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Have you ever played a PERFECT game?

Sammy Samusu said:
I mean literally perfect (having no mistakes or flaws).

I have played one perfect game in my 15 years of gaming, and that game is Metroid Prime, everything about it is perfect.

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In fact, Metroid Prime is the only perfect thing I have ever seen in my whole life. It got me questioning that popular saying "nothing is perfect".

So now I'm here creating this thread: have you ever played a perfect game?

And once again, I mean LITERALLY perfect.
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You must not have seen Mama Robotic's thread about MP's cut content. As incredible as Prime is, the game could have been MUCH better if Retro would have had more time.
 
Good chocie OP, that is one of my all time faves.

For me the perfect games are The Shadow of the Colossus, Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap, Halo, Residet Evil: REmake, Resident Evil 4 and Dark Souls.
 
Sammy Samusu said:
I mean literally perfect (having no mistakes or flaws).

I have played one perfect game in my 15 years of gaming, and that game is Metroid Prime, everything about it is perfect.

In fact, Metroid Prime is the only perfect thing I have ever seen in my whole life. It got me questioning that popular saying "nothing is perfect".

So now I'm here creating this thread: have you ever played a perfect game?

And once again, I mean LITERALLY perfect.
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I just started Metroid Prime last week and only got past what I presume was the first level, and I noticed one glaring flaw: Ridley flaps his wings to fly in a vacuum.

I never played a "perfect game" myself because if I don't find any flaws then I doubt my own opinion for being too blind.
 
I'd love to see the responses to this thread consolidated into a list (perhaps even by platform). While most people won't agree on what a perfect game is I think the games being listed are some of the highest quality regarding the experience they offer.

Anyway on topic, my perfect games would be:

Baldur's Gate 2 - this game alone revived my interest in PC gaming.
Tekken 3 - Probably the first game that I just kept going back to. Probably only because it was also popular with my friends at the time so we would sit and play for hours in training mode just trying to get our combos in.
Dota 2 - If I didn't have a wife and daughter I'd still be playing this. It just caused too many arguments because I wouldn't want to leave a game 30 minutes in and something would come up, so I had to quit :(
 
In the year 2000 I thought I had played the Perfect game in the guise of Perfect Dark, but then Perfect Dark XBLA came out.

I love everything about it, the level design, the story, the mission structure and difficulty, plus it has Elvis.
 
For me?

Probably Metal Gear Solid 1 or 3.

Perfection.


Although a close second would probably be either Sunset Overdrive or RDR or SMRPG.
 
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Tetris in general is the perfect game when you think about it. The core concept literally cannot be improved upon.
 
Taking "perfect" to be "I would make literally zero changes to this game," not "there is nothing about this game that could be improved."

Tetris - As others have said, this game delivers on its concept basically perfectly. There's a reason it was so popular and enduring.

Pac-Man - See Tetris.

The Legend of Zelda - I didn't experience this game until 2007-ish, and it completely blew my assumptions about game worlds out of the water. The only things that could vaguely be considered flaws are the rough dialogue translations and the trial-and-error secret-hunting in the overworld--even those add to the charm, if you have the appropriate temperament.

Super Mario World - It's not even my favorite Mario game (that's Mario 3), but the game's design is really something. A bit on the easy side, but that's not necessarily a flaw, and that's really just compared to the NES games anyway.

StarCraft/Brood War - Pretty much the perfect RTS. Great campaign, great story, great units, great multiplayer.

Ocarina of Time 3D - I'd say the "perfection" stands out more in the original game if you played it back in the day, but the 3DS version overcomes a number of the technical shortcomings.

Metroid Prime - What stands out about Metroid Prime is that the pacing is just right. Even the backtracking/fetch quest at the end worked well, since it was based around using the full extent of your abilities to blow open the game's secrets--the same kinds of activities you were doing throughout the rest of the game, but on a meta level.

Super Mario Galaxy - An absolute marvel of a game. Hit basically every right note that could possibly exist.

Almost perfect games:
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (lots of technical shortcomings)
- Super Metroid (flawed controls)
- Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze (flawed secret exit design)
- Mario Kart 8 (meh battle mode)

Games I wanted to list in the categories above, but their flaws negatively impact the game too much:
- Demon's Souls (World Tendency)
- Dark Souls (Demon Ruins)
- Xenoblade Chronicles (tedious sidequest tracking, spike damage was a poorly-implemented mechanic)
- Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (poor single-player content esp. classic mode, overemphasis on chaotic stage design)

Gonna be overviewing the Final Fantasy series as well as Nintendo/PlayStation history over the coming years, so I'll probably add/subtract a few here and there.
 
these threads always wanna make me cry because almost nobody has the same perfectly exquisite taste as me. Guys gotta get your act together

Not perfect but very close:
Zelda Lttp
Super Metroid
SSX Tricky and SSX3
 
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Starcraft 1 for me. Gameplay, graphics, story, characters, music, voice acting (most memorable lines in a RTS ever), atmosphere, diversity in races and units, singleplayer, multiplayer, custom maps, map editor. Everything about it was pretty much perfect. With Brood War it became ULTRA perfect!

Symphony of the Nights is also pretty darn good.
 
As everyone has stated, no game is perfect, but I feel like Metal Gear Solid 2, F-Zero GX, and Star Fox 64 are my "perfect" games

But I do think Tetris is the closest we'll ever get to an objectively perfect game.
 
A perfect game to me is something I go back to time and time again and not get tired of it. For me it right now it would be Zelda: A Link To The Past with Final Fantasy VI close behind.
 
nbnt said:
Yes. It's called Shadow of the Colossus.
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YEs this is definitely a good answer...Demons' Souls was close for me, but they could have done a little better with the world tendency stuff, and when Dark OSuls had that interconnected world...it beat out Demons' in several ways...but themn it sucked rocks the last half of the game for bosses...DS2 wasnt perfect owing to the lack of interconnected world, and poor story, despite beating the other two before it with regard to many things like dual weilding and the sheer size and weapon armour selection. Bloodborne has a shot...hopefully FROM has learned form the SOTC, and its own former IP's and finally perfected its masterpiece!!!
 
Apoc87 said:
bayonetta 1 is a perfect game. i would literally not add, remove, or change anything about it whatsoever.
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I have to say that the QTEs in this game annoyed the shit out of me. Hopefully when I finally get to the second game there will be less of those.
 
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