Personal Video Game Top Lists
 

You can go as high or as low as you want

I think this would be a fun little thread that like 4 people might respond to.

It's also a fun excuse to take a deep dive down memory lane for all of us, moreso than Ki's project will. No offense to his project, but this is a better opportunity for people with more niche taste to get their favorite games out there on the chance that others have played them.

I'll try and list my top 50 games, but obviously under the disclaimer that this is really difficult and could change all the time. I will also use multiple games in the same series. Changing that rule would change a lot. Also these will all generally be single player games, otherwise stuff like League of Legends or Hearthstone would probably make the list somewhere.

One will likely notice that my two favorite genres tend to be RPGs and Platformers. Also I have several #basicbitch selections and you're just gonna have to deal with it.

1. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
2. Donkey Kong Country 2
3. Banjo Kazooie
4. Batman: Arkham City
5. Kingdom Hearts 2
6. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
7. The Last of Us
8. Nier: Automata
9. Persona 5
10. Tales of Symphonia
11. Portal 2
12. Paper Mario
13. Donkey Kong Country
14. Chrono Trigger
15. Xenoblade Chronicles 2
16. Mass Effect 2
17. God of War (2018)
18. Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
19. Baldur's Gate 2: Shadow of Amn
20. Resident Evil 4
21. Tales of Berseria
22. Batman: Arkham Asylum
23. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
24. Final Fantasy XII
25. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
26. Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
27. Banjo Tooie
28. Donkey Kong Country 3
29. Super Metroid
30. Dragon Quest VIII
31. Super Castlevania IV
32. Radiata Stories
33. Tales of Xillia
34. Fallout: New Vegas
35. Hollow Knight
36. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
37. Donkey Kong 64
38. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
39. Guitar Hero 3
40. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
41. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
42. Ace Attorney Investigations 2
43. Final Fantasy VII
44. Super Mario Odyssey
45. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
46. Rayman Legends
47. Inside
48. Crackdown
49. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
50. Xenoblade Chronicles X

Damn that was really hard

This is gonna be based around what I'm more interested in these days. I don't play games much anymore, so I think some of the old favorites would go off the list if I played them again. Trying to keep this more to my current preferences, this is my attempt at a list:

1. Azure Dreams
2. Armored Core V
3. Makai Kingdom
4. Shinobido: Way of the Ninja
(the four top games are all tied, to be honest)
5. King of Fighters Neowave
6. Cleopatra Fortune
7. Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution
8. G-Darius
9. Strikey Sisters
10. Samurai Warriors 2
11. King's Bounty: The Legend
12. Tenchu: Fatal Shadows
13. Samurai Aces
14. Final Doom
15. Dungeon Master II
16. Disgaea 2
17. Soul Calibur II
18. Raiden III
19. Bishi Bashi Special (best party game ever. this is a fact.)
20. Deathsmiles
21. Realms of Arkania III: Shadows Over Riva (super nerdy PC RPG, but it's great if you have the patience for it. Making your 6 character team alone takes a couple hours.)
22. Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat
23. Dynasty Warriors 4 and Samurai Warriors 1 tied.
24. another Tenchu game or some more shoot 'em ups or fighting games. I could make a top 30 of just fighters...
25. ...and some more Armored Core games, because why the hell not.

A big nostalgia pick would be System Shock for DOS, but I don't care to really play it anymore.

I’m sorry that you don’t see the light regarding new Zelda

Rayman in general has always been that series for me that’s undeniably good but I’d rather be playing Donkey Kong or Mario pretty much every time

Here’s my top twenty in no particular order:
Mega Man 2
Super Mario 2
Super Mario 3
Super Mario Galaxy
Bully
Okami
Tempest
Metroid
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Bionic Commando
Yars’ Revenge
Joust
Cosmic Ark
Time Pilot
Life Force
Kid Chameleon
Metal Gear
Rampage
Myst
Golden Axe

friend forever

That almost made my list as well.

It was my favorite Zelda for a long time. Until...well, a quick gander at my #1 says a lot

Anyone that’s into graphic novel-type games should certainly try the Ace Attorney franchise, which packs 3 in my top 50 and could have maybe even had a few more. Very easy to check out the entire first trilogy with a DS emulator. They are truly wonderful, lots of twists and turns and fun deduction gameplay

You are not gonna find very many people that will agree with this statement

Just throwing this out there that I'm down to do a sort of collab thing where if people want to, we can include some of these games into the classics threads. It doesn't have to work that way, I just thought it'd be cool to sort of combine them in the rare occasion. I know we've done a lot. It's just an idea. I like this idea too.

Well I’m not saying this should be done but I think obviously anything in my top 50 I would nominate for “classic” consideration so we can pull from that if you want to. Several have already been nominated but certainly not all

Aw. Good times.

How do you feel about the other Clover games?

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Never played Okami but with the recent Switch remaster I have no excuse anymore. Definitely plan on picking it up sometime

I like the Viewtiful Joe games. I haven’t played anything else from them.

True. And I think I've done threads on a lot of them too. Like I said, it's no biggie either way. Anything to talk about video games is great for me.

Now here's my top 25. I may have forgot some. (no particular order.)

