Can you name your top 5 games of all time?

[Human Snorenado]

Did anyone say Shenmue?  I hope not.

Just Himuro, but that's to be expected at this point.

[Steve Youngblood]

Top 5 is really small and I think someone here said it depends on mood, but I find it hard to believe so many of you havent picked a single game from this mammoth gen that lasted 7 years.

Seriously dudes.

I like to see if games last the test of time before I start thinking of them as my all-time faves.  I was hesitant even putting SMG on there this soon.

As others have said, though, this list is probably going to be heavily tilted towards the era you had the most enjoyment with games, which for many is not going to be the adult years.  I'm lucky if I get an hour or so every couple of days to game of late.

Yeah, when it comes to this gen, it's rare that I actually play a game to completion. And I certainly don't play a lot of online multiplayer stuff. So even if something has the potential to be in my "Top X" list, it's hard to give it that kind of nod when I feel like I'd really need to go back again and see if it holds up on replay. As an example, Galaxy is probably a better game than Super Mario 64, but I've probably 120 starred Mario 64 at least ten times since I first played it back when I was 12 years old, whereas getting about 115 stars in my one play of Galaxy was all the time I've given it.

[Joe Molotov]

I'm just gonna post the games I liked the most from 5 different periods of my life:

Late 80's - The Legend of Zelda
Early-Mid 90-'s - Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant
Late 90's - Curse of Monkey Island
Early Aughts - Super Smash Bros. Melee
Past Few Years - Binding of Isaac

[Cormacaroni]

I've seen Mass Effect 2 on a number of lists I think...was very tempted to put it down myself. (the other one that was real hard to leave off is Advance Wars, and I thought hard about Portal/Portal 2 as well...)

[Cormacaroni]

Daytona USA (ARC)
Virtua Fighter 3 (ARC, DC)
Todd's Adventures in Slime World (Lynx)
Elder Scrolls (Series)
Rainbow Six (Xbox)

Rainbow Six bros 4 lyfe

[Human Snorenado]

I've seen Mass Effect 2 on a number of lists I think...was very tempted to put it down myself. (the other one that was real hard to leave off is Advance Wars, and I thought hard about Portal/Portal 2 as well...)

ME2 is probably in my top 10 but not quite good enough to make top 5... or maybe it's that the stuff ahead of it is just better, whatever.  Certainly a game worthy of praise, though.

[Cormacaroni]

Probably best of this console gen - can't think of anything else I really responded to in the same way. Even though I played it half on PC.

[Mr. Gundam]

Mass Effect 2 and Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! are probably my favorite games of the generation.

[DCharlieJP]

The Sentinel (C64)
Paradroid (C64)
Space Harrier (Arc)
Chromehounds (X360)
Phoenix (Arc)


In truth there's probably better games - but the older ones have a very special place in my heart. Chromehounds online was legitimately stupidly awesome.

Doing the list on a TIME SPENT it's more like :

Chromehounds (X360)
Monster Hunter 3rd P (PSP)
Advance Wars (GBA)
Rainbow 6 Vegas (X360)
Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga/PC)

.... i think i like the second list better.

[Cormacaroni]

Mass Effect 2 and Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! are probably my favorite games of the generation.

i have a new unopened copy of Kenzan somewhere

[Tasty]

Top 5 is really small and I think someone here said it depends on mood, but I find it hard to believe so many of you havent picked a single game from this mammoth gen that lasted 7 years.

Seriously dudes.

I like to see if games last the test of time before I start thinking of them as my all-time faves.  I was hesitant even putting SMG on there this soon.

As others have said, though, this list is probably going to be heavily tilted towards the era you had the most enjoyment with games, which for many is not going to be the adult years.  I'm lucky if I get an hour or so every couple of days to game of late.

If SMG isn't on your list, then you haven't played it. Pure and simple.

[Damian79]

1. Arcanum
2. Fallout 2
3. Baldurs Gate 2
4. Chrono Trigger
5. Wizardry 6

[Great Rumbler]

1. Arcanum
2. Fallout 2
3. Baldurs Gate 2
4. Chrono Trigger
5. Wizardry 6

[Human Snorenado]

Top 5 is really small and I think someone here said it depends on mood, but I find it hard to believe so many of you havent picked a single game from this mammoth gen that lasted 7 years.

Seriously dudes.

I like to see if games last the test of time before I start thinking of them as my all-time faves.  I was hesitant even putting SMG on there this soon.

As others have said, though, this list is probably going to be heavily tilted towards the era you had the most enjoyment with games, which for many is not going to be the adult years.  I'm lucky if I get an hour or so every couple of days to game of late.

If SMG isn't on your list, then you haven't played it. Pure and simple.

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Or, you know, you just like other games more.  It's definitely one of the better games this gen, though.

[Rahxephon91]

This gen?. Probably Vanquish, Battlefield 3, Resonance of Fate, Final Fantasy XIII and well I guess I can't think of any other for a top 5 this gen.

[Tasty]

Top 5 is really small and I think someone here said it depends on mood, but I find it hard to believe so many of you havent picked a single game from this mammoth gen that lasted 7 years.

