Decades:
70s: What is the best game to come out of the 70s?
80s: What is the best game to come out of the 80s?
90s: What is the best game to come out of the 90s?
00s: What is the best game to come out of the 00s?
10s: What is the best game to come out of the 10s?
We have finally entered a different paradigm. This part of the series will be primarily focusing on genres. So far I have [RTS, Turn based RPG, Action RPG, Board Game, Arcade Game, third person shooter, MMO, Action, Civ Clone (yell at me if this isn't the right name for the genre), 2D Platformer, 3D Platformer, Roguelike, Dungeon Crawler, Card Game, Point and click, Indie, Text dungeon, Stealth, Rhythm, horror, Metroidvania, Survival, Sandbox, Adventure, Simulation, Puzzle, Bullet Hell, Racing, Tower Defense, Sports, Idle, Trivia, and Casual] as available genres. Let me know if I missed something, and I will try to get it added.
I finally decided to give these threads a tag. It might be easier for people to search for in the future. I also expect to bring this over to the other comms in the near future.
This is eventually all going to get compiled into one megathread for people who want gaming recommendations from Chapos specifically. Other consoles and genres will come in sporadic subsequent threads. Please contribute to previous threads if you missed them. This is meant to be an exhaustive list.
Expanding on your choice(s) is definitely a plus. Not everyone knows about or has played non-mainstream titles.
My popular opinion is Team Fortress 2 (for multiplayer. if we're talking singeplayer yeah probably hl2). I find most of the shooters more in the vein of Call of Duty & Battlefield to be all kinda samey. I like Halo a lot, but the slow movement combined with the slow time to kill force me to agonizingly wait until I die after making a tiny mistake, or to just lose a battle rifle aim duel with little feedback on what's happening, which ends up making me very frustrated. TF2, despite its age, bloat, and frequently shit community, has a very solid core gameplay using hit-or-miss weapons and almost every time I die I actually understand why it happened (even if it was just wrong place at the wrong time). I highly recommend Lazypurple's video on the subject if you want more elaboration. If you are interested in the game but are put off by the valve matchmaking servers you should try the creators.tf servers or youtuber Uncle Dane's 'Danetopia' servers, that get rid of the random elements of TF2 and don't seem to have nazis in them (if you have more server recommendations please drop them!).
The actual reason why I like TF2 is because I can beat people to death with a sign that has the shut the fuck up terf meme on it.
TF2. Good call. I always somehow forget it when thinking of shooters even though I've probably put more time into than anything else.