Your personal all time top five video games

[IllregentHUN]

Half Life 2

GTA:San Andreas

Assassin's Creed II

LEGO Star Wars the Complete Saga

Army of Two 

[Badman_]

In no particular order.

 

- Mass Effect (the original from 2007)

- God of War (2005)

- Resident Evil 4

- GTA San Andreas

- Red Dead Redemption

 

There are other games that I'm a big fan of, but I didn't play them as much as the ones I listed above.

[LittleJesus]

No particular order, only one per franchise 

 

- Resident Evil 4

- Grand Theft Auto IV

- The Last of Us

- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End 

- Red Dead Redemption II 

[Algonquin Assassin]

1) GTA IV. Hands down my favourite game ever. I have literally owned about 4 versions of this lol on PS3 and 360 and have finished it 15 times.

 

GTA IV kept me interested not just in the GTA series, but gaming in general and it got me through a rather difficult point of my life where I endured loss and other hardships. It just comforted me through those times and touched me in ways no other game has which is why I still feel so strongly about it after all these years.

 

2) TLOU2. A rather new entry, but I love this game honestly. I enjoyed it more than the first one and despite its divisive nature it’s one of the most technically impressive PlayStation games I’ve ever played.

 

3) Assassin’s Creed II. Pretty much the GTA IV of the Assassin’s Creed series IMO.
 

I adored this game the first time I played it and to me it’s the absolute peak of the series. Just love the Italian Renaissance time period, watching Ezio grow from a cocky teenager to a highly skilled and deadly assassin. No other game in the series comes close to the epic journey of this one.

 

4) Mafia II. A little rough around the edges admittedly, but it had its own unique charm I’ve always admired.

 

5) Until Dawn. As someone who’s a massive horror buff I bloody love this game. It feels like a love letter to all of my favourite horror franchises. It’s genuinely creepy, tense and even made me laugh in some twisted kind of way lol.

 

Edited January 24, 2021 by Algonquin Assassin

[Guest]

5. PUBG

 

4. Counter Strike:Global Offensive

 

3. Team Fortress

 

2. Far Cry 2

 

1.

Spoiler

GTA SAN ANDREAS OMGMGMGMGMGMOGMGGMMGMGMGMGOGMGGMGM

 

[Standard Deluxe 59]

1. Burnout 3. It may have come out nearly 16 years ago but I'll be damned if it ain't still a fun as hell game.

 

2. Midnight Club LA. Ahead of its time when it came out, I don't remember anything else from that time or even since that allowed you to so extensively customize your vehicles. 

 

3. GTA IV. One of the very few games I ever replayed, of course it also had a great story, nice variety of cars and a lively NYC parody.

 

4. Test Drive Unlimited 2. As much maligned as this game was for its uncharacteristically funky driving physics, I quite liked it. I have yet to come across another game that lets me option out a car like I was ordering one from a dealer.

 

5. Wreckfest. Developed by the same people who made the original FlatOut games, complete with nice substantial vehicular carnage, rather detailed vehicles and becoming the first new new game I can honestly say I enjoyed playing in a very long time earned it the number five spot on my list. 

[TheSantader25]

1. GTA San Andreas

2. GTA V

3. The Last Of Us

4. Red Dead Redemption II

5. GTA Vice City

Edited January 28, 2021 by TheSantader25

[Vanto]

It's hard choosing five out of all my favorite games, but I guess it would be like this (in no particular order):

- Dishonored: Ever since I first played it I enjoyed it. The gameplay, story, lore, setting, powers, exploration, just about anything. I'll have to replay it again along with the DLCs, and the second one, and I'll have to finish the Death of the Outsider eventually.

- Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic: Nothing to add that I didn't say about Dishonored. A great game set in the Star Wars universe was about the best thing there could be when I first played it.

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: I bought it years after its release with all the hype about it. I enjoyed it, I don't think it's one of the best games ever, but I certainly played and had fun with it.

- Fallout: New Vegas: Everything I could say has been said about a thousand times. Great and fun no matter how many times I replay it (except REPCONN, and the hunting parties, and spending five minutes walking through McCarran). It's not perfect, but it's fun.

