Inspired by: "100 Hot Takes: The Best Games Ever Made" by Piston Hyundai and "The Top 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time (IMO)" by Nuu.
Now, I want to do things a bit differently. Similar to Piston Hyundai, I intend to separate my posts into entries of 5, because I think the discussion that stems from it is great. But there's a catch. Every other day, I'll alternate between posting entries from my top 100, and entries from a separate unordered list of 100 that didn't make the cut. I'll explain all of these, and I hope we can find out some games we missed, ones we forgot, have some discussion and maybe even some recommendations. The honorable mentions list will generally be tied in some way to the previous 5 entries in the main list. I'll also occasionally post some anectodes relating to my gaming life. This is kind of like a journey of self reflection for me.
Now, if you're going to be reading about 200 games that I cared about, you probably need to know a bit about me. I started gaming in 1993 on my dad's PC. He was big into adventure games, like Police/Space quest, the Lucasarts games, Myst and such. I quickly got into action games as well. Living in the middle east, it was difficult to get console games at the time, and we would either get them delayed, or imported, which would mean region locking was an issue. A friend of mine has an NES and I'd go over and play SMB3 and TMNT there. It was a blast. But my first console of my own was when my mom brought me a PS1 from America. That shit was the bomb. I never had a sega console, a PS2, or a NES/SNES/gamecube, but ever since then I've owned pretty much every console. I've also tried to go back and play games on systems I missed, but of course it's not the same thing.
I'm generaly a gameplay guy, but I don't think story based games are better off being movies. In fact, I highly rate some story based games. I value how the game makes me feel over how it blows my mind or how tight it controls, but the rare few games that nail multiple of those aspects are real gems.
I have a few rules for how I make my list. I generally tend to value how a game made me feel when I first played it, and whether I can still respect that when I go back to it. For franchises, I tend to not want to include multiples per franchise, as I feel that the better games from a series represent the series as a whole, unless I REALLY love a series or it's a series that has gone through large paradigm shifts. And let's remember that this is a list of my personal experiences, so please don't get upset about some of my choices which will surely seem bizarre to some of you. Some games I straight up haven't played. Others, I didn't enjoy. I'd love to discuss why I didn't enjoy them.
Edit:
I decided that as per the journal-like format of the thread, I'll make two posts per day at least. Early in the day, ill post an anectode about video games throughout my life, and later I'll post the day's 5 games.
Top 100:
100-96
95-91
90-86
85-81
80-76
75-71
70-66
65-61
60-56
55-51
50-46
45-41
40-36
35-31
30-26
25-21
20-16
15-11
10-6
5
4
3
2
1
100 that didn't make the cut:
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII | Part IX | Part X | Part XI | Part XII | Part XIII | Part XIV | Part XV | Part XVI | Part XVII | Part XVIII
Anectodes:
SBFC and FSR
Crysis in Turkish
7th gen ennui, retro revival
Tekken conquest
The Shareware CD that started it all
Call of Duty house rules
Internet cafe fun times
The case of the missing GBC
Mega Man's monkey paw
The death of my first console
The bazaar
The piracy scene
GFWL support
Touchpad mastery
Starving for a PS3
Ambitious programming all-nighter
Stranger in a strange Comiket
Knytt Stories blunder
QUAKE
HL2 vs Doom 3
\m/
Pokemon and sickness
The DS of my relationship
Akihabara shopping adventures
Now, I want to do things a bit differently. Similar to Piston Hyundai, I intend to separate my posts into entries of 5, because I think the discussion that stems from it is great. But there's a catch. Every other day, I'll alternate between posting entries from my top 100, and entries from a separate unordered list of 100 that didn't make the cut. I'll explain all of these, and I hope we can find out some games we missed, ones we forgot, have some discussion and maybe even some recommendations. The honorable mentions list will generally be tied in some way to the previous 5 entries in the main list. I'll also occasionally post some anectodes relating to my gaming life. This is kind of like a journey of self reflection for me.
Now, if you're going to be reading about 200 games that I cared about, you probably need to know a bit about me. I started gaming in 1993 on my dad's PC. He was big into adventure games, like Police/Space quest, the Lucasarts games, Myst and such. I quickly got into action games as well. Living in the middle east, it was difficult to get console games at the time, and we would either get them delayed, or imported, which would mean region locking was an issue. A friend of mine has an NES and I'd go over and play SMB3 and TMNT there. It was a blast. But my first console of my own was when my mom brought me a PS1 from America. That shit was the bomb. I never had a sega console, a PS2, or a NES/SNES/gamecube, but ever since then I've owned pretty much every console. I've also tried to go back and play games on systems I missed, but of course it's not the same thing.
I'm generaly a gameplay guy, but I don't think story based games are better off being movies. In fact, I highly rate some story based games. I value how the game makes me feel over how it blows my mind or how tight it controls, but the rare few games that nail multiple of those aspects are real gems.
I have a few rules for how I make my list. I generally tend to value how a game made me feel when I first played it, and whether I can still respect that when I go back to it. For franchises, I tend to not want to include multiples per franchise, as I feel that the better games from a series represent the series as a whole, unless I REALLY love a series or it's a series that has gone through large paradigm shifts. And let's remember that this is a list of my personal experiences, so please don't get upset about some of my choices which will surely seem bizarre to some of you. Some games I straight up haven't played. Others, I didn't enjoy. I'd love to discuss why I didn't enjoy them.
Edit:
I decided that as per the journal-like format of the thread, I'll make two posts per day at least. Early in the day, ill post an anectode about video games throughout my life, and later I'll post the day's 5 games.
Top 100:
100-96
95-91
90-86
85-81
80-76
75-71
70-66
65-61
60-56
55-51
50-46
45-41
40-36
35-31
30-26
25-21
20-16
15-11
10-6
5
4
3
2
1
100 that didn't make the cut:
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII | Part IX | Part X | Part XI | Part XII | Part XIII | Part XIV | Part XV | Part XVI | Part XVII | Part XVIII
Anectodes:
SBFC and FSR
Crysis in Turkish
7th gen ennui, retro revival
Tekken conquest
The Shareware CD that started it all
Call of Duty house rules
Internet cafe fun times
The case of the missing GBC
Mega Man's monkey paw
The death of my first console
The bazaar
The piracy scene
GFWL support
Touchpad mastery
Starving for a PS3
Ambitious programming all-nighter
Stranger in a strange Comiket
Knytt Stories blunder
QUAKE
HL2 vs Doom 3
\m/
Pokemon and sickness
The DS of my relationship
Akihabara shopping adventures