What games do you think are unfairly snubbed when talking about the best games of all time?

Lunar@lemmy.wtf to Gaming@beehaw.org – 30 points –

When talking about the best games of all time people generally mention Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Super Mario 64, Halo 3, The Last of Us, Nier Automata, etc. , but dismiss other great games.

What games do you think are unfairly forgotten from this conversation?

Personally I think the original Dead Rising, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Dragon's Dogma: The Dark Arisen and Lunar: Eternal Blue should be talked as some of the best games of all time. They're such great and unique games!

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Morrowind and Oblivion both have a massive fan following but I think always get unfairly overlooked for Skyrim.

I agree, Skyrim was a huge disappointment for me.

After Fallout 3, each Bethesda release was less ambitious than the last. Oblivion tried to do tons of stuff and ended up as a beautiful and memorable total mess (It's my personal favorite). Fallout 3 was a bold new direction and a more stable but fudamentally compromised experience. Skyrim established the trend of scaling back and making what's left more consistent, simple, and flashy. Fallout 4 was the last major fan outcry from those who believed Bethesda could have done better while Starfield is a confirmation that everyone's worst fears about Bethesda are true.

I can tell dozens of stories of buggy hilarious moments in oblivion stories that are memorable and unique. All I remember from vanilla skyrim are the official plots everyone went through. It was just as buggy just charmless.

Too true. Being able to jump over buildings was the basis for many of my old Oblivion shenanigans. You can't really get weird with the Skyrim options without modding.

I would return 5 Skyrim remakes for just 1 remake of oblivion or Morrowing. Does a great disservice that those games a regulated to past consoles.

There are some amazing fan projects though:

  • While it isn't a remake, OpenMW improves upon the original game's graphics - it does not change textures or models though, just rendering features.
  • Skywind is a remake though - it uses the engine of Skyrim to recreate Morrowind.
  • Skyblivion is the same idea, but with Oblivion.

OpenMW may as well be a remake, it runs very well and updates everything for modern hardware. Thats probably the way to go if you want to play Morrowind today.

I'm not sure I would trust modern Bethesda to remake Morrowind.