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QOTW: What are your top 5 games of all time?

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Ninja-KiLLR  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1. Colonization-DOS
2. Command and Conquer: Red Alert-PC
3. GTA:Vice City-PS2
4. Call of Duty-PC
5. Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion-PS3

it was impossible to choose since they to me are all tied for first and came out at different times which allowed maximum enjoyment
stickguy259  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Easy:

5. Mass Effect
4. Fallout 3
3. Super Mario Bros. 3
2. Half Life 2
1. Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition

I find it odd that most of my games are from this console generation. Not surprising, just odd.
OddWoN ER  - 3 months 29 days ago 
top five games?

thats kinda hard..but without a doubt
(1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. i've spent soo much time into the multiplayer..best $60 bucks i've EVER spent...
(2) Super Mario Bros. would be number two. that was my first game and even today i'll have a go at it..
(3) Grand Theft Auto IV...second game i've spent to most time on...and such playability...and so much to do, especially with the extra content
(4) Halo 3..pisses me off at times...but the custom games were the best...i've played so many of them with friends...the bring good (and bad) memories to mind
(5) Civilization Revolution
lets just say i've played the demo for HOURS....

fyi these are just what come to mind.. minus the first two.. and dont get me wrong there are many other great games, but...heck i cant play them all
RonnyLive19881  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1.LOZ:Wind Waker, this title was the freshest thing we have gotten from Nintendo in years! It completely changed the way I look at games and have still have yet to play something to top its Epicness!
2:MGS3 Subsistence, this game by far has the best story I have encountered. I was actually in tears at the end of the game. This game actually made you regret having to play as Solid Snake in MGS4, Naked Snake is just so much cooler!
3.Super Mario Bros 3, If I ever stop liking SMB3 it will be because it Killed my wife, raped my dog and sent my kids to a prison full of Pedomaniacs... knowing that can never happen I will forever love this game!
4.Beetle Adventure Racing, I have been waiting for years know and I am starting to think this racing gem wont be making it to the Virtual console. This is the only racing game I count as being funner than Mario Kart. It is one of Nintendo 64's best games.
5.Dead Space, Random I know! BUT this game simply floored me. I was expecting a Resident Evil ripoff and what I got was something that tops them all(barely). If it wasn't for Dead Space Resident Evil 2 would have been here. But DS pretty much show us how awesome HD gaming can be while being scarry and very fun at the same time. Here is to hoping that Dead Space Wii sells Great and Dead Space 2 has Coop!
RonnyLive19881  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1.LOZ:Wind Waker, this title was the freshest thing we have gotten from Nintendo in years! It completely changed the way I look at games and have still have yet to play something to top its Epicness!
2:MGS3 Subsistence, this game by far has the best story I have encountered. I was actually in tears at the end of the game. This game actually made you regret having to play as Solid Snake in MGS4, Naked Snake is just so much cooler!
3.Super Mario Bros 3, If I ever stop liking SMB3 it will be because it Killed my wife, raped my dog and sent my kids to a prison full of Pedomaniacs... knowing that can never happen I will forever love this game!
4.Beetle Adventure Racing, I have been waiting for years know and I am starting to think this racing gem wont be making it to the Virtual console. This is the only racing game I count as being funner than Mario Kart. It is one of Nintendo 64's best games.
5.Dead Space, Random I know! BUT this game simply floored me. I was expecting a Resident Evil ripoff and what I got was something that tops them all(barely). If it wasn't for Dead Space Resident Evil 2 would have been here. But DS pretty much show us how awesome HD gaming can be while being scarry and very fun at the same time. Here is to hoping that Dead Space Wii sells Great and Dead Space 2 has Coop!
*I'm replacing My 4th pick with Pokemon! It is at Times my favorite game ever but sometimes I do get sick of it bringing it to 4th. It is with out a doubt the most addictive game ever made!(yes even more so than Tetris or Fill It Lol)I wish there was an edit option...
RonnyLive19881  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Professor Layton, Hotel Dusk and Final Fantasy X are very honorable mentions!
txtIanC  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Bunch of amateurs.

Here are the 5:
Tetris
Solitaire
Mine sweeper
Ninja Gaiden (NES)
The Oregon Trail
HungryBeaver  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1. Fallout 3. I don't know how many times I've gone through that game trying to get different karma and doing quests different ways. So much replayability in that game. I also loved all the DLC they made, and am looking forward to Mothership Zeta.