- Disco Elysium: I only played it and finished it recently so it's still fresh in my mind, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I don't doubt it will still be one of my top games years later.

 

Other games I would have included in a top list if it wasn't restricted to five titles (basically honorable mentions) are KotOR II, Papers, Please, Dying Light, Telltale's The Walking Dead (first and second season), Uncharted 4, Mirror's Edge and Half-Life.

[hitman989]

Metal Gear Solid

Hitman 2

Driver San Francisco

GTA 4

GTA 5

 

[B Dawg]

No particular order:

• Brutal Legend
• Grand Theft Auto IV & The Lost And Damned
• Wreckfest
• Test Drive Unlimited
• Payday: The Heist

[ballstorture]

Gotta say it's kinda hard for me to fit a non-r* title to this list,but if I have to choose one game that I love to mess with the most when ain't on these typical anti-heroe tales,I'd go for the sims lol

1.Red Dead Redemption 2

2.GTA V

3.Bully&GTA San Andreas

4.Red Dead Redemption&GTA Vice City

5.The Sims 4

Other games that I personally appreicated very much are The Wolf Among Us and Dishonored 2&The Witcher 3

Edited February 6, 2021 by Abel Tesfaye

[FanEu7]

1. Mass Effect 2

2. GTA IV

3. The Witcher 3

4. Dragon Age Origins

5. Red Dead Redemption 2

[Uncle Sikee Atric]

Not all top 5's are dominated by AAA....  Plus mine is 6.

 

6 : Rimworld : Tynan's masterpiece of colony management tells an ever-changing story of survival, in a world that's out to kill all your colonists at every turn.  All wrapped up in a basic shell that adds everything else via modding, from factions to prison labour.  No two playthroughs are ever the same, and that's the appeal. 

 

5 : System Shock 2 : SS1 was the hint at what the franchise could be, then 2 arrived and showed us all how to play horror, unease and atmosphere.  If Crosscode has the best protagonist, than System Shock has the best Antagonist in SHODAN (and I've had the honour of shaking Terri Brosius' hand).  The entire story of the UNN Von Braun and the Rickenbacker is terrific and everything is a stress-inducing suggestion of imagination.  You never see the horror, but the audio logs and aftermath are everywhere, including the grisly torture and murder log that inhabits Deck 6.  Another case of being the right man in the wrong place, but the story alone doesn't do the System Shock franchise justice.  Thank god SS1 is near to remaster completion, and SS3 is now in development.

 

4 : Euro Truck Sim 2 / American Truck Sim (Both are pretty much the same) : Chill games and simulations have their place too and nothing beats just chilling to music and podcasts while driving loads around a world that has a dedicated community, dedication to making the game exactly as you wish in terms of arcade via realism.  Multiple manufacturer support meaning the trucks are laser-measured replicas of the real thing, constant development and improvements, and a friendly modding scene that adds everything from trucks, to maps and multiplayer support.

  

3 : Half-Life 2 : After Doom, Quake and the rest, Half-Life was the game I wanted.  Gordon's tale is just a story of the right man in the wrong place, and it makes for scene after scene of memorable events.  Then HL2 arrived and demonstrated why Valve have an awesome ability to deliver games.  Shame there's no continuation of the story, and the Borealis / Aperture integration that was teased.  HL3 seems impossible now.

 

2 : Crosscode : I'll batter on about this one forever.  Don't be put off by the simplistic looks, 16-bit graphics, slow story and obvious comparisons the early game offers, believe me, those that don't get it all make the same one.  Hidden under the hood is a massive, 50 hour plus (easily 100+ for 100% completion), RPG, that shows a lot of the big developers they've gone in the wrong direction.  Fabulous combat, sweet puzzle design, tons of background lore and one of the best communities are all rounded up by, probably the best ever protagonist to grace a game, plus the story makes you genuinely feel for her.  Now it's on all consoles (and the XBox / Windows Game Pass), plus the upcoming DLC, no one has an excuse to ignore it.  A hidden gem that deserves far more praise and coverage than it gets.

