Gothic
Warcraft 3
Borderlands 2
Minecraft
Terraria
ARK: Survival Evolved
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Baldur’s Gate 3
Mass Effect Trilogy (2 being my favorite but I loved all 3)
Elden Ring
Skyrim
Destiny 2 (probably gonna checkout Into the Light next week)
WoW
Fallout 4
Fallout NV
Dragon Age: Origins
Dragon Age: Inquisition
(DA2 would make the list if it weren’t for the overuse of the same 3 maps)
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- Red dead 2
- The Last of Us Part I
- The Last of Us Part II
- Fable (original)
- Lemmings
- Skyrim
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Mario maker
Animal crossing!
I did like black ops 4
Original Tomb Raiders on PS1
Might & Magic 6
FF7 & FFX/X-2
Forgot about these
Agreed.
Sonic 1-3 and Spyro’s first 3 games. Both were so much fun.
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That was indeed a very fine game, with memorable expansions that really enhanced the game. The editor was superb too and I had a ton of fun sampling the various persistent online worlds that players created. Some of them were top-notch, like mini MMOs.
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Other than wow, my list is:
Banjo Kazooie 1 & 2
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Pokémon Crystal Version
I’ve played many, many games over the years, but those will always be the ones I love the most.
I forgot about this one! Lemmings is super fun.
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My favorite moment was in the Hordes of the Underdark expansion where you find Enserric the Longsword. One of the funniest minor characters I’ve ever encountered in a video game. I even rebuilt my character to use longswords just so I could have Enserric around.
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Besides WoW,
Spyro
Crash Bandicoot
Ori and the Blind Forest + Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Monster Hunter (most games)
Spiritfarer
Pokemon games, but if I want to be specific Crystal and Ruby
Temtem
PUBG
Warzone
Ark
Hogwarts
touhou the embodiment of scarlet devil
Arcade:
Defender
Shinobi
Phoenix (1980)
Galaxian
Double Dragon
Mortal Kombat 2 (favorite game of all time 
, and it’s ports in the order of )
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Daytona USA 2
Outrun 2 (+ Outrun 2006: Coast2Coast on console and PSP)
Rolling Thunder
Cruis’n World (+on N64)
Cruis’n Blast (only have played Switch version but stuck it here)
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder
NBA Hangtime
Virtua Fighter and Virtua Fighter 2
Ms. Pac Man
Gauntlet Legends/Gauntlet Dark Legacy
Crazy Taxi
Space Invaders '95
Cotton 2/Cotton Boomerang
Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition (fyi, I dislike turbo in Street Fighter 2 engine games; it’s fine in Alpha and others series)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 (+Alpha 2 Gold)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (+Upper and the expanded home ports)
Street Fighter 3 Third Stike (2nd impact has my favorite stage backgrounds though)
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Marvel vs Capcom 2
Qix and Super Qix
Operation Wolf (+on NES)
Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT: Turtles in Time (+the NES port and SNES port, respectively)
Undercover Cops (one of the best beat-em-ups of all time, Super Famicom port is decent too but lacks 2-player co-op)
2020 Super Baseball; Baseball Stars; Baseball Stars 2 (SNK’s baseball games are just raw arcade-y fun)
Neo Turf Masters
Fatal Fury 3; and Real Bout Fatal Fury (hey, I loved the 3-plane system plus FF3’s are my favorite sprite and background designs in the series)
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
WWF: Wrestlemania the Arcade Game
WWF: Superstars (Wrestlefest as well, but though it looks cooler I prefer how Superstars plays because it’s basically just Double Dragon 1 or Renegade in a wrestling ring while Wrestlefest changed things up)
Virtua Fighter (+32X and Saturn versions)
