What is your favourite video game from 80s, 90s, 2000s and 2010?

[APTminer]

Basically from
1980 - 1989
1990 - 1999
2000 - 2009
2010 - 2019

I can at least list some of mine:
The 80s: Have not played a lot of games from that time
The 90s: Mario 64
The 2000s: Halo 2
The 2010s: Witcher 3 and AC4 and Minecraft.

[Balta666]

I have not played much in the 80s but my favourite is Wolfenstein (it was really mind blowing and I recently played the latest one and I had more fun in the arcade than the real game)

The 90s are my favourite generation in gaming and my absolute favourite is final fantasy VII (the game that pulled me into my favourite genre of games) but I have to do a honours mention to link to the past and mario 64

I did not play much in the 2000s era but I love Mafia, I like the story , the pacing and is one of the few games I 100% completed

My favourite game of the last decade is by far xenoblade chronicles 2 (many people crap on the story and the very strong anime style but I like it way more than the first and will play it for a third time anytime soon)

[Jargoyle]

70's Atari Combat (tanks with ricochet... Bloop, bloop.... bloop... boom!)

Akalabeth in the 80's was the first computer game I ever played. Apple II. good times!

90's is impossible. Star craft, Grim fandango, X-wing, Home world, Thief, the list goes on and on. This is absolutely my favorite era. If I had to pick one it would be Jagged Alliance II. (may be my all time favorite game ever.)

2000's I discovered ultama online (released in the 90's), Deus Ex, and Baldurs Gate II

2010 Started off with New Vegas, now things make me go Meh. Lots of good games but my most played are Indy games now. AAA is fast food for the masses. Would you like loot box fries with that?

[Quindiesel]

Let's see:
1980-1989: NES: Legend of Zelda 2 (fite me) PC: Math Blaster on DOS
1990-1999: PS1: Bushido Blade, PC: Sid Meier.'s Alpha Centauri
2000-2009: PS3: Metal Gear Solid 4, PC: Ugh...WoW Vanilla and Burning Crusade expansion (shut up)
2010+:PS4: Ugh...crap...uh so many. Valkyrie Chronicals! PC: Modded Skyrim

[RetroRex]

Since it would be difficult for me to narrow down a favorite game for each decade, I'm going to bend the parameters a bit and list my favorite game by console.

NES - Super Mario Bros 3
SNES - Super Metroid
PS1 - FF VII
N64 - Ocarina of Time
Dreamcast - Skies of Arcadia
PS2 - Persona 4
Gamecube - LOZ: Wind Waker
Xbox - Halo 2
Xbox 360 - Viva Pinata
PS3 - Skyrim
PS4 - Doom

[Lennac]

80s: Legend of Zelda (1 and 2) and Blaster Master... loved Blaster Master

90s: Diablo, StarCraft, Baldur's Gate

2000s: Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, CoD 4: Modern Warfare

2010s: The Witcher 3, Fallout 3, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Zelda came back into my favourites, and Blizzard is nowhere to be seen near my favourite games since Warcraft 3's release.

[Misfit410]

1980 - 1989 - Super Mario Brothers 3
1990 - 1999 - Super Metroid
2000 - 2009 - SWAT 4
2010 - 2019 - The Witcher 3

[Garrett]

I would recommend Thief, but please be warned. A misguided soul gives money to those who had nothing to do with the creation of those games. Looking Glass has been gone for almost two decades, and instead of Eidos Interactive there is Square Enix, the horror responsible for giving Thief to the short bus team at "Eidos" Montréal while competent actual Deus Ex fans got to make two great new Deus Ex games. The Thief trilogy is definitely worth playing, but it's a disservice to it to pay for it. And that's not just a thief joke.

[PaXXXman]

Would you guys recomment Thief? The whole series is at 8$ CAD. I guess if it's on your list, at 8$ for the whole series it's a steel

[PaXXXman]

Hmm that is a difficult thread my friends. There so many good games

80s -> Was not born BUT I played a shit ton of Tetris on my Jailbreaked Ipod touch (Before Iphone 3G came out). I'll thow in my bro Pacman to

90s -> Suddenly a hardcore gamer was born. I only got my first console which was a Gameboy advance in 2001 BUT I played a lot of Starcraf and Warcraft III at my cousins place

00s -> The glorious days. Halo 3 without a doubt. Any Halo fans should watch this it's fu**** epic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLnL63cXmD8

10s -> The witcher 3. That game was in my opinion, the most complete game if you look at the game as a whole. I cannot remember anything that was not polished. Havn't even finished the second DLC yet and I have at leaast 200 hours on that one. I also haven't played Red Dead redemption but from what I have seen, it's the only game that I would categorize as one of the most complete game of all time and surpass The Witcher 3. But I have not played the game so it cannot make my list.

