we're talking Video GAMES not sex games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freespeech

geoffcbassett

Those are the games that popped into my head, the ones that took up most of my game time growing up. Playing Deus Ex in middle school is one of my favorite past times.

TheOtis

DorkimusPrime

6. Saturn Marvel vs. Streetfighter w/ 4MB expansion cart
7. M.u.l.e.
8. Bard's Tale I
9. Sentinel Worlds I
10. Battlefield 1942

1000 posts ppl. step it up.

rainofwalrus

rainofwalrus

ArgentAngel

2 Shenmue II - Dreamcast/Xbox

3 Lost Odyssey - Xbox 360

4 Xenogears - PS1

5 Space Channel 5, Part 2 - Dreamcast/PS2

Captain Impulse

1 GE007/PD64
2 Super Metroid/Prime
3 LttP/OoT
4 System Shock 2/Deus Ex
5 Diablo 2/WoW

Best games ever and successors.

Dr Terror

These games I have have beaten at least three times growing up, so that is why I picked them. Obviously, not all of them are the best games, but I don't have enough time to play all the best games in the world. *shrug*

SpearXXI

1. TIE Fighter-so amazing. A rare exception to the "I think remakes are dumb" rule. "Full speed to Killimar", anybody?
2. WarCraft III (w/ Frozen Throne)
3. Fallout (not a surprise if you recognize my name)
4. Half-Life 2 Ep 2 (could probably pick any of them though)

hmm...for #5 I'll say Star Wars Rebellion. Because it's the only game i know of in which you can blow up a planet. And that is awesome.

And before you say "Star Wars Fanboy", I am one. Confessed. But the two games I indicated here are unique in my experience beyond being star wars, so cut me a break.

KillianD

Honourable Mention(s):
Beef1942: Desert Combat. (and original 1942)
Heaps of fun on a lan with and against my buddies.
Dynasty Warriors Series (I must have an off switch for my brain. I honestly understand why people hate the series. I honestly don't understand why I do.)
God of War, 1,2 and PSP

You can almost make a full list of games that have annoyed me beyond belief by taking Sequels and spiritual sequels. of my 5 listed above.
1) Oblivion, worst morrowind clone EVAR (the consolonisation of this made it far too simple. Oh and auto-level mobs: WHY!?)
2) Bioshock, Same as #1, Consolonisation and reduction of the SystemShock2'yness -ie rpglike features - turned it into QuakeShock (heavy on weapons, light on gameplay depth/complexity)
3) Half-Life2 - Get in this boat and do the same thing for the next 30 minutes without a gun. Now do it again in a car! with ground breaking AI (hah!) AI that gets told where you are when you pass a certain point in a map, and it runs/shoots at you.
4) TF2 fits snuggly in to my rant. Too simple. the only game on this List I can actually play every now and then. I just won't ever like it as much as TF1
</rant>

MeateaW

TheHeartless

TheNinja256

2. Super mario All-Stars, I cop out I know but they're all so good.

3. Halo: Combat Evolved, I was never into shooters after my 64 was retired. Friend talked me into buying an Xbox for this game called Halo. I have never been the same.

4. Call of Duty 4, I just can't put the controller down.

5. Streets of Rage 2,Dad and I used to play the crap out of that game during the weekends that he had me.

Would have put GoldenEye on here but Halo involved more people and many more pleasant memories.

TheNinja256

Half-Life series

Mass Effect

Kotor Series

Oblivion

Diablo 2/Star Craft

Thats right no FF, Zelda, or Mario.

Btw for a bonus game Legend of Dragoon.

Majpain007

stevesan

Honorable mentions:
1. Your mom
2. Your sister
3. Your baby sister's babysitter
4. Your dad's secretary
5. Your mom's best friend

stevesan

@bennifer3000: Absolutely. And I like Jaffe at times. Not Levine. To be fair, I think it's mostly because I only ever see the Kotaku pic of Levine squinting with his nose in the air, looking away from me. :) That's definitely the worse kind of "obnoxious" compared to Jaffe. Damn whoever took that picture...

Xiedo

1. Deus Ex
2. System Shock 2
3. Half-Life
4. Fallout 2
5. Chrono Trigger

BioShock doesn't make my top 20, but it was my favorite game of 2007. It's cool that Heroes of Might & Magic 2 is in Ken's top 5... it's number 17 on my list, but it's one of the best turn-based strategy games ever.

