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Well, it's always tough for me to pick something "best" for me. At least there's top 5, but it still feels too limiting to my weird braincells. So here's current top 5, thinking it could be different by tomorrow's taste.
Ocarina of Time
Animal Crossing New Horizons
Cyberpunk 2077
Red Dead Redemption 2
Ghost of Tsushima
Can't pick a game, but here are the series (and then I try to pick a game),
So mostly Nintendo games.
osu!
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2005
Chrono Trigger
Trackmania2 (if i had to pick an env it'd be Valley, but all environments are cool)
Team Fortress 2
I lost the ability to have top 5 games lists anymore. But I can list 5 games that meant everything to me, in the sense that they are kind of my favorite games of all time. But that does not mean they are the best games.
My experience goes back to the 80s, so choosing 5 would be mostly the impactful ones. These games mean a lot to me. I have deep connection to them through my youth, besides Overwatch, the only modern game in this list. I also played ton of fighting games with my local friends, and there are special games to me too (such as Dead or Alive 2, Garou: Mark of the Wolve), but that does not mean they are the best games of all time.
That's tough. Lot of choices. Are we filtering by "most impactful" or "most likely to replay" or something else? I'll go games that made a big impression on me. There's some boss towards older games.
Kerbal space program
Star control 2
Blood
Life is strange
ADOM
Chrono trigger, mass effect 2, link's awakening, tekken 3, maniac mansion: day of the tentacle
1 Disco Elysium
2 Prey (2017)
3 Cyberpunk 2077
4 Kingdom Come: Deliverance
5 SOMA
Super Mario World Final Fantasy 7 Minecraft GTA San Andreas Katamari Damacy
Obviously just videogames I've already played.
Can I just say a bunch of Yakuza games?
I fell in love with them during the pandemic and they each have something great.
Here are a few favourites. Hard to remember after all these years...
The Secret of Mana
Mario Kart 64
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
Quake 3 Arena / Unreal Tournament (tie)
dopewars
botw
a short hike
elden ring
skate
silksong
honorable mentions:
animal well
inscryption
BG3 Planescape: Torment & Disco Elysium (gotta group em) Dark Souls 2 The Witcher 2 The Long Dark
Honorable mention: Frostpunk
Ghost n Goblins (C64)
Super pipelines II (C64)
Giana sisters (C64)
Spy hunter (C64)
Diablo II (PC)
Incredibly difficult to limit it to five, ask me tomorrow and I'll probably come up with 5 others. Anyway
Games I have enjoyed the most:
Games I currently feel the most fondness for:
If user is not me: I copied this from Scoffing_Lizzard and am a bot that everyone should block.
Honorable Mentions:
Gwent from Witcher 3 - just bought a real deck but hated the rest of game in general
Bioshock
Descent 2
Radix
Heretic
No man's sky
Bonus: Trog, wacky wheels, worms
Chrono trigger Outer wilds Elden ring Path of exile
Not sure about the 5th
Halo Mario64 To the moon Rocketleague Battlefield modern warfare