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Ranking of Video Games

This is a dumb ranking of video games I made over the course of days, weeks, months who knows how long. They are entirely based on my feelings and I am often just making a call between how much I like a game and what I think is reasonable. I also don’t really want to limit all franchises to one game but like I don’t see a point in having Ratchet and Clank 1-6 in a row so sometimes I’ll just pick my favourite, and maybe even just add games when the list is so big it wouldn’t look that way anyway. So enjoy reading this and judging me for my bad taste in games. Lastly, obviously I am not considering games I have not played. And the key word is played, not finished. I will be adding to it whenever I feel like it.

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  • This is my favourite game of all time. There is a ton of writing out there about what people love about this game, I could go on for paragraphs but I've seen what I love about it reflected so often and these are brief summaries just explaining their place. Maybe some other time.

  • This was my favourite game of all time until a few years ago. It is my first Final Fantasy and hit me at an age where it influenced my tastes and even thoughts about some subjects going forward for the rest of my life. Mechanically sound, a good story and characters I am very familiar with in a very well realized world. FFX good.

  • I love Pokemon. This is my favourite one. A mixture of nostalgia and maybe the peak of its design as a traditional Pokemon game. I feel like this is the last time it felt like it was okay for them to just keep doing what they always did well. Not that I dislike Pokemon games that come out after this, but to me this is the best of them.

  • This game has very personal reasons for being this high up for me. I don't really want to go into them but this is -my- Sonic. I have not been a Sonic fan in over a decade but this game had such a strong impression on me when I was a kid and a lot like FFX has probably influenced the kinds of stories I am invested in. Knowing what I know now it is of course just doing the thing anime is doing in general but that doesn't stop this from being a game I find as comfortable as climbing into bed for a good sleep.

  • The HD Version makes this game better than Chrono Trigger, according to me.

  • This games great and I do love me some Akira Toriyama designs. Combat is good, music is some of the best. Good Chrono Trigger.

  • Windwaker is better but it fucking should be, that's progress.

  • You all know why this game is good I don't have to say it. Its position could change depending on the day of the week but it's gonna be pretty high up.

  • This game is really special. It took me awhile to come around to finally investing the time to play it, marathoning these games is a commitment. It's taken me almost 3 years to get to Yakuza 3, just in time for it to come to PC. Still, this remains the best one I've played by a mile. It is just a very well told drama that nails walking the line between being totally batshit absurd and very emotionally heavy crime drama. Being set in 80s Japan it just really shines in its tone.

  • This is the first Kirby game and its the best one. Kirby's real simple. Good fun platformer I enjoy very much. A solid game you can finish in a couple hours. And the 3D classics verison honestly adds a lot to its simple graphics.

  • Diddy Kong is a cool monkey, Dixie Kong can glide. What more do you need?

  • My favourite Ratchet and Clank Game. These games are all basically the same game and that works for me. This one gets picked for being the one that really hooked me into the series though. And after playing the first three games in a row last year it really is clear to me how much they improve on each entry. The first R&C is pretty janky, the second is more moderately well put together and the third is kind of the formula they follow for the rest of time.

  • I am due to replay this game some time soon it is really fucking cool. I'll give Sucker Punch games a look every time no matter what cause of this game. Ghost of Tsushima was kind of a miss for me but that's alright. This and then inFamous earned them a lot of my good will.

  • This is a really cool jrpg that has a whole clockworky kinda world going on while also being Suikoden-esque in the amount of characters you could recruit to your party and interact with. I had never played anything like it at the time and there's not really much else still that has similar vibes to me. Rune Factory I guess kind of scratches a similar itch but is less of a standard jrpg than this. It is also a ps2 ass ps2 game take it or leave it.

  • I think what this game does using video games as a medium is kind of special and worth more than a lot of its actual story telling, which is honestly just stuff I've seen in a lot of science fiction, specifically like mecha and cyberpunk anime. It's the kind of game I think people should play and make up their minds about for themselves. It absolutely is not for everyone and it has some real flaws. I still think it deserves to be lauded for being the kind of thing you can't really get from anything but a video game.

  • I'm a big Dragon Ball fan have been for most of my life. This is the best Dragon Ball game ever made, hands down. Also a very well made Marvel vs Capcom style fighting game from Arc Systems who just *mwah* I'll try any fighting game they touch.

