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.
This might be cheating but I’m assuming mods/DLCs to a game count as part of the game.
- Factorio. Pretty much endless amount of stuff you can do with mods on top of a top-tier base game.
- Minecraft, also for the mods.
- Geometry Dash. So many user created levels and the highest skill ceiling of pretty much any game.
- Asetto Corsa, or whatever the most realistic, moddable car racing sim there is. I don’t play this game but I don’t want that genre to die.
Really struggling to think of anything else so I’m just gonna go with another fun, replayable, moddable game: Balatro.Edit: After reading other responses and me forgetting some games I think Skyrim would be a better choice here.
Damn… I gotta try and be diverse… as much as my narrow taste allows anyway:
- The Wonderful 101: my choice for a PlatinumGames ambassador.
- God Hand: beat’em representation.
- Ninja Gaiden 2: nonstop action and my favorite Team Ninja game.
- Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R: my favorite fighting game.
- Hellsinker: infinitely replayable shmup.
I’m assuming there’d be no online multiplayer or modding, as they’d be outside the realm of the game - it’s content made by other people (and it’s more interesting if you exclude them anyway), and I’m assuming there’d be no more updates (so only current or previous patches)
So we’d be looking for replayable single player games
- Minecraft. If that’s not on your list then you’re joking
- Terraria. Sandbox like minecraft, but the more legacy-focused scope of the game would be a nice change
- Factorio. This game is called cracktorio for a reason
- Monster Hunter world. Very replayable when you want to hit big monsters with big swords
- Maimai. Bet you didn’t expect a rhythm game to be here, bitch! With all other video games gone, maimai would explode in popularity, and I’d finally be able to play maimai locally instead of only in the city on the occasional day off. Yes, this list is just a place holder for the real number 1
Bad Rats five times.
If I could choose, then I’d choose for humanity, games that most reasonable people would go “yeah, fair enough”.
(Note, if it were just for me, I wouldn’t pick any of these lol)
- Portal + 2
- Stardew Valley
- Grand Theft Auto V
- Elden Ring
- Final Fantasy VII (or X)
Yeah, fair enough
1. Bioshock - It’s essentially perfect, the only downside is I can never play it for the first time again.
2. Inscryption - It’s an odd choice, since it’s pretty meta, but it’s a game that I think about too much to live without.
3. Doom - Purely for historical relevance, which cannot be overstated in this case
4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time going back and forth between this and LTTP, but Ocarina also represents maybe the best year in game development history so it gets the edge.
5. Slay the Spire - Basically the same argument as Doom - this game is a fork point in all development trends for at least 5, maybe 10 years after its release.
Half-Life 2
Halo CE (MCC version I guess)
F.E.A.R. + Extraction Point DLC (Perseus Mandate and F.E.A.R 2/3 were dogshit)
Metro 2033 (Redux I guess since that’s the only way I can get good HDR)
SOMA
I think collections are cheating and that this list doesn’t cheat hard enough
Nintendo has to have released a classic Mario collection right?
What do you mean collections? Are you talking about the MCC? I was saying that I would save JUST Halo CE but that likely it would have to be the MCC version, but my answer is simply “Halo CE” regardless of if its part of a bundle. Just Halo CE. Ignore the MCC part.
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Minecraft (A comfortable home away from home).
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Wii Sports (The one video game literally made for everyone).
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Bioshock (I may not play it again myself, but everyone should experience “Would you kindly” at least once in their lives).
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PlayStation Dreams (This one is kinda like wishing for infinite wishes).
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Bomberman Ultra (A stupidly fun couch-play game that my entire family has played together for more than 10+ years now. I have never NOT smiled when booting up this silly game).
And then the games I’d forever regret not saving for myself: SuperGlob (Arcade), Tempest (Arcade), Uncharted 4, Bayonetta, StarCraft, Resident Evil 4, Portal and Heavy Rain (A brutal punch in the gut that I loved dearly but never want to play again).
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- Garry’s Mod
- Starcraft
- Team Fortress 2
- Minecraft
- Skyrim
that’s already five - which one of these shouldn’t be saved?
maybe Age of Empires 2, Stellaris, or Civ V instead of Starcraft?
maybe Oblivion, Morrowind, or Fallout 3 instead of Skyrim?
maybe Terraria, Stardew Valley, or Factorio instead of Minecraft?
maybe Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, or Insurgency instead of Team Fortress 2?
This is an awful choice, a committee would have to decide this …
we’re really going to let all these games die?
not to mention games like:
- noita
- Rimworld
- Stanley’s Parable
- Soma
- Alien: Isolation
- BioShock
- Silent Hill
- Amnesia
- Disco Elysium
- Grim Fandango
- Thief
- Beginner’s Guide
- Cuphead
- Hotline Miami
- Celeste
- Command & Conquer
- tetris
- Super Mario Brothers
- Mario Kart
- The Legend of Zelda
- Pokemon
- Animal Crossing
- The Sims
- Halo
- Battlefield games
- Call of Duty games
- Grand Theft Auto
- World of Warcraft
- Doom
- Quake
- Mortal Kombat
- Street Fighter
- Dark Souls
You can find more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_best
this question is evil, and I hate everyone’s answers.
