O.T G.O.A.T Video Games
What are your top 5 video games of all time? Criteria is as follows; 1. Must be on a current or past major platform, no pc and no arcade. 2. Must be a specific game and not just a franchise / series.
In order.. mine are
1. Tecmo Super Bowl for NES
2. Mario Kart for SNES
3. NHL 94 for SNES
4. NCAA 06 for PS2
5. Red Dead Redemption PS3
50 foot Ethernet cable. LOL. Halo is such a great game and it is worth it.
Can’t believe no one has Super Metroid on their list!
If it was a top 10 list this was probably my #6!
Left for Dead
Splinter Cell (any)
Guild Wars
Call of Duty
Tomb Raider
I scrolled all the way through looking for this. I spent way too much time playing left 4 dead and left 4 dead 2. They were probably my top two favorite games to play with friends. This thread makes me miss console gaming
I’m going to mention 2 PC games because I am just a crazy rule-breaker. I played Warcraft Orcs and Humans, and Civilization III more times than I care to admit. The original Warcraft was groundbreaking. My friend actually brought his entire computer over to my apartment so we could play the game together. Now that multiplayer game stuff is all online as my son daily reminds me.
there is nothing like a LAN party. Online just is not the same :(
SSX
I bought a PS2 in 2000 just to play that game.
Too many to list, here are some of my all time faves, in no particular prder:
Final Fantasy 7 (PS)
Tecmo Super Bowl (SNES)
Dark souls (PS)
Bloodborne (PS4)
Super Mario World (SNES)
The souls series is probably my all time favorite series, and I loved NCAA foorball, I wish they would bring that back, stupid EA.
maybe not GOAT but some of my favorites:
Star Fox
Half-Life
CoD (WaW, MW2)
Counter-Strike
Mario 64
Ocarina of Time
Castlevania, Contra, NBA Live 95, Dr. Mario any Madden
Games I’ve had the most fun playing:
- Tecmo Super Bowl
- Madden
- NCAA
- KOTOR
- GTA IV and Vice City
- Final Fantasy VII
- Goldeneye
- Perfect Dark
- Halo
- FIFA
- Super Mario Kart
Best games ever:
- Final Fantasy VII - production, story, gameplay, characters, attacks, spells, side quests, mechanics—this game was nearly flawless and advanced the genre as much as the original
- The Legend of Zelda—Groundbreaking RPG
- Super Tecmo Bowl—Took the sports genre from arcade to simulation
- Goldeneye—Father of all modern multiplayer shooters
- Super Mario Kart—This is underrated as a GOAT. A game that just inspires pure joy and is a great racer and battle game.
The issue with Mario Kart is, which version do you pick? There are several that are terrific.
My daughter just found and fired up my old Super Nintendo, and the first thing I did was absolutely massacre my kids in battle mode. But the newer version is a bit more user-friendly.
Gamecube one is the best. I just wish that game had more tracks.
This is actually right. Double Dash.
Taking a slightly different approach because I mostly just play sports games.
Hockey: NHL 94, Super Nintendo
Football: NCAA, any year, any platform. Bring it back.
Basketball: NBA 2K11, XBox 360
Baseball: MVP Baseball 05, Gamecube
Non sports: Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Super Nintendo
Resident Evil 2
OMG I totally forgot about resident evil, definitely one of the all time greats. 2 was a great game, i remember doing the challenge where you beat the game using only a knife, man that was badass lol
Mass Effect 3
Borderlands 2
Witcher 3
Mario Kart N64
Smash Bros N64
Oh and Fallout 4
Mega Man 2. Castlevania 3. Super Mario World. Street Fighter II: Turbo. Goldeneye. EA NCAA football.
And, old man that I am, I am surprised to say that I find Breath of the Wild to be the most satisfying game I've ever played.
Oh man. This isn't in an order based on favorite, but more chronological. What game was dominating my life before I had kids. I barely play anymore.
1. NHL 94
2. Final Fantasy VII - I played this so much I lost my soccer scholarship and got kicked out of Alma College because I am an idiot
3. The NCAA Football series - they became interchangeable to me as I got them every year.
4. God of War - always liked greek mythology
5. College Hoops 2k8
6. The Elder Scrolls Series - Can't pick a favorite, I started with Morrowind on the computer and transitioned to console with Oblivion and Skyrim.
7. Assassin's Creed: Black Flag - my favorite of the series
8. The Last of Us
9. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Probably my favorite game ever, literally played this exclusively for about a year with all the DLC
10. Horizon Zero Dawn - made me want to carve out time to play after I had kids.
Witcher 3 came out of nowhere for me. A friend mentioned that it was the best game she'd ever played so I gave it a shot. I couldn't put it down until I'd finished it and both expansions. I agree that it's the GOAT.
