Your Top 10 VIDEO Games

[DepricatedZero]

I'm going to specify this as Video Games. I am a gamer. Not just the popular sense, either - I do RPGs(D&D, Vampire), complex board games(1830, Settlers of Catan, Supremecy), set card games(The Great Dalmuti, Munchkin, Dominion), and CCGs(L5R mostly) - so my list would probably only include 1, maybe 2 video games.

So for Video Games I would accept: any Console, PC, or Arcade Game.

1 - Super Metroid
2 - Far Cry 2
3 - Final Fantasy 6
4 - Fallout 2
5 - Super Mario 2 / Doki Doki Panic
6 - Mega Man 3
7 - Wild ARMS
8 - Secret of Evermore
9 - Fallout
10 - Flashback

 

[Daealis]

Let's see if I can limit this to 10.

1. World of Warcraft. No competition. I've been playing since the first closed beta, taken a few quarter-year breaks but I keep getting drawn back. At the moment I'm on a break because of financial issues and also 'cause I'm slacking on my studies, but I've been watching everything about the Cataclysm I can get my hands on and I am again as excited as I was when the first wow got released. I got paperback novels of the lore, I've read most of it, if not all, online, I like to theorycraft and explore the world and I do raids to see the game mechanics and the lore(honestly, I think I'm a decent player since I can outperform guys with gear two tiers above mine, so I don't stress about the loot too much). So yea, a true fanboy, one might say
2. Guitar Hero 1-3 & Rock Band 1,2. I don't want to make any distinction, since I play for the fun of it and there are great songs in all of them and they are, in essence, the same thing. We've been plucking away with my fiance since the first one got out and still do. I'm not much of a player, mind you, I can't play even half the songs on expert. And no, I have never even wanted to learn to play a real guitar, since that seems to be the most common argument "against" plucking a plastic controller.
3. Final Fantasy VII. Played it through several times, not in the past 5 years, but I'd still rank it this high because of the story. It's just superb.
4. Gears of War 2.
5. Army of Two, both. Four and Five are great games to play with a friend. I got two friends who got x360 and both have bought these games, so I think we've done like a dozen of playthroughs of both game series. Great fun to coordinate and plan your attacks.
6. Burnout series until Paradise. My favourite is Burnout: Revenge. The crash-mode and rewarding players for rude driving with awesome crashes was something that draw me into this series and although the challenges are a real pain in the ass unless you're a six-fingered asian kid on cocaine, the rest of the game is still quite fun.
7. Smackdown vs. Raw. A friend had to force me to play with him these wrestling games and I was grinding my teeth at first with these. But after a while these things start to seem kinda fun and now I am certain that when I can get my hands on a x360 I'll own a wrestling game as well.
8. Silent Storm. A Jagged Alliance clone(so I'm told, I've never played JA), with you controlling a WWII spec ops team. Features include talent trees, multiple weapons styles from heavy grenadier style of explosives expert to hand-to-hand martial artist, and destructible buildings. Even though my style was always to do things stealthy(I could spend 30 minutes on a mission that could be done with a two minute gun-rush, just by sneaking my guys into positions and jumping all the guards simultaneously without a shot fired), the game also had the viable option of planting the walls with dynamite and going in with a minigun singing the song of mayhem.
9.Alien Swarm. Freebie that was released a few months back, free on steam. A 4-player co-op campaign where marines battle against, you guessed it, a swarm of aliens. Great fun with every skill levels of players. When playing with new guys it gets more of a Aliens feel to the game(deadly thing lurking and you need to stick together or someone will die), or with skilled players you can just go ballistic and run carelessly through the corridors flailing a chainsaw.
10. Just Cause 2. Huge map of freeroaming terror and ignorance to any real-life physics. This is the direction I hoped GTA4 would have gone a bit more too. Lot's of guns, insane stunts, even something resembling a plot-device somewhere deep in.

Those last few were tricky to pick. By played time I'd say Worms Armageddon and Soul Calibur 4 would rank near the top3, but there you go.

 

[Prolescum]

Ah! I love settlers of Catan. DZ, we should have a game online sometime. Also, supremacy - is it the one with the nukes and L-stars? Man, that game's amazing.

