Assuming the equipment was also saved so you could still play the games, and every game in existence you don’t mention gets permanently destroyed, and no new games are ever to be made.
Inspired by a video by OutsideXbox from a few years ago, I thought it would be a fun idea to see what this community would choose. You can choose to be selfish and pick games you personally want to always play, or try to figure out what games would be best chosen for humanity to save for whatever reason. I’d also love to hear why you chose your games. Do they have a special meaning to you? I want to hear your stories.
Skewed towards my taste in gaming, but still trying to think about humanity:
- UNDERTALE. My favorite videogame OAT, amazing storytelling, characters and soundtrack. This is my least replayable pick, but one that I would not want to lose
- The Binding of Isaac. Contender for the best Rougelike ever made, with an absurd level of replayability and great modding community
- Minecraft. Even though i don’t care about Minecraft that much, the things that this game has accomplished is crazy. I would not want to lose Redstone or the amazing modding community it has. Tons of ways to play and, it’s the most purchased game in history, I think it’s worth perserving.
- Geometry Dash. I would not want to leave the “rithym game” (debatable) community with nothing. GD is also a game I’m super in love with. The community is great and at this point it’s close to being its own gaming engine, so I think it fits here.
- Skyrim. This game I haven’t played ever, but I know what it means to a lot of people. Considering the rest of my cartoony and slightly niche picks, I think having one, extremely moddable medieval single player helps to have variety.
TitanFall 2: Its the Portal 2 engine, but better. Also runs on almost anything these days, looks good, could easily be a basis for a ton of different kind of multiplayer shooters via modding. You could basically rebuild any Source game/mod between 2000 and 2015 ish in it.
Deus Ex (the original): Lower fidelity but that means it can run on more things, is also highly moddable, also has a working multiplayer framework that it’s had since almost day one that I guess everyone forgot about, could also be modded into nearly anything, including lower fidelity than TF|2 multiplayer games of basically any kind.
VintageStory: Minecraft, but better. Also highly moddable. Also networkable.
Fallout Online (2/3): Assuming the likely near apocalyptic setting accompanying this hypothetical, we’re gonna want a 2.5D turn based tactics platform, FOnline is highly detailed and highly moddable, and is networked. You could also basically rebuild nearly any 2D JRPG in this, yes, even Pokemon, if you can handle 2.5D isometric sprites.
(I was originally going to say either Xenonauts 1 or 2, but then realized you could basically build X1 or X2 in Fallout Online, and FOnline is already networked.)
No Mans Sky: Beyond being essentially the most advanced procedural generation game that I am aware of, in breadth and depth, you’re going to want to have all that code to be able to decompile parts of it and thus be able to rebuild other or new digital worlds with it.
I reject the concept that no new games will ever be built.
I’ve been using and making mods since the 90s.
There will be new games, apocalypse be damned.
Also, as much as I love some Bethesda games, their engine is a heap of broken garbage.
Rebuild FONV or Skyrim in TF|2 or Deus Ex instead.
They are entirely capable of being modded into that.
Burnout Revenge- Its my comfort game. I love it.
Left 4 Dead 2- Favorite multiplayer game
Witcher 3
Diablo 2
Ages of Empires 2
OpenMW
MineCraft
GZDoom
DevilutionX
Wargus
I’m just saving Planescape: Torment 5 times.
Fallout 4
Baldur’s Gate 3
Sekiro
Super Mario World
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
Hmm, tough one. I’m going to maximise replayability and this assumes all DLC too
- RimWorld
- Factorio
- Balatro
- FTL or Slay the Spire
- Civ 6 or Cities Skylines
Honourable mention to several JRPGs from Squaresoft
Edit: I’m now reading the thread and second guessing everything. But gonna keep my original list
Nah just destroy them all, maybe I can get my friends to learn Bridge with me. If not, Canasta will suffice.
