32. Doom (PC)

I still get a little thrill when I remember a couple of grad students telling my mom about this obscenely violent game where you kill monsters with a chainsaw. "That sounds bad!" said my mom. "It is," they laughingly replied. "I HAVE to play it!" thought my 11-year-old self. Turns out these same grad students were upgrading our computer and kindly installed on it this ultraviolent masterpiece alongside a slew of King's Quest games. Oh boy, oh boy! Such was my anticipation that I probably experienced my first erection while booting this bad boy up, and somehow it was even better than I'd imagined (the game, not the erection). However, I was a little perplexed that chainsawing monsters wasn't even close to the best part of the game; instead, I was completely blown away by the sheer brilliance of Doom's labyrinthine level design. I'd never played anything like it before, and I haven't really played anything like it since. Thanks in large part to this incredible level design, Doom holds up extremely well almost 20 years later, feeling as fresh as a daisy and yet as comfortable as an old pair of shoes... an old pair of shoes that want to kill you.

Same here. I keep thinking "That should really have been on my list!" too late now though :(

Same here.

Not same here

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I edited my post to include a trollish smile by a girl

so edit your post to include it

Thanks!

I'm surprised you didn't post the pikatchu image.

Anyway, where the hell do you get these images?

he makes each of them individually. So he can prepare and troll us when we're on!

No. 33: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (PC, also on X-box)

Obsidian have a knack for making good sequels using someone elses' tech and world. This was a top quality sequel which in many aspects and features, improved on the original. Characters were well fleshed out and highly interesting with your character having a major influence on them to the point of turning them to the light or dark side. Unfortunately, it feels unfinished towards the end (well, it actually was unfinished), resulting it it landing at a reasonable 33rd place. Modders on the PC version have tried to restore the cut content, but I have yet to try these mods.

No. 32: Call of Duty (PC, now on PSN and X-Box Live)

The original, and some would say the best. IMO, the World War 2 genre would have died a lot sooner had it not been for this game. It cemented all the core elements that made the sequels as huge as they are. A solid single-player campaign told from 3 aspects (American, English & Russian), each with its own style and the core multiplayer CoD gameplay. Unlike most games at the time, it added a stealth element to the multiplayer making it all the more fun. When I think back to CoDs humble beginnings, I can't help but feel that some of the charm and passion present in this are now missing from the most recent iterations with fun but rather cheap gimmicks like Zombie mode.