• comfy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 hour ago

    Just to avoid repeating the other suggestions here, Pathologic, less for historical significance or enjoyability and more for artistic significance for the time it was created. (note: I have not played it and probably never will)

    Crash Bandicoot (the game) for technical achievements.

    And I’m just going to mention Marble Marcher (play the community edition), a game with fractal-based physics (as opposed to basically every game ever).

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      There are also game archives, which aren’t curated as a museum typically is but I think it’s worth considering the Flashpoint Archive for web games to be somewhere in-between. I unlocked one of the games which I believe ended up in there.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    1·
    17 hours ago

    Pong, it was the first Videogame ever, also Pacman and Space Invaders as the base of almost all other games (Shooter, RPG, Racing games, Flight simulators, etc). Tetrix, the Snake game, inspiration of the Tron movie. These certainly belongs in a Museum of gaming history…

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    If I had to identify a game that radically changed the public perception of videogames, that would probably be The Legend of Zelda.
    It was one of the earliest examples of modern gaming, changing the game design from an “arcade” standard to something that was more suited for home consoles.

  • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    17 hours ago

    All of Metal Gear Solid.

    The story of the whole series spans decades and decades, and even watching a video laying out an abridged version of that story takes like 6 hours to watch.

    Something as long running as that and with lore that goes that deep should definitely be preserved at all costs.

    • acron@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 day ago

      I could actually use an explanation. I’m not familiar, what makes it so good?

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        16 hours ago

        It’s so deep abd so complicated, and blurs the line between literary and mechanical so expertly, that i cannot explain it without spoiling it.

        Its very good, very literary, and about solving a murder. Your skills are your character’s inner monologue, and they’re all useful, but ypure kind of choosing what clues and what sort of language you get them in, how you interact with and literally read the world.

        So play it, play it without reading anything else about it, and when picking skills, go with what you respond to or what character you want your detective to be. ‘Phillip marlowe’ ‘sherlock holmes’ and ‘dirk gently’ are pretty close to the three pre-sets.

      • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
        51·
        1 day ago

        It’s the only visual novel I’ve ever played, but it excels so much at it. The writing, worldbuilding, characters, narrator, and overall “vibe” are fantastically superb. It’s also another one of those games that I can’t help but play for ~5 hours nearly every day until I finish it. I’m no video game connoisseur, so you can find more sophisticated reviews elsewhere. You can pick it up on GOG for like €10 half of the time.

        • mohab@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          1 day ago

          Hate to break it to you, but you still haven’t played any visual novel because Disco Elysium is a CRPG.

          A visual novel would be VA-11 HALL-A or Milk Outside a Bag of Milk Outside a Bag of Milk.

          • RobotZap10000@feddit.nlEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            You’re right, but I thought that it was one of those visual novels because I had to have a dictionary at hand to understand half of the words.

  • arsCynic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age. It’s the Lord of the Rings equivalent of RPGs.

    ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.