What are your favorite video games? I have played many video games, from Modern Warfare 2, to Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Right now I mostly play RPGs and fighting games, but I used to be a big FPS guy.
I'll kick things off with my top 5 video games of all time (in no particular order).
Well, that was a list of my top 5 VG's ever. Do you agree with my list? What is your list? Please comment below, as I would really like to see your favorite video games.
There was a thread like that some time ago, but I guess my original response is lost with Overhate 1.0
My favourite games all come from the 90's. They are a lot, so I'll just mention some of them:
Quest for Glory: One of the best game series (5 games total) from Sierra, a perfect mix between point&click adventure and RPG; intersting stories with great characters and lots of puns. Quest for Glory 3 and 4 are probably the games to which I've felt the most connected with the world on an emotional level.
Betrayal at Krondor: A classic award winning RPG, based on the works of Raymond E. Feist
Star Control 2: The first great space saga with unique gameplay, and lots of star systems to discover and explore.
Star Wars:TIE Fighter: The best space combat sim of the 90's
Doom 2: Need I say more
The more recent titles I enjoyed were: Skyrim, Mass Effect and Two Worlds 2.
Transistor is that one by Supergiant Games, right? I should get around to getting that. Like you, I don't have a definitive favorite game, but there are numerous candidates. Here's my top 5 (in no particular order):
Here's some gameplay of Age of Empires 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPNaWwKbElA
Halo: Reach was the overlord of video games (alongside Skyrim, of course), and it's the only game where I didn't want to skip any level or any cutscene. The death scenes hit you right in the feels.
Plus, the custom games were the most fun I've ever had. Tetris, Fat Kid and Hot Pursuit were the best. And the infection/invasion modes!
Dark souls: Not the 2nd one but the first one, it may just be my nostalgia goggles but you wont be able to convince me that Dark Souls 2 was better. All those shortcuts made exploring worthwhile and the difficulty of the combat was enjoyable it made defeating a strong opponent fell like you'd actually accomplished something.
Final Fantasy 12: My first game in the series, and probably one of the ones I enjoyed the most, I've always been annoyed by games that take you to another area to fight an enemy that you couldn't see prior to running into it, so the fact that "the world is now your battlefield" as the back of my copy says, was really enjoyable for me.
TES: no explanation needed
Fire Emblem Awakening: I've replayed this one enough for it to be on this list and I liked it enough that having to wait until next year to get the next one is really frustrating
And probably another dozen or so that I can't recall at the moment
I've always been into more 'cerebral' games rather than fast-paced action ones, although that's changed over the years. I go way back, to the time when 'Personal Computers' were a novelty and mostly used for spreadsheets & writing, & when anyone into gaming had an Atari or an Amiga in their bedroom & only talked about it in whispers with like-minded geeks for fear of never being able to talk to girls. I'm talking pre-cellphones, pre-Internet! The Dark Ages.
I - I think rightly - consider myself part of a generation who were pioneers in gaming. When it was niche & before it became popular & hit the mainstream. 'Carrier Command' anyone? I still remember how much I used to love that: you got to fly around, and shoot stuff, and there was strategy too: amazing! Also the first 'Dune' game.
God, I remember 'Pong'!
So the game most likely to make me feel all warm ad fuzzy is probably my first major CRPG: 'Ultima V'. VI & especially the 2 VIIs were also great: precursors of Skyrim I think. The Ultima series is the reason why I graduated from an Atari ST to a DOS PC: horrible things that they were! Also the 2 Ultima: Underworlds. Also The Bard's Tale: basically a text adventure RPG with pictures.
Fallout (1). The only 1 in the series I've played through; I planned to replay it but never got around to it, that's (mostly) why I didn't play no. 2, although I've got it - in a box somewhere. I've recently started Fallout 3 & I love it.
I love the LucasArts adventure games: The Monkey Island series, Grim Fandango and the like. Also Blade Runner, Beneath a Steel Sky, The Dig, Full Throttle.
Civilization 2, The Sims 2
I still have a fondness for Rise of the Triad! My 1st FPS.
Realms of the Haunting: an early hybrid shooter/ adventure / survival horror game. Years ahead of its time.
Dungeon Keeper. Still haven't finished that last level!
Championship Manager 3 (Football ('soccer') management sim)
Half-Life
Then I bought a Wii: Wii Sports, Guitar Hero; also Metroid Prime 3, although I found it hard. I like playing Mario Kart now with my kids
MMORPGs: Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO), Guild Wars 2
And now I have an XBox: GTA San Andreas, Minecraft
My all-time favourite game? Skyrim: but you knew that, right?
I always start this kind of thing with the same game:
Neverwinter Nights is my all time favorite games, it has a system based off of my favorite D&D edition (3rd) and makes it's own changes to make it so much better. It has a pretty interesting storyline that's still one of my favorites to play and has some damn good characters. Not to mention it has more Character Building options then Skyrim, Morrowind and Oblivion combined, without touching on equipment.
Age of Empires is my favorite strategy game, more specifically Age of Empires 2. It has some pretty interesting Campaigns and honestly the gameplay is just awseome. The online is pretty crappy (in regards to it never working) but from my limited experience it also has a pretty decent community). Above all the ability to create massive armies is just way to fun and it's much easier to play then Total War or something (which is much more difficult to start off playing)
Those two are still in my top favorites, and both of them are pretty damn old now (Age of Empires got a remake and I'm still hoping for a Neverwinter Nights remake) so now I'll just list my others.
Skyrim, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Dying Light, Dragon Age (Origins and Inquisition), Oblivion, Morrowind, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (1 and 2), Star Wars Battlefront, Assassins Creed (2, Brotherhood, Revelations and Black Flag), Mario (any), CoD (Sometimes I like mindless games), Sacred (1 and 2), Saints Row (3 and 4, but I can't stand GTA for some reason...), The Last of Us, Dishonored...
Yep it's pretty much it. I probably missed a few but I'm really bad at just picking a few games I love.