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[DryvBy]

A lot of people, including myself, will talk up games like they're modern classics, but a year later it's forgotten. Super Mario World? Classic. Halo CE? Classic. Half-Life? Classic. I still see people bring these games up today. But then I'll hear about games like Zelda's Tears and you don't hear anything about it after the year. Where's all the modern games you'll return to in a year or two and play through until you're old?

Which games in the past 10 years are you going to tell little Timmy about, who's bouncing on your knee?

 

[Badlucktroll]

I shall tell them of silent hill 2 remake…

 

[The Cockatrice]

Probably my most replayed games so: Cyberpunk 2077, Prey, BG3, Dishonored 2, Persona 5 R, Doom Eternal, Mass Effect LE, Deus EX HR/MD, etc.

 

[West Texas CEO]

I'll tell them stories of the greatest videogame director who's ever lived;

 

[duyxbox]

My boy, do you see the the small indie company that has been bailed out of bankruptcy ? They once made Final Fantasy 7 trilogy, Final Fantasy X.

 

[El Muerto]

Resident Evil 7, Shadow of Mordor, Bayonetta, Hitman, Doom, Witcher 3.

 

[Damigos]

FF7 remake and Rebirth, every Gran Turismo, World of Warcraft, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 (current state ofc) and many others

 

[RagnarokIV]

 

[Lethal01]

BoTW, Tears of the Kingdom,FF7 Rebirth, Guilty Gear Xrd/Strive

 

[DryvBy]

I forgot to add some of mine.

Cyberpunk 2077 -, I have the platinum and I still replayed it. I actually want to play it again next year.

RimWorld - The stories you can make makes this my modern Oregon Trail. I used to name everyone people from my class and then I'd tell them how their adventure went. RimWorld fills that gap these days. My cousin did a hostile takeover of the camp and became a cannibal. I just love it.

DOOM 2016, not Eternal lol - The return of this boomer shooter really spun me around. I finished it about 10 times around launch.

GTA V - Say what you will, it's on eof my most played games of all time. I haven't even finished the story and I still put in 20 days worth of gameplay in just the online with friends and that was just on the PS4!

Destiny 1 - Before it's end, Destiny was easily my favorite shooter for near 2 years. I have a lot of memories with my dad and I running raids every week too.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - I had a blast exploring this world and I even have a bit of history with the online starting a fight club event in a server that I guess is now just a thing. We brawled for 3 hours in one night, the entire server. Great memories.

Hitman - They nailed everything I enjoyed about the originals and made them better. It's not even fun playing the old games now.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance - I haven't touched this in a few years but my wife and I were completely in love with it and we talk about it still. The sequel is high on my radar just because of how fun the original was. And boy, that's saying something because launch it was glitchy.

 

[Zannegan]

That's hard to say. Maybe Minecraft, assuming they aren't still playing it. Or Guild Wars just for my personal experience with it back in the day. More recently, possibly Tears of the Kingdom for the sheer insanity of things you can do with its emwrgent gameplay systems and for the sharp turn it might represent for the series (is there a Minecraft-esque free build mode in TotK? Because there really should be).

Really though, all the things we find impressive or paradigm shifting now will probably just be a proto-forms of tiny tools in the vast standard toolkit of games of the future. More likely, we'll be trying to communicate the concept of individual games and dedicated hardware to kids who tool around in a Ready Player One-esque metaverse on their smart watches and holovisors... or we'll be sitting around a fire explaining the concept of the magic windows that showed imaginary worlds to kids who hunt two-headed squirrels with handmade weapons for survival. Either/or.

 

[theStartupSound]

In addition to some of the already mentioned games (Hitman, GTA, Resident Evil) I would tell them about the many couch sessions with friends playing games like Worms, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Stick Fight, Unspottable and the Jackbox Games.

 

[jshackles]

Balatro

 

[Magic Carpet]

Grandkids will hear about the legendary Banana.

 

[Topher]

miss you rofif

 

[ssringo]

I'll tell them about the amazing sandboxes Nintendo created in BotW and TotK. Of Fromsoft crushing people with their suite of Souls games and their offshoots.

And they'll say to me "Take your meds grandpa, we played that shit years ago before you ever did. And why are you still waiting on Silksong to get released?"

 

[Represent.]

miss you rofif

was he banned or something?

 

[Topher]

was he banned or something?

Temp banned. He can post now, but just doesn't

 

[RickSanchez]

Disco Elysium. I wont just tell them about it. I'll try to get them to play it. Ofcourse the language may not be suitable for kids.

 

[Topher]

 

[FoxMcChief]

Concord

When I learned that a robot had a preference on its pronouns.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Probably Nintendo Switch, how Nintendo was practically circling the drain then went on to dominate the generation. And all the kickass Wii U games that made up the bulk of Switch launch window.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

Grandkids?

 

[Jigsaah]

PHANTOM....DUST. It will be little known relic of a game that only a select few played and even less mastered.

It's the best game of all time that nobody really knew about.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I doubt I'll have any grandkids.

That said, I'll make sure everyone at the retirement home knows about SMT, Metal Gear Rising and Dragon's Dogma.

 

[DryvBy]

I doubt I'll have any grandkids.

That said, I'll make sure everyone at the retirement home knows about SMT, Metal Gear Rising and Dragon's Dogma.

Grandkids, kidnapped kids. Just some kids from the future, however you obtain them.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Temp banned. He can post now, but just doesn't

Too busy replaying Forspoken

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Ain't got kids let alone grandkids.

 

[lmimmfn]

Mostly pre 2016 woke stuff, with the odd not in your face message promotion since then, same with TV shows, movies etc.

Having said that I think there are far more important things to engage in with grandkids than specific games

 

[SHA]

Idk, John Carmack, Grant Duncan"arguably the modern Carmack", Miyazaki, The Witcher devs.

Fortnite will kill you, don't play it.

Gaas for losers, don't waste your time.

 

[Metnut]

I’ll definitely tell them all about FF7 Remake so they can understand the background behind FF7 ReRemake Part 1/12

 

[hinch7]

Elden Ring, God of War (2018), Final Fantasy VII Remake, GTA V, Cyberpunk 2077 and Max Payne 3.

Not sure if too old but certainly World of Warcraft (Vanilla) as well, if that counts.

 

[FoxMcChief]

 

[IAmRei]

ToTK, Mario kart 8, Animal crossing, Xenoblade series, Dragons Dogma Series, there will be more.
I will act as Game Historian, like me usual, sometimes I teach about game industry in local colleges. I tell a lot of games, not just my recent favorites, but also lot of influential games.

 

[March Climber]

He can post now, but just doesn't

He has ascended.

 

[Puscifer]

I'll tell them stories of the greatest videogame director who's ever lived;

Who the hell is that?

Spoiler

He's kinda cute tbh

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

I have a feeling that if you went to any kid, and told them that there is a game that is powered but the actual Sun, they would get hyped.

 

[Crayon]

I'm just going to tell them I invented Mario. Kids are dumb.

 

[Bloobs]

Who the hell is that?

Spoiler

He's kinda cute tbh

Gape Man

 

[FoxMcChief]

I started a lie to my oldest daughter a few years ago that I used to steal cars. I eventually kind of just used story of GTA3. I was betrayed by my partner, but befriended a mobster in jail, and when I got out, I went to work for him and his family.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I’ll definitely tell them all about FF7 Remake so they can understand the background behind FF7 ReRemake Part 1/12

You should also make them watch 20 hours of YouTube videos to help them understand the plot of Kingdom Hearts 7