by kerikxi
I'll be picking and poking at this over the next while, and it's not in any particular order, unless otherwise mentioned. As it turns out, I have a hard time placing games from these last two generations on this list, so this is more of a history lesson. These aren't necessarily the best games ever made, these are my personal favorites across the years.
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Unquestionably my favourite game of all time, and sparked an obsession with the Metal Gear series that continues to this day.
A strong contender for first, if not placed against MGS. The original translation and story were incomprehensible, but it was pure gameplay with this one. Outside of MMOs, my most time spent with any single game ever.
A classic, plain and simple. Needs no explanation.
While probably not the best entry in the series, that might go to either HM64 or BTN, this sparked another love affair. A series with terrible translation and sometimes even game breaking glitches, but the core gameplay scratches some very deep itch in my soul.
Really the only NES game I played a lot as a kid. Most games were too sophisticated for me at that age.
A timeless classic, yet to be replicated, still fresh and fun as hell to this day. I could never even come close to beating this game as a kid, but that sure didn't stop me from trying.
The game that brought me into the world of Gameboy. Blasphemy sure, but my first portable was a Gameboy Color, and the amount of hours I sunk into this game is incredible. Back in my day, me and my schoolmates grinded the Elite 4 endlessly to get those magical lv100's to pound each other with.
At the risk of duplicate entries, this deserves a special mention, as the game I spent the most time involved with, but not necessarily playing. This game is responsible for bringing me fully into the realm of message boards, where teams and movesets were discussed and evaluated. Probably spent more time with the theory of this one than actually playing it.
Gives FFT a run for it's money as most played. If you combine all the time my friends played it too, it would definitely win. We would spend countless hours painfully combing my father's CD collection for rare monsters, manually recording each result for later retrieval. I still have notebooks full of nothing but lists of discs and monsters. That's to say nothing of the time we each spent raising our own selections, then pitting them against each other.
An almost unknown Enix RPG. Fuelled partially by my giant robot obsession, the level of customization for your individual bots was very deep, but the game itself was difficult almost to the point of impossibility. The story made absolutely no sense. We still played the hell out of it.