5 Videogames everyone should play

[GartarkMusik]

Probably have to be as follows:

1. Halo (great 1st person shooter with tight controls, still pretty first timer friendly)
2. Any of the early Spyro games. (Bright and colorful with lots of lively characters)
3. KOTOR (Say what you will about any of BioWare's earlier or later titles, this for me is what brought them to center stage, and was my first taste of RPGs)
4. Mass Effect (Building on what made previous BioWare RPGs great, and making it even better)
5. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (An absolutely brilliant and beautiful platformer with great characters that is a shining example of games as art.

Just my thoughts.

 

[Jak LesStrange]

I would say, just to be completely random: Stubbs the Zombie: Rebel Without A Pulse, Killer7, Pikmin 2, Star Wars Battlefront II and Deathsmiles XD Best games evar!!! (EDIT: Noob Alert)

 

[Vegard Pompey]

Deus Ex is the pinnacle of game design. Everything else is trivial. But if I have to pick 5;

2. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
3. Portal
4. Minecraft
5. Super Mario 64

 

[grumbel]

1) Super Mario 64
2) The Longest Journey
3) XCom: UFO
4) Another World
5) Deus Ex

Also:

6) Zelda: A Link to the Past
7) Operation Flashpoint
8) Shadow of the Colossus
9) Minecraft
10) Wii Sports

 

[manaman]

To be honest I have no idea how this list is different from a personal top five list. The kind that have been around for ages. It's certainly named something else, but I'm not seeing the difference. Unless this is really supposed to be the five games we thing represent various genres of gaming, or gaming in particular. Which then you should have asked the game we think best represents various categories.

5) The Witcher 2 - The most mature game out there.

We have very different ideas about how the word mature should be used.

 

[Himmelgeher]

1) Halo 2
2) Deus Ex
3) Portal+Portal 2 (I consider them one game because of Portal's length)
4) Half Life 2
5) Mass Effect or Knights of the Old Republic. Both would be best, but I only have five games to work with here.
Honorable Mention:
Bioshock
Limbo
Call of Duty 4
LA Noire

 

[Tornd]

1. Bioshock
2. Ocarina of Time
3. Super Mario Bros.
4. Portal
5. Battletoads

 

[Jungy 365]

Screw detachment, I am going to be as biased as hell and just go with my favourite games, rather than ones people should play.
1: Ocarina of Time (Look at my avatar. What else would be top of the list?)
2: Portal (Never has a game riding on a single mechanic been so fun)
3: Mass Effect Trilogy (All the tedious vehicle segments and mining in the world couldn't persuade me not to play these games again)
4: Super Mario Galaxy (either really, they're both the same. Still, bloody great experiences)
5: Professor Layton series (Because a gentleman can never have enough puzzles)

 

[TheSchizoid]

Why not?

In no particular order...

1. Goldeneye 007
2. Any Zelda game Wind Waker or older
3. Earthbound
4. Metroid Prime
5. Portal

Honorable mentions...

Final Fantasy III (VI in proper numbering)
Mr. Mosquito
Ninja Gaiden (2004)

 

[Terramax]

1. Tetris

2. A complicated stealth game that someone who's never played a game before will be confused beyond belief playing (and probably be put off gaming completely).

3. A 'classic' Nintendo game because it's a personal favourite of mine and I have no originality.

4. My favourite RPG.

5. My favourite FPS.

 

[Jungy 365]

4. Metroid Prime

How the hell did I miss Metroid Prime!? Such a great games, has the best bosses I've ever encountered, such a great setting, and, despite it's appearence, it's subtle hints present a far greater story than Other M's constant exposition.

