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7.Metal Gear Solid

Being someone that rarely plays a game more than once after I completed it, the fact that I feel like playing through this game again just confirms to me how much I enjoyed this game. Of course everybody who played this game remembers the Psycho Mantis boss fight, but the most memorable moments to me were the battles against Liquid Snake and Sniper Wolf.



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6.Dead or Alive: Ultimate

Unfortunately this whole series often gets dragged down as being a T&A franchise or easy for casuals to play. I think the sexualization of the characters is pretty annoying. However, it's hard to deny that the games are very fun. Dead or Alive: Ultimate on the Xbox is my favourite and it includes the song Wired, which may actually be my favourite song of all time.



Ka-pi96 said:
I missed quite a bit so I'm just going to skip to my top 10...


#7 Recently had its name tarnished by a much maligned new game.

The real Battlefront 2.



 

8

 

SimCity 4

  • Windows PC
  • 2003
  • Construction & Management Simulation
  • Maxis

This is likely my second-most played game ever. In total I made multiple regions with dozens of cities each, one even bigger than the next. I have been playing 'SimCity 4' with it's add-on for as long as the game is out and done so pretty much non-stop. Still, only a couple years ago I broke my record for biggest city I ever made, maxing out at about 420,000 inhabitants, the record for my biggest region remains at about 1.5 million so far though.

The most literal translation of the city-building genre, it's predecessors even defined it, the objective is simply to make a big city. Infrastructure, zoning, utilities and recreation are all on the plate of the player, along with tax and budget management. The word 'ploppable' originates from this series. The game also gives the player the opportunity to create their own landscapes from large oceans to tall mountains, so their vision can be realized as realistically as possible.

After all these years, there still hasn't been a game in it's genre that bested SimCity 4 and I have given up hope that there will ever be one. The game has already been on many of my computers, and it seems like I will have to take the discs with me and install them on every new computer I'll have indefinitely. Not really a problem though.



#7
The first game in a series where the numbers in each game's name add up to '9'. I don't know why that is though...



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Ka-pi96 said:
Flilix said:

#9 Pokémon Red & Blue?
#5 Romance of the Three Kingdoms something?
#4 Pokémon Gold & Silver?
#1 Final Fantasy XI or X... I'll go with X.

Correct on all of them!

2 must be FFVIII then. 3 might be FFIX. Or one of them could be a Warriors game hmmm.

8 is civ 3?

6 is timesplitters?



As one might have guessed 14 is Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII.

10: Hint 1: Small state versus Empire.
Hint 2: Originally had 6 controllable characters and some guests.

9 Hint 1: The 3rd out of 4 games in this 3rd person action series to release for the PS2.

8 Hint 1: Possibly one of the most played PC games ever.



Hints to my #4 and #3 games.

#4 In North America, this spinoff game was released just a few months after the series' most successful entry.
Hint 2: The story of this game is about two childhood friends who took two very different paths as adults.

#3 “Since man first walked upright, he has looked to the stars and wondered, ‘Are we alone in this cold corner of space? If something is out there, would it be friend…or foe?’ What would this Earth man think if he could see a desperate space ship, fleeing at a speed faster than imagination? What would he think if he saw the impact of powerfully potent neutronic missiles upon its fragile frame? What would he make of the strange pod that ejected from the ruined remains, just in time to avoid its mysterious inhabitant’s destruction? And would he gape in wonder at the dozen or so strange canisters that burst from its hold and fell towards the atmosphere of our guileless globe? What emotion would pass through his mind as he observed these selfsame containers as they passed through our atmosphere and fell upon the surface of an unsuspecting metropolis? So many questions and so few answers…until now dear viewers…until now….”



 

S.Peelman said: 

#7
The first game in a series where the numbers in each game's name add up to '9'. I don't know why that is though...

I dont understand anything haha, but i throw Anno 1602 into it

HomokHarcos said:

6.Dead or Alive: Ultimate

Unfortunately this whole series often gets dragged down as being a T&A franchise or easy for casuals to play. I think the sexualization of the characters is pretty annoying. However, it's hard to deny that the games are very fun. Dead or Alive: Ultimate on the Xbox is my favourite and it includes the song Wired, which may actually be my favourite song of all time.

i agree, DOA is the only fighting game i cant beat on the hardest difficult. But why you think the sexualization is so annoying? In my personal opinion without it the game would lose a lot of its personality, i mean you dont hear people saying how the gore and violence in Mortak Kombat is annoying? Of course some used to but as much as people complain about DOAs qualities now.

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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Hints to my #4 and #3 games.

#4 In North America, this spinoff game was released just a few months after the series' most successful entry.
Hint 2: The story of this game is about two childhood friends who took two very different paths as adults.

#3 “Since man first walked upright, he has looked to the stars and wondered, ‘Are we alone in this cold corner of space? If something is out there, would it be friend…or foe?’ What would this Earth man think if he could see a desperate space ship, fleeing at a speed faster than imagination? What would he think if he saw the impact of powerfully potent neutronic missiles upon its fragile frame? What would he make of the strange pod that ejected from the ruined remains, just in time to avoid its mysterious inhabitant’s destruction? And would he gape in wonder at the dozen or so strange canisters that burst from its hold and fell towards the atmosphere of our guileless globe? What emotion would pass through his mind as he observed these selfsame containers as they passed through our atmosphere and fell upon the surface of an unsuspecting metropolis? So many questions and so few answers…until now dear viewers…until now….”

4 kind of sounds like Kingdom Hearts.