[Irritablesquid]

Super Mario

Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie. Spyro, Croc, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken 2 and 3, Rayman, Oddworld, FF7.

Fable 1 and 2, Crackdown, GTA Vice City and San Andreas, Crackdown, Saints Row, The Sims 2, Uncharted 2, MGS Snake Eater, God of War, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect, COD 4, Batman Arkham Assylum, Hitman Blood Money, Witcher 2, Halo 3.

Skyrim, Fallout New Vegas, Hitman, Minecraft, Witcher 3, Sleeping Dogs, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Dishonored, Kingdoms Of Amalur, Fable 3.

Those are the games I've enjoyed through the years and continue to enjoy.

[Garrett]

The entire Thief trilogy is iconic stealth gaming at its best. The cutscenes were better in the first two games but the gameplay was better in the last - in my opinion, of course. The new game was a real turnoff when it first came out, but I tried it again last year and found that I was removed enough for the original content, and familiar enough with modern stealth games, to embrace the changes and accept it as a decent reboot. It will never be the classic that the originals are, but it's a solid stealth game with a few glaring flaws.

The cutscenes in Deadly Shadows are just as good as the ones in T1 and T2. The real cutscenes I mean. The ones that Daniel Thron made out of digital paintings and greenscreen silhouettes with After Effects. The ingame cutscenes suck. If I had a greenscreen studio and a few people willing to flail around in hooded cloaks, I could remake the visual portion of those cutscenes using the same method as Thron used.

But the 2014 trainwreck is literally the worst game I've ever played. I made Valve pay for my copy with Steam trading card revenue and 75% discount just so I could write my Steam review without paying a penny. https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/...mended/239160/ After that I made a 7-part video series detailing every aspect of the game that is wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrO0...rU7P1npPzA201x In other words all of the aspects except one. Yeah, that game has one (1) thing that was not made badly. In my opinion, it's not possible for pure incompetence to produce that many mistakes. You need to know how to avoid all quality ie. you need to know what you should do in order to accomplish the opposite so consistently.

Maybe it was an extreme form of corporate robotic thinking. All that quality game design produced a small and dedicated audience for a niche game. If making a good game that tries to do one thing well produces a small audience out of all audiences, then making a terrible game that tries to do everything poorly must therefore bring in all audiences minus that small one.

[twidget]

80's LoZ
90's Super Metroid, FF VI,
00's The TES and Burnout series
10's Fallout New Vegas

[NamelessOne]

Uhm... that is a great question

80's : Sid Meier's Pirates! (Don't remember that much)
90's : Guardian's Crusade (but I could mention a dozen more)
00's : Mass Effect (but I could mention dozens more)
10's : The Witcher 3 (but I could mention a dozen more)


Now a selection of the dozens more:
90's : Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Final Fantasy 6, Civilization II, Medal of Honor, Resident Evil 2, The Secret of Monkey Island, Metal Gear Solid
00's : Gothic series, KOTOR, Max Payne, Assassins' Creed, Dragon Age: Origins, Fable, The Witcher, Risen, Championship Manager 01/02, Pokemon Gold and Silver, Civilization IV, Fallout 3
10's : Mass Effect 2 and 3, The Witcher 2, Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: Inquisition, Tomb Raider (2013), Fallout: New vegas, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Man, the 00's were the best. I miss that decade so much, I still play pretty much all of those games. In my opinion the 00's were the perfect blend of graphic and gameplay, and the pinnacle of storytelling. Back then (for most of the game companies) passion, integrity and fan servicing were still very important. Nowadays it is not.
Thank the goddess (cit.) for CD Project Red.

[nmlss]

80's: Excitebike
90's: Ocarina of Time
00's: Max Payne 2
10's: Breath of the Wild