I haven't played it, so I can't rightly comment on that. I suspect that there are many factors of it (including skill floor and aestetics) that dampen its appeal.
It's not arrogance if it's the truth! (okay, fine it absolutely can be even if true. Context and presentation matter. 😅 And yeah, I got a chuckle out of that.)
Well, sure. But only in certain contexts. That's true of everything that's "the best." Here's my empirical: I recently tried to reach my retired dad video games at his request. First thing I attempted was Tetris because of its learning curve. He took better to Galaga. Now he's playing Wolfenstein.
I personally steep even earlier than that: I'm currently into Mahjong. And my cerebellum still feeds to me the fact that Tetris was based on a similarly analog game called Pentominoes.
Essentially non-violent, challenging over time but easy to learn, simple to render on most devices, playable without any cultural context or language skill, and to the best of my knowledge it can't be ruined by optimization.
If a list doesn't have it in the top 20, I'm not interested.
I saw a big one a few years back that snubbed tetris and had Undertale in the top 5. Get outta here
But there is something really enjoyable about playing Tetris or the original Mario Bros or any of those 8bit games. They crammed a lot of fun into a very small package.
New stuff often suffers bloat because they don't have to work around the tech
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But I still think it's 'Elden Ring'.
We've made some pretty good improvements to tetris in that time!
But we've made a lot of great games since then. Tetris probably wouldn't crack my top 10 favorites, but that's what taste is all about.
Essentially non-violent, challenging over time but easy to learn, simple to render on most devices, playable without any cultural context or language skill, and to the best of my knowledge it can't be ruined by optimization.
I saw a big one a few years back that snubbed tetris and had Undertale in the top 5. Get outta here
But there is something really enjoyable about playing Tetris or the original Mario Bros or any of those 8bit games. They crammed a lot of fun into a very small package.
New stuff often suffers bloat because they don't have to work around the tech
Same thing with cell phones, they used to fit a ton of stuff in small packages but now they just luxuriously use all the space they want..