gaming The best video game. ever.

[Brock Obama 298]

This topic has always been hotly discussed among gamers and has never really come to anything. Is finding the best game ever a tangible possibility or just a pipe dream? Your guys thoughts?

[takai 1,060]

Given that it's a matter of opinion which is strictly subjective, no, it's impossible to determine the "best game ever".

 

However, that won't stop me from saying I think Catherine is the best game ever.

[The Mint Pone 2,292]

People's opinions will always vary a lot so we will never decide on a game that everyone will call 'the best video game ever'. But the guinnes book of world records gave the call of duty franchise the record for best game series so we should all just agree that a call of duty game should be titled 'the best game ever' and be done with it XD

[Kapitan zur See Hans (Daz) 883]

That is an impossible dream. You know what my favorite genre of games is? Space Sims, very very niche despite the rise in popularity recently. Doubt we could ever decide on the best game ever, if everyone were to be completely unbiased and actually rate games based on certain areas such as innovation, graphics, etc etc then we would be a step closer, but everyone would have conflicting ideas regardless of remaining objective or not.

Edited January 23, 2015 by A. Dazven

[Sazama Ichida 2,352]

*inb4someonesaysanyofthesupersmashbros.games*

But in my opinion Kingdom Hearts hands down.

[Megas 27,050]

Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past has everything I want in a video game

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,298]

This topic has always been hotly discussed among gamers and has never really come to anything. Is finding the best game ever a tangible possibility or just a pipe dream? Your guys thoughts?

I think it's fitting that you used the word "pipe."

 

After Atari left the home console market in ruins (and myriad copies of E.T. in a landfill of shame), Super Mario Bros. - a significant leap forward for the platformer genre in practically every way - and the NES proved home gaming's turtle-stomping, mushroom-nabbing savior.  It isn't my absolute favorite game, but - without Super Mario Bros. - I wouldn't have even played my favorites.

 

Because they wouldn't have existed.

[TubeSock2018 325]

Sure, there's Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Super Mario Bros 3.

But none of those games got me to play them back to back.

With Earthbound, it was literally "roll credits, reset game, start a new file".

It blew my mind, put the pieces back together and then blew it up again.

I don't care what anyone else says. The game, to me, is the best game ever made.

Edited January 23, 2015 by pollo20x6

[Mesme Rize 15,681]

Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past has everything I want in a video game

 

 

I always considered A link to the past better, then Ocarina of Time.

[baba_booey 4,299]

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is love, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is life.

[Twilight Dirac 720]

Master of Magic

 

 

This is an insane 4X game with spells ranging from the ability to summon dragons to rendering units invisible to making flying cities to casting spells that slowly destroy the world, taking place a two conterminous planes (that work like parallel dimensions).  Nothing else comes close, although many have tried to repeat this success.

[BayoUni2847 528]

I think we can ALL agree that...

...is the best game ever. HANDS DOWN!

 

10/10 Just the right amount of water -IGN

[Golurk 467]

There is no such thing. I mean, just look at the people above me. There's been several already suggested, and only one agreement. This is a matter of people's opinions. As a result, there can never be a finite answer.

 

That said, I'll throw a name into the ring and say Okami. It combines story, style, characters, music, length, gameplay, and a bunch of other things that I'm forgetting right now in a way that no game I've seen has ever compared to. Some have been close (and one is *REALLY* close) to overtaking it, but it truly is the greatest work of art that I've ever seen.

[Shanks 10,811]

That is a tough decision but I have a few strong contenders most notably, Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Zelda A Link To The Past and Mother 1 (Earthbound in the US).

[baba_booey 4,299]

I think we can ALL agree that...

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...is the best game ever. HANDS DOWN!

 

10/10 Just the right amount of water -IGN

No.. just.. no.

 

We all know Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is a much better game, dude.

[TheDashingRainbow 134]

Legend of Zelda : A Link to the Past has everything I want in a video game

I'm gonna have to agree with you on this. I've played through Link to the Past so much, I can't count.

[Moonlight 7,279]

Resident Evil 4, Portal 2, and Bayonetta 2 are the best games easily  :comeatus:

Edited January 23, 2015 by WheatleyCore

[PROJECT: Simon 3,953]

The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask 3D will be the best game. Forever and ever. 

[Deae Rising Shine~ 52,334]

The Metal Gear games

 

tough there will no perfect game forever. It's impossible to make EVERY gamer like it, at least 1 will have an issue with it.

[RainbowGlass 224]

As others have stated, it is a subjective matter; similar to asking what exactly is good art? Video games are considered to an extent, art, by all means. One game is a collaborative effort of  dozens if not hundreds of people, many of them artists and designers. There is no standard model by which video games are made, each is unique from another (even though Madden games are debatable)  . So what it comes down to in a nutshell is popular opinion. 

[GammaDove 428]

Of course it's impossible. There can be the juiciest, must perfect peach, but someone will always hate peaches.

[Fender 1,283]

I never ever, ever picked favorites...until I played The Walking Dead telltale games.

[Guest]

The original Silent Hill from 1999 might be the greastest /horror/ game, imo.

[Shark Woona 169]

The only game that made me crap my pants in excitement and fear is The Suffering.

 

Don't know what it is? Go on youtube and look it up. It's where i got my name and avatar from. I still play it today. That's how fun it is to me.

[Buttonmash1973 1,024]

 

Pac-Man Adventures in Time.