What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?
What is YOUR top 10 list of all time best video games?
Any platform(s).
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- Outer Wilds
- Hollow Knight
- Elden Ring
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Metroid Prime
- Mass Effect 2
- Tetris
- Shadow of The Colossus
- Mother 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
Based on an incomplete sampling.
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Not in any particular order:
Curse of Monkey Island
Final Fantasy VII
SOMA
Stardew Valley
Anno 1800
The Last of Us
The Last of Us 2
Dark Souls 3
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Hades-
I think Curse of Monkey Island is the only Monkey Island game that I haven't beaten. At the time, I really couldn't get over the art style. Might have to give it another shot.
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In no particular order:
- Mass Effect 2
- Pokémon Colosseum
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Super Smash Brothers Melee
- Ocarina of Time
- Ratchet and Clank
- Uncharted 2
- inFamous 2
I realize I included a lot of games that were sequels or part of a series, but these are my favorite of the series in general.
Honorable Mentions:
- Pokémon Emerald
- Mariokart 8
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Mario Galaxy
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Splintercell
- Final Fantasy 7
- Halo ODST
- Halo 2
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Hmm, tough choices. In no particular order.
The Legend of Zelda - A Link To The Past This game was great when it was released and it's great now, and thanks to the randomiser community it's now infinitely replayable as well.
Super Metroid A series that literally helped define a genre, Super Metroid was everything that I suspect they wanted Metroid and Return of Samus to be but the hardware couldn't keep up. The world is built for speed running as well with so many shortcuts that experienced players can utilise, and again, with the randomiser community making it infinitely replayable (not only on its own, but with a crossover with ALTTP!), this game easily makes it onto my list.
Final Fantasy VII My original introduction to JRPGs and a game whose story and mechanics still hold up today even if the graphics don't as much. Obviously a lot of people feel the same way thanks to the Remakes, which while slightly out there have had so much nostalgia to play through them.
Final Fantasy XI The original Final Fantasy MMORPG and my introduction to MMORPGs generally, I put about 10 years into this game and still to this today occasionally reinstall it and see where I was last up to.
Final Fantasy XIV I tried several times to start FFXIV, but never got past the first few dungeons until COVID lockdowns hit, and since then am fully on board. The story, while a slow burn, is so good, and being a live service game means there's always new content coming or changes to learn. But really, the story in FFXIV is easily good enough to qualify as a mainline FF title, and any FF players who haven't tried it yet, should.
Doki Doki Literature Club You have to play this blind. Don't watch a let's play, and avoid any spoilers if you can. It's worth it. But when it's all done, if you're playing on PC, people have written entirely new mods and story for it, and the good ones really know how to make you connect with the characters.
Persona 5 Royal I discovered the Persona series with Golden, and was super excited to play Persona 5 when it released, but Royal is the definitive version that you'll want to play. The story is great, the gameplay is lots of fun, and the combination of JRPG and slice of life makes you feel a lot more connected to the loveable cast.
Factorio Just perfectly tickles that itch for resource management. The factory must grow.
Metal Gear Solid 2 A main memory I have of this game is the first time playing it where I bought out a whole box of those chocolates they sell for fundraising - was supposed to sell them to other people but they were great for late night snacking while I played. The stealth, the tension, the weird everything towards the end, it was a trip from start to finish.
Duke Nukem 3D Duke wasn't my first foray into FPS games (Wolfenstein 3D manages that title). But it holds a special place in my heart as it was the first game I ever played online multiplayer on. But I did it before the internet, so literally had a modem to modem connection running over an IPX network. Realistically, there's been plenty of better FPS games since, both modern and classic, but the irreverent humour, plus the fact I was a teen who probably wasn't supposed to be playing a game with strippers and highly pixilated tits in it, just edges it into my top 10.
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If you like DDLC, you should try Song of Saya. Just a warning, it can get quite graphic, but the storytelling is amazing.
Also Chrono Trigger if you're a Final Fantasy fan.
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Chrono Trigger have played and loved as well, but it's not one I've gone back to and replayed, which was one of my key criteria in this list, longevity (for me - I realise Chrono Trigger does have it between the multiple endings and New Game+ mode).
I have a very distinct memory of first playing it via emulator on ZSNES, and running into a bug in a section in the future that required you to hold L and R and activate some controls to open a door. For whatever reason the emulator wasn't handling that properly and I got stuck. Eventually went back to it on Snes9x and was able to progress, but that stuck out.
Haven't heard of Song of Saya though, thanks for the recommendation!
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Not in order:
- Outer Wilds
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Metal Gear Solid
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Super Metroid
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Stardew Valley
- Undertale
- Starcraft
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Dang. This is almost my list as well, and the ones that are different I can totally see why they could be on someone else's list. I like your taste in games.
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Thanks. Also now realizing that picking just 10 is super hard and looking back at my list there’s like 2 strong honorable mentions for every title in my list (some might even be swappable).
Just off the top of my head, a few others I’d rate as A-tier or S-tier all-time-greats in my personal list:
- Disco Elysium
- Final Fantasy 7
- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Hades
- Dishonored
- Banjo Kazooie
- Doom (2016)
- Dead Space
- Psychonauts 2 (part 1 is also A-tier)
- GTA 5
- Case of the Golden Idol
- Mass Effect 2
- Paradise Killer
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (both parts are excellent)
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
- Tony Hawk’s Underground
- A Dark Room
- 999 (aka Zero Escape, aka 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors)
- edit: How the hell did I forget Portal?!
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Is Obra Dinn that good? I started it but only played for about an hour. If it's on your top 10 I might have to give it another look.
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I love Obra Dinn, but not top 10 love. I think the fresh style in an industry of samey games using the same few engines made it really stand out for me. It's retro styled, but also goes beyond that to show you it's world in a new way.
If the art style doesn't do it for you then you might not enjoy it as much.
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Subjectively I’d say definitely yes. I adore cerebral games with interesting stories to tell, and this one has that plus a ton of mystery at its core (mystery is maybe my favorite genre of any fiction). The art style can be a little hard for some to get behind, but if you enjoy similar themes & game elements it’s a phenomenal game that will live in your head rent-free for awhile after you’ve finished. It’s one of only maybe three games I’ve ever legitimately referred to as a masterpiece (one of the others being Outer Wilds).
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Not in any order of value, but in alphabetical order. I couldn’t stick to just 10, sorry. And I’m sure I’m missing some good ones.
- Crash Bandicoot (especially 2)
- Dark Souls (1 and 3)
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Elden Ring
- Escape From Tarkov
- Factorio
- Half Life (all of them)
- Hollow Knight
- Hotline Miami
- Little Big Planet (especially 2)
- Morrowind
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
- Satisfactory
- Terraria
- The Binding of Isaac
- The Forest (both games)
- The Talos Principle (especially 2)
- Yakuza (hard to pick one)
…yeah, I’m bad at picking favorites.