Seriously dudes.

I like to see if games last the test of time before I start thinking of them as my all-time faves.  I was hesitant even putting SMG on there this soon.

As others have said, though, this list is probably going to be heavily tilted towards the era you had the most enjoyment with games, which for many is not going to be the adult years.  I'm lucky if I get an hour or so every couple of days to game of late.

If SMG isn't on your list, then you haven't played it. Pure and simple.

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Or, you know, you just like other games more.  It's definitely one of the better games this gen, though.

You and your logic are not welcome here.

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Of course that's the case.

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[Freyj]

Planescape
Xenogears
MediEvil
Grandia
RCT2

[Mr. Gundam]

Mass Effect 2 and Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! are probably my favorite games of the generation.

Kenzan *just* missed my list.  Other this-gen games that were close for me were TWEWY, Vanquish, Bayonetta, and Geometry Wars: RE.

Vanquish is up there for me, too. Great game.

[CajoleJuice]

Top 5 is really small and I think someone here said it depends on mood, but I find it hard to believe so many of you havent picked a single game from this mammoth gen that lasted 7 years.

Seriously dudes.

I like to see if games last the test of time before I start thinking of them as my all-time faves.  I was hesitant even putting SMG on there this soon.

As others have said, though, this list is probably going to be heavily tilted towards the era you had the most enjoyment with games, which for many is not going to be the adult years.  I'm lucky if I get an hour or so every couple of days to game of late.

If SMG isn't on your list, then you haven't played it. Pure and simple.

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:'(

[Phoenix Dark]

So, how many people would happily sit down and replay their top 5 games, start to finish, as they are now (no mods or graphical overhauls...and put in the kind of hours into the MP that you did back then)? And not just in some fantasy land if-i-had-the-time way...actually shove aside unfinished games from this month or whenever to play the old stuff. Sadly from my list the only ones I could even imagine doing so for would be Planescape and NGB

I definitely could. Hell I still play Wolfenstein ET

Too bad SC:BW's online functionality is so outdated and buggy at times. I'd pay for an HD version of the game with better online features.

[TakingBackSunday]

ME2 and Fallout 3 will probably be in my top 10 in a few years.  ME2, everytime I play, just fucking slays me.  The detail and process of how you level up and build relationships is how I think every action game with RPG elements should be like.

Also I wish more games would handle end-game sequences like how ME2 does.  Your actions throughout effect the fates of every single person on your squad.

[Rahxephon91]

Man if you like ME2's endgame. You'll love Dragon Age 2!

[TakingBackSunday]

isn't Dragon Age all kinds of jank though

[Great Rumbler]

isn't Dragon Age all kinds of jank though

DA1 isn't jank. Neither is DA2, but it is terrible, though.

[rodi]

Zelda 64
Goldeneye (Nintendo 64)
Final Fantasy VIII
TES: Morrowind
Euro Truck Simulator 2
XCOM: Enemy Unknown

Dragon Age? RLY? 

[Rahxephon91]

isn't Dragon Age all kinds of jank though

The 1st Dragon Age is pretty decent. I don't play a lot of PC rpgs so as far as I was concerned it was good. If you have more experience with the genre I could see it being bad.

DA2 is a bad action rpg that feels copy and pasted. But it does feature an end game that was obviously inspired by ME2 in that all the choices be it in the plot or with the characters(similar trust system) come into play during the final battle.

[Human Snorenado]

The original DA is a really good if unspectacular entry into the field.

The sequel is probably my biggest disappointment of the gen, to be honest.

[DCharlieJP]

Blah blah blah nostalgia.

I didn't play GT3 until a few years ago and I gave it a #5 spot.

OoT and SM64 took top 2 spots because Miyamoto directed both and he was fucking godly in the 90s, not because of nostalgia.

But keep pretending the games in this day and age with excessive cutscenes, QTE's and out of contorl budgets are actually better than how they used to be.

if you can find "old style" games this gen you're simply not looking.

Gaming is as good as it's ever been - it's just got a load more cack floating around it.

[CajoleJuice]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

wrong

[Human Snorenado]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

wrong

don't argue with the aspertard

[CajoleJuice]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

wrong

don't argue with the aspertard

one word didn't take too much effort

[Human Snorenado]

More than it's worth

[Tasty]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

...wat?

[Madrun Badrun]

I liked DA2 its a good game, just not nearly as good as the first.  Its the Invisible War of the dragon age franchise.

[Huff]

Red Faction 1
Halo 1
FFX
Super Smash
OoT/MM

Consoles I had: NES, N64, Xbox, PS2, all since excluding wiiu

honorable mentions: Pokemon R/B, Mario 64, Dark Cloud, ZOE1/2, Guitar Hero

[DCharlieJP]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

No - I'm talking about the vast array of game play experiences that you can have on a modern console. As I said - anyone peddling an idea that all modern games are big budget, cutscenes, Qtefests haven't been paying attention

[Raban]

In no particular order

Tetris
Picross 3D
Super Meat Boy
Star Fox 64
Grand Theft Auto IV

[Cerveza mas fina]

I hope you're not referring to indie games which pretend to be like the good old games but are complete shit, like Super Meat Boy. Indie games are shit simply because they have shit graphics so often.

