Top 3 Best and Worst Games of All Time!

[Ddgafd]

Top 3:

1. Ratchet & Clank 3, my childhood favorite. Crack in Time does come close though.

2. Cel Damage: Overdrive, a fantastic party game, so much fun screwing your friends over.

3. Crash Bandicoot 2, brings back memories of having no memory cards and always having to start over, I love it.

Worst 3:

1. Minecraft, u mad?

2. Battlestar Galactica, absolute garbage.

3. White Knight Chronicles, the only good thing about this game is the combat mechanics and only the mechanics. Everything else is a total bore.

 

[Christemo]

top 3:

1. Heroes of Might and Magic 3. it is just the peak of pure, fun game design. also no glitches and loads of other fantastic things.

2. Metal Gear Solid 4. it will take me 2 hours explaining the pure awesome of this game, so im just gonna say it´s awesome.

3. Age of Mythology. the best RTS in history.

worst 3:

3rd: Warhammer Online. glitchy as fuck, imbalanced (bright wizard and warrior priest were about 10x as useful as every other class in the game) and they were not fixed for the first 6+ months. the PvE is also extremely lousy and they should´ve probably removed it all-together.

2nd: Tomb Raider: Anniversary. a complete rip-off of the original game with almost no changes, then add in glitchy platforming (which is 95% of the game), lazy and repititive level design and enemies who take 40+ bullets to kill if its the weakest ones.

1: Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. it lagged extremely hard on my really good desktop, had a framerate that would skydrop massively as soon as combat entered the screen. the control system is extremely dumb, as the entire game is based off the mouse, with no option of playing differently. the combat is also extremely difficult even on easy.

TLR: sacred 2 isnt worth the 3$ i wasted on it.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Is it ok if we count a series of games as just one place, because if so...

Best:
1) Mass Effect series. Great story, great characters, b-e-a-utiful sci-fi setting, and very good action for an RPG too (especially the 2nd one)

2) Halo series. Great action, much more colourful and with much more variety than any other modern fps, best online multiplayer by a mile, and a great story (yeah I said it, and even if it isn't at least they tried to give it a story which is more than most fps's do these days)

3) Assassin's Creed series. Ok. the first one was very repetitive, but imo the fantastic environment and premise made up for that. AC2 fixed pretty much all of AC1's problems and is possibly the best individual game I have ever played. Brotherhood skimped a bit on the story but was still a great game (and it did introduce a very clever multiplayer so I can forgive it that)

(An honorary mention goes to CoD 4. Yeah I know the series has gone WAY down hill since then but CoD 4 actually had pacing, likeable characters, and was the closest to actual realism the series has ever been. It also never felt like the violence was being forced down my throat for voyeuristic kicks like it did with 5,6, and 7.)

Worst:
1) Killzone. At best this game is a generic, grey shooter with cardboard cut out enemies and unoriginal game mechanics... and at worst, British Nazis WTF!?!?

2) THUG 2. Improved none of the skate mechanics from it's predecessor, and substituted it's predecessors rather good rags to riches story with a handful of hours of being a dick.

3) CoD Black Ops. Same old gameplay, retarded story, horrible multiplayer, unlikeable characters... you name it.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

Top three:
1. Homeworld - A classic exodus story plucked straight from the bible, but never have I feel so deeply attached to the plight the characters suffer through. Even fully realized visions of this same story like Battlestar Galactica pale in comparison. When the game ends and the last person sets foot on the homeworld, I nearly jumped and cheered.

2. Planescape: Torment - This game nearly defies description. The question it bases itself on feels a little stupid at first, but by the end you realize that the developers weren't asking you to pose the question to your character, but to YOU, the player. I think it is a rare thing when someone walks away from this game without changing as a person.

3. Final Fantasy IX - They took everything great about Final Fantasy and blended it into the greatest expression for what the entire franchise is all about. It's still the darkest and yet the most upbeat and charming of the franchise. Most people claim VII as the legendary title and the pinnacle of the series, but for me it will always be IX.

Worst three (in no particular order):
1. Hour of Victory - I have never seen a game more fundamentally broken in my life. It has a unique concept where you choose a specific class and carve your way through each mission in a unique way, but the game is so broken that I don't think it's even possible to finish the game. Also, tanks can only be destroyed by punching them. Awesome as that sounds, it's the worst bug of all.

2. Kane and Lynch 2 - I actually found the length and lack of story or compelling methods to feel anything for the characters made this absolutely insulting to gamers everywhere. I don't mind the concept of a short, gritty, far less than AAA quality title about two bad eggs, but not if I have no reason to care if they succeed or not. When the credits rolled, I wasn't sure whether to laugh or be pissed off. This is the epitome of a game that doesn't care for its audience.

