Rolling Stone's List of 50 Best Video Games of All Time

[gooberear@lemmy.wtf]

Doing the lawd's work, so I also thank you.

[darkfuture@lemmy.world]

The older I get the less I care about best lists.

It's all subjective.

[gooberear@lemmy.wtf]

So, looks like I've played 19 of these games. Although not all of them were my thing and some of them I've barely played more than once briefly, I'll agree that they were all pretty solidly good.

A few of the others are on my wish list (especially now that they're available on PC) so maybe one day I'll be able to agree or disagree.

I enjoy seeing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on these greatest games lists because back in the days when it was originally released, it seemed like it was practically ignored in my social circle. At the time, if a game wasn't using low fidelity, standard definition polygon-based graphics (aka 3D), it had to be a fighting game or it would be completely ignored. Yet, that particular game was one of my favorites of the era and I didn't get to enjoy it with anybody else at the time because they just saw it as a lame 2D game.

[omegaman@lemmings.world]

How else am I supposed to feel important?

I'm just some guy.

[iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world]

I really want to like elite dangerous, but it's so boring! The flight and controls (HOTAS) are amazing and hella immersive, but God damn if there's something to do that isn't grindy as fuck.

[righthandofikaros@lemmy.world]

Its realistic, as opposed to Star Citizen which leans more on "rule of cool, not rule of real." Real life space is boring. 99% of all planets that arent big gas balls are just big ice rocks. Ships are big, slow, heavy objects that take time to maneuver. Elite has a simulated galactic economy, which can be directly influenced by just a single dedicated player. It contains fantasy political turf scuffles, colony expansion, and all sort of other stuff. You can be pretty much anything, a bounty hunter, a miner, a merchant, a taxi, they even added first person shooter parts with the Odyssey DLC (like what Star Citizen already had).

Personally I think what people think about Elite Dangerous is also why so many people complain about Starfield. I like Starfield. While not perfect, it does a good job of mostly "realistic" space portrayal, even if it does contain some fantasy elements. Problem is, people were disappointed with Starfield because they expected Star Wars Skyrim, but got Elite Dangerous Skyrim instead. They wanted even more fantasy where Starfield leaned more into realism. If you like Elite Dangerous, there is a pretty good chance you will like Starfield. But if you don't like Elite, you probably won't like Starfield.