- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Mass Effect 2
- Starcraft II
- Metroid Prime
- Mass Effect 3
- Halo: Combat Evolved
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Starcraft Brood war
- Warcraft III
- Super Mario Galaxy
Top 3 are in order, everything else changes places depending when I think about it
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Super Mario World
- Halo
- Super Metroid
- BioShock
- Jak & Daxter
- Uncharted 2
- Final Fantasy IX
- Halo 3
- The Last of Us
- Halo 2
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Skyrim
- Dead Space
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Gears of War 3
- Bishock
- OG Modern Warfare
1: Skyrim
2: TLoZ BoTW
3: GTA V
4: The Last Of Us 1
5: Gears 5
6: God of War
7: Forza Horizon 4
8: Final fantasy VII (Original)
9: Animal Crossing New Horizons
10: Pokémon Firered
Honourable Mentions: Team fortress 2, Overwatch, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Horizon ZD, Witcher 3, Fallout 4)
Unhonourable mentions: FFVIIR, TLOU2, Halo 4, Kirby Star Allies.
As you can see, Xbox acquiring Bethesda is pretty huge for me, only thing close to that level is Nintendo. If they acquire a cheeky little Japanese studio to release JRPGs then I’m set.
I’m splitting mine in to two sets of five
Campaign
- 1: Mass Effect 2
- 2: Halo 3
- 3: Half Life 2
- 4: The Witcher 3
- 5: GTA: San Andreas
Multiplayer
- 1: Battlefield 3
- 2: Modern Warfare 2
- 3: Overwatch
- 4: Halo 2
- 5: Titanfall
ahhh a fellow Fire Red stan
I will try to keep it simple and just put one game from my favorite series, it’s really hard to do that because who wants to choose between Super Metroid and Metroid Prime, REmake and RE4, ALttP, BotW and Ocarina of Time or DKC2 and DKC: Tropical Freeze but I’ll do it!
First three games are my top 3 with this exact order, after that it’s all chaos!
- Resident Evil 4
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- Metroid Prime
- Halo 3
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Half Life 2
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- Dark Souls
- DOOM Eternal
Obviously I left out masterpieces like Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Silent Hill 2, Outrun 2, DOOM (1993), Metal Slug 3, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Rez, Tekken 3, Mortal Kombat 2, Killer Instinct (2013), Street Fighter 2, Jet Set Radio, Banjo Kazooie, Goldeneye 64, Perfect Dark, Quake 3, Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Dead Space 2, Prey (2017), Bioshock, Mass Effect, Devil May Cry 5, Soul Calibur, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, Okami, Gears of War, Bayonetta, Super Probotector e.t.c. plus all the other amazing games from the series that I listed but I had to…
My top 10 :
- 1: Silent Hill 2 (Playstation 2)
- 2: Crash Bandicoot 1, 2 and 3 (Playstation)
- 3: Crash Team Racing (Playstation)
- 4: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Playstation 2)
- 5: Halo 3 (Xbox 360)
- 6: The Sims 2 (PC)
- 7: Counter Strike 1.6 (PC)
- 8: Batman Arkham Knight (Xbox One)
- 9: Dying Light (PC)
- 10: Resident Evil 4 (Playstation 2)
Can’t really order it. I’ll do a top 3 which are my absolute favorite and then an unordered 7. But so many to mention
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- Zelda Ocarina of Time
- Metroid Prime
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Banjo Kazooie
- God of War II
- Flashback GEN/SNES
- Prince of Persia SNES(snes version specifically)
- Super Mario World
- Mass Effect 2
Not definitive. I mean I could put in a few more as hovering around the bottom half like Persona 4 Golden and Breath of the wild. zelda oracles up there too alongside Resident Evil 4.
- The Lords of Midnight
- Doomdarks Revenge
- Skyrim
- Witcher 3
- Far Cry (all of them)
- Crysis
- Civ II
- Xcom (the original on Amiga CD32)
- Fallout 4
- Ridge Racer (original)
Made a Top 25 list for anyone curious. Really digging this site.
https://ggapp.io/CRZYSPZ/lists/crzyspzs-top-25-favorite-games-W4zD04Z2
- Doom
- Forza Horizon 4
- Halo
- Lemmings
- Lotus Turbo Challenge
- Mass Effect
- Railroad Tycoon
- The Secret of Monkey Island
- TIE-Fighter
- UFO: Enemy Unknown
I am capriciousness personified so my “best anything” is as changeable as the sound of the breeze in the trees, the swoop of the swallow feeding on the wing or the drone of the bee.
Except Jaws, that’s literally the perfect film.
Games though that’s a trickier thing for me to say, I tend to measure “best” not the feeling it generated but the consistency of that feeling, do I still feel able to look back with fondness or enjoy again like I can With Klimt’s “The Kiss” or Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother”. i.e. can I go back to a game and still feel that same love?
Had I the time and had no new experiences to try, here are the games I think I could comfortably go back to and enjoy all over again as if new.
- Lemmings
- UFO: Enemy Unknown
- Metal Gear Solid
- No Man’s Sky
- Knights of the old Republic
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
- Mass Effect 2
- Rock Band
- Final Fantasy VII
- Portal 2
This is easy.
- Warcraft III
- Cities Skylines
- C&C Red Alert 2
- Planet Zoo
- Sea of Thieves
- Forza Horizon 4
- Terraria
- Europa Universalis IV
- F1 2020
- Stronghold Crusaders
Shoutout to Age of Empires 2 &3, C&C Generals, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Total War Warhammer I & II, Frostpunk, FIFA 07 - FIFA 13, Need for Speed Underground 2, the Anno series and Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
3 real time strategy games, 2 racing games, 1 grand strategy/turn based strategy game, 2 simulators, 1 shared multiplayer game and 1 survival game.
And no shooters!
Hmm, something about this list…I…I think I absolutely HATE it. Not sure why that is
Ah HA!!! That’s why
In no order.
- RuneScape
- Mount & Blade Warband
- God of War (2018)
- RDR2
- Halo 3
- Assassins Creed Black Flag
- Witcher 3
- Persons 5
- TLOU2
- Halo CE
- Halo 3
- GTA San Andreas
- Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 (my first ever game… a damn good one to start)
- Bayonetta 1
- Castlevania Symphony of the Night
- The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC
- Dark Souls 1
- Xenogears
- Metal Gear Solid 1
These are in no order.
Christ this is hard there are a lot of games I adore, but I made an attempt. If I come back to this a week later my list would probably change significantly.
- Mass Effect
- Persona 4
- Baldur’s Gate 2
- Dragon Age Origins
- The Witcher 3
- Dragon Quest V
- Resident Evil 4
- Red Alert 2
- Fallout New Vegas
- Halo Reach
Here we go:
- Sea of Thieves
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Prey (2017)
- Ori and the blind Forest
- Bioshock Trilogie + DLC
- Halo 5
- Star Craft 2
- Monster Hunter Tri
- Skyward Sword
Honorable mentions: Horizon Zero Dawn, Yakuza Zero/4, Halo, TITANFALL2, Gear of War 2, Sunset Overdrive, Portal 2, Forza Horizon 2
- Donkey Kong
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Ms. Pac-Man (turbo edition)
- World of Warcraft
- The Last of Us
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- The Binding of Isaac Repentance
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Halo Combat Evolved
- Super Mario World