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Stalker was fantastic. It's been years but can't wait for Stalker 2. The Half-Lifes too, kind of similar eastern gloomy atmosphere. I'm currently stuck in Talos Principle, near the end... haven't even tried 2 yet. And Morrowind of course : the greatest fantasy adventure of my teenage years, if we set aside my french teacher. Hollow Knight, what a blast. Hoping Silksong is going to be vaaaast. I love exploration.
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Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Xenogears
Nier: Automata
Vagrant Story
Super Mario World
Hades
Elden Ring
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Final Fantasy XIV
Kind of in order, kinda not. They all deserve 1st place, really, and I'm sure there are many others that could be up there with them that didn't spring to mind as fast.
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In no particular order:
- Elden Ring
- Mass Effect 2
- Dark Souls 3
- Bloodborne
- Factorio
- Terraria
- The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
- Metroid Prime
- Alan Wake 2
- Outer Wilds
Honourable mentions:
- XCOM 2
- Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
- Fallout 3
- Terranigma
- Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
- Dark Souls 1
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Half Life 2
- Halo 1-3
- Mass Effect 1 and 3
- TES 5: Skyrim
- Zone of the Enders 2: The second Runner
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater 🎶
- Endless Legend
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Extremely close to my list - I'd probably only add Starcraft and Minecraft.
And maybe switch wind waker for Ocarina, twilight princess, or BOTW.
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Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza 3
Yakuza 4
Yakuza 5
Yakuza 6
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Dragon Quest 11
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Nice, I love Yakuza, really very special in the world of gaming! :-)
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That's rad!
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In no order
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Bloodborne
Celeste
Slay the Spire
Monster Hunter: World (+ Iceborne)
Hades
Portal 2
Persona 4: Golden
Advance Wars 2
TES 4: Oblivion -
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I bet our birthdays are pretty close to one another's.
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Youngins. Did you never even meet Wirt?
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in no particular order:
-Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Firestorm
-Wolfenstein 3D
-Max Payne
-Railroad Tycoon 2
-Starcraft
-Half-Life
-Fallout 2
-Tropico 3
-Age of Empires II
-Uplink
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Firestorm represent! I had the biggest oh shit moment when the core defender came out
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Uplink and RRT2... many hours of my childhood lost to those.
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Okay let's do this. Not in any order:
- Diablo 2
- Fallout 2 (and to a lesser degree 3 and New Vegas)
- Civilization 4
- Rimworld
- Morrowind
- Against the Storm
- 7 Days to Die
- XCOM 2
- Factorio
- Minecraft
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I'm just going to drop my number 1, especially because it's in no one's list but somehow CP2077 is mentionned several times..
- The Witcher 3 !
Then the rest would be:
- Age of Empires II
- Minecraft
- Overwatch 1
- Star Wars Battlefront II (the OG)
- Trackmania
- Portal
- Skyrim
... I'll leave the remaining 2 to others :)
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- Warcraft 3
- Return to the Obra Dinn
- Subnautica
- Medieval 2 Total War
- Counter Strike
- Skyrim
- Elden Ring
- GTA San Andreas
- Factorio
- Adventure Quest (jk)
There are some really good ones that I remember after reading this thread such as Hades, Slay the Spire and more.
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Can't believe I had to read this far down to see the first mention of subnautica.
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No one said Disco Elysium so far? What's wrong with you, Lemmy?
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I tried Disco Elysium, and I really appreciate everything it did/was trying to do, but I simply could not get over the pacing, long-winded conversations, and lack of guidance.
Don't get me wrong, I love narrative-based games and open-ended exploration, but what amounts to turn-based game mechanics are too slow, and a complete absence of any obvious paths to take makes the game unapproachable.
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- Final Fantasy VII (might be replaced with Rebirth if I end up replaying it a bunch in the future like I do with the OG)
- Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
- Theme Hospital
- Mirrors Edge
- Celeste
- Halo 3
- Need for Speed Most Wanted
- Tony Hawk Underground
- Persona 3 Reload (before this it would've been 4 that would've been my favourite of the franchise)
- The Sims 3
I tried to think of games that I keep coming back to, or in the case of Persona and Celeste, ones that stick in my head even years after beating them.
Edit: don't know how this slipped my mind but a kingdom Hearts game should definitely be here. It's my favourite game series, I think I forgot to put it down because I was trying to think of which one I would put down as the best of the series.
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No Order:
Rimworld
Project Zomboid
Deep Rock Galactic
Vintage Story
Fallout New Vegas (+F2)
Civilization 5
Kerbal Space Program
Mass Effect Series
Minecraft
Gothic
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Rock and Stone!
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Seeing civ V there brought back some real good memories for me, overall you have some real solid choices in no opinion
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-The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
-Chrono Cross
-Dark Souls 3
-Twisted Metal Black
-Final Fantasy IX
-Perfect Dark
-Banjo Kazooie
-Super Mario 64
-Killer Instinct
-Contra
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The portals are so much fun, even as a group activity.
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The Half Life, Portal, and Left 4 Dead series’s bring me nostalgia like no others. Unbelievably good games
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Depends how you define 'top', but lets go with most (estimated) hours played:
Minecraft. It wont track my hours, but if it did in the back end and told me I had played 10,000 hours of minecraft, I'd believe it. Yes I'm aware that's more than a year of playtime, I mean what I said. Almost been playing for half my life, I doubt I will ever truly stop.
Runescape, both RS3 and OSRS. They started tracking hours played well after I started playing, but given my playtime for both of these is listed in days, it probably deserves being here. You never quit Runescape, you merely take extended breaks.
League of Legends. This probably wouldn't show up if it were a list of favourite games, i don't know why I still play it. Around 2,000 hours at last check. Help me.
Forza Horizon 5. 600 hours. I did a lot of races. 400 hours in the previous title. Anyone still playing 5 know if the game works properly now? I remember the online being a disaster and the majority of every leaderboard being cheated times.
Warframe. This is going out of order due to the extremely short time I got those hours. At 500 hours, the first 200 hours were in 2 weeks. More games need bullet jump.
Counterstrike: Global Offensive. Yeah that's about 2k hours again. This game has ruined most other FPS games for me because bullet travel time is a bitch and I never learned it.
Stardew Valley. I think all top 10 lists deserve this game, 400 hours. Level 10 fishing in the first spring, never sided with Joja.
Skyrim. 360 hours, although at least 20 of those hours were mid-crash. Unplayable without mods.
Trackmania 2020. Excellent game, ton of fun. Wish it wasn't behind the Ubisoft launcher, this game is the only reason I have it. 300 hours. Obviously learned about the game from Wirtual.
Stellaris brings out 10th, 170 hours. I have no idea how to play the game and I think I need about 500 more hours to maybe get the basics down. And then I'll have to learn all the DLC!
This list did not end up being some of the games I expected it to be. I thought Skyrim would be lower, and I thought Beat Saber would've made an appearance, but only 145 hours of that. This list also skipped idle games because that's just cheating. Apparently I only have 10 games on Steam over 100 hours, that's clearly not enough gaming and I need to fix that. Did I write too much? Probably. But I spent a couple minutes looking up the numbers for some of these so I'm not just gonna not post it at this point.