Xax

- Beyond Good and Evil (I want a sequel, dammit)
- Half Life 2
- Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future (on the Dreamcast, without all that PS2 hand holding and shitty map)
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Psychonauts

Too hard.

QuirkyLittleTyrant

Balmung576

Crap I love a lot of games.

In no order:

1. Super Smash Brothers. (Series)
2. Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3k [Can't decide!] (GEN)
3. Half Life 2 (PC)
4. Animal Crossing/Wild World (GCN/DS)
5. Pokemon (Series)

Close calls: FF6, Halo Series, Bioshock, Advance Wars Dual Strike, SMRPG, Guitar Hero/Rock band, Parappa the Rapper, Guilty Gear XX Reload, Tetris, Super Metroid, Super Mario 3/World, Pikmin 2, EarthBound, Mega Man 2/3.

Terance has Turrets

orangedude

Honorable Mentions:
- Zeus: Master of Olympus (PC)
- Super Mario 64 (N64)
- Mortal Kombat (Gen)
- Mario Kart 64 (N64)
- Halo (Xbox)
- Super Mario World (SNES)
- Pokemon Red/Green/Blue (GB)
- Halo 2 (online only) (Xbox)
- Rock Band (Xbox 360)
- Twisted Metal 2/3 (PS)
- Ghost Recon 2 (online only) (Xbox)

AND fucking Reader Rabbit for the PC. Booyah

bigmac375

i guess i ended up picking a game from 5 different genres (RTS, FPS, platformer, rhythm, fighting)

if i were forced to pick one game out of each of the series i chose it would be Halo 2 (I like Halo 3's multiplayer better but H2's campaign was much better), Super Mario World, Guitar Hero 2(better tracklist than 3), and Melee (I haven't played Brawl yet ='( so i can't rightly name it with best without playing it).

Crawl to China

Any of the above could easily be displaced by any of the following:
Portal, Planescape: Torment, Civilization, Rez, Dreamfall, all Megaten games, Puzzle Quest, Chrono Trigger, Ar Tonelico, Wipeout, Soul Calibur, Ninja Gaiden + Dead or Alive, Red Star, Shadow of the Colossus, God of War 2, Gladius, Chrono Cross, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Legacy of Kain... I could go on demonstrating my inability to really make a top 5 list, but I'll stop now...

fulldamage

daisukeumon

See a pattern going on there?

Pata-pwn(TM?)

Passa

TheNocturnalSun

A) Marvel Super Heros vs. Street Fighter
B) skate.
C) Team Fortress 1
D) Quake 3
E) Ultimate Ghosts n Goblins

PissedPS3Fan

TheeAhaMoment

Tiger-Fever

codeloss

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Baldur's Gate II
3. Castlevania SOTN
4. Mario 64
5. Resident Evil 4
And the rest if you must know!

6. Final Fantasy Tactics
7. Metal Gear Solid
8. Final Fantasy III
9. Super Mario Bros.
10. Panzer Dragoon Saga
11. Half Life 2
12. Shadow of the Colossus
13. Beyond Good and Evil
14. Jet Grind Radio
15. Twisted Metal 2
16. Goldeneye
17. System Shock 2
18. Tekken 3
19. Rez HD
20. Mario and Luigi : Superstar Saga

Inquisitor.Fuse

Placentasaurus

TheTravisCooper

Just my favorite replayables.

Polterg3ist

Placentasaurus

meltyman

1. Ocarina of Time, because it still blew me away even though I first played it in 2003, after I played Windwaker (My first home console was the Gamecube that came with the Zelda collection).
2. Metroid Prime, because it was the first console game I ever owned, and was freaking incredible.
3. Resident Evil 4, because it was the first actually fun resident evil game I played, and was also mind blowingly awesome in every possible way.
4. Half-Life 2, because it's still the most perfect shooter I've played, even with the lag of the Xbox version. Although, I haven't played Bioshock yet, cause I don't have a 360).
5. MGS3 Subsistence/Silent Hill 2, because MGS3S finally fixed the camera, making it possible to actually see in front of you, and Silent Hill 2 because Pyramid Head gave me PTSD. In a good way.

