There is a moment in every game I play where I decide if it is one of my all time favorites. It is mostly a tingly feeling I get inside everytime I play it or think of playing it. All of these games games on my list gave me this feeling inside. The combonation of good gameplay and how it looks usually does it for me. How a game makes me feel really defines it for me. If I am not excited to play a game when I am away from it, chances are likely it is not one of my top games. All of these games hold a special place in me and are all ones I will play over and over and still get that same feeling of excitement!!!
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In my opinion probably the most perfect game that there is. Love everything about it! The great Land of the Dead setting with the characters resembling those Mexican "Dia De Los Muertos" skeleton dolls. Great atmosphere which adds a lot to this story. The art style is absolutley brilliant as well. Makes me wish that these quality adventure games like this had never gone away!
The ONLY game on my favorites of all time that I have never completley finished! Which shows to go it must be amazing if I have it on my list and I haven't even finished it! The storytelling in this is just amazing. Same as Grim Fandango, the setting has a really great atmosphere that really sucks you in. April Ryan is probably my favorite female video game character due to her sarcasm and spunkiness! I do plan on going back to finish it sometime, but my major forcing me to get a Mac has stopped me from doing so.
I love film noir, and its no suprise that I would love the Max Payne series. While I enjoy the first and it's story, 2 is really where it is all at. The game play was greatly improved and is definitely more fluid. The story is even more engaging with all that is going on. As even hardcore fans of the first absolutley hated the dream sequences (as did I), MP2 does them in a way that made me wish there were more! This is a modern noir story, and it is probably the best I have seen in a long time.
I fondly remember this game taking up the ENTIRE summer it came out. I had played previous MGS games and loved them. I tried MGS3 (original) and could not do it with the series' normal top down view. It just did not work at all for this. MGS 1 and 2 it was fine because most areas you were in were square like in shape. But when Subsistence came out it blew my mind. I took my good old time beating this. Trying to sneak without being caught can take a loooong time but I enjoyed every minute of it.
This game to me is ALL about the atmosphere. Being in this bright and empty world really puts you in the mood of this game. The concept is brilliant., it is just comprised of 18 or so bosses and nothing else. But that being said each boss is basically a level itself. Boss battles can take you from a couple minutes, to up to an hour. I felt kind of dumb during one of the bosses because I didn't realize that you already have a bow and arrow from the beginning! But this led to me exploring this vast land. And while there isn't much to explore, I though just the feeling this place gives you was worth riding your horse around in. I also love the epic-ness of the bosses. Never before have I felt more difficulty with a boss battle than in this game. It took me a good hour to beat the floating snake because I had so much trouble getting on it's damn wing! But this challenge and trying to figure out how to beat a boss is some of the most fun I have ever had playing a game!
Coming off of Grim Fandango I knew that I had to like Psychonauts seeing as it was also made by the brilliant Tim Schafer. And boy was I right! This is probably the most perfect platformer that I have played in a long while. There is just so much to it that makes it different than your typical Ratchet or Jak game. I loved the concept of going into people's minds and exploring a world made from their personality. It kinda makes me wonder what mine and my friend's minds would be like if it were like that. I really hope that Schafer and his guys at Double Fine consider a sequel playing as Raz during his time as a psychic agent!
Hands down my favorite FPS of all time. The origina was amazing but this one took that and multiplied it by a thousand...literally!!!!! The setting of City 17, in a dystopian world I thought was so well made. The city has an old architecture feeling to it and when the futuristic Combine stuff is added to it looks brilliant. The best traditional FPS which is almost dead now. All FPS's these days are about looking down sights, taking cover, and the need for multiplayer. Half-Life 2 is the last of it's kind.
Do I really need to say much about this game? The first was one of my favorites of all time despite the problems with shooting. It was a perfect mix of third person cover shooting, puzzle, and story. The second took everything and did it better. It looks good, plays good, has well created characters, and settings to die for. I don't know how Naughty Dog did it but they did. I'm excited and scared for a third. Mostly scared because it will be so hard to live up to the the amazement of Uncharted 2.
As everyone was, I was amazed about how well.....for lack of a better term AMAZING this game was. I'm a fan of Batman, but not an over crazed fan. I'm not big on the comics but I have read a few of the graphic novels. Even before Christopher Nolans I was a fan. I do think that his two movies are the best of the Batman films. But even then he has always had the coolest badguys and characters. I recently watched Batman the Animated Series from the 90's last summer and I loved those to death. Sure they are cartoon, but they are very complex for cartoons. Im sure all of the kids watching it when it was on air didn't even realize how well done they were! Arkham Asylum was pretty much a blind buy for me. I don't even think I read a review. I saw some game play and watched the quick look, but I was pretty much fresh going into it. My mind was in awe about how great it is. I am fighting off the urge to go and play it right at this very moment!!! That is how much I like this game! Finely crafted gameplay usually makes a good game and this one delivers. When I control Batman it feels exactly right. Not too loose or heavy. The setting of Arkham is so well thoughout. You really get a sense of the darkness and madness of the place. Plus the two lead voices are the same from the Animated Series which really pleased me. Everytime I play it I want to explore everything. I want to find all of the collectable and I enjoy it! There is nothing more fun then grappling to a tower and shooting up to the top!!! I am excited for the second to come out so I can do all of this great stuff in Gotham City itself!! Oh my god.....I really need to play this game over again!!! I think this will be play through 3...i think
Such a fun and spectacular adventure game. The art style alone makes it what it is. It has just a really interesting world and setting. Glad it is getting an HD Re release soon!!!