  • So I feel like I have to defend this game because 1. I put it above Mario 64 and 2. a lot of people fucking despise it. But I think this game is one of the most interesting Mario games that exists and its options for movement are unmatched. Mario Galaxy is neat but when people tell me it's the best Mario I want to scream. They took away all the movement! I want Mario to go from 0 to 100 and fly across a room on momentum. If I die then I die it's fine. This is the most free expression of 3D Mario to date and I refuse to believe otherwise. Also, Delfino Island is just cool. It's strange as all hell and about as Mario as you can get. I will say my opinion has been coloured somewhat by that Mario 3D All Stars version. The camera fixes go a loooong way.

  • It's Mario 64. Game good. I don't have really personal feelings about it, I was just too young at the time. But I like speedrunning it. I genuinely feel that Sunshine is better, even if it has some more glaring flaws.

  • War of the Chosen

  • Amazing video game. Just know, that I believe in you.

  • My favourite top down Zelda. This changes by the day though. Taking this spot because it was also my first traditional Zelda game. Borrowed my friends game boy colour copy of it in like the first grade.

  • You all know why Hades is good. It's probably higher than it should be what with its recency bias but because of the way I'm adding games on here rather haphazardly it gets to sit up here. I think it's better than Super Metroid, sorry

  • Metroid is a series I never played when it was relevant. By the time I even really paid attention to it, it was because my friend was complaining about Other M. I've tried to play the GBA games a few times since and booted up Prime before as well. Just could never get into them. I finally played Super Metroid on Switch online's thing and I really enjoyed it. This is the only Metroid game I care about.

  • This is the best of its kind of game to me. You know like a Harvest Moon or a Stardew Valley kinda game. A fantastic blend of that and rpg mechanics. I wrote about it on my 2020 goty list.

  • Justice for the Yoshi

  • This game is really good. I find that I don't want to go back to any of these Bethesda-style rpgs but this would be the one.

  • This game fucking rules

  • What a weird neat game this is. Thank you for the Shy Guys.

  • This game is fucking fantastic. Some of the best Mario easily.

  • Beautiful

  • So I was playing pretty much all the Tekkens last year. Just jumping through them and seeing what was up. I do a lot of old game hopping in general. These games haven't really changed much at all. And Tekken 7 is the best version of this same game that exists. Tekken 7 is fucking good, y'all.

  • It's kind of funny how I ended up playing this game without any discourse around it yet. I'm sure there was some going on there always is but it didn't reach me. I played this game when I saw a friend of mine playing it on Steam a lot. I didn't ask him about it, I just looked and saw it was cheap and got it for myself. So when I went in, I was kind of treating it like a normal rpg.

    I think Undertale is very effective in a vacuum. Discovering the pacifism route when I had already mostly committed to pacifism on my own halfway through the game made me feel like the game was getting its point across. It's only about 4 hours long so I played it again and got the true ending. It's charming with good music and I'm interested to see how Deltarune turns out.

  • I have not finished this yet it could go higher or lower or just sit where it is time will tell. I will update it. But so far, I really like Yakuza Dad Simulator. I want to see Kiryu be happy and raise these children. I like the Okinawa characters a fair bit. It is a Yakuza ass Yakuza game as I'm finding they all are. Specifically what I like about it are design quirks the series loses going forward. Random encounters feel totally sparse in comparison to later entries in the series and it's for the best. Usually each encounter has a stronger thug who is like the leader of the little group. This game feels like a late ps2 game in a lot of ways that early ps3 games felt and I appreciate that.

  • Seen a lot of weird dislike of this game in recent years but I still think it's great. I love it's art style and worlds. The Tanooki suit is cool. The frog suit is cool even if it's kind of useless. Good music and airships are some of my favourite Mario levels.

  • I need to play this more but what I've played feels like good Mario. Maybe the levels could be more tightly designed but I can forgive it for being what seems like a more multiplayer focused experience.

  • I think Kirby gets worse as the years go on with a few exceptions. Kirby hasn't had a particularly good game in awhile. This game is worse than Kirby's Adventure, but it doesn't have to be. The weird like mini game collection aspect of it just doesn't do it for me. Still, it's Kirby. When its good its good.

  • I like Gen 4. Diamond and Pearl are kinda bad, but Platinum makes good on a lot of it.

  • This loses to Platinum because I don't like the Unova Region, or really a lot of Gen 5's Pokemon. (THE ICE CREAM CONE IS GOOD THOUGH) Still it does some things I am very grateful for for the rest of the series and it's probably the most coherent a Pokemon Story has or will ever be.

