Top 10 Games... of all time. And prove why.

#101 I'll order my favorites by genre.

Strategy:
My favorite strategy game is Age of Empires 2. I don't play it much anymore, but AoE2 took strategy gaming to a whole new level.

FPS:
For a quick, sit down and play session, Bz-Flag has to be my favorite! I love that game and the community. It's a free open source tank battle game. bzflag.org You have to play it to appreciate it.

For a longer FPS style session, I used to play AA. The thing I enjoy the most about AA is the realism. It doesn't have any uber weapons or leveling up in "skills." It's all based on YOUR skill... And internet connection.

MMORPG:
Don't have one... I don't really like any of the current MMORPG's. I played Rune Scape for a little while, but I grew to despise the combat system more and more... I hate things that are based on random numbers and not YOUR real life skills.

#102 Top 10 of all time? Hmm... Well, let's give this a shot...

These are *MY* top 10. The top 10 games that ave influenced me the most and the games *I* find fun (in no particula order).

1. Gyruss (Arcade) - Great shooter! Excellent soundtrack and mesmerizing patterns.

2. Super Mario Bros All Stars (SNES) - Super Mario 1, 2 and possibly the best platformer ever made; Super Mario 3, all on one cart? Holy crap!

3. Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory (Atari 8-bit) - A tight little platformer, but more importantly, a robust editor included!

4. Jumpman (Atari 8-bit) - One of the most amazing platformers ever created! Every level different, every level a puzzle, every level challenging but not unfair. An amazing concept, a character that could grab onto an edge of a platform and climb up! This game showed me what platformers should be!

5. Half-Life (PC) - Revived the dying FPS genre and showed that storytelling could be done in an FPS. It also showed that storytelling didn't have to take control away from the player.

6. Resident Evil (PSX) - Single-handedly ushered in a new genre; survival horror, and esentially took over an old genre; adventure games. Yeah, I know about Alone in the Dark (and it's obvious that Capcom did, too), but nobody says you're making an "Alone in the Dark clone", if you're making a survival horror game, now do they?

7. R-Type (Arcade) - When you look up "shooter" in the dictionary, you won't find a picture of Doom, I tell ya! Patterns, power-ups, boss creatures, hold down to charge up. R-Type *IS* the shooter genre.

8. Tomb Raider (PC/PSX) - Showed that a game could work on both console and PC, without changing the game one bit. Pushed 3D 3rd-person into the mainstream and showed that there was more to a mascot than being "hip, super-deformed, and attitude".

9. Quake (PC) - 3D, lightmaps, tools, mod community, 'nuff said.

10. Street Fighter II (Arcade) - I would spend $20 a week, join tournaments, and countless hours to play this game. Once I got really good, I would even go around, looking for competitors who didn't know me (sharking).


Honorable Mentions:
Mr. Do (Arcade) - Better than Pac-Man and Dig Dug combined!

Marble Madness (Arcade) - What's that look?!? Isometric? Amazing! Plus it felt good (trackball) and had mesmorizing music.

Burnout 3 (XBox) - 60fps, 200+ mph, amazing crashes. The game's damn'd near perfect. The only thing needed is the online play they put into Burnout Revenge on X360. Unfortunately Burnout Revenge messed with B3's gameplay, otherwise it would be the ultimate.

Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) - Colourful, different levels. Still plays great, to this day! Also, brought women in to game playing.

Tetris (everything) - Showed that abstract puzzle games could be mainstream. Hell, I'm sure that the Gameboy wouldn't have sold as many if there wasn't a Tetris. I know plenty of people who bought the Gameboy initially for Tetris. And we all know (at least the non-fanboys), without Gameboy, Nintendo would've gone the way of Sega.

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#105 Has anyone mentioned Tetris?

#106 I try ever once in a while to answer this top 10 question and each time I come up with different games (mostly). I think for me it would just be too hard to answer - so instead im going to shoot from the hip here and just put up 10 games I think are the cream of the crop and why.

