My Top 20 Favourite Video Games of All Time
Purely this is just for those interested to know.
If you don't like video games, or don't have any interest in knowing about my personal favourite video games, then what the hell are you reading this for? lol :P
There's WAY too many video games out there for me to include every single one of my favourite video games that I love and enjoy playing in a list. So instead, I'll just be narrowing it down to the small number of 20.
If there's a video game that you like that isn't on here, then either a) it didn't make it into my top 20, or b) I haven't played it.
I will also (just to include more various different games instead of repeating games) only be picking one game in a single franchise. So if you're wondering where the likes of GTA 5, or FIFA (insert number here) is, you now know why.
I know you're totally going to judge me on my picks and criticise them/me lol
But that's fair, I can take criticism, so please by all means let me know what you think of them in the comments :)
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#20: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
To date, this is my first and only game in the Leisure Suit Larry series I've ever played... And I love it so much! lol
The graphics are fun and good for the most part, yet the game itself is pretty basic. There's nothing really innovative about it, but it does have a really fun premise to it - play as a horny loser of a college student virgin whose main and only goal in life is to get laid! lol
While the humour in it might be pretty crass, rude, crude and downright immature on the surface, if you scratch a little deeper you will actually find, on occasion, some very clever subtle witty thought-provoking jokes that really deserve a good laugh.
Now, while you're supposed to try to make him say all the right things when chatting up girls in the hopes of getting into their panties, it is WAY more fun to fail and say all the wrong things! lol
(It really hits close to home, considering I've had so much experience in having creepy guys coming up to me and just failing so hard, saying all the wrong things to me to try to get into my knickers lol)
Honestly, some of the things you can make Larry say to the girl that he's trying to impress, really triggers a full-on belly-laugh from me lol I think my most favourite bit of dialogue in the whole game is when Larry's trying to impress a girl, and he gets super pissed off that his rival, Russel (who happens to be a bit mentally slow, by the way), has eaten his favourite coconut doughnut, and he starts aggressively berating the guy, which culminates in Larry just flat-out accusing Russel of stealing his toothbrush and shoving it up is ass hahaha xD
I just couldn't get through that scene without having to pause the game so I can roll around on the floor laughing lol
It's a comedy game, and comedy is subjective so most of you reading this probably won't like the humour the same way that I do, but yeah, by god do I enjoy the humour in it! There's plenty of fun, witty and comedic video games out there, but for me, Magna Cum Laude is the one that makes me laugh the most :D
There's sex, full-on nudity, and tons of jokes. What more do you want? :P
#19: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
COD:MW is a great game, and deserves it's "classic" status, and I do love it a lot (in fact, it was my first ever experience of online multiplayer).
...Buuuuut, Modern Warfare 2 is so much better!
I know most of you are going to disagree with me on that, but, yeah, in my opinion, it takes everything great about the first Modern Warfare and greatly improves upon every aspect.
The single player campaign has a very decent story with memorable missions and huge set-pieces. But where MW2 shines is the online multiplayer. It's such a blast to play online, and the maps themselves are the best in the entire series. I really love every map, and each map plays out very differently from each other, making you adapt your gameplay tactics to better suit the environment you're in. Some maps call for run'n'gun tactics, where as others call for a smart cautious and methodic approach, and a couple maps are just perfect for the very controversial camping technique :P
After just a week of playing online with it, I had learnt the maps off by heart, knowing all the best places to be in to rake up my K/D ratio, as well as learning how to get to the best vantage points, and access every secret area in a map.
It's just a fantastic online FPS, and it's a real shame that the COD series became absolute rubbish, but alas, this entry in the series is by far the perfect peak of the entire franchise :)
#18: Hitman: Blood Money
The Hitman series is just fantastic. Even the "bad" games in the series are still very fun, engaging games to play.
For me, Blood Money is still hands-down, the best entry in the series. Really fun environments that makes you want to explore every inch of it, and fun targets to take down, and you have so many options on how to take them down. Sure, you could just go around shooting everything in sight, but that's nowhere near as fun as trying your best to be the perfect assassin, and become like a silent ghost in the night, to hunt your prey down, kill them (while making it appear as an accident) and then slipping away unseen.
And it's so much fun after each mission to read the newspaper reporting on the kill, it's the most fun inventive way of scoring how you performed on the mission, while not taking you out of the immersion, because you really feel like you're a part of a real living breathing world, and every action you make has a consequence.
Plus, if you perform sloppily, leaving lots of witnesses to your crime or getting captured on CCTV, your face becomes well known and leads you to being identified in later missions, thus making it more difficult to pull off the perfect assassination.
Yaaggh! It's so much fun! :D
#17: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
I was tempted to put Sonic & Knuckles, but I put way more gameplay hours into this one.
It's one of the earliest games I ever played, and as a platformer, it still holds up today.
It's a short game, only takes over an hour to complete, and yet completing it was never the end goal. It's all about the fun experience!
It's just one of those games where you pick the controller up and hold onto it tightly for dear life as you race super fast through the levels, collecting as many chaos gemeralds as you can and gathering up so many rings as you go, and every couple levels, fight Dr. Robotnik in a really fun boss battle!