 

1 : Paradroid.  Revolution in gaming was at the pinnacle during the 80's and this C64 game was the first time line of sight became something important.  Plenty of planning, tactics and fast, frantic action from a game that looks stupidly simple, yet offers a massive challenge, even today.  Always shocked me that there's never been a modern reboot / remake of the classic, the last one was on the Amiga / ST in '89.

Edited February 6, 2021 by Uncle Sikee Atric

[zeko]

1. Silent Hill 3

2. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

3. Bully

4. Forgotten Hope 2 (it's now standalone)

5. GTA Vice City

[vcfan1991]

Final Fantasy 8 (PS1)

Vice City (PS2/PC)

Counter-Strike (PC)

Tekken Tag (PS2)

Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2x (Xbox)

Edited February 6, 2021 by vcfan1991

[ZeroRaxo]

8 hours ago, zeko said:

1. Silent Hill 3

2. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

3. Bully

4. Forgotten Hope 2 (it's now standalone)

5. GTA Vice City

I thought you would put every Silent Hill franchise there, anyways
1. GTA San Andreas (I don't really play the story mode much, instead I'm making terrible missions with DYOM)
2. GTA 3
3. Bully
4. GTA Vice City
5. GTA 2

Edited February 7, 2021 by Axoez

[EGA_6]

1. The Witcher III: Wild Hunt: Complete Edition

2. Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition

-My list does change every week lol. Not with the top 2, but if RDR 2 is truly in my top 3 list.

-I haven't played games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (ik lol), Fallout 4, and Cyberpunk 2077 yet. I do feel like these games can end up being on my top 5 list.

-Honorable mentions: Red Dead Redemption II and Grand Theft Auto V

Edited February 16, 2021 by EliteGamer_6

[Corndawg93]

1) Red Dead Redemption 2

2) The Last of Us 

3) The Witcher 3

4) Horizon Zero Dawn

5) The Last of Us Part II 

[RedDagger]

It's hard writing this list, I've played so many games over so much time, and I've played so many different types of games, that condensing it down into just 5 is hard...I'd love to write about the other games that I feel are really special and deserve a mention, but I can about sort the highest 5:

 

5: Dofus (2004) - when I was in my MMORPG phase I'd looked at a few, but the only one that hooked me was this one that's fairly unknown in the English internet, as it's a mostly French affair - which is unfortunate since it's a quality game, and has a lot of charm and humour in its world & presentation which has made it stick in my head unlike most other games I've played. Even though I didn't spend much time playing with other people - which is weird because it's explicitly designed for you to do so, being an MMO - it generated some great memories that have stuck, and I wish I'd spent more time playing it properly since I barely scratched the surface, but the state of the game now is all too different to be able to claw that back. Unfortunately its sequels, Wakfu and Waven (still in alpha), just...haven't matched the magic Ankama made, and most of their playerbase agrees. It's a shame, because I'm not sure if the gaming landscape will allow for games like Dofus to be popular ever again; lord knows most companies are still chasing WoW if they even try to make a more classic MMO game.

 

4: Half-Life: Alyx (2020) - I was blown away when I got my VR headset, but the games were still not really "complete" feeling; they're absolutely fun, and the experience of shooting firearms in VR alone was worth getting the headset, but the tech was still in its infancy and despite attempts hadn't really generated a game that felt "proper". Half-Life: Alyx is fairly unique in its reputation among VR players for being a game that just..."gets" it - it doesn't do anything noticeably fancy in terms of tech, it doesn't have some gimmick to justify its existence, the only properly new thing you can point to is its gravity gloves for interaction, and those alone don't make a great game. Instead, Half-Life: Alyx is simply well made from a team that clearly knows what they're doing with VR, and the end result is something that genuinely lives up to the hype of VR as a future of gaming, and more impressively is worthy of being the latest entry in the Half-Life franchise. 

