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Your top 10 video games

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World of Warcraft
Grand Theft Auto series
Tony Hawk series
Need for Speed series
Deus Ex
Doom 1
Unreal Tournament
Super Mario 1 & 3
Half-Life
Civilization 3
 
Mario 64
Atari 5200 football
Atari 5200 Super Brakout (probably the only game on the system I can go back and play for hours)
Contra
NHL 93 (93?) Sega Genesis
NHL 94 Sega Genesis
Quake 2 (this game coincided with 3d cards, This was THE killer app for 3dFX!!! revolutionaized gaming)
Tennis for the N64
Mortal Kombat - Arcade
Mortal Comabat Sega Genesis

That's 10 of my all time favs....probably forgot one or two others though
 
Looking through other posts, I noticed these classics I've loved in the past:
Links series
Skate or die (awesome!)
Blades of Steel
Tecmo football (was it tecmo super bowl or super football or something? Killer game!)

There was also an RPG for the Sega CD that was awesome that I do not remember the name of. One of hte best RPGs ever!
 
Tony Hawk Pro Skater (Dreamcast)
Metal Gear Solid
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 9
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario World
Yoshi's Island
Tekken 3
Gran Turismo 2
 
Super Mario Kart
Killer Instinct (Arcade version)
Mortal Kombat 2
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Mario 64
Metroid Prime
Street Fighter 2 Hyper Fighting
Tekken 3
Halo 2 (for it's sheer fun on console FPS online multiplayer)
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

The top 2 are tied for first ... the other 8 are in no particular order.
 
this thread is sweet! makes me want to fire up all my old games and try those that others listed. let's see a few more lists! come on geeks, geek it up!
 
Final Fantasy VII
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Half-Life 1
Half-Life 2
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (the best one IMO)
StarCraft
Quake II
GRAW 2
 
Favorite Games

1. Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
4. God of War
5. Secret of Mana
6. Half-Life 2
7. Final Fantasy X
8. Zelda: Twilight Princess
9. Devil May Cry
10. Armored Core 3


Honorable Mention (In no Particular Order):
Chrono Trigger
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance
Metal Slug Anthology
Diablo II
Rome: Total War
Starcraft

Future games that may make the Top 10:
Spore
Assasin's Creed
Metal Gear Solid 4
Final Fantasy XIII
Armored Core 4 (Coming this Tuesday!)
Lair
 
No particular order.

StarCraft
TRIBES
Wasteland
Streets Of Rage II
Deus Ex
Sengoku
Xenogears
Street Fighter II: Championship Edition

Will add more as I think of them.
 
Tetris
Mario Kart 64 (more as a strategy game than anything)
FFIV
Dragon Warrior 2
Tony Hawk 2
Blades of Steel
Need for Speed (1-5, except for 2)

Some day a golf game will make this list, but none has been good enough yet.
 
Street Fighter 2
Virtua Fighter 2
Diablo 2
Final Fantasy 3
Pool of Radiance
Daytona USA
Doom
Zelda
Super Mario Bros
Grand Theft Auto
 
1. Total Annihilation
2. Transport Tycoon Deluxe
3. Quake & Quake 2
4. Duke Nukem 3D
5. Doom & Doom 2
6. Half Life
7. Carmageddon & Carmageddon 2
8. Descent & Descent 2
9. Far Cry
10.Spring (aka Ta Spring)
11.World of Warcraft <-- though I have grown to loathe this game, the amount of time I played it and really enjoyed it is why it's on my list.

New game that I don't know will stand the test of time, however, I really really dig it thus far: Supreme Commander

And my favorite from when I was really young, Lode Runner for the Apple 2.
 
Starcraft
Diablo II
Quake III
Medal Of Honor: Allied Assult
Starcraft
Counter Strike
Gran Tourismo (All of them)
Starcraft
Battlefield 1942 w/ Desert Combat
Starcraft
 
Super Mario Bros.
Zelda A Link to The Past
Zelda oot
System Shock 2
Thief: dark ages
Baldur's Gate
Freespace
Dark Forces
Starcraft
FF6
FF7
HL1
HL2
Team Fortress
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Cross
Banjo Kazooie
GTA3
Halo
Killer Instinct
Turok
 
Monkey Island 1 & 2
Starcraft
C&C Red Alert 1 & 2
C&C Tiberian Sun
Warcraft 2
Doom
Jazz Jackrabbit
Lemmings
SimCity 2000
Oregon Trail
 
half life w/mods
half life 2
warcraft 2/3
C&C:RA
Oregon Trail 1/2/3
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Diablo II
Battlefield
Super Mario Bros
Halo
 
Doom 1/2
Quake 2
Quake 3
Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament 2004
Half Life
Counter Strike
Duke 3D
Jedi Knight
StarCraft
 
1. Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
2. FreeSpace 2
3. Burnout III
4. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
5. Civilization III
6. Age of Empires III
7. Marble Blast
8. Lemmings
9. Super Mario World
10. Doom II
 
Too lazy to list 10, but right now Xenogears is my all time favorite...followed by...
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 3
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy X-2 (notice a pattern..?)
 
In no order:

Diablo II
Final Fantasy XII
Crono Trigger
Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
Contra (first game I just HAD to HAD to HAD to beat, easy to beat now but not when I was a kid)
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario 64
The Longest Journey
Deus Ex
Banjo Kazooie
 
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