Right ...lock the thread, ya'll ruining my list and bumping games outta my top 10.
Your top 10 games of all time
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Thread: Your top 10 games of all time
A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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Sadly nothing new has entered the list in a long time. To be honest, the top 5 are easy choices, but the rest are quite interchangeable with several other titles as well.
1: Ocarina of Time
2: Majora's Mask
3: FFVII
4: Metal Gear Solid
5: Morrowind
6: Halo
7: Ico
8: FFIX
9: Deus Ex
10: MGS3
1: Ocarina of Time
2: Majora's Mask
3: FFVII
4: Metal Gear Solid
5: Morrowind
6: Halo
7: Ico
8: FFIX
9: Deus Ex
10: MGS3
- Hidden & Dangerous
- Mad Professor Mariarti
- Kotor 2
- Lemmings
- Sim City (original - ST/Amiga)
- Minecraft
- Vice City
- Speedball 2
- Monkey Island 2
- Kingdom Come Deliverance
Don't ask me to put those in order.
Hard to leave out Sensible World of Soccer, Mario Odyssey, BOTW, Monkey 1&3, Mega lo Mania, Kotor 1, Disco Elysium, Player Manager, Mario Kart 8, San Andreas, Wizkid, Powermonger, Project IGI, Operation Stealth, Cruise For A Corpse, etc but this list changes by the day.
- Mad Professor Mariarti
- Kotor 2
- Lemmings
- Sim City (original - ST/Amiga)
- Minecraft
- Vice City
- Speedball 2
- Monkey Island 2
- Kingdom Come Deliverance
Don't ask me to put those in order.
Hard to leave out Sensible World of Soccer, Mario Odyssey, BOTW, Monkey 1&3, Mega lo Mania, Kotor 1, Disco Elysium, Player Manager, Mario Kart 8, San Andreas, Wizkid, Powermonger, Project IGI, Operation Stealth, Cruise For A Corpse, etc but this list changes by the day.
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I'm ok with that. Honestly the most incredible world in gaming.
You did, but I just wanted to be clear about my creepy love for KCD.
Dreamlord
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In my defense, like someone else stated up thread, it's also somewhat tied to the experience/time frame of those games.Well, you did put FF8 in your list ffs!
Dreamlord
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I definitely agree with that. It certainly applies to most media and at what point in one's life it is experienced/consumed.
I love FF7 but I doubt it would have any impact on me if I played it a few years later than I did.
Yoshi
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By that metric, I would not need a top 10. Super Mario 64 was the most impressive an impactful game experience I ever had and I would be hard pressed to name a game even worthy of residing in the runner up spot.
Mr Shifts
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In no particular order:
- Eve Online (PC)
- Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)
- Morrowind (PC)
- DayZ (PC)
- Daytona USA (Arcade)
- Sins of a Solar Empire (PC)
- Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn)
- Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)
- Operation Flashpoint (PC)
- Tetris-DX (Gameboy Color)
Still playing some of those games - can never pass up a session on Daytona if spotted in the wild.
- Eve Online (PC)
- Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast)
- Morrowind (PC)
- DayZ (PC)
- Daytona USA (Arcade)
- Sins of a Solar Empire (PC)
- Panzer Dragoon Saga (Saturn)
- Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)
- Operation Flashpoint (PC)
- Tetris-DX (Gameboy Color)
Still playing some of those games - can never pass up a session on Daytona if spotted in the wild.
Operation Flashpoint, wow these memories. What happened to dynamic campaigns? They need to come back.
God I forgot all about that - it was absolutely amazing, incredibly atmospheric in the way it put you in what felt like real war. I was terrible at it, sadly, but it was a genuine classic.
That's how I feel about Ocarina. It's way more of a normal game these days (although still inherently special), but back then, it was like you just experienced video gaming's ultimate epic. Something so far ahead of everything at the time, it just left you lost for words.
Zoomers will look at this very fun, well designed, kind of magical retro Zelda game, and have a great time, but wonder wtf you're talking about. You really had to be there for some of those games, and witness the jumps being made personally, to get the full effect.
Yeah, this is the only way I know how to do a personal faves list. If someone objectively asked me what I thought the best games ever, at this minute, were, my list would look pretty different.
Oh... impact at the time list now!!!
1. Carmageddon
2. Duke Nukem 3D
3. Doom/Doom II
4. Half-Life/Half-Life 2
5. Super Metroid/Metroid Prime
6. Counter-Strike
7. Bloodborne
8. Destiny (with DLCs)
9. Halo: Combat Evolved
10. Goldeneye 007
Something like that?
1. Carmageddon
2. Duke Nukem 3D
3. Doom/Doom II
4. Half-Life/Half-Life 2
5. Super Metroid/Metroid Prime
6. Counter-Strike
7. Bloodborne
8. Destiny (with DLCs)
9. Halo: Combat Evolved
10. Goldeneye 007
Something like that?
Well, for example, imagine seeing the sun rise in real time in Ocarina of Time.
You've seen a billion games do it. It's not even going to register to you. Now imagine gamers in 1998 (I played it later, but the point remains the same) being utterly wowed by the effect, and how much immersion it added for them.
It's the same with the world. You're not going to bat an eye at a small Hyrule field where if you see it, you can go there, and all the locations are visible in the background. In 1998, people felt like this was a real world.
To both groups, no doubt the core game is special, but one is getting an extra unduplicatable experience that only existed in that moment in time and tech.
What do you mean dynamic campaigns? OFP had linear campaigns, except maybe Resistance which I never finished.
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To be fair impact at the time list is kind of another way of saying the game dosnt hold up today 
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Games that really influenced me would be Mario 64, Zelda, Metal Gear, Mario Party, Goldeneye.
I think it's also an age thing. The more we see, the less wonder there is on each iteration. I'm sure theres many younger generations that still experience it, just perhaps at a younger age. The only time I got those initial years wonder back was the first few weeks of VR. 2D to 3D was huge, but then so was 3D to being *inside* the game.
.Games that really influenced me would be Mario 64, Zelda, Metal Gear, Mario Party, Goldeneye.
I think it's also an age thing. The more we see, the less wonder there is on each iteration. I'm sure theres many younger generations that still experience it, just perhaps at a younger age. The only time I got those initial years wonder back was the first few weeks of VR. 2D to 3D was huge, but then so was 3D to being *inside* the game.
Yeah the game was mostly linear now that you say it, it's so long ago that I mixed something up. There was a good modding scene that provided cool changes, missions and a dynamic world mode.
I falsely remembered the dynamic campaign mod to be in the vanilla game.
Maybe you remember it that way because the game doesn't hold your hand at all. I played it decades ago, still remember some missions vividly. Like the one where your squad dies on patrol during the invasion of Russians and you have to crawl through the woods to evacuation point using only map and compass. In one mission I think you need to use stars to figure out where to go. By the end of the game you feel like you went through an actual war. What an experience.
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Then stand by your man *ahem* game and put it in your list
It's definitely worth noting if a game hit you hard that first time, though, but I don't think it's fair to say it matters most, slow growers are important, too.