SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

"Bioshock is one of those games that is paced so well that it is never boring for the 12+ hours it takes to play."

It is true. It is a fetch quest, but nicely paced. Facepalm yourself for not liking it, bitch.

Dvader said:  

Holy crap... do you want to finish up the list for me. The order is slightly off and Soul Reaver was 99, so not on the list. You are missing one.

Bah, nobody cares about the PS1 version.  Hmmmmmm.  I have one game left for the 20th man:

Dvader said:  

So fallout 3 is freaking awesome!!!!!!!! The game keeps getting better, each area feels new, not copy pasted.

Dvader said:

Yodariquo said:

Dvader said:  

Holy crap... do you want to finish up the list for me. The order is slightly off and Soul Reaver was 99, so not on the list. You are missing one.

Bah, nobody cares about the PS1 version.  Hmmmmmm.  I have one game left for the 20th man:

Dvader said:  

So fallout 3 is freaking awesome!!!!!!!! The game keeps getting better, each area feels new, not copy pasted.

That's 8 exclamation marks good.  Oh, and fine.  Wind Waker is probably below Metroid Prime 3 and Uncharted 2, with Metroid and Uncharted flipped.

Damn you!!!!

You still have the order wrong but damn you got the whole list.

Yoda freaks me out.

Dvader said:

Yodariquo said:

Damn you!!!!

You still have the order wrong but damn you got the whole list.

Yoda says you talk in your sleep.

Also that your nude hairy body gave him a full body rash.

10. Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic

THE Star Wars game. This was my first real foray into the WRPG, I had never played a Bioware game before. The combat was this semi real time system that made for such great battles. The interaction with characters was beyond anything I had played before, your choices impacted the storyline in drastic ways allowing for second playthrough that is very different from the first. Above all it made you feel like a Jedi, games like Jedi Knight or Unleashed only showcase the "I am a badass with super powers" angle but this game covers the whole moral code of the Jedi Knight as well.It also so happens to have one of the best storylines in the Star Wars universe.

9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

The features list of this title seemed like some GTA fans insane fantasy, somehow it became true. The developers went totally nuts and said lets put everything into this game. I can only imagine what the development meetings were like: "Hey I say we put in character building, you know like make them fat if they eat to much or big if they lift weights. Oh and lets add stealth elements which can be used in robbery missions.A full fledged casino would be great. This game needs bikes, and giant mountains which you can ride your bike off, hmm but that would kill you UNLESS you had a parachute! Why stop there lets add a freaking jetpack! And fighter planes! And lets not make one city lets make an entire state that is three times the size of Vice City!!!" And the devs actually said "lets do it".

8. Super Mario Galaxy

Something was missing from the 3D Mario's, they felt more like mission based collecting games than a presicion based platformer like it's 2D brethren. In comes Galaxywhich manages to capture that magic that the 2D Mario's had and puts into 3D like no game has ever done. The playing it safe Nintendo that we had been getting used to was no where to be found, this game screamed of wild imagination this is the Nintendo I grew up with. Galaxy is the finest 3D platformer of all time and it really isn't close.

7. LittleBigPlanet

Mario is the best platformer, LBP is not just a platformer, just want to clear that up before there is any confusion. One of the best ideas of this decade and one I hope that spreads to other genres (yes I know this is happening on PC). This isn't simply a game that so happens to have a level editor in it too. It is not a game that so happens to have a mod community supporting it. It is a game where every single aspect is built around the concept that you will be creating levels, that you will be sharing them and playing them with others. The single player is built around this, the menus is built around it, the purpose of the game is to provide us with the platform in which to play and share each others creations. The LBP community is unlike anything out there, they have gone far bast the simple platformers and have created SHUMPS, Contra clones, puzzle games,sports games, music levels, it has it all. It is the game that keeps on giving, one year later and hundreds of thousands of levels later the game keeps evolving, the new water pack is coming soon. It is hard to place this game cause the developers just need to create the foundation and let us do the rest of the work. I think the concept is the best of this decade.

