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If you want to know more about my thoughts on most of these games, you can wait for an entry in #DendensGamingDen, search for an existing entry or see any of my posts of my videogame top 400 in the #Top400Countdown! The top 150 in particular is full of gems I recommend. All linked below:
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1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Metal Gear Solid
I may have considered once upon a time to put Deus Ex or Beyond Good & Evil here, but the truth is, Metal Gear Solid was only ever going to be beaten by one game. The timeline is fuzzy on this one, (1/18)
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3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Deus Ex
As my top 10 is too limited for my 20-30 favourite games to fit in, my top 3 really has four games. Ask me for my three favourite games, my two favourite game of all-time are a certainty, (1/19)
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5. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
6. The Longest Journey
After I had already soared through the skies of Arcadia, and long before I first visited Arcadia Bay, I visited the world of Arcadia, the magical half of two parallel worlds upholding the Balance (1/24)
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7. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
8. Ape Escape
While I admit to being addicted to stories, a great videogame still thrives on great gameplay, generally speaking. Ape Escape is one of the finest examples I know of a videogame of which the gameplay (1/14)
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9. Life Is Strange/Before The Storm
10. Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer
The first Spyro was a bit of a revelation to me in 3D gaming. While I did play a bit of Super Mario 64 at friends, to have a platformer with this much freedom of movement in my possession, (1/26)
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11. Skies of Arcadia: Legends
12. Silent Hill
Resident Evil brought the original scares, Resident Evil 2 brought better scares. But then I played the original Silent Hill, and I found out just how much fear of blood tends to create fear for flesh. (1/22)
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13. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
14. Dreamfall Chapters
To many gamers, it’s Mass Effect, Uncharted, Donkey Kong Country or maybe even Modern Warfare. I honestly couldn’t say. I missed the boat on these, though I’ll certainly try them out someday (1/17)
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15. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
16. Disney's Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue!
My top 20 has remained largely unchanged so far, but I have arrived at two games that will move a bit. First off, there’s my third favourite platformer (1/20)
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17. Super Mario Sunshine
18. Epic Mickey
Not Mario nor Zelda top my list of favourite games on my third favourite Nintendo system. The greatest game I ever played on the Nintendo Wii is arguably one of the most flawed. Warren Spector wanted Disney fans to have (1/20)
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19. Shadowrun: Dragonfall
20. Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
During 6th gen, my friends and I would still regularly revert to the Playstation for some more old-fashioned multiplayer fun. That meant that, even while we had a lot of fun playing balloon battles (1/18)
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21. Super Smash Bros. Melee
22. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Once upon a time, Ubisoft did not rely on a single formula yet for 90% of their games. After the successes of Rayman 1 and especially 2, they tried all sorts of things to expand. (1/16)
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23. Worms Armageddon
24. To The Moon
As Dear Esther already showed, a game doesn’t need compelling gameplay to be a good game. But is a good narrative enough for a good videogame? Would To The Moon have been as good as a movie? I’m sure smarter people than I (1/14)
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25. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
26. Age of Empires II: Age of Kings
I suppose it’s difficult to believe I’m also a big RTS fan when taking a quick glance at my top 400, with the genre quite poorly represented overall. My own theory is that, besides the fact(1/11)
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27. Crash Team Racing
28. Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
I dabbled in the original when the whole concept of the Oddworld series was still new, but gaming outside of my Game Boy and Game Boy Color in general was still a new concept for me as well. (1/12)
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29. Resident Evil 2 (1998)
30. Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Entering the old top 30, here’s the last game of the Shadowrun trilogy by Harebrained Schemes. While still considerably better than SR Returns, it was always going to be hard to top the brilliant Dragonfall. (1/12)
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31. Carmageddon (PC)
32. Killer7
I once heard it said that if you try Killer7 for 30 minutes, you either hate it and you should just give up on it, or you love it. I knew I’d love it from the very first minute, and that love only grew with every moment of (1/13)
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33. Grim Fandango
34. Psychonauts
In my years on the Beyond Good & Evil Revolution message boards (yeah, I’ll never shut up about that), there are several games I had never played that came up again and again, Tim Schafer’s masterpieces ranked here (1/14)
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35. Silent Hill 2
36. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell
If Metal Gear Solid and Deus Ex weren’t around, I’m sure Splinter Cell would be my favourite stealth franchise. Then again, I might never have played Splinter Cell if it weren’t for these franchises, (1/18)
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37. Chrono Trigger
38. Final Fantasy VIII
Shortly after Final Fantasy VII changed my view of what videogames could be, I bought Final Fantasy VIII as one of my first original copies of a PS1 game. The gorgeous art direction and music immediately caught (1/15)
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39. Kingdom Hearts
40. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
After several failed attempts at Ion Storm to continue the series after the disappointing Invisible War, Eidos Montreal wanted to bring back the Deus Ex franchise in a big way, and as you can see here, I was very (1/19)
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41. Spider-Man (PS1)
42. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Yes, that’s right. My third favourite The Legend of Zelda is the legendary Ocarina of Time, one of the most influential videogames in the era of 3D gaming. If Super Mario 64 showed all developers (1/17)
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43. Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
44. Heart of Darkness
Oh no, we aren’t done with 2D platformers just yet. Here’s an experience that takes the old 2D platformer to new immersive heights with a narrative around a young boy travelling to a fantasy land (1/10)
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45. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
46. Assassin's Creed II
While the first trailer for the original Assassin’s Creed made a promise for the 7th gen of consoles to show a big leap in gameplay possibilities and graphical excellence, the game itself was nothing more (1/14)
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47. Dragon Age: Origins
48. Neverwinter Nights II
A friend of mine knew I loved RPGs, but I mainly played JRPGs. After we had played D&D for a while, he convinced me to try this game he had. My impression of Neverwinter Nights II was that it was an isometric (1/13)
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49. Age of Empires
50. SSX Tricky
One of the first games I bought on the Gamecube, I knew I had to have SSX Tricky after being hopelessly addicted to the PS2 demo of the original. While I loved the Gamecube controller in Super Mario Sunshine, (1/10)
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51. Timesplitters: Future Perfect
52. SSX 3
When I got this SSX 3 and first played it, I liked it fine. Progressing through the three mountain tops tackling the many challenges on offer was pretty cool, and making the run from the very top in one go (1/13)
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53. Pikmin 2
54. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
I’ll make no apologies for it. The Twin Snakes is how remakes should be done. As a fan of the original, I don’t want to play the original with prettier graphics. I want a bold take. A big swing that (1/12)
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55. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
56. The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
My favourite JRPG not made in Japan, and by far my favourite The Lord of the Rings game, The Third Age is a strange assembly of different ideas that somehow work so well it became (1/13)
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57. Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
58. Max Payne
Long before the time of High-Definition graphics, I saw screenshots of the upcoming game Max Payne back in the year 2000, and it blew my mind we had reached a point in graphical fidelity that was so insanely (1/8)
