I stopped reading at WoW. It's amazing what kind of garbage passes for "fun" these days.
These are in no particular order, just a general top 10
10 - Ultima Online
The only "real" online ROLEPLAYING game ever made. Too bad it was completely screwed up after OSI was purchased.
9 - Morrowind
So much better than this Oblivion trash
8 - Fallout 1 and 2
Fallout 3 just felt generic to me. I could never quite put my finger on it, but it just felt as if something was missing from the game. I know, maybe it was the macabre and twisted humor from the first two?
7 - Doom
The original deathmatch. I managed to bypass whatever pathetic security my high school had on its network. Our biweekly "keyboarding class" turned into biweekly massive deathmatch sessions until someone got busted and ruined it for us all. What made it funny was that they asked me to help them find out who did it, so naturally I "found" evidence to lead them far, far away from me.
6 - EverQuest
I listed this not necessarily because it was, "good", but because I have a lot of memories from playing this with my friends. After UO was fubared, we made the switch to EQ when it first came out. My friend and I spent a month getting to level 20. Once we dinged and our damage caps were removed, we lost interest and didn't touch it again, until the release of Shadows of Luclin. However, we formed our own guild, composed of just the three of us, called the, "Brood of Xuxekak". We all played Iksar named some variation of Xuxekak. (ie, Xuzekak, Xuxekok, etc). We passed the grinding boredom by being complete antisocial *******. We got really good at it. We could be passing through a zone on our way to town and, before hitting the zone line, could have the entire zone arguing over something in /OOC. We also pioneered, "Fish Quiz", a game where we would ask quiz questions to people waiting on the boats and give away the fish we caught as a prize. I think we also invented drunken Kurn's Tower diving.
We played off and on for a few months then finally gave it up for good in 2001. Never played another MMORPG since.
5 - Baldur's Gate
Enough said. Dragon Age is pretty good, but still missing the humor from BG.
4 - Battlefield 2
The best of the series, so far. Bad Company 2 *might* change that.
3 - Aliens vs Predator 2
The current AvP isn't bad, but AvP2 was a hell of a multiplayer experience.
2 - Operation Flashpoint
The original was a great multiplayer experience. The bugs made it even more fun. Great memories at the old DLPs we used to have (Drunken Lan Parties, in late high school and early college. We gutted an old Cyrix desktop I had and used the case as a cooler to hide our booze). The unpatched version was horrible and buggy, but made for some hilarious MP experiences. 3 of us got into a civilian car and were driving along, we hit a small bump and -- somehow -- the entire car was launched hundreds of feet into the air like a rocket. My two friends bailed out and fell to their deaths; I stayed in the car, which fell back to earth, rolled about 4 times and landed upright. I then drove away unscatched, running over their corpses on the way.
1 - Civilization IV
Need I say anything?
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