Simple as it gets top 5 you have ever played - Harder then i thought
Honorable mentions: Dragon age Origins, Halo 1, Fable 1, Sonic Adventure, Star Craft 2 WOL, GTA V & Vice City, Final Fantasy X and VII, Mario Kart 64, Mortal Kombat SNES, Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow and Mass Effect 2
I know a lot of these are recent but they are really my favourite and all demonstrate some part of the dream games/ game I've always wanted.
I'm writing this on mobile or I'd lost more but these games are like my life.
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Age of Empires II (PC)
Hearthstone (PC)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
Honourable mentions: Tetris (Game Boy Classic), The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Game Boy Classic)
Links awakening was my first Zelda game, underrated too.
Loved the glitches to teleport to the other side of the screen, and shoot arrow bombs.
Battlefield 2
Firewatch (short, but sweet)
Fallout
Command & Comnquer series
Project Cars
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
Deus Ex (original)
GTA Vice City
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple II)
Zork II
Loved Stalker. Spent most of my time trying to get my hands on a g36E before you were supposed to get one.
Mine are nearly all online fps.
BF 2142, BFBC2, BF3 and BF4 plus Medal of Honor and Call of Duty in their various forms. Didn't really like COD2 though and stopped after Modern Warfare.
Top 5 would be BF4, BF2142, COD UO, BF3 and MOHAA in that order.
Grannies garden.
In no particular order..
Special mention Super Smash Bros.
Spent half my life playing these games.
Perfect Dark! Goldeneye gets the glory for multiplayer on consoles, but perfect Dark was better in every way, it had Bots, huge weapons list, Farsight rifle ftw.
Fallout 1
Civ 4
Super Smash Bros
Pokemon Blue
Diablo 2
Plus: Super Metroid, Morrowind, Skyrim, Soldat, Grand Theft Auto 2 and San Andreas, Age of Empires 2, Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, Ocarina of Time, Commander Keen and Jungle Jill, Gran Turismo 6, Super Mario World, StarWing, Sim City 2000, Baldur's Gate 2, Planescape Torment, Thief Gold, System
I wish I could go back and enjoy these games for the first time again, as I've gotten older I don't get the same joy from games I used to.
Super mario world
Super mario 64
Super smash bro 64
Zelda wind waker
Halo 3
Damnnnnnnnnn I totally forgot about Tony Hawk
Ultima VII
Baldur's Gate 2
Deus Ex: Invisible War
KotoR 2
BF1942
Linux/Opensource master race [/s]
+1 for 0ad. They just released a new version last week.
In no particular order:
Portal
The Incredible Machine
Bioshock Infinite
Postal 2
Dead or Alive 5
In order of time spent on them.
I surprised myself with my list
Witcher 3 - Excellent narration, story (I live for that stuff), meaningful quests, hundreds of hours of stuff to do and immerse yourself in the world.
Forza Horizon 3/2 - These games are too similar to put separately but they truly get casual racing games
OG NFS Most Wanted - Way back game, the first most wanted was truly special, underground 2 before was good but truly the franchise could never make its way back after this one imo.
Civilization 5 - Can sink hours into this game and be completely refreshed, supports all play styles and is actually rewarding.
Uncharted 4 - Improves on all the others in the uncharted series nicely and I love the exhilaration you get in playing stealth, almost like far cry 4 which nailed stealth imo. Let down somewhat by the rush to end the protagonist's story.
1) Final Fantasy VII~ the first game I ever completed and it was a "Perfect" completion even with the help of the strategy guide it took many endless nights to breed the right chocobo to get everything in the game……..
2) Street Fighter 2 (arcade game)…..part of my high school curriculum
3) Pokemon Go
4) Resident Evil 2
5) Double Dragon
Modern:
1. Fallout 3/NV
2. Mass Effect 1/2/3
3. GTA4
4. Oblivion
5. Unchartered 2
Classics:
1. Wolfenstein 3D
2. Quake 1/2
3. Doom 1/2
4. Duke Nukem 3D
5. Dangerous Dave 2 (LOL!)
Dangerous dave is no laughing matter… the first one was amazing
… And crazy difficult.
I guess I'm just a blizz fanboy :/
Honorable mentions: Hearthstone
Oblivion
Bioshock 1
Pokemon Sapphire
The Last of Us
Halo 1 or 2
Golden Sun
Golden sun 2
Pokémon Gold
Magikarp jump
Snow bros
Sorry couldn't get it smaller than this :(
This is definitely making me feel old after writing up this list ( goes to show all the old games were the best, graphics and sounds arent everything)
Monkey Island
You Dont Know Jack- packs
Full Throttle
Street Rod
Heroes of might and magic 2
—-Honourable mentions—-
Day of the tentacle
Starwars - Podracer
WOW- Vanilla
Styx - Shards of darkness
Dangerous Dave
Death Rally
Split Second
Trackmania - series
Blood and Bacon
I've thought about picking up Blood And Bacon so many times (it's $1 USD…sometimes cheaper) but never did because it looked extremely repetitive. Unfamiliar with some others you have on the list so will need to look into those too now!
