thought

Inspired (sort of) by the favourite villain/hero threads. The offseason is all about top five lists anway. What are your top five video games of all time?

I'll start:

1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
3. Banjo & Kazooie
4. Fallout 3
5. Super Mario 64

I find that games as a whole are much better today than they were back in the day, but the N64/Playstation era pumped out the classics.

Honourable Mention: Dragon Age Origins, Final Fantasy 7, Chrono Trigger, Mass Effect 2, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Metroid Prime 1 & 2

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fancylad

these are the games i most enjoyed (in order):

5. FIFA 2010 (anything recent)
4. The Italian Job (for PC).
3. Super Mario Brothers
2. Colin McRae Rally 2005
1. NHL 93 (or was it 94?)

Other games i love: Forza 2/3, Dirt, Katamari, The Getaway, The Italian job, Pinball for Windows.

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thought

Are you talking about the space-themed pinball?

I must have set world records in that game as a kid

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Barracuda

Hmmm... in no particular order...

1. Mario 3 (Original Nintendo)
2. Mario Kart (Nintendo 64)
3. Guitar Hero (shut up, I LIKED it)
4. Frogger (....seriously.)
5. Banjo Kazzoie (Nintendo 64)

I miss original Nintendo. I had a lot of great games. Then I had N64.

Briefly had a Playstation, but not for long.

Now I have a Wii, but have only played Wii Fit.

Guess I'm no good at this videogame stuff.

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INSIDER

awesome thread Thought....
i was talking to a coworker the other day about this and we came up with a few games that were in our top 5, but i couldnt give them a specific number... i know what my favorite's are, so i'll list them, but they arent in any specific order.

-Chrono Trigger
-Mass Effect 2
-Mario 64
-Golden Eye
-Star wars - Knights of the old republic 2 (yes, i enjoyed 2 more than i did 1)
-Dragon Warrior (nes)
-Medal of Honor
- Metal Gear Solid
-Space Quest 2
- Fallout 3

Honourable Mention - Heavy Rain, Dragon Age Origins, Gears of War 2, Street Fighter 2, Civilization 4, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

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fancylad

yeah. such an awesome game.

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fancylad

I had Atari, Nintendo, Genesis and then went through a big gap until PS2 which i got a few years after it came out. I guess i slept on a lot of systems.

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thought

you crazy

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XiaominWu

1. Sid Meier's Colonization (The original - i still have the floppies and load it onto any new computer I get)
2. NHL '95 - Sega Genesis
3. Deus Ex
4. Betrayal at Krondor
5. World of Goo

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INSIDER

i tell you why... KOTR 1, i went all-out evil.
Sith Lord to the max... i was so powerful and so bad that the game was too easy. if i wanted anything, i took it. i killed people without a second thought if they were in my way.

but in KOTR 2, i decided to be good. Obi wan kinobi-good.
i helped people, was pure jedi.
the game was harder, but i had more fun with it, there was more of a challenge.
and i liked thestory more, since i was being hunted.

everyone says im crazy, i may be the only person who liked the sequel more than the original.

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thought

hahaha

I never have it in me to play as the bad guy in games where your actions determine your persuasion. I'll always tell myself I'm going to stick with the evil shtick, but I end up feeling bad sooner rather than later. Fallout 3, Jade Empire, Fable, Mass Effect 2, KOTOR 1&2, I can never do it.

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Mr. Mxyzptlk

5 faves of my girlfriend's...

Laura croft: Tomb Raider (PS)
Fable
Halo
Battlefield (Modern Combat, Bad Comany and BF2)
Timesplitters (Future Perfect)

mine...

COD MW2
GTA 4
Halo 3
BF2
Arkham Asylum

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strung_out

These were the games I enjoyed the most in the past...

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Metal Gear Solid 3
3. Guild Wars
4. Final Fantasy 6
5. Resident Evil 4 (5's not bad too)


Always good to see another CT fan!

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Acie

1. Galaga
2. NFL Blitz
3. True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach Golf Links
4. Sonic Adventure
5. Super Mario World

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INSIDER

i totally agree. being a good guy ends up making the game so much more enjoyable in the end (and challenging).
ever since my play throughs of both KOTR's and seeing the difference/fun i had being both good and evil, everytime i play an RPG-type game i now choose good.

its true, if i do something evil, i feel bad... so i guess we're the same in that regard.
the only exception i had was in Fallout 3.
the way i saw that was that i was poor, the world was a wasteland, and if i was in that position for real - i'd do whatever it took to survive... and thats exactly how i played. i was a mercenary who played to survive, i played for myself.
that being said, i stole as much as i could get my grubby hands on, i killed people who i could steal from, i didnt bother helping the unfortunate because i was unfortnate. it wasnt until the end that i did a good deed, and that made up for all of my evil... i really enjoyed that game.

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thought

this should have gone in my honourable mention, what a game. the final boss after you unlock super sonic is one of my favourite video game sequences.

i'm the only person i know of that has ever owned a dreamcast.

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INSIDER

my buddy had one... we would skip school, smoke up, then play Power Stones.
life was good back then.


speaking of Power Stones, anyone here play that game?
IMO, it was the greatest multiplayer game in the history of video games.
maybe it was the weed that made it so good, or my friend's mom's lasagna. i dont know.

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thought

power stone was the first fighting game my parents ever let me buy, what a classic. i wasn't blazing back when i was 10 years old but i still loved the game. way ahead of its time.

IMO super smash bros. for the gamecube is the benchmark for all multi-player fighting games. power stone is definitely up there though.

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Acie

The Dreamcast was amazing, too bad Sega dropped the ball with it.

Virtua Tennis, Crazy Taxi, Hydro Thunder, Soulcalibur, Reay 2 Rumble and all the 2k series were freakin' awesome.

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INSIDER

i forgot about SSB... i spent quite a few hours battling my friends on that baby.
i remember we would have tourny's and there would be like 10 of us playing... bottom 2 from each game would be eliminated, so you would never want to lose or you would have to wait like 3 matches until you play again.

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