Name your top five favorite video games and then the five video games you hate the most. It doesn't matter what platform or genre, it can even be some online MMO.

Loved, in no particular order:
Suikoden 1, 2, 5
Ace combat 4, 5
DmC Devil May Cry
Saints Row 2, 3, 4
Destroy all humans 1, 2

Honorable mention: Everything by Criterion, Thatgamecompany, David Jaffe

Hated:
The Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 2
Anything by Black Box
Call of Duty (call me a hipster, I only hate them because they're too mainstream)
Twisted metal 3, 4, Small Brawl

anon_X said:

DmC Devil May Cry

YES

Finally, someone else who likes it. ^^

Maybe it's because I never played the original games so I didn't have any real loyalty, but I worshipped the anime. I see DMC in DmC lol. The bosses could've been more original, but that's about it.

anon_X said:
Maybe it's because I never played the original games so I didn't have any real loyalty, but I worshipped the anime. I see DMC in DmC lol. The bosses could've been more original, but that's about it.

Yeah, I can probably understand how the 'real fans' felt about it.

But still, I love it.

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
Yeah, I can probably understand how the 'real fans' felt about it.

But still, I love it.

Laughed my ass off when a wig of Dante's original hairstyle fell on his head and he took it off, saying "not a chance!"

Faves
5. Conker's bad fur day
4. Okami
3. Any Mario kart
2. The last of us
1. Amnesia the dark descent

least fave

5. Call of duty series its to generic
4. Grand Theft Auto series it's to violent for me LOL
3. Need for speed I need a storyline come on now...
2. Animal Crossing namly the older releases the newest one is way better though
1. Banjo Kazooy nuts and bolts ...just why?????

I started gaming in early 80s, and have had so many favorites that I couldn't possibly narrow it down to just five.

So maybe I'll just list my faves out of the ones that I've played recently...

Crusader Kings II (clocked 1200+ hours on this so far)
Football Manager 2013 (another timesink)
Saints Row: the Third
Witcher 2
Hatoful Boyfriend (the world's greatest pigeon dating sim)

I don't hate games, I just like them less than the others... 9_9

thatoneclarinetist said:
4. Grand Theft Auto series it's to violent for me LOL
3. Need for speed I need a storyline come on now...

I don't know you anymore.

Faves
1. Skate 3
2. GTA V
3. Halo: Reach
4. Soul Calibur IV
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (you can hate me now)

Dislikes
.....I don't have that much games :I

anon_X said:
I don't know you anymore.

What? i'm rather a picky gamer and I can't stand the trillons of times they say "nigga" and I can't stand killing people intentionally

It's not so much GTA as it is NFS. I grew up around that genre- picked up every one of them from 3 to the modern hot pursuit. You hate my childhood. :c that's my job!

TheHuskyK9 said:
Faves
3. Halo: Reach
4. Soul Calibur IV
5. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 (you can hate me now)

That started with halo and intensified with soul caliber. Your mainstream ness just irritated my inner hipster. XD

TheHuskyK9 said:
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

>:(

anon_X said:
It's not so much GTA as it is NFS. I grew up around that genre- picked up every one of them from 3 to the modern hot pursuit. You hate my childhood. :c that's my job!
That started with halo and intensified with soul caliber. Your mainstream ness just irritated my inner hipster. XD

Ryuzaki_Izawa said:
>:(

I just get what I find entertaining XD Wait, is the list limited for one console or from everything we've ever played?

TheHuskyK9 said:
I just get what I find entertaining XD Wait, is the list limited for one console or from everything we've ever played?

I went for an all time list. Sui 5, ace combat and DAH were PS2, Sui 1 and 2 were PS1, DmC and SR on 3.

thatoneclarinetist said:
Faves

2. The last of us

least fave

4. Grand Theft Auto series it's to violent for me LOL

>The Last of Us has exploding heads, not too violent.

>GTA has almost no gore whatsoever, too violent.

lolok

JoeX said:
>The Last of Us has exploding heads, not too violent.

>GTA has almost no gore whatsoever, too violent.

lolok

Exactly what I was thinking.

JoeX said:
>The Last of Us has exploding heads, not too violent.

>GTA has almost no gore whatsoever, too violent.

lolok

Fluttershy said:
Exactly what I was thinking.

