still plenty of games "below" Team Ico's games that i absolutely LOVE and i'm sure more of that same very high caliber of games will be coming out in the future.
Not saying that no other game will ever surpass SOTC but for me it's highly unlikely and that's totally fine.
FFVII - i highly doubt it, i think with most replies on here it's more about the nostalgia you feel from the game, the age you were, the experience of that first time you played it.
No game since has filled me with the wonder and curiosity of exploring it's world.
Actually as below, Skyrim is probably a close second, but my memories of that aren't as great - but i spent more time on it overall i imagine.
No game since has filled me with the wonder and curiosity of exploring it's world.
Actually as below, Skyrim is probably a close second, but my memories of that aren't as great - but i spent more time on it overall i imagine.
Romars202129
Member
Ocarina and no. Nostalgia, place and time kinda thing. I can't imagine the game that could measure up to that.
Plague Doctor
Member
Came here to literally post the above word for word.
cyber_ninja
Member
The Last of Us and Bloodborne.