 

3: Mini Car Racing (1999) - technically just the international release of Germany's Asphalt Duell, this very obscure combat racing game is near the start of my history of playing video games - initially playing the demo version from a demo pack from the now defunct eGames, I vividly remember my dad bidding on a copy of the full game on eBay when I was a small child; I think it counts as the first game I specifically got. The reason I got it is the reason I'll still play it occasionally, in being a simple, arcadey, but surprisingly well-crafted game; I'm genuinely surprised no other game has released that fits in the seemingly obvious specific niche that Mini Car Racing fills, in terms of its specific method of racing, upgrading, and shooting - the combat racing genre isn't terribly saturated or indeed at the front of popularity, but somehow no one else has thought to do the same easily addictive gameplay loop and it makes Mini Car Racing stand out to me all the more despite its age. I could honestly write an essay on what this game does right... I even did a speedrun of it because I was disappointed that no one else had given it the honour.

 

2: Team Fortress 2 (2007) - when I got the orange box over a decade ago for Xbox 360, it was for Portal and Half-Life: 2, two games I'd heard about as being highly regarded - I hadn't really heard of TF2, and it was only after I'd spent some time with the other games on the disc did I decide to have a look at what this other freebie was. I soon had downloaded steam just for TF2 to play on PC, and even at my crappy ~25fps that my computer at the time could manage, by the time I got a new PC capable of running the game at hundreds of FPS in 2015 I had managed to rack up 1000 hours, and now have well over 4000, both which dwarf any other game I've ever played. It's simply so well crafted, having a deceptive depth of gameplay combined with an equal breadth if gameplay in each of the 9 classes and how they interact with each other in the various game modes, producing something where you can spend thousands of hours mastering a single class. Add to this the characters and writing, and especially the endless wide variety of community content (that I've added to, being a part of the mapping community!) and you get that game that everyone recognises and is still hosting a large active playerbase well over a decade later. Though, the recent bot situation and Valve's infamous lack of reaction to said problem could be what changes that...

 

1: Night in the Woods (2017) - if you've read my Why microtransactions are bad for consumers AKA free content can be sh*t thread, it's probably no surprise to know that I was heavily burnt out on AAA games at that point, with the last straw being finding myself monotonously flying a buzzard doing cargo in GTAO just so I could afford a car to go back to doing what I actually enjoyed in the game, the racing. I decided it was time to actually try out the simple indie game side of gaming, since at that point I hadn't really played them all that much, and went on a little spree of playing indie games and finding that I enjoyed them very much; the comparatively short play time - some only a couple hours long, the longest around 10 hours to "finish" the game - was a welcome contrast to the seemingly endless time investment required of many AAA games. The experiences and stories themselves were all wonderful in their own unique ways that only indie games can seemingly manage, but Night in the Woods was a clear head above the rest, and easily above any other game I'd played. It's a mixture of many things - from the wonderful art style, the emotive music (R.I.P. Alec Holowka) to the charming mini-game-ridden gameplay, and characters & writing; but what made it special to me was what made it special to many other people, and that's how personal many themes of the story was, and still are. Obviously that alone isn't enough - it's only possible thanks to the writing and bolstered by everything else - but the emotional reaction to finishing Night in the Woods means it has the unique position of having a notable impact on my life. Other games have impacted, of course, but those are to do with things surrounding the game - the obvious example being communities surrounding games - but Night in the Woods is the only one where the game itself was the direct, personal impact, and the impression this game left on me in only 20 hours of play makes it easily, easily my personal favourite game of all time, despite the many games I've played over 2 decades and the incredible hours I've sunken into a lot of them. Night in the Woods is just too good!

[DeltaV20]

Street fighters 
Gta vice city 
need for speed most wanted 2010 
project IGI 
Gta V 

[Spider-Vice]

This is a really difficult one for me, I could easily list more than five games that became all-time favourites, so I'm just not going to rank them whatsoever, especially because they range from AAA games with impressive production quality, to indie (or what people call "AA") games making an impact.

