11-02-2011, 02:55 PM
My top 5:
1. World of Warcraft - This game has come a long way and I have played through most of it. I've played this game way more than any previous game (and probably more than I'd care to admit) and have really enjoyed just about all of it. I'm not sure a lot more needs to be said about it since it's basically in a league of its own.
2. Final Fantasy VI - Before this game, I had played and loved Final Fantasy IV. However, when Final Fantasy VI came out, I was blown away. This game was a HUGE leap forward in terms of story, gameplay, character development, you name it. I have played through this game many, many times and I'm always looking to improve on the last play through (either in minimizing steps, completing things at lower levels, using different characters, using different characters differently, collecting all of the Lores, etc.). Like Jester noted earlier, I can also get the songs from this game stuck in my head (of course that's helped by the fact that I have the game's soundtrack as well as a couple of the Black Mages CDs to listen to.
3. Diablo 1/2 - I enjoyed both of these games and spent a lot of time playing and eventually modding them. I ended up playing Diablo 2 a lot more than Diablo 1 since there was so much more to that game as far as available classes, different talent builds, gameplay areas, etc, but I did enjoy my time in both of them. I still remember the first time in Diablo the first time I ran into the Butcher I fled the room because the "Ahh… fresh meat" made me jumpy, or the first time I picked up mail armor and put it on to see my character's appearance change. There were definitely some great moments in there! I did eventually get an obsidian ring of the zodiac or two though neither were perfect. In Diablo 2, I spent countless hours fighting through hell to smash Diablo, then eventually going after Baal when the expansion came out. Both were great games that I enjoyed until I finally got tired of playing games as such low resolutions.
4. Final Fantasy - I played this game a TON back when I was in elementary/middle school. It was incredibly basic but very fun. I played through the game with quite a few different party groupings though I admit that I never tried the four-white-mages party that I've read about people beating the game with. I even discovered a bug (a place where the encounter table from the northern continent was reachable from the southern continent) that I have never seen other people talk about that could allow you to fight giants, frost giants, trolls and frost wolves WAY earlier than you're supposed to be able to (even before you got the ship, though you'd be pretty much doomed if you ever tried to fight them at that stage!). This game provided me a jumping off point for picking up the later Final Fantasy games when they became available.
5. Super Metroid - I got a lot of playtime out of this game. There were fantastic puzzles throughout the game within the huge areas you could explore and enjoy. If I recall correctly, the first time I beat the game, I was somewhere in the 11 hours, 30 minutes time frame and I had only found roughly 50% of the stuff in the game. From there, I continued to refine my path and finally got it down to the point that I could beat the game (with very low completion percentage) in just over 30 minutes or I could get 100% completion percentage in about an hour and a half. That probably shows how much I played through that game!
Honorable Mention: Final Fantasy VII - This is a fun game that is an evolutionary step forward from Final Fantasy VI (better graphics, continued character development, etc). My biggest personal criticism for it is that I haven't been able to play it for some time. I don't own a Playstation so I played the PC version and, while I have the discs for it, the game crashes that I experience nowadays are frustrating and have prevented me for playing through it the last 10 years or so. I did enjoy this game for several years back when it worked for me, though.
1. World of Warcraft - This game has come a long way and I have played through most of it. I've played this game way more than any previous game (and probably more than I'd care to admit) and have really enjoyed just about all of it. I'm not sure a lot more needs to be said about it since it's basically in a league of its own.
2. Final Fantasy VI - Before this game, I had played and loved Final Fantasy IV. However, when Final Fantasy VI came out, I was blown away. This game was a HUGE leap forward in terms of story, gameplay, character development, you name it. I have played through this game many, many times and I'm always looking to improve on the last play through (either in minimizing steps, completing things at lower levels, using different characters, using different characters differently, collecting all of the Lores, etc.). Like Jester noted earlier, I can also get the songs from this game stuck in my head (of course that's helped by the fact that I have the game's soundtrack as well as a couple of the Black Mages CDs to listen to.
3. Diablo 1/2 - I enjoyed both of these games and spent a lot of time playing and eventually modding them. I ended up playing Diablo 2 a lot more than Diablo 1 since there was so much more to that game as far as available classes, different talent builds, gameplay areas, etc, but I did enjoy my time in both of them. I still remember the first time in Diablo the first time I ran into the Butcher I fled the room because the "Ahh… fresh meat" made me jumpy, or the first time I picked up mail armor and put it on to see my character's appearance change. There were definitely some great moments in there! I did eventually get an obsidian ring of the zodiac or two though neither were perfect. In Diablo 2, I spent countless hours fighting through hell to smash Diablo, then eventually going after Baal when the expansion came out. Both were great games that I enjoyed until I finally got tired of playing games as such low resolutions.
4. Final Fantasy - I played this game a TON back when I was in elementary/middle school. It was incredibly basic but very fun. I played through the game with quite a few different party groupings though I admit that I never tried the four-white-mages party that I've read about people beating the game with. I even discovered a bug (a place where the encounter table from the northern continent was reachable from the southern continent) that I have never seen other people talk about that could allow you to fight giants, frost giants, trolls and frost wolves WAY earlier than you're supposed to be able to (even before you got the ship, though you'd be pretty much doomed if you ever tried to fight them at that stage!). This game provided me a jumping off point for picking up the later Final Fantasy games when they became available.
5. Super Metroid - I got a lot of playtime out of this game. There were fantastic puzzles throughout the game within the huge areas you could explore and enjoy. If I recall correctly, the first time I beat the game, I was somewhere in the 11 hours, 30 minutes time frame and I had only found roughly 50% of the stuff in the game. From there, I continued to refine my path and finally got it down to the point that I could beat the game (with very low completion percentage) in just over 30 minutes or I could get 100% completion percentage in about an hour and a half. That probably shows how much I played through that game!
Honorable Mention: Final Fantasy VII - This is a fun game that is an evolutionary step forward from Final Fantasy VI (better graphics, continued character development, etc). My biggest personal criticism for it is that I haven't been able to play it for some time. I don't own a Playstation so I played the PC version and, while I have the discs for it, the game crashes that I experience nowadays are frustrating and have prevented me for playing through it the last 10 years or so. I did enjoy this game for several years back when it worked for me, though.
-TheDragoon