2. Bioshock. That game was just epic. Although I thought it was too short, the tonics, plasmids, and variety of weapons and ammo just kept me playing that game.

3. COD4. I have MASSIVE amounts of play time on that game. The campaign was so - so, but it was the multiplayer that kept me playing. The created classes were awesome and it was also the first COD game I'd ever played. I remember in my first live match, the first thing I said was, "sorry if I suck, but this is the first time I've played this" Good times.

4. Oblivion. Tthat was just fun. The main quest, in my opinion, sucked major balls, but all of the guilds and side quests were really fun. I loved the thieves guild and the dark brotherhood, because I love being evil and doing bad things in games. I do't know why, but I think it's just more fun.

5. Spore. I know it's not too too popular, but the creativity options in that game were just immense. The tribe stage pissed me the hell off, but I enjoyed most of the other stages. Especially civilization, I like the vehicles in that.
Corsair89  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Only 5? I could make I list of my top 150 games if I wanted to. Seriously, I make lists of all sorts of things when I'm bored. Anyway...

1. Super Mario Bros. - The first game I ever played. Hell, SMB is part of my earliest memory, where I used to watch my uncle play it until I could develop motor skills.
2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - This just barely edged out Ocarina of the #2 spot.
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Oh, you know why it's here...
4. Resident Evil 4 - excellent aiming, chainsaw decapitations, fantastic boss battles(Del Lago FTW), tons of sprinting enimies, and that "bitch in the red dress."
5. The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker - my first Zelda and easily the most beautiful and special. And it's home to the greatest final blow in game history.
MGS4SolidSnake  - 3 months 29 days ago 
5)Red Dead Revolver(PS2)- the best western game ever created...great story, game play and the vs. mode is the most fun I ever had on the PS2
4)GTA San Andreas(PS2)- this game is funny, serious, and for as crazy as it gets it still has a good message
3)Syphonfilter(PS1)- this game was my first great experience with a shooter..i still remember tasing people until they catch on fire and that huge train crash then afterwards people would pop out of the fire and scare the hell out of you
2)MGS3(PS2)- my favorite instalment in the series has good gameplay, disuising, Naked Snake, young Ocelot, understandable story that really helps set up all of the event that are to come
1)This is the hardest one and maybe i am falling to much into memories but Pokemon Blue(GB)- this was the very first good game i played..i have no clue how many hours i put into it but i would not be surprised if it was longer then the average life span of a dog..i liked blue the most becuase i was one of the few people that i knew who had it i would look at all of the people with red and yellow and scoff at there unoriginality while i played my beautiful blue
Snarf  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1. Star Wars KOTOR. I never would have played it if it weren't for the fact that is was free with the Xbox.

2. James Bond 007: Goldeneye. That was the video game that got me into video games.

3. Bioshock. I never got to use a putter as a lethal weapon until then.

4. Gears of War. Without it I would have never gotten Xbox Live and be doomed to Campaign and Splitscreen for all eternity.

5. The Gamesradar Game. WHAT IT'S NOT OUT YET?!?!?! You guys better get to work.
thephntm  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1: Ocarina of Time (I know, it's a cliché)
2: Majora's Mask
3: Starfox Command
4: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
5: Super Mario Galaxy
Rovert  - 3 months 29 days ago 
5. Mario Kart -My family loves their marry-0 Kart. I still love the N64 version.

4. Super Smash Bros. Melee -It was an epic game that all of my friends got and gave a game to anyone who owned a Gamecube to be proud of.

3. Elder scrolls IV: Oblivion - I logged in over 300 hours of game play in the richly detailed world of Tamriel. I strangely never fell on the grip of Fallout 3 yet.

2. Pokemon (name color, gemstone here) - Blue version was the first game I ever got to call my own. I no long had to ask my brother to play his games because I could just sit in my bedroom and play for hours.