  • This takes the battle system of Megaman Battle Network and really refines it into something special. This has become one of my favourite games recently though It is somewhat of a barebones experience and they really just throw you into the deep end without much instruction. Still one of my favourite uhh run based deck building games? A Roguelike lite? Roguelite? Who knows all these games are starting to feel like one genre to me.

  • I wish I had played this game in its time in some form. It's still cool to go back to. As always GG has slapping music going on all throughout it and sick ass character designs. This is a very good game and they recently added rollback netcode to the steam version, so you can even still get your butt kicked online at it.

  • This is my favourite Megaman game no question. It just has a very unique battle system I haven't seen replicated until One Step From Eden just last year and a honestly kind of strange cyberpunk-lite style story that touches on some subjects that it absolutely does not actually try to grapple with but are surprising to see in the kind of game it is. I have no idea what compelled Capcom in the early 00s to make this series but I am so glad that they did. The third game specifically because it is a refinement on the first two in every way and they really go downhill afterward, going so far as to change the sprite work to looking truly awful for no real discernable reason.

  • The best GBC Pokemon game. Made it on this list honestly more because I adore the soundtracks of the Gameboy Johto games than anything. That Heart Gold and Soul Silver have an item that converts the music into the old soundtrack is fantastic.

  • The second best Dragon Ball game, probably. This is just a cool game boy action rpg that really realizes the world from the series in the way you want a DBZ rpg to. I think this happened with a lot of gba sequels, where they established a pretty rough base in the first game and then built a fantastic game out of it for the next one. Legacy of Goku 2 is a very good example of it.

  • Power Tour is a very good game. This is from the time when Camelot was still making Golden Sun and so they just let loose with this cool little Tennis RPG as a sequel to the Gameboy Color game. It really refines that gameplay despite just being a GBA game and remains my favourite Tennis game to come back to.

  • Not as good as Sly 2. Game is a bit bloated like they had to go harder because they had already upped the stakes so much with 2. Still the way they handle certain events around a main character is pretty cool and I really genuinely like the way it wraps up the series. I will continue to pretend Sly 4 doesn't exist.

  • I like this game less and less the longer time passes since I played it. It has some of the best movement in any 3D Mario game and it really just refuses to use it effectively. I think I echo the sentiment from a lot of folks that I would rather have levels with a set amount of Stars/Moons/Shines w/e and hand crafted challenges for my Mario that let me solve platforming puzzles in interesting ways. Mario Odyssey is a cool gimmick and I don't think it's a bad game by any stretch. It just falls a little flat compared to some other games in its series.

  • This game is better than Skyrim. I don't know I would have said that in 2011 but I'd rather play this these days I think. But then, I'm also the kind of person who thinks Mass Effect 1 is the best one so *shrug*

  • Skyrim was a good time. I don't ever wanna play it again but I can't deny that I had a great fucking time with it.

  • This is an extremely underrated Kingdom Hearts game. I appreciate the context it gives to the villains in the series and their actions, and the relationship between Roxas and Axel actually being realized really effectively thanks to its system of moving through days. You get a lot of personal moments between characters. As for how it plays its just a pretty tight, highly customizable action rpg with a bunch of set bite sized missions to go through. You could skip all the story and it'd still be a good time. I just think it's pretty good handheld game design and as a coop experience it was kind of a blast.

  • This is the best 2D Sonic game hands down. Sonic Advance 1 feels awkward Sonic's start up to get moving is way too long. Sonic Advance 3 completely misses what was good about 2 and brings back the terrible start up. But Sonic Advance 2 really realizes that feeling of speed Sonic was always supposed to be about. You've got to chain together very quick and tricky platforming without a lot of direction or you're just straight up gonna die. It becomes a game of learning the levels and memorizing patterns while reacting quickly to keep your momentum going.

  • I don't gotta say much. I even like CE2. This is a really cool version of Pac-Man that makes me totally uninterested in playing traditional Pac-Man ever again.

  • Alpha is the best Street Fighter. Sakura rules!

  • This game is formative for me but those first 3 Pokemon games are harder to go back to every year. Still, this is the game that I got with my Special Pikachu Edition Game Boy Color when I was like 5 or 6 years old and started what would be a lifelong relationship with the series. Pokemon is my ultimate comfort game and it's cause of this one. When you have three siblings and this thing is the only thing that is truly yours, well it ends up meaning a lot to you.

  • The Yakuza 6 engine is kind of cool but it sacrifices some things for the sake of physics and ragdolling and the combat feels a lot thinner as a result. Kamurocho looks fantastic though and I just like following Kiryu around as a character in general.