 

[Rad Party God]

My top 5 "everyone should play this" are:

1.) Super Mario Bros. The original NES game.
2.) Metroid Prime Tilogy. Yes, the Trilogy edition, on the Wii. The best example of how motion controls should work, especially for a first person title. And also because it's awesome.
3.) Bioshock, the epitome of narration within a first person perpective and a hell'uva fun game.
4.) Half-Life 2, almost for the same reason as Bioshock.
5.) Plants vs. Zombies, the most accesible strategy game ever created.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

2) COD Modern Warfare - especially the multiplayer (The game that spawned one of the most popular FPS franchises today, see how far we've come, and experience online gaming)

So... Call of Duty 1, United Offensive, 2, 3, and all the pre-CoD4 console ones don't exist? Compared to Call of Duty 2, CoD4 was just meh. The single player was a lot worse...

 

[Pingieking]

1) Starcraft. No better introduction to RTS games.
2) Super Mario Bros.
3) World of Warcraft. If they only ever play one MMO, this would have to be it.
4) Heavy Rain. A truly unique approach to game making.
5) Shadow of the Colossus. A game that some consider art. A great way to experience a game designed for you to fill in the blanks.

 

[Fbuh]

The Legend of Zelda
Chrono Trigger
Doom
Silent Hill 2
Final Fantasy 6 (or 7, tho I personally like 6 more)

 

[Vault Girl]

1) Silent Hill 2 - To be able to understand not only the feeling of anticipation and horror a video game is capable of instilling in it's players, but as an appreciation of Good gameplay and
Storytelling. (it was a throw up between SH2 and Amnesia, since i think the mechanics were better, but SH2 won on Narrative)


2) LittleBigPlanet - Just because it gives the player so much power and influence with some clever dynamics, but also because of its presentation and theme. LBP2 just capitalized on the brilliance of this game.


3) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Wanted to include an RPG, and it was a throw up between this and Oblivion. For it's time is was epic and is still terrifically influential, so instead of more contemporary RPG's like Mass Effect i'll go with this. (although i think Oblivion is a serious contender)


4) Portal ( both but more towards 2)- For its pure innovation. The story fits perfectly around the mechanic. such a clever and interactive aspect cannot go unplayed.


5) Goldeneye (N64)- Because it revolutionized the FPS, and i'm hard pressed to find one that i have truely enjoyed as much as this one. Modern Warfare and BLOPS don't even come close. And it is the ONLY good movie tie in, so it gets points for that too.

 

[William Ossiss]

1) Doom (The daddy of 3D FPS's, and still fantastic)
2) COD Modern Warfare - especially the multiplayer (The game that spawned one of the most popular FPS franchises today, see how far we've come, and experience online gaming)
3) Age of Empires 2 (highly influential Real Time Strategy game, also a lot of fun.)
4) Splinter Cell Chaos Theory(The best stealth FPS I have played, can be tense pulse racing, humourous and fun)
5) Mass Effect (Incredibly popular RPG)

your list seems too personal. games like Doom are too old for someone who has never played before. COD's multiplayer is so filled with trash talkers and assholes that anyone not prepared to mute everyone else, or ignore it, is doomed to either trash talk themselves or not like it at all. Not everyone would like to have to learn to micro manage on the fly... RTS' can be complicated.


anyway, what i mean is that you cannot throw someone into games like the ones you mentioned. you gotta get a feel for what they like. this is where having a large library of games and systems, older and newer, comes in great handy. you allow someone to peruse your titles, do what they want, then look at the ones they like and go from there. do they gravitate more toward pc titles? jumping puzzles? shooters? you just cannot have them play the five games you, I, or anyone else recommends.

 

[Impluse_101]

Age of Mythology
TLoZ: OOT
Star Fox Assault
Elite Beat Agents
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

To Actually introduce anyone into Gaming

Prince of Persia for the Xbox, not the movie tie in crap.

 

[Greenhand]

1.Oblivion or Morrowind (Good open fun, and they're a good way to get into modding, which is the future of gaming.)
2.Minecraft (It's so fucking charming! Look! Blocky sheep!)
3.One of the Civilization games. (I prefer 4.)
4.Legend of Zelda; Majora's Mask. (Better than OoT any fucking day.)
5.Eternal Ring. (I like the music, alright?)

 

[foolish snails]

1: Borderlands
2: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
3: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II
4: Assassin's Creed
5: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare