superbleeder12 said:
After a lot of recommendations, I finished RE5. I beat it in its entirety with a friend of mine. I really enjoyed myself a lot. The game looks great, but you control like a tank, but that's with every RE game.
So... What's next? (OP image updated.)
Having finished a healthy proportion of the games on this list, I would play them in this order:
(1) Assassin's Creed 2 has such a great storyline and setting that it's very much worth the time to finish it, though I wouldn't bother with the non-required collection quests and side quests for the most part. Probably my favourite console game of this generation.
(2) Bayonetta is a more outrageously stylish game I could ever have even imagined. It's controller-breakingly difficult, but relatively short and well worth a playthrough just to appreciate the sheer commitment to the aesthetic. The combat is also really enjoyable. Again, it's
HARD, like Nintendo Hard, but it rarely feels
unfair and a lot of the time you'll impress yourself with how much better you're getting at the game as it really pushes you to improve.
(3) Red Dead Redemption has great gameplay, compelling characters, and one of the best storylines I've seen in a game in a
long time aside from AC2. I'd would say to play it first, but it's LONG and, as in any Rockstar game, there's a lot of dicking around to do outside of the main missions.
(4) Dragon Age Origins is a pretty great vaguely classic-style RPG (I'm not looking to argue about this, please don't try to start). It's essentially Knights of the Old Republic: Fantasy Edition. This is a good thing.
Amnesia is probably the scariest game ever made if you're ever in a horror mood. I only ever really played it sporadically though since that's not a mode I'm usually in for extended periods of time.
And then there's Morrowind. Perhaps my favourite game ever made. You didn't specify the platform, but if this is on PC, this is an absolute must. I'm not quite as enthusiastic about recommending the console version since the game is so menu heavy, but I have friends who liked it. Fair warning though, you can lose a significant amount of your life to this game. You have to be willing to put up with terrible graphics (mods can help tremendously on the PC) and some pretty simple and relatively lackluster combat, but the sheer openendedness of it from character design to missions to exploration is just breathtaking. And best of all, the massive open world is populated with things that are
actually interesting. There are hundreds of interesting characters, several dozen conflicting organizations with tensions running between all of them, and interesting set pieces that you definitely don't see in any other fantasy games (it's not just a variation on the theme of Tolkienesque fantasy). Also, your actions often actually have noticable effects on the world, despite the nonlinear design.