Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.
Inspired by a video by OutsideXbox from a few years ago, I thought it would be a fun idea to see what this community would choose. You can choose to be selfish and pick games you personally want to always play, or try to figure out what games would be best chosen for humanity to save for whatever reason. I’d also love to hear why you chose your games. Do they have a special meaning to you? I want to hear your stories.
This might be cheating but I’m assuming mods/DLCs to a game count as part of the game.
- Factorio. Pretty much endless amount of stuff you can do with mods on top of a top-tier base game.
- Minecraft, also for the mods.
- Geometry Dash. So many user created levels and the highest skill ceiling of pretty much any game.
- Asetto Corsa, or whatever the most realistic, moddable car racing sim there is. I don’t play this game but I don’t want that genre to die.
Really struggling to think of anything else so I’m just gonna go with another fun, replayable, moddable game: Balatro.Edit: After reading other responses and me forgetting some games I think Skyrim would be a better choice here.
Damn… I gotta try and be diverse… as much as my narrow taste allows anyway:
- The Wonderful 101: my choice for a PlatinumGames ambassador.
- God Hand: beat’em up representation.
- Ninja Gaiden 2: nonstop action and my favorite Team Ninja game.
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R: my favorite fighting game.
- Hellsinker: infinitely replayable shmup.
God hand, what a wonderful choice! Nothing really comes close to the ass-slapping action of that title. And the clunky controls actually make it feel more fun and unique.
Bad Rats five times.
1. Bioshock - It’s essentially perfect, the only downside is I can never play it for the first time again.
2. Inscryption - It’s an odd choice, since it’s pretty meta, but it’s a game that I think about too much to live without.
3. Doom - Purely for historical relevance, which cannot be overstated in this case
4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time going back and forth between this and LTTP, but Ocarina also represents maybe the best year in game development history so it gets the edge.
5. Slay the Spire - Basically the same argument as Doom - this game is a fork point in all development trends for at least 5, maybe 10 years after its release.
Wasn’t Slay the spire released in 2019? Great choice though, there is also a multiplayer mod which works suprisingly well
Inscryption is really a good showcase of what makes games fun, and packed with so many things to discover and hidden things.
Yeah, I wasn’t really clear in my language. I was saying that STS has steered the last 5 years, and might continue to steer it for another 5. I wouldn’t say we done with STS still influencing pretty much every other indie title released right now.
Yeah, I’ve seen so many games drawing inspiration (or even very closely copying) slay the spire. Just shows how good it really is.
- Another World (1991)
- Star Control II / The Ur-Quan Masters (1992)
- Doom (1993)
- UFO: Enemy Unknown / X-COM: UFO Defense (1994)
- Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (1999)
- Minecraft (It’s a sandbox)
- Garry’s Mod (It’s a sandbox)
- Roblox (It’s a sandbox)
- Skyrim (It’s a heavily mod-able medieval RPG)
- Portal 2 (It’s literally anything at this point: a web server, a game engine, a fucking computer, a lot is possible when the right people crack it open)
I clearly don’t know enough about Portal 2, care to explain more? I’m definitely out of the loop.
I got you. It’s an entry in the Portal franchise, with the “2” indicating that it is the second in the series.
Oh shit I had no idea, thanks for clearing things up.
The testing elements in Portal 2’s maps are technically Turing-complete, and people have made very simple “computers” with them. Here’s a video from 2012 of someone building logic gates.
There’s also VScript which PortalRunner on YouTube used to port an NES emulator and make a web server. Their channel is really good if you like this type of silly hacky fun.
I think this is the winning move, going for the big sandbox games with strong modding scenes. Personally, I’d pick Neverwinter Nights 2 and GZDoom over Roblox and Portal 2.
Portal 2 (It’s literally anything at this point: a web server, a game engine, a fucking computer, a lot is possible when the right people crack it open)
Has it’s modding scene opened this much? I thought people were mostly making test chambers.
Does NWN2 have a strong modding scene?
I played a shitload of NWN and that would have been my pick, but from my recollection NWN2 multiplayer custom servers died when Obsidian put in the (insane) requirement to download terrain meshes outside of the game.
I haven’t circled back to the NWN2 enhanced edition to see if that was ever reworked.
Honestly, no idea, lol. I never went beyond NWN 2’s original campaign. I just figured it would have more potential than NWN 1, in a world with only 5 games.
Nothing personal but what if we save either GTA V (or VI), TF2, Arma 3 or Foxhole and let Roblox be destroyed?
Gta 5 would be fine. Its got some unique gamemodes with FiveM, and like 992526737373773 empty RP servers.
Factorio. Not sure I’d need anything else
I really want to try it out but I’m worried it’ll ruin my life. It looks fun but I really don’t have a ton of time these days for gaming and I don’t want to get super hooked on a game I know I’ll spend way too much time on.
I recently started it with the caveat that I’m not allowed to pay without my brother. So he comes by once or twice per month and we go crazy for a few hours.
If I did it myself I’d lose my job.
I think you may have made a typo of “pay” instead of “play” :) Either that or I’m mistaken about what kinda game factorio is…
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You can play Factorio in coop? Is it good? This games looks like very personnal.
Yeah you can. For us it worked because we focus on different parts and then meet up, discuss and give feedback or help.
But you need to do it with someone you get along well with.
It is 3am, and after ~60 hours over the last two weeks I have launched my first rocket and gotten the game complete screen. I smile and slowly blink dry, crusty, tired eyes. Finally, I can rest. I have to be to the airport in four hours.
Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.
Currently 6 months into a full pyanodons run. I hope to complete it within 2000 hours.