It's a classic video game, and the edition of Tails is a fantastic choice on the part of Sega (back when they weren't run by brain-dead imbeciles), as it allows for a friend to join in the fun with you :)
#16: Super Mario 64
What else can be said about Mario? He's an iconic video game character, and will be around forever.
Sure, you can have wonderful graphics and new gameplay elements in the likes of "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Super Mario Odyssey", but nothing can ever beat the legendary fun found in Super Mario 64!
It's the very first thing I think of when I see or hear the name, Mario.
The wonderful fun environment of Princess Peach's castle, and a short dumpy 3D model of Mario, with his signature "A-whoop!" "Yup!" jumping noises :P
An awesomely fun game, with fantastic tight controls, and a ton of fun levels and innovations in 3D platforming that are still relied on today.
#15: Scarface: The World is Yours
A lot of people stupidly branded this game as a "cheap knock-off of GTA: Vice City".
To them, I say, you're talking out of your arse!
First off, there's only 2 similarities between this and Vice City; it's an open-world 3D sandbox crime-simulator, and it's set in Miami (the city that Vice City parodies).
But that's where the similarities end.
This game is way better than Vice City!
I know, I know, it sounds like blasphemy, saying that, but it's true.
I'm in no way knocking Vice City when I say that, because Vice City is like the 3rd best GTA of all time and a wonderful game.
But this game is so much better!
The graphics, for starters, are 10x better (despite being made on the same game systems), but more importantly the game mechanics are a lot more involved and intricate. The world map is hugely bigger, and yet somehow is able to be so much more intimate, and it just feels more alive. You can go up and chat to any person you see walking the street. You can go dancing in a nightclub. You can go up to drug-dealers to sell them cocaine, or you can shoot and rob them and then sell their own product to another dealer. You can engage in gang warfare. You can buy loads of different and varied businesses, and actually step inside the shop to talk to the manager in charge of it, and then supply him/her with cocaine lol
But the most fun of all, is just simply playing as the amazing total bad-ass character of Tony Montana (from the 2nd best movie ever made!), and build up your own cocaine empire in 1980s Miami, slowly but surely running a multi-billion dollar industry, and just having an absolute blast in the process!
#14: Bully
It's GTA, but set in a New England boarding school. Do I need to say anymore? :P
It really captures the social nightmare that is surviving high school, where everyone is in a different clique, the teachers are all assholes, and no one in authority gives a shit about a bunch of 15 year olds being total dickheads to other 15 year olds. It captures school life perfectly! lol
But of course, where it shines, is the fun gameplay.
It's everything you can do in a GTA game, but given a schoolastic makeover.
You can't shoot or kill anyone, but you can throw stinkbombs and eggs at them. You can't drive a car, but you can drive a go-kart/moped/bicycle/skateboard. You can't sleep with prostitutes, but you can kiss girls, and even boys too! (Talk about progressive!)
The main character of Jimmy Hopkins, is so much fun to play as, he's like the only "normal" kid in the school, which really says a lot about the other students lol And even though you can make him bully the other kids, that's not the actual point of the game.
The point of the game is to stand-up for the bullied kids, to be a hero to them and take it to those nasty dickheads that do pick on the smaller/weaker students. He's a bad-ass and you feel like a bad-ass playing as him.
It's a terrific game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's never played it before :)
#13: The Sims 3: Pets
I love The Sims. It's just something about being a goddess, having complete control over the lives of others, dictating who lives and who dies, who gets a happy life, and who gets shit-canned, that really appeals to me >:P lol
I picked The Sims 3: Pets because it's the most fun one out of the entire series. The level of creativity and customisation can give me countless hours of fun as I design a family, construct a beautiful house with a wonderful gorgeous outside area, and a bunch of cute cats/dogs :)
There's a ton of fun that can be had in it, and to be honest, I actually get more fun from helping a Sim fulfil his or her life dreams, rather than destroy them :)
...I save ruining someone's life for the dickheads in the game who burgle houses >:)
And honestly, if people believe that God (of the Bible/Koran/Torah fame) exists, then he (of course God's a guy, I mean, come on :P lol) definitely is a guy who's just playing The Sims with the universe lol
That's a much better explanation for why so much bad shit happens in the world, rather than the "God works in mysterious ways", or worse, "It's all part of God's plan" trite that religious people pull out of their ass to explain it away...
#12: Lego Marvel Super Heroes
If you've never played a Lego video game before, it can look from the outside as just a crappy children's game.
...But it so isn't!
They are some of the best yet simple most fun games out there!
I've honestly sunk about an entire year's worth of my life into 100%-ing the games in the series. It's so much fun collecting everything in the game, playing the missions, unlocking loads of characters from all different media genres and pop-culture icons, and laughing at all the fun silly humour of it all.
I picked Marvel Superheroes for this list, because it's (so far) the Lego game I've had the most fun with. I loved the Lego Batman series of Lego games a lot, but Marvel Superheroes just has so much more content to it, and a much better open world hub to fool around in with way more characters to play as.
#11: Red Dead Redemption
It's GTA set in the Wild West at the start of the 20th century. Do I need to say anymore? :P
The one thing that sets this apart from just being a "GTA" game though (aside from the awesome fun frontiersmen gameplay), is the story. It's one of the very best stories of any media that I've ever sat through. Complete with an absolute heart-wrencher of an ending (which I won't spoil here).