Virtua Fighter 2 (+Saturn and PC)
Virtua Fighter 3 (+VF3tb on Dreamcast)
Dead or Alive 2 (only played the arcade version a few years ago, but I really loved it Dreamcast and especially DoA2 Hardcore on original Xbox)
PC:
Unreal
Unreal Tournament ('99 + it’s Dreamcast and PS2 ports)
Unreal Tournament 2004
Pre-1.6 Counter-Strike
Diablo 2
Lightspeed (from Microprose)
Jack Nicklaus Unlimited Golf
Jack Nicklaus 4
Wolfenstein 3D
DooM & DooM 2
No One Lives Forever and No One Lives Forever 2
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Codename Eagle
Quake
Quake 2
Half-Life
Team Fortress Classic
Baldur’s Gate 2
Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday
Need For Speed: Porche Unleashed
Chivalry/Chivalry2
Hexen
Gorogoa
Handheld:
Zelda: Link’s Awakening (Game Boy/Switch)
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (Game Boy Advance)
Tetris (Game Boy)
Double Dragon (Game Boy; favorite home version, a better take on NES version)
Motocross Maniacs (Game Boy)
Motocross Maniacs Advance (Game Boy Advance)
The GG Shinobi and The GG Shinobi 2: Silent Fury (Game Gear)
Cutthroat Island (Game Boy/Game Gear but only for the music)
Might Morphin’ Power Rangers (Game Gear)
Mortal Kombat 2 (Game Boy; Game Gear’s okay, but GB version plays a lot better)
Jack Nicklaus Golf (Game Boy…best of any of the JN Golf games ports simply because it’s actually performant enough that you are not waiting half a minute for a screen refresh)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance (GBA)/Tactics A2 (DS)
Fat Princess (PSP)
Qix++ (PSP)
Baseball (Game Boy…very simple but fun)
Gripshif (PSP)
Jeanne d’Arc (PSP)
Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins (PSP)
Super Mario Advance (GBA…I love Super Mario Bros 2)
Mario Kart Super Circuit (GBA)
Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission (GBA)
A bunch of Castlevania games (GB, GBA, DS, PSP)
…
Console:
Phoenix (Atari VCS/2600)
Galaxian (Atari VCS/2600)
Ms. Pac-Man (Atari VCS/2600, Sega Genesis, Game Boy Color…)
Pitfall & Pitfall 2 (Atari VCS/2600)
Kirby’s Adventure (NES)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhatten Project (NES)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
DuckTales (NES)
Final Fantasy 1 (NES, Game Boy Avance, PSX, PSP…)
Final Fantasy 6 (/3 SNES)
Super Mario Bros 2 and 3 (NES)
Track & Field 2 (NES)
Super Mario World (SNES…not a fan of Yoshi’s Island but know I’m in the minority there)
Super Mario All-Stars (SNES)
Super Mario RPG (SNES)
Double Dragon (NES and Sega Genesis…Arc System Work’s port to the Sega Master System is fairly janky with questionable hit-detection but it deserves a shout out for having the best renditions of the sound track in the Japanese FM version of the soundtrack)
Double Dragon 2 (NES and PC-Engine CD/TurboGrafx-16 CD version…a better effort than the arcade DD2 though that is fun too)
Final Fight 3 (SNES, pretty easy but the 2nd best side-scrolling beat-em-up on the SNES behind Undercover Cops, but at least you can play 2-players in Final Fight 3, or player+CPU if you have no friends)
Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 3, Streets of Rage 4 (Sega Genesis + modern systems)
Side Pocket and Minnesota Fats (Genesis/SNES are the best versions of Side Pocket [actually a clean port of the naughty arcade Pocket Gal Deluxe and not the original arcade Side Pocket which had a NES port]; Minnesota Fats is good on the Genesis but better on the Sega Saturn)
Fighter’s Megamix (Sega Saturn)
Shinobi 3 (Sega Genesis + the awesome 3DS port…shh I like Revenge of Shinobi but don’t love it like some fans do…Shadow Dancer is fun too but also not in the same league)
Shinobi Legions (Sega Saturn)
Little League World Series (NES; again, SNK baseball games are just raw fun)
DooM 64 (N64)
Perfect Dark (N64/XBox360…love it love it)
Super Fantasy Zone (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis…whole series is fun; music in this one is some of the best on the system: not surprising given the Sunsoft trio that composed it).
