Your 3 Top games ever!

• Mass Effect
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Legend of Zelda : The Wind Waker

1. Dragon Warrior

2. FFIV

3... I'll have to think about the third

Halo 3

Mass Effect 2

Halo or Golden Axe.

War of the Monsters, Okami, Darksiders

1. Blur
2. Tribes: Aerial Assault
3. Forza Motorsport 2

Honorable mentions: Super Mario World, Project Gotham Racing 2, Hydro Thunder, Team Fortress 2

DMC 3, CoD 4, Skyrim, LoL, Wind Waker, WoW Burning Crusade, BF3, Rainbow Six 3, Bad Company 2, Zelda OoT, Super Mario World/64... All very close to the top.

I... I guess if I had to choose which 3 I would hate most to not have experienced...

• DMC3
• CoD 4 or BF3 (Just can't decide. Probably BF3 but I just feel like I'm obligated to pay tribute to CoD4.)
• WoW: Burning Crusade

Not in any order. DMC3 changed how I looked at character action games and it's just the best character action game ever, so yeah. CoD 4 is what really got me into online multiplayer FPS games. I like BF3 quite a bit more though, so I don't know. Very hard to decide as CoD4 is what got me into playing online FPS but BF3 is all I ever wanted in an arcade-y online FPS. Burning Crusade was just a MAJOR part of my life for like 2 years (I think I have somewhere around 180 - 200 days logged across my characters... That's 4320 - 4800 hours. Damn. Might even be more, I don't know.) These are just barely above the rest of the games I listed up top. I always feel like I'm being forced to pick my favorite child or something when I try to list out my favorite games.

If compilations count...

Deus Ex

Orange Box

Super Mario All-Stars

If compilations do not count...

Deus Ex

Half-Life

Super Mario World

1. Rome: Total War
2. Europa Universalis 3
3. Unreal Tournament 2004

I am SUPER surprised by some of these lists but. I will play your little game!

1. Sly Cooper Series (I've only played 1 & 2 but I own all 3 and It's my favorite game series of all time. 1 is by far my favorite!) [Really surprised for all the platformers that this one isn't on here yet? It's Pure perfect story and gameplay]

2. Half Life (The original... I forgot how it hit me until you replay it again. I can never forget it.)

3. N+ would probably be my third.

I want to say Counter Strike 1.6 would be my third since I used to have spent so much time on that but I've since pulled myself away and realize it was good but I was just addicted. I've come across better now and so that's a close one but not in the top 3. Clearly others could be in there but those are the ones that I'd say I'll ALWAYS remember.

1. Like, Shadow of the Colossus

2. Like, Braid

3. Like, Backyard Wrestling 2

Wait, what?

1. Mass Effect 2

2. Knights of the Old Republic

3. Braid

Ninja Gaiden Black

Duck Tales

Resident Evil 4

ZeldaOOT, RE4,Mass Effect series

Out of This World/Another World

Capcom vs SNK 2

Super Mario Bros. 3

top 3 games I wasted the most time with - 
 
EverQuest 
City of Heroes 
Eve Online 
 
top 3 favorite games I had a really great time with - 

Mass Effect 
The Witcher 2 
Fallout 3

I'll play, only 'cuz my #1 is a total outlier:

1. Paradroid (C=64 version)

2. Quake 2 (especially with the Lithium mod)

3. SSX 3 (Xbox version, played on a 360)

Three radically different types of games, on three different systems, from three different decades. But they are my mental benchmarks by which I judge most other games I've played.

1) galaga

2) quake

3) super mario world

1. Diablo 2
2. Call of Duty 4
3. Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30

1. Metal Gear Solid

2. Mass Effect 2

3.Phantasy Star Online

@SadPatrol said:

I don't have a top 3. I pretty much have 30 games that tie for first place.

Im with you. Too many great games over just the past generation to come up with just 3.