 

Life is Strange - This one was one that came out of leftfield at the time, especially because I feel like only in the 2010's there started to be games that more openly raised awareness to certain subjects and used them as main plot points. I already knew Dontnod from having played their previous game Remember Me, but that was unfortunately a game that had a very different premise during development and was turned nearly into a 3rd person hack-and-slash by Capcom once it was released. When LiS was announced at Gamescom 2014, it instantly piqued my interest as it seemed to be a very down-to-earth game about a girl who got the power to manipulate time and was just trying to get through high school and reuniting with her best friend, with a bunch of challenges in the way. When I actually played it, I was not expecting it to be that good and that impactful. Despite not personally identifying with all of the subjects in the game, it impacted me in a few ways I didn't expect from a video game, especially with how the relationship between Max and Chloe was portrayed and written, how good the writing of some of the characters, when in distress, was (realistic depictions of depression and suicide in a high school setting), and the overall flow of the game and how the protagonist's powers were used to try and change the world for the best, but causing more issues than it was worth. The ending of this game also saw me stop for the longest time I had ever experienced, to make a decision. The game presents these extremely relatable and well-written characters to you, and then presents you with that ending. Whee.

This entry sorta includes the second game, which had a completely different premise, but an equally impactful one, especially due to the political (and unfortunately very real) subjects raised in it, such as discrimination, racism, police brutality, and even the infamous "wall"... it was once again an extremely well written game that also covered other important subjects, but even more serious than the first one. Oh and the soundtrack in both, hnng.

 

GTA San Andreas - Might be a bit of a no brainer, considering I'm typing this on a GTA forum and this was the game that made me join in the first place (along with GTA IV's announcement), but this was the game that cemented my love for the series, and I ended up buying it on every single platform at the time and putting more time into it than I can even count. If the PS2, Xbox and the PC retail versions had timers, I think it would be thousands upon thousands of hours since the 2004 release. I had already played GTA 2, III and VC, but San Andreas was the first game to actually hook me to the series, due to all of the extra things it added, the absolutely beautiful and big world for the time, and the seemingly "infinite" amount of things to do and mess around with compared to the previous games. Fighter jets? Got it. Gigantic buildings you can access? Yup. Random activities like gyms, driving/flying/biking/boating schools? Yup. I also felt like the story was impressive for a game like GTA at the time, it was long enough, very entertaining, action filled, and personally a lot less frustrating than the stories in GTA III and VC, which I felt were rather unbalanced especially in the 2nd half of each game. Also, because I owned the game on PC as well, a lot of the time was spent modding, using other people's mods or trying to create my own very very sh*tty mods...

 

Red Dead Redemption 2 - I never doubted Rockstar's skills to make a game like RDR2, development or writing-wise, but RDR2 I think has to be the game that has most impressed me so far in terms of what it could do as an open world game with an extremely extensive, serious and well-written story, to the point I didn't expect it to be so so good with just the pre-release media. The amount of detail crammed into RDR2 made it one of my all-time favourite games instantly - every single NPC is interactable, there are side-story beats you can unexpectedly trigger by interacting with the world, the map is gigantic and extraordinarily detailed, and most of all... that main story was once again one of those that impacted me quite deeply, not only it felt like a true Western, but it also had one of the most heart wrenching endings I've ever witnessed in a video game. The gradual build-up to Arthur's tuberculosis was possibly one of the best I've seen in a game, from fighting with Downes, to the game very very slowly telling you something was wrong until the reveal actually happened. It's really hard to describe all of the reasons why I love this game, because it's so so crammed with detail, it's impossible for me to talk about everything. It's also very clear it was a game made with lots of love and attention from the development and writing side, and I say this also from knowing how a lot of the developers still love their own game despite having worked on it for so many years every day. More open world games like this pls, and hoping future Rockstar games will be just like this in terms of detail and a more down-to-earth story, but I imagine we won't be disappointed.

