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Super Metroid - snes

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Marathon.

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89 points

Half-Life

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11 points

Bloody hell, I didn’t realize it’s that old. I played it in high school, feels like yesterday.

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Play Black Mesa, you deserve it. Not only it’s Half-Life like you’ve never seen it, but there’s also a completed Xen campaign.

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7 points

I did, it’s amazing. Also just replayed HL2 with some fancy graphics mod, pretty cool stuff.

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8 points

Yeah, this is the make us feel old thread.

We’re only a couple months from the launch lineup for the ps2 qualifying here.

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My hope is that this becomes a living document that will show up in search engines and make people aware of lemmy and can be reffered to when people ask “what should i play?” Thats why the title says “best” instead of “most popular.” There’s a lot of hidden gems posted already.

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My thought when reading the title of the thread was “If Half-Life fits the bill, it’s half life.”

Revolutionary game.

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76 points

Chrono Trigger - SNES, 1995

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9 points

I hear people say all the time that it is perfect. It definitely has imperfections.

However while I will insist on it being imperfect it has still been my number one favorite game for at least two decades.

It is easily the closest to perfect I think you could possibly ask for with the hardware limitations and the fact that teams don’t have magical infinite time or budgets. Anyone with even a slight interest in RPGs should play it.

Plus it gave us the musical career of Yasunori Mitsuda

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7 points

The SNES library of RPGs will always be peak gaming. Chrono Trigger & Earthbound fight for the top spot for me, #3 depends on the day.

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PS1’s rpg library is nothing to scoff at, either. Square’s golden years (3 mainline final fantasy, tactics, Chrono Cross, Parasite Eve and more), Suikoden, Persona, Breath of Fire 3, Valkyrie Profile.

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4 points

Best JRPG of all time and I’ll die on that hill 🤣

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I never played it, what are everyone’s thoughts on the 2018 pc version? Some reviews don’t like the port?

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70 points

Super Mario Bros 3 - NES

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14 points

This game was huge. People that weren’t around at the time don’t understand how much better it was than previous games.

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10 points

They made a freaking MOVIE to promote it!

And that stupid glove.

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10 points

Looking back, boy did they have vision. I get that the Power Glove wasn’t all it was cracked up to be but Nintendo really saw early on how we want to interact with our machines.

Then somewhere along the way they realized they could make a lot of money by relicensing the same game over and over again, and suing their most loyal fans out of existence.

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5 points

I love the Power Glove™️.

It’s so bad.

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5 points

YES. It’s absolutely criminal that people always show the first one off and out it on a pedestal.

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