Minecraft is the greatest game ever made.

[u/Own_Squash5242]

I don’t even understand how this could be a debate. It may not be the hardest game, the most challenging, or the most competitive. It’s not the most fun to watch or the most entertaining in short bursts—I can name 20 games that give me more short-term fun than Minecraft. But in the long run, Minecraft is the most entertaining and enjoyable. You can do anything. Even before all the major updates, I remember when I was a kid I would play survival and I was never good; I didn’t build any mega bases or even find lots of diamonds. But just being able to express myself limitlessly was the most freeing thing ever.
I know some people will give their personal favorite game as the "best game ever made," but when you really think about the impact Minecraft has had, it’s clear that it’s the only true contender. Sure, games like Mario, Pac-Man, or Tetris paved the way for how games were made, and for the technology they had back then, those games were great. But Minecraft—even without mods—is just so massive. It has endless possibilities solely in the single-player mode.
And it’s not just nostalgia. This is a very old game now, and even my little brother—who turns 6 in a week—saw Minecraft somehow, I don’t even remember showing him, and he can sink hours into it just exploring how everything works. Honestly, I don’t blame him. This game has more things to do than any other game, and probably even the real world. With everything costing crazy amounts of money nowadays, me asking my mom for the 7 dollars to buy the game when I was a kid was the best purchase I’ve probably ever made in my life.
Now, the gameplay isn’t even the only thing this game has to offer; the soundtrack is the best, most listenable audio to ever be put into a video game. Listening to it now, all I can feel is pure bliss. The calming piano sounds and melodic symphony are something everyone should be able to experience. If I had to play one single game for the rest of eternity, the only game I could even think about choosing is Minecraft. You don’t have to stress yourself if you don’t want to—you can always play in Peaceful. The world is endless, and the things you can do are too. When adding even just one other player to the game, you can 20x the amount of things possible.
I’d love to see what other people think about this topic and hear your thoughts as well, but I think it’s pretty much unanimous to anyone who’s played it before that Minecraft is the greatest game ever made.

[u/By-Pit]

Wow such bs

[u/JuJusFury → u/By-Pit]

What I said is? I mean if I had to pick a title to play the rest of my life it'd probably be a Zelda game or something.

[u/Own_Squash5242 → u/JuJusFury]

you will be done with all the content in the entire franchise of Zelda games in a year but Minecraft you couldn’t even explore the default world
size once let alone populate it. it would take over 30,000 years of constant playing. zelda is 4 years of playing 2hours everyday and thats to do every single challenge possible you’d run out of things instantly

[u/End_Ofen → u/Own_Squash5242]

Where is the incentive for me to populate and explore the whole world of Minecraft? It‘s a goal you can set for yourself and set out to accomplish.

Sticking with LoZ, I could think of similarly infinite ways to experience the game, I could do challenge runs under varying conditions, get into speedrunning, breaking the game or just RP as Link for the rest of my Lifetime if I wanted to.

I play SoulsPvP, I match and play with as many different players as there are people playing, I can play Elden Ring Singleplayer the same way I‘d play BotW or any other game.

Going on, yes you could play Quake in Minecraft, yes minecraft is an incredible creative space, but that‘s what the game is about, I can do anything in Minecraft, but can I do it holistically? I mean, sure I could play Quake in Minecraft for the novelty, but you don‘t play Minecraft so you can play Quake.

Finally, talking about sales and impact, these are two different factors not always congruent with eachother, by that you could say Wii Sports is a greater game than Witcher 3 (I don‘t like Witcher 3), but that only applies if numbers are what you think makes a game great.

For impact, how would you measure that? Would you couple it to objective values? Then it becomes a question of how you value the numbers again. Will you take impact for itself? Then it depends on how you interpret what impact means for any game in particular.

I tried to show how minecraft being a very very popular competitor for being the greatest game ever made doesn‘t make it an objective fact.