I totally agree on this! All I'm gonna add to this is: Thank God for the ability to save anytime you want, there was so many ways to die in this game, it would have been insufferable if you had limited saves.

#14. Super Mario 64 (N64, VC)

Yes, another Mario platformer! This one is my favorite. Exploring Peach's Castle in Mario 64 had something really magical to it. You were never told exactly where to go and while most of the paintings were easy to find some of the stars were very well hidden. One of the reasons I put Mario 64 ahead of other 3D Marios is the fact that every world was so big and you were free to search for stars wherever you wanted. This added a sense of exploration that is a lot less present in other 3D Marios. Also the Wing Cap was an absolute joy to use once you got the hang of it. I also loved the Bowser fights, Bowser never looked so impressive and to this day I'm still not sure what Mario says when he launches Bowser towards a bomb, all I keep hearing is "So long gay donkey!" I'm pretty sure I've got it wrong.

I didn't get very far in Tomb Raider III, I think I lost my save of something like that and I really didn't feel like starting over again. Also I've just remembered that I first played Tomb Raider II once again thanks to a demo disc.

You ripped off my number 15 and my post about it, dick :P

I put Monster Hunter Tri as my 14. 200 hours has to be worth something nowadays...

Take it this way, I saved you some valuable time.

I can't remember much of TR3 either and I'm quite sure I finished it. TR2 however seems like 2 games for the many fond memories of it. The save anywhere was a big help although it tripped me up once. I was doing an almost impossible jump sequence over and over and at some point instead of hitting reload just before inadvertently hitting the lava I accidentally saved. Luckily I could restart from the beginning of the level.

#14: Sodium One PS3/Home

Brilliant game that gets ignored simply because it's a part of "Home", it really needs to be experienced just to see how great it is.

#13 Populous, the beginning played on PC, released 1998

A great blend of RTS and god-style gameplay. It was great fun to build up your tribe, then tapping into powerful magic to lay waste to your opponents. Hanging out in a hot air balloon surveying the battlefield  while sending tornados to tear up their buildings, or even cause a vulcanic eruption in the middle of their village.
I loved that every map was it's own planet. No borders to run in to, or hide next to. That made attacking from all sides all the more easy.
The artstyle is great as well. I had hoped From dust would have been more like this. It seems a perfect fit. This, Warcraft and Age of empires all defined a great era of RTS games for me.

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I had a demo of this with 3 levels. I've played those quite a number of times. When I got the full game a years back I couldn't get myself to play more than 5-10 levels, but I still think fondly of it.

I had the same demo too, really great game but I sucked too hard to play the full version.