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The OP said top ten best. I don't think "top" is the subjective part.
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Maybe my brain skips words when I read things.
This isn't a maybe.
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Well, OP's question could be read as "choose your top games out of a list of all time best video games" and this is probably what the person you've replied to read.
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I debated on adding League of Legends to my list. It really is a good game, but it doesn't make you feel good playing it. So I decided to leave it off.
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- earthbound
- final fantasy 6
- chrono trigger
- super mario world
- mario 64
- halo 2
- grand theft auto 3
- half life 2
- bioshock
- tears of the kingdom
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I remember playing Mario 64 at my grandparent's house when it first came out. My grandpa, who was born in the 1920s, was absolutely stunned. He said, "this is a video game?!" and then just sat and watched me play.
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In no particular order:
- Elden Ring
- Team Fortress 2
- Day of the Tentacle
- Freelancer
- FTL
- System Shock 2
- Duck Game
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Rome: Total War
- Diablo 2
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Day of the Tentacle is one of my first PC gaming memories. My friend's brother had a PC that could play it, and I was in awe. I remember he had to uninstall it to make room for Duke Nukem 3d...
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Have you played Wing Commander: Privateer? It predates Freelancer by a bit but it hit a lot of the same notes for me.
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Yes! That was the best Wing Commander game.
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In no particular order:
Tunic, Outer Wilds, Undertale, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Celeste, Hollow Knight, Ori And The Blind Forest/Will of the Wisps, Citizen Sleeper, The Talos Principle
If you force me to choose a top 3 of those:
- Tunic
- Outer Wilds
- Celeste
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In no particular order:
- Diablo II
- World of Warcraft classic
- Path of Exile
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Yoshi's Island
- Banjo Kazooie
- TES V: Skyrim
- Counter Strike 1.6
- Pokémon Crystal
- Battle Brothers
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Solid list
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In no order...
- Grim Fandango
- Psychonauts (I and II combined)
- Fallout New Vegas
- Morrowind
- Portal (I and II combined)
- Thief (1-3 combined)
- Civilization II
- Space Invaders
- Falcon series (F3 and 4.0)
- The Pandora Directive
And some bonus games to add to the mix, because there are too many amazing games in the world.
- The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Mass Effect
EDIT Also
- Pac Man
- Quake II
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Morrowind was such an amazing experience, it's one of the games I wish I could experience for the first time again.
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Morrowind was bundled with a video card I got, and thought I'd at least try it. I had no idea what it was or how it worked, and I fell headfirst into it. WEEKS thrown at it, and I never got bored.
After that, Oblivion was a letdown for me and I didn't get very far into it. Skyrim was great fun, but the lore was clearly secondary. (I eventually went back to Oblivion and found it a better story than Skyrim, but Morrowind is still the best.)
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You can play TES3MP and hold someone else's hand through it for the first time.
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Portal! Wish I’d remembered that one for my list. Such an inventive game.
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Hat tip to you for including some classic games. Most of the respondants are making me feel positively antediluvian :)
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Ah, yes. From before the flood of modern content
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Both grim Fandango and psychonauts 1 and 2 are absolute gems
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No particular order. Very much based on personal enjoyment - I recognize that a few of these are very flawed!
Ace Combat 4/5/Zero
Slay the Spire
Elden Ring
Dark Souls 3
Escape From Tarkov
Pokémon Sapphire
DOOM (2016)
PUBG (in its heyday)
(Old School) Runescape
Titanfall 2
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+1 for OSRS
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name checks out
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Honorable mentions include EVE Online, Blacklight: Retribution, Gran Turismo 3, GTA: San Andreas, and Star Wars Battlefront II (PS2)
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RIP PUBG. Uninstalled the day they introduced bots. Only three solo wins. Heart rate at 185 the first win.
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- Yars revenge on Atari 2600.
- Kaboom on 2600.
- Pitfall on 2600.
- Myst on classic Mac.
- Dark Castle classic Mac.
- Diablo 1.
- Star Wars Dark Forces.
- That weird Ayn Rand utopia in the sky Bioshock sequel on any platform.
- The Star Wars Battlefront game that came out around rogue one on Xbox until the developer started tweaking with it and it became a griefer’s paradise.
- Gauntlet arcade and home versions. So fun to play as co-op.
- Ms Pac Man arcade.
- Tempest arcade.
And a shout out to Arashi, which was a great classic mac homage to Tempest.
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Atari 2600 gamez! Very cool. I still have my 2600 and the TV I used when I was a kid. Both still work.
Also, so glad someone put arcade games on their list.
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I find helldivers has that gauntlet vibe.
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I had a 7800 with custom bios and ram cart and would play a kaboom hack that started at max difficulty and ramped from there
a lot of early 2000s 2600 homebrews would probably make my list but Thrust+ is the GOAT
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Probably incomplete list that I may update after a nap.
- Outer Wilds The most sublime game I've ever played. I can't begin to describe how this game made me feel. It's also an excellently designed game. If you've never played it before, go in blind, because even the smallest spoilers risk diminishing your experience. It's an open world, exploration adventure game, which involves space travel, a quaint setting and fun physics
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- Disco Elysium Another game that made me feel things. One of my favourites
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- Tetris Played it on a Gameboy back in' day. It's a great game
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- Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
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- Halo Reach I don't even know if I believe this was the best Halo game, I was just indecisive and I'm biased because I like the DMR and the SWAT multiplayer game mode (no shields, so a headshot kills in 1)
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- Deep Rock Galactic Feel like it's the peak of the four person squad based kind of game. I've literally got hundreds of hours in this game.
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- Stardew Valley I didn't actually vibe with this too much personally, but I've got to respect it for how accessible it is to many different kinds of gamer. It executes what it set out to do perfectly.
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- Faster than Light
- I don't even like rogue likes generally. The soundtrack is great.
(Edit 1: formatting)
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Please play Tunic if you haven't already - your praise for Outer Wilds leads me to believe you'd adore it
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In my playtime order. (I know OP asked best game of all time. But, this list is according to games which I think is best.)
- Minecraft
- Geometry Dash
- Brutal Doom
- Brotato
- Ultrakill
- Balatro
- Zortch
- Rythia or Sound Space Plus
- Stardew Valley
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Honourable Mention
- Tetris
- Quake I & II
- Binding of Isaac
- Dusk
- Slice and Dice
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How fucking wierd is that I didn't added Katana ZERO? Was I high?