As for video games, well too many, too many. In no particular order:

Super Mario Galaxy 2 (cannot describe how good this game is)

Beyond Good and Evil (of the vast number of third person adventure games, this is one of the hidden gems - apparently due a sequel, but the announcements have a whiff of Duke Nukem about them)

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (I had to pick only on Zelda game, and this one never gets picked despite being both brilliant and beautifully animated)

Streetfighter II (this basically applies to almost all SF games, really; IV is really good fun)

Star Wars: Knights of the old Republic (I doubt if this one needs explaining)

Way of the exploding fist (or it was a fave back in the eighties)

Mario Kart Wii (I would've chosen double dash, but this one is online )

Gears of War 2 (plenty of fun and the best use of the colour grey since John Major's spitting image caricature)

Metroid Prime (an example of how to make an FPS that doesn't bore the nickers off me)

Age of Mythology: The titans (even the music is excellent )

 

[DepricatedZero]

Ah! I love settlers of Catan. DZ, we should have a game online sometime.

Would love to. Where do you play? Asobrain stopped allowing new accounts.

 

[Prolescum]

http://pio.sourceforge.net/

I'll PM you when I get back home later. I do have an asobrain account already, actually. Or maybe we can start a thread to see if we can attain a full compliment of players... Linux users can find a version for their distro easily, windows peeps need GTK+ but there's a walkthrough for installing it

Sorry to derail this fine topic.

 

[DepricatedZero]

Back on topic:

Wind Waker? Seriously?

It was good and all, but it didn't hold a candle to Link to the Past, come on now.

And ya, Metroid Prime was an awesome FPS. I just wish they had kept with the side-scrolling platformer style, I adore that method of gameplay.

 

[Your Funny Uncle]

Let's see. In order of release:

Laser Squad - I loved this game on the Spectrum. Later Gollop games are also great.

Civilization - I love this game and each of its sequels.

Championship Manager - Another series which I've played many iterations of up to and including Football Manager.

Sensible World of Soccer - Best all-round football game ever.

Final Fantasy VII - This was the first FF game I played and still my favourite.

Half Life - One of the first games I played that really felt like you were talking part in a movie.

Deus Ex - Absolutely brilliant game despite the conspiracy theory nuttiness.

Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic: Best Star Wars Game ever by a long stretch.

Mass Effect - KOTOR without the Star Wars universe.

Dragon Age: Origins - I love Bioware games. Can you tell?

 

[Lallapalalable]

Think theres a thread like this, but it may have been just any number of any type of game. Also helps to update your tastes

in no particular order:

-Star Wars Battlefront II
-Pharaoh
-Final Fantasy III (first one I ever played, opening my window to RPGs)
-Red Faction
-GTA San Andreas
-Shadow of the Colossus
-The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
-Pokemon Series (Emerald, if you want a specific title, but the trading factors allow them all to be one massive game)
-Mario Kart 64
-Super Smash Brothers 64

and because its so above being put onto lists, I have to put my hat on for Super Mario Land for the Game Boy. First video game I ever owned, and I owe the rest of my gaming life to that little piece of plastic and silicon.

 

[AdmiralPeacock]

• Half Life (and the sequels and expansions)
  
  Face of Mankind (but only for about 2 months, being as it is a Player Driven game, and the assholes were largely in the driver's seat, it lost it's appeal)
  
  The Oddworld franchise
  
  Warcraft 2
  
  Age of Empires 3
  
  Red Alert 2
  
  Dune Emperor
  
  Morrowind
  
  Heroes of Might and Magic 3
  
  Space Wars

 

[Independent Vision]

1. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
2. Bioshock
3. Valkyrie Profile 2
4. Morrowind
5. Oblivion
6. Half Life
7. Legacy Of Cain : Blood Omen
8. Neverwinters Night
9. BloodRayne
10. Dead Or Alive 3

 

[televator]

-Shadow of the Collossus
-Zelda: OoT
-Super Metroid
-Fallout 3
-Mass Effect 2
-Resident Evil 4
-Zelda: Majora's Mask
-Metroid Prime Trilogy (Technically it's 3 games, but they might as well be the same game.)
- Metal Gear Solid 3
-Gran Turismo 4

My all time greatest list is longer than this. 10 Is just not enough and there are so many deserving games in my collection.

 

[TheFlyingBastard]

1. SimCity 4
2. Oblivion
3. Garry's Mod
4. Red Alert 1
5. Chrono Trigger
6. Rome: Total War
7. Mass Effect
8. Batman: Arkham Asylum
9. Homeworld
10. Caesar 2

I love building stuff. Just love it. Either that or some good, in-depth strategy. If all else fails, a story is fine too.

 

[Undeath]

Just 10? Wow, that is difficult. Hmm.

