I don't have a top X of anything. It depends on
- My mood
- What's been released
- How naughty the industry has been
- However I've never played on console
- Also I've been around for longer than most of you, and my first game really was Pong
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Username checks out. (You could have just tossed out some names instead of getting stuck on the semantics of "top", you know. That's what most of us did.)
Need for Speed: No Limits Subway Surfers Mine Shooter 2: Noob vs Mobs Lumosity Temple Run
(By the way, I'm not even much of a gamer)
Rocket League Battlefield 3 Destiny Portal 2 Mario Kart 8
Honorable mention: iRacing in VR
Sekiro
Baldur's Gate 3
Witcher 3 Wild hunt
Civ 5
Hollow Knight
- Chrono Trigger
- Shenmue
- Metal Gear Solid
- Quake
- Ocarina of Time
(It’s impossible to limit to 5, so here’s 5 more)
- Doom
- Resident Evil 2 (Original)
- Half Life
- Ninja Gaiden Black
- Super Mario Galaxy (grouping both games together)
In terms of hours played
Elden ring
Pokemon emerald
Skyrim
Witcher 3
Mortal Kombat X
In terms of replay value
Tekken 8/Mortal Kombat X (fighting games have basically infinite replay value if there are people online or in person you can play with)
Dark Souls 2 (best Souls game with the best NG+ system)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate (best MH game, GU is a close second for me)
World of Warcraft (an addiction rather than a game)
In terms of "best game"
Elden Ring/DS2
Baldur's Gate 3
Witcher 3 (after QOL updates)
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Mother 3
Honorable mentions: Chrono Trigger, Civilization V, Age of Empires IV, Fallout New Vegas, Final Fantasy VI (GBA), the other 2 Witcher games, Zelda from OOC to Twilight Princess (truly a golden age for Nintendo), Dark Souls 1, Super Metroid, Borderlands 2 (did not age well, but I have good memories of the multiplayer experience)___
Silent Hill 2
Morrowind
Red Dead Redemption 2
Space Station 14
Final Fantasy 7
recency bias is strong. top five is hard. I'd probably answer this differently if asked another day
World of warcraft vanilla Metal gear sold psx Resident evil 4 wii Symphony of the night psx Super Metroid snes
Minecraft
N64 Zelda
GameCube LoTR The Two Towers
Borderlands 2
Bioshock 2
Everquest Freelancer Unreal Tournament 99 Ultima Underworld Gianna Sisters
Runescape, halo 3, minecraft, call of duty 4, red alert 2
Super Mario Brothers 3
Tetris
Gran Tourismo
Real Racing 3 (RIP)
Minesweeper iOS (perfect in line at the shops)
Couldn't do 5
- Path of Exile
- Halo 2
- Factorio
- Baulder's Gate 3
- World of Warcraft
- Diablo 2
- Claire Obscur
- Starfox 64
Not listing the specific game release, more the game epoch:
- Civilization
- World of Warcraft
- StarCraft
- Sim City
- Quake
Half Life, Doom, Quake, Warcraft, Age Of Empires.
Rimworld
Stellaris
FTL: Faster Than Light
Crusader Kings 3
XCOM: Enemy Within
Honorable mentions:
No Man's Sky, Baldur's Gate 3, Dwarf Fortress, Skyrim, Fallout: New Vegas.
Would be two lists for me. One for "best", as in they were great, gave me joy or strong emotional responses, but their replay value is not great:
- Enderal
- Ocarina of Time
- Death Stranding
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- The Witcher 3
"Best" as in can't get enough of it and would take to a remote island:
- Factorio
- Kerbal Space Program
- Civ V
- Oxygen Not Included
- Valheim
Wing Commander
Baldur's Gate 2
Mass Effect 3 with Citadel DLC
Knights of the Old Republic
X-COM
No particular order:
- The Witcher 3
- Minecraft
- Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
- ARK: Survival Evolved/Ascended
- Baldur's Gate 3
this type of question is too hard.. i wish people would at least limit these questions to a specific platform.
Ugh.. in no particular order
- 1)Final Fantasy 8
- 2)Suikoden 2
- 3)Stardew Valley
- 4)Fallout New Vegas
- 5)SimCity 4.
I guess, maybe. trying to compress 40+ years of games down to a top five is to goddamn hard.
A fellow FFVIII enjoyer! We never get any love.
The story is genuinely something special.
and, while I love the magic/junction system, I can understand the other opinions about it.
the only complaint I have about it is the enemy infinitely scaling with your level, which really fucked me cause I'm a grinder that likes to be overpowered, which i never got to be in FF8 lol
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- Witcher 3
- Skyrim
- Witcher 2
- Baldurs Gate 3
- Assassin's Creed Origins (or Odyssey)
With honorable mentions to Elder Scroll Oblivion and Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.
I like games where I can spend dozens of hours forgetting about the main quest and losing myself exploring the world, and then coming back to the main quest when I'm ready. If I can put 100 hours into a game just in exploration I am down, but at the same time I hate being forced to grind repetitive combat like in Dark Souls games.
Edit: extra honorable mentions to Red Dead Redemption 2, Ghost of Tsushima, and Horizon: Zero Dawn. I can't believe I forgot about those games, they're definitely not in my top 5 but in my top 10-15 for sure. I put many very happy hours into those games. Add in Stardew Valley and Terraria and you almost have my top 15.
Half Life 2 (+ deathmatch, episodes, and Alyx all viewed as one piece), Sonic and knuckles (plus 2 & 3), Mario 3, dead by daylight.
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Sonic and Knuckles
- ~~Alien Isolation~~ Sonic Spinball
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No particular order but mine would be (I went with a top 10 list since I just couldn't narrow it down further):
- Factorio
- Portal 2
- Arma 3
- Bastion
- LA Noire
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Halo CE
- Stationeers
- Any of the Metro games
- Tetris
Nice to see another Stationeer
I can think of way more than five. These are the first ones that popped into my head when I saw the question.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Homeworld 2
Half-life 2
God of War: Ragnarok
Alan Wake 2
Baba is You
Dragon Warrior Monsters (the first one)
Monster Hunter World (w/ Iceborne)
Operation: Inner Space (a 1994 Windows 3.1 game about rescuing the icons on your computer with a little spaceship)
Disciples II (Turn-Based Strategy game from the early 2000s)
EDIT: Formatting
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In no particular order: Baldur's Gate 3, Half-Life, Minecraft, Warframe, Eve Online
o7
How do you do fello space nerd.
WARFRAME BABBYYYYY
- Breath of the Wild
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Portal 2
- Mario Odyssey
Honourable mentions: Super Mario Bros 3, Resident Evil 2 Remake, Shovel Knight, Nier Automata, Persona 4
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- Smash melee
- Left for dead
- Oblivion
- Hunt showdown
- Valheim
You're all wrong, only correct answer is:
- Ocarina of Time
- Breath of the Wild
- Portal 2
- Civilization VI
- Slay the Spire
With Smash Melee and Hades II only just missing out.
OoT is a top 5 overrated game for sure. It's a good game and I have to respect its impact on the medium but it's status atop so many "best games of all time" lists is pure nostalgia.
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- Factorio
- Minecraft
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Slay the Spire 1/2
- Terraria
- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
- Balatro
- Street Fighter 3: Third Strike
- Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
- Xenogears
Honorable Mentions: Diablo 2, Destiny, Skyrim, Gran Turismo 4, Red Dead 2, Tetris, & Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - pick one
Rimworld
Dwarf Fortress
Space Station 13
The Witcher 3