So, while I hunt through my Steam account for games that will actually run on this machine (which barely runs Minecraft, mind you) until I get my new computer, I thought I'd make a new post talking about my favourite games as well as asking YOU guys what yours are. My favourite games (from the last decade or so) are as follows:
This game may have essentially just been Grand Theft Auto set in the Wild West, but that is definitely not a bad thing. In fact, I think I prefer this game to GTA IV and I hope GTA V lives up to the awesome standard that this game has set for future Rockstar games. Everything about this game was great, the story, the gameplay, the incredible music and the spectacular graphics. That's why Red Dead Redemption is one of my all-time favourite games.
Possibly my favourite game of all time, Bioshock has it all. A fantastic engrossing setting, an engaging story with a few stunning twists along the way, beautiful graphics, smooth gunplay, combined with the amazing plasmid system. I really loved this game when it came out, and rushed to get Bioshock 2 when it was released. Unfortunately, the sequel didn't quite live up to Bioshock 1, but Bioshock: Infinite is being made by the original team and looks amazing from the trailers released so far.
Yes, I know this is sort of cheating. The Orange Box may not be a game, but it contains 5 of the greatest games ever in one box for the price of one game. I'm sure everybody reading (hopefully) knows and loves the Half-Life series already, and Team Fortress 2 and Portal really shined in this package as well. Portal was an amazing puzzle game, although it wasn't very long, which was good since it made it a bite-sized game that even the most casual gamer could enjoy. Team Fortress 2 is still getting regular updates after all this time, but I fear that some of them (hats and the Mann Co store) and starting to make the game worse and worse as time goes on. Still, at the time of release, this was the biggest and best deal of all time.
Finally, a comic book game done right. This game was truly surprising, seeing that the only game developer Rocksteady Studios had made was an unknown PS2 game 4 years before Arkham Asylum was released. The game is just astounding, especially the graphics and the free-flow combat system. It even kept me interested enough to collect all the hidden Riddler easter eggs, although I never did beat all the Combat challenge maps. Batman: Arkham City is one of my most highly anticipated games of 2011.
New Vegas improved on it's predecessor, Fallout 3, in almost every way possible. Almost all of my nuances with Fallout 3 were fixed, and a lot of things from the original Fallout games were brought back (a lot of the people who worked on this game also worked on Fallout 1 and 2). My one problem with the game was the countless bugs. Thankfully, I was playing the PC version, so most were easily fixed. I believe this game took me around 40 hours to complete, which is amazing seeing that you could probably rush through in about 10-15. Side missions pretty much didn't interest me at all in Fallout 3, but in New Vegas I was stuck in areas for hours just trying to finish all the side missions before I moved on to the next big and exciting place. Possibly my favourite WRPG, I hope Fallout 4 is being made by Obsidian as well.
So, that's just a few of my favourite games (I'm sure I forgot some), now my question is, what are YOUR favourite games? Post in the comments section with a few of your all-time favourite games and WHY you love them.