And of course, it features the best, most sexiest fictional protagonist ever created!
Ahhhh, John Marston... *dreamy sigh*
He's a fantastic character, and really does go through a fantastic redemption arc of any character.
Plus, let's just agree that the "Undead Nightmare" add-on for this game is by far, the greatest bit of DLC ever made :P
It's how DLC should be done.
#10: WWF No Mercy
You're probably surprised to see a wrestling game in my list (especially so high-up in my list).
Well, time for backstory :P lol
During late-2000, I had an N64, and my cousin came round with a new cartridge in his hand...
Now although I was aware of pro-wrestling (seemed like it just burst into the mainstream during the late 90's), I had only ever really seen bits and pieces of it on TV. Anyway, my cousin turned up with this new game in his hand, wanting to show it off to me.
I was a little hesitant about it at first, I mean, a pro-wrestling game, really? OK, sure, whatever...
So I let him put the cartridge in, all the while he was telling me just how amazing it is, and I was like, "Sure, OK...(!)"
...Oh my word, I have never had so much fun on my N64 before! =D
Honestly, if you've never played this game before, you're missing a great big hole in your video game library!
It's just the most fun ever to run around the ring, hitting and fighting someone, and doing moves on them. The gameplay is just the most fun kind of gameplay you could wish to play from a fighting game. It's very simple to learn the controls, but after playing a few matches, you really start to understand the intricacies of the things you can do in it, and soon you're performing fun and thrilling complicated feats of majestic motions and actions!
One of my most favourite things to do in the game was play a two-on-one handicap match where I (playing as my favourite, Jeff Hardy) and my cousin (playing as his brother, Matt), versus some other wrestler, while my sister (playing as Matt's girlfriend, Lita, in a special-guest referee role lol). All 3 of us would beat down on this one unlucky person, taking it in turns to do awesome looking moves on them.
And then, once thoroughly beaten up, we would go outside the ring, I'd set up a great big tall ladder, while my cousin laid out the wrestler onto the announcer's table at ringside, where I would then climb up to the very top rung of the ladder, and dive down head-first onto our opponent, sending us both crashing through the table!
And my sister would then count really quickly while my cousin picked my broken body up off the floor and we'd hop back into the ring, and win the match by count out while hugging and celebrating our sweet victory together! :D
...I cannot even begin to accurately tell you just how much fun that was to do! lol
All 3 of us would just be laughing and cheering and having the best fun ever together playing that match out over and over again.
*sigh* Such fun days...
#9: Crash Bandicoot
A lot of people have said that the 2nd and 3rd games in the original run of the Crash series are so much better than the 1st one, but I got to be honest, the very first Crash game is, and always will be, my most favourite of all!
I had played many platformers before, but to me, Crash Bandicoot perfected the genre. The controls were so tight and responsive, that you knew if you fucked up a landing, it was totally your own fault and not the game's fault. The level designs were also so fun to look at and be in, the graphics were amazing for the time, despite being a PS1 game, and the character of Crash himself is just so fun and full of personality, despite only being able to convey his personality through his body language, facial expressions and actions.
And dying in the game was never a bad thing either, because I loved seeing the many ways in which Crash would die in over-the-top fashion. Seriously, the death animations are some of the most fun, inventive, and just enjoyable pieces of cartoony animation ever put to a game, that it wouldn't look at all out of place on a classic Loony Tunes short!
People have said that the game's difficult, but I never found it to be that.
Sure, when I first ever played the game, I died quite a bit at the start, but after about an hour of playing it, I felt like I had mastered the platforming elements, and was able to just have a ton of fun going through the game, collecting all the boxes and crystals, and just having a sheer blast beating the game, over, and over, and over, and over again, each and every time.
I never once got bored of beating the game, and that right there, is a sign for the developers that they created a perfect video game :)
#8: Tomb Raider II
I liked the first Tomb Raider, even though I totally sucked at it! Honestly, I couldn't even get past the first level lol
But I LOVED the sequel!
It's such a fun game, and even though it was still tit-achingly difficult to get through the missions, it never used to bother me at all, because I could just have the time of my life playing around in Lara's huge expansive mansion!
I spent so many hours of my young childhood life, just jumping and rolling and diving and climbing around the exterior grounds and interior rooms of the mansion, having a total ball exploring every nook and cranny of it. And having so much fun traversing through the maze, and swimming in the huge-ass indoor pool, and, of course, locking the butler in the big walk-in freezer >:)
If that had just been the game itself ("Lara Croft: Arsing around the Mansion! The Video Game" lol) it would still get a perfect score from me, that's how much fun I had with it! :D
But, I also enjoyed doing the missions, even though, as stated before, I sucked ass at them :P
But I never once got upset or threw my controller or anything like that, because the game was just too much fun for me to get angry at the difficulty of it.
Simply put, it's a wonderful game, and Lara Croft will always have a special place in my heart :)
(and in my finger dreams- what? :P )
#7: Spider-Man 2
Oh my god, Spider-Man has had so many awesome video games! From Spider-Man (2000) on the PS1 (my first ever Spider-Man game), it's sequel, Enter Electro was a big improvement. Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Spider-Man The Movie Game... Hell, even The Amazing Spider-Man video game was a very decent Spidey game (The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game sucks complete ass, though!).