That's technically 6, but I couldn't decide between MGS3S and SH2, so deal with it.
Also awesome: Starcraft, Eternal Darkness, Soul Calibur 2, Psi-Ops, Persona 3, Jade Empire, Marathon, Pokemon Silver, Dead Rising, Metroid Fusion, Majora's Mask, MUSHA, and Final Fantasy 6.

Placentasaurus

Lots of first sequels there. Thief 2 is just an unbelievable game. I have such a hard time finding fault with it. Planescape Torment is like the best fantasy book ever written, only it happens to be a fantastic RPG too.

Sunjammer

2. The Legend of Zela: The Ocarina of Time

3. Mario 64

4. Final Fantasy X

5. Counter Strike

Asurastrike

so after much deliberation, i have decided to turn this subject into a full blog entry. check it out at:

[areyouatooltoo.blogspot.com]

KreacherOfBloodandRank

NukaCola

the first time i played silent hill (my first console game really) My friend's apartment was filled with the odor of his roommate's cat's piss

when Silent hill 2 came out I had a tv chair that our cat liked to urinate on, and so from then on I associate the smell of cat pee with the world of silent hill.... loverly...

Ehardergardens

Chrono Trigger
Metal Gear Solid
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Metroid Prime
Shadow of the Colossus

Namikus

Microsoft Fanboy reporting in!

KidoftheThird

blueshoals

1. Was my favorite RPG and is still my favorite story in all of gaming...I've played it about 4 times-I'd have played it more but through the years I was always missing one thing or another...memory cards, cables, the proper system, whatever.
2. Is my favorite Zelda. In agreement with the IGN review of the VC iteration on the Wii, this was the Zelda on which all following Zeldas were based. Zelda 1 was a skeleton, and Zelda 3 was the whole package. There are also more dungeons in this one than any other one...it's a beautiful 16-bit game with series-defining art style.
3. Halo was the first FPS game I ever enjoyed playing...and after that, it consumed me. We would pile a bunch of other high schoolers into an empty house and hook up 16-player Halo madness. The only times we breaked were to eat pizza, change the CD in the stereo, or play pool. This would happen for weekends at a time in the summer of our sophomore year.
4. Naruto: GNT!4 is hands-down the most addictive, fast, deep multiplayer fighting game I've ever played. I was reluctant to try it because I hated the anime series but once I got started I couldn't stop. If you tallied the collective hours of my life I've spent playing the game with friends I guarantee it would outweigh every other game I've played (respectively) and probably come out to a shameful number of weeks.
5. Super Mario 64 was what brought me back into gaming in the first place. I had started to think school was the important thing for my 10-year-old self, but then I found a new reason to get up early every day...to try and get more stars BEFORE school. Mario 64 represented a whole knew world in gaming...a world where you could move in any direction, superfluously regain health my swimming, and befriend flamboyant, pink bombs. Cheers.

TheHeartless

Baldurs Gate 2

KOTOR

Starcraft

Street Fighter 2 Turbo

My top five because they have sucked the most time from me and have been the most influential to other games

triclops41

that was hard. I also nominate Bioshock for 6th place.

Yoshep

Wow, that was one of the toughest things ive ever had to do. And I'm married with two kids!

StrangeEarth

Not my top 5, but I love them.

Ping5000

Starcraft
Smash Bros Brawl
Megaman X
Devil May Cry 3
Super Mario 64

There would be more if this wasn't just a top 5 list.

GhostWhoWalks

1. Bionic Commando (NES)
2. Zelda: Link to the Past (SNES)
3. Goldeneye (N64)
4. Grand Theft Auto III (PS2)
5. Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom (Genesis)

(sorry if this double-posted, but in the first post, I mistakenly put Phantasy Star 2 and not 3)

Sasquatch

Not the best ever, just the most rewarding.

darkroomdemons.com

Eventually people get sick of him and unlike Jaffe, this guy has little to no talent.

bennifer3000

mangomonkeyboy

This is a tough list to make. Bioshock sort of place holders the following games:

Thief
System Shock 2
Dues Ex

I admire the design work of Beyond good and evil but I just didn't like the characters. Anachronox was essentially the same kind of game and gameplay and far more enjoyable for me. I invested hours in Beyod Good and Evil and just stopped, gave the game away. I just didn't like the characters(the pig really annoyed me). I would still recommend the game as it was well done. Interesting that I share none of the faves that Ken has, and wouldn't.

