GTA San Andreas.

Someone already said my true #1. But if I ignore that one.

EverQuest. What a crazy game. So many ideas that are just brilliant but people don't do anymore. The enchanter is my favorite power set on any character in any genre and nothing touches it. I wish the design philosophy didn't move away from systems that enable that kind of game play.

the greatest, highest earning, and most influential game of all time is Clash of Clans. It earns about $5mil a day.

Titles like Elden Ring, Zelda, Bioshock, KoTOR, God of War, Skyrim and the Witcher are obscure also-ran games that titans of the game industry (people who fund video game development) consider them failures.

EDIT: I changed some stuff.

DOOM(1993) : You all know why. It was First revolutionary FPS game.

Metal Gear Solid. Every stealth game that has come out since has borrowed something from MGS. Also it is the first game I can really remember that nailed that cinematic video game feel we see so often these days.

My answer is SNAKE BYTE!

Just TWO keys, none of that FOUR KEY nonsense from other snake games.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I will always go back to Snake Byte and spend hours playing it when I do.

I think an interesting way to define the greatest game of all time would be a game that captures your attention the longest and provides the largest variety of ways to play.

To that end, I would say StarCraft 1.

My personal reasoning is I love games that have user generated content to keep you coming back to enjoy fresh experiences. StarCraft 1 had a game mode called use map settings where you could play maps made using the built-in level editor. There was enough complexity in the level editor that basically the sky was the limit.

You want to play a tower defense? StarCraft 1. You want to play an RPG? Which franchise do you want to play, cause a lot of them are on StarCraft 1. You want to play an action adventure game? StarCraft 1. The list goes on lol

I've never personally played it, but I feel like another example of this would be Roblox and another one that I have would be Gary's mod.

Ocarina of time. All Zelda games since are to some degree compared to it in terms of how successful it is monetarily, gameplay and story-wise. So many modern adventure games are based on this one game. It’s the game that finally made target tracking in 3D work. It’s so well thought out, that a blind streamer is able to play the game probably better than I ever will. If most common people know of “zelda” it’s because of this game. There are so many memes from Zelda in general. It’s one of the few games from my childhood that I will replay for the rest of my life.

Well, I guess my answer could change depending on you how define "best," but I think my answer has to be Dwarf Fortress. I've been playing it longer than some posters on here have been alive! The emergent narratives of your forts and your dorfs combined with the constant drip-feed of updates makes it endlessly replayable. The main game theme has been my last-call morning alarm basically since I had a cell phone that replaced an alarm clock. It's a game I come back to time and again that has yet to get old. If anything, it's getting too complex for my stupid ass lol

I would usually have said Earthbound or Chrono Trigger, but this year I've been playing Sea of Stars and it truly seems better. I never thought I'd say it. The writing, art, music, gameplay, movement, puzzles, characters, all are aimed in the exact same direction as what CT was trying to do and it goes farther in every way.

SuperMaeio 64

Because

Pong.

Command and conquer generals zero hour

It's hard to say since it's like comparing apples to oranges when comparing different genres.

• Action Adventure: Dark Souls 3
• Survival crafting: Subnautica
• Base building: Factorio (Subnautica strong second)
• RTS: StarCraft 2
• City builder: Cities Skylines w mods, otherwise Cities Skylines 2 probably
• Card game: Slay the spire
• Rougelike: Enter the Gungeon (Hades strong second)
• Turn based strategy: Chess probably, never gets old
• RPG: Skyrim probably, haven't played Baldurs Gate and don't remember enough about Dragon Age Origins though.
• JRPG: Chrono Trigger
• AFK/cookie clicker: Magic Archery (1-2 hours to complete and fun throughout), Leaf blower revolution is strong second

Left4Dead2. Infinitely replayable, multiplayer without being toxic (except Versus mode), simple enough for n00bs to not be a burden most of the time.

Ultima IV. All the JRPG stuff started here.

Marathon, by Bungie. From the box it came in, to the hugeness of the spaceship, the coolness of the story, all the secrets, and the fan community that sprang up to research and theorize.

And then they made it open source so anybody could play it on any computer.

It's not favorite game to play any more, but it was the greatest game to me.

The next soulslike from FromSoft that doesn’t molest you with the camera. They proved it’s possible with shadow of the Erdtree.

Jokes aside, Slay is absolutely incredible. How a developer managed to make a strategy game as replayable as this before 2000, I don’t know.

Since everyone's just saying their favorite game, I'll say The Finals!

It's fuckin great! It's the first FPS in years that gets me legit excited to play. I like that the game requires decent strategy, movement, and teamwork to get wins and not just good aim/luck. Everything about it feels fresh. Best of all it's freaking free. A free AAA game in 2024 that's more than decent and has an awesome dev team? Sign me up!

It's wild to me that it's not huge compared to games that go mainstream (not gonna mention names. lol), but I'll appreciate it while it's here.

Runescape. It's been around for more than 20 years and still is one of the most active online games.

Mario Galaxy for me. Idk I just like it, especially the music

Gothic 2.