But all of them pale in comparison to the incredible Spider-Man 2!
Specifically, the PS2 version, which perfectly captured the joy of web-slinging through the fully-rendered streets of New York. The swinging mechanic was perfectly spot-on, and the fighting controls were tight and fun. The game makes you totally feel like you are Spider-Man, swinging from rooftop to rooftop, and swooping down to stop a mugging or to rescue someone from a fire. Even grabbing a lost balloon for a little child feels like fun!
It's not just an amazing video game tie-in for a movie, it's just an amazing video game overall!
#6: FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
I am a total FIFA-head :P
I love the FIFA series of football games. And there's been lots of memorable versions of the games, from the (at the time) state-of-the-art 2004 version, to the totally fun 2001 version, and right up to the current year version of the series.
But, I can only pick one version, and so I chose this one (sometimes simply just referred to as "FIFA 98").
I had this game on my N64, it was the first proper football sim I ever played (I did play Sensible Soccer on the Sega Megadrive, but that's more of an arcade-style football game to me)
As soon as Blur's "Song 2" kicks in, I knew I was in for a lot of fun playing this game!
There was a huge selection of football teams to choose from (172 international teams and 189 league teams) complete with real player names. The game-play itself was revolutionary at the time, and a huge amount of fun, and the satisfying sound of the players kicking the ball just made me feel so warm inside ^_^
And let's not forget, it was a total blast playing 5-a-side indoor football :P
It's just a perfect football game in every respect :)
#5: The Warriors
I'll be honest, before the game came out in 2005, I had never heard of the film, The Warriors, of which this game is a perfect adaption of. I played the demo, and I really loved it! So, I bought the game, and I loved it even more!
It's an amazing beat'em-up style game, with incredible tight controls, and amazing graphics which still stand up well today despite being on the PS2/Original Xbox generation of consoles.
Never before as gang warfare been so much fun to take part in! lol
When you got a full gang with you, and you're diving fist-first into the fray as you take on another army of a gang in brutal, bloody fashion, it's just immense fun!
The story is both original and unique from the film, until towards the end when it starts playing out the film's story. It's a total blast to play by yourself, but if you get a friend to join you, the fun is doubled! It's very rare for a game to be both amazing fun as either a single player or a 2-player co-op game.
And as for the film, after I fell in love with the game, I checked out the film, and just wow O_O
It's a really awesome film which I highly recommend you see, and Rockstar are clear fans of the film, because they gave the game the love and respect it deserved.
If ever you want to know what a perfect video game adaption of a movie is, look no further than The Warriors :)
#4: Pokemon Red
Pokemon Yellow may be the most complete version of the classic 1st generation of Pokemon games (Red, Blue, Green), and FireRed/LeafGreen may be the most graphically perfect version of those games. But nothing beats the experience and nostalgia I have for Pokemon Red.
If you've never played/enjoyed any of the Pokemon games in the series before, you won't understand what I'm talking about, but I still have my Gameboy Colour, and I still pick up and just lose myself for hours in my copy of Pokemon Red. The 1st generation of Pokemon (all 151 of them) are, as far as I'm concerned, the only Pokemon that matter!
I can name all 151 of them, describing their types, their abilities, their weaknesses. I can happily and easily tell you exactly what makes each and every one of them great, and if you disagree with me I will say to you, "Fair enough, that's your opinion which you are entitled to... But your opinion is wrong, and here's why:" and I will then go on and explain in full detail exactly why you are wrong >:P
I can even put up a good argument for why Magikarp is great :P
Pokemon Red just can't be beat for sheer nostalgic childhood fun :)
#3: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Assassin's Creed II was the best game in the AC series... Until Assassin's Creed IV came along!
Honestly, Black Flag makes ACII look like hot stale garbage in comparison :P
I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for saying that, but it's true!
Not only did Ubisoft return to fine form after the shite that was Assassin's Creed III, they knocked it out of the park!
Black Flag is one of the absolute best free-roaming, open-world, action/adventure games of all time. They captured the whole 18th century golden age of piracy in video-game form experience to sheer perfection. Even years after completing the game to 100%, I'll still load the disc up every other day, jump aboard The Jackdaw (my fully decked-out pirate ship), and just sail the gloriously rendered ocean, listening to my men serenading me with delightful sea shanties, before getting myself into an exciting heart-thumping naval battle with either the British Navy, Spanish Armada, or other ne'er-do-well sea-scallions.
It's the best game ever for letting me just live out all of my pirate fantasies...
Yar! >:D
#2: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
I was torn between choosing either this or GTA 5 as the best game in the GTA series. GTA 5 has the much better graphics and game engine with realistic controls and physics, It's a much prettier game all round.
But... When it comes right down to it. GTA: San Andreas is just so much more fun!
Don't get me wrong, GTA 5 is a very, very fun game itself, with lots to do in it. But just everything in San Andreas is more memorable and more entertaining. I can remember every single mission in San Andreas, I can remember every line of the fun dialogues, the crazy shenanigans, the balls-to-the-wall fun of the missions, the awesome story with a nasty villain played perfectly by Samuel L. Jackson, who throughout the whole game I look forward to giving him his comeuppance.
