Another "Which my my 10 favourite games is YOUR favourite?" thread

I've only played Shadow of the Collosus and BG&E. Shadow was the clear winner as I found BG&E to be kind of middling.

Fallout: New Vegas

Better list than previous posting.I voted for FNV, currently replaying now with about a dozen mods, so good and actually better. Had a hard time not voting for Stalker, as its one of my all time fav franchises but cant trump Fallout...yet. And btw, where is The movies 2???? That game now can be amazing.

I have amazing memories of Silent Hill 2. It scared the shit out of me when I played it as a kid.

I voted New Vegas. I've played some of the other stuff (haven't finished SOTC) but, how can you like Jak 2?

I've played it with PS+ and I think it's terrible. Camera is atroicious, AI is cheap and the whole design is just kinda poor. I really enjoyed the first one, but II has put me off ever playing the rest of the series.

Honestly, I originally just put it up to a huge amount of nostalgic value but I replayed it a few months ago and had literally none of the problems you described. It was a fun, fluid experience with excellent presentation, to me at least. I dunno, maybe everything about the design of that game is just etched into the dark recesses of my mind at this point? Never had an issue with the camera and I can count on one hand the number of times I died feeling like it wasn't at all my fault.

Silent Hill 2, perfect horror game.

SH2 or RE4

I confess the only game on that list I've played is New Vegas (this console gen was my first), but seeing as it is tied for my favorite game of all time I feel quite confident voting for it.

Psychonauts? The only other real competitor is RE4, but since I haven't played that game in about eight or nine years (depending on when the hell it came out), I'm gonna have to default to Psychonauts.

The Movies is one of your top ten? Could you elaborate on what you like about it? I know it's not a bad game I just haven't heard anyone mention it since it came out.

I've played Silent Hill 2, Jak II, Shadow of the Colossus, New Vegas, and Beyond Good and Evil and enjoyed them all (maybe not Jak II so much) but my favorite from this list would have to be Fallout.

New Vegas

Resi4 for sure. I'd put Fallout 3 over FNV, though.

The only game on that list I've played is Silent Hill 2. I really need to get around to playing Shadow of the Colossus though.

Those are some great games, but I don't know if I'd call any of them my "favorites". I liked Jak 1 and 3 more than I did 2, Resident Evil 4 is fun but that castle lasts for about two or three hours too long, and Fallout New Vegas just can't hold my attention for some reason.

I have either not played or not played enough of the rest of them.

I went with Psychonauts. BG&E and Jak 2 were also contenders (though I preferred Jak 3 over 2). I've only played a couple of bosses through SotC, and while I've enjoyed what I've played a lot, I'm obviously not going to vote for it. As for RE4, I never cared for it much.

The only real answer is Shadow of the Colossus.

I picked Resident Evil 4, but if you would have had the real best Jak game on there (it's the first one). Then that would totally have been a no-brainer.

At some point i'll probably grow up and realise the first game is an all-around better product, but there's something so appealing to me about the world and the huge amount of content in the second game. For what it's worth, the first Jak & Daxter game is one of the only games I could pick up at any given time and do a 100% Speedrun (I have 3 saves of it on my PS3, all of which are 100%s).

Totally reasonable point, I felt that way myself when I first put it in there. I think a lot of people, myself included, have two distinct groupings for games; games we have a great thematic/artistic appreciation for (Limbo, Journey, Silent Hill 2, Braid, etc), and games that we just have a great pure joy in playing (Plants vs Zombies, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Guitar Hero). The Movies is sort of the epitome of that second category for me; on a surface level, there's really not that much that's "special" about it, or elevates it to being this masterpiece, but I can tell you I play a game of it once every few months and just have a fantastic time with it right up until I stop. There's something about that unique combination of long-term planning and moment-to-moment activity that really grabs me, in a similar way games like Civilisation and XCOM hit others. When i'm producing my newest feature, it's not just throwing a script in a hole and having a movie pop out; I need to get the best screenwriters to make a script based on the most popular genre at the time, train the best actors and directors, make sure I have the right sets, and plan for a certain amount of time to film between awards shows. It's not overly complicated but it really involves you in the process.

If I was gonna be less pretentious about it, i'd just say I liked Theme Park World a lot when I was a kid, and The Movies scratched that each way more than the Tycoon games did for me.

This is an interesting list of games (in fact I've played quite a few of these, which I can't say for the other lists like this that I've seen). Bit of a tough choice for me but I'm gonna have to go with New Vegas. I'm a really big fan of Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

Of all the games on this list i only played one to completion and 2 others briefly.

The one i played to completion however is pretty fucking great! Resident Evil 4 gets my vote.

Also an interesting side effect of all these thread today is that 3 of them @named me in the OP of the poll and i never got any notifications for that. I should probably report this.

Well...I guess the time is now because I'm feeling a bit cranky about how many of these threads are popping up. They don't generate much meaningful discussion, and it's time to cut them off now before they spiral totally out of control.

As an alternative, if someone would prefer to make one thread to discuss everyone's favorite games of all time, that might be fine. You could also maybe spend some time to generate a longer blog that explains what makes some games your favorites. These short little polls though are just getting flat out spammy.