Well it had amazing visuals and a shining storyline that was able to distract from the gore grand theft auto is nothing but non stop gang shootings...

anon_X said:
I went for an all time list. Sui 5, ace combat and DAH were PS2, Sui 1 and 2 were PS1, DmC and SR on 3.

Oh, then my full faves are:
1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Skate 3 (360)
3. Mortal Kombat (360)
4. Tony Hawk: Project 8 (PS2)
5. Tekken 3 (PS1)

GTA V is right after Tekken due to nostalgia and the bastard Heihachi dude

thatoneclarinetist said:
...grand theft auto is nothing but non stop gang shootings.

Not even close. GTA is a story-driven sandbox game that makes a lot of video games look like horse shit in comparison. I'd bet $100 that you have never played the first five minutes of any GTA game.

TheHuskyK9 said:
Oh, then my full faves are:
1. Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
2. Skate 3 (360)
3. Mortal Kombat (360)
4. Tony Hawk: Project 8 (PS2)
5. Tekken 3 (PS1)

Tekken 3 <3

Favorites:

Bioshock
Portal 2
Ocarina of Time (Come on, people.)
Okami
Pokemon Emerald

Hate:

Dishonored
Minecraft
Pokemon X and Y (Come ON, people.)
Ninja Gaiden 2 (Fuck this game. Just fuck this game.)
Anything Zynga has ever made.

thatoneclarinetist said:

Faves
3. Any Mario kart

least fave
3. Need for speed I need a storyline come on now...

JoeX said:

lolok

Fave:

1. Doom 2
2. Brutal Doom
3. GTA V
4. Skate 3
5. Banjo Kazooie

Hated:

1. Any call of duty.
2. Any Halo
3. Superman 64
4. Final Fantasy 7
5. Anything done by Perfect World Entertainment.

thatoneclarinetist said:
Faves
5. Conker's bad fur day
4. Okami
3. Any Mario kart
2. The last of us
1. Amnesia the dark descent

least fave

5. Call of duty series its to generic
4. Grand Theft Auto series it's to violent for me LOL
3. Need for speed I need a storyline come on now...
2. Animal Crossing namly the older releases the newest one is way better though
1. Banjo Kazooy nuts and bolts ...just why?????

>GTA too violent
>Has Amnesia as fave
>Has last of us as fave

Suuuuure.

SirAntagonist said:.
stuff

well mario kart 64 was my very first video game EVER so you can see why the series is a fave it made me start gaming in the first place need for speed was more so a wannabe clone

@SirAntagonist, holy shit, how did I not notice that?

thatoneclarinetist said:
well mario kart 64 was my very first video game EVER so you can see why the series is a fave it made me start gaming in the first place need for speed was more so a wannabe clone

HAHAHAHAHA. Dude, no it wasn't. Need for Speed had real cars. Comparing Mario Kart to Need for Speed is like comparing a cardboard box to the Empire State Building.

I realized I never told you mine.

Faves:

• Crash Bandicoot Series (up until CTR)

Spyro Series (up until Spyro 3)
Mario Series (except Strikers and Olympic Games, I dunno, I find them kinda boring) Mario 3 woo!
Team Buddies (PS1)
Test Drive 5 (PS1)
Driver and Driver 2 (I want to play Driv3r, San Francisco or Parallel Lines but don't have enough money)
Both Portal games
Snake (yeah, the one Nokias used to have :) )
Pacman
/Escape\
Dust: AET
NFS: Most Wanted

Hate:

• FIFA 'anything

PES
Football Manager
...and most related to sports. (I don't do them IRL, why I should do them in a videogame ¬¬ )

Fluttershy said:
You're so wrong it's so funny.

No joke. Everything he's said about GTA and NFS leads me believe he has done no research about what those games are about.

Patchi said:
prolly something against humanity

Again for me storyline, level design, plot, the occasional breaking of the fourth wall, and good actual attempts at SUTLE horror and violence, and good graphics of course, for me what scores points in my book for games if it is only lacking one or two things often I can overlook it Amnesia had the sutlety that you were slowly losing your mind hence why you monitor the sanity gauge the jumpscares are only a BACKDROP for the true horror that you are slowly losing your mind and the last of us again level design, graphics, and plot I could overlook the occasional gore and violence like I said if it is lacking in one or two I can often overlook it

thatoneclarinetist said:
need for speed was more so a wannabe clone

Mario Kart: 1992

Pole Position: 1982

Your logic core seems to be shorting out today.

