What are your top games of all time?

Off the top my head:

• Metal Gear Solid
  • This was the first game that I can remember that started the cinematic gaming approach.
  • What makes it special to me is the story, characters, great gameplay, and the pacing!
• Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time / Tears of the Kingdom:
  • I’m torn between the two! Ocarina of Time still has the better story tho.
  • I also liked Ocarina of Time’s pacing/dungeons, but Tears has amazing open world and creative gameplay.
• Bayonetta 1/ 2:
  • When I think of the best action games, I think of Kamiya, and especially Bayonetta.
  • These games are fun, stylish, and they make you feel like a beat ’em up badass!
• Silent Hill 2:
  • This was on my list before the remake, but the Remake solidifies it even more.
  • Very few games can take you into the psyche of a character while having the gameplay to match.
• Resident Evil Remake
  • I know we’re so used to RE Remakes by now, but the first one is still the best.
  • Closed doors, creepy house, you never quite know what you’re about to encounter when you open that door. Still one of the best survival horror games and a pioneer in that genre for sure.

What about you, SW? What are your top games of all time?

Hands down Concord and Dustborn.

1. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

2. Chrono Trigger

3. Chrono Cross

4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

5. Super Mario Odyssey

1. Donkey Kong Country 2

2. Max Payne

3. Half Life

When it comes to replayability, this is it. There is nothing better.

But my all time favourite game list would probably be bigger and include more recent titels.

1. Deus Ex
2. STALKER 1
3. Half-life 2
4. System Shock 2
5. Doom Eternal

These are top 5

Rest are in no order

• FEAR
• Max Payne
• Mafia 1
• Splinter cell Chaos theory
• Resident Evil 4 Remake
• Hitman Blood Money (WOA trilogy close second)

Enjoy too many games to narrow it down across a few, so it's not going to happen here for every game I rank as the top dogs.

If I ever call a game "top tier" or "among the best of its genre". It just means I value it as one of my tops, and I have many. Metal Gear Solid, Chrono Trigger & Resident Evil Remake are among them though. Honestly find those who rinse and repeat the same old "top fives" are broken records, just don't venture outside comfort-zones, living in the past, and that's dull.

To give a few I doubt anyone here would pick- Armored Core: For Answer, DUSK, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, Katamari Damashii, Mr. Driller: Drill Land, Tetris, Dragon's Crown, Sifu, The Evil Within 2, Tearaway, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Monster Hunter 4G, & Signalis.. all peak, and just a few games I would call peak.

Huu... kinda changes each time.

Halflife

Halflife 2 (VR)

Ultimate: Doom

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid 3

Splinter Cell 3

Phantasy Star

Homeworld

Underrail

(in no particular order)

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
2. Super Mario World
3. Counter-Strike
4. Unreal Tournament
5. Super Mario Galaxy
6. Pokemon X/Y
7. Resident Evil 4
8. Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
9. World of Goo
10. Geometry Wars 2

Ocarina of time

Perfect dark

Operation flashpoint

Dishonoured

Bioshock

Kingdom come deliverance

Battlefield 2042

The most "mechanically perfect" game is TETRIS. Nothing has ever beat TETRIS on pure mechanics and it has almost a Chess like simplicity.

Half-Life 2 is still my personal all-time favourite.

I just bought Chrono cross and am going to play it for the first time. Is it dated or will it feel timeless like Trigger?

Some top 3's for me:

NES - TMNT, Super Mario Bros. 2, Bionic Commando

SNES - Secret of Evermore, Super Metroid, F-Zero

GENESIS - X-Men, Kid Chameleon, Shinobi III

PS1 - Silent Hill 1, Tomb Raider 3, Final Fantasy 8/ Parasite Eve (tie)

PS2 - Silent Hill 3, Rule of Rose, Final Fantasy X-2

PS3 - Fallout 3, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, Siren: Blood Curse

PS4 - Persona 4, The Evil Within, Divinity: Original Sin

PS5 - Silent Hill 2 Remake, Tomb Raider Remastered 1-3, Resident Evil Village VR (PSVR 2)/ Persona 5 (tie)

PC - Cyberpunk 2077 (in VR with Rift S), Syberia 1, Baldur's Gate 2

Off the top of my head right now:

• Super Mario Odyssey
• Inside
• Portal 2
• Half-Life 2
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Bioshock
• Ori 1 & 2 (can't split them)
• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
• GTA San Andreas
• Nier Automata

@TheEroica: More dated then Chrono Trigger. The visuals are pretty rough, especially the background visuals like the map. The game was pretty divisive as well. The combat system is kind of funky and people didn’t like the large cast of characters because it kind of spread things a little thin character/story wise. Personally I love the game but it’s not a game that I would just wholeheartedly recommend to anyone.