Ehardergardens

Soultek

In order of when I played an beat them. These are the top five greatest games I have played. Amazing fun. It hurts that I cant put Starcraft on that list :(

R3load

amanohyo

Uru - Open spaces and silence. Playing this game single-player the first time around was the most thought-provoking "puzzle" game I ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Exploration is your primary objective, not problem-solving. This is most apparent in the two expansion packs, where you must explore the vast abandoned city of D'ni to locate dozens of Great Zero points, which were often floating in mid-air and invisible to the naked eye. Even so, Uru was one of the few "puzzle" games I know based on common sense and abstract thinking at the same time. For example, one of the ages is set on a small island in the middle of a vast ocean. You can see other islands in the distance, but they appear to be so far away that you don't want to try swimming there. [SPOILER] However, if you DO try to swim to these other islands, you discover that it was a perception trick. The "other islands" were merely colored canvases on frames designed to trick you into believing they're real. [/SPOILER]

Chrono Trigger - Time travel's a bitch. Time travel is a concept rich with game design potential, and yet so few games use it. It's been 13 years since its release and it's still considered by many to be the best videogame of all time. To be frank though, the full implications of time travel are not explored to the fullest in Chrono Trigger, but it is after all 13 years old.

Metroid Prime 3 - Full Motion is coming. This is one of the extremely rare games that really try to fully utilize motion controls. Its primary failing is that for the most part the most advanced implementation of motion controls is the extremely limited "door lock" feature.

Final Fantasy 6 - Evil needs no backstory. This game marked the end of an era in orthodox turn-based RPGs. The implications of the priority shift from gameplay to graphics after this game was for the most part lost on the masses, and many today grieve for the future of game design. Moping aside, this game influenced me in the way it portrayed genuine evil. Many consider Kefka to be the best villain ever made in a videogame, trouncing Sephiroth as the de facto standard. I remember a magazine article that showed a to-scale comparison image of Kefka (in god form) and Sephy. Take a rough guess which would piss his pants at the sight of the other. ;)

Myst 3: Exile - Give a videogame villain life and you've got something special. Myst 3's villain, Saavedro, is played in live-action by a very convincing Brad Dourif, best known for his appearance in LotR:tTT. Saavedro's motive in Myst 3 is revenge on Atrus for the heinous crimes of Atrus's two sons, which took place before the Myst series began. His hatred for Atrus borders on insanity, and it was a quite enjoyable experience. We need more genuinely mad villains.

The Maginomicon

2. final fantasy 7

3. starcraft

4. ragnarok online

5. super smash bros.

I've played all of the games on my list for at least 200 hours. Counter strike saw me playing for at least 4 years on and off. I still play it to this day.

xanavi

BongoYoda

This is going to be very emotionally painful, so I think a clean break is best and I'll just post the five and not do the Honorable Mention thing or it'll never end.

Xenogears
Metal Gear Solid 3
Fallout (1)
Silent Hill (1)
Final Fantasy II (IV, except I'll call it II because no other release had Rubicant say "Fight with all your might", so there)

A clarification on why Fallout 1 and not 2: Because I had NO IDEA what I was getting into. The Fallout disc came free with Baldur's Gate a friend of mine had bought, and he lent me Fallout since he'd be playing Baldur's. I popped it in, installed it with no clue as to what sort of game it was, and that's how it began for me.

A similar clarification for Silent Hill 1: A friend of mine had rented it a few days after it was released, and invited me over to try it out. He told me nothing. I had no clue what it was. He sat me in front of the game, told me to start a new one, and left the room.

He BARRICADED THE DOOR while I was playing and turned off the heat (it was cold up here in Canuckistan). So as I played and the game got freaker and freaker, it also got colder and colder...and I couldn't get out of the room and had no idea why! Scared the shit out of me.

These kinds of friends are the best kind of friends, IMO.

Koztah

Earthbound
Baldur's Gate 2
Final Fantasy 6
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Bioshock

Stormrider

1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Jade Empire
- Super Mario World
- Halo: CE (just the first)
- Rock Band

Honorable Mention:
Mass Effect, Oblivion, BioShock, Virtua Tennis, Tekken Tag Tournament, Madden '05

mikeko10

As for my top 5 favorite games of all time? Here they are, in no particular order.

