Skies of Arcadia
I consider Skies of Arcadia as one of the games I pull off the shelf every few years and replay just to remind myself what proper gaming is like away from a reliance on top tier graphics and ticked boxes. A place women in practical and not entirely sexualised clothing can stand side by side with their male counter parts in battle, where you can poke fun at history and have people with mad personalities shouting at you to just die already and stop spoiling their evil plans, a game where once you press start within twenty minutes you have boarded an enemy frigate by leaping 30ft across an abyss, beaten a dozen guards in sword fighting, confronted the captain as he attempts to flee the battle in a lifeboat, defeated a giant Rhino that shoots lightning (I am not making any of this up), save a pretty damsel in distress and then sail your flying pirate ship back to your secret base under an island safe in the knowledge that you've still got over forty hours of game play to get through!