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- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
- Monkey Island 3
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Minecraft
- Mass Effect 3
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Pokemon Silver
- Terraria
- Spider-Man 2 (the one for PS5)
Out of those probably Terraria and Minecraft take up ranks 1 and 2, just because i START playing them again every few years
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- Outer Wilds
- The Return of the Obra Dinn
- I'll bunch the Mass Effect trilogy together here
- Super Metroid
- The Last of Us
- Bioshock: Infinite
- Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Oxygen not Included
- Fallout: NV
- Diablo 2
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My favorites:
- Breath of the Wild
- Tears of the Kingdom
- A Link to the Past
- Chrono Trigger
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Sim Park
- Donkey Kong Country
- Mario All Stars
- Mario Paint
- Super Mario World
Context: I'm pushing 40 and didn't play video games between SNES and Switch.
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I read “I’m pushing 40” and was like, “oh, I guess we have different sensibilities.” But then I remembered I’m pushing 40 myself.
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- Hollow Knight
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Morrowind
- Megaman Zero
- Final Fantasy X
- Marvel vs Capcom 2
- Overwatch (circa 2019)
- Megaman Battle Network 2
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Final Fantasy Tactics
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Overwatch (circa 2019)
I feel that so much. The game sadly got a lot worse over the years.
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A lot of my gaming experience has been on Nintendo consoles, and a lot of this list is going to be viewed through nostalgia goggles with a lot of my first ranking higher than games that might have done the same thing better.
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt- this is where it all began for me, and I still wish light gun games had become more of a thing
Tetris- timeless classic, everyone knows and loves it, no further explanation needed.
Pokemon red/blue/yellow- my first forray into RPGs
Kotor- first forray into RPGs that actually involved playing a role, the fact that you could be a bad guy was revolutionary to me. I also think this may have been one of the first games that I played completely through, I've always had a bad habit of never finishing a lot of games even if I really loved them. Also one of my first PC games and the first time I needed to install a graphics card in the family PC to play a game.
TES: Oblivion - look, you could pretty much insert any of the elder scrolls or 1st person fallout games into this spot, and quite a few others that arguably do it better, but this was my first real taste of an open world where you could go do (moru-or-less) whatever you wanted, everything felt so alive, and the imperial city still kind of feels to me like one of the most alive and actually functional cities in a video game and not just a level that's dressed up to look like a city.
Portal 2: I don't think there are many games out there that are just this much fun, and everything the first portal did great (which was pretty much everything,) 2 expanded on and made even better.
Octodad: Dadliest Catch- I'm a sucker for short games with a good gimmick and intentionally weird controls.
Saints Row 3- it was stupid, it was fun, I could honestly entertain myself for hours just running around the city, stealing cars, and beating luchadores with a giant dildo for hours and have a blast the entire time.
Super Mario 64- my first experience with 3d gaming, and I'd argue still one of the best 3d platformers out there (wonky cameras and such from that era aside) I like simple, lightheaded games.
Ocarina of time- enough has been said about this game elsewhere on the Internet that I don't feel like I need to say any more.
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This might be an unpopular list, but I'm ranking games in terms of overall enjoyment.
- Red Alert 2
- Mass Effect 1 - 3
- Doom 2016
- Doom Eternal
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Starfield
- Doom (the original)
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I'm a pretty casual gamer, so I've pretty much only played the "hits" a few years after they've been out.
These are the ones I remember feeling the most groundbreaking and spending the most time with over the years.
- Doom 2
- GTA San Andreas
- Yakuza 0
- Last of Us
- Zelda: Link to the Past
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Carmageddon 2
- Eternal Darkness
- Red Dead 2
- Metal Gear
I got a good laugh out of the other post that is all the Yakuza games, because that's how I spent a ton of my Covid work from home time playing them on the cheap. They had the fun of the GTA games, but I never like the main characters were bad people, so Yakuza gave me the games I've wanted through all the GTA years and then some.
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Surprised I had to scroll this far to see DooM 2. Guess I'm getting old.
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Right?! I saw new Doom on here which I haven't played, but the lack of people listing Doom 1 and 2 on here is pretty surprising, esp as the Lemmy crowd seems to skew older.
I took a minute to pick between 1 and 2, but 2 felt bigger and I felt I spent more time with it, at least unmodded.
Oh shoot, I forgot the original Deus Ex too! I don't know if I saw that on here anywhere either. Just too much gold for only 10 picks. I was sad I had to bump off American Magee's Alice as well.
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Aww man. I remember playing lots of LAN DN3D in highschool, after hours in the computer lab. Sometimes an idiot kicked out the BBC cable from one of the ring-topology connected PCs by accident, interrupting fun for everybody.
I used to be a top dog, until some first grader snot nosed kid started playing with M+KB at the same time, sniping all of us keyboard turners with the shotgun on the american football arena map.
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I never got to have a LAN party but we did do a weekly StarCraft night via modem. It felt so amazing at the time to be able to sync up a game online.
StarCraft doesn't make my list though cuz I always sucked at it! 😤
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- Universal Paperclips
- Dark Souls
- Return of the Obra Dinn
- Golden Sun (duology)
- Persona 3 FES
- Night in the Woods
- Pseudoregalia
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- Splatoon 2
- Stacklands
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This may be the first time I've ever heard someone mention spirit tracks positively
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Pseudoregalia is so fucking good
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Elder Scroll series. Skyrim for the modding and eyecandy potential, Oblivion for the madness that is spellcrafting (also Shivering Isles is the best ES DLC), Morrowind for the true alien fantasy.
Thief II is the quintessential first-person sneaker.
Independence War II still has one of the best flight models and a great story.X3: Terran Conflict is the best first-person strategy game.
Half-Life 1 and 2.
Il-2: Great Battles is the best WWII combat flight sim.
DCS is the best jet combat sim.Elite: Dangerous is the only space sim with actual 1:1 scale galaxy, including many real-life stars and is the best life-in-space simulator with flight model as good as I-War 2 and decent enough on-foot parts (even though there is some jank and glitches).
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Wow, I'm all in with these, except I'd have added Subnautica and I would have had Dishonored instead of Thief II. I Never played this game but I may fix that.
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I have not been seeing half life enough. Cheers
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- Worms Armageddon
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Roughly in order, I think:
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Subnautica
- FTL: Faster than Light
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Risk of Rain Returns
- Portal
- Dead Cells
- Hades
- Team Fortress 2
- Borderlands 2
- Satisfactory
Honorable mention:
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- The first two Golden Sun games
- SOMA
- Diablo II
- Diablo III
- TLoZ: Link's Awakening
Looking over this, it seems like I'm drawn to games that have either unusually good writing, very long skill curves, or (e.g., #1) both.
UT2004 sneaks in for being the absolute best LAN-party game ever (fight me). I think Link's Awakening is mostly just nostalgia though. 😋
Edit: bumped UT2004 down to "honorable mention" because I somehow forgot the billion hours I've sunk into Satisfactory. Still very curious to see where that game goes story-wise after the 1.0 launch, though.
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Spec ops is amazing
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Funny story about that one: my first time playing it, I actually found it a bit too... visceral, and had to stop after getting a couple hours in - I only came back to play it all the way through several years later.
In the intervening time, I learned that one of the developers, when asked whether the game had a "good ending", said something along the lines of "that's when the player stops playing in disgust".