1. Halo (1,2,3) - If there was anything else like halo on a gamecube or ps2 in the day, an xbox might not be sitting under my tv right now. I walked out of Shopko back in 2003, a 10 year old kid, with Halo and Project Gotham Racing. Me and my neighbor who was older then me sat down and got addicted to co-op off the bat. Halo soon became the reason people came over to my house to play splitscreen games. Then with Halo 2 I purchased xbox live, and got lost under the never ending spell. Halo 3 was just glorified icing of the game i came back to for years to come and remains the game I'm most active on in xbox live.
key0blade  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Hmmm....
5)The Orange Box (I know it's five games in one but screw it, I only paid for one game...gawd what a deal)

4)Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars (yes, I am one of the few people who like this one more than *gasp* GTAIV *even thouh GTAIV is still a GREAT game though*)

3)Kingdom Hearts : Chain of Memories (as to why everyone hated that game is just WRONG, the GBA was an awesome system to play it on, though the PS2 remake is remarkable faithful)

2)Call of Duty 4 : Modern Warfare (Wow...just...wow, online is amazing, the terrorist and nuclear threat makes the plot not only great, but up to date-ish too, I love all the thrills of slashing someone with a knife online whene they're *THIS* close to you, what a game)


and Number One *cheesy drum-roll effect* is...METAL GEAR SOLID 4 (Graphics are WIN, gameplay is WIN, cutscenes *for the fans* are WIN, its humor is LOLZ, replay value is INSANE, Hideo Kojima is a beast for owning one of the greatest series ever created....and just so you know, Metal Gear Solid 3 was my favorite before this launched)
selio  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Note: I only have a wii and PC :( so my favorites are
1. Metroid Prime 3
2. SSBB
3. Portal
4. LoZ:aLTtP
5. HAWX
Harmon20  - 3 months 29 days ago 
okay, I promise I will NOT put Super Mario 64 or Zelda Ocarina of Time on here (And besides, I liked Majora's Mask more) I don't think those are the best. (these aren't in order of value, each game here is equal in my mind)

1. Tales of Symphonia - I just HAD to put this one here, I'm sorry. I love this game so much. The humor, the graphics, the characters, the story, the amazing battle system... just everything is perfect (although Genis could use more than just one talking animation...)

2. Super Smash Bros. (N64) - I like this one the most, simply because it still has a simplistic charm that the other two lack. The items and characters were all perfect, and everything was really well balanced. All the new games have stages where too much happens, like the scrolling ones (shiver at the thought of the ice climber level), but this one had very simple levels that just worked perfectly (plus they had Hyrule Castle, the best one).

3. GTA: San Andreas - okay, I know you're probably freaking out at me here, but hear me out. This game had EVERYTHING. It took everything from 3 and Vice City and made it PERFECT. There was just so much to do, it blew my mind (plus it had Gamesradar's home of San Fransico, so that's brownie points). And, it has airplanes, what was lacking in GTA4.

4. Final Fantasy X - like Symphonia, I cared about this for all the same reasons. In fact, this is the only game that managed to make me cry. TWICE! (when you find out Yuna has to die, and the ending...)

5. Pokemon Silver - I always thought (and still do) that this was and is the largest pokemon game made. Simply because you had the Johto main quest to do, but once you beat the Elite 4, you had all of the original Kanto to go through to see what changed and take on the new gym leaders. So that's two main quests, along with the perfect amount of pokemon to collect (I think there's too many now... but most of the new ones are really good, I'm not gonna lie.) Not to mention that I played that like crazy as a kid.

If I didn't make that promise to include Zelda, I would've made Majora's Mask #5. I really enjoyed all of the sidequests and trying to find all of the masks. There was so much more to do in that than Ocarina. Although there was one thing MM lacked: a large field to ride Epona in... (but you did have the large ocean to zora swim through ^_^)
Tymiegie  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Oblivion
Mass Effect
The Orange Box
Fallout 3
Bioshock
Metalhead347  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1. bioshock
2. fallout 3
3. oblivion
4. earthbound
5. GTA IV
ChrisAntistaSmellsLikePizza  - 3 months 29 days ago 
Well, there are too many games, so I will do something a little different.

5. Final Fantasy series: IV, VI, IX, X
4. Call of Duty series: 2, 4, and WAW
3. Pokemon yellow
2. Lost Odyssey
1. Team Fortress 2
babo_u_da  - 3 months 29 days ago 
1. Starcraft: been playing this since it came out and I still play it daily.
2. Pokemon Silver : I thought this was and still think is the best Pokemon out.
3. Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced: played with my friend for so long I'm pretty damn sure with both of us we put in at least 600+hours
4. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Counter-Strike: I remember having inter high school clan matches... (same goes for SC)
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