But which ones will make the cut and be safely ensconced inside our cosy capsule for future generations?
Come on down to find out.
Some years have beenrealsparse, lately.
It’s a stonkingly good game, and into the Time Capsule it goes.
Imagine the relief when I saw FTL.
FTL: Faster Than Lightis one of an extremely small number of absolutely perfect games.
It’s an extremely challenging game, and one of the best story generators in my Steam Library.
FTL is still one of the best games it’s possible for you to play today in 2023.
If you haven’t played it already, your sole excuse can be that you were only recently born.
And even then I might still judge you.
Is it a game?
Is it not a game?
What do you do in it?
Deary me, what a whole buncha palaver.
Sure, its made a mark on history, but I also think its just a great game regardless.
Like seriously, all you do is walk and listen, thats it.
It’s a good game as well, to be clear.
The whole thing has this air of a doomed last stand.
Firstly, it was the last game where I remember people making a huge fuss about unlockable DLC.
Nobody cares about that any more, of course.
We barely have discs these days.
By far the biggest fuss was the ending.
They patched their story!
I don’t think anyone has done that since, and I hope they never do.
But it makes ME3 a definite cultural artifact, even if it’s an embarrassing one.
Undoubtedly, thats thanks to leading duo Lee and Clementine.
Lee and Clementine are compassionate and caring, and its immediately heartwarming stuff.
Of course, the wider context is the opposite of cosy.
Its an apocalypse, so the pair dont bond by making pancakes together.
Yes, even the ones who are ageless trickster demi-gods.
No, it threw those in as a bonus.
I take a very firm stance on this.
I know, I know.
Still, this didnt stop me from picking up a copy ofMax Payne 3the day it was released.
After a trio as strong as those, why would anyone skip their next release?
I think the general consensus is that Max Payne 3 is too up its own arse.
A world away from the original duo in terms of tone, characters and locations.
This is all, I suspect, true.
But without context, I cant help but love Maxs trip to South America.
This is a particularly grim game, even by Rockstars standards.
It can be a hard thing to stomach.
Unless, of course, you click with the combat.
The combat in Max Payne 3 is sensational.
Shooting dudes to the thumping techno beats of HEALTHs wonderful soundtrack never gets old.
Will we ever see a Max Payne 4?
Freeze cryogenically suspending his wife, if indeed his wife was a hyper-kinetic competitiveFPS.
God, I missTribes: Ascend.
See, everyone in this game has legs, but if you actually use them, youre a mug.
Alas, it was all tragically short-lived.
They’d argue that you don’t need to mod it with DSFix to run nicely.
It has lots of little improvements to make things more convenient, too.
And those are all great points!
But hey, it’s notPrepare To Die.
Yes, I get that PTDE first launched on Games for Windows Live - Iget it.
To me, though, the game shouldn’t be forgotten or passed off as inferior.
It’s fitting that it was once inconvenient and obtuse, both to own and play.
I think the original captures FromSoft’s vision far better than the remaster.
Everything is coated in a dreamy gloss and has a rough edge.
It really is the Dark Souls of Dark Souls.