That’s insane. I’ve beaten Bob’s+Angel’s (with a limp to the finish line) in 123 hours. There are many hundred items and thousands of total recipes, many with byproducts in B+A. How is Pyanodons that much longer?
I’ve done about 6 or 7 bobs and angels runs (all mods) over the years. It’s elementary school compared to pyanodons.
It’s that much longer due to the complexity and depth of the supply chains. And there is very often many different ways to make the same thing, all with different byproducts to deal with.
6 or 7 runs of Bob’s and Angel’s? That’s crazy, why did you play it so many times? I gotta get back to attempting to build a mega base in my save :)
Oh the why is probably autism. I enjoy complex simulations. At the time I thought angels and bobs was the most complex. Actually it often wasn’t enough for me and I’d include some other overhaul mods like yuokai at the same time.
I’ve also been playing since before factorio was on steam, so my plays are spread out
I couldn’t get past the browness of the graphics. Satisfactory on the other hand…
- Chrono Trigger
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Pokémon Red
- Stardew Valley
Think I’m good with those 4.
Throw in Math Blaster so I can pretend to value humanity or something.
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Minecraft and then just build games inside of it?
Fair enough. I haven’t played Minecraft in a while so I sort of forgot it existed when I wrote my comment but it’s definitely a great pick for here.
I’ll start the ball rolling. For me, I’d probably have to go with:
Skyrim - first off, it’s my most played game ever, and also my most purchased game too. Is it the best game ever made? No, I don’t even think it’s the best Elder Scrolls game. But there’s something so captivating about it for some reason and I can’t help but always go back to replay it all these years later. If mods are allowed to survive the video game apocalypse then it makes it a very easy choice but I’d still choose it even if it had to stay vanilla.
Pokemon Soul Silver - something for kids to play, but also my favourite Pokemon game and one of my most replayed games ever. Between having your Pokemon follow you around, the Johto region plus Kanto, and also the music, I think it’s the best Pokemon game ever made, and a game I can’t go without playing the rest of my life.
Elden Ring - I was torn between this or Dark Souls III, but I went with ER because (1) it’s more accessible, and again remember every other game is permanently destroyed so this does affect everyone, and I’d like to be at least a little nice in my choices, and (2) I find myself able to replay it a bit more, especially with the DLC. I’ve mentioned it many times before but I truly believe SotE is the best content FromSoft has ever put out, so it would be a shame to have it destroyed.
Hitman: World of Assassination - it’s sort of cheating as this was originally three separate games, but they’re all bundled together now and Steam recognizes it all as a single game in my library, so I’m including it. Plus it’s my list and my post so I say it counts. Anyway, I don’t see Hitman posted a lot on Lemmy, but it’s my second most played game ever and I really do think if you can get over the admittedly high cost to get all the content it really is a masterpiece of a game. It’s also got way more replayability than you’d initially think just looking at it, so it’s a great contender for this post. This is another Skyrim situation where I don’t think it’s a top pick for greatest game of all time but it’s just so easy to replay that I couldn’t omit it from here.
Dishonored - I really didn’t know what to put for my last choice. I was tempted to do another massive open world game like Red Dead Redemption 2 or cheat again and do another bundle game like Mass Effect Legendary Edition or Halo Master Chief Collection, but I decided to go with a game that is a bit less intensive to complete but is still really fun to jump back into and try a new style with. I feel like it’s a bit of an underrated game these days. I know it was very well received and sold well but I don’t hear about it enough when talking about modern-ish classics. This is probably my favourite game that’s not a sandbox or open world, aside from the FromSoft games. The art style is gorgeous, the story is engaging, the DLC is a great add-on, the gameplay is diverse and super fun, it’s just such a great game all around.
My list is probably going to be very different from everyone else’s, but that’s part of the fun.
- Doom (1993): Arguably the best game ever made especially with mods, essentially created the FPS genre.
- Half Life 2 (and its episodes considering they’re now all one game): One of the best games ever, revolutionized physics and story telling.
- Halo MCC: Some of the greatest games ever made and truly represents an era of gaming long gone, doesn’t mean a lot to me but it means a lot to a lot of people.
- Fallout NV: Arguably the best FPS RPG, amazing dialog choices and overall amazing story. The atmosphere is incredible and so are the factions.
- F-Zero GX: One of the greatest games Nintendo ever made, it truly captures the arcade feel in a way very few other games have. Just intense racing that feels amazing, good gameplay and great controls.
F-Zero GX is the goat, but nintendo didn’t make it! It’s actually made by Sega’s AV (amusement vision) team, now known as ryu ga gotoku studio
Yeah ik, thats what makes it the best Nintendo game. The fact that Nintendo had nothing to do with it :3
Roblox, Fifa 19, Chinese malware mobile game, Fifa 23, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600.
Pure evil in human form
Too many fans of Roblox would be happy with this. Replace Roblox with Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days and the list is perfect
Replace either Roblox or FIFA with ‘Takeshi’s Challenge’.
Hmm, tough one. I’m going to maximise replayability and this assumes all DLC too
- RimWorld
- Factorio
- Balatro
- FTL or Slay the Spire
- Civ 6 or Cities Skylines
Honourable mention to several JRPGs from Squaresoft
Edit: I’m now reading the thread and second guessing everything. But gonna keep my original list
JRPGs can be annoying to play multiple times.
Civ 6 (or some other strategy game like Age of Empires) and Factorio are great choice for this though.
I’m just saving Planescape: Torment 5 times.
- Morrowind
- Chrono Trigger
- The full motion Afterburner arcade machine (that thing was so much fun)
- A link to the past
- Tetris
