Your top five games of all time - split thread

5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Shadow of Chernobyl
Wow, this game was great; it was so simple but let you do pretty much anything you wanted to, anyone could be killed and you could shift around with factions doing mercenary work for whoever you wanted. The amount of side quests was staggering and allowed for hours of gameplay. The only thing missing was vehicles but with a mod that's easily fixed. The story was well thought out and the different endings were great.

4. The Hitman series:
#1 was a slight dissapointment gameplay wise, the story intrigued me though so I bought #2 and this was a massive leap from the first one; not perfect but still a half decent game. #3 didn't progress from #2 very much (compared to the jump from 1-2) but included a few neat little things that made the game much more enjoyable. Blood Money was again a huge leap from the 3rd and was a very good game.

3. Command & Conquer (while under Westwood)
Red Alert = great, Tiberian Sun= great, Renegade = not so great but still fun, Red Alert 2 = amazing, Tiberium Wars = not bad, Red Alert 3 = Epic Fail.

Red Alert 2 was my favourite game for years and Tiberian Sun had such a wow factor and was one of the best games back in its day. EA raped Red Alert and have ruined my 3rd favourite game series.

2. Knights of the Old Republic
This just revolutionized the RPG with the new karma system and the Auroura engine was just great and at first I thought it would be boring just telling your character to attack then just watching them do all the action; how wrong I was; There wasn't a moment of dullness after I had left Dantooine, the story was great, the combat system was great, all the NPC dialogue had been voiced and nearly all the party members were great (Mission, Zalbaar, T3 = fail)

1.Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
I looovveeee(d) this game, it was free, there were many mods for variety, there were so many maps and always new ones coming out (as the majority were player made) playing with clan mates was fun and guaranteed it would always be fun; there would be plenty of laughs and there was never a dull moment. It will take a very amazing game to knock this off the top spot. 5 years of good games, so many funny moments and new friends I got out of this game, and all for free. Unfortunatly as its an internet multiplayer game it died as they all eventually do; the clan that used to have 100+ members is now down to about 10, it all went down hill after the clan leader decided he wanted to get a life xD

Honourable mentions:
Company of Heroes
Empire Earth (this very nearly replaced Stalker, I played this game for a few years before it finally became too old and EE 2 was pathetic)
CoD series (which they are now bashing too death, CoD 5 was poor...)
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (This was epic, don't deny it)

Biggest dissapointments:
Red Alert 3 of course, WTF were they thinking? Firing bears out of cannons is seen in a circus not in a war.

Soul Reaver 2, wow they screwed up Soul Reaver didn't they? They threw away the barren wasteland, the zombies, the vampires, the great story and the "OMFG let's kill Kain for attempting to kill me" and threw in some time travelling crap and Kain is suddenly a friend and some rubbish about Raziel killing himself to be absorbed into a sword to bring it into uber power mode to kill a giant squid that was originally your ally?

Sonic series, way to screw up sonic; he went to being the coolest video game character to being a joke when they introduced all these new sucky characters, Big the Cat who has a pet frog (called Froggy of course), some pink hedgehog that wants to rape Sonic and one for the emos, a black and red version of Sonic called Shadow. Now Robotnik is called 'Eggman' and Sonic lives on earth amongst humans and originally came from space or some rubbish like that.

Metal Gear Solid: *sobs* Metal Gear Solid on the PS was incredible, MGS 2 good but not as good; by MGS 3 I'm thinking their starting to ruin it a bit. Now I havn't played MGS4 and I'm scared too, it could kill my love for MGS entirely I would rather just remember it as the jewel that was MGS1 and never play #4.

And recent dissapointments: Fallout 3, Far Cry 2, Spore and Stalker Clear Sky.

Most anticipated:
Final Fantasy XIII, thank god their going back to their roots; no crummy MMORPG or introducing Disney characters. This should be the best Final Fantasy since #7. I pray that they pull it off and I will be the happiest gamer ever.

Most overrated: Halo, Kindgom hearts, the Wii and any game on the Wii, Zelda, Mario, GTA, Gears of War and WoW. Dear god, how anybody can like some of those games in that list is beyond me, I won't say speifically which ones but I will say that I like Halo; I just don't love it and I do think it's overrated.
 
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(5) Final Fantasy X
Great story, beautiful graphics and animations - I really don't need to say anything else, do I? Aside from the fact that those were the only strong points the game had I still loved it akin to its previous installations. I loved the level up style (sphere grid) and wished the later adaptations would use a similiar feature. Nonetheless I'm waiting for the newest from Square Enix. I'm speaking of Final Fantasy Versus and XIII. I truly recommend just seeing the trailers for the games. I tell you Square Enix has always been the forerunners of animation and CGI.

(4) Halo
Those who are not familiar with this game should know that when this game came out it was considered the revolutionizer of the first person shooters. Surely it wasn't that revolutionary, in my opinion, but it certainly has that little something to it. The story throughout the series totally hooks you. You don't want to stop playing so you could see where the story goes. While for a first person shooter the single player campaign in Halo excells in many aspects, it's the multiplayer where the money lies in. The one thing that hooked me to this game was when I and a group of friends installed this game to our school's computers and spent at least four hours playing the game in the local network every Friday. Those days are long gone, but I still play the multiplayer every now and then.

(3) Pokemon Red
How could I be a pokemon fan if I didn't have a single Pokemon game in my all time top five games. Pokemon Red was the first legal game I ever got. Yes, I admit I played it with an emulator and a rom before I actually got it. I've been a bad, bad boy. The concept of the game was hooking and I think this is really the only series that has really gotten me into it. There's really not much to say. This game and the series as a whole is one of the milestones in my life in some way. I just realized I've been a fan for the series for nearly a decade now!

(2) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
This was the first ever game I got for my brand spanking new Nintendo 64 back in the day when it was a new release. I was always a fan of the Zelda series. I found something about it interesting. Well you kind of have to to maintain interest for the game, eh? The Ocarina of Time has the same kind of effect as Halo did. I wanted to play it because I wanted the story to progress, which, by the way, I found extremely interesting. I loved the puzzle solving element in the game. It wasn't too hard nor too easy. The boss fights implemented a little bit of puzzle solving; you always had to find the weakness of the boss. I personally loved the final boss, Ganon. Every game should learn from that boss that to make the final fight epic you have to have a huge ass boss. The only negative thing I have to say about this game is listen! listen! hey, listen! listen! listen! hey, listen!. It sometimes haunts me in my dreams.

(1) World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
I got on this massively multiplayer online role playing game when I got out of the army and had a lot of free time in my hands. This is a little over a year ago. I fell in love with this game in the first few months. You really get the epic feeling even with the very few months of gaming. The enviroments are incredible, especially in this expansion and the newly released expansion: The Wrath of the Lich King. The only reason the newest expansion is not on this list is because I haven't had the chance to explore the end game content of it at all. So far it seems like a stronger expansion than The Burning Crusade. Though the current pvp sucks sweaty hot elephant balls. I guess you could say World of Warcraft has its own culture. It has set the standard of modern MMORPGs and new releases are often compared to it. Which is a no brainer really considering the 10 million subscriber base the game has at the moment.
 
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