  • I will return to this game eventually but I put it down for now to play Yakuza 3. I'm not crazy about it. I think Ichiban is a character I have seen in a lot of Japanese fiction previously and he's -fine- but not really doing it for me. Obviously so is Kiryu, who arguably is just Kenshiro without blowing people up, but maybe that archtype just does it better for me. This will be updated someday.

  • I liked this game more the first time I played it. I went through Yakuza kind of strangely, playing this game first. It took me a year to finally commit to playing Yakuza 0 afterward. By the time I was done 0, I ended up playing this again. It's not very long and I just mainlined it but I think I realized some of its flaws a lot more in comparison.

  • Best Mario Kart. Fun party racing games I wish they would make a Double Dash 2. Mario Kart 8 feels a bit like its taking itself too seriously.

  • I like this game a lot it is a game I have emulated on a phone many many times over the years. Good structure to make you want to keep playing and like solid era of the Duel Monsters rule set that wasn't too complicated or broken yet.

  • This is my favourite KoF game. All that really needs to be said.

  • This game is special to me but also I have so many mixed feelings about the entire series and like, it's just tied to moments in my life in a weird way like a lot of fans of it my age who were enraptured as children. I have tried to replay it like 3 different times in the last five years and Tarzan has stopped me each time. I do genuinely enjoy the action rpg aspect of these games though, and it is not a Mash X simulator on the higher difficulties.

  • This is the first video game I ever played! One of my earliest memories even. Not super clearly but I will never ever forget I think, waking up in the middle of the night coming downstairs and my parents and grandmother handing me a controller and letting me play Jungle Japes. DKC 1 does not hold up great passed the first few worlds in my experience but it will always mean something to me.

  • I played Disgaea pretty recently! I wish I had played it back in the day cause I think I would have loved it. The localization definitely feels dated but it also has a lot of personality and unlike a lot of games of its time, feels genuinely well translated with the thought of making a fun experience in mind. Its systems are doing things I have seen in many strategy based Japanese games over the years and It was cool to get that context.

  • This game lets you set up battles between any Pokemon that exists as of its release. At the time, this was really wild if you were a kid who had played the Gameboy games with your friends and watched the tv show religiously. A few years later, I found I appreciated the Pokemon Stadium games for their weird bad mini games on top of being a neat little battle simulator with charming animations of Pokemon rendered in 3D. That announcer's voice still can pop into my head easily.

  • All of them

  • I don't think this game is that great. It does some cool gravity based platforming puzzles but I think it removes a lot of what I enjoy about Mario from its design. I think the motion controls genuinely get in the way. Even the 3D all stars version is kind of awkward feeling. Thats not even to say its a bad game, its just not a great "Mario" game, to me. I couldn't possibly say its worse than Sonic 3 so it sits here.

  • Yo this game had Link in it!

  • I like Sonic 3 more than 2. It has an actual save system. You can play as just Tails. All of the subsequent releases let you play as Knuckles. I don't understand the hate for it. If Sonic 3 is bad Sonic 2 is also bad. Sorry.

  • Better than Sonic 1 it introduced the spindash!

  • This game is more interesting than it has any right to be. It is also extremely grindy. Like unforgivably so.

  • Way more of a traditional platformer than Sly 2 or 3. I don't like this game as much. It has a bit of the n64/ps1 collectathon era still stuck in its design on top of that and I think it suffers for that. Very much feels like an early PS2 game.

  • This game holds up real badly. Big the Cat sucks. All the people who are stanning for him didn't play Sonic Adventure. Fishing for that frog kept child me from playing as Super Sonic for a long time.

  • I played this game a lot when I was a kid. Not sure why I added it to this list but It's alright. Better than a lot of bad games, worse than a lot of good games. Solid middle of the pack probably get knocked off the top 100 some day kind of game. It's basically just the coin battle from Smash Bros but with Digimon.

  • Mario Party 2 is the best Mario Party?

  • This game is okay. Not the best Mario Kart not the worst. Good for the N64.

  • Sonic 1 is not a good game. Sonic needs a spindash. Every level after Green Hill Zone is ass.

  • Shadow the Hedgehog is so bad its funny. The epitome of Sonic Team not having a fucking clue what they were doing after Sonic Adventure 2, and I guess post the collapse of Sega as a major player in the games space. I am glad this game exists because its just so funny to me but hoo boy what a garbage fire.

  • This game was pitched by my friend as a joke mostly but will be the measure for a truly terrible game. Is it worse than Sonic Shuffle? Not much is. Soon it will be off the top 100. I hope.
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