Little Fighter 2
Streets of Rage
Diablo 3
Warcraft 3 - Dota
Max Payne 1
I forgot!! Gold Box Dungeons and Dragons on Amiga 500!
Those alone took months of my young life :).
A few I haven't seen listed yet
In no order…
Tony Hawk's Underground (PS2)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Pokémon Red (GB)
Mario Kart 8 (Wii U)
Grand Theft Auto 5 (360)
XCOM series (Microprose)
Battlefield2
CoD:MW 1
DIABLO 2 + expansion
Homeworld
ooo loved the XCOM series
So many great games over the years, hard to pick the top 5!
Honourable mention: Pitfall (Atari), Donkey Kong (SNES), Crash Bandicoot (PSX), Final Fantasy VIII (PSX), Command & Conquer (PC), original DoTA (PC), Wolfenstein 3D (DOS), Killer Instinct (SNES), Super Metroid (SNES), Gran Turismo (PSX), Commander Keen (DOS), Hearts (card game), Briscola (card game)
Still need to play secret of mana. I played either the 2nd or third one (the one that had the japanese to english fan translation) and that game was amazing.
Not too much diversity in there, I definitely have a preference for games. Cursed Treasure 2 is my go to for listening to podcasts
I always find it hard to narrow down my list but I'll try…
There are plenty of other great ones that I'm sure I'm forgetting but these come to mind at the moment. I guess others near the top of my list would be some of the Zelda series, TWEWY, KOTOR (haven't played 2 yet), TF2, Portal, most of the Sonic games and Darksiders 1&2. Coming up with these lists always bothers me because I know I'm forgetting some.
Banjo-Kazooie - probably the most underrated game on the N64
Banjo was the best! I still play it lmao
I was theeee besttt
I notice you like RTS.
I would have to put Dune II on my list. It is the one that started the genre as we know it. It's not the best ever made, but it was the most impactful and influential and it is the one I enjoyed playing the most at the time I played it.
Another game I would put on the list is Master of Magic released in 1994, which is not the first ever 4X game but I think it's the first fantasy based one. There've been a ton released since but none are quite as good. A shoutout has to go to Heroes of Might and Magic II.
FF7 is my favorite JRPG ever, so that's on the list.
I think I'll include a first person dungeon crawler in Might and Magic: Worlds of Xeen, which includes MM4 and MM5. Wow, brings back memories.
For D&D, I'm tempted to include the Baldur's Gate series but I think I'll give a nod to the Goldbox series, in particular Dark Queen of Krynn.
Most of you will probably not have heard of any of my selection except FF7 maybe. Let's just say I'm old.
So, in no particular order:
There are a ton of honorable mentions though:
These are not the best games ever made (you will have to go with a much more recent list for that) but they are my favorites.
I'd say if you where going to be unbiased just on the above list FFVII, Baulders Gate 2, Star Craft, Zelda A link to the past and Chrono Trigger - would be some of the best games EVER made.
If anything 'most' recent games dont stack up to some of the originality and creativity that those games had - My top 5 where based on personal preference.
But the top 5 best games ever is a totally different argument and list - In all honesty i wouldn't put a single game from the current console generation - it would likely be games like Super Mario, Tetris, Star Craft, Knights of the Old Republic, GTA 3 etc these games where not only a commercial success, not only fun but they revolutionized games forever (for there time).
The reason I say they're not the best 'ever made' is because games improve over time. But we view older games through nostalgia glasses. Absolutely the games of today are better than the games from the 80s in any metric. But back then our standards were lower. We weren't as spoiled, so we view each game as a product of its time. How innovative and impressive was it compared to other games of its time?
The newer games while technically better (any complaints you had with an older game will have been fixed plus some new refinements and features are added) than older games, they don't do new things you haven't seen before, so you aren't as impressed by the latest Call of Duty as you were with CoD4.
Some people like FFXV and I'd say it is good, but am I as fond of it as I was when I played my first FF as a teenager? Not even close. I'm just in a different place in my life now, and the things that once impressed me don't anymore because I've seen it all before and it's no longer novel. Back then there was nothing like it. Now an open world RPG like FFXV is a dime a dozen.
But you're right, some of the games are timeless in design and the only things newer games do better is graphics and sound.
If anything 'most' recent games dont stack up to some of the originality and creativity that those games had - My top 5 where based on personal preference.