@mandude: it would be better to tell me which FF you prefer so i can place it to the list :)

@killacam: one more mate ! you can do it! :D

@lmephisto: I think there is an error on your list. Vice City has 2 votes and isn't on it while Vice City Stories has no votes but is on it.

@mosespippy: Ah thanks for the heads up! I must confused it with the PSP title!

@mosespippy: and fixed :D

Pfft! I love all my games equally and they are all tied for first place! But you wouldn't be able to input that into your list so..

1. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

2. Xenogears

3. Resident Evil 4

Games that I considered but didn't make it. They're all number one to me!

Dark Souls, Final Fantasy VI,VII,IX,X, Alan Wake, Gears of War series, Red Dead Redemption, Skyrim, Halo series.

@lmephisto said:

@mandude: it would be better to tell me which FF you prefer so i can place it to the list :)

I can't decide. Today it's IX, tomorrow it's IV, I'm all over the place. :( I suppose you can go with IX.

@mandude: coolies :)

Ultimate Marvel Vs Capcom 3

King Of Fighters XI

Megaman Battle Network 6 Gregar Version

Vandal Hearts
Shenmue
Yakuza 4

Hmmmmmmmm....  I could either go by most memorable or most enjoyed playing.  I think i'll go for the latter, those games hold up better over time.  Most memorable would include games that were not, and continue to not be, of particular high quality. 

1.  Super Meat Boy.  Best pure gameplay experience I have ever encountered.  I love difficult games that have the control fidelity to back it up.  Speaking of which,
2.  Ninja Gaiden Black.  
3.  After a short ponder I have decided #3 will be....  Virtual On (arcade version w/ the cockpit seating arrangement).  
 
GET LEADY!!! :D
 
  

• Super Mario World
• Burnout 3
• Jet Set Radio

Minecraft, Bastion, The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

1. Warcraft 3 : Frozen Throne (I get to play both war 3 + DOTA + a bunch of other awesome custom games)

2. Ninja Gaiden Black

3. Quake III / FF Tactics

1. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
2. Red Dead Redemption
3. Final Fantasy IX

Skyrim

Journey

Resident Evil 4

No particular order.

Honorable Mentions: Mass Effect, Super Mario 64, World of Warcraft

@demonbear said:

I approve of this :D

1. Vagrant Story
2. Dark Cloud 2
3. Doom II

These are all games that are prime examples of mixing immersive worlds of detail and depth with game mechanics that come up front and center.

1. Diablo II 
2. Team Fortress 2 
3. BioShock

@CyborgDuo said:

Let's see...

Portal

Journey

Shadow of the Colossus

EDIT: Make SotC Dark Souls. Blasphemous? Probably. But I hated that ending.

Dark Souls had one of the worst endings I've ever seen. lol

1. Fallout 3

2. Final Fantasy 8

3. Super Mario World

1. Half-Life 2

2. Psychonauts

3. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

• Bioshock
• Uncharted 2
• Red Dead Redemption

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2. Resident Evil 4
3. Super Mario Galaxy 2

1. Fallout 3
2. Bioshock
3. Half Life 2

Persona 3

Grandia

Okami

This is really hard. So many games. It feels like a crime not mentioning some of them. I prioritized story because that's what's most memorable for me.

1. Morrowind
2. Ninja Gaiden Black
3. Resident Evil 4

I made a Top Five list awhile ago (couldnt be arsed to do 10 at the time) that went into why I love those games so much. There are games i've played since that have come close to nudging out the last two, but nostalgia keeps them in there.

(Glad to see RE4 doing so well)

1. Uncharted 2

2. Fallout 2

3. Mass Effect 2

It really is 2 hard to 2 choose. Had 2 leave 2 games off that I really would have liked 2 put on there, Freelancer and Dark Age of Camelot, also Skyrim but I feel it's 2 new 2 include just yet.

Shadow of the Colossus
Knights of the Old Republic
Dark Souls