3. Superman 64 - Even more broken than Hour of Victory, but then I don't think very many people expected anything of a franchise like that. Something with Superman on the front however? Yeah, there are going to be some pretty heavy expectations involved. This is very likely to be the worst video game ever made.

 

[isnosche]

best 3

- Insert Blizzard game
- Inset bioware game
- Counterstrike 1.5 - 1.6

worst 3

- the new final fantasy mmo (WTF)
- Need for speed after underground 2 (own em all, hate em all)
- Grand turismo 5 (because of the load times :S seriously

 

[Griffstar]

Best Top 3-
Half-Life2
Halo 1
Medal Of Honor Rising Sun

Bad Top 3
COD- Black Ops(Got boring not even one month after buying it.)
World Of Warcraft(GRIND!!)
COD 3(Just no)

 

[Amphoteric]

My favourite games were

1) the Elder Scrolls 4
2) Knights of the old republic
3) Spyro 2


The least favourite I have played

1) 2 Worlds (Made it about 25 mins into it before putting it away forever)
2) Over G fighters (Terrible, TERRIBLE game)
3) I have no idea.

 

[Continuity]

2)DA:O - The story was amazing and the gameplay was good.

I'm sorry I cant let this slide, are you talking about dragon age origins? The game with the thinnest most obvious, tedious, generic, bullshit story I've had the misfortune to encounter in my 15 years of gaming experience? Did you just say that that execrable story was "amazing" O.O

A good story should not be guessable in its entirety (right down to the structure and twists) after the first 30 minutes play.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Best:
3. Metroid: Zero Mission, taking the flaws of the original Metroid out and putting every good innovation of the last two decades in? Fuck yeah!

2. Chrono Trigger DS, the best version of a SNES classic. It had some of the best characters I have seen in a game, excellent gameplay, and a story that blows almost all others out of the water.

1. Halo: Combat Evolved, Im sorry but I simply love this game. Its firefights are frantic, the story is epic, and it innovated the industry in countless ways.

Worst: I don't know, to be honest I have played very few games that I have found to be just awful, I guess I'm lucky. The only one that comes to mind is World of Warcraft, since it made me put it down after a couple minutes.

 

[mireko]

I won't include any games that I haven't played, so this list won't be entirely objective.

[sub]But you knew that already.[/sub]

Best:

1. Baldur's Gate 2. Improves upon the first game in every way, and features a rich, complex plot. The gameplay is a little stodgy due to it adhering to AD&D rules, but it's great fun once you get the hang of it. I may be a little biased since I've been playing and re-playing this game since I was.. twelve? Something like that.

2. Persona 4. If you took the elements of this game out of context and suggested them as game ideas, I'd probably call you an idiot. Or at least I would have done that, before I played Persona 4. Let me be clear about something: I hate VNs, I don't get dating sims, and I quite often find myself disliking people in general. Despite this, I love Persona 4 [small](and 3, but it has too many problems to be included on my list)[/small]. Everything in this game just works. Not just in gameplay, but philosophically and psychologically. Everything.

3. Dragon Age 2. Yeah, ************. My actual #3 is Mass Effect 1[footnote]Or Chrono Trigger, or Planescape: Torment or Jade Empire, or Tales of Vesperia, or Final Fantasy IX. To be honest, I just had a hard time deciding.[/footnote], but I figured I'd throw you a curveball. Don't get me wrong, I understand the criticisms made against this game. The gameplay didn't need to be simplified, and a lot of enemies and locales are directly copypasted.

That said, it's amazing. There's moral ambiguity occasionally bordering on nihilism here, as well as all the other things I miss whenever I play a JRPG: Violence, politics, intrigue, conspiracies, race, ideology, lesbians. The entire story hinges on the struggle between the chantry and the circle, and actually studies the implications and effects of all the fantasy elements introduced in Origins. Now all they need to do is release an expansion where you play as Merill, and I'll gladly sell my soul to the EA devil.

Worst:

1. Risen. Christ. This game is why I'm skeptical to any WRPG not developed in an English-speaking country.[footnote]Fable is why I am skeptical to any WRPG developed in an English-speaking country[/footnote] A completely broken combat system, samey enemies, a terrible leveling system (you pay gold for skills that you've ostensibly already learned? Why, that makes sense!) and no plot. None worth following, mind you.

2. FFXIII. I have defended this game before, and it really isn't as bad as everyone says it is.

However, it's still pretty bad, and it has some really shitty writing.