Body Harvest (N64…DMA Design/Rockstar North’s proto-GTA3 with classic sci-fi elements…so fun, but, whew, is it ugly and performance is sub-20fps most of the time…it really needed a Dreamcast port or PC, something with more fillrate and more RAM)
Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City (PS2 etc, still my favorites in the series)
Def Jam: Fight for NY (PS2, I loved Aki’s wresting games, and this is just the best stuff they ever put out)
Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution (PS2…bought a PS2 for this one, never played the arcade versions of VF4)
Halo: Combat Evolved (Xbox, PC, 360, XBOne, PC-again…I enjoyed the other Halo games, but there’s just something special about the original)
Super Monkey Ball and Super Monkey Ball 2 (GameCube…I got actually laughed at when I was the only one that held up my hand for Super Monkey Ball at the midnight GameCube launch [that and the GBA are the only consoles I ever bought on launch day]…ha, jokes on all of them, Super Monkey Ball is insanely fun and addicting…I had been reading IGN news on and waiting, hoping the arcade version of Monkey Ball got ported to Dreamcast so I buy or import it, didn’t happen, but I was HAD to have it on launch on GC…even though I probably, really couldn’t afford the console at the time; Super Monkey Ball 2 was just bigger and better)
Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES…I like Link’s Awakening better but this is my 3rd favorite in the series)
Zelda: Wind Waker (Game Cube…my 2nd favorite behind Link’s Awakening…)
Zelda: Four Swords Adventure (Game Cube…love it too but less so than the other 3 I mentioned)
Mortal Kombat Trilogy (PSX/Saturn/N64)
Puggsy (Sega Genesis)
Unreal Championship 2 (original XBox…this should have been ported to PC too…yeah, there’s a couple of PC alpha builds out there, but they certainly are early and not nearly as polished as the released XBox game)
…
I may have got carried away…but I have problems narrowing things like “favorites” down.
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Hollow Knight; 180 hours into it to complete all achievements. It’s like $15 on steam and goes on sale. This was a defining game for me over the last few years as I lost interest in WoW and it’s a huge exploration game that I played as blindly as possible while trying my own loadouts which really recaptured the magic of gaming and enjoying the process rather than just reading up on what was best.
Horizon Zero Dawn; didn’t play as much, but just really fun/buttery smooth combat system. New one is finally on PC and I’ll pick it up at some point.
Ah hell yeah this has to be on the list. A game way ahead of its time, the DLC that involved going up and down a mountain like 50 times is absolutely terrible content though, but that’s not on the original game developers.
Joshstrifehayes did a review of this game like a year ago and he nitpicked three trivial things on the basis of “This is all I could find to criticize”
Oh yeah one more: Stardew Valley. Not really an incredible game that I would say brought anything new to the table or took risks, but just a really good/relaxing game to play if you want a recent harvest moon type game.
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Civilization I
Wizardry
Ultima III-IV
Zork
The original Castle Wolfenstein
Monkey Island
Wing Commander
Lemmings, Unirally, SSSV, Body Harvest, GTA/GTA2++++…DMA Designs were on a roll there for a while even before they became Rockstar North. Great games and Body Harvest is especially one of my favorites.
In Lemmings, eah, they were cheap so most of the music was arrangements of public domain songs, but they were generally pretty good arrangements ( 3DO is tops here though). Or in the case of the SNES port, the composer at Sunsoft who did the port did some good but, umm, interesting arrangements, with my favorite being the wacky-instruments version of Infernal Gallop:
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Dragon Age Origin and 2. That’s right, I said “2.” I loved the second one. Fite me.
Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
Neverwinter Nights (original one from the late 90s, early 2000s?)
Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Command & Conquer rts games probably my fav. Was hooked on Tecmo super bowl for the Nintendo for a long time also. Original Battlefield games like 1942 ranks up there for me 
This one was my fav
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Monster Rancher, seemingly unpopular opinion on it but MR3 in particular.
Tactics Ogre, and the whole Ogre Battle series.
Star Ocean the Second Story.
I really loved Totalwar Warhammer, but I’m a bit peeved with my AoS army of Beastmen being nixxed so while I loved the game, I’m probably done with the brand.
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