My top five games

[Trotgar]

Mass Effect
Planescape: Torment
Baldur's Gate II
Diablo 2

All are RPG's (Though Diablo 2 depends of how you look at it, I personally think it's an action adventure game with a few RPG elements).

Can't say more yet, but hopefully Dragon Age will soon help in making up my mind.

 

[rokkolpo]

shadow of the colussus had difficult boss fights?

youre new to gaming right?

Actually, they were difficult. Because they weren't you standard fight. Each Collossus had a unique way of defeating it, and the same strategy that took down one would work on the next. It wasn't that it was hard in the "needs to be a master at the game" kind of hard, but a hard in the sense that it wasn't for someone younger. Tell me that the one you had to hit the things on it's head wasn't something easy to figure out. What made the game so fabulous was it's ability to make you see things from a slight clue of something else. The world was epic huge and required management to get from the starting temple to the destination, and once at the fight, you had to use the environment and what it gave you to win. Miss one detail and it was the difference between win and fail

well i can't say i haven't paused the game for 15 minutes figuring out what to do.

and the game was a great experience, but it was never hard for me.

 

[Magnalian]

It could really help if you added some sort of question or statement or something. What is the goal of this thread? Are we supposed to list our favourite titles?
Well, if so:

The Pokemon series: By this I mean the original series, not any of the spin-offs or the 3D attempts. Even though the pokemon seem to get more stupid with each generation, I still managed to clock in over 300 hours on Pokemon Diamond.

Team Fortress 2: Very fun FPS action, with a couple RPG elements, according to some people. Griefers can be annoying, but they have pretty small numbers and it usually doesn't take long for them to get booted off the server.

Metroid Prime Trilogy: While I still have to finish the games completely, I managed to make it pretty far and if not fro my inherent laziness I would have finished them 3 times over.

Batman: Arkham Asylum: The boss fights were disappointing, but everything else was great. I'm not much of a comic book guy, but I finally see why the goddamn Batman is so popular.

Half-Life 2/Portal: I call this one a tie, because Portal was slightly more fun, but Half-Life 2 had much more content, even though some of that consisted of obnoxious vehicle sections.

These are in no particular order, by the way. I don't have an absolute favourite game and I doubt I ever will. Plus, it would be impossible to compare the different amounts of fun these games have brought me.

excuse me but why do we care what your top five games are? Are you someone famous or other important note?

Why would his opinions matter so much if he was famous? Does that automatically make them more right?

 

[AvsJoe]

American Mcgee's Alice: Awesome game with amazing graphics, creative reimagening and something that should definitely be made into a movie. Combat sucked though.

Goddamn I have to play this game! Preferably before the sequel/remake comes out.

 

[CheckD3]

shadow of the colussus had difficult boss fights?

youre new to gaming right?

Actually, they were difficult. Because they weren't you standard fight. Each Collossus had a unique way of defeating it, and the same strategy that took down one would work on the next. It wasn't that it was hard in the "needs to be a master at the game" kind of hard, but a hard in the sense that it wasn't for someone younger. Tell me that the one you had to hit the things on it's head wasn't something easy to figure out. What made the game so fabulous was it's ability to make you see things from a slight clue of something else. The world was epic huge and required management to get from the starting temple to the destination, and once at the fight, you had to use the environment and what it gave you to win. Miss one detail and it was the difference between win and fail

well i can't say i haven't paused the game for 15 minutes figuring out what to do.

and the game was a great experience, but it was never hard for me.

Like I said, it wasn't the hard where you had to master it, but had to figure out what you had to do, it was hard in the sense that it made you think and had to problem solve.

Also, Again: Learn to spell Colossus correctly if you love the game so damn much

My spelling sucks overall, for the record, I know this and try to spell my best, but I'm horrible at spelling and too lazy to spell check, sorry...and if you weren't referring to me specifically...well too damn bad

 

[CheckD3]

Since everyone else is doing it, here are the top 5 games I've been thinking of throughout the discussions, in no real order

Resident Evil 4: Even though I played it 20 times, it never got old because it gave me the possibility of a new challenge to beat the game. The controls were smooth and easy to master for me, exploring every nook and cranny was fun and speed running through left me satisfied when I beat it in under a hour and a half.