3. Oblivion. What's that? I get to wander around an incredibly boring landscape for no reason, going through identical dungeons and caves fighting enemies that are always my level? Wait, is the leveling system broken too? Does it work more smoothly if you actively subvert central aspects of the gameplay? Well, SIGN ME THE FUCK UP.

 

[Light 086]

I'm sorry I cant let this slide, are you talking about dragon age origins? The game with the thinnest most obvious, tedious, generic, bullshit story I've had the misfortune to encounter in my 15 years of gaming experience? Did you just say that that execrable story was "amazing" O.O

A good story should not be guessable in its entirety (right down to the structure and twists) after the first 30 minutes play.

What can I say? I love the world they created. I also like MEs universe, and that story is on the beaten path.

There isn't a game in the world which has a story that will surprise people anymore. Every game I played, I could have guessed the general plot easily.

Have you played FPS's? I know every single one has a bullshit story, far worse than DA:O that can be summed up from the start. It goes something like this: Someone/something is threatening the city/world/galaxy/universe and you're the only one who can stop it. Betrayal is also common in these games (fallout 3, new vegas, DA:O, MW2, ME, AC 2...etc). The player's (insert relationship here) dies, it's a law and is written in stone.

My opinion:
Dragon Age does fall into this category, but I think it's far from the worst.

Overall it's your opinion, so I won't argue or try to convince you otherwise.

 

[Doinstuffman38]

Best

1. Mass Effect 2- hands down the best game I've ever played.
2. Star Wars: Republic Commando- best Star Wars game ever.
3. Perfect Dark- Waaay better than GoldenEye.

Worst

1. Portal... lol jk it's World of Warcraft.
2. Guitar Hero III- everything I don't like about other music games rolled up into one.
3. Call of Duty: Black Ops- I played half of one campaign mission, one multiplayer match, the standard Nazi Zombies mode, and the Dead Ops Arcade. Dead Ops Arcade was better than all the other game modes combined. Other than that one little mini-game, it was a terrible game.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Best:

1) LoZ: Windwaker - Epic setting, a fresh look on a well known series, and gives you that open feel. Its vibrant with life and is just a good time.
2) Halo: CE - Pretty much helped define the FPS genre, and was one of the last great FPS's.
3) Persona 3 Fes - The game was amazing, had a great story, great characters, and for a JRPG, its definitely tops.

Worst:

3) Tie between Halo 3 & CoD:MW2 - Both of these games on their own werent terrible, in fact, they were somewhat decent. But the Former was to be the pinnacle of a franchise that started out great (Halo: CE) and then just degenerated into mediocrity. The latter followed up on a reinvention of the FPS genre and a once great FPS series. Then the game that followed was a step backwards that threatened to undo all that its predecessor did. NO Bungie, NO treyarch, I will not accept this dribbling you put out with the excuse that the name sake alone makes it great, you both have failed.
2) Drake of the 99 Dragons - Poor Controls, Bad design, pretty much unplayable. This game honestly turned me off not only the Xbox, but all future microsoft consoles.
1) Aquaman - There's absoultely nothing redeeming about this game. NOTHING! To even think to play it is just wasting time of your life you'll never get back and always regret.

 

[The_Yeti]

Tops
1.Dragonquest8-had an art style and world that was fun is a most favored memory despite nintendo seeking to as well as having effectively destroyed its future.
2.Fallout3/oblivion-Obvious reasons.
3.Diablo2ExpansionPack-C'mon diablo3, any day now...

Downs
1.Any Modern Warfare/Call of Duty-Sure i could rag on how they barely understand fps world mechanics, but i'll just go on the fanbase being too volatile and ignorant to make multi-player even partially enjoyable.
2.Fable2/3-Completely butchered the warm-hearted feel the first gave.
3.Tie between Recent Final Fantasys and every Resident evil after 3.

 

[Docs_Mistake]

Best:
1. Anything made by valve(includes associated mods e.g counter strike & left 4 dead)
2. Phantom Dust
3. Kotor 1

Worst:
1. Drake of the 99 Dragons (shittiest Xbox game ever)
2. Superman 64
3. Kotor 2

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

RPGer here, so don't be surprised at my picks for the 3's:

Top 3:
Bronze - Final Fantasy 3 (US version). One of the most immersive RPGs I have ever played. All of the characters involved were well written and the story couldn't have been any better. I wish developers nowadays could put this much depth into their games.

Silver - Both LUNAR: Silver Star Story Complete and LUNAR: Eternal Blue Complete. Awesome game overall. Music, gameplay, story...just incredible. They also boast some memorable characters, as Ronfar is someone I will model all future priests/healers I make in D&D-type games and Jean is my second favorite female character of all time. (Taking a back seat only to Samus, minus the Other M fiasco)

Gold - Chrono Trigger. What is there to say about this game that hasn't already been said about it. This is the very definition of "legendary game". OST is just pure win and it is the only video game soundtrack I have on my mp3 player in its entirety. I replay the crap out of this game.