And CJ is, in my view, the greatest all-round video game protagonist ever created. He's funny, he's charming, he's down-to-earth despite all the crazy stuff he goes through. It's just a fantastic joy to play as him. When I'm playing it, I never wish to be anyone else other than CJ.
#1: Batman: Arkham City
Considering Batman is my most favourite superhero, it was an absolute joy that they finally gave him a video game that completely does him justice in the form of Batman: Arkham Asylum.
So when the sequel, Arkham City, came out a couple years later, they not only improved upon the original game, but made it (in my opinion) 100x better! With a bigger open-world, more gadgets, different playable characters (Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing), great puzzles, a fantastic (and shocking!) story, a jam-packed roster of great villains and boss fights, and all the delicious Easter eggs fans of Batman could ever wish to discover!
It's what a sequel should be - bigger and better. And it is, in my view, not only the perfect Batman video game, but a pretty damn perfect video game all round :)
If you don't like video games, or don't have any interest in knowing about my personal favourite video games, then what the hell are you reading this for? lol :P
There's WAY too many video games out there for me to include every single one of my favourite video games that I love and enjoy playing in a list. So instead, I'll just be narrowing it down to the small number of 20.
If there's a video game that you like that isn't on here, then either a) it didn't make it into my top 20, or b) I haven't played it.
I will also (just to include more various different games instead of repeating games) only be picking one game in a single franchise. So if you're wondering where the likes of GTA 5, or FIFA (insert number here) is, you now know why.
I know you're totally going to judge me on my picks and criticise them/me lol
But that's fair, I can take criticism, so please by all means let me know what you think of them in the comments :)
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#20: Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
To date, this is my first and only game in the Leisure Suit Larry series I've ever played... And I love it so much! lol
The graphics are fun and good for the most part, yet the game itself is pretty basic. There's nothing really innovative about it, but it does have a really fun premise to it - play as a horny loser of a college student virgin whose main and only goal in life is to get laid! lol
While the humour in it might be pretty crass, rude, crude and downright immature on the surface, if you scratch a little deeper you will actually find, on occasion, some very clever subtle witty thought-provoking jokes that really deserve a good laugh.
Now, while you're supposed to try to make him say all the right things when chatting up girls in the hopes of getting into their panties, it is WAY more fun to fail and say all the wrong things! lol
(It really hits close to home, considering I've had so much experience in having creepy guys coming up to me and just failing so hard, saying all the wrong things to me to try to get into my knickers lol)
Honestly, some of the things you can make Larry say to the girl that he's trying to impress, really triggers a full-on belly-laugh from me lol I think my most favourite bit of dialogue in the whole game is when Larry's trying to impress a girl, and he gets super pissed off that his rival, Russel (who happens to be a bit mentally slow, by the way), has eaten his favourite coconut doughnut, and he starts aggressively berating the guy, which culminates in Larry just flat-out accusing Russel of stealing his toothbrush and shoving it up is ass hahaha xD
I just couldn't get through that scene without having to pause the game so I can roll around on the floor laughing lol
It's a comedy game, and comedy is subjective so most of you reading this probably won't like the humour the same way that I do, but yeah, by god do I enjoy the humour in it! There's plenty of fun, witty and comedic video games out there, but for me, Magna Cum Laude is the one that makes me laugh the most :D
There's sex, full-on nudity, and tons of jokes. What more do you want? :P
#19: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
COD:MW is a great game, and deserves it's "classic" status, and I do love it a lot (in fact, it was my first ever experience of online multiplayer).
...Buuuuut, Modern Warfare 2 is so much better!
I know most of you are going to disagree with me on that, but, yeah, in my opinion, it takes everything great about the first Modern Warfare and greatly improves upon every aspect.
The single player campaign has a very decent story with memorable missions and huge set-pieces. But where MW2 shines is the online multiplayer. It's such a blast to play online, and the maps themselves are the best in the entire series. I really love every map, and each map plays out very differently from each other, making you adapt your gameplay tactics to better suit the environment you're in. Some maps call for run'n'gun tactics, where as others call for a smart cautious and methodic approach, and a couple maps are just perfect for the very controversial camping technique :P
After just a week of playing online with it, I had learnt the maps off by heart, knowing all the best places to be in to rake up my K/D ratio, as well as learning how to get to the best vantage points, and access every secret area in a map.
It's just a fantastic online FPS, and it's a real shame that the COD series became absolute rubbish, but alas, this entry in the series is by far the perfect peak of the entire franchise :)
#18: Hitman: Blood Money
The Hitman series is just fantastic. Even the "bad" games in the series are still very fun, engaging games to play.
For me, B
And it's so much fun after each mission to read the newspaper reporting on the kill, it's the most fun inventive way of scoring how you performed on the mission, while not taking you out of the immersion, because you really feel like you're a part of a real living breathing world, and every action you make has a consequence.
Plus, if you perform sloppily, leaving lots of witnesses to your crime or getting captured on CCTV, your face becomes well known and leads you to being identified in later missions, thus making it more difficult to pull off the perfect assassination.
Yaaggh! It's so much fun! :D
#17: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
I was tempted to put Sonic & Knuckles, but I put way more gameplay hours into this one.
It's one of the earliest games I ever played, and as a platformer, it still holds up today.
