I wanted to throw this together and maintain a list of my favorite games. I haven't really thought about this before, and was curious what I would end up with.
There are a lot of indie games that almost made the list for me: Rochard, The Witness, Hotline Miami, and more. Same for racing games and arcade games, but none of them quite made the list.
I knew this one be on the list, but the more I thought about it, I couldn't really put anything ahead of it. A great game at the right point in my life, this is the first game I put a lot of time into online and maybe my most played game of all time.
One of the first RPGs I really got into, I was pretty young and liked star wars, so this hit all the right buttons. Having choices in a game was really eye opening for me.
I came to this late on the GBA, I think the mario all stars version is what was on there. I loved this game and still play it to this day occasionally. I have this strong memory from when I was 10 or 11 and watching a playoff football game with the Jets.
This wasn't the first RTS I played, but the complexity and the scale of the unit groups really made this stand out for me at the time. I loved playing this on LAN with my cousin or my brother.
This the most fun turn based combat I've ever played. The story is enjoyable and the narrator entertaining, this is probably the only game in the last 5 years I've played through multiple times.
I really didn't like playing high school football and this came out right when I finished my senior year. It was a nice transition from real sports to e-sports for me and I loved it. I've never studied strategy in a multiplayer game like I did for SC2 and I still try to catch a GSL match every once in a while.
People always say the History Channel was the WW2 channel, but there was definitely a healthy amount of ancient history on there. This is my first total war game. The historical aspects hooked me as a kid and the light 4X stuff in the map added a lot of depth.
Bethesda games are like nothing else. I prefer sci fi to fantasy as well, so fallout 3 was right up my alley after not really being into oblivion. I think I like Fallout New Vegas about the same as 3, but 3 came first and I think that puts it over the top for me.
Great combat that has been copied to death since, but was a joy at the time. The metroidvania elements and the map/world in this are my favorite of the Arkham games and that makes this one my favorite.
I came to this one late as well, but it charmed me to death and the satisfaction of rolling things up is hard to beat.