SirAntagonist said:
Mario Kart: 1992

Pole Position: 1982

Your logic core seems to be shorting out today.

you all remember this is an opinion based qiestion right and I played mario kart first so... :\

thatoneclarinetist said:
well mario kart 64 was my very first video game EVER so you can see why the series is a fave it made me start gaming in the first place need for speed was more so a wannabe clone

LOL NEED FOR SPEED IS A WANNABE CLONE OF MARIO KART?

MY SIDES.

thatoneclarinetist said:
you all remember this is an opinion based qiestion right and I played mario kart first so... :\

You said Need for Speed is a clone of Mario Kart. They are not even remotely similar. They both have cars, that's it. Mario Kart is a racing game for younger kids. Need for Speed is a series of games that have the newest high-end supercars. It's not at all fair to compare them, to be honest.

JoeX said:
You said Need for Speed is a clone of Mario Kart. They are not even remotely similar. They both have cars, that's it. Mario Kart is a racing game for younger kids. Need for Speed is a series of games that have the newest high-end supercars. It's not at all fair to compare them, to be honest.

well that being said it still be noted that as a first franchise for me it will always be a favorite in the racing genere, personally I can't say if thats true for everyone being that way though :/

thatoneclarinetist said:
well that being said it still be noted that as a first franchise for me it will always be a favorite in the genere, personally I can't say if thats true for everyone being that way though :/

I wasn't aware that "has cars" was a genre.

Faves:
Diablo 2
GTA San Andreas
Final Fantasy 12
BasketBrawl (N64 I think)
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal
Dislikes:
Sports
Guitar Hero
Rock Band
Sonic

SirAntagonist said:
I wasn't aware that "has cars" was a genre.

I meant the racing genre you may have to refresh to see that I edited it

thatoneclarinetist said:
well that being said it still be noted that as a first franchise for me it will always be a favorite in the genere, personally I can't say if thats true for everyone being that way though :/

I get that it's the nostalgia factor. There are a ton of nostalgic games for me. It's just that the comparisons are odd.

thatoneclarinetist said:
I meant the racing genre you may have to refresh to see that I edited it

Comparing Mario Kart to Need for Speed by the logic that they're both racing games is like comparing Halo to Duck Hunt by the logic that they're both first person shooters.

JoeX said:
I get that it's the nostalgia factor. There are a ton of nostalgic games for me. It's just that the comparisons are odd.

Yeah but you know what they say about the nostalgia factor... "once you have it, there goes all logic..." look at the gen whinner fanbase... I guess I let my nostalgia overtake me

Likes:
Goat simulator -I already know I'm going to fucking love that shit.
TWEWY
Left 4 Dead 1/2
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad
Mirrors edge - I'm pretty psyched about the second one.

Middle Groud:
Battlefield franchise - I really liked the second one, and the 4th one is fun, they just need to work out the bugs.
Cod Zombies: If this was a stand alone game, I'd buy the shit out of it, you know if it was priced down, but the fact that its still connected to cod makes me not like it as much, like the developers could spend a hell of a lot more time doing it than doing multiplayer maps.
Guitar Hero - Really only fun to play with other people... same with rock band.

Dislikes:
The Ball
Planetside 2
Every Cod after World at War (that one was fun)
Forza/Grand Turismo
Deus Ex.

On a side note, what's your top pick for current/upcoming next gen games?

Me it's The Crew. Made by the same people behind the devastatingly beautiful and iconically pioneering, yet ultimately incomplete and flawed Test Drive Unlimited 1 & 2- the very first MOORs (Massively Open Online Racing).

And since they're freed of the defunct obscure Eden games and bumbling incompetence of cash-strapped Atari, this promises to be quite good.

Side side note (sorry for not letting this die, clarinetist): GTA V has the most breathtaking level design since TDU (above), and GTA IV had the most gripping (if not wrist cuttingly dark and depressing) storylines I've seen on this gen. (Something else in parentheses)

Liked:
Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) - first 3D game, first AAA title, first post-SNES game. ~1000 hours. yah
Unreal Tournament III (PC) - still play multiplayer on the weekends when servers populate. Co-founded a UT3 clan (~30-40 members at peak?). 2000+ hours? Extremely long skill curve with a very high ceiling. Get on my level! (jk)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (PS2) - first sandbox game, first "violent" anything (so fun!), first shooter (I guess?). I went on many multi-hour rampages, never got bored of it. Highest praise. 10/10 -IGN
Monster Hunter (PS2, online) - challenging and fun to grind up in equipment strength. Enough depth in combat movement and targeting to encourage finesse or a self-taught style.

