QotD: Top 5 Video Games
What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.
5) James Bond: Golden Eye - Nintendo 64
Putting this in the fifth position was hard, because I think it's might be my all time favorite video game. The multi-player was great as was the single player. I just loved the first level, and it was by far my favorite level ever in video games. It was so nice to see the movie so closely replicated in a game. This was pretty much the perfect first-person shooter.
4) NHL 2004 - Playstation 2
Delme, Cass and I must have spent an entire semester locked in Delme's basement playing EA's NHL series. It's hard to pick one, but the 2004 was probably the best and the first of the last generation of video game systems. It was mind blowing and such a step up from the Nintendo 64 games that I was used to. Now I'd argue that NHL '07 is a better game, but it's not controlling my life anything near what it would have three years ago.
3) Football Manager - PC/Mac
I have lost months to Football Manager, formerly called Championship Manager. It's a game that lets you manage a football (soccer) team. There's little in the way of graphics, it's still all text based but it is way too involving. I've managed Arsenal and taken them to the top of Europe and turned them into a dominant force in Europe. I've built a team based on old warhorses and then raised a new generation of talent to carry the mantle.
It's not a game, it's a lifestyle.
2) Marvel Ultimate Alliance - XBox 360
My reservation on putting this game so high rests only in that it's such a new game. Less than a month has gone by since I picked it up, I've passed it and I'm playing again. I enjoyed the online compatibility, though I've mainly played one player, and even now I'm looking to get home to continue on my second time through. It's not a new style of game, it closely follows the gameplay used in the X-Men Legends games, but its fun and it captures the spirit and style of a lot of my favorite comic books. It's the best comic book game out there, and thankfully it's not a Street Fighter style game but a good adventure one.
1) Super Mario Brothers 3 - Nintendo
It was hard to pick the best, or my favorite, but SMB3 is probably it. I don't think I ever looked forward to a game as anxiously as I did the third Mario Brothers game, the idea that you could fly with a racoon hat was incredibly exciting. I loved it and it might be the only Mario game I've ever bothered to complete. It's still reall fun, though the old Nintendo games are quite unforgiving and harder than you'd expect. I remember this game scaring my young cousin Kyle because of the skeleton turtles, and that was at least two years after we'd bought it which means we were still playing it.
Excellent game.
