Wasteland 3.

In this case, Jagged Alliance 2 (with 1.13 mod).

In my mind a masterpiece video game can't be copied. Or at least if someone tried it would just be called a cheap clone of the original.

Then again everything can be copied but the more difficult it is to copy the closer it is to a masterpiece IMO.

Just started BG3. Fuckin mind-blowingly amazing.

Okay, now do it all on a bell curve.

What's the most absolute medium game, to which all other games are compared to, and if worse, fail, or are better and pass?

Spec Ops: The line

Basically the "committing war crimes isn't funny after all" game

This is your fault, god-damnit 🫵

Phantom Liberty is where Cyberpunk becomes a masterpiece.

Oooooh I like that question. I feel like it would have to be some kind of Call of Duty, right? Some absolutely mediocre slop that still has enough mechanical satisfaction and mind-numbing explosion-and-cliché-filled story to keep you somewhat entertained, yet still remaining completely forgettable.

SOMA was great

I think Bioshock 1, Inscryption, Portal 1 & 2(I believe that 2 wouldn't be so loved if we didn't already love 1, I like to think of them as a set), Silent Hill 2, Resident Evil, Nier Automata, and Okami.

If you really liked BG3 you might also like Neverwinter Nights 2 and DA:O. I heard there was a remaster of Neverwinter Nights 2 in the works, maybe give it a try when it comes out.

The McDonald's of videogames.

I would absolutely put that game up high on the lists as it is a perfect piece of atmospheric gameplay of misery incarnate.

You are wrong about borderlands as there is one more and it is pretty muc h perfect.

Tales from the Borderlands.
Shame they never made a sequel for it but the artistry, music and story are all so well crafted. Someone loved Borderlands making that.

There is no game: wrong dimension

Immersive sims: Prey, Dishonored, Deus Ex

Story-driven: The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, Halo, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Uncharted, HL2, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Splinter Shock, The Walking Dead

Platformer: Braid, Ori and the Blind Forest, Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Limbo

Action/roguelike: Bastion, Hades

RPG: Fallout: New Vegas, Mass Effect

Puzzle: Lumines, Puzzle Quest, World of Goo, You Must Build a Boat, Reigns, Threes, Meteos

Other: Desert Golfing

So I think it's actually really important that the games that would be considered objective masterpieces would have to overcome any language barriers and be an experience approachable by anyone. You can learn the mechanics to enjoy the gameplay without words
So:

• Portal
• Journey
• Binding of Isaac
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Metro 2033 (which I have sat on and I believe even if it was entirely in Russian you would still get it )
• DOOM (original you don't need words you shoot)
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Katamari Damacy

Then there are dialogue option stories that are fantastic stories that I could consider greats but shareable masterpieces is hard to say as they rely on you speaking the language both literally and then gameplay wise:

• Stanley Parable
• Outer Wilds
• Tales From the Borderlands
• To the Moon
• Talos Principle
• Golf Club Wasteland
• Dead Space

I always forget how absolutely awesome Escape From Butcher Bay is until I'm reminded of its existence and its shockingly unfair to that game.

Pong.

It's that or tetris

It's such a good puzzle box but I don't think I would call The Room, a masterpiece while it's still yet another great puzzle box game.

They are masterpieces in puzzles but maybe not games? I dunno why I don't consider them.