For me it’s Chrono Trigger. I always want to play it. I want to show it to my children. I hope it will be regarded as a masterpiece for generations to come.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
From the art to the music to the plot to the gameplay, it’s just iconic.
Was looking for this!
Super Mario World
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Halo Reach. Every time I replay it, it hits harder.
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Skyrim, actually. It’s quite dated by today’s standards, but just recently I started another playthrough on a whim and ended up playing 20h or so even though I’ve played the game a bunch of times for several hundreds of hours throughout the years already.
I honestly feel a little disappointed that I scrolled this far and nobody mentioned Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (1999).
This is an RTS game, which is a dying genre. It’s also a 24 year old game, which after its release two more Age of Empires games have been released as well, and the game itself has been remastered recently. Yet people continue to play the original game to this day, the multiplayer scene and competitions are still active.
If that is not timeless I don’t know what is.
This is going to be a weird one considering the graphics, but hear me out, the original Deus Ex. Something about the game just feels so well put together that the graphics take a back seat to the gameplay. There is a reason the community around the game has fought so hard to keep it running on modern hardware.
In no particular order:
Chrono Trigger
Binding of Isaac Rebirth
myhouse.wad (I know it came out this year, but goddamn it’s good)
Yoshi’s Island
Super Mario All-Stars + World (cheating maybe?)
Silent Hill 1, 2, and 3
Terranigma
OMORI (also recent, but also damn good)
LoZ: Majora’s Mask
Pokemon 2nd gen (could totally just be nostalgia talking right here)
Tetris
Super Smash Bros Melee
Mario Kart 64
Also I keep coming back to yashum’s Call of Cthulhu SMW hack.
Super Mario World! It holds up remarkably well even by modern platformer standards. It feels great, looks great, and is a blast to explore.
The tank game on Wii Sports (reminiscent of Atari Tanks but coop)
PS1 Final Fantasy Tactics (especially with mods, particularly FFT 1.3)
PC Master of Magic (especially with community mods, Caster of Magic is a favorite)
SNES Super Mario World
SNES Super Bomber Man
Can’t believe Nethack doesn’t top the list.
The Binding of Isaac. I keep buying it on all platforms. No single run is the same. More expensive than it should be these days but it is my crack.
I’ve said it before on Lemmy and I’ll say it again, but mindustry. It’s the game that has held my attention for years and years, it never quite gets old.
Miney Crafty
Minecraft stands the test of time between generations. Between late millennials, most of Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
Funny story; when I first heard about the game (2009 or 10, so before really anyone had heard of it) I thought the name was Mind Craft. Luckily I easily found the correct game and started playing. I think rails came out shortly after. The games come a long way. It’s barely recognizable now.
Baldur’s Gate. Probably not timeless to everyone, but will always be for me.
Also, Lords of the Realm II. Not sure why.
Agree on Lords of the Realm 2! Just something about it.
Yup, I just replayed the campaign last weekend.
If I ever make a game, it’ll be a LotR2 remake. I have some ideas I’d like to play with these take it in a completely different direction from Total War games, such as:
- play as the merchant
- play as a general in the battles, while someone else handles empire management
- play as a mercenary band
All of these could play together in MP, and each has a separate win condition.
But every time I get excited about building it, I replay the game and it scratches that itch.
