45. Wii Music

Honestly this game is a mixed bag. Jam mode is okay at best, the real reason this game made my list was Mii Maestro and Handbell Harmony. I just wish every song was playable in those two mini games.

45. Resident Evil 3 (PS).   For some reason I prefer this over RE2, is not because Jill is on it.

44. Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS).  Somehow underrated, I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite things is that all djinns has different forms, too bad that there are a few missable djinns. I was a little dissapointed with the cast, mostly the water adepts.

44 - Kirby super Star (SNES, DS)

Not a huge fan of Kirby usually, and in retrospect this should be down there between Joe and Mac, and Modern Warfare, but whatever. This game is just special to me, the combination of value, variety, fun factor, and nostalgia make it just so damn awesome. It's not just a collection of minigames, but a collection of full-length kirby games, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I still love attacking Dyna Blade every chance I get. I have this on DS, maybe I'll play it again soon!


Also: Bawww, nobody ever responds to my games! I also notice that a lot of people are having 'so-so' opinions on some of their games lower down the list. If you 'kinda liked it but didn't love it', you shouldn't have it on an "all time favorites" list....and if you can't think of 50 games you truly enjoyed, then maybe you're a n00b :P

Hell, I could easily think of 100 games that I love...I had to chop up this list just to get some variety in there.

Yea I hear mixed things about Brotherhood. I'll likely get it soon. People who seem interested in the story more are dissappointed, but those interested in gameplay seemed to love it, for single player, like you.

Runa216 Great choices for 44, and 45. Metroid Prime is one of my favorite gamecube games. Probably my favorite shooter franchise all together.

44. Grand Theft Auto 3 (PS2)

     This was probably the first 3D game to break the incredible mold set by The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. This was one of the first games which would appeal to non gamers in the same way a movie would. This was a game which let you do almost anything you wished. This was a sandbox game. Want to go have sex with hookers and then kill them? no problem. Use missle launcher on cop cars? sure. Drive a tank around and park ontop that guy who just took your space? alright. Honestly, after beating the core game, I kept playing this game to do stupid things for a long long time, and I normally don't do that. This was the first game where looking for collectable was fun because not only did they unlock cool stuff, it was fun going crazy with a rocket launcher while doing it.

#44 Frontier Elite 3: First Encounters played on PC, released 1995

The last of the great space sims, never equaled in it's scope and variety. You could literally go anywhere in the galaxy. The game is about being a trader, pirate or military contractor. You start by trading goods between worlds to make a buck. You can make money faster by smuggling, mining, transporting dubious people or taking on special assasination contracts. Soon you'll be upgrading your ship to more and more powerful versions which can make larger hyperspace jumps. You can end up with a freighter so large you won't be able to land and lift off of the heavier planets.

The game featured newtonian physics, none of that underwater flying bullshit of everything that came after it. You could slingshot yourself around planets and land seamlessly from space on any planet or moon you wish. It is the coolest thing to approach a planet, line up with the ground, sink through the atmosphere and zoom over the mountains at high altitude until you spot your space port. Or approach a space station manually, line up for docking and match it's rotation before gently setting it down in space dock. To make all this possible without falling asleep you can accelerate time 10, 100, 1000, 10000 times to bridge the distance between planets in a star system. The 3D maps were very cool too, seeing all the planets and satellites move around realistically.

On top of all that there were newspapers to keep track off commenting on galactic affairs, and a storyline that sends you on a wild goose chase around the galaxy. Unfortunately I've never been able to complete the story due to bugs. I didn't even notice the story the first play through, I was too busy exploring, trading and trying every upgrade possible. I finally managed to get a ship upto 1/3rd the speed of light burning all my fuel in a large ship storing nothing but fuel. It made me realize how futile it is flying between star systems, even with 10000x time acceleration it would still take over 11 hours real time to get anywhere near the nearest star, and no way to stop.

Fantastic game, whether just sitting on an alien planet watching the suns and moons move around, exploring the galaxy or blowing up a town and picking a fight with the local police. Always something to do.
Only the bugs and oftentimes pointless or frustrating combat keep this game from appearing much higher on my list.

The game is available as shareware now
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/709/Frontier+-+First+Encounters.html

There is still an active community working on a hi-res version of the game


And there is some hope, a new realistic space sim is in production called Pioneer. Alpha version 16 is available here.

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As for your choices, was never really a Ninty guy so I never played Kirby Super Star x_x

44 - Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time (ps3)

A good blend of puzzle, platforming and shooting, where Tools of Destruction was much more shooting focused. This game does lack in enemy variety and a bit in the number of big planets.

I do respond to your games! I said Metroid Prime was probably my favorite shooter (It's much higher on my list) and one of my favorite gamecube games, and that Kirby too was also a great choice. Don't want to expand on Metroid Prime too much because it's much higher on my list

For Super Star, I'm not as huge of a fan as others, but other Kirby games do make my list pretty high. and I just realized......I may have missed 1 really fun Kirby.

I can easily name a top 100 games too, in fact I'd rather do that. So many great games just didn't make my cut off.

Also 3 Zelda's, but non Ocarina of Time? hm. Well OoT isn't my favorite either, but I still rank it above almost any console Zelda.

44. Mario Kart Wii

Without bothering to check on the Nintendo Channel, I'd imagine this is my most played Wii game, but it isn't my favourite Wii game. It is my second favourite Mario Kart though (you'll obviously discover my favourite further into the list). So if it's my most played Wii game and second favourite MK game, why is it only in the mid 40s? The answer is simple, I hated the bikes. I played through the all bike Grand Prix mode once and haven't been back since. But even though I'm essentially ignoring the existence of that mode, there's more than enough content in the game to make it into my list. For starters, I've never been a big fan of online multiplayer and I purposely ignore it in most games, but for a period, I played nothing other than this games online mode. That's a testament to how much I love Mario Kart.