1. Halo
2. COD World at war
3. Destiny
4. Banjo and Kazooie
5. Dead Space
1. Metal Gear Solid 2
2. Mass Effect
3. God of War PS4
4. Metal Gear Solid 3
5. Half Life 2
I'll expand it a little more and say Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Galaxy, The Last of Us, and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 as my favorite of the 2D era
If I'm being totally honest I'm an Elder Scrolls nerd, so I'd probably rank all of the Elder Scrolls in reverse order with no rules. Playing by your rules I'll go with this:
1.) Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (XB1)
2.) Madden 2011 (with Fitz and Polamalu on the cover) (XB360)
3.) NHL 94 (SNES)
4.) WCW vs NWO (N64)
5.) FIFA 18 (XB1)
There are so many others: ES IV: Oblivion, ES III: Morrowind, ES II: Daggerfall, ES I: Arena, any of the FIFAs from the last 5 years, Goldeneye, Metal Gear Solid, Madden 10, Madden 06, Madden 04, NCAA Football (any year from 2000-2014), Overwatch, March Madness 08, NBA 2k series for the last five years has been amazing (especially career mode), Tiger Woods 2002 (gotta love the Tiger zone heartbeat), Blades of Steel, Contras 1 and 2, Bubble Bobble (nostalgia playing with my sister), Mortal Kombat, Sim City 2000, Super Mario Bros 1-3, Super Mario Kart, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Resident Evil, Twisted Metal, any Civilization game, Diablo II
Those are just off of the top of my head, there are so many more! Takes me down memory lane!
Random memories I just have to add (cool story bro I know):
Story 1:
My old man was the best Duck Hunt player in the history of mankind. No shit, after drinking like 20 Miller Lites he'd take the gun controller as far as the cord would stretch and just merk everything on the screen. As a tiny child I was amazed, I could sit five feet away and he'd blow my score outta the water EVERYTIME!
Story 2:
My older bro is 10 years older than me and he'd bet his buddies like $10 a game that I could beat them at Blades of Steel. I can remember being 5-6 years old and just smashing kids in high school at that game and my bro walking away with a bunch of cash at parties he threw.
I don't want to call you old but your old if tech bowl is in your top 5. Super mario world 3 is acceptable for any age but tech bowl is garbage.
1. Uncharted (series)
2. God of War (ps4)
3. Fifa
4. NHL
5. Red Dead Redemption
1. FFVII
2. WoW
3. Halo
4. NCAA Football (nothing like online dynasties with friends)
I read this entire thread and although a lot of great games were mentioned, not a single reference to Fallout 3 or the original Gears of War?
5. TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project
4. Mega Man X
3. Super Mario Bros. 2
2. Mega Man 2
1. Super Mario Bros. 3. As a kid I could beat that in my sleep.
Honorable mention: Action 52
Damn, so disappointed I forgot to mention the Manhattan Project, what a great game!
Honestly the new God of War is amazing. I’m 36 and do not play much anymore but that game I could not put down.
Duh, it's River City Ransom!
Mass effect franchise
nhl 2k5
nba 2k6, 2k11
madden 12
nhl 2003
oblivion
original Star Wars battlefront 2
destiny 1(just to specify I don’t like 2)
life is strange(amazing series, can’t recommend it enough)
far cry 3
batman Arkham city and Arkham knight(probably my favorite games of all time)
ncaa football franchise, the two I played the most were 2005 and 14 so I’ll pick those as my favorite but I just miss the franchise. That is the franchise I’ve put the most time into in my life.
A few that are still really good but not quite favorites are borderlands 2, dishonored, Star Wars kotor 1 and 2, cod black ops 1, cod mw2 and mw3, bully, and shadow of mordor.
1. Counter Strike
2. Day of Defeat
3. NBA Jam / Blitz
4. NCAA Football
5. RBI Baseball
GoldenEye - N64
Super Tecmo Bowl - Nintendo
MegaMan 2 - Nintendo
Mike Tyson's Punch Out - Nintendo
FIFA '98 - N64
NCAA Football '10 - Xbox 360
NBA Jam deserves a spot, but I can't find anything on your list that should be removed.
No love for Bioshock?
I’d say Bioshock is easily top 5 all time, and quite possibly #1. Lots of games are fun to play, but I’d say a game needs to go beyond that to be GOAT level, and Bioshock and Kotor were transcendent experiences.
Others I’d put in there would probably be GTA Vice City, Pokémon (Red/Blue were the originals that got me hooked as a kid, but I’d probably go with Gold/Silver for being the better game), and either Goldeneye or Halo 2.
1. Goldeneye
2. Street fighter 2
3. FFVI (3 in US)
4. NCAA 14
5 Metal Gear Solid 4
HM Super Mario World for SNES ,and Resident Evil 2 ,and Legend of Zelda a link to the past
1. Final Fantasy 6 (SNES)
2. Megaman 2 (NES)
3. Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
4. Mass Effect trilogy (I always play them as one game straight through, but if I had to only pick one it'd be ME2) (PS3)
5. Shining Force 3 (Saturn)
Others just missing the cut, in no particular order
Super Mario World (SNES)
Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Megaman X (SNES)
Super Mario Brothers 3 (NES)
Tecmo Super Bowl (NES)
Other games in the Final Fantasy and Megaman series
Edit, because I forgot on honorable mentions: Super Street Fighter 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 2, Bioshock, and Bioshock Infinite.
Skyrim
Witcher 3
Chrono trigger
Fallout 3/new Vegas
Earthbound
December 31st, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
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