The Greatest Game Ever Made

[Lennac]

Have to agree with Tech_One, The Witcher 3 has to be on that legendary tier of great games.

There's probably no one greatest game ever, but a tier that can accommodate what will be all-time classics.

For me, personally, I absolutely adore Final Fantasy Tactics. It means a lot to me for when I played it growing up, it also holds up (for me) as one of the best turn-based strategy/RPGs I've ever played. I'm sure there are others in that genre that may have eclipsed it since then, but I have to hold it up there as one of the greatest.

[aileron]

Ever? EVER? In any format? Computer, console, arcade...? This is a very difficult question. Personally, I've probably sunk more hours into one of the Civilisation or Ultima games than any other, but the person that mentioned PacMan has a good point. PacMan is probably the most recognized video game character worldwide.

[Trippy Logic]

For me it would have to be Arcanum: of steamworks and magick obscura. The game and and characters within react to your actions, you can be good or evil, technologist or magician, intelligent or dumb and NPC's will change their reaction towards you depending on it. Technologist shopkeepers will kick you out of their shop and not do business with you if you're too magically inclined.

[StanTheStrongArm]

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. It's one of the defining game's of it's generation, with more stuff packed into it than anything that came out of Japan.

[Onideus]

That awkward moment when you suddenly realize 3D games now fall into the "retro/classic" category... gawd I feel old now. Back in my day games only had EIGHT colors... IN THE SNOW... BOTH WAYS!

[Astraea]

MGS1 or the original Elite

That might well be my pick. I think MGS1 is probably the game i've beaten the most times of all after mandatory super mario world on #1.

[SereneYeti]

Warcraft 3 should be up there

[Musou Tensei]

I do not think there is such a thing, my favorite game of all time is Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon on the N64, but I'm aware that in a general sense it's definitely not great, I just love it so very much.

[Chris_Ceee]

Street Fighter II
Musha Aleste
Gynoug
DOA5
Resident Evil

[MadMummy76]

Tie between Deus Ex And System Shock 2

[Garrett]

Tie between Deus Ex And System Shock 2

You can't mention those two without mentioning Thief 2: The Metal Age

[MadMummy76]

You can't mention those two without mentioning Thief 2: The Metal Age

It was allright I guess, but the medieval theme always takes a back seat for me over cyberpunk, or other modern day games.

[Garrett]

It was allright I guess, but the medieval theme always takes a back seat for me over cyberpunk, or other modern day games.

My point was that they are all Immersive Sims and each one has a specific focus. Deus Ex has a great story and worldbuilding and a wide range of player choice even though its mechanics are clunky and terrible. System Shock 2 is all about the atmosphere and tension. Thief 2 is the one with the great mechanics and peerless level design even though its story is meh.

[Nintendo Xbot]

For me, it's Ocarina of Time, though Breath of the Wild is a very close second.

[Mike]

GTA San Andreas.

Maybe that's a casual normie choice, I dunno. You can pick up a copy of it for about 20p.

However.. I can't tell you how excited I was when it came out, having played GTA III and Vice City solidly.. you could finally swim! The map seemed huge for the time. The story was so much fun (remember when games were fun?) .. and you got to fly a plane...an actual plane! You had a great variety of terrain to wander around, tons of stuff to do, not a game you could just rush through in a couple hours and be done. The ability to improve your characters stats. James Woods and Sam L Jackson on board to add some gravitas with their voice acting (along with a bunch of other famous people who all did a pretty great job)

Plus an awesome soundtrack as with most GTA games. I'm a pretty big music nerd who is into a lot of the genres Rockstar plumbs to get licensed content from (hip hop, jazz, classical, old school death metal..). Yet almost the whole time I was playing San Andreas I was tuned into the country station. It somehow made the perfect soundtrack to the game (not least that for most of it you are spent in the middle of nowhere).

Now I did love GTA IV too, and GTA V slightly less so (after 2010 most games just look like interactive movies to me... not cool). But I am saying if Rockstar had pulled the plug on the franchise after San Andreas, they would not have left anything in the locker room. In fact, I kinda want to go play it again now...as video games go, it's like a warm comfort blanket...full of mindless gangsta violence, naturally.