If the whole world was on Garry’s mod the content would be insane
which makes me think you could use Garry’s Mod to recreate TF2, so maybe that would open up a slot …
maybe the committee would actually look to preserve game engines first and foremost, and then count on recreating other games from that
if I had to pick I would at least try to preserve Source, Unity, and Unreal … HPL Engine (Amnesia, Soma, etc.) is pretty unique, but it might not have enough cultural relevance - depends on whether we are prioritizing diversity in our top 5 picks, or just going based on commercial success & popularity …
dammit, Disco Elysim! I’d be so sad if that was gone
right!? it’s a terrible question, I wouldn’t want to choose, and I would hate whatever anyone came up with
(I hate what I came up with!)
Mass Effect 2 because it’s one of my favourite games. The only issue is I don’t know how enjoyable it’ll be without the first and third game.
Red Dead Redemption 2 because it’s one of the finest pieces of media, period.
What Remains of Edith Finch because it’s a shining example of how creative and immersive “walking sims” can be.
Bioshock because the first time you experience the moment is indelibly inked into my brain.
Spoiler for Bioshock
“Would You Kindly”
Civilization 4 because it’s timeless and the moment you boot it up to hear Baba Yetu, it feels magical and special.
Great picks. ME2, RDR2 and BioShock were all games I contemplated for my list. I omitted ME2 for the reason you mentioned, and BioShock didn’t make it because while it’s absolutely a fantastic game, I don’t find it to have the same replayability as Dishonored, which I chose for my last pick. RDR2 would’ve been my sixth pick.
- 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 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.
The testing elements in Portal 2’s maps are technically Turing-complete, and people have made very simple “computers” with them. Here’s a video from 2012 of someone building logic gates.
There’s also VScript which PortalRunner on YouTube used to port an NES emulator and make a web server. Their channel is really good if you like this type of silly hacky fun.
Nothing personal but what if we save either GTA V (or VI), TF2, Arma 3 or Foxhole and let Roblox be destroyed?
Gta 5 would be fine. Its got some unique gamemodes with FiveM, and like 992526737373773 empty RP servers.
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.
Does NWN2 have a strong modding scene?
I played a shitload of NWN and that would have been my pick, but from my recollection NWN2 multiplayer custom servers died when Obsidian put in the (insane) requirement to download terrain meshes outside of the game.
I haven’t circled back to the NWN2 enhanced edition to see if that was ever reworked.
Honestly, no idea, lol. I never went beyond NWN 2’s original campaign. I just figured it would have more potential than NWN 1, in a world with only 5 games.
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.
It is 3am, and after ~60 hours over the last two weeks I have launched my first rocket and gotten the game complete screen. I smile and slowly blink dry, crusty, tired eyes. Finally, I can rest. I have to be to the airport in four hours.
I couldn’t get past the browness of the graphics. Satisfactory on the other hand…
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.
You can play Factorio in coop? Is it good? This games looks like very personnal.
Yeah you can. For us it worked because we focus on different parts and then meet up, discuss and give feedback or help.
But you need to do it with someone you get along well with.
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!
Hope you have a lovely day! ☺️
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.
That’s insane. I’ve beaten Bob’s+Angel’s (with a limp to the finish line) in 123 hours. There are many hundred items and thousands of total recipes, many with byproducts in B+A. How is Pyanodons that much longer?
I’ve done about 6 or 7 bobs and angels runs (all mods) over the years. It’s elementary school compared to pyanodons.
It’s that much longer due to the complexity and depth of the supply chains. And there is very often many different ways to make the same thing, all with different byproducts to deal with.
6 or 7 runs of Bob’s and Angel’s? That’s crazy, why did you play it so many times? I gotta get back to attempting to build a mega base in my save :)
- Sonic 2
- Oddworld
- Patrick’s Parabox
- Crash Bandicoot 2
- Dead Space
Not sure about 5,
but grim fandango should be one of them.
Since all of humanity will only get the 5 games
To encourage local play with your friends we will keep the n64 versions of Mario kart, super smash brothers, and Mario party 2. These are universally enjoyable to all ages and the top 3 local experiences imo.
For people inevitably desiring a strategy game I will choose StarCraft 1. And the RPG shall be Baldurs gate 3 because it allows full custom campaign mods and people can thus create any rpg in it.
Mario kart 64
Super Smash Brothers (64)
Mario Party 2
StarCraft 1
Baldurs Gate 3