6. Metroid Prime

Metroid Prime was the first game of last gen that made me go "holy crap, this gen has arrived". I was not a big Metroid fan, not that I didn't like the games, I just never played them. I only played the original and that was ancient compared to Super Metroid. So MP was my first real dip into the Metroid formula and what an experience it was. This is like the action version of a Zelda game. There is no overworld , no towns to explore, the entire game is like one big dungeon and inside are tons of items and powerups that slowly open this dungeon up. Few games have ever blown me away quite like this one.

5. Metal Gear Solid 3

Interchange this game with MGS4, I really dont care, both are masterpieces. MGS3 took the gameplay elements they added in MGS2 and opened up the world. Gone were the confined hallways, the almost pac-man like gameplay where you tried to avoid the eye sight cone of enemies. Now you have a jungle to explore, you can use camo to hide in plain sight. The stealth elements and gunplay were taken to a whole new level. I could spend hours on one screen just finding new ways to take out all the guards. MGS3 has the best collection of bosses in the series and maybe of any game, none better than The End, an actual sniper battle. It has all the little things that make Kojima games stand out, so many inside joke, hidden easter eggs to find, hell there is a whole optional dream sequence that is like an action game tucked away. The storyline is as exciting as it gets it puts most action movies to shame. It all culminates in the greatest final few hours in gaming history.

4. Metal Gear Solid 4

Kojima's magnum opus. MGS4 combines all the good and even some of the bad (bloated storyline) that Kojima brings to his games. At it's core MGS4 does what the previous MGS games did and that is build on the foundation with new gameplay changing ideas. MGS4 takes the camo based large area stealth gameplay, makes it function better through the use of octocamo and removes the clunky gunplay that lingered, replacing it with gunplay that can rival most action games. This game is the MGS formula perfected, finally all aspects, whether it be stealth, gunplay are all at the highest quality. It simply has the best gameplay of the series. It does not stop there, the first half of the game plays like the sequel we all expected, the second half is where the madness and I feel genius kicks in. All the elements from the past MGS games get thrown together, mixed up in a giant blender and spit out throughout the final half of this game. It is a wild collection of gameplay situations and boss fights. There are brand new situations unlike anything seen in a MGS game like the whole Europe level. It has all those awesome setpieces we expectto have in a MGS title only bigger and better than before. The boss fights are all new versions of the very best boss fights from the entire series. The Shadow Moses level brings back the ****c MGS feel that was lost as it went to more open environments. It is an homage to the entire series, andto the hero Solid Snake. This is how you close out a series. And I didn't even get into the secrets, the extras, the replay valueand the tons of easter eggs that put thise series over the top. It is all here, this is the ultimate Metal Gear title and Kojima's finest work.

3. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

In many ways this is the best Zelda game, and for me that would probably make it my favorite game ever. If you remove the concept of time, if all Zelda games came out all at once without anyone having played any of them I have no doubts that the grand majority would say this is the best. But we don't live in a world like that, this is the fourth of the 3D Zelda's it plays it rather safe with the formula. Twilight Princess takes the very best aspects of all 3 of the 3D Zelda's; the epic quest of OoT, the character morphing of MM, and the faster paced combat of Wind Waker. The main quest is the best in the series but at the expense at side quests which were clearly incorporated into the main quest. The dugeons again, the best in the series. Each dungeon had it's very own theme, all different from the rest like a snow covered mansion to a dungeon in the sky. It has the largest collection of items to use some being totally unlike anything before like the awesome spinning top item. The overall combat is improved from the previous three and the boss battles are up there with the very best. It has unforgettable moments like a horse carriage chase orflying a giant bird thing through a waterfall filled canyon. It is so perfectly designed and for such a long lengthy game, you don't see that in games. It is one of the finest gaming experiences of my life, the issue is that I have experienced something very similar to it before.

