For me, its probably Halo 3, Call of duty Black Ops 2 and GTA V
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Deus Ex
KOTOR
Nethack
Four-way tie.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hades, and Portal
In terms of sheer hours for me:
- Factorio
- StarCraft Brood War
- Counterstrike
I guess Tetris deserves a mention and so does Heroes of the Storm.
“Top” could be so many things… So I’ll go with
##Top 3 Games That Are Technical Marvels
These games aren’t necessarily my favorite games, but each one showed me something that represented a major technological feat.
Using what was essentially mid-tier, five year old cell phone hardware, Nintendo delivered an incredibly detailed physics engine that gave players a frankly irresponsible amount of freedom. (I cannot imagine how many edge cases they must have had to fix before launch.)
But that physics system not only works the way we humans generally expect things to work, …it works fast as lightning and smooth as butter… Buttered lightning, I suppose. All while running AI, rendering a huge draw distance.
People give Nintendo crap for using weaker hardware… But maybe they should be turning that inside out - Look what Sony/MS have to use to mimic a fraction of Nintendo Power.
A monument to the potential of VR gaming, HL:A still stands far ahead of the pack. If you’ve only watched a playthrough or played it with a pancake mod, you’ve missed out on what makes it special. Valve made us feel like we were truly inhabiting the world of Half-Life. Ransacking rooms is a lot more fun when you’re doing it yourself vs pressing A-to-search.
It set a high water mark that has yet to be exceeded even four years after its release.
- Kirby’s Adventure (1993) This wasn’t Kirby’s first game, but it was the first to include the iconic “copy” ability. Kirby’s Adventure was one of the later games released for the original NES and (for my money) is the most gorgeous game on the console. It pulls together parallax effects, detailed, multi-color sprites, clever animation cycles and surprisingly tight platforming.
I’ve never been “big” into Kirby games, but this one is the exception. It’s one of my favorite NES titles. I’d replay this over either NES Zelda any day.
BioShock Infinite, Stellaris, and RimWorld
If I can name a runner up: Fallout NV. Only reason it doesn’t get full marks is because the weapon modification falls short compared to 4 (whereas everything else in 4 falls short of NV).
Half life, Portal, Ace Attorney Trilogy.
I’m sure I could come up with a better list of I really thought about it, but (in this order) Terraria, Minecraft, and Portal 2. Honorable mentions to Deep Rock Galactic and The Binding of Isaac Rebirth.
KOTOR 2, Kingdom Hearts BBS, Halo 3 (mostly the memories of multiplayer though)
Also ask me this on a different day and I’m likely to give you a different response.
KOTOR, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, and Deus Ex Human Revolution Directors Cut
Gothic 1, for getting me into PC gaming as a whole.
World of Warcraft, for the sheer impact that game had on my life, even if it’s been years since I last played it.
Skyrim, for introducing me to the Elder Scrolls universe.
I hope I’m not being contrary by picking card games, but there’s this game we called Blackjack in school, which is different to Twenty-One, with similar rules to Uno or the Dutch game Pesten. Ridiculously good game, just a bit of a pain in the arse to teach because it’s all trick cards. Then the easy answer is The Binding of Isaac and all its remake and expansions. I thought the other might honestly be Spider-man 2 on the PS2, but now I think about it, it’s Tekken 3. We had it on an arcade cabinet at an old job of mine and I used to rinse it on my break.
Warcraft 3 (RIP)
Skyrim
Xcom 2
Honorable mentions: Heroes of Newerth (RIP), Starcraft 2, Mass Effect trilogy & Dragon Age series
I have lost so much time to XCOM loading. I cannot WAIT for an XCOM 3 with this in mind. Will gladly lose another 250 hours of my life.
Bioshock (series) for the incredible story, world building, how they explored philosophical concepts in a video game.
Mass Effect (trilogy) also had a really great story, I really enjoyed how it went from some small events that didn’t seem imporant to such a grand scale where you have to save the freaking universe.
Control which had a really interesting story, incredibly good looking and creative graphics, and some truly epic moments.
And I have to add a honorable mention for Factorio and Kerbal Space Program… Factorio really tickles my engineering mind, and KSP does an incredibly good job at teaching how rockets work.
Zelda BoTW (I haven’t play Totk yet), GTA V and Batman Arkham City