It's a short game, only takes over an hour to complete, and yet completing it was never the end goal. It's all about the fun experience!
It's just one of those games where you pick the controller up and hold onto it tightly for dear life as you race super fast through the levels, collecting as many chaos gemeralds as you can and gathering up so many rings as you go, and every couple levels, fight Dr. Robotnik in a really fun boss battle!
It's a classic video game, and the edition of Tails is a fantastic choice on the part of Sega (back when they weren't run by brain-dead imbeciles), as it allows for a friend to join in the fun with you :)
#16: Super Mario 64
What else can be said about Mario? He's an iconic video game character, and will be around forever.
Sure, you can have wonderful graphics and new gameplay elements in the likes of "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Super Mario Odyssey", but nothing can ever beat the legendary fun found in Super Mario 64!
It's the very first thing I think of when I see or hear the name, Mario.
The wonderful fun environment of Princess Peach's castle, and a short dumpy 3D model of Mario, with his signature "A-whoop!" "Yup!" jumping noises :P
An awesomely fun game, with fantastic tight controls, and a ton of fun levels and innovations in 3D platforming that are still relied on today.
#15: Scarface: The World is Yours
A lot of people stupidly branded this game as a "cheap knock-off of GTA: Vice City".
To them, I say, you're talking out of your arse!
First off, there's only 2 similarities between this and Vice City; it's an open-world 3D sandbox crime-simulator, and it's set in Miami (the city that Vice City parodies).
But that's where the similarities end.
This game is way better than Vice City!
I know, I know, it sounds like blasphemy, saying that, but it's true.
I'm in no way knocking Vice City when I say that, because Vice City is like the 3rd best GTA of all time and a wonderful game.
But this game is so much better!
The graphics, for starters, are 10x better (despite being made on the same game systems), but more importantly the game mechanics are a lot more involved and intricate. The world map is hugely bigger, and yet somehow is able to be so much more intimate, and it just feels more alive. You can go up and chat to any person you see walking the street. You can go dancing in a nightclub. You can go up to d
But the most fun of all, is just simply playing as the amazing total bad-ass character of Tony Montana (from the 2nd best movie ever made!), and build up your own cocaine empire in 1980s Miami, slowly but surely running a multi-billion dollar industry, and just having an absolute blast in the process!
#14: Bully
It's GTA, but set in a New England boarding school. Do I need to say anymore? :P
It really captures the social nightmare that is surviving high school, where everyone is in a different clique, the teachers are all assholes, and no one in authority gives a shit about a bunch of 15 year olds being total dickheads to other 15 year olds. It captures school life perfectly! lol
But of course, where it shines, is the fun gameplay.
It's everything you can do in a GTA game, but given a schoolastic makeover.
You can't shoot or kill anyone, but you can throw stinkbombs and eggs at them. You can't drive a car, but you can drive a go-kart/moped/bicycle/skateboard. You can't s
The main character of Jimmy Hopkins, is so much fun to play as, he's like the only "normal" k
The point of the game is to stand-up for the bullied k
It's a terrific game, and I highly recommend it to anyone who's never played it before :)
#13: The Sims 3: Pets
I love The Sims. It's just something about being a goddess, having complete control over the lives of others, dictating who lives and who dies, who gets a happy life, and who gets shit-canned, that really appeals to me >:P lol
I picked The Sims 3: Pets because it's the most fun one out of the entire series. The level of creativity and customisation can give me countless hours of fun as I design a fam
There's a ton of fun that can be had in it, and to be honest, I actually get more fun from helping a Sim fulfil his or her life dreams, rather than destroy them :)
...I save ruining someone's life for the dickheads in the game who burgle houses >:)
And honestly, if people believe that God (of the Bible/Koran/Torah fame) exists, then he (of course God's a guy, I mean, come on :P lol) definitely is a guy who's just playing The Sims with the universe lol
That's a much better explanation for why so much bad shit happens in the world, rather than the "God works in mysterious ways", or worse, "It's all part of God's plan" trite that religious people pull out of their ass to explain it away...
#12: Lego Marvel Super Heroes
If you've never played a Lego video game before, it can look from the outside as just a crappy ch
...But it so isn't!
They are some of the best yet simple most fun games out there!
I've honestly sunk about an entire year's worth of my life into 100%-ing the games in the series. It's so much fun collecting everything in the game, playing the missions, unlocking loads of characters from all different media genres and pop-culture icons, and laughing at all the fun silly humour of it all.
I picked Marvel Superheroes for this list, because it's (so far) the Lego game I've had the most fun with. I loved the Lego Batman series of Lego games a lot, but Marvel Superheroes just has so much more content to it, and a much better open world hub to fool around in with way more characters to play as.
#11: Red Dead Redemption
It's GTA set in the Wild West at the start of the 20th century. Do I need to say anymore? :P
The one thing that sets this apart from just being a "GTA" game though (aside from the awesome fun frontiersmen gameplay), is the story. It's one of the very best stories of any media that I've ever sat through. Complete with an absolute heart-wrencher of an ending (which I won't spoil here).
And of course, it features the best, most sexiest fictional protagonist ever created!
Ahhhh, John Marston... *dreamy sigh*
He's a fantastic character, and really does go through a fantastic redemption arc of any character.