Bottom 3:
Putrid Fart - Devil May Cry 2. Dunno what to say about this game except...bleh. Could've been something good, I suppose, but it just didn't feel like it was an actual sequel to the original.

Flaming Pile of Rotting Excrement - Final Fantasy 13. Unlike its SNES counterpart, it seems upgrades in technology didn't help this game from being anything more than a graphics whore. And not even a well-liked whore, either. Story was......well, I guess it can be called a story if you really want to, but everything just didn't mesh well, IMO. Final Fantasy 10 and 10-2 would've gone here, but at least they let me control ALL of my characters without micro-management.

George W. Bush had Sex With Hitler and Uploaded it to YouTube - Metroid: Other M. If you haven't caught on as to all of the hatred spewed forth at this, please...

<spoiler=Watch Yahtzee's review of Metroid: Other M>
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2015-Metroid-Other-M


OR

<spoiler=Read an independant essay written by a couple of fans of the series>
http://moonbase.rydia.net/mental/blog/gaming/metroid-other-m-the-elephant/article.html

 

[Nimzar]

Best (hard to objectively rank different genres so just 3 of the following):

Portal
Baldur's Gate II
Chrono Trigger
Myst III: Exile
Deus Ex

Worst:

Uhh... i dunno. I don't usually play bad games. Um. Shadow Hearts Journey to the New World kinda sucked.

 

[The Night Shade]

Best

1)MGS
2)Fallout
3)Grim Fandango

Worst

1)strawberry shortcake
2)Big Riggs
3)Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

 

[Amazigh]

My favorites.

1. Warcraft 3: While the actual Blizzard content itself wouldn't justify it a space in my top 3, the sheer amount of custom content I've had fun with over the years gives this a definate 1.
2. Timesplitters 2: Wasted so many hours on this, playing infection - running away from friends on "Chasm" or shooting monkeys.
3. Dragon Age: Origins: Really really enjoyed this, I can't exactly pin down why, but it enthralled me like no other RPG has done.

NWN2:MOTB or Soul Reaver would make it in here if I had a 4th.

My most disliked.

1. Empire Earth 3: Absolutely nothing positive to say about this game, a disappointing sequel of a disappointing sequel.
2. King Arthur: The Roleplaying game. Everything about it felt like a step backwards from Total War, the interface was a mess and the balance was off.
3. Genesis Rising: Vaguely Customisable ships didn't counter everything feeling the same.
Also all the ships looked like schlongs.

 

[Arkia]

Top 3:
1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - One of the first games I can remember playing all the way trhough, and I loved every second of it.

2. Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy - For a while I never really considered this game as being part of my top anything, but then I realised two things. That I had played this game's multiplayer for years and that no other game outside of the Jedi Knight series was anything like it. It also had one of the best online communities I've ever been a part of.

3. Timesplitters: Future Perfect - One of the last good, fun, arcade style FPS's ever made, and possibly the best console shooter of all time. Humorous dialogue, bricks as a weapon, ridiculous characters, a mapmaker and online database of user created maps, and an enjoyable, fun loving multiplayer community even on Xbox Live. None of these new shooters could ever hope to be what this game was.

-------Honorable Mentions-------
Graal Online - While not perfect this game was a lot of fun. It's basically what you get if you take Link to the Past and turn it into a MMORPG and it was amazing.
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Bottom 3:
1. Runescape - My friend basically begged me to play this with him. And I did for about 3 days. They were the most boring 3 days of my life. It was pretty much everything I hate about the MMORPG genre conveniently packaged into a single game that I thankfully didn't have to spend any money on.

2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - The game where the series decided to throw all notions of balanced gameplay out the window. Akimbo shotguns, intawin killstreak reward, quickscoping. And the community! What isn't a noob weapon/perk/attachment/what have you?! Because it seems like anything remotely useful is for noobs. Perhaps you'll prefer it if the next CoD only has muskets. Not to mention team deathmatch is not the only gametype! If you want to play TDM then play TDM. Don't try to turn all the other modes into TDM also.

3. Metroid Prime: Hunters - This game was just a silly idea from the start. Metroid games should not be multiplayer focused and yet this one pretty much was, leading to a lackluster tacked on singleplayer game, with the multiplayer trying to much to be like Quake. If a Metroid game is going to have a multiplayer mode at all it should be something unique that fits the series instead of trying to be an arena shooter.