God of War (series): I love it because not only does combat feel good enough to smash random buttons but you learn combos and how to do it right without it being overbearing. QTEs work with the combat and don't feel like they were randomly added in, they were put in with the idea to be a core and it works well for something that is quite evil. The story is intresting and the levels are linear but still give a large, epic feel to them. It's only flaw to me is the lack of camera control

Shadow of the Colossus: I obviously like this as you can tell from my previous posts. It's a huge world that you get thrust into and have to learn on your feet. It's challenging fighting the Colossi, but never does it stop being super fun

Super Smash Bros (Melee and Brawl): I got addicted to playing Melee w/o all those "master" tatics, so when Brawl came out, I could pick it up and run with it. I not only can play with the GC controller, but also learned to use the Wiimote w/ nunchuck so I'm versitile. It's a game I know I can have fun w/ friends with, just playing for a few hours before getting a little tired. Both Melee and Brawl have enough characters that every fight is a challenge to choose yours and everyone I face has at least some skill that it's never dull playing

Infamous: It's hard to think of anything besides this, the first game I wanted to play when I got my PS3 and from Sucker Punch, makers of one of my fav. games (that's prolly just outside my top 10 overall) the Sly Cooper series. The open world is fun to travel around, and while health is hard to maintain and tell where I'm at sometimes...zapping people, travelling via train rails and the story line is always fun for me to the point that I want to get everything done, all the stuff found, and all awards found...100% completion.

I do want to quickly say that I like COD:MW2, but only for the online. Popping it in, joining an online free-for-all and putting on some music from my computer while I play never gets old, whether I'm winning or losing, I'm always having fun. It's not on my list because the single player to me is just not that fun. The AI and human players are just too different for me to connect with my allies and my enemies feel overpowered and stiff. As said in his Extra punctuation: A game needs to be able to stand up by itself with it's single player, and can't excuse a bad Single player experience with multiplayer.

 

[TehRandom]

Not sure whats the discussion topic here, so I guess I'll just post my list of...

My top five "Best games evarr":

5)Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
4)Sins of a Solar Empire
3)World of Goo
2)Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
1)Half-Life 2

These are just "Best games evarr" in my opinion, so don't get all worked up over it.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

Oblivion
The Legend of Zelda series
GTA series
RE4
Half-Life 2 with Episodes

I'm not very good at picking exactly five and I left out any of the multiplayer games that I pick over my favorite games simply for replay value and enjoyment with friends.

 

[Donttazemehbro]

Oh my god. This has been done several times

in order

1) Mass Effect 2
2) Batman Arkham Asylum
3) Assassin's Creed 1 and 2
4) Borderlands
5) Star Wars KOTOR 1 and 2 (one was better)
6) Fallout 3
7) Infamous and Uncharted 2

 

[Video Gone]

I would report you for having no discussion elements outside of the "User Reviews" forum, and even this would be way out of place there, but I can see that you're really new, so I'll let you off with it.
Oh, and thread rezzing? Of THIS ancient beast?
I must resist the red button here.
Anyway, in NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

Halo 3: Private Multiplayer (Yeah, sue me. Forge-Matching, which is using every tool and weapon in Forge to kick the ass of your friends, who you should know in real life for extra extra EXTRA fun factor.)

GTA IV (Doing crazy stunt and destruction runs, along with true-to-title DEATH RACES, across the city (and always in Party or Free Mode) with either 1 one of my (IRL) friends, or a little crack team of them.(again, knowing someone in real life is almost essential for me in these games. And mostly just one of my friends, the same one, because seriously, this fucker can PLAY. And is an awesome conversationalist. Holy shit, long one, moving on.)

WoW (Again, IRL friends, in a game you don't get addicted to because you have a life to hang on to, BIG FUN.)

Left 4 Dead (See above.)

Garry's Mod (Again, see WoW entry, and add this: Showing your friends all the cool new stuff you got for your server? Sand-Matching (Sandbox deathmatching, see Forge-Matching)? Heaven.)

Whoopsies, that was a list of my favourite multiplayers.
Ah well, it's all a million-time-ressurected thread deserves anyway.

 

[FinalHeart95]

5)Battlefield Bad Company
4)Lost Odyssey
3)FFVII
2)Chrono Trigger
1)FFIV

Yeah... I like my JRPGs.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Age of Empires 2
Portal
Oblivion
Fable 1
Super Mario Bros 1

 

[Jaranja]

1)FF X as it is my favourite of the FF series that I have played and that is VII to X-2.