1) Pac-Man
2) Half-Life 2
3) Beyond Good & Evil
4) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
5) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Bauske

:)

vancealmighty

I'd personally add in Star Control 2 (any platform, though the 3DO was the best), Halo (original Xbox), Total Annihilation (PC), and it's a toss up between Faery Tale Adventure (Amiga) and Dungeon Master (Amiga/Atari ST) for the last spot.

Tinsel

1. metroid prime
2. metal gear solid 3: snake eater
3. castlevania: symphony of the night
4. grand theft auto III
5. call of duty 4

it is really, REALLY hard to pick five.

vancealmighty

^_^

zephyrum

Bubble Bobble
TIE-Fighter
MGS2
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Thief II

Bastard11

kylejones

The Orange Box
Oblivion
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
Call of Duty 4

(I also recognize the the Orange Box is technically more than one title, but you attempt to decide between Half-Life and Portal and see where that gets you)

ViperFTS

rage_krisnha

Rendon

I also had following runner ups.

* Shenmue
* MGS 2: Sons of Liberty
* HALF LIFE 2
* Jean D'Arc
* The Longest Journey
* Dreamfall
* Max Payne
* Max Payne 2
* Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
* Syberia
* Morrowind
* Halo(online only, I never played single player)

kart007k

Counter-Strike: Source

Metal Gear Solid

Halo: Combat Evolved

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

(while i can best guess these are my top 5 as due to fondly amazing memories with all of them, there are countless games that i love just as much)

daklog

ok my big five
1. Legend of zelda (nes)
2. Morrowind(pc)
3. beyond good and evil (gamecube)
4. phantasy star online(dreamcast)
5. Gauntlet II (arcade)

ryanfrost

Deltakiral

riskbreaker

thelken

TearsandScreams

Brain_Craters

Ultima IV (8-bit Atari)
Sundog (Atari ST)
F/A-18 Hornet (Mac)
Marathon (Mac)
Call of Duty 4 (PS3)

(in chronological order)

madgunde

Too many to limit to just 5 :(

Strider-No.9

ceilingFANBOY

kurokotetsu

OmegaVader

Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Final Fantasy Tactics
BioShock
Super Smash Bros. Brawl

texicali74

Powerlurker

Bump Rock Band down to the "almost made it" list and put portal up in the #5 position.

BPLlama

Final Fantasy 9
Disgaea
Super Metroid
MGS3 (This would probably be MGS2 if I had substance, I should pick up the essentials)
Soul Reaver

z357x

1. MYST
2. Half-Life and its ilk (including Portal)
3. KotOR and Mass Effect
4. Turok (but not the new one, euch)
5. The Elder Scrolls

Of course, that's just what's on my mind right now--I'd rather have a top 20 or something than a top 5. :P

Kato

God... Megaman X was so much fun back in the day..

Zenebatos

You can guess which game series I love? xD

Phazonmasher

Coffee Ninja

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Half Life 2
Soul Calibur II
Freespace 2
Shadow of the Colossus, even though I haven't played it yet...I just know that it'll be amazing when I do.

DCSimian

Honorable Mentions:

- Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Mega Man 2 (NES)
- Shadow of the Colossus (PS2)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)

arepeegee

Goldeneye 007
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Pikmin
Metal Gear Solid
Final Fantasy III

Honorable mention goes to Soldat. Google it.

Puzzle

Lunar: The Silver Star (yes the original Sega CD version)
Bully
Oregon Trail (Original version)
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
Legend of Zelda

Yeah, kinda miss my old school games I guess. Wow would be on there but these took precedence.

LizC

1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Chrono Trigger
4. Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
5. Final Fantasy Tactics

OrangeHairKid

fatuous_waffle

2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Link's first foray in to the 3D world and it couldn't have been done more perfectly. It has the best music of the series and the land of Hyrule is so expansive it truly felt like you were exploring a kingdom which was very impressive for it's time.

3. Banjo-Tooie - Very few sequels live up to the greatness of the original game but Banjo-Tooie took the awesomeness of Banjo-Kazooie and blew it up to gigantic proportions. The overworld was larger, the levels were larger, the bosses were larger and there were collectables galore. Not to mention famous skull shaman, Mumbo Jumbo, left the safety of his skull hut for some hands on dirty work.

