My Favorite Games Ever (FLUX)
This list is in a constant state of flux because I'm always playing new games and hoping to add them to the tally.
Starting with 20, to add to @Fredchuckdave 's thread.
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When I really think about the Genesis, the only game I loved as much as Spot Goes to Hollywood is Sonic the Hedgehog 2. But that game was never mine; Spot was unequivocally my game, and it'll always have a spot in my heart.
I think this game might've been like Toejam and Earl, where you walked around a given level trying not to die and collecting things. It wasn't structured exactly the same way, and the levels were all themed to different movie tropes (a pirate level, a haunted house level, etc.)
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Yeah, okay, we're on Giant Bomb, you already know.
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One of my favorite stories in video games. Might become my pet game.
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MINE. 100% GOLDEN GOD. THE PLATFORMER OF CHOICE.
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I will wander the Capital Wastes for a long, long time, even after I've seen every nook and cranny.
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Just as many hours as Halo 3 and Guitar Hero II. The full-band experience can't be topped, nor can this game's killer soundtrack.
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Three hours of tightly-handled perfection. Impossible to follow up.
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Just so, so many hours poured into this game. Love at first sight, and still love today.
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Honestly? I need to replay this one and make sure it deserves its place. The first game that made me ever actually think intellectually about a game.
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The best note tracks Guitar Hero ever managed. I've five-starred all but Psychobilly Freakout and Misirlou on Expert.
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Played through it roughly five or six times, though it's been a while now. Agreed with many that it's the best work Kojima ever managed.
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Played through RE4 roughly seven or eight times, and will continue to do so for the rest of my life. An absolute favorite. Ramon Salazar is an excellent Wesker weirdo proxy.
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My GTA of choice. I always played it with cheats back in the day, though.
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My personal pick for "best Zelda game." Fantastic dungeons, a great story, and, again, THAT MUSIC.
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Honestly, I feel weird about having this game on the same list as SM RPG, but this is the game that taught me that games could have a more complicated story. Paper Mario has waaaaay more going on than Super Mario RPG (well, until the end of SM RPG) and is just as funny, engaging, and weird. I wish I'd ever liked the Mario & Luigi games as well as Paper Mario and SM RPG.
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The first 3D game I ever played. And what a place to start.
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Pokemon Blue for life. I still adore this game, despite not being able to play modern Pokemon.
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On top of the brilliant gameplay, writing, and visual design, just listen to THAT MUSIC.
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I played this game through a broken wrist and a cast. I adore DKC.
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I thought about including SMB2 and 3, but I honestly never loved those games as much as the original. If I spent a summer with a NES now, maybe I'd turn towards SMB3, but as of my current standings, it'll probably remain the original forever.
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Fez is special. It's a combination of incredible music, wistful exploration, authorial identity, and impossible success. I like to describe it as "the journey which Kubrick displayed at the end of 2001." Incredible beginning to end. Probably my true "pet game," as I don't just adore it, I think it's wickedly underrated.
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Absolutely joyful. Intensely difficult, but incredibly engaging. Few games feel quite as good as Spelunky, and that allows it to maintain high esteem in a way narrative and cerebral games start to falter. Spend some time with Spelunky streams and you'll see it's every bit as good as your Binding of Isaacs and so on, but it's a platformer and therefore appeals more to me.
...and also, it's far better than FTL, sorry.
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