1. Wizardry I - Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord This is the first computer game that really made my jaw drop. I saw that sweet looking green dragon on the black box through the window of "The Computer Store" here in Eugene, back in like '85. I played a lot of D&D then and when I saw the crude green maze (which didn't seem crude then) I knew something big had happened.

2. AD&D Gold-Box games- I played through so many of these on the C-64 that I wore the disks out. Curse of the Azure Bonds and Pool of Radiance brought the AD&D ruleset to life long before Neverwinter or any other game.

3. DOOM- This is the first time I had ever seen 3D in action (err.. pseudo 3D) and I remember going to my friends brothers buisiness late at night to run it on his Uber 486. Scary as hell I thought it was the coolest and most evil thing I had ever seen since Iron Maidens Number of the Beast album cover. I literally dreamed about DOOM when I wasn't able to play it.

4. Shenmue- I really enjoyed this one, though I can see how it's not really for everyone. The hugeness of the city was as impressive back then to me as an Elder Scrolls game is now.

5. Street Fighter 2 Turbo- I put countless hours into this game on an almost daily for years battling my friends. Perfectly balanced.

6. Ultima III : Exodus- I shattered my leg on July 4th when I was about 16 and spent a month in bed high on pain meds, eating Dairy Queen, sleeeping, and playing Exodus for 8 hours at a time. Pretty much the best days of my life other than the leg.

7.M.U.L.E.- I play this every once in a while and probably will as long as I have any friends to punish with my underhanded smithore whoring! Multiplayer perfection.

can't think of any more right now.

#107 Well for one thing. Everquest sucked and the second sucked even more. No pvp.

On to the top ten games

1) Half-life
The whole sci-fi plot of it was awesome plus it had a great story that kept throwing new stuff at you.

2) Anything mario. It needs no explanation. Everyones played it.

3) Counter strike games. Come on. Theres about 20k servers online for CSS average. Its a fun simple game.

4) Tribes. It was fun building those bases and watching your enemys try to get in and out alive.

5) Battlefield 1942. Its fun to jump in a plane fly across a African battlefield in WWII parachute out grab a jeep drive to a tank, gun down some nazis and do it all over again. It also was a unique game that so many people have tried to copy the mechanics of.

6) World of warcraft. Laugh all you want and get pissed at it all you want but it has more than twice the subscribers of anyone else. Oh yeah. The runner up is Lineage with 12 percent compared to 52 percent. Plus it has tons of quests, big world, and lots of instances, along with major updates every month or so.

7) Halo 1. Its a pretty simple game but anyone will pick it up and play it. Simple mechanics make for a fun game i guess. Look at mario.

8) Quake III. Once again simple is fun. The only point of this is to kill your opponents. No story, no character backgrounds. Its just a plain old FPS

9) Contra. I like the series. Its fun. I don't know why, so don't get on my case about it.

10) Call of duty. Its only the best WWII shooter. Screw medal of honer. Put it down and pick up at least the first one.

#108 I just started playing Anachronox again. We need a thread for top 10 games almost nobody played. Some of the very best games were commercial flops. I still hold up Mask of Eternity as a gold standard for a fantasy rpg games. Rune is still better than God of War, Enclave and Dark Messiah put together. Chronicles of Riddick is the best FPS ever made followed closely by Deus Ex. Thief still kicks the shit out of Splinter Cell. Ahhh... the golden days of games before anyone knew that you could sell games the way you sell movies: pack some shit in a pretty package and throw all the money into advertising. Sigh.

#109 1) Tomb Raider. Personally I never liked any of this series, I prefer my platformers in two dimensions. However this game started the shift of games from being geek only to mainstream entertainment. Although this lead pretty much to the death of games I really enjoyed playing during me childhood it has opened vast revenue streams for the games industry that otherwise we would never have had.

2) Dune II. Although there were one or two rts games before this they were unknown or crap. This game finally started the move away from hex and grid turn based games, which were normally inferior to the pencil and paper versions and actually began to use the medium of the computer game to improve the original concept and give the player an experience that they could not get any other way. Well without becoming the dictator of a small nation at least!