Honorable Mentions:
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (SNES, 1996) - they made this in 1996 for the SNES??? So far ahead of its time that I still have difficulty comprehending the achievement.
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap (SMS, 1989) - also ahead of its time. By far the most fun game among our SMS, NES, SNES, and Genesis titles, although we never owned SMRPG: LotSS.
Castle of the Winds 1, 2 (PC, 1993) - a side-scrolling roguelike. Our best, early PC game that could run on old, crappy PCs.

Disliked:
Every MMO (PC) - always became less fun the more I played, eventually leaving me with a tremendous feeling of wasted time.
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion (PC) - blagh! lolno... No more TES. It was a slice.
Assassin's Creed (PC) - yawn. Bought first three from Steam sale, but the first one turned me off from the series. I don't even care if the gameplay improves. I'm done.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories (PS) - terrible. Nearly impossible/not worth the effort to beat legitimately.
Disappointing Sequels - Ratchet: Deadlocked (PS2), Jungle & Urban Strike (SNES), and Actraiser 2 (SNES).

Looking forward to... Dark Souls II for PC, I guess. Nothing really grabs me, and I'm not particularly interested in changing that. I should actually attempt DS1, though. It's purchased, downloaded, and modded, but I just don't get hyped over new games anymore. Otherwise, I'm interested in the next Mass Effect and Dragon Age installments and any FPS battle arena genre game (e.g., UT, Quake, HAWKEN...) that hints at good gameplay (involving movement and dodging are mandatory). Oh, and Grim Dawn might be nice with the same engine and devs as Titan Quest.

I'm disappointed not more people have played ace combat 4 or 5. Easily two of the best video game storylines, past present or future. Definitely far and away the very best storylines in war games- not that they have much competition.

I had a naughty little chip in my Playstation when I was little, and my dad would sometimes bring home burned game copies fron a friend's house. Before that I had naught but a NES. Orders are as they come to mind. Yes, I play consoles. Leave me alone.

Faves:
-Battletoads
-Ace Combat 2
-Life Force
-Test Drive: Unlimited
-Oblivion

Gaems of haet:
-Far Cry 3
-Fukken Skyrim (best combat system ever though)
-Any Super Smash Bros. game
-Gran Turismo 5
-Halo 4

Moon_Moon said:
Dislikes:

Deus Ex.

[gawking intensifies]

I like you tangent. So far as I can tell, only way I can advance in GT5 is by grinding for money. I hate that, especially in a console game. Fear the power of TDU and AC! :D

You seem a very friendly sort as well, anon. Always so nice to everyone. Didn't expect there to be another AC (or TDU for that matter) fan around. I remember I signed up on an AC discussion forum and everyone turned out to be egomaniacal douchebags. Unfortunatley, while I was writing my sleepy list of games I liked and disliked (but before I panickingly parsed it), AC Zero found its way into the dislike pile for several reasons. 5 though, there was something special about that one (motherfucking Pops comes to mind). 3 too.

I tend to dislike later games in their series. Gran Turismos 1 though 4 were huge in my growing-up life, but 5 was so delayed and hyped up that when the actual game, itself made up of half a game of content re-used from previous games, came out I felt cheated. Likewise, Far Cry 3 was such a different game from 2 (which I loved), and Skyrim was bleak and repetetive compated to Oblivion's goofy cartoony vibrance. I guess I don't don't like how games are becoming.

One game that I hoped I could squeeze into my list is one called Aero Elite Combat Academy. I ordered it a few weeks ago (and totally crammed AC5 while I waited for delivery), and I love it. If you like realism in a flying game, anon, you might give this one a try. It addresses all the issues I had with AC, namely the lack of air, gravity, intertia, g-force, weight and loading issues, conservation of energy, your flying silo of magical missiles and extra-slow firing cannon, Nagase, and the NPCs constant, unceasing veneration of the player as some sort of sky-god incarnate. If you can find it on the cheap, definetley pick it up.

