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
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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)
Halo 3
Viva Pinata
Fallout 3
Kingdom for Keflings
Red Alert 2
Left 4 Dead 2
Warframe
RuneScape 2 (pre eoc)
Minecraft
Borderlands 2
Tic tak toe,
Solitaire,
Snek,
That one with the bubbles that you just watch and you canβt do anything (I think it actually a screen saver)
Uh. Thatβs it.
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
- 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.
- 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
- Chrono Trigger
Okay done
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.
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What Remains of Edith Finch & Kentucky Route Zero (shared 1st place)
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Life is Strange
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Stray
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GRIS
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Cyberpunk 2077
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SOMA
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Heaven's Vault
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The Town of Light
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FAR: Lone Sails
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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.
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
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
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
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)
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
- CloudbuiltΒ
- 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
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.
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.
I know I am short of 10, but I can't think of anything else.
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
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.
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
- 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.
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.