The best games ever.

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Certainly, Deus Ex comes rather quickly to mind. There was not a single thing wrong with that game. It was a perfect blend of FPS, Stealth'em up, RPG and adventure. The setting and mood was equally dismal and cool. The characters and their development were intriguing and unpredictable. The freedom of choice was revolutionary at the time, and played a huge role in the development of that genre of games.


Morrowind, an epic role playing game which furthered the notion of 'freedom' to do whatever you wanted. A vast world, with an endless number of things to do in any order possible. Character-building, exploration, questing, top notch graphics and atmosphere, not to mention the music. Morrowind had it all!


Final Fantasy (especially VII and VIII). - the modern novel of games. Plot, characters, storyline were central to these games. An incredibly immersive storyline coupled with charismatic and well-developed characters, loveable villains and probably the best soundtrack in gaming history made these games some of the best experiences I've ever had the pleasure to enjoy.


Metal Gear Solid (1998). The first game to 'break the fourth dimension' from Psycho Mantis' "reading of your mind" to the nanomachines stimulating the muscles in your arm by holding a vibrating PS2-controller close to your arm. Although very cool, this was nothing compared to the characters of the game. Probably the most lovable, sympathetic and multi-dimensional bunch of baddies ever to grace a playstation-game. Taking into the consideration the flawed, anti-social characterisation of the protagonist, the game actually made you cheer for the people you were killing; a strange notion for a game indeed! It spurred the "what the hell am I doing? I'm killing one of the good guys??!"-feeling over and over again and actually made you consider your actions. God I love gray areas, the blurred shade between good and evil! MGS perfected this!


Resident Evil, a fabulous, horribly-acted, even more horribly-written horror game from 1996. This revolutionary game of survival-horror showed the world that games weren't just for kids. Although beloved by people of all ages, this game - targeted at adults - contained lots of lovely monstrosities, weapons, blood, scary moments and some loveable characters.


Warning! This game contains scenes of explicit violence and gore! <-- When reading this, you knew you were in for a real treat!

There are more games to mention such as the Silent Hill-series (the most terrifying games I've played), Star Craft (the RTS with the most involving plot out there), Diablo, Hidden & Dangerous (still the best WW2-simulator out there!) the original Tomb Raider, Day of the tentacle, God of War, Interstate 76, Mafia, Half life 1 & 2, the Mechwarrior-series, but descriptions of these would fall flat of their actual quality, as I'm beginning to rant aimlessly :)

It's extremely difficult to come up with the best game of all time. I'm certainly torn between Deus Ex and Final Fantasy VII. Of recent games, I'd be tempted to include Resident Evil 4 in the discussion as well.

edit: Ooo! Found this interesting piece of Deus Ex-trivia on Wikipedia:

Deus Ex and 9/11

The game attracted attention after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. The World Trade Center towers are absent from the New York skyline in the game. This was to cut down on memory requirements for the first map, Liberty Island. The reason that the developers gave, if anyone asked, was that they had been destroyed by terrorists. This was over a year before the real attacks occurred, and the "war on terror" was declared.