And because I got drunk with a fellow nerd this weekend, I present you with my 50 favorite games of alltime and dare you to guess my age (I limited it to one game per series):
Conkers Bad Fur Day (N64, Xbox)
The Last of Us (PS3)
Mass Effect 2 (360)
GTA 5 (PS3, 360)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Xbox)
Super Mario Wii (Wii)
Resident Evil 4 (GC)
Persona 5 (PS4)
Bioshock Infinite (360, PS3)
Mirror's Edge (360, PS3)
Inside (Current Gen Indie)
Jade Empire (Xbox)
Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4)
Burnout 3: Takedown (Xbox, GC, PS2)
WWF: No Mercy (N64)
Fallout 3 (360, PS3)
Harvest Moon 64 (N64)
Killer 7 (GC)
Time Splitters 2 (GC = best version)
ESPN 2K5 (Xbox, PS2)
Zelda: OOT (N64)
Beyond Good and Evil (GC, PS2? Xbox)
Eternal Darkness (GC)
Worms Armegeddon (Dreamcast, N64)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
Pokemon: Red/Blue (Gameboy)
Turtles in Time (SNES)
Fight Night: Round 3 (360/PS3)
Rainbow Six 3 (Xbox)
Max Payne (Xbox/PS2)
Tony Hawk: Underground (Xbox/GC/PS2)
Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast)
Metroid Prime (GC)
Heavy Rain (PS3)
Rez (Dreamcast)
Mario Kart 64 (N64)
NBA Jam: Turbo Edition (Genesis/SNES/Gamegear)
Super Smash Brothers Mele (GC)
Golden Eye: 007 (N64)
Super Monkey Ball 2 (GC)
Winning Eleven 8 (Xbox)
Limbo (360/PS3)
Vanquish (360/PS3)
Assassins Creed 2 (360/PS3)
A Night in the Woods (Current Gen Indie)
Ico (PS2)
Marvel Vs. Capcom II (Dreamcast)
Tiny Tunes: Acne All-Stars (Genesis)
Deathrow (Xbox)
Virtual Tennis (Dreamcast)
Warioware Inc. (GC)
I listed the console that it was originally released on. Though with Conkers I included the Xbox raster because it holds up and the N64 one is tough to play (even if it's multiplayer was vastly superior and it is considered the better version due to Microsoft censoring portions of the game). Oh and with Mass Effect I listed the 360 because who the hell wants to play that series without access to the first game.
Also, if anyone has rec's for me from this generation based off this list, I'm all ears. I'm fairly well informed but have been incredibly disappointed by most of the releases I've looked forward to (Mirrors Edge 2, Fallout 4 which was basically Borderlands, No Man's Sky, Mass Effect Andromana, exc).
No idea if you've tried these or what consoles you have access to but off the top of my head:
AAA stuff:
God of War (PS4) - really plays totally different from the old ones if you didn't like those. great 3rd person action/father-son tale
Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4) - Beautiful game. Tons of fun hunting robo-animals
Uncharted 4 (PS4), or even the Nathan Drake collection. I'm guessing you've played them and don't like them? The new one isn't different enough if you didn't like Uncharted 2 for instance.
Spider-man (PS4) - So fun even just swinging around
Bloodborne/Sekiro - You probably know if you'll like any of the souls games but I think they're worth mentioning
RDR2 - Amazing game in my opinion but some people find the long character animations for frequent tasks excruciating so fair warning
Indie:
Celeste - Beautiful super hard precision platformer, but you only start the room over if you die and there is no penalty for # of deaths
Ori and the Blind Forest - great metroidvania
Hollow Knight - even better, incredible, metroidvania, little bit of a slow start and learning curve
Cuphead - If you ever wanted a game that was mostly super hard platformer bosses this is for you
Subnautica - To me this was a super addictive survival/exploration game
The Witness - If you like puzzles, yes
Return of the Obra Dinn (PC) - Oh man, this game was so cool. Also a sort of puzzle game trying to figure out what happened to each person and who they were on a ship where everyone has died.
FTL/Into the Breach - These are really cool small strategy games but are very hard. I would like them more if I was better at them.
Sorry, I'm sure that's way more than you were expecting
Also, if anyone has any recommendations for me based on these I'd love to hear them, especially the indie stuff that I seem to completely miss sometimes, like Obra Dinn and Subnautica.
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