- OpenTTD, easily. Would be nice if I could sneak in the og assets (music mainly) from Transport Tycoon Deluxe as well, but not critical
- Fallout: London - or does that count as 2 as it’s a tc mod + basegame of fallout4?
really drawing a blank on the other ~3 games. Probably some mix of old Lucas Arts adventure games (indy atlantis, day of the tentacle, the dig…), imsims (dishonored, deux ex).
- Deus Ex - this game will last forever, especially with mods (like my Randomizer mod lol)
- StarCraft 2 - I just love watching the esports, and with no other esport games available I guess this would be pretty huge
- The 7th Guest - this is a bad pick but I’m obsessed with the game
- Doom - I mean, come on, obviously
- maybe some kind of builder game, I’m not into any currently but someone else said Factorio and that sounds like a good pick as a game you can keep playing forever, or maybe Stardew Valley or something accessible like that so everyone can play forever, or OpenRCT2
I’m sure you’ve played The 11th Hour, but have you played The 13th Doll or The 7th Guest VR? Not as good as the OG, but worthy sequels.
Yeah those are great too! I bought my Quest 3 headset just for T7GVR and played it on release day lol.
I actually run the Lemmy community for these games !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com
and the Discord community https://discord.gg/Hss5cJg
- Minecraft (It’s a sandbox)
- Garry’s Mod (It’s a sandbox)
- Roblox (It’s a sandbox)
- Skyrim (It’s a heavily mod-able medieval RPG)
- Portal 2 (It’s literally anything at this point: a web server, a game engine, a fucking computer, a lot is possible when the right people crack it open)
I think this is the winning move, going for the big sandbox games with strong modding scenes. Personally, I’d pick Neverwinter Nights 2 and GZDoom over Roblox and Portal 2.
Portal 2 (It’s literally anything at this point: a web server, a game engine, a fucking computer, a lot is possible when the right people crack it open)
Has it’s modding scene opened this much? I thought people were mostly making test chambers.
I clearly don’t know enough about Portal 2, care to explain more? I’m definitely out of the loop.
I got you. It’s an entry in the Portal franchise, with the “2” indicating that it is the second in the series.
Oh shit I had no idea, thanks for clearing things up.
- Morrowind
- Chrono Trigger
- The full motion Afterburner arcade machine (that thing was so much fun)
- A link to the past
- Tetris
Factorio. Not sure I’d need anything else
I really want to try it out but I’m worried it’ll ruin my life. It looks fun but I really don’t have a ton of time these days for gaming and I don’t want to get super hooked on a game I know I’ll spend way too much time on.
I recently started it with the caveat that I’m not allowed to pay without my brother. So he comes by once or twice per month and we go crazy for a few hours.
If I did it myself I’d lose my job.
I think you may have made a typo of “pay” instead of “play” :) Either that or I’m mistaken about what kinda game factorio is…
Oops!
Yeah watch out for this one then. Especially if you get into the mods that turn a 30-50 hour campaign into 500+ hours with 20x more complexity.
Currently 6 months into a full pyanodons run. I hope to complete it within 2000 hours.
- Doom (1993): Arguably the best game ever made especially with mods, essentially created the FPS genre.
- Half Life 2 (and its episodes considering they’re now all one game): One of the best games ever, revolutionized physics and story telling.
- Halo MCC: Some of the greatest games ever made and truly represents an era of gaming long gone, doesn’t mean a lot to me but it means a lot to a lot of people.
- Fallout NV: Arguably the best FPS RPG, amazing dialog choices and overall amazing story. The atmosphere is incredible and so are the factions.
- F-Zero GX: One of the greatest games Nintendo ever made, it truly captures the arcade feel in a way very few other games have. Just intense racing that feels amazing, good gameplay and great controls.
Tough. If this is all I get forever I’ll go for replay over best games ever.
Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous, good 5k hours
Monster Hunter World(Iceborne), like 5-10k in that
NieR Automata, less so for the replayability and more for the music
FFX For same as above
Aaaaand hm. Oh I want some childhood. Majora’s Mask.