 

Portal (series) - I feel like putting Valve here is cheating because I liked basically every single one of their mainline games from back then, but Portal was just another one of those games that just came out of leftfield. I don't think anyone expected the series to be this successful, especially with the game's pre-Valve history that was hidden somewhere in an university thesis as F-Stop and also as an indie game (Narbacular Drop) that was made by one of the people who then ended up at Valve to develop Portal. The concept behind the puzzles in the game was revolutionary, at least for me, at the time. Extremely well crafted puzzle maps, amazing story writing with GLaDOS and a loooooot of cool stuff Valve did like the ARG's to tease Portal 2, among other things. These crazies literally went to the extent of using SSTV transmissions you had to manually decode to tease future Portal content... It was one of those games that really made you think, a proper puzzle game in my books, that I have played and replayed time and time again. The same thing applies to the second game, but even better. The level design in that game, along with its even better (and extremely fun) story and mechanics made it one of my favourite games of all-time no questions asked. I really wish Valve would go back to games like these, because even without a few people from the original team, games like HL Alyx show they still have it in them.

 

Control - I've been a Remedy fan since Max Payne, and I played every single story-based game they've put out, but this has to be the best experience I've had with them, especially because I absolutely adore their storytelling and think Sam Lake's writing is really, really good. The man knows how to make a mystery and connect things together, and if he wanted he could probably do something like the world's biggest ARG. The environments in Control and the premise of the game are absolutely one of my favourites. The whole concept of the Oldest House and the Hiss and everything I think was just great, and the connections to Quantum Break and Alan Wake I think were pretty well done as well. It had all of the quirky but impressive stuff from previous Remedy games, despite the combat having been a pretty significant negative point for me. The technology behind it I also found pretty impressive, and it's a game I've definitely revisited a bunch of times and plan to do so again in the future. Plus points for bringing back James McCaffrey from Max Payne. Also all praise Ahti and Dr. Darling.

 

 

Honourable mentions for me would be the Max Payne games, Cyberpunk 2077 (no, I'm not joking) and probably a few more games really.

 

I haven't really proofread this cos I suck at explaining things so  I could also talk about more things about each of these games that are just now coming to my head, but see previous sentence.

[MarshDanni]

No real order, but here it is:

 

Deus Ex - Really, really love the theme and settings in this game. Going all over the world trying to defeat a worldwide conspiracy, Illuminati, Aliens, Area 51, Nanotechnology. The gameplay part is a bit janky, but patches are here for that. BONUS: My profile picture is from Deus Ex, one of the villians.

 

Metal Gear Solid 1 (PS1) - My first 'real' game. Remember playing this one with my older brother when I was 4 or 5 maybe. Probably my favorite game of all time. I love the series to death, but this one has a special place in my heart. I don't need to mention that back then it seemed so grand. Amazing cutscenes for the time, a lot of dialogue, cool boss fights. All in all I don't know how they pulled off to put this thing on like 2 cd's (around 1.3 GB) 

 

UFO: Enemy Unknown - Or should I say the OG XCOM game, this stuff is my fix man. Giving it to those bastard alien scum makes my day. Especially when a low hit chance (11% to hit) actually hits someone. The game is not for the faint of heart, in a way that it kicks ass of anyone who doesn't know what they're doing. Also should mention that mods for this almost 30 year old game are still being made which is awesome!

 

World of Warcraft - This one is like that hot and crazy ex-girlfriend. You know she's bad for you, you invested too much time and money into her and you know you're better off without her. But she pulls you when you're weak or horny and you say to yourself: "Why did I do this" and then you do it again after some time

 

Grand Theft Auto IV - Well it wouldn't be nice if I didn't put up my favorite GTA. When the trailer was announced I thought that this was it. The realism is in video games. It seemed so grand, so realistic, so nice. When it released it was even better than I hoped. In retrospect I wish it had richer gameplay, but I can understand it why it didn't. I like everything about this game. The story, the setting, the characters, the theme. Everything

Edited February 16, 2021 by MarshDanni

[Tryve1]

1. Red Dead Redemption 2

2. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

3. Portal series

4. Assassin's Creed 2/ Black Flag

5. Uncharted 4: A thief's End

 

Honorable mentions: Metal Gear Solid 2,3, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Fallout: New Vegas, Elder Scrolls IV&V and Mass Effect 2