This is true and the reason why none of the recent games make my top 10 of all time list. But that's not the fault of these games. If I was able to play The Witcher 3 in 1995 as opposed to 2015, I think I would have loved that game a lot more than I did. It is a fantastic game, and if you go and compare it to RPGs of 20 years ago, it probably beats them all. But it doesn't make my list because in 2015, it didn't wow me the way older games did when I was 12. It did what it did extremely well, but it just wasn't a novel experience.
And I don't think it's a case of not enough time has passed. In 20 years time I won't look back on Witcher 3 and say it really was one of the best games I ever played now that I have my nostalgia goggles on. However, the games I put on my list were games that not only enraptured me while I was playing it, they stayed with me when I was at school. They dominated my thoughts when I wasn't playing them and I couldn't wait to get home and play again. This was an addiction and craving I had. Games just haven't been doing this to me anymore, maybe because I'm older and jaded. In the last 15 years no game has made me addicted to it or crave playing it when I'm at work with the exception Persona 4 Golden.
But the top 5 best games ever is a totally different argument and list - In all honesty i wouldn't put a single game from the current console generation
I'm the same as you, which is why I didn't have any games on my list newer than 2000. Not that I don't think there were any great games after that. They just weren't as ground breaking, or didn't speak to me the way older games did, but as I said, it might not be the fault of the game but a fault of me growing up and being harder to please.
PC gamer recently did a list of top 100 games of all time, and they gave Witcher 3 the #1 spot. I kind of cringed at that.
Thats Fair point in 10-20 years from now im sure World of war craft will be remember with a similar nostalgia to Super Mario. It also revolutionized online gaming.
Witcher 3 is a good game but the best of all time is clearly bullshit it isnt even the best RPG of all time let alone the best game.
Even in the past decade of RPGs alone i would stay the Witcher 3 wouldnt be number 1 no disrespect to anyone who thinks it is, of course it is a good game but in the last 10 years alone I would say Shadows of Mordor, Dragon Age Origins and Divinity Original Sin just off the top of my head are better.
Alone in the Dark was mind blowing in '92, first experience of 3D polygon characters over fixed 2D backgrounds
Glad I'm not the only one who's played it. No one ever mentions that game. All the talk is on Resident Evil.
This is another example of nostalgia goggles for me. Compared objectively, RE is the better game. But AitD was a new experience for me, and I'd played 3 of them before the first RE released. RE did not feel new to me, only improved (AITD's graphics were rough).
I evaluate games not just on overall quality but the era it released in. This was the granddaddy of survival horror as far as I know, and deserves more credit. It's a shame that later games sucked.
Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Expansion
Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires Expansion
Age of Empires II: African Kingdoms Expansion
Age of Empires II: Rise of Raja Expansion
Wololoooooooo
Honorable Mentions:
Zelda Ocarina of Time
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Kart 64
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Crash Bandicoot
Pokemon Yellow
Pokemon Silver
Halo 2
I take it you like Age of Empires?
(okay not really, Double Dragon II on NES)
Half Life 2 Online
Half Life 2 Online
Half Life 2 Online
Half Life 2 (Story Mode)
Battlefield BC 2
Special mentions to tetris and snake! And Hogs of War, just for Rik Mayall's voice acting!!!!
Damn, and conflict Freespace! :)
Constructor ( old and new )
OpenTTD
Settles series
Anno series ( up 2070 )
Cities Skylines
Medieval Total War 2:
Rome Total War 2:
Empire Total War:
Total War Atilla:
Warhammer Total War:
I'd say Rome 1 was the best Total war with Warhammer a close 2nd
Rome was good for it's time, but flaming pigs and cows for artillery and other stuff make it a joke. Warhammer has dumbed down most of the campaign and political features, the battles are good the rest is a shell.
1, Lylat wars
2, Mario 64
3, Zelda ocarina of time,
4, Command and conquer - red alert 2
5, Dota 2
omgggg Lylat wars is the best game everrrrr
Cant believe no one mentioned it TF lol
I still play it and my high scores are record breaking just so you know
Member berries
"Remember - Playing the game in Kmart on the N64 stand, and the analog sticks where always broken"
"Remember - lylat wars - Christmas 1997"
"Remember - alternative paths in the level"
"Remember - slippy been a useless toad"
"Remember - Star wolfs theme music, Can't let you do that, star fox!"
"Remember - The furry fetish from Katt :)"
"Remember - Don't ever give up, my son!"
How epic was fox's dad as you bailed out the tunnels on the last mission.
My 12 year old self was amped.
FF8 - I felt the combat system was unique in its 'junction' system where it utilized the exact same magic that you could use or draw from enemies. The story wasn't perfect but it drove me to finish the game and from that alone personally it was superb. A shame it has no plans of being rewritten nor remastered. Also, the idea of kids coming out of a soldier school who have powerful skills and can affect the world? Sounds fun!
