The_Vein

PSX- Resident Evil

PS2- The Bouncer (I just wanted a PS2)

Xbox- Halo

GameCube-REmake and Eternal Darkness

PS3- MGS4

Xbox 360- Gears of War

@sinusoidal: @chrissedoff: Yes, that's true, but even with constant pausing, you're not getting a real turn-based, tactical movement real D&D type gamepplay experience.

I was really hoping that the success of X-Com would lead to a D&D turn based game like Temple of Elemental Evil but without all the boring quests and terrible bugs.

I'll never understand why people don't just make a D&D/Pathfinder game that's turn based and tactical instead of the weird real-time shit that BG and NWN and ID have.

Dude this is so good. Seriously, amazed at your painting skills.

One last suggestion I'd make is Perdido Street Station. I didn't put this up at first because I'm not sure how "fantasy" it is. It's a very "steampunk" novel, there are airships and robotic constructs and logic engines, but also magicians, frog people, monsters, and golems. It's a really good dark fantasy novel. Violent, scary, weird and unnerving. There's no typical fantasy tropes, no elves or goblins or dragons. Instead there's thaumatugic scientists, a race of women with beautiful human bodies and giant scarabs for heads, flying talking rats and cactus people. Seriously a great book, especially for people sick of the swords elves and maidens of regular fantasy. Certainly in my top five favorite books.

@encephalon: If that doesn't float your boat, check out Kushiel's Dart. It's also the first part of a trilogy--because all fantasy has to be a trilogy, right?--about a world that's very similar to earth, but all fantasied and magicked up. The story is set in a fantasy version of France where the people are distant descendants of angels. Sex and romance are religiously important to them and the main character is a prostitute's daughter named Phedre who has a small red mark in her eye that marks her as someone who feels pain as pleasure. She's sold to a man who raises her to be a prostitute of the highest quality and a spy for him. Eventually she falls into a huge intrigue to depose the kingdom's new queen--which leads to her traveling around the world to save her. There's magic in this book too, but it's very low key, something most people don't really believe in. The only accepted magic most people believe in is guy called the Master of the Straights who's basically an immortal wizard who has absolute control over the ocean in what's basically the Straight of Dover. I know the cover looks sort of like a shitty romance book and the idea for the story sounds bad, but it's actually really good. If you like it I suggest all of Jaqueline Carey's work, one of the best fantasy writers out there.

@encephalon: Try reading the Farseer trilogy, starting with Assassin's Apprentice. It's a very real fantasy world with a ton of sneaking around, backroom deals, scheming princes and forbidden love. The only magic in it is a sort of low grade psychic power called the Skill that very few people have and an even rarer power to speak in limited ways with animals called the Wit. Mostly its about a prince's bastard son being taught to be an assassin in the shadowy backroom world of a kingdom at war while the old king of the realm approaches death and his two sons vie to gain control and the young assassin tries to find a place for himself. Eventually, towards the end of the series, things get a bit more magical but I feel like the magic is treated more like a type of nuclear option--something very dangerous everyone wants to get their hands on--rather than a ancient evil awakening.

Really good book, not overly indulgent with itself like many fantasy novels are--and a very unique setting. The fantasy world exists alongside an early 20th century world but the two are pretty much separate, with a huge wall patrolled by WWI style soldiers on the modern side constantly guarding for any monsters that might come through. Being too close to the wall makes technology not work so many of them carry swords and shields. Sabriel herself is a special kind of necromancer that keeps dead things dead via special bells and spells she's trained to use. There's two other books in the series which expand on the universe, but I like the first one the best.

Xenogears, MGS, or Resident Evil 2.

@thethirdrlm: Where's Pickle?