Super Metroid
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Super Metroid is still the first that comes to mind. Amazing experience from start to finish.
I didn’t see these listed so I’m dropping some objective masterpieces here:
- Persona 5 Royal
- Golden Sun
- Golden Sun: The Lost Age
- Horizon Zero Dawn
Edit: Added HZD as I didn’t see it while scrolling through this post.
Elden Ring
The Witness
Undertale
• Sonic the Hedgehog ( Genesis/Mega Drive )
• Chuzzle Deluxe
• Borderlands
• Baba Is You
Those would be some picks I would say are objective masterpieces, but that's subjective, I guess.
There is no game: wrong dimension
Half-Life 2, both Psychonauts games, the Arkham series
I think Bioshock 1, Inscryption, Portal 1 & 2(I believe that 2 wouldn't be so loved if we didn't already love 1, I like to think of them as a set), Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil, Nier Automata, and Okami.
Glad to see Okami mentioned here. It was poorly marketed, which basically killed the development company… But it was so good.
Some people have called it the best Zelda game never made, and I believe the description is accurate. It has all of the mechanics of Zelda’s puzzlebox dungeons. It’s just a different setting, and the “tools” to solve the puzzles are your brush abilities.
My only real complaint about the game is that it was long. Like every time I expected the game to be wrapping up, it would introduce an entirely new region. But that length also meant it was able to deliver a fully self-contained story that didn’t rely on cliffhangers (sequels) to finish. Sure there were some sequels, but the original story stands on its own without them.
- Bloodborne
- Bioshock
- Hollow Knight
Super Hexagon
It's about as simple as a 'modern' game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it's a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game's.
The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.
With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that's not happening.
The criteria to beat a level is "last for 60 seconds".
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S tier
- Lufia
- Dragon Warrior 3
- Final Fantasy 3 & 7
- Sonic Adventure
- The Guardian Legend
- Ecco the Dolphin
- Silent Hill
- Mario Kart
- Dark Cloud 2
- Chronotrigger
- Zelda: A link to the past
- Submachine (flash)
A tier
- Oddworld, Abe’s Odyssey
- Resident Evil: codename Veronica
- Banjo Kazooie
- Mario RPG
- Donkey Kong Country
- Earthworm Jim
- Battletoads
- Wizards and Warriors 2
- Megaman 2
- Populous
- One Chance (flash)
- Daymare Town (flash)
- Abadox - hardest game I ever beat
B tier
- The Lion King
- Overlord
- Oregon Trail
- Dinopark Tycoon
- Snowboard Kids
- South Park
- Kid Icarus
- Sweet Home
- Monster Party
- Dr Mario
- Abobo’s Big Adventure (flash)
- Alice is Dead Ep 1 (flash)
- Starfox
- Shadowgate
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It took a while to get there, but Cyberpunk 2077.
None. There's no such thing as an objective master piece. Games are art which is, by definition, subjective.
Edited to add, well this was way more controversial than I thought it would be.
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