Origins would have been my only platinum if my PS3 hadn't died.

Such a shitshow of a generation for hardware quality.

70. Silent Hill

It's 1999 and survival horror mania is in full bloom. Capcom has the flagship franchise but Konami wanted to make a rival in the survival horror space, a more psychological horror game. Silent Hill was a massive production for them, ads were all over and I was super excited to jump into this freaky town. It took all of 2 minutes to make me realize this is a whole different level of scary. Right away you lose your daughter, you search though the fog and see her run into an alley, you go deeper and deeper, it gets darker and darker. The alley begins to change, the chain fences have bodies now, guts and blood cover the floor, the music starts to pound and screech. Still you dont know where you are going and then darkness, and when you see light a dead body ripped open on a fence, demonic children coming at you with knives, you die.  RE is baby stuff, SH will haunt you to the core, I was mortified after the start.

This game had me spooked in a way almost nothing had done before. I forced myself to play with the lights off, I admit sometimes I just turned them back on cause wtf. The school when you are in the patio and you just hear horrific growling of some creature that is who knows where, ahhhhh. And then after solving puzzles and exploring this abandoned school a pathway down into the basement opens up, the source of that noise... fuck you game. But down I went and I activated a generator or something, no monster, ok cool, lets go back out AHHH WHAT THE FUCKKKKK!!! The entire school is now a demonic hell version, all the halls and rooms morphed into nightmare fuel. My favorite moment in the school is remembring a creepy painting of a door (picture above) in the prinicpals office. Well when you go to the hell version the prinicpals office is now that painting, genius.

That's what Silent Hill does, play with your head, with your expectations. The gameplay was clunky, combat a step back from RE. The inventory management is not really a focus, this game is about exploring and surviving. It did have some good boss battles but what stands out are the locations and moments of fear. Like when you are in the hospital and you search all three floors, so where to next, you enter the elevator and magically a 4th floor button that was not there before is there. So you go to the 4th floor that doesn't exist and enter the hell version of the hospital, that sticks in my mind. Oh and the alternate endings and awesome secret UFO ending were so much fun to unlock. I played this game so many times, got every hidden weapon and ending. I don't care what people say, the sequel was a huge step back in level design, in moments as I described above. I would say the series never reached the heights of the first game. This is the scariest game I have ever played in my life.

69. Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite

Following in the footsteps of system shock 2 which I feel is a bad game with good ideas taken from Deus Ex, Bioshock modernized the Deus Ex formula into a story driven classic. Rapture is easily one of the most iconic video game locations, a fully realized underwater city turned house of horrors. Exploring rapture sort of unfolds a little like a Metroid game, levels open up when you gain a new ability, parts of the map connect to each other, but its done so seamlessly. From the botany area, to the theater district, every inch of this game has a personality. I was hooked from the gripping intro and engaged all the way through, especially when the big twist came which is an all time twist.

The gameplay was fantastic too taking elements of Deus Ex and mixing it with some cool powers. The biotics allow you to manipulate foces like electricty, fire, and ice and the game world has all kinds of systems in place to use these as environmental attacks against enemies. Or you can hack drones, sneak around and bash people in the head or just use guns. Battles could be planned out with mines and traps, it was not just a mindless shooter. All your best laid plans go to shit if you anger a Big Daddy which were like roaming bosses. The whole big daddy and little sister system was unique and a good way to make players have a moral choice with gameplay consequences. Bioshock is briliant game, oozing with atmosphere and is a meaty large adventure we don't see much from the FPS genre now.

I feel everyone lost their mind with this game, gets praised as a highly rated epic and then people decided to shit on it, they are wrong. Infinite is a classic, the story, setting and yes even gameplay is top notch. I am a sucker for time travel stories and sci fi and this was right up my alley with one hell of a time travel story. I loved the characters, Booker was excellent and this game made Troy Baker a star, Elizabeth is like a Disney princesss in a nightmare, the twins are the quirjy scientists. This game is a lot more linear than Bioshock but it works because the story has so many highs, its fast paced and goes to amazing places by the end. The alternate realities, the damn pinky, and the ultimate reveal at the end, so brilliant. All the action is highlighted by moments of peace and character building between Booker and Elizabeth, they feel like a true team and they form an emotional connection to the player.

Once again the setting is fully realized in ways most games do not achieve. The sky city of colombia is like an alternate segregated America, you see the inner workings of the politics and the class structure. You notice the weird issues with time, like how do they have covers of famous 80s music. Loved the mystery and being absorbed in the world. Then came the gameplay which is far more liberating and free than the first with the addiction of the railing skyhooks which allow you to swing through the air on a roller coaster of death. I love fast paced action and this game delivers it with all kinds of awesome powers. Most of the biotics from the first are here but now there is a whole layer of augments you can attach to your character which can create all kinds of crazy builds. You can become a cannonball of death that can dash through the battlefield colliding with enemies in a giant flame attack. you can become a jedi and hurl enemies off the blimps. I used the move controller with this game, one of the few major titles to support it so I was able to flick enemies around with my hand, play this wii style, I loved it. Infinite is a classic