2004, Runoff for Game of the Year

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5. Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones: A relatively dark entry (Demonic Monsters roaming the world) with a tower that allows for almost infinite XP if you can afford for the weapons that break. As such, probably the easiest entry in the series.

4. Knights of Honor A medieval RTS where you manage an entire country a bit like the Total War series with some additional mechanics and where the RNG on ressource allocation can make or break a game.

3. Burnout 3 Takedown. The first of the "modern" Burnouts, where crashing the ennemies or tons of traffic is the main goal next to racing. Still very much fun to play to this day.

2. Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. Much better than it's predecessor, but sadly never fully finished as LucasArts first gave them more time for new locations and features but then wanted them to Christmas Rush the game. Since the extension was only verbal, they were forced to finish what was working and cut all the unfinished parts, and were not even allowed to bring the rest as an expansion, free or paid.

1. Dragon Quest VIII. The first one to ever come out in Europe and imo still the best in the series. Ragazzo!