Guess I got the good ending.
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Can’t stop playing FTL years later.
Weirdly Monster Train has a similar flavor to me in play style.
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In no particular order:
- Super Mario 64
- Sonic 3 and Knuckles
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Watch Dogs
- Portal 2
- Doom (original shareware version)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Half Life
- Half Life 2
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What about half life 3?
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Too soon man
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- Minecraft
- Factorio
- Danganronpa
- Danganronpa UDG
- Danganronpa 2
- Danganronpa V3
- Pokemon: FireRed
- SuperTuxKart (because best FOSS game ❤️)
- Pick any two classics from Valve
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Just the ones I know, of course. In the order I fell in love with them:
- Combat
- Duke Nukem
- Herzog Zwei
- Streets of Rage 2
- Mario Kart
- Outpost
- Sim City 2000
- Warcraft 2
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- Halo
Darn that’s ten and it only gets me up to two decades ago, when I was ending college.
My ten from after college:
- FarCry 2
- EVE Online
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Minecraft
- Grand Theft Auto V online mode
- Factorio
- Battlefield 5
- Sea of Thieves
- Space Engineers
- Overwatch 2
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Metal Gear Solid 1
Cyberpunk 2077
Civilization V
Gods Will Be Watching
Portal
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Dead Cells
Sniper Elite 3
Dirt Rally
Ghost of Tsushima
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I was so close to putting Dead Cells on my list, but I opted for Hades instead. Dead Cells is so damned good, though.
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A few favs:
- Max payne
- twisted metal 2
- contra 3
- tetris
- super mario world
- super metroid
- diablo 2
- starcraft
- warcraft 3
- red alert 2
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Something about Twisted Metal 2… absolute top of that franchise
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You get a point for red alert 2.
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Dwarf Fortress
Factorio
CS 1.6
Dunno after that - probably one of the civilizations, I'm partial to Test of Time personally.
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The factory must grow.
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- Street Fighter 2 Turbo (Arcade)
- Chrono Trigger (SNES)
- Contra (NES)
- Dark Souls
- Warcrat 3 TFT (non remaster)
- OpenXCom with X-COM data
- XCom
- Slay the Spire
- OlliOlli
- Mark of the Ninja
- Yakuza0
- Horizon Chase Turbo
(No order, might be not exactly 10 :-P)
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Crazy how I can tell we'd get along just from this :D
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Because we are men/gals of culture! :-P Hadouken! ;-)
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Yay, another Chrono Trigger fan!
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Rimworld
Mount and Blade Warband (/Bannerlord)
Crusader Kings 2/3
Slay The Spire
Stellaris
Darkest Dungeon
Civilization V
Fallout New Vegas
Borderlands 2
Kerbal Space Program
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Borderlands <3
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Obligatory "No particular order and this was really fucking difficult to distill into just 10 games":
- The Witcher 3
- BioShock
- Minecraft
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Monster Hunter: World
- Dying Light
- Transistor
- Borderlands 2
- Elden Ring
- ARK: Survival Evolved
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- Disco Elysium
- Jade Empire
- Eternal Darkness
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Starcraft 2
- Quake
- Chrono Trigger
- Portal
- Resident Evil 4
- The Last of Us
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In no order:
- Diablo 2
- Chrono trigger
- The incredible machine
- Loom
- Bravely default
- The secret of monkey island
- Prince of Persia
- Rampart
- Papers, please
- Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders
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In some sort of order
- Sim City 2000, City Skylines
- Halo 1, 2, 3 , Modern Warfare 2, 3
- Civilization 4,5,6
- Kerbal Space Program
- Minecraft
- BioShock
- Final fantasy 7
- Game Dev Story
- FTL
- BG3
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Half-life.
Sim city.
Smb3.
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I know you don't mean super monkey ball 3, but, there is the smallest chance you do. :)
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Satisfactory RDR2 Cyberpunk2077 Mass Effect trilogy Cities Skylines, GTA 5 Halo series then probably a bunch of simulators
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- Subnautica (original and Sub Zero, plus a nod to Planet Crafter which captures some of that same vibe)
- Metroid Prime (and all the other Metroids)
- StarCraft (1 and 2, though fuck Blizzard today)
- Diablo (2 and 3, though to a lesser extent for 3, and still fuck Blizzard)
- WoW (I'm done with it now but there was a reason I was addicted for those years, but fuck Blizzard)
- Oblivion (and Skyrim)
- Factorio (and Dyson Sphere Project)
- Beat Saber (and a nod to the rhythm games that predated it, like Rock Band, Guitar Hero, and Frequency I believe it was called)
- Paradox games (HOI4, CK3, Europa (uh current?), Stellaris)
- Hades
Many others could have been listed here instead. Oxygen not included, smash Bros, DBZ kakarot, xenosaga 2, transport fever, city skylines, risk of Rain 2, King's quest series, civ, Halo, Mario games, Zelda games, Mario Kart, Lego games, Minecraft... And I'm sure I'm missing many more that I have tried and others that I haven't.
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Oblivion I find somewhat questionable due to just how awful that leveling system was. Holy fuck did mods ever save that fucking game.
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Oblivion holds a special place in my heart as the first elder scrolls game I played and as one of the few games that rewarded players that jumped everywhere they went. My mind was kinda blown the first time I saw athleticism or acrobatics level up just from jumping from one place to another.
And I have fond memories of getting into the mage's guild and making a custom spell that increased acrobatics to a crazy level and then jumping around the roofs of that section of the town. That was the last time I played the game, actually. It came out early in my WoW addiction and interrupted the addiction for a month or so, but then I got pulled back into WoW and ended up going pretty hardcore with the character I rolled on my return and didn't have time for... well, anything else lol.
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Alphabetical Order
- TBOI Rebirth
- BTD6
- DOOM Eternal
- GMod
- Pizza Tower
- Post Void
- Super Meat Boy
- SUPERHOT
- TF2
- Titanfall 2
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Outer Wilds
and
Inscryption
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- Gothic 2
- Gothic
- The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker
- Age of Empires 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Guild Wars
- Minesweeper
- Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord
- Football Manager 2024 (or one of the old EA ones?)
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Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask are two of my favorite games of all time, along with Link's Awakening. I want so badly to replay them, but I'm scared they might not have stood the test of time, and I don't want to become disillusioned.
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You should definitely play OoT Master Quest. It's the same game with more challenging dungeons. It's great!
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I played them again when they were released for Nintendo Switch Online. There were a lot of people who were disappointed with the versions, but I had a lot of fun with them.
Maybe this recompiled version of Majora's Mask is something for you?
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Minsweeper was unexpected. But I actually get it. It's such a good game to pass a short amount of time
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There was a time where I was addicted to this game. Achieved a 23 second run on intermediate once.
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- Ultima VII
- Baldur's Gate 1
- Daggerfall
- Morrowind
- Oblivion
- Deus Ex
- Thief
- Ultima Underworld
- Kerbal Space Programme
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Honourable mentions for Baldur's Gate 3, Crusader Kings 2, and Tears of the Kingdom.
