My opinions on games are subjective and tend to shift depending on mood, current trends, and advances in technology and design, but that isn't going to stop me from trying to rank every single goddamn one of them I've played. Prepare thy adult diapers, ladies and gentlemen. It's about to get messy.
Also note that at any given time this list is NOT final and I'll be adding a bunch of random stuff to it. Don't assume that just because a game is #14 at the moment that it's going to stay there forever. It might just be because I'm thinking about Willy Beamish or something.
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The big mamma jamma of RPGs is still a favorite, ugly bug warts and all. I replayed it recently and you'd think with the 72 re-releases they would have fixed things like the housing bugs, but nope! Shiny graphics, same ol' problems. Still love you, Skyrim. Some might say you're the best around and they're never going to keep you down.
Maybe this ranks so high because of Yennefer. Maybe it ranks so high because the writing's so damn good and the music kicks ass and oh my God I love that scene of Geralt walking into the dwarvish home and thinking Siri or Cereal or whatever her name was is dead. Whatever the case, this game's pretty great!
The game I've probably sunk the most time into across all platforms. Also probably deserving of the award of "game I've bought the most times," which I think is now sitting at five. Sure. It has unskippable cutscenes and an intro level that makes me grind my teeth having to replay it, but it's still so damn good. And fuck you, Handsome Jack was a great villain. Once. He didn't need to be in every goddamn game afterward.
One of the absolute pinnacles of PC gaming. Even just writing this makes me want to go back and play it again. It is pure 4x perfection. My only complaint is the small text size.
My favorite adventure game and that's saying something, considering I am a human waste receptacle for the pointin' and a clickin'. Well-fleshed out characters, one of the better silly romance stories in games between Rhys and Sasha, the best opening cards to games, period, and a surprisingly moving sacrifice make this a terrific game to revisit and a modern classic.
In a very real way, this game helped define who I would become. My taste for fantasy literature stemmed from this game. A lot of my core knowledge of sentence structure came from wanting to learn how to play this when my dad bought our Tandy 1000. This would have stuck at the top of my list for nearly two decades. I love this game. I hold it in very high regard. But with Elder Scrolls, especially Oblivion and Skyrim, it's sadly been left behind. It'll forever be one of the most important games to me as a whole, right there with Final Fantasy VII and Fallout 2.
As flawless as games get. Super Mario World has a kickass score, controls absolutely perfectly, and the whole thing is iconic.
It's astonishing how many of Nintendo's first-party titles from the SNES days stand as some of the very best in their particular lineage. Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and Link to the Past are all absolutely superb efforts and easy 10 out of 10s. Link to the Past hits the sweet spot between difficult and fun, tells a great story with a minimal amount of effort, and has some of the best world design in games, period. It's a phenomenal game even in 2021, and a true gem.
What Remains isn't just an emotionally powerful story about family and generational love, but a wildly inventive way to rethink adventure games and how we approach them. Half the game sees you walk around a bizarre house full of love and tragedy. The memories you experience are played out not through mini-games or QTEs, but through inventive experiences, like flying a kite in the middle of a storm or turning into an owl to hunt prey. It's usually hyperbole to say that a game reinvents sthe genre but What Remains does exactly that and it's one of my very favorite games as a result.
Again, so very close to flawless. With what little story there is to the game, they managed to gut punch me as a young teen. Another well-deserved all-time icon.
