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Have you ever played a PERFECT game?

PopcornMegaphone said:
You said it wasn't perfect to you. I was just wondering what you don't like about it. I don't disagree with what you're saying really.
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Personally, I love the game. Don't have a single bad thing to say about it really. That's far from what I consider to be perfection however. If the game was objectively perfect, every response in this thread would simply be "Tetris".
 
For me a game is perfect when it achieves its goal without any stumbles or flaws. Usually games that have a minimalist design philosophy can achieve this goal easier than games with more ambition.

Stuff like Limbo, SUPERHOT, INSIDE, Geometry Wars HD and maybe even something like Hotline Miami I think I can consider perfect games.


Edit: If what defines a perfect game is being the be all end all of the full gaming spectrum, I think we can all agree that such a thing cannot exist.
 
This thread is less "Have you ever played a perfect game" and more "How much imperfection are you willing to tolerate in your favorite game."

Tetris is the only game I would consider basically perfect.
 
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Best game ever in my opinion. No RTS game has ever come close to topping it.
 
Joei said:
Did anyone notice that this was a year+ bump for quite literally no reason at all?



Like, this post was the bump that just continued the convo like it hadn't been 15 months since the last post.
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oh wow I honestly didn't realize that. I must have been on the search results page and thought it was the regular forum page. Didn't intent to bump the thread at all.
 
In all seriousness the almost perfect games I played are....

Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
more recently Kid Icarus Uprising and Nier Automata
 
I literally can't think of a single flaw in Metroid Prime with Wiimote controls. But maybe that's just me. Like I think RE4 and MGS3 are better games but there are nit picks I have with both of them.
 
NullPointer said:
With some kind of colorblind support I'd probably agree.
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This is, l feel, the only criticism that can be leveled against the game. But I don't feel it holds up. Firstly, you can't make a game that is accessible for everyone. Very few games are playable by blind people, for example. Secondly, the very elegant greenhouse elevator puzzle could not have been done in any way that would have been accessible to colour blind people. I think that is one of the best game puzzles of all time, and the game would have been a lot worse without it. So I can't consider it a flaw that the game contains puzzles that are impossible for colour blind people to solve. Because it allowed for one of the most elegant puzzles ever.
 
Literally perfect? No.

Perfect insomuch as the game has no actionable flaws to me? Yeah.

INSIDE
BOXBOY!
Metroid Prime
Titanfall 2
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Portal
Mega Man X
The Stanley Parable
Punch-Out!! (Wii)
WarioWare: Twisted!

davidwhangchoi said:
Nes Metroid and Super Metroid > than Metroid Prime so there's no way it can be perfect if there's something is better.
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Wrong! The Godfather is perfect, but I just think it's fine. It's nowhere near my favorite movie. For example, every game I listed is inferior to EarthBound IMO, but EarthBound is not a perfect game.
 
Still will never understand the fascination with Metroid Prime, I'm glad so many people are able to love it, but the controls aren't great, even on the Wii. Even getting past that, I just don't think that the Metroid formula actually works that well in 3d. It's a well put together game, but... not for me I guess?

Anyhow the real answer, that was only mentioned once in the thread, and in an off hand way is Ys: The Oath in Felghana. It is the pinnacle of that style of action RPG. Perfectly paced, with the best soundtrack in the series, and it also happens to be the best remake of all time, somehow being even better than REmake in that regard. Perfect controls, amazing bosses, and perfect progression also help.

Chrono Trigger is also the perfect JRPG.
 
No such thing as "perfect," but you can judge a game against itself and whether or not it fully delivered on what it set out to do.

IMO there are only a handful of games you could say come close to perfection in actualizing their own potential, games like Super Metroid, Silent Hill 2, God Hand, and Resident Evil 4. There are more, but these are just off the top of my head.

Perfection is an ideal, and not a quantifiable objective. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
 
QisTopTier said:
It has a flaw, it's too easy outside of probably two bosses. Game really needed to be a lot more mean with how strong the cast is and gets
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You could also argue that the final boss is disappointing, and that the prehistoric era section was flawed for being rushed and not containing a sidequest for Ayla, whereas every other character has one.
 
hydrophilic attack said:
This is, l feel, the only criticism that can be leveled against the game. But I don't feel it holds up. Firstly, you can't make a game that is accessible for everyone. Very few games are playable by blind people, for example. Secondly, the very elegant greenhouse elevator puzzle could not have been done in any way that would have been accessible to colour blind people. I think that is one of the best game puzzles of all time, and the game would have been a lot worse without it. So I can't consider it a flaw that the game contains puzzles that are impossible for colour blind people to solve. Because it allowed for one of the most elegant puzzles ever.
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I don't disagree, and was only talking personally, grudgingly, because I adored most of that game.

Colorblindness is pretty common, but I totally get your point.
 
Back in the day I called DMC3 perfect. Having played it again recently, it's...uh, it's not. But back in the day though! So if we're speaking in the past tense, then yes I have, but in present tense, I don't think such a concept exists and I'm too cynical to be taken in again.
 
For me personally the only game that comes close to flawless is Skies of Arcadia - and the encounter rate and battle speed still drag it down. Fix those two things (even get rid of random encounters entirely?) and perhaps I'd consider it perfect. Even then, there still may be some other things I'm forgetting since it's been years since I've played it.
 
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