Any platform(s).
- Suikoden 2
- Final Fantasy 7 (original)
- Dark Souls
- Resident Evil 1
- Castlevania SOTN
- D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun
- Resident Evil 1 Remake (GC)
- Gran Turismo 4
- Road Rash 2
- Oblivion
Big shout out to SFA2, FFT:A/2, BOF series, Roadwarden.
10 feels too little to condense 40 years of games.
Road Rash 2
Oh man, this one takes me back.
No order in particular:
- Elder Scrolls 3-5
- KOTOR 1 & 2
- Dota 2
- Mass Effect
- Grim Dawn
- Kerbal Space Program
- Warframe
- Age Of Empires II
- Battle for Middle Earth 2
- Counter Strike
- Joust (1982 arcade game by Williams)
- Marble Madness (arcade, 1984)
- Fantavision (PS/2 - also Fantavision 202x - remake for modern PC)
- Bioshock
- Stardew Valley
- Oxygen Not Included
- Another World (Amiga)
- Populous (Amiga)
- Lemmings (Amiga)
- Star Raiders (Atari 8 bit)
- Disco Elysium
- Jade Empire
- Eternal Darkness
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Starcraft 2
- Quake
- Chrono Trigger
- Portal
- Resident Evil 4
- The Last of Us
Metal Gear Solid 1
Cyberpunk 2077
Civilization V
Gods Will Be Watching
Portal
Splinter Cell Blacklist
Dead Cells
Sniper Elite 3
Dirt Rally
Ghost of Tsushima
I was so close to putting Dead Cells on my list, but I opted for Hades instead. Dead Cells is so damned good, though.
In no particular order:
- Elden Ring
- Team Fortress 2
- Day of the Tentacle
- Freelancer
- FTL
- System Shock 2
- Duck Game
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Rome: Total War
- Diablo 2
Have you played Wing Commander: Privateer? It predates Freelancer by a bit but it hit a lot of the same notes for me.
Day of the Tentacle is one of my first PC gaming memories. My friend’s brother had a PC that could play it, and I was in awe. I remember he had to uninstall it to make room for Duke Nukem 3d…
- Hades.
- Rocket League
- Deep Rock Galactic
- Warframe
- Heroes of the Storm
- DotA. (I’m talking original WC3 mod here)
- Street Fighter 2
- Starcraft 2
- Tropico 4
- World of Warcraft (pre fuck-you-Blizzard days)
Honorable mention for all of the Diablo’s really, been playing them since the first one, and all of the Fallouts, playing since the 2nd. Shoutout to my X-Com homies.
- Chrono Trigger
Okay done
I’m probably a little biased but… (I’ll also include my fave music track from each game as a little bonus!)
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In no particular order:
- Star Craft: Brood War
- Diablo II
- Half Life
- Counter Strike
- Homeworld
- Heretic
- GTA Vice City
- Quake 2 (and 3)
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Battlefield 2
I bet our birthdays are pretty close to one another’s.
Yeah I’m showing my age here. lol
Youngins. Did you never even meet Wirt?
Half-life.
Sim city.
Smb3.
I know you don’t mean super monkey ball 3, but, there is the smallest chance you do. :)
In no real particular order, games with highest impact on me:
- battlefield 1942 - desert combat mod
Ground breaking at the time. Physics and gamespeed have never been captured by any other game. Consumed my free time for a long time.
2 counter strike
Simple concept, extreme depth. I’ve clocked several thousand hours into this franchise.
- The witcher 3
In terms of world building and story telling… Incredible.
- The Witness
Absolute masterclass in game design, world design. Puzzle design… This is an incredible puzzle game that will shift your perspective.
- Faster than light
I haven’t found anything else quite scratch that replay ability, that tethering on the brink of losing, itch. It’s a unique game.
- Guild wars 2
Completely changed the way mmorpgs were played, and was a great mmo.
- Monkey Island
I wanted to mention a point and click, several spring to mind, but this still series lives in my mind the most. Although space quest is another that impacted my young brain.
- Minecraft
Like… I was there since its debut. Still watching and enjoying mc related content.
- Elite
Space is pretty big and cool
- Eve online
Getting back stabbed by the person you’ve been back stabbing for, so you join the enemies of your friends to be able to backstab your backstabbers.
Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Xenogears
Nier: Automata
Vagrant Story
Super Mario World
Hades
Elden Ring
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Final Fantasy XIV
Kind of in order, kinda not. They all deserve 1st place, really, and I’m sure there are many others that could be up there with them that didn’t spring to mind as fast.
- Yars revenge on Atari 2600.
- Kaboom on 2600.
- Pitfall on 2600.
- Myst on classic Mac.
- Dark Castle classic Mac.
- Diablo 1.
- Star Wars Dark Forces.
- That weird Ayn Rand utopia in the sky Bioshock sequel on any platform.
- The Star Wars Battlefront game that came out around rogue one on Xbox until the developer started tweaking with it and it became a griefer’s paradise.
- Gauntlet arcade and home versions. So fun to play as co-op.
- Ms Pac Man arcade.
- Tempest arcade.
And a shout out to Arashi, which was a great classic mac homage to Tempest.
I had a 7800 with custom bios and ram cart and would play a kaboom hack that started at max difficulty and ramped from there
a lot of early 2000s 2600 homebrews would probably make my list but Thrust+ is the GOAT
Atari 2600 gamez! Very cool. I still have my 2600 and the TV I used when I was a kid. Both still work.
Also, so glad someone put arcade games on their list.
I find helldivers has that gauntlet vibe.
- Outer Wilds
- Hollow Knight
- Elden Ring
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Metroid Prime
- Mass Effect 2
- Tetris
- Shadow of The Colossus
- Mother 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
Based on an incomplete sampling.
