5. Final Fantasy Tactics. Rpgs at their mathiest, with experience points and job points out the ass. It also had a cross over to FF7, leading to a cameo by Aeris and Cloud Strife as a playable character. The storyline was what you would get if Hamlet and Macbeth had a love child and it was possessed by the devil. Fantastic.
4. Kirby's Adventure. When I want to relive my childhood, that is the emulation I run. I have it on my Wii and it just takes me back to the third grade, listening to Kermit Unpigged and sitting on my living room floor, staring at the screen enraptured.
3. Left 4 Dead. When I want to vent frustrations, I shoot me some zombies. I play as Zoe, cause I'm a girl. Amusing aside about this game: My Father's name is Francis, my Godfather is Louis, and I have an uncle named Bill. This is the game I didn't want to play, my boyfriend made me, and I outplayed him.
2. Age of Empires 2/Age of Mythology. Spawned my love of RTSs and were another 2 games I spent a lot of time on in my youth. Caeser 3 gets an honorable mention here.
1. Dragon Age Origins. I expected it to be good, and to be a typical fantasy rpg that I'd play though maybe twice and then be on my merry way. I was blown out of the water with how engaging and powerful the storylines were. The sequel has somewhat dampened my enthusiasm, but so far out of the five Bioware titles I've played (Origins, DA2, Mass Effect and EM2 and Jade Empire) DA2 was the only real disappointment, and Origins lives strong as my favorite.
Now, unasked for, but the game that had the most potential and then totally let me down- Lord of the Rings, The Third Age. Was going to rant on it here, but will make my own thread about game let downs and do so there.
