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My two solo dinners have come in similar circumstances.

The first saw me landing near the power stations, looting up and then climbing the hill of dead trees as the circle closed in on the logging camp. I took a few shots at one player when the count was ~10 left, he fired back and got taken out by a third party. I then snuck up on that third party shortly after and killed them at 3 left. In the final 1v1 showdown, I had circle advantage (despite also being outside it) and spotted the other player before he spotted me, took aim, fired, and then he died to the circle before me.

The second finished on the edge of a field near the mountains. I hid under a fir tree for the final 5 minutes, got a in a battle with one other play who died to the circle and then got shot at moving into the circle for the 1v1 - I narrowly avoided dying by reaching the only tree in the zone. I slowly sidestepped around the tree whilst using a first aid kit as the other player tried to strafe around me, and then got him with a shotgun as he came close.

I agree with the sentiments of many here, that the term masterpiece is subjective but best defined as games that still hold up years later. With that in mind The Last of Us and The Witcher 3 are too recent to be considered masterpieces yet, although TLoU is definitely the stronger candidate - I came to that game years after the original hype with a huge degree of skepticism and by the end I was blown away by how powerful an experience it is.

My list of definite masterpieces would be:

Super Mario World

Asteroids

Half-Life

Dark Souls

Doom (1993)

Tetris

Journey

Maybes:

Doom (2016)

TLoU

Halo

Diablo II


@fredchuckdave - The Road is McCarthy's masterpiece, hands down. By the time that book ended I was an emotional mess, and that final paragraph is one of the finest things ever written imo.

Ignoring the crappiness of the costume (UK uni student parties don't set a high bar for attention to detail), my vote was cast long ago: