RH | 4,903 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Using the general after-life rules of The Good Place, you have just died and and are the only statistical anomaly in the history of mankind to score a "goodness" score of 0! So you get to spend eternity in a "mediocre" place. It's not good, it's not bad. Your home is always 1-2 degrees colder or warmer than you'd prefer. There's good food in the fridge...but it's always leftovers. There's television but all that's on is vintage Nick-at-Night, The Weather Channel, sports but only the ones you've never cared about and occasionally there's specials like a rock concert by bands like... Fleetwood Mac. You also can watch any movie you like... but all of them are on worn out VHS tapes that you can aaaaalmost perfectly track on the VCR, but can never get just right. The committee has decided that going into the after life, you can take with you one console that will either be hooked up to a Panasonic CRT TV from the 90s with slightly distorted geometry on the edges OR a 1080p Orion LCD HDTV "Black Friday special". You know, the cheap kind no one really wants but it was $100, so you can always throw it in the kids room after you discover it's mediocrity. Either TV is guarantied to work forever since this is eternity. The set that will be selected will match the general period of the console and game you choose. Now, the catch to this is you get to pick one, and only one game for your console. This is the only video game you get to play for the rest of eternity. Will you get bored with it? Probably. Can you try to get crafty and choose a console that has a game embedded in a menu, or a there's an Easter Egg buried in a device? Well, if there is a console like that, then sure. Feel free to try to "bend" this rule, but the idea is straight-forward. You get one console and one game to take with you, and that's it. That's what you have to game with for eternity. What console/game do you pick? (The flavor is for fun, but the meat of this question is if you could only play one game, for eternity, what would it be. Feel free to craft your own story for a single PC game... just play it on the lowest graphics and audio settings. :P) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,710 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Something I’ve never played before, obviously 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 1,885 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 (edited) "Mighty Bomb Jack" Also, I've learned that when it comes to these threads there really is such a thing as Reincarnation! Edited November 14, 2023 by PII Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Count | 527 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 I suppose it would have to be something like an MMORPG to keep my interest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhuno | 107 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 40 minutes ago, The Count said: I suppose it would have to be something like an MMORPG to keep my interest. Oh, man, I was going to say the original Halo. I love that game and could spend an eternity running around and finding new ways to break that game, but this is such a better answer. I feel dumb for not thinking of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Bogomil | 815 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 4 hours ago, RH said: So you get to spend eternity in a "mediocre" place. It's not good, it's not bad. Your home is always 1-2 degrees colder or warmer than you'd prefer. There's good food in the fridge...but it's always leftovers. There's television but all that's on is vintage Nick-at-Night, The Weather Channel, sports but only the ones you've never cared about and occasionally there's specials like a rock concert by bands like... Fleetwood Mac. You also can watch any movie you like... but all of them are on worn out VHS tapes that you can aaaaalmost perfectly track on the VCR, but can never get just right. Sounds like Hell to me. I'd probably bring Rockband and the CRT because the only thing worse than the Hell is input lag. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,526 Editorials Team · Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Probably something that has the tools to create your own games. Eternity is a pretty long time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Animal crossing. Seems fitting. Playing hell IN hell. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splain | 2,569 Editorials Team · Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 It would have to be Tetris. Any game that has lots of variety would still get old. The core mechanic/game has to be timeless. So I guess I'd find the craziest, lots-of-modes version of Tetris I could find that has a good vanilla mode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,844 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 No screen needed. Chess. I’m perfecting my Nagasaki Gambit. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankos | 439 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 8 minutes ago, Hammerfestus said: No screen needed. Chess. I’m perfecting my Nagasaki Gambit. Couldn't you play that with just pen and paper? I guess it wouldn't be as fun without the board, but you have eternity, so you could probably make one there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerfestus | 3,844 Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 14 minutes ago, Ankos said: Couldn't you play that with just pen and paper? I guess it wouldn't be as fun without the board, but you have eternity, so you could probably make one there Wait does this scenario allow for 2 player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted November 15, 2023 Author Share Posted November 15, 2023 3 hours ago, Hammerfestus said: Wait does this scenario allow for 2 player? Sure, and btw, the idea isn’t that you get one game. You get one VIDEO game. So assume you have a closet with chess, checkers and a deck of cards. But a joker is missing, as is a black checker piece and a white pawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renmauzo | 1,201 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 I'm bringing the Mega Man X Collection on PS2 (invert my buster and jump buttons with no option to change = no GC version). I could play the X series forever, and I already like creating my own challenges when I play them to keep things interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,800 Events Team · Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 10 hours ago, RH said: Feel free to try to "bend" this rule... Well if you're giving the inch, I'm taking my Nintendo and my PowerPak. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murray | 2,448 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 31 minutes ago, JamesRobot said: Well if you're giving the inch, I'm taking my Nintendo and my PowerPak. And a case of Extra Gold! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 519 Posted November 15, 2023 Share Posted November 15, 2023 Probably Wario's Woods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,543 Graphics Team · Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 I'd definitely choose a TurboGrafx-16 Mini as my "one console for eternity" since it has a killer preloaded game library. But that's probably not in the spirit of the question haha. Otherwise - anyone know if there's a console with a good Atari / classic Arcade anthology disc and a good joystick controller? Because that would probably be my "proper" choice. [T-Pac] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,903 Posted November 19, 2023 Author Share Posted November 19, 2023 5 hours ago, T-Pac said: I'd definitely choose a TurboGrafx-16 Mini as my "one console for eternity" since it has a killer preloaded game library. But that's probably not in the spirit of the question haha. Otherwise - anyone know if there's a console with a good Atari / classic Arcade anthology disc and a good joystick controller? Because that would probably be my "proper" choice. [T-Pac] This might be up your alley: https://www.ign.com/games/a-collection-of-activision-classic-games-for-the-atari-2600 And this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Anniversary_Edition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 5 hours ago, T-Pac said: I'd definitely choose a TurboGrafx-16 Mini as my "one console for eternity" since it has a killer preloaded game library. But that's probably not in the spirit of the question haha. Otherwise - anyone know if there's a console with a good Atari / classic Arcade anthology disc and a good joystick controller? Because that would probably be my "proper" choice. [T-Pac] Have you had a chance to check out Atari 50 yet (out for various consoles, but my Secret Santa got me the Switch one last year and I absolutely love it)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 582 Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 Probably that Nintendo board/card game compilation that came on the Switch. Boring but practical answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Pac | 7,543 Graphics Team · Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 On 11/18/2023 at 6:11 PM, RH said: This might be up your alley: https://www.ign.com/games/a-collection-of-activision-classic-games-for-the-atari-2600 And this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Anniversary_Edition Wow - I would've expected more games packed into console anthologies like that considering Atari Flashback consoles regularly have 100+ built-in titles. But i guess those releases are pretty old by now haha. [T-Pac] On 11/18/2023 at 6:41 PM, captmorgandrinker said: Have you had a chance to check out Atari 50 yet (out for various consoles, but my Secret Santa got me the Switch one last year and I absolutely love it)? I've heard about it, but never checked it out. I don't actually own or play modern platforms - my question about modern compilations of classic games was just to get a hypothetical answer to @RH's prompt. It's cool to see Atari getting a positive reception to that anniversary release, though. [T-Pac] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-type | 2,481 Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 every videogame will get boring after a while. We all know the real answer is cup and and ball: You never know which way that crazy ball is going to go! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koifish | 556 Posted November 20, 2023 Share Posted November 20, 2023 La-Mulana. Maybe with an eternity I'll finally finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NostalgicMachine | 235 Posted November 30, 2023 Share Posted November 30, 2023 A Link to The Past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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