Oh shit, forgot you werent playing with the chosen. Those guys are the best. Really looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the best one.
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If you liked Obra Dinn, The Case of the Golden Idol, while not being nearly as good, scratches that same itch. You see a series of scenes where people are being murdered and try to piece together who and what is going on.
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god of war is the best game ever made of all time
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I donāt think Iād make this argument but I can see it. Honestly surprised you didnāt say Rocket League, which I think would be my pick.
Edit: Time for a GOAT video game draft?
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I donāt think you can compare video games with wildly different objectives like that as the greatest against each other.
Except youāre both wrong, itās NHL 94
Hasnāt there already been one?
Portal 2
Xcom 2
ALTTP
Binding if Isaac
I donāt even know how Iām supposed to compare old-time masterpieces like X-COM UFO Defense, TIE Fighter, and Half-Life with contemporary masterpieces like Elden Ring, Mass Effect 3, and Path of Exile. In a certain sense, sure, the modern games are ābetter,ā but no small part of that is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Thereās also a whole generation of gamers who donāt know the wonder of ducking down to somehow fall behind a white block to find a secret zone, or of using a mouse to pan in a full tree dimensions for the very first time it was ever possible. To riff on an idea from Matt above, Iām not sure if I can even really pick between A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess. All were pretty mindblowing for me.
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Video game draft
10 rounds
Have to pick from
- Arcade-Atari Era
- NES-Genesis Era
- SNES Era
- N64 Era
- PS2 Era
- PS3 Era
- PS4 Era
- Modern Era
- PC Game
- Wild card
could be interestingā¦
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As a mainly PC gamer through all of those eras, picking one PC game is lol
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I actually agree, that was just a rough rough draft idea
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Options are way too varied. Iāve spent thousands, and thousands, and thousands of hours playing and watching DOTA 2. Most of the games I play arenāt even enjoyable. But the small fraction of back and forth, super competitive matches are so far better than any other gaming experience.
I love Civ 4,5 & 6 as a completely different thing. Same with Skyrim, Red Dead, MGS5, or any other open world game.
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Well, Iāve already gotten chuckles on board, but for illustration, Golden Eye, an absolutely iconic N64 game, was released not much before the original Half-Life. Putting Golden Eye in anywhere close to the same league as Half-Life is laughable unless you only played the former or are willing to cut console games a ton of slack. But perhaps hypocritically, Iād think older games deserve some slack compared with newer ones. Subjectivity is tough, nostalgia is a helluva drug, and itās impossible to have played all the games.
So if you say Half Life, do you get CS, CS 1.5, CSGO, DOD, TF, TF2, HL2, etc?
Cuz I could get behind that. Still remember playing HL for the first time.
Another issue I hadnāt even begun to consider. I was talking strictly about the original HL and is original multiplayer, which I played the shit out of. HL2 is definitely a different game in my book, but how to carve up the rest of those is tough. Played the ever living shit out of Counter-Strike, too. No idea if it should be counted as its own game or not.
Civ
X-COM
Doom
90ās kids, what up
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Valve is uniquely very hard to define if you wanted to do a video game draft. Orange Box is a cheat code if you donāt define the rules well.
We did a video game draft on 2p2ā¦. Iirc Super Mario 3 was the first overall pick
I canāt remember the name of the precursor to the orange box, but I remember getting HL1, Opposing Force, Blue Shift, Counter Strike and Team Fortress Classic in a 5 disc bundle for Christmas one year.
I think itās an fascinating and basically impossible question of how you compare games across a wide gulf of technology and genre and nostalgia. I donāt even know how I feel about Super Mario Bros. vs. Super Mario 3 (both on the same console!), how do I even begin to judge XCOM2 vs the 90ās XCOM? Pac-Man vs. Overwatch?