Smh

Plus super meat boy is cool.

[Human Snorenado]

Objectively speaking, Tetris is probably the best game ever made and it's just a bunch of fucking blocks.  Aspertard is aspertarded, film at 11.

[Great Rumbler]

Some of the games I've had the most fun with over the past few years have been simple indie games with blocky 2D graphics. Big whoop.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Yea but they have shit graphics.

Also all modern games have amazing graphics but shit gameplay.

Poor ruzbeh stuck in 1996 forever.

[rodi]

Speaking of Super Meat Boy, The Binding of Issac isn't half bad either. Supposedly they based it off old Zelda games? I never played those... but yeah, depending on the day of the week, The Binding of Issac might replace any of those on my list.

[fistfulofmetal]

oh look a list thread i love these

here are 5 games that when prompted to pick "favs of all time" pop into my head pretty quick

half life 2
metal gear solid 3
battlefield 2
chronicles of riddick: escape from butcher bay
company of heroes

[tiesto]

Favorites this gen?

Xenoblade
Resonance of Fate
Valkyria Chronicles
Bayonetta
Vanquish
Sin and Punishment 2
Mushihime-sama Futari
Akai Katana
Mirror's Edge
Nier

[archnemesis]

That should be easier:

• 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
• Demon's Souls
• MAG
• Mount & Blade: Warband
• Portal
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Valkyria Chronicles
• Warhawk
• WipeEout HD

Edit: Nope, it wasn't easy at all. I wanted to include 20 more games.

[Eric P]

stalker (series)
super mario 64 (i even bought a ds for the remake.  whoops)
morrowind
fallout (original.  i find the second one too unfocused)
half-life

[chronovore]

Everyone's favorite shit is from their teens/20s, whoda thunk it?

Isn't most of this board still in their 20s?

I've seen Mass Effect 2 on a number of lists I think...was very tempted to put it down myself. (the other one that was real hard to leave off is Advance Wars, and I thought hard about Portal/Portal 2 as well...)

Advance Wars... I would have put it in mine, but I was soured on the series with Dual Strike, or whichever one introduced the mechanic where I could crush 90% of their army, and suddenly their remaining 10% army could FLIP OVER AND DESTROY ME.

I was pretty into this a few years ago; I'm surprised Nintendo hasn't reached out and destroyed it with a flick of their legal wrist:

http://awbw.amarriner.com

[etiolate]

I guess many of my games are from my teens and twenties, but that is most of where my life happens. The other part to that is that I know the games I listed from then have stood the test of time and are still fun to me today. There are  a few games that are more recent that will probably go to the top once time has passed and time has judged them a bit more.

[The Sceneman]

rapidly approaching 30 here...  :'( Joined the board at age 21!

[Joe Molotov]

Isn't most of this board still in their 20s?

i dunno, i wouldn't be surprised if this board's average is tipping into the 30s now.  we've got some members who have got to be pushing 40.

Green Man is 20 or some shit, and we used to give him a hard time about being the youngest member on the board.

[Rahxephon91]

22 and PS2 was my first real game gen.

First system was my n64 with stuff like Goldeneye and Star Fox.

[Cormacaroni]

Chrono and I are pushing 40...from the other side

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I think Andrex is 12 or 13 or some shit.

I'd say the average age of the regulars of this board is somewhere in the early 30s.

[Robo]

Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Street Fighter III: Third Strike
Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition v.2012
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Mega Man X

not even kiddin.

[Raban]

I can't wait until we're all old pieces of shit and still posting on this board in the year 2043.

[cool breeze]

I can't wait until we're all old pieces of shit and still posting on this board in the year 2043.

we'll be old enough to appreciate the nintendo circa late 2000s

where taht doctor kawamari bloke my brainss slippin

[tiesto]

I'm 30, my first introduction to gaming was NES and SMB (cliche, but I wouldn't have had it any other way) for my 6th birthday.

[demi]

Star Tropics
Secret of Evermore
Legend of Legaia
Bubble Bobble
Monster Party

[Human Snorenado]

I'm 35, my introduction to gaming was the Intellivision (TRON, BITCHES) and various Ataris.  I'll be honest though, I have slaughtered bajillions of brain cells and don't necessarily remember those early consoles too well.  My earliest vivid memory of gaming was they year everyone got the NES for Christmas, instead of getting the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt bundle, I ended up with the stupid fucking Duck Hunt/Gyromite/Rob the distinguished mentally-challenged robot bundle.  Let me tell you, absolutely no one wanted to trade Super Mario Bros. for Gyromite for a weekend.  I'm pretty sure I beat the shit out of that robot to death within a month.

[Human Snorenado]

DON'T JUDGE ME

Actually, that wasn't an uncommon end for any of my toys to meet.  I'm pretty sure I blew up thousands of dollars worth of star wars toys with fireworks in the name of "let's fuck shit up!"