There are plenty of games I think are MUCH greater than some perfect ones. For instance, Darks Souls is a greater game than Tetris or Super Mario Bros., but it’s perfection goes away halfway through the game, and there are obvious, severe flaws in the second half. But that is because of what it was trying to be, and it’s ambition, and likely a lack of time to truly finish it.
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Well it takes more effort to make something bigger. In ds1, they didn’t have enough conpletion time for the later parts. Elden ring is more like their full scope to me
Diablo 2, Path of Exile, Titan quest
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The one and only: Doom: Eternal 
jk, there isn’t a perfect game, probably D2 would be closest to that, but kinda tend to think people like it for the wrong reason/s
I like D2 cause it was time-consuming if you respected the game, progression mattered and was noticeable… BUT, fast forward 10 years or so and people started doing only and exclusively “meta” things and just reduced it to repetition of what gives in lowest amount/s of time the highest rewards 
D4 can be even better, but needs more depth, substance, better balance, and do some tweaks around progression so it feels a bit smoother progression instead of spurt-based power grows
Right now having a Druid lvl56 and feels much easier than was at say lvl36 for ex. but STILL takes forever to lvl-up so it “evens out” ? :P… Personally don’t think that’s quite a good thing for a game tbh, in fact think should feel the other way round overall… Not sure exactly how to do that, but think it’s kinda important for the game longevity, otherwise this will end up in “endless runs” whether that being GRs, NMs, Helltides, whatever, just endless repetitive trivialized runs that don’t respect the gradual process of struggle and growth
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Perfection has to be taken in context of when the game was released as well. There are many games that were perfect in their time, but if it was released today, most would just scoff at it.
wow m+ is actually fun only the part where u can get the highest ilvl in the vault lol. ive done some 20s court of stars etc. but it tiks me off why Diablo devs trying to copy it and fail hard.
POE is really fun! if u have the brain for it, once u learn the passive tree, everything is simple. + running maps in that game is fun, and building your own class. (games that i returned for times to times unlike D3, after the 2nd season i never touched that game again).
Lost ark is near perfect without the pay2win crap. best boss fight, almost like top down wow.
Nioh 2 is diablo as a soul game.
D2
it feels like the open world design of this game came from Red dead 2 online and Ghost recon break point which have whole lots of bad in it. this game is like a mass produced factory product that don’t have taste in it except the packaging(the art is not bad but the skele animation is horrible and the wraiths are copy and paste from d3).
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- A well modded Skyrim.
- Well-modded Jagged Alliance 2, long after the user-made HAM module.
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My personal top three for closest to 10/10 for me is:
Earthbound
Super Metroid
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
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I get bored of everything.
What matters is the quality of the ride until that point.
Left for dead 2
One finger death punch
power wash simulator
tetris
not best , not most played though L4D is up there to, but games that just fit thier little niche perfectly.
OG Zelda
Mario Kart 64
Splinter Cell 1
World of Warcraft + the next 2 xpacs
And one I’ll get hate for:
HOTS
They removed all the lame sh*t I hated about League and we could just brawl with heroes from every universe. Still love that game. Last hits can diaf. It’s a lame mechanic boosting one dude on team first etc. Item store’s can also diaf. If I wanted gear to collect I’d play warcraft or Diablo (well older Diablo’s) and every one just picks the same couple builds anyway so becomes pointless and not fun. Also, 45 min games are lame
That’s the main ones I can think of that I thought it was awesome and wasn’t complaining for changes for it to be fun. We just played them and loved them.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a “perfect” game. Every creation has its flaws, especially relatively complex creations like video and computer games. Some are more appealing than others, and often that isn’t based on whether they are less flawed, but sheer entertainment value compared with other options. I’ve never played a game that I considered perfect, though.
This question is like, what is the meaning to life, or what is beautiful is individual based. I would say games that I have more than 500 hours on are pretty good.
HOTS was actually good, but its problem was that it arrived late to a genre that was already “set” in its conventions, and its own hierarchy of “skill” based on those conventions, and so its innovations had only a very small audience.
There is only one:
Minesweeper
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Perfection
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I mean, I disagree. Tetris is absolutely perfect as a puzzle game. It is THE most perfect game ever made. Doesn’t mean everyone enjoys playing it, or won’t get sick of it if they do.
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Goldeneye 007. It just never got old. I can still load it up to this day and get hooked in again.
Witcher 3 was DAMN good as well as Fallout 4
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Has a lot going for it as an RPG and a story, but the combat is lacking and on release it was even worse.
A lot of reason the Souls games get a pass on balancing is people accept them for what they are.
SSX Tricky!
/drops mic
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