Football Manager - if a game sucks 400 hours yearly of my life, I'll put it right here.
Tetris - if falling blocks remain in your head as you try to sleep at night, then it gets on my list :P
Hide and Seek: There's not many games you can play where your wit or lack of can be judged and remain in memories of your participants especially if they're friends of yours. No video games have caused sudden urge in me to urinate but a real life game of hide and seek has especially when hiding.
Nier: Automata. There hasn't been a game I played (and truthfully I haven't played A LOT of games) where the music consistently adds urgency and emotion into its battles and adventures. There are many games that does this to their boss battles but never to the number of times Nier repeats it and in unique ways. Its soundtrack is easily the best I ever heard. In addition, its wider philosophical themes and its storytelling leads me to believe it will be rated one of the best games but only under the test of time.
The ff8 Cutscene with the mechanical spider. Never seen anything like it in a game before. Even the intro was epic.
And the first time you used a GF before it got annoying.
Holy crap yeah, that sorta cutscene was pretty much groundbreaking back then… kinda feels like we haven't ventured too far if we realize that was 18 years ago!
Mash that square button for the extra 30-40% damage ;)
My all-time favourites (Amiga/ early PC era)
Lotus Challenge 1,2 & 3 (Amiga)
Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis (PC)
Dune II (PC)
Quake 1,2 & 3 (PC)
GTA 1,2 & 3 (PC)
Word Rescue
Math Rescue
Crystal Caves
Cosmos Cosmic Adventure
Hocus Pocus
Not enough arcade games here from the good old pinnie parlours.
1). Battlefield 2
2). Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
3). Age of Empires II
4). Mass Effect 2
5). Assassin's Creed II
Honourable Mentions:
Any of the Unreal Tournament games
Warcraft III
LotR: Battle for Middle Earth (1 & 2)
Bioshock 2
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty 2
Bioshock Infinite
Fallout New Vegas
Elder Scrolls: Oblivion & Skyrim
Any of the Pokemon games
Any of the Diablos
KOTOR 1 & 2
Starcraft 2
Persona 4 & 5
Horizon Zero Dawn
Well crap I've gone over haven't I?
That's 6 because.
Portal 2
Half life 2
Skyrim
Farcry 3
Super international cricket
The Last of Us
Doom 2
Command and Conquer Red Alert.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1/2
ISS Pro evolution soccer
It's been mentioned a total 10 times including your post. You're the 9th.
I said Tony Hawk's Underground in my list.
Goldeneye 64
Call of duty black ops
Super smash bros
Street fighter alpha 3
Soul calibur
Suprised no one has mentioned commander keen
1.GTA Series
2.C&C
3.Capitalism Lab+DLC+Mod
4.Total War Series
5.SIM City
Project Reality
Project Reality
Project Reality
Project Reality
Ghost Recon
…
Batman: Arkham games are great (my favourites are Arkham City and Arkham Knight).
Very fond of The Witcher 3 and GTA 4 (yes, GTA 4).
Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Gamecube (best game ever I reckon)
Lylat Wars Nintendo 64
Banjo and Kazooie Nintendo 64
Super Mario 3 Super Nintendo
Girls love games too
Red Alert 2
Goof Troops
Super Mario World
Theme Hospital/Theme Park
Monkey Island
Honorable Mentions: Gran Tourismo 1, Portal 1/2, Final Fantasy IV, Pokémon Red, Strikers 1945
Bioshock 1 & 2
Total war Medieval 2 "with Third Age mod, with MOS submod"
Starwars Battlefront 2
Ape Escape 1 "best kids game"
Halo 1/CE PC
So many decades of gaming to choose from …
In no particular order:
- The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind (PC)
- Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
- Goldeneye (N64)
- Half-life (PC)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game (Arcade)
Honorable mention: Halo (Xbox) - my favourite franchise but didn't quite hit the mark compared to the list.
In no particular order (don't make me choose between my children!!!):
Neverwinter Nights
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Portal 1 & 2
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Honourable mentions to Tomb Raider, Dark Souls 3, The Witcher, Torchlight 2, Far Cry 3, Dishonored, Borderlands 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Halo & Gears of War.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Rayman
Super Mario 64
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Daytona USA
Sonic Mania will probably be #1 on that list in a couple weeks!
Might seem like a strange mix, these are just the games I got the most enjoyment out of as a kid/teen
Alright OP, as a matter of public interest, time to combine the answers into a Top List.
I remember hating life when I died in the game. It would take literally 5 minutes to load on my pc which was a Pentium II 266mhz with 32MB of ram.