2. Resident Evil 4

I hate that this isn't number one, I wish the game above had come out a few months earlier so that I can proclaim this as my game of the decade cause it deserves it. RE was a franchise in turmoil, it was going nowhere, it was slowly becoming irrelevant in gaming. The old RE formula refused to change and Capcom ran it to the ground. In comes Mikami, the series creator to save his baby and what he did was create a game that has as much impact as the original Resident Evil did. It didn't stop there, it didn't just change third person shooters, RE4 is not only the originator of this type of game it is far and away the best of it's kind, I don't even know if it can be topped. I have never played a game where every single new area provides a scenario ora new twist to the gameplay. Every five to ten minutes in this game leads you to a new situation that you had not encountered before. This game isn't just throwing waves of enemies at you, each section is specifically designed to surprise you, to keep things fresh. The amazing thing is that it goes on and on and on for about 15 hours of the most action packed well designed gameplay I have ever played. I knew this game was going to be something special as I read the previews, I was hyped, this game shattered my expectations in every way. It is the game I judge every action game by now, it is almost unfair. RE5 is it as good as RE4, no. Dead Space is it as good as RE4 no. Uncharted is it as good as RE4, no. I love this game, it was my game of the generation for the PS2 era. It absolutly deserves to be in the general discussion for best game of the decade.

1. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

You must be tired of reading best this and best that, there is none of that here. This isn't the best Zelda game. This is actually one of the titles that splits the community in two. This choice is simply for me, this is my game. When I finally got around to playing OoT, which was a few years after it hit, it quickly became my favorite game. It took everything I loved about Zelda back as a kid and successfully translated it into 3D and made it bigger than I could imagine. Of course I was dying to play the sequel, I had borrowed someones old N64 and I found that my blockbuster had the game for rent, at the time I had a monthly pass thingy so late fees were not an issue, thank god. So I start the game and it's different, it got the whole groundhog day thing going and itwas alittle slow to get going. I see a major difference right away and that is in how lively the world of Termina was, the NPCs all stood out. The game got into the clasic Zelda groove and I was loving it. I felt the masks added a new dimension to the gameplay, it just wasn't Link with a few items now Link himself can change into different forms which opened up all new gameplay situations. There were only four dungeons but they were excellent and to get to them almost felt like it's own dunegon.

Then there was the stamp system and how the groundhog day time effected the game world. This is where Majora's Mask stands apart from all other Zelda games. The people of Termina felt like they really had lives, they went about their daily activities, each had a story to tell, some major event in their lives which happens within those final days of the world. These characters became the side quests and not in a traditional RPG sense where they basically give you some objective to complete, no this was done the Zelda way. They were like puzzles, what item do I use here, where and when do I use it, how can I help this person. You combine that with the usual action, puzzle exploration formula of Zelda and you got a game world that is unlike any other.

At some point I just lost myself to this game. It was in the middle of a summer so I had no school to worry about I just kind of played this game for about two weeks straight. I think it was around the part where you reach Termina Bay and you look out into the ocean which you can jump into and find abeautiful zora city beneath the waves, that is when I thought to myself "this is the best game I have ever played". To this day no game has made me feel whatever I felt that day. This is why I play games. No movie, no book, no music can make you feel part of an adventure orcan completely suck you into a world that you can interact with.

Woops sorry I wrote so much, but I love talking about my favorite games. Thanks for reading.

"Some swear by this game, they love the art ****" 

Hmmm.... so we get the left-overs eh?

aspro said:

"Some swear by this game, they love the art ****"

Hmmm.... so we get the left-overs eh?

I actually posted it here first, I just liking creating the post their so that I dont get any wierd html errors or whatever.

aspro said:

Dvader said:

aspro said:

"Some swear by this game, they love the art ****"

Hmmm.... so we get the left-overs eh?

I actually posted it here first, I just liking creating the post their so that I dont get any wierd html errors or whatever.

I've read through your list, it's a lot of work to be seen just by us dudes. Surprised MM made #1 and not RE4. I've had a bad day of gaming, so I'm actually playing the original Zelda right now (on the collectors GC disc) I'm going to give this franchise a go.  

I already started Phantom Hourglass after hearing you goon about it on the podcast.

LBP and Kotor were other surprises.

Were you not around last year as I went on and on about LBP.

Foolz said:

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

I love how Vader drops Sonic Adventure 2 in there and nonchalently walks away as if nothing has happened.

 Yeah, that's awesome.