In no particular order:

1) The Curse of Monkey Island (Monkey Island 3) - The new Tales of Monkey Island is also great, but this one still trumps it.
2) Age of Empires: Rise of Rome - The entire franchise is great, but this one for the nostalgia.
3) Starcraft - Both the original, and the sequel.
4) Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - My first dip into the series, but OoT and TP both deserve mention.
5) Baldur's Gate II - One of the few where the sequel stands out over the original for me - I've played both, but even the nostalgia factor can't compete with the upgrade in quality.
6) Chrono Trigger - Many would consider this the perfect JRPG, and I'm inclined to agree. Absolutely fantastic.
7) World of Warcraft - I may have had a nasty addiction, but even so, I like the game.
8) Heroes of Might and Magic V - The entire series really. HoMM III is also awesome. HoMM IV gets more flak than it deserves IMO - it does the campaign thing better than the others by phasing out the Haven faction after its own campaign. HoMM V was a step back in that regard, but is otherwise a great game.
9) Caesar III/Pharaoh - I consider these games to be sufficiently closely related to count as one. Very interesting City Builders.
10) Portal - Okay, this really covers Half-life as a whole, but Portal especially for the weird humor. Natural Selection (Half-life 1 mod) also deserves mention.


But there are a ton of other games that deserve honourable mentions, like Super Smash Brothers and sequels, the entire Mario and Pokemon Franchises, and a lot of the SNES JRPGS.

 

[Josan]

Ah! I love settlers of Catan. DZ, we should have a game online sometime.

Seconded.

 

[Josan]

This is soo hard. Written in 10 minutes, so I am probably forgetting some awesome, well-deserving game...

Also, it was to hard for me - so I cheated by bunching some games together:

Disclaimer : Random order!

1. Final Fantasy VII (The single game I can think of that was actually awesome from my PS1 - WAIT! Gran Turismo )

2. Starcraft 1&2 and Warcraft 3 (Great RTS games, all 3 are from Blizzard and they are very similar)

3. Mario 64 (The best mario game ever and the best Nintendo 64 game ever. Just plain awesome, and for players of any age)

4. Halo 2 (Halo 1 was such a good game, and then halo 2 was even better! Halo 3 is just as awesome, but not really that much of an upgrade from halo 2)

5. Tetris (I was gonna say Contra because I remembered back to my NES days, but then I remember I used even more time playing tetris on my little 8-bit box)

6. Call of Duty 2 and MW1 and MW2 (Just such well made games with great single-players)

7. Bioshock (Just the whole design, look and feel of the game is breathtaking, and yes, it beats system shock 2)

8. DOOM 1 (For it's time it was just brutal, will forever be a legendary game. Unlike a lot of other people, I actually love the new Doom 3 aswell, especially speedrunning it on the hardest difficulty, so much fun!)

9. Diablo and Diablo 2 (The first for being a great game, the second one for creating a great multiplayer game that is still being played today all over battle.net)

10. Portal (Just such a great game)

 

[australopithecus]

In no specific order:

• Zelda: Ocarina of Time
  
  Assassin's Creed
  
  Gears of War 2
  
  Goldeneye 64
  
  Streets of rage.
  
  Pokemon Red/Blue
  
  Halo 3
  
  Mass Effect 2
  
  Mario Kart Wii
  
  Command and Conquer: Red Alert

 

[DarkSlander]

In no particular order:

1) Diablo

2) Diablo 2/ Diablo 2: LoD exp

3) Age of Empires/ Age of Empires RoR exp

4) Age of Empires 2 / Age of Empires 2 exp

5) StarCraft / StarCraft exp

6) WarCraft 2

7) Zelda: A Link To The Past

8) Assault Cube

9) Sauerbraten

10) Star Wars: KoTOR

 

[MRaverz]

Duke Nukem: Forever

 

[nasher168]

Not quite sure of the order these go in. Depends on my mood.

Rome: Total War (or at least, various mods thereof. I haven't actually played vanilla Rome in a long time.)

Mount and Blade: Warband

Medieval 2: Total War (again, mods thereof)

COD 4 (good for a bit of mindless fun every now and again)

Company of Heroes

Black and White

Supreme Commander

Empire: Total War (a bit of a Total War fanboy I'm afraid)

Oblivion (an extra GB of RAM works wonders. I've rather got back into it.)

Civilisation 4



NOTHING from the C&C series. I dislike those games. Don't see what all the hype is about, tbh. :evil:

 

[SpaceDust]

in no order

freelancer
X2 the threat
Vega Strike (open scource game)
fallout 3
oblivion
the legend of zelda games
sid meiers cilvilzation and its open scource clones
The sims 2 and 3
star trek legacey
sid meiers alpha centuari