1. LoZ: Breath of the Wild
2. Divinity Original Sin 2
3. Fallout 3
4. Middle Earth: Shadow of War
5. Banjo Kazooie
6. Banjo Toole
7. Diddy Kong Racing
8. LoZ: Wind Waker
9. LoZ: Ocarina of Time
10. LoZ: Majora's Mask
11. Fallout 4 (w/ Far Harbor DLC)
12. Pokemon Black
13. Pokemon Black 2
14. Pokemon Yellow
15. Rocket League
16. Goldeneye 007
17. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
18. Runescape (shut up)
19. Super Mario 64
20. Halo Reach
21. Rayman Advance
22. Super Mario World
23. Monster Hunter World
24. Bioshock Infinite
25. Dishonored

Pretty rad list. Monster Hunter World is interesting. I gave it a try for a couple hours but just could bot get into it

Monster Hunter World definitely took me by surprise. I didn't know how I was going to like it even though I had watched others play it. Definitely one of my favorite experiences this year. But yeah, that list mostly consists of games that I think are between great and fantastic. That's why I kept it to 25. I think if I did a top 50, I may end up with a lot of filler.

my experiences are basically all og xbox and Gameboy

Morrowind
Jet Set Radio Future
Super Monkey Ball
Pokémon Crystal
Jade Empire
maybe NHL 2K6 or something

Damn Jade Empire, now that's a game I haven't thought about in like a decade+. I don't remember much about it except that there were some RPG elements maybe? Kinda wanna look into that game again, I remember liking it

Jade Empire is great. I also love that Ninetales shares a love with JSRF with myself.

same people that made knights of the old republic, but didn't get as much hype for whatever reason (imo jade is better).

I know weve already gushed about it in a different thread but for real stylistically, jsrf has my favorite look of any game ive played and the gameplay mechanics are so fucking satisfying. still holds up as an all timer in my books

^it's so so good! The fact that you could grind endlessly and not fall was so smart because that's one less thing you have to focus on. And the story overall was fantastic. I could gush over JSRF any day.

It's hard, but I definitely love older PC games, point and click adventures were among my favorite (Love almost anything Sierra, and Lucas Arts).

My top top though would be the Quest for Glory series.

1. Quest for Glory.

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here is my top 10 in no particular order:

Donkey kong country 2 (snes)
Pikmin (gamecube)
Super mario world 2: Yoshi's island (snes)
The legend of Zelda: A link to the past (snes)
Final Fantasy Tactics (ps1)
The legend of Dragoon (ps1)
Earthbound (snes)
Golden sun (gba)
Super mario bros 3 (nes)
Animal crossing (gamecube)

Diablo II LoD was the greatest game of all time.

Playing Murdered: Soul Suspect right now. Very creepy!

Outcast.
Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
Sacrifice.
Tomb Raider.
The Longest Journey.
Turrican II.
The Last Ninja.
Starquake.
Far Cry.
Skyrim.
Deus Ex.
Oni.
Bioshock.
Halo.
Project Eden.
Unreal.
Test Drive Unlimited II.
Assassin's Creed.
Grand Theft Auto IV.

Original Tomb Raider or reboot?

Both!

I like most of the Tomb Raider games, except Tomb Raider: Chronicles and Tomb Raider: Angel Of Darkness.

I've never played much of the early games and they're kind of hard to go back to in 2020, but the 360 games are fantastic (Legends and Anniversary, haven't played Underworld yet). And I majorly love the reboot. Still need to pick Rise of the Tomb Raider back up.

Yeah, the nineties games are very clunky to play now, the controls are not as smooth as the newer games. But at the time, I really enjoyed those games because of the huge levels. I enjoy the exploration side of Tomb Raider more than the combat.

TBH I think the original Tomb Raider might be one of the most influential games of all time considering how it pulled back on pure game mechanics to deliver multiple mechanics to create a game that was a sort of jack-of-all-trades in a way that so many modern games are to some extent even if they share little in common gameplay-wise. Possibly the missing link between old school and modern gaming.

Really sad that Bungie couldn't make more Oni games. Not sure if it was because of the acquisition by Microsoft or maybe the sales of the game were not high enough.

Ever played Uncharted GreyZone? Definitely a modern series that’s excellent and obviously heavy inspiration from Tomb Raider

Hey.

Yes I would like to play Uncharted, I have heard good things about it. But unfortunately I don't have a Playstation, I only have a PC and an Xbox 360.

Anyone ever play I-Ninja?

Back on the Gamecube, yeah. Super fun.

I played the heck out of Mario Sunshine on that. I grabbed it for me and the mini-me to play Mario Kart, but that game came in a bundle so it was like "Can I play now?" "Uh, hang on right after I finish this level... oh ****! Gotta start over now...".

Parenting level 5000000000

Awww, Super Mario Sunshine was such an adorable game. And also really hard for some reason. I never could beat all of those crazy challenge stages.

Original Xbox with Toe Jam and Earl was another one we'd play. Then I got Amped and some cheat codes and you were able to use your own tunes. That rocked. I think the last new-at-the-time video game I played was Max Pain. It's been nothing but Destructo-Truck on-line since.

Half-Life was another one that sucked hours of life from me. I think I got one of the expansion packs for that too.

Really though I've had just about every gaming console from Pong on up to Xbox One, but the one's after the early 90's were for my kid. I just don't have the time to play these days, but I do miss a good cut scene and the satisfaction of repeating a level dozens of times and finally getting through it.