I love them Japflyers.

edit: also fuck GTA V. I don't know why everyone loves that game so much. So there.

Peekaboo said:
Singleplayer is amazing. Multiplayer is pretty shite at times.

I just don't like how generally malleable the physics are. Small things like how you can control the cars in midair bother me for some reason.

Tunguska said:
[gawking intensifies]

I think it was more the fact that it refused to run on anything I owned, it either never downloaded right, there were errors or the screen was fucky. I don't know why, I never had problems with any other game.

Peekaboo said:
Eh, I'm just glad cars don't become live hand grenades and explode once flipped over like they did in pre-GTA IV titles.

I always explained that to myself by way of the car's fluids spilling over the hot engine block and igniting because the GTA world would probably have asinine design flaws....fuck it, that was a stupid cop-out. It made no sense and caused more problems than it solved.

And if I'm remebering correctly you could tip them back over once they were on their side by steering in previous titles, so...yeah.

You are absoloutley correct good sir.

Tangent said:
I just don't like how generally malleable the physics are. Small things like how you can control the cars in midair bother me for some reason.

The SP cars are made of explodium.
Also two of the SP protagonists somehow both take the title of World's Most Boring Man.

Also the police, in SP and MP, are basically all the Nemesis from Resident Evil and will never ever stop pursuing you short of you literally hiding underground.

Favorites in no particular order...

-The classic Doom series; Ultimate, 2 and Final, along with all the community wads/mods and sourceports. It's good anytime, and can run on pretty much anything (sans a few resource hogging mods played with NUTS.wad.)

-Demolition Racer; this love is being carried over to newer projects like BeamNG's soft-bodied physics engine and BugBear's Next Car Game.

-Any of the ps1 army men games. If I'm allowed to stretch this a bit, I'd also include Army Men RTS on ps2.

-The Spyro series, first 3 to be exact. Haven't played much of the others in the "original" series, but I do have The Eternal Night (part of the new "Legend of Spyro" series. Stopped playing it after I realized it was the second, I want to start from the first, but I did enjoy it.)

-Dark Cloud 1 and 2 on ps2. Got me into similar games like Baroque. Also got me into the type of general art style I'm still not sure what to call, too.

Don't really have a hate list since I don't dwell on games I don't care for, though I can recall a few stinkers.

Tunguska said:
Also two of the SP protagonists somehow both take the title of World's Most Boring Man.

I know you ain't talking about Michael.

DudeManGuy said:
Awesome games.

All those games are awesome.

- Supreme command 1/forged alliance/2
- Payday 2
- Arma 2/3
- Portal 1
- Splinter cell series

(Not the BEST games in the world but some of the more entertaining ones. Especially Payday 2)

To be fair, GTA V is a great game. Yeah, it has flaws, but there are very few games that let you airlift a tank so you can wreak havoc in remote areas. Not to mention, I don't know of any other games that let you fly a fucking 747.

JoeX said:
Not to mention, I don't know of any other games that let you fly a fucking 747.

Saints row. Microsoft flight simulator.

anon_X said:
Saints row. Microsoft flight simulator.

Saints Row never had large airliners. Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't really a "video game" in the traditional sense.

JoeX said:
Saints Row never had large airliners. Microsoft Flight Simulator isn't really a "video game" in the traditional sense.

Could've sworn SR had a jumbo jet. There's a game scratching my brain that also had a fly able big plane I just can't remember! Btw, the military cargo is bigger than the Jet.

anon_X said:
Could've sworn SR had a jumbo jet. There's a game scratching my brain that also had a fly able big plane I just can't remember! Btw, the military cargo is bigger than the Jet.

Yeah, I know it is. You may be thinking of Just Cause 2, which had a four-engine cargo jet.

In saints row 4 you pilot the saint's home ship a couple times. On rails, but it's pretty massive. I think that counts. :P

anon_X said:
In saints row 4 you pilot the saint's home ship a couple times. On rails, but it's pretty massive. I think that counts. :P

That works. GTA V is the only game that lets you hunt animals with heavy weapons, though.

JoeX said:
That works. GTA V is the only game that lets you hunt animals with heavy weapons, though.

You were saying?

anon_X said:
You were saying?

Yeah, not what I meant. GTA V is the only game that allows you to hunt animals with RPGs, .50 cal sniper rifles, miniguns, grenade launchers, C4, etc etc.