3) Quake. I'm not saying that Doom wasn't popular in multiplayer or that there wern't popular online MUDS before quake, but the online popularity that Quake enjoyed was just in a whole different league to anything seen previously.

4) World Of Warcraft. Once we MMO players were reviled even by our fellow computer game players as sad and pathetic. Now MMOs can be advertised on television and used as material for tv programs. World of Warcraft forced MMOs into the public eye and opened up the MMO world to everyone, not just the university layabout!

5) Civilization. Take a small tribe and fly them to Alpha Centauri and loose whole months of your life while doing it. Who would have thought that moving around small rectangles around slightly larger rectangles could ever have been so much fun or had such replay value.

6) Final Fantasy. I truly truly hate this series and all of its copy cat spawns. I could rant for hours on its poor storylines (which appear to have been written by a twelve year old fantasy fan fiction writer) the poor game play mechanics, the poorly disguised attempts to empower the player by having large damage numbers when everything in the game could be divided by a thousand and have the same results and the fact that all its male main characters look like David Beckham wannabes (or maybe he's a final fantasy wannabe, who knows?). However it is one of the most popular series of all time and has managed to create almost single handedly the console role playing game (CRPG) genre, which judging by the number of carbon copies I assume is very very popular with the paying public. In the end who do the creators are about most? The hordes of people who buy their game or me?

7) Deus Ex. Do I throw a grenade at the guards, explosive or gas? Or snipe them at longer range? Lethal or none lethal approach? hmm that kid over there looks like he might be able to give me info on this place, maybe if I give him some food, he looks a little hungry..... How many games ever gave you real choice over what you were doing. How many actually change the story depending on if you slink away through an open window or charge into certain death to help your brother? The 'role' aspect of RPG is often forgotten in favour of large numbers and FMV however in the late nineties a selection of games began to change all that. During the course of Deus Ex JC Denton becomes you. His choices mirror what you want to do, not what you are forced to do. Also the story ain't bad, with more twists than an English country road.

8) Max Payne. Finally a game which not only told a story but told it well. So far Max Payne 1 and 2 are the only games which I can actually believe that their story could've been written for a film script or a book. Normally the story lines (I'm looking at you Final fantasy) involve the same old tired mess that has plagued fantasy and sci fi books since the late 60's. it also showed that games could be made for adults without sex and over the top violence.

9) Call of Duty. This game is easy to beat, very easy, even on hardest difficulty it shouldn't take anyone longer than ten hours to get to the end. But oh, boy what ten hours they are! Every second of CoD (and its later games) are packed with atmosphere and excitement. No other firstperson game makes me so aware of my mortality, makes me want to hide behind cover rather than charge into the bullets and makes me realise just how bloody suicidal charging into a mg42s field of fire actually is. The sounds, the guns and the environment all come together to give one hell of a fps experience.

10) Championship Manager / Football Manager. Has one game utterly dominated its genre like Championship Manager and its latest incarnation as football manager. The recent name split showed just how important the Collyer brothers have become to football simulation. Can you imagine Joe public knowing that the main valve employees have left and are writing their own Gordon Freeman based game?

11) Counter Strike. I know this is one too many but it needed to be included. Not for its game play or its role in popular culture but because of the sheer impact it had as a mod. Nowadays very few pc games are now released without some sort of mapping tool or sdk for people to make their own content and this can be attributed by the extra shelf life that Counter Strike granted to the original Half Life. its a developers and publishers dream, someone you don't pay comes along and suddenly your game, well past its original shelf life suddenly becomes in demand again.

#110 I really liked Paul's list - I agreed %100 with the game descriptions.

#111 I've been playing video games for about as long as games have been around. I started with Lode Runner on the apple IIC. I've played every major console and a bunch of the big hits on the PC. But World of Warcraft destroys every gaming experience I've ever had. It's really not worth adding the other nine, WoW is just in another league. Anyone who hasn't played it owes it to themselves to check it out.

-Weston