Plus, let's just agree that the "Undead Nightmare" add-on for this game is by far, the greatest bit of DLC ever made :P
It's how DLC should be done.
#10: WWF No Mercy
You're probably surprised to see a wrestling game in my list (especially so high-up in my list).
Well, time for backstory :P lol
During late-2000, I had an N64, and my cousin came round with a new cartridge in his hand...
Now although I was aware of pro-wrestling (seemed like it just burst into the mainstream during the late 90's), I had only ever really seen bits and pieces of it on TV. Anyway, my cousin turned up with this new game in his hand, wanting to show it off to me.
I was a little hesitant about it at first, I mean, a pro-wrestling game, really? OK, sure, whatever...
So I let him put the cartridge in, all the while he was telling me just how amazing it is, and I was like, "Sure, OK...(!)"
...Oh my word, I have never had so much fun on my N64 before! =D
Honestly, if you've never played this game before, you're missing a great big hole in your video game library!
It's just the most fun ever to run around the ring, hitting and fighting someone, and doing moves on them. The gameplay is just the most fun kind of gameplay you could wish to play from a fighting game. It's very simple to learn the controls, but after playing a few matches, you really start to understand the intricacies of the things you can do in it, and soon you're performing fun and thrilling complicated feats of majestic motions and actions!
One of my most favourite things to do in the game was play a two-on-one handicap match where I (playing as my favourite, Jeff Hardy) and my cousin (playing as his b
And then, once thoroughly beaten up, we would go outside the ring, I'd set up a great big tall ladder, while my cousin laid out the wrestler onto the announcer's table at ringside, where I would then climb up to the very top rung of the ladder, and dive down head-first onto our opponent, sending us both crashing through the table!
And my s
...I cannot even begin to accurately tell you just how much fun that was to do! lol
All 3 of us would just be laughing and cheering and having the best fun ever together playing that match out over and over again.
*sigh* Such fun days...
#9: Crash Bandicoot
A lot of people have said that the 2nd and 3rd games in the original run of the Crash series are so much better than the 1st one, but I got to be honest, the very first Crash game is, and always will be, my most favourite of all!
I had played many platformers before, but to me, Crash Bandicoot perfected the genre. The controls were so tight and responsive, that you knew if you fucked up a landing, it was totally your own fault and not the game's fault. The level designs were also so fun to look at and be in, the graphics were amazing for the time, despite being a PS1 game, and the character of Crash himself is just so fun and full of personality, despite only being able to convey his personality through his body language, facial expressions and actions.
And dying in the game was never a bad thing either, because I loved seeing the many ways in which Crash would die in over-the-top fashion. Seriously, the death animations are some of the most fun, inventive, and just enjoyable pieces of cartoony animation ever put to a game, that it wouldn't look at all out of place on a classic Loony Tunes short!
People have said that the game's difficult, but I never found it to be that.
Sure, when I first ever played the game, I died quite a bit at the start, but after about an hour of playing it, I felt like I had mastered the platforming elements, and was able to just have a ton of fun going through the game, collecting all the boxes and crystals, and just having a sheer blast beating the game, over, and over, and over, and over again, each and every time.
I never once got bored of beating the game, and that right there, is a sign for the developers that they created a perfect video game :)
#8: Tomb Raider II
I liked the first Tomb Raider, even though I totally sucked at it! Honestly, I couldn't even get past the first level lol
But I LOVED the sequel!
It's such a fun game, and even though it was still tit-achingly difficult to get through the missions, it never used to bother me at all, because I could just have the time of my life playing around in Lara's huge expansive mansion!
I spent so many hours of my young ch
If that had just been the game itself ("Lara Croft: Arsing around the Mansion! The Video Game" lol) it would still get a perfect score from me, that's how much fun I had with it! :D
But, I also enjoyed doing the missions, even though, as stated before, I sucked ass at them :P
But I never once got upset or threw my controller or anything like that, because the game was just too much fun for me to get angry at the difficulty of it.
Simply put, it's a wonderful game, and Lara Croft will always have a special place in my heart :)
(and in my finger dreams- what? :P )
#7: Spider-Man 2
Oh my god, Spider-Man has had so many awesome video games! From Spider-Man (2000) on the PS1 (my first ever Spider-Man game), it's sequel, Enter Electro was a big improvement. Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Spider-Man The Movie Game... Hell, even The Amazing Spider-Man video game was a very decent Spidey game (The Amazing Spider-Man 2 game sucks complete ass, though!).
But all of them pale in comparison to the incredible Spider-Man 2!
Specifically, the PS2 version, which perfectly captured the joy of web-slinging through the fully-rendered streets of New York. The swinging mechanic was perfectly spot-on, and the fighting controls were tight and fun. The game makes you totally feel like you are Spider-Man, swinging from rooftop to rooftop, and swooping down to stop a mugging or to rescue someone from a fire. Even grabbing a lost balloon for a little ch
It's not just an amazing video game tie-in for a movie, it's just an amazing video game overall!
#6: FIFA: Road to World Cup 98
I am a total FIFA-head :P
I love the FIFA series of football games. And there's been lots of memorable versions of the games, from the (at the time) state-of-the-art 2004 version, to the totally fun 2001 version, and right up to the current year version of the series.
