Favorite Games

My all time favorite games. Unlike most lists, I had to think about this one, so I came up with some rules.

Rules for list:

1. Only one game from any given series (i.e there can be two Star Wars games on the list but only one KotoR game).
2. Collections do not count as one game (i.e. The Orange Box cannot be one the list, it must be one of the games from The Orange Box. Like Portal!).
3. Ordered by how much fun I had with the game, not how good it is technically.

List items

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  1. Mass Effect

  I've played this game more 10 times. I've put more thought into my Shepards than work or college (over 300 hours).

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  2. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

  I could write for a day and not say everything that's awesome about this game. It has a great story, amazing graphics, solid RPG systems and is very dark and mature. Oh, and you play as the ultimate bad ass.

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  3. Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces II

  The first game that was truly mine and one of the milestones that paved the way for shooters as we know them (i.e. narrative driven, not restricted to corridors, puzzles). I'll never forget it.

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  4. Saints Row: The Third

  Simply one of the most fun games ever.

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  5. Bastion

  Worth buying the games just to listen to the music. The rest of the game is awesome to, but the music... definitely the music.

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  6. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

  The standard by which all stealth games should be made and measured.

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  7. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

  Less a game and more an interactive book, this is the best virtually rendered story I have ever experienced. Mixing sci-fi with fantasy in a truly great way.

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  8. Halo 3: ODST

  It's like Halo and Firefly had a baby and named it Awesome. Seriously.

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  9. Advent Rising

  Glitches, dumb dialogue, and some undeniable charm make this super-powered sci-fi shooter simply awesome.

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  10. Portal

  The game equivalent to joy.