Rules: just pick 1 and explain why.

I’ve been playing since the NES and despite being from a low income family I had the luck of being able to play and own many consoles over the 3 decades of my life, plus some pc.

If you ask me right now? Resident Evil 4 (2005).

A before and after in gaming, to this day still extremely fun to play even for casuals but 20 years ago it was THE masterpiece. And everyone took notice of it, everyone played it, even players that didn’t cared about resident evil. The gameplay was so good that it got photocopied by everyone right after in the action genre.

Arguably the last big innovator in videogames minus Minecraft and… PUBG (Fortnite did it better I know).

Try to NOT pick your favourite game, that’s a different thing.

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This is such an absurd question. I mean, it’s weird in movies and books, weirder in music… but games?

I mean, Tetris. It’s Tetris, isn’t it?

But then you’re out there going “so is Tetris better than Baldur’s Gate III”, which is a nonsensical sentence.

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That’s a good question. Tetris has more levels but then again BG3 has better character customisation.

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39 points

Weirdly, better sex scenes in Tetris.

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When you rotate the T like one just right. 🥵 💦💦💦

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I wanted to post a DOS game here I remembered called Sextris where the pieces were cartoony naked men and women in positions representing the shapes of the tetris pieces. But all I could find when I searched were versions of the regular game where nudie photos were slowly revealed as you cleared lines.

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It’s kind of like asking for the best video.

It wouldn’t make sense to compare TV shows, movies, Youtube videos, TikToks, sporting events, commercials, journalistic footage, etc. all as a single category.

Idk. So do you ask for “best RPG” or something like that instead? Seems overly specific now.

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I feel like this is just a question to learn more about other people. I don’t care if someone’s favourite is tetris when mine is sonic. I just wanna be reminded of fun games and hear a passionate argument as to why they think it should be top of my list :)

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Yeah no, it’s a totally fair question and I get the spirit of it, but it’s still interesting to reflect on the way that video games have a pretty strange concept of genre or “format” vs. other media like video or print.

Maybe it’s cuz games are so heavily influenced by their associated hardware.

I mean, I guess everything is, right? Early printing press is mostly pamphlets not books (aside from the bible), and you don’t get TV shows without TVs.

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Yeah, for sure. The real answer is the question is superfluous. There is no number one. I’d say you can’t even put together a top 10. It’s just not a thing you need to do or can do.

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Is it? Minecraft is the most sold game, which to be fair Tetris held for a very long time.

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You’re kinda making my point, that’s another absurd choice to have to make.

But no, it’s Tetris.

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