@Archangel3371: I usually play a jrpg every year so this was the one I picked. I'm still into Atari games so I'll survive on dated.

Lumines has beaten Tetris because it has a banging soundtrack and changing themes.

Anyone remember the Tetris handhelds?

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4, Skate 3 and Gears of War 3

I couldn't just name a few, but after reading everyone else picks I can safely say that not one of them I would put on my list.

Copy and paste mine from a similar thread.

My top 10 all time games are:

10) GoldenEye 007
9) Mario Kart 8: Deluxe
8) Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
7) Halo: The Master Chief Collection
6) Forza Horizon 5
5) Super Smash Bros Ultimate
4) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
3) Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
2) Super Mario World
1) Dota 2

We already know your picks:

• Remnant
• Remnant 2
• Some old school Sega game
• Some old school racer
• The first 5 minutes of Days Gone

This coming from the guy who has a Kojima pillow that creates this thread around 3 times a year to tell us AGAIN that you like MGS, when most gamers know it's an average series at BEST.

And has remakes on their list of best games ever🤦‍♂️

I'm just a typical gamer who doesn't like saying "this is the best game of all time" or anything like that. I do have a bad habit of replaying old or newest games I find enjoyable, nostalgic, or just simply passing the time. But these are the top of my head and not in this order but rather I see them replay values:

1. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64
2. 007: Goldeneye N64
3. Banjo/Kazooie & Tooie
4. Halo Master Chief Collection
5. Resident Evil: Code Veronica
6. Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
7. Pokemon Gold/Silver
8. Crysis
9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
10. Star Wars: KOTOR 2: Sith Lords
11. Luigi's Mansion
12. Sonic Mania
13. Resident Evil: Village
14. Mass Effect: Andromeda
15. Control
16. Black Myth: Wukong
17. Super Smash Bros. Melee
18. God of War 2018
19. Last of Us 2
20. Ghost of Tsushima
21. Megaman X5
22. Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
23. Cyberpunk 2077

That's a lot of games, yeah I know. But like I said, I always come back to replay'em from time to time. I don't like saying of all time, 23 games on the top of my head are the ones I enjoy the most.

Top 10 in order:

1. Xenoblade Chronicles X (Imagine how happy I am right about now)

2. Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

3. Street Fighter 2 (Turbo Edition)

4. Path Of Exile

5. No Man's Sky

6. Skies of Arcadia

7. Super Mario Maker 2

8. Starbound

9. Enshrouded

10. Path of Exile 2

only into January and the MOST asked question on SW has shown its face.....sure the TC has asked this a dozen times

Best

Top 3

Top 5

Top 10

Top 20

Its like watching Sony release a TLOU remaster every 6 months 🤣😂

Anyhoo......The Witcher 3

Absolutely. And don't forget ET on the Atari 2600.

Anyway, we have had this thread before.

Kotor 2, Stalker, Sleeping Dogs, Undertale, GTA SA, Vampire Bloodlines, Bioshock 1

My top games personally?

• Legend of Dragoon
• Final Fantasy VII
• Chrono Cross
• Super Mario World
• Super Mario Kart
• Twisted Metal 4
• Grand Theft Auto Vice City & San Andreas
• Warcraft III & Frozen Throne
• Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2
• Metal Gear Solid IV
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• God of War (PS2)
• League of Legends
• Elder Scrolls Oblivion
• Fallout 3
• Mass Effect 2
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Horizon Zero Dawn
• God of War (2018)
• Cyberpunk 2077

I'm sure I'm missing some but I just went off the games that had the most impact on me when I came across them as a kid or even later in life. Same with some of these as multiplayer only titles; some of the best times playing with my buds online late nights and ranking up

Witcher 3

Halo 3

Gears 3

Mario 64

Halos/Forzas/Gearz. lol :P

Dead Rising

Donkey Kong Country 2

Ganbare Goemon / Legend of Mystical Ninja

Ultimate DOOM

Final Fantasy 6

GTA Vice City

Spyro The Dragon

Katamari Damacy

Drakkhen ( obligatory Shoutout for my most favorite game)

Paper Mario

Super Mario RPG : Legend of the Seven Stars

Chrono Trigger was pretty damn good

Silent Hill 3

Resident Evil 2

Gex :Enter The Gecko ( Peculiarly the PSX version)