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How was Ultima VII compared to Ultima VIII? Origin has totally sucked me in to VIII with its awesome graphics and buggy yet intriguing gameplay, but I've heard in every other aspect it was a farcry from its predecessors' complexity and story.
I really liked Ultima IX as well, but Origin was already on its death bed by then iirc, and I encountered a bug that did not let me progress.
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I never played any of the others so I can't really comment.
I just really loved the living world - it's why I tried the game after playing Oblivion.
So few games have that - Dwarf Fortress, Ultima and Oblivion still stand far ahead of the rest.
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Not in order: Dark Souls 1 Dark Souls 3 Elden Ring Witcher 3 Undertale Baldurs Gate 3 NieR: Automata Skyrim Hollow Knight Minecraft
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Half life 2 (especially episode 2), HL: Alyx, Mario 3, Sonic 3 (with Sonic and Knuckles attached), Sonic 2, space station 13, dead by daylight, portal 2, guitar hero 3, I dunno, one of the metal gear solids or Garry's mod
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- Neverwinter Nights
- Kingdom of Amalur
- Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
- Battle for Middle Earth
- Deux Ex
- KOTOR I
- Morrowind - Oblivion
- Red Alert 2
- XCOM2
- WH: Total War II
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In Order with contender from the same gameline between brackets.
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
- Valkyrie Profile Lenneth
- Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones (Path of Radiance & Awakening)
- Monster Hunter Worlds (Hunter 4 Ultimate & Rise)
- Need for Speed Underground 2
- World of Warcraft
- Final Fantasy IV (IX)
- League of Legends
- Dwarf Fortress
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (& Echoes of Times)
Honorable Mentions
- Midnight Club 2
- Sid Meier's Civilization VI
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
- Tekken 3
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Not in order:
- Farcry 5
- civilization VI
- cyberpunk 2077
- portal 2
- Minecraft
- Hitman 2
- Hearts of Iron IV
- watchdogs
- oxygen not included
- The binding of Isaac
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No order in particular:
- Elder Scrolls 3-5
- KOTOR 1 & 2
- Dota 2
- Mass Effect
- Grim Dawn
- Kerbal Space Program
- Warframe
- Age Of Empires II
- Battle for Middle Earth 2
- Counter Strike
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In no particular order:
- Hero's Quest (from Sierra On-line)
- Valheim
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Skyrim
- No Man's Sky
- City of Heroes (can you believe it's legally back?!?)
- Red Dead Redemption II
- Planescape: Torment
- Stardew Valley
- Starfield
(I'm sure that last one will raise some eyebrows, but I've already got over 1k hours in it since launch. For all its faults, it scratches some itch of mine just right.)
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I am embarrassed that I didn't name Torment... that game was amazing and so far beyond Baulder's Gate 2.
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I was so excited when I stumbled across the Enhanced Edition on Steam! (I hadn't played it since it was first released, and had lost the original disc)
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I have not kept up with gaming much for the past decade, so my list is going to be very dated. In no particular order:
- Starsiege: Tribes (Tribes 2 gets an honorable mention)
- EarthSiege 2
- EverQuest (very begrudgingly, but it did kick the era of MMORPGs into overdrive, and I was addicted to it for almost a decade)
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition (I'm counting the trilogy as a single game)
- X-Wing Vs. Tie Fighter
- Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe
- Cities: Skylines
- Star Trek Online (only because of storylines)
- Battlefield 1942
No console games on my list, because PCMR! :P
[Edit] Almost forgot Star Control 2!
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I have a whole separate list for arcade games.
- Mortal Kombat (including only 1, 2, and 3. Hated 4 with a passion.)
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Killer Instinct 1 and 2
- Marvel Vs. Capcom
- Super Street Fighter II Turbo
- X-Men (1992 side scroller)
- NBA Jam
- Tekken 3
- Daytona USA (really reaching here)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (struggling to get the list to 10)
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Tic tak toe,
Solitaire,
Snek,
That one with the bubbles that you just watch and you can’t do anything (I think it actually a screen saver)
Uh. That’s it.
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Dat amulet of yendor doe...
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dragon age origins
mass effect 2 red dead 2 baldurs gate 3 witcher 3 cyberpunk 2077 tetris horizon zero dawn dragon age inquisition resident evil 4 -
Bard's Tale
Ultima IV
Neuromancer
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star Online
Super Street Fighter II: Championship Edition
Destiny
Impossible Mission
Halo
Gain Ground-
Ultima IV !!! Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time.
I played that on my Commodore 64 and waited a loooong time for the (actually floppy) disk drive to spin up.
I bet most people here don't know any of the Ultima games.
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Entering dungeon: [please insert disk two]
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Yep. C64 Ultima 4 was totally revolutionary. It introduced me to ethics which probably was why I ended up studying philosophy
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My top 10 in decreasing order (the first series' games I listed individually to give due credit to these masterpieces):
- Chronicles of Myrtana: Archolos (Gothic universe)
- Gothic 2 + Night of the Raven
- Gothic 1
- Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 2, Fallout 1
- Mass Effect 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 3
- UFO Enemy Unknown (OpenXcom variant)
- Warcraft III + The Frozen Throne
- StarCraft, StarCraft II
- Unreal Tournament 2000 G.O.T.Y.
- No Man's Sky or Minecraft (contenders for 10th place)
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No particular order, but it seems I hit quite a few different genres.
- Starcraft
- Stardew Valley
- Subnautica
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Infamous
- Hades
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Halo 2
- Super Smash Brothers Melee
- Rome: Total War
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I'll add mine in no particular order:
Zelda: tears of the kingdom
Diablo 3
Secret of Mana
Skyrim/Oblivion
Super Mario Odyssey
Zelda: ocarina of time
Command: aces of the deep
Halo 3
Metal gear solid
Donkey Kong country 2
These are the games over gotten the most enjoyment out of over the years
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If I had a #11 I'd have listed Halo3. GREAT game :)
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In no particular order:
- Wing Commander: Privateer
- Rim World
- Kotor + Kotor 2
- Any first person Elder Scrolls Game
- Europa Universalis games
- Portal + Portal 2
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Elite Dangerous
- Eve Online
- Dwarf Fortress
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Damn I've been trying to start KOTOR on Steam but it doesn't play well with aspect ratio... I should try again I know it's worth taking the time to troubleshoot
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Ranking is tough but I'll give it a go. The ranking is based on the impact and enjoyment I got out of them regardless of playtime.
- What Remains of Edith Finch & Kentucky Route Zero (shared 1st place)
- Life is Strange
- Stray
- GRIS
- Cyberpunk 2077
- SOMA
- Heaven's Vault
- The Town of Light
- FAR: Lone Sails
- Portal 2
That last one is a bit of an outlier but I have laughed so much while playing it, it deserves a place at the table.
