I have a feeling that a thread similar to this is an inevitability on a gaming forum but a search turned up nothing. So sorry in advance if a similar thread exists that I could of bumped instead of creating this one.
So what are your top 5 games? Games that you either think everyone should play just love personally or feel were important points in gaming, the criteria for your list aren't important but the list is. Also anyone quoting Yahtzee's top 5 games list wins the unoriginality award and me screaming in their ear for half an hour.
My top five have to be (in no particular order):
1. Portal
2. Silent Hill 2
3. Spiderman 2
4. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
5. Fantasy World Dizzy
Ok, I'll just hit myself for that, in all honesty my top 5 games (in order) would have to be:
1. Dawn of War, along with all the expansions up to and including Dark Crusade. Soulstorm is excluded because I disliked the addition of flying vehicles and felt that neither of the two new races brought anything interesting to the table. I personally love these games, they not be the most balanced in the history of gaming but they were fun, and they felt like they brought more strategy to the table than just build a better economy so you can outnumber your enemy. The usage of strategic points always made it feel as if you were fighting to control the entire battlefield unlike a lot of RTSes where you fight over a few key resources and otherwise its just a case of smashing the enemy's base. And moral and cover meant that if you used your head you can turn a bad battle around rather than having to do the typical kind of oh well I guess I'll just go build a bigger army next time. Combine all this with the relatively small scale of the fights and it pretty much ticks all the boxes for me.
2. This spot has to go to Team Fortress 2, what can I say? It's the best FPS on the market in my opinion.
3. At this point it becomes hard to decide the next three games were all very close, first up is Guild Wars, this was an excellent ORPG (I refuse to call it an MMORPG as it is much closer in structure to an RPG but online) It managed to replace grinding for equipment and levels with a the ability to create a decent build (Set of skills) for your character, sometimes the PvP was too reliant on ridiculous reaction times for me but it still played well overall.
4. Close behind it is Iji, it's a platformer/shooter that's completely free and equally awesome. The game is fun to play and full of eastereggs, although the main body of the game consists of only ten levels which wont take that long to complete their is so much to do after you complete those, apart from going back and completing it on various different difficulties you get different dialogue and a slightly different ending depending on how many enemies you kill. If you avoid killing anyone then you get another little bonus and there is a hidden level which is practically bursting full of eastereggs.
5. The last game on my list gets in based mainly on potential. It is the very singular Dwarf Fortress, for anyone who hasn't played it Dwarf Fortress is (or aims to be) a fantasy world simulator, it creates a world then runs through about three hundred years of history before plonking you down to either build a giant fortress for the glory of the dwarves or else play as a lone adventurer with no real set goals. The real area in which Df excels is in the details, the games lone programmer
O) doesn't feel that half measures are acceptable and such pretty much everything is modelled to ridiculous degrees of accuracy.
Anyhow, those are my top 5, please feel free to point out exactly why your personal top 5 are so much better.
So what are your top 5 games? Games that you either think everyone should play just love personally or feel were important points in gaming, the criteria for your list aren't important but the list is. Also anyone quoting Yahtzee's top 5 games list wins the unoriginality award and me screaming in their ear for half an hour.
My top five have to be (in no particular order):
1. Portal
2. Silent Hill 2
3. Spiderman 2
4. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
5. Fantasy World Dizzy
Ok, I'll just hit myself for that, in all honesty my top 5 games (in order) would have to be:
1. Dawn of War, along with all the expansions up to and including Dark Crusade. Soulstorm is excluded because I disliked the addition of flying vehicles and felt that neither of the two new races brought anything interesting to the table. I personally love these games, they not be the most balanced in the history of gaming but they were fun, and they felt like they brought more strategy to the table than just build a better economy so you can outnumber your enemy. The usage of strategic points always made it feel as if you were fighting to control the entire battlefield unlike a lot of RTSes where you fight over a few key resources and otherwise its just a case of smashing the enemy's base. And moral and cover meant that if you used your head you can turn a bad battle around rather than having to do the typical kind of oh well I guess I'll just go build a bigger army next time. Combine all this with the relatively small scale of the fights and it pretty much ticks all the boxes for me.
2. This spot has to go to Team Fortress 2, what can I say? It's the best FPS on the market in my opinion.
3. At this point it becomes hard to decide the next three games were all very close, first up is Guild Wars, this was an excellent ORPG (I refuse to call it an MMORPG as it is much closer in structure to an RPG but online) It managed to replace grinding for equipment and levels with a the ability to create a decent build (Set of skills) for your character, sometimes the PvP was too reliant on ridiculous reaction times for me but it still played well overall.
4. Close behind it is Iji, it's a platformer/shooter that's completely free and equally awesome. The game is fun to play and full of eastereggs, although the main body of the game consists of only ten levels which wont take that long to complete their is so much to do after you complete those, apart from going back and completing it on various different difficulties you get different dialogue and a slightly different ending depending on how many enemies you kill. If you avoid killing anyone then you get another little bonus and there is a hidden level which is practically bursting full of eastereggs.
5. The last game on my list gets in based mainly on potential. It is the very singular Dwarf Fortress, for anyone who hasn't played it Dwarf Fortress is (or aims to be) a fantasy world simulator, it creates a world then runs through about three hundred years of history before plonking you down to either build a giant fortress for the glory of the dwarves or else play as a lone adventurer with no real set goals. The real area in which Df excels is in the details, the games lone programmer
O) doesn't feel that half measures are acceptable and such pretty much everything is modelled to ridiculous degrees of accuracy.Anyhow, those are my top 5, please feel free to point out exactly why your personal top 5 are so much better.