Shitting hell, really?

This is difficult. In no particular order:
Final Fantasy X
Baldur's Gate 2
Baldur's Gate 1
Mass Effect 2
Dragon Age: Origins

Honourable Mentions: Age of Mythology, Warcraft 3 & Zeus: Master of Olympus.

 

[Sassafrass]

1)FF X as it is my favourite of the FF series that I have played and that is VII to X-2.

Shitting hell, really?

I would respond with a gif that tells you yes but it is very childish and meme-tastic.
... ... ... ...

Spoiler: Oh, the hell with it

Yes, I am a child.

 

[Slash Dementia]

How you are going to buy portals RIGHT NOW.

my top 5-
psychonuaghts
Portal
LOTRO
Half life 2
Exteel

I've been planning to buy The Orange Box for quite some time...

As for my top five.
The Bard's Tale
Mass Effect (series)
Knights of the Old Republic (series)
Morrowind
Legend of Mana

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Max Payne 2
Rome: Total War
Oblivion
Fahrenheit
Far Cry

 

[Outamyhead]

Dragon Age : Longest I have played a game so far, and I haven't lost interest in the story at all.
Kotor 1: same reason, great story, kept me involved in the game with the combat development progression as well.
Half-Life: That was the best of everything for a shooter, great story, had to think on how to get around problems.
F.E.A.R: another story line that kept me playing through.

I'm trying to think of a fifth but I haven't come up with anything.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Uhh...

1. Knights of the Old Republic
2. Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
3. Half Life 2
4. Mass Effect 2
5. Borderlands (Story may suck, and it's boring as hell single playered, but it's a blast with friends).

Yeah, I know all of them are fairly new. Although I certainly have fond memories of the SNES era games, it's just that I feel that games don't age very well. If there was a sixth spot, I'd throw Portal on there.

 

[MR T3D]

amusing how many people put in such recent titles in their top 5, i bet their lists will all change in 5 years.
BATTLEFIELD 2: you shouldn't need explanation here. go buy it, patch it up to 1.5, and join a 40+player server.
X-wing Vs.TIE fighter+FS2: I'll give them a tie here, same small genre, still VERY fun games.
Need For Speed: Underground 2: favourite racer of ALL TIME. perfect sim/arcade mix, needed cops though..
MACHINES: old RTS/FPS hybrid game, pulls it off very nicely. love the game.
Ratchet & Clank series & going commando: brilliant pair of games, 3rd was fun, but not enough for the list.
honourable mention: Battlefield: Bad company ( & 2): give me an internet-connected current gen console, and i will want either game in this series.
it's a pity many of you won't know all of these games.

 

[Kavonde]

No particular order:

Final Fantasy 6: To me, the last, great JRPG. It had a big cast of great characters, an epic story with a big twist, its cutesy character was actually fairly badass, and the music is still legendary. (See: Opera scene.) I'll allow that FF7 was pretty awesome, too, but then it became the model for every single Japanese RPG after it, and totally mauled the whole genre. Stupid FF7.

Mass Effect 2: Generally speaking, there's at least a 2-3 year waiting period before a game can be placed on my Top X Games list. But Mass Effect 2 is just that phenomenal. Such a great game.

Knights of the Old Republic 2: I know, I know. KoToR1 was the classic, and KoToR2 was unfinished and its storyline was a mess (those two facts being very closely related). However, it painted the galaxy less in shades of gray rather than the first game's stark black and white, made you a Jedi from the start, began with a tense showcase of roughly what an HK model can do without your guidance, dealt with themes of redemption, corruption, and the battle of cynicism vs. idealism, had the really interesting philosophies of Kreya, had much more thought-provoking conversations with HK-47, and didn't have Carth Onasi. (Well, beyond a couple of cameos.)

Baldur's Gate 2: Minsc. Boo. Irenecus. The Underdark. Player strongholds. Involving sidequests. A truly epic feel. BG2 is the epitome of classic RPG game design, and you need to play it if you haven't.

Quake: Probably an odd one, but I sank way, way too many hours of my high school years into this game and its hundreds of mods. It was my first FPS, it was dark and intense, it was filled with cool monsters, and people were crafting new maps and games out of it constantly. Some of my fondest gaming memories are of Quake and the original Team Fortress. (And so are some of my frustrations...friggin' snipers with OpenGL cards and their transparent water!)