4. Conker's Bad Fur Day - Another platformer developed by Rare but this one was slightly different. Sure you play a cute woodland character and visit many themed worlds but when you find yourself battling a singing pile of crap and urinating on flame monsters to put them out then it's a whole new ball game. Not to mention all the @#&*% swearing and the awesome multiplayer modes which often lead to someone's head blowing up with blood going everywhere.

5. River City Ransom - I had many favourite NES games as a kid but none were quite as memorable then River City Ransom. Beating up thugs for loose change was always an awesome experience but when you smashed them in the face with the body of one of their fallen buddies then thats just hilariously awesome. Also a lot of fun to play with a friend and take turns bashing dudes over the head with a trash can. Barf!

CooVee

1. DJ Max Portable 2 (/Beatmania IIDX/Beatmania/games like that)
2. Wipeout XL
3. King of Fighters series. I don't know - '99?
4. DoA2
5. Rez

At least when you look at the games I've played the most/longest.

fuchikoma

In no particular order.

J. Kyle

1.) Metal Gear Solid Franchise

2.) Resident Evil Franchise

3.) Final Fantasy VII

4.) Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS1

5.) Rock Band

RichMeisterMan

Half-Life
System Shock 2
Grim Fandango
Tie Fighter
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

And now for my appended list:
Metal Gear Solid
Full Throttle
Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis
Doom
Quake 2

and now for my appended to the appended list:
yeah, it just goes on and on, anyway, there's so many that I love X_X

ConfuciusMax

Bluecell

1) Starcraft
2) X-Com: UFO Defense
3) Grim Fandango
4) World of Warcraft
5) Rock Band (and Guitar Hero)

... so here are some other greats that almost made it!

Day of the Tentacle
Baldur's Gate 2
Full Throttle
Homeworld 1/2
Star Control 2
Quest for Glory
Beyond Good & Evil
Prince of Persia 1/2/SoT
Master of Orion 2
Interstate 76
Archon (C-64)
Wizball (C-64)

Jason Attard
Game Systems Designer
Mass Effect, BioWare

BPLlama

1. Full Throttle (haven't played in many years)
2. Normality (haven't played in many years)
3. Counter-Strike (my most played game, haven't played in about a year)
4. World of Warcraft (my second most played game, haven't played in nearly a year)
5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (played it yesterday)

Bluecell

(5) - Incredible Hulk : Ultimate Destruction
(4) - Tenchu : Fatal Shadows
(3) - Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
(2) - (tie) Metal Gear Solid 3 / Okami
(1) - Shadow of the Colossus

I love me some Link to the Past, but these are games I wouldn't ever want to be without.

Chances

#10. Super Metroid
#9. Final Fantasy 3 (actually the 6th game in the series)
#8. Pac-Man
#7. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
#6. Soul Caliber
#5. Tetris
#4. Super Mario Bros. 3
#3. Legend of Zelda: The Ocerania of Time
#2. Super Mario Bros./Duck hunt
#1. Chrono Trigger

YaMissed2

TheRunningboard7

I completely forgot to find a way to fit Final Fantasy Tactics on my list. I am now a failure.

antialias02

kemicon

EarthBound
Harvest Moon 64
Civilization II
Portal
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

This list is, by the way, totally unfair, in the sense that it is nearly impossible to get a solid 5. Oh Ken, you are a cruel master.

antialias02

Halo Series
Starcraft
Diablo Series
Gunstar Heroes
Soul Calibur

Gray665

Riven
LoZ: Windwaker
PSO
LoZ: Ocarina of Time
Soul Caliber (DC)

Subject to change without notice depending on mood, caffeine intake and how many people are going to be sat on that couch with me...

Till-Troll

I know, I know...two of the listed are combined games. :(

Kanik

Jimmy!

Gon

PJK

Metal Gear Solid 2
ICO
Bioshock
Rock Band
Chrono Trigger

Can't honestly put BG&E in my top 5, although it is excellent and I'm glad to see it getting cred from guys with cred to spare.

Danin

There's no order to that list and I sure as hell love more than those, but I've spent more times on those games than I care to reveal.