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I see you like narrative-driven games. Have you played Detroit : become human? It scratched the itch for me when I ran out of life is strange
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Yup, I have. I liked it, but it did not make the top 10 for me, purely because two of the storylines were amazing imo (Connor & Kara) and one was centered around a trope that I absolutely despise (Markus). It didn't ruin the game for me, I still loved it and will play it again at some point, but because of that I cannot put it in my top 10.
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Oh, look, my list, slightly rearranged, missing some star wars stuff, and with some extras for me to try!
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Enjoy the new games!
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sly 3
mirror’s edge
also portal 2 somewhere in there
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- Suikoden 2
- Final Fantasy 7 (original)
- Dark Souls
- Resident Evil 1
- Castlevania SOTN
- D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun
- Resident Evil 1 Remake (GC)
- Gran Turismo 4
- Road Rash 2
- Oblivion
Big shout out to SFA2, FFT:A/2, BOF series, Roadwarden.
10 feels too little to condense 40 years of games.
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Road Rash 2
Oh man, this one takes me back.
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Once again in no particular order: Ultimata IV - Quest of the Avatar
Sim City 2000
The Last of Us
Breath of the Wild
Trade Wars
Kingdom Hearts
Knights of the Old Republic
Civ 6
Omega - a dos game where you programmed Tanks and set them loose
And right now: Balatro
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- Chrono Trigger
Okay done
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I'm probably a little biased but... (I'll also include my fave music track from each game as a little bonus!)
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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Gnome Mahjongg
Ltris
Bejeweled
Gnome Tetravex
Frozen Bubble
Xye
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Tekken 3
Raiden rtype
Diablo
Unreal Tournament
Blakestone
Alien vs predator
Ultimate Doom
Team fortress 2
Overwatch 1 R.I.P
Battlefront 2 -
- Portal 2
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Gothic 2
- Mass Effect 2
- Uncharted 2
- Dragon Age Origins
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
- Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines
- The Last of Us
- Max Payne 2
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In no particular order:
- kenchi
- ghost recon wild lands
- s.t.a.l.k.e.r
- ready or not
- arma 3
- dayz
- mag
- cities skylines
- red dead redemption
- skate 3
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Halo 3
Viva Pinata
Fallout 3
Kingdom for Keflings
Red Alert 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Warframe
RuneScape 2 (pre eoc)
Minecraft
Borderlands 2 -
In no real particular order, games with highest impact on me:
- battlefield 1942 - desert combat mod
Ground breaking at the time. Physics and gamespeed have never been captured by any other game. Consumed my free time for a long time.
2 counter strike
Simple concept, extreme depth. I've clocked several thousand hours into this franchise.
- The witcher 3
In terms of world building and story telling... Incredible.
- The Witness
Absolute masterclass in game design, world design. Puzzle design.. This is an incredible puzzle game that will shift your perspective.
- Faster than light
I haven't found anything else quite scratch that replay ability, that tethering on the brink of losing, itch. It's a unique game.
- Guild wars 2
Completely changed the way mmorpgs were played, and was a great mmo.
- Monkey Island
I wanted to mention a point and click, several spring to mind, but this still series lives in my mind the most. Although space quest is another that impacted my young brain.
- Minecraft
Like... I was there since its debut. Still watching and enjoying mc related content.
- Elite
Space is pretty big and cool
- Eve online
Getting back stabbed by the person you've been back stabbing for, so you join the enemies of your friends to be able to backstab your backstabbers.
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- Hades.
- Rocket League
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Warframe
- Heroes of the Storm
- DotA. (I'm talking original WC3 mod here)
- Street Fighter 2
- Starcraft 2
- Tropico 4
- World of Warcraft (pre fuck-you-Blizzard days)
Honorable mention for all of the Diablo's really, been playing them since the first one, and all of the Fallouts, playing since the 2nd. Shoutout to my X-Com homies.
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Elden ring
Borderlands 2
Pokemon emerald
Fallout 4
Monster Hunter world
Chivalry II
Gears of war 2
PUBG
Escape from Tarkov
Call of duty: World at war
Roughly in that order
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Honorable mentions that could be swapped with any of my bottom 4:
Eve online
Total war Warhammer 2/3
Baldurs gate 3
Minecraft
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Aww man. I've tried Eve online for about two years. In the end even got into a C5 and farmed like mad with a carrier and a dread until we got evicted by one of the bigger WH alliances. But could never really get past the carebear mentality of not wanting to lose ships in the end. And that, plus the perceived latency of 1sec game ticks without prediction kind of soured the fun.
The best that came out of it is that I've managed to get my name on the monument, which I've then visited in 2018. Coincidentally I've signed up to the game using my real name (which I've fought multiple times to get changed), so I have my actual name on the slab instead of just a character name in the end.
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I play them still.
- Total annihilation.
- Zero-k
- World of Warcraft, as long as I can avoid cataclysm
I don't play them but would easily
- The settlers III + Amazons
- Torchlight
- Diablo II as it was in like 05
- Quake II + lithium (slow hooks; hi Nelson crew)
- Dune 2
- WCII as in 98
Huh. That's it. StarCraft is out as I played for a day before cavedog ruined it for me forever, but it get it if you still love it.
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I LOVED TA back in the day. I recently bought it again off Steam.
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Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3
Katamari Damacy
Sims 2
Stardew Valley
Skyrim
The 101 Dalmatians Puzzle Game for Gameboy Color.
These are the games I have the fondest memories of 💜
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This is off the top of the dome and given more time I'd probably change this significantly, but here's 10 of my favorites from a multitude of genres:
- Rain World
- Outer Wilds
- Stephen's Sausage Roll
(Those are pretty firmly my top 3, all totally mindblowing experiences that surprised and awed me multiple times)
- Spelunky 2
- Getting Over It
- Peaks Of Yore
- Satisfactory
- Dark Souls PTDE
- Hunt: Showdown
- Morrowind
Honorable mentions for Guilty Gear and Tekken as series, and I have a special place in my heart for the 2000 title Sacrifice, which is my eternal top pick for a remaster/remake.
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YES for Sacrifice. This game is a piece of art. I don't get how it was never remade or it never got a sequel. Such a loss...
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R360
Operation wolf
GTI club
VideoPoker
Coin pushers
Fussball
Bar billiards
Darts
Bowling
Paintball
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Might and magic III
F19
Submarine Commander (Atari computer game)
B17 (intellivision)
Counterstrike.1.6
Half-life
Castle Wolfenstein
WOW
WoT
Witcher 3
Cyberpunk 2077
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Hylics 1/2
Half Life 1
Myst
Jet Set Radio Future
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Factorio
Doom II (heavily modded)
OpenRCT2
Voices of the Void
The Sims (I like the series as a whole, I feel like each game has its own pros and cons)
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In no particular order:
- Zelda Twilight Princess
- Xenoblade Chronicles X
- Dragon Nest (back when they had Level 60 cap)
- Kirby Planet Robobot
- Lost Odyssey
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles 3
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
- Mother 3
- A Hat in Time
Honorable Mentions:
- Blue Dragon
- Dragon Quest VII
- Cloudbuilt
- Epic Battle Fantasy 3
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- The Witcher 3
- Minecraft (I stopped at version 1.11)
- The Evil Within 1
- Layer of fear
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Boom Blocks - Wii - top of my list. Not because it's a good game, but because my kids and I had uproarious hours spent playing it together.