But, I can only pick one version, and so I chose this one (sometimes simply just referred to as "FIFA 98").
I had this game on my N64, it was the first proper football sim I ever played (I did play Sensible Soccer on the Sega Megadrive, but that's more of an arcade-style football game to me)
As soon as Blur's "Song 2" kicks in, I knew I was in for a lot of fun playing this game!
There was a huge selection of football teams to choose from (172 international teams and 189 league teams) complete with real player names. The game-play itself was revolutionary at the time, and a huge amount of fun, and the satisfying sound of the players kicking the ball just made me feel so warm inside ^_^
And let's not forget, it was a total blast playing 5-a-side indoor football :P
It's just a perfect football game in every respect :)
#5: The Warriors
I'll be honest, before the game came out in 2005, I had never heard of the film, The Warriors, of which this game is a perfect adaption of. I played the demo, and I really loved it! So, I bought the game, and I loved it even more!
It's an amazing beat'em-up style game, with incredible tight controls, and amazing graphics which still stand up well today despite being on the PS2/Original Xbox generation of consoles.
Never before as gang warfare been so much fun to take part in! lol
When you got a full gang with you, and you're diving fist-first into the fray as you take on another army of a gang in brutal, b
The story is both original and unique from the film, until towards the end when it starts playing out the film's story. It's a total blast to play by yourself, but if you get a friend to join you, the fun is doubled! It's very rare for a game to be both amazing fun as either a single player or a 2-player co-op game.
And as for the film, after I fell in love with the game, I checked out the film, and just wow O_O
It's a really awesome film which I highly recommend you see, and Rockstar are clear fans of the film, because they gave the game the love and respect it deserved.
If ever you want to know what a perfect video game adaption of a movie is, look no further than The Warriors :)
#4: Pokemon Red
Pokemon Yellow may be the most complete version of the classic 1st generation of Pokemon games (Red, Blue, Green), and FireRed/LeafGreen may be the most graphically perfect version of those games. But nothing beats the experience and nostalgia I have for Pokemon Red.
If you've never played/enjoyed any of the Pokemon games in the series before, you won't understand what I'm talking about, but I still have my Gameboy Colour, and I still pick up and just lose myself for hours in my copy of Pokemon Red. The 1st generation of Pokemon (all 151 of them) are, as far as I'm concerned, the only Pokemon that matter!
I can name all 151 of them, describing their types, their abilities, their weaknesses. I can happily and easily tell you exactly what makes each and every one of them great, and if you disagree with me I will say to you, "Fair enough, that's your opinion which you are entitled to... But your opinion is wrong, and here's why:" and I will then go on and explain in full detail exactly why you are wrong >:P
I can even put up a good argument for why Magikarp is great :P
Pokemon Red just can't be beat for sheer nostalgic chi
#3: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
Assassin's Creed II was the best game in the AC series... Until Assassin's Creed IV came along!
Honestly, Black Flag makes ACII look like hot stale garbage in comparison :P
I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for saying that, but it's true!
Not only did Ubisoft return to fine form after the shite that was Assassin's Creed III, they knocked it out of the park!
Black Flag is one of the absolute best free-roaming, open-world, action/adventure games of all time. They captured the whole 18th century golden age of piracy in video-game form experience to sheer perfection. Even years after completing the game to 100%, I'll still load the disc up every other day, jump aboard The Jackdaw (my fully decked-out pirate ship), and just sail the gloriously rendered ocean, listening to my men serenading me with delightful sea shanties, before getting myself into an exciting heart-thumping naval battle with either the British Navy, Spanish Armada, or other ne'er-do-well sea-scallions.
It's the best game ever for letting me just live out all of my pirate fantasies...
Yar! >:D
#2: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
I was torn between choosing either this or GTA 5 as the best game in the GTA series. GTA 5 has the much better graphics and game engine with realistic controls and physics, It's a much prettier game all round.
But... When it comes right down to it. GTA: San Andreas is just so much more fun!
Don't get me wrong, GTA 5 is a very, very fun game itself, with lots to do in it. But just everything in San Andreas is more memorable and more entertaining. I can remember every single mission in San Andreas, I can remember every line of the fun dialogues, the crazy shenanigans, the balls-to-the-wall fun of the missions, the awesome story with a nasty villain played perfectly by Samuel L. Jackson, who throughout the whole game I look forward to giving him his comeuppance.
And CJ is, in my view, the greatest all-round video game protagonist ever created. He's funny, he's charming, he's down-to-earth despite all the crazy stuff he goes through. It's just a fantastic joy to play as him. When I'm playing it, I never wish to be anyone else other than CJ.
#1: Batman: Arkham City
Considering Batman is my most favourite superhero, it was an absolute joy that they finally gave him a video game that completely does him justice in the form of Batman: Arkham Asylum.
So when the sequel, Arkham City, came out a couple years later, they not only improved upon the original game, but made it (in my opinion) 100x better! With a bigger open-world, more gadgets, different playable characters (Catwoman, Robin, Nightwing), great puzzles, a fantastic (and shocking!) story, a jam-packed roster of great villains and boss fights, and all the delicious Easter eggs fans of Batman could ever wish to discover!
It's what a sequel should be - bigger and better. And it is, in my view, not only the perfect Batman video game, but a pretty damn perfect video game all round :)
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