I cant wait for the next masterpiece

TintoConCasera said:
Would be interesting to know other users take on this, and what everyone considers a masterpiece or how they define them.

If you'd ask me, it'd be stuff like the original DOOM, Zelda OOT, Dark Souls and a few others. Genre defining games that while flawed (there's no perfect game) still deliver a experience like no other game at the moment could or if they could, they improved and perfected on it.
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So when I was writing my reply OOT and Mario 64 came to mind as top tier games at release in their time. At the time of release, they were ground breaking stuff. Now they have been surpassed times over, where and how does that end and how do we view that as a point of time versus current day? There are too many factors to have term masterpiece really be applicable for long term as the medium evolves in my opinion. I mean if I were to say any game is close to that, in my mind it would be game I first mentioned in my original reply being Tetris. It defined by its simplistic nature that is relatively close to being timeless by it's approach.
 
Guardian Monkey said:
So when I was writing my reply OOT and Mario 64 came to mind as top tier games at release in their time. At the time of release, they were ground breaking stuff. Now they have been surpassed times over, where and how does that end and how do we view that as a point of time versus current day? There are too many factors to have term masterpiece really be applicable for long term as the medium evolves in my opinion. I mean if I were to say any game is close to that, in my mind it would be game I first mentioned in my original reply being Tetris. It defined by its simplistic nature that is relatively close to being timeless by it's approach.
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Those games aged like wine. You could play Mario 64 today and still notice how good and responsive the controls are, and imo OOT still puts many modern games to shame just by sheer scope and variety in gameplay and locations. Might be a masterpiece thing, to play as good today as they will 20 years later.

I recently played Thief and while I wouldn't call it a masterpiece it sure plays super nice even today. Some games just don't age.
 
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Guardian Monkey said:
So when I was writing my reply OOT and Mario 64 came to mind as top tier games at release in their time. At the time of release, they were ground breaking stuff. Now they have been surpassed times over, where and how does that end and how do we view that as a point of time versus current day? There are too many factors to have term masterpiece really be applicable for long term as the medium evolves in my opinion. I mean if I were to say any game is close to that, in my mind it would be game I first mentioned in my original reply being Tetris. It defined by its simplistic nature that is relatively close to being timeless by it's approach.
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have they been surpassed? I played OOT a couple years ago and it still is such a good, complete, well-designed game.

I do agree with you though, we are often quick to label a game as a masterpiece and then it is forgotten a year later. You really do need a decade to pass to evaluate what holds up.
 
Clair Obscur really is that game of this gen for me that fits "masterpiece". I do think GTA VI will be the next big 95+ game, probably like a 96.
 
Buggy Loop said:
Yup, expedition 33 is more in my tastes of defining a masterpiece.

Next GTA does little to hype me up for a real masterpiece. It'll set the world on fire sales wise but unlikely to be "masterpiece"
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GTA is a masterpiece in the sense of no one would be able to do what they're gonna do. Because no one could burn that much money on a game and know they'll make it back 20x. I always think that gta games are a madterpiece in that sense and always buy it on sale just to check it out, the world in terms of feeling like an actual place is gonna be unmatched, i then play for 10h and stop because as a game it's just not very good.
 
Kudos to the next masterpiece but gaming today belongs to Fortnite what are we going to do about Fortnite? Should we worry about Fortnite?
 
samoilaaa said:
I believe that we live in a time in which there are more good games releasing than ever before
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Not for long. With the amount of projects getting cancelled, and worse, the projects that never will be, we're about to see a huge decrease in the amount of releases. And the games that do may be budget constrained that shows up in the end product.
 
diffusionx said:
have they been surpassed? I played OOT a couple years ago and it still is such a good, complete, well-designed game.

I do agree with you though, we are often quick to label a game as a masterpiece and then it is forgotten a year later. You really do need a decade to pass to evaluate what holds up.
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Graphics and gameplay have evolved since then is what im hinting at. It is a well-designed game, not discounting that.
 
A better question would be 'whats the next expedition 33?' We all know Sony/Nintendo exclusives are going to get good reviews, we likely know GTA 6 is going to break records.

I'm more interested in a game that blows past expectations.
 
Represent. said:
GTA 6, followed by Intergalactic: Heretic Prophet.

Those are the only 2 I can guarantee will be masterpieces - If one releases before those, it's a bonus.
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I have very low confidence in IHP. Everything we've seen so far looks so discordant. An absolute mess creatively.
 
This thread has the potential to become one hell of a fanboy war, idk when is the next Zelda is coming out but yeah that.
 
I'm hoping the next masterpiece is:

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