Video game I have not yet figured out the name of. It came out in 1986(ish?) and it had a robot/cyborg in a kind of metroidvania level set. Macintosh.
Doom, the original. Scared the PISS out of me. Then I played it hardcore after that. Doom II came out and I set up LAN parties and opened up my nascent IT outsourcing business for those. Helldivers 2 - Honestly, I haven't actually engaged with a game this hard for decades. Senua's Sacrifice - This game helped me considerably, in understanding the people I love. Doom 2016 - What's not to like. It's perfect. Starcraft II - When it came out. Excellent weaving of story and gameplay. HI-FI Rush - Unexpected fun. Zork - I would have never expected this level of amazing story telling this many years ago.
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No Rolkercoster Tycoon???
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I'm split between that one and Restaurant Tycoon. I think I switched between them every day lol
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I’m not very nostalgic, so not much of old games on this list (in no particular order):
Bloodborne Red Dead Redemption 2 Dark Souls The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdom Hades Monster Hunter World: Iceborne Shadow of the Colossus Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Super Mario Galaxy 2 Elden Ring -
You people lack some serious games:
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Silent Hill 1-2-3
- Monkey Island 1-2-3
- Outer Wilds (happy to see it on many list)
- Alley Cat
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- Heroes of Newerth
- Outerwilds
- Quake 2
- Star Control 2
- Dark Souls
- Another World
- Street Fighter 2
- Flashback
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- HalfLife
- Zelda ALTTP
- Journeyman Project: A Legacy Of Time
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Separated into top 5 and the rest.
- Slay the Spire
- BeamNg
- Trackmania (not any of the games specifically more the concept)
- Disco Elysium
- Portal 2
- Balatro probably
- FTL
- Mario Kart (8 and/or Wii)
- Maybe Baldus gate 3
- Thalos principle 2
The hearthstone battlegrounds auto battler mode is perhaps also in here but hearthstone itself I've never played.
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Dylan, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan & Dylan.
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It's mostly a heartfelt list... although arguably most of those are quality games too, regardless of emotional connection
- Streets Of Rage 2 (Megadrive)
- Flashback (Megadrive)
- The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBC)
- Unreal Tournament 2004 (PC)
- Star Wars Episode I: Racer (PC)
- Omikron: The Nomad Soul (PC)
- Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (Xbox)
- Halo (Xbox)
- Morrowind (Xbox)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PC)
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- Joust (1982 arcade game by Williams)
- Marble Madness (arcade, 1984)
- Fantavision (PS/2 - also Fantavision 202x - remake for modern PC)
- Bioshock
- Stardew Valley
- Oxygen Not Included
- Another World (Amiga)
- Populous (Amiga)
- Lemmings (Amiga)
- Star Raiders (Atari 8 bit)
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Portal 2
RDR2
Half life alyx
Cyberpunk
Skyrim VR
Fallout 3
L4D2
Witcher 3
Assetto Corsa VR
Disco Elysium
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All older games as I can't fit games into adult life:
- Starcraft I and II
- Max Payne
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Thief I
- Red Faction
- The Sims I and III
- Ski Free
- Worms Armageddon
- Chips Challenge
- Doom original
And honourable mention of the only game I recently play, which is Cooking Fever.
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Good choices!
The original Thief is such an incredibly atmospheric experience. Nothing quite like slinking around in the shadows watching that visibility meter...
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Civilization III Final Fantasy IX Valheim Kerbal Space Program Stellaris Empire Earth Borderlands 2 Morrowind Halo: Reach Rimworld
The must be mentioned: KOTOR Bioshock(and Infinite) Final Fantasy 4, 14, 5, 6 in that order AOE 2 Red Alert 2 Total War: Rome, Rome 2, Medieval 2, and Shogun Lords of the Realm 2 No Man's Sky Horizon series Space Empires V Battlefield 1942 Medal of Honor(the first one from the 90's, not that bullshit reboot from 2010) Smash Bros Melee, 64, Brawl in that order Crysis Warcraft II: The Tides of Darkness Theme Hospital MDK2 Chrono Trigger
It was tough leaving some of those mentioned ones out of the top ten, but the top ten belong where they are for me for how definining they were/are for me.
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This is just out of the games I can recall off the top of my head and no order besides the first title being number one:
• Borderlands (specifically on xbox360 with all DLC)
• Fallout New Vegas (despite never actually beating it once)
• SuperTuxKart
• Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 Platinum Edition
• Sonic Mega Collection Plus (PS2 since I've never played it on original xbox and because I still think it's a pretty good way to experience classic Sonic for those that don't want things like savestates and those that do)
• Crazy Taxi (on Dreamcast)
• Hitman Blood Money/Absolution (purely for how much fun I manage to find in them regardless of their flaws and yes I'm counting them as a single game because I can't say I like one more than the other)
• Spyro Reignited Trilogy (so far the only game remaster I can think of where I'd recommend it over the originals because fuck Year of the Dragon and the portals leading to the minigame like sections in levels causing the music to turn off if you get too close in the original)
• Pokemon Uranium (that one fangames that got banned but is still being updated/my first experience with pokemon fangames and ROM hacks)
• Portal 2 (both on xbox360 and PC because I beat co-op on 360 by myself once and also because level editor on PC and the one level I have saved that I cannot beat despite trying on and off for years)
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Games that I have spent an incredible amount of time playing, in no particular order (games where I have noted time, I have played those exclusively without playing any other games):
- Enter the Gungeon (two years)
- Master of Orion (& sequels and likes)
- UFO/TFTD
- Sim City 2000
- Command & Conquer (just the first one)
- Quake World (5 years)
- Ragnarok Online (5 years)
- Transport Tycoon Deluxe (& Open TTD)
- Wizardry 7
- World of Warcraft (5 years)
I'd like to mention that there comes a certain point in skill based games like fps and twitchy MMOs, where your character's movements are so ingrained in muscle memory, your knowledge of the game engines' ins and outs are so thorough, that even just standing around in one spot you know at any moment what action or reaction is going to happen upon your next few key presses, and you have a hundred percent confidence in executing those without a flaw, if you bothered to lift your finger.
That's when you quit, I guess.
Edit: honorary mention for Fallout 1/2/3/NV, TES3&5, Elite/First Encounter, Syndicate, Starcraft 2, Creatures 1&2, Civilization, Master of Magic, King's Bounty & HOMM, DOOM 1/2, Scorched Earth/Worms, Diablo 1&2
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I think someone else put the game.
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Solitaire and SkiFree.
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Other honorable mentions would be: