Guess I better start typing my list out, I'll probably put like 40 asterisks of honorable mentions this year, definitely the toughest list I had to arrange so far, because I still wasn't 100% satisfied with it, anyways.
#50 - Soul Calibur II - Nintendo Gamecube
I was playing Soul Calibur VI earlier this year, and I'm like, man this is just ok, maybe I remember II wrong and it wasn't that great? Not really, that and Tekken 7 just made me want to go back to previous entries, Soul Calibur II being just as good as ever.
The art direction, and visuals are still the best in the seires, the soundtrack has a lot of energy and is very memorable, the stages are cool, the roster is fantastic, Gamecube having the best guest character, and Cassandra back when she had a good design (III's is neat too). And the weapon master mode is a great single player campaign, one of my favorite things are the dungeon crawler levels. And the mechanics are all great, the combat has a good pace to it, the sound effects and animations are all crunchy, and cool, is pretty straightforward without any weird gimmick, just a pure, satisfying 3D combat.