Otacon91

1. Beyond Good and Evil
2. Psychonauts
3. Deus Ex
4. X-Wing
5. Jedi Knight

I'm glad to see BGE is on this list a lot. A sequel would prob. do pretty well.

jimb0

X-com UFO defense
Star Control 2
Castlevania: SOTN
Final Fantasy 6
Metal Gear Solid

houkah

Brianvis

Shadow of the Colossus
Metal Gear Solid
Metal Gear Solid 2
Resident Evil 4
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark (tie)

chimlee

Ocarina of Time
Grim Fandango
Resident Evil 4
GTA: Vice City
Rollercoaster Tycoon

sloner

FP Bleentastic has cake

oldboy313

Project Thanatos

kingross

leGal21

Derigor

zanzibarlegend

rustingmiller

scarecrow

Vagrant Story
Castlevania: SOTN
Super Metroid
Tomba!
Metal Gear Solid

CaptLtrl

Rock Band
Grim Fandango
World of Warcraft
SMT: Persona 3
Psychonauts

It would be infinitely easier to list my favorite fifty games.

PositivelyGreg

Half-Life 2 (and all it's mods / spinoffs)
Oblivion
Final Fantasy 7
Metal Gear Solid (1,2,and 3, all tied)
Starcraft

some that didn't quite make it

Resident Evil 4
Jet Set Radio Future
Samba De Amigo
Typing of the Dead
Guardian Heroes
Forza 2
Morrowind
Dead Rising

KingDavid73

Counter Strike (best FPS)

Diablo II (best RPG)

Comanche 3 (best ACTION SIM)

Day of the Tentacle (best ADVENTURE)

My choice awards!

KroKan

Argh... I'm going to cheat and add five more to my list:

God of War
Metal Gear Solid
Halo: Combat Evolved
Donkey Kong Country
Super Mario Bros. 3

Darth Navster

Coops89

1. Madden 2008 OMG FOOTBALL!
2. Halo 1/2/3 OMG MASTER CHEIF!
3. Final Fantasy VII OMG BIG SWORDS!
4. Postal OMG VIOLENCE!
5. GTA3:SA OMG HOT COFFEE!

Guizzy

I lorves them all equally as much.

Ptolemy

Super Mario 64
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
Civilization III
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Darth Navster

Zero_

Guizzy

GTA: San Andreas

Championship/Football Manager (any of them really - I'm still playing 2006)

Resident Evil 4

Super Mario World

Dragon Quest 8

natureboy46

Super Mario Galaxy

LoZ: Majora's Mask

Psychonauts

Warioware Twisted

@elronathon: Honorable mention to River City Ransom.

SpookyTanooki

....

Enyo

Zenax

Smash 64

NBA JAM/NFL BLITZ

Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles

Zelda OOT

Dr.Chocobo

Zero_

honorable mention: Gothic (that's what I call a living and breathing world. Oblivion never even came close)

little_dragon

Kermi

My top 5 favorite games. Been playing games for 26 years now :)

1. Monkey Island 1-3
2. Ico
3. Planescape: Torment
4. The Longest Journey
5. Portal

Honorary mentions: Pirates!, Civ-Series, Zelda: Link to the Past, Jet Set Radio, Loom, Metal Gear Solid 3, Baldur's gate and Shadow of the Colossus.

Gloinn

Jet Set Radio Future
Dragon Quest VIII
System Shock 2
Silent Hill 2
Galactic Civilizations

I feel like there should be something current-gen on that list or I've wasted a lot of money on my 360 and assorted games when apparently I could still be happily using my PS2 and a 10 year old PC.

Ah well.

Kermi

@rainofwalrus [XBL]: 10 Player Bomberman is epic!

ninjafetus

Extra: Tetris DX

Revchu

Tocsin

2. PORTAL for breakthrough game play physics and exemplary writing

3. GUILTY GEAR SERIES for reinventing and reinvigorating the 2D fighter genre

4. SHINING FORCE for creating the S-RPG genre and yet still being one of the best of its kind.

5. DIABLO 2 for not only making WoW possible, but being one of the best action RPGs ever.

tectonicztr

1) Thief II
2) System Shock II
3) Deus Ex
4) Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
5) Oni

InvaderBotGir

Chrono Trigger
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night/Nocturne in the Moonlight
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Starcraft, original/Brood War

That's probably the top 4. The 5th spot would be a battle between DDR (arcade series), Tekken Tag Tournament, Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike, and... I guess Super Mario 64.

I dunno. I'm probably forgetting something important. This would be a lot easier separated by genre.

ninjafetus

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