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I've mentioned this in other topics, but I tend to go back to Grand Theft Auto III just to keep life simple. Sequels like GTA: SA feel bogged down with all the extra stuff you can do. I'm really most interested in the main missions in GTA games, and I only do the side stuff if it unlocks a mission. GTA3 was the right mix of skill and challenge without a lot of excess.

I go back to the NES Mega Man games frequently because they're simple and straightforward.
 
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Robert Newbie said:
I've mentioned this in other topics, but I tend to go back to Grand Theft Auto III just to keep life simple. Sequels like GTA: SA feel bogged down with all the extra stuff you can do. I'm really most interested in the main missions in GTA games, and I only do the side stuff if it unlocks a mission. GTA3 was the right mix of skill and challenge without a lot of excess.

I go back to the NES Mega Man games frequently because they're simple and straightforward.
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you are right with too many options, focus quickly shifted from the main questline to side missions, sometimes its good for the background stories but mostly they are stupid just to make gameplay longer, i get it why you pick gta 3 over other entries, in that regard i dont think there are many modern games that follow that perfect mixture of the blend, either they go overboard with multiple endings or they just neglect it completely.
 
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Tetris...the very fact that after the psychedelic trip called tetris effect, they went with 'tetris forever' (aka: tetris: the documentary) says enough. That game will outlive our planet.

Pong is also a strong contender. There's a Dutch game show ("De mol") that has their slew of trials for the contestants. These are new every episode. Well...in last season, they had people play pong by one person checking the screen and the other one holding a box over his head. His movements on an open square corresponded with movements of the controller
(the idea is that there's one traitor in the contestants, so trials usually have sort of communications mechanism that allows for paranoia in case of failure).

And of course there's no stopping the factual GOAT: 1993's Doom. I swear someone will come up with a way to play it without any electricity or battery power (if it hasn't already been made possible).

I'm not sure what games I would pick for myself.
Another perspective is one I tend to go back to as it's quick and easy to get going, but heartening to play.
Celeste is certainly one I'll replay more than the two or three runs I've done so far.
...and throw in Zelda: Link's awakening in for good measure.
 
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Terraria and Monster Hunter. MonHun just builds your core skills regardless of the generation you play. Terraria is just LOADS of fun in appropriate graphical setting, and music slaps too.
 
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Tetris...the very fact that after the psychedelic trip called tetris effect, they went with 'tetris forever' (aka: tetris: the documentary) says enough. That game will outlive our planet.

Pong is also a strong contender. There's a Dutch game show ("De mol") that has their slew of trials for the contestants. These are new every episode. Well...in last season, they had people play pong by one person checking the screen and the other one holding a box over his head. His movements on an open square corresponded with movements of the controller
(the idea is that there's one traitor in the contestants, so trials usually have sort of communications mechanism that allows for paranoia in case of failure).

And of course there's no stopping the factual GOAT: 1993's Doom. I swear someone will come up with a way to play it without any electricity or battery power (if it hasn't already been made possible).
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FORTNITE.

This may be an unpopular opinion as well, but that game is a big reason for the death of the games industry as we know it. That and Roblox.

Instead of getting more AAA games and more innovative game play, devs are now using the model of this game as a basis. Not just to copy its mechanics (SO. MANY. SHOOTERS.) but also it's predatory "pay to win" system that many games use now, even WWE has started to do it.

Why bother buying ANY new games or new hardware even when you literally just spend it all on one game? Even GameStop is doing memes where they joke that anything that can't play Fortnite is "retro".

So, now thanks to games like Fortnite, we have microtransactions up the ass, you pay $80 for a game that you have to spend sometimes HUNDREDS MORE to get the full thing, and $900 hardware.

Sure, there's other reasons, but Fortnite is a big reason why.
 
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games ive played again and again and again... over and over basically are:

-GTA 5 Single Player
-Witcher 3
-Mario Land (ideally with the DX colorised romhack)
-Last of Us Part 1
-Kirbys Dreamland 1
-Tetris
-Prey (2017)
-Links Awakening DX (Nowadays the HD PC Port version mostly)
-Ratchet and Clank 2016 and Rift Apart
-Astrobot
-Kirbys Epic Yarn (sooo cute)
-The Paper Mario Trilogy
-PoPoLoCrois for PS1
- Panzer Dragoon 1/2/Saga
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@littlemisskittn they always did that.
One popular game popularizes a genre like Fortnite (also DOOM for FPS, Super Mario Bros for Mascot Platformers, Tetris for Puzzle games, Pokemon for games about monster training as well as games released as multiple editions, World of Warcraft for MMOs, HALO 1 for console-FPS's etc etc) and everyone quickly tries to jump on the bandwagon and milk a few more drips from the audience which results in us getting countless soulless clones of the same genre for years and years till a new Fad comes around by someone actually trying something different.
 
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Tetris. It's older than most people on this forum and people still play it every single day. The game is so simple that it's basically impossible to make it feel outdated. Every few years a new version comes out and it just works.
And the original Doom. The modding community has kept that game alive for over 30 years. People are still making WADs. Someone ran it on a pregnancy test. It's immortal.
NFS Most Wanted is a great pick too. That game had the perfect balance of arcade racing and the cop chases were genuinely intense.
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Tetris for me. It came out in 1984 and people are still playing it competitively today. The Classic Tetris World Championship gets more viewers every year. There is no story, no graphics to age, no sequel that replaces it. Just blocks falling and your brain trying to keep up.
NFS Most Wanted is a great pick too. That game had something special with the blacklist system that no other NFS has quite matched since.
 
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