Part one: What is the best game to come out of the 80s?

This is the second part of the series. This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other decades and consoles will come in sporadic subsequent threads.

Expanding on your choice is definitely a plus.

    • notthenameiwant [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I almost chose Doom too, but then I remembered how much I hated trying to find the keys. The rest of the original is fantastic to this day.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That's a tough choice subjectively, but in a more objective sense it's Starcraft. Doom holds up really well, but later games really added to the formula. They still haven't figured out how to beat Starcraft Brood War.

      Starcraft 2 is good, better in some ways but way worse in others. It was so-so in 2010, has gotten a lot better even recently, and I'd say it's great now. But it can't quite recapture that thunder.

      The best currently imaginable RTS would be some kind of intentional swing at Starcraft 1.5, where you fix the randomness of the shitty pathing, but also keep the control and movement slow and difficult, just more consistent. And you'd have to not worry about making it too similar to Brood War. It would be pretty similar.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Yeah I agree it influenced a lot more games. Also FPS grew and grew while RTS stagnated, so it has a much greater legacy. As a game though, Brood War is the only 90's game that is really relevant today as a game itself.