OK, finally hints for my TOP 3.

game #3

Hint 1: You kill these majestic beasts for their flesh.

game #2

Hint 1: The remake of this dungeon delver with mapping on a grid included not only updated graphics, but also a complete new additional story-mode.

game #1

Obviously the best game of all times.

Hint 1: This is the third installment of a once very popular strategy series, which involved building up armies through your cities that join your heroes and fight the enemies heroes and their armies or try to take over enemy cities.

#1 Thumper

I'll do my top 3 when these are all guessed.

#12
Hint 1: A ghost haunts a mysterious village.
Hint 2: It's not the first game released in the series, but story-wise it comes first.
Hint 3: A flute.
Hint 4: There's a user on this site who's name and avy are both the main character of the franchise this game belongs to.
Hint 5: The seventh entry in this franchise released recntly on the 3DS.
Hint 6: It's a 3rd party Nintendo-exclusive franchise.

#11
Hint 1: Easter Island is one of the places you visit.
Hint 2: The desert is another place you visit.
Hint 3: You also visit the ocean.
Hint 4: And Japan too.
Hint 5: First handheld game in this extremely popular franchise.
Hint 6: It released in 1989, in Europe in 1990.

#7
Hint 1: Extreme snowboarding.
Hint 2: Bowling on ice.
Hint 3: Snow machine fight.

Super Mario Land

#6 - Hint 2

And then you can make brilliant theming for your tracks, or better yet hide all the hideous stalls.

Correct.

#1 is Heroes of MIght and Magic 3
(A very awesome game in a very awesome series.  I put HoMM2 as my #5 game, but I can't fault anyone who prefers HoMM3.)

Indeed it is.

 Time for more hints:

#4 In North America, this spinoff game was released just a few months after the series' most successful entry.

Hint 2: The story of this game is about two childhood friends who took two very different paths as adults.

Hint 3: This is a turn based tactical RPG.

Hint 4: This is a PS1 game.

#3 “Since man first walked upright, he has looked to the stars and wondered, ‘Are we alone in this cold corner of space? If something is out there, would it be friend…or foe?’ What would this Earth man think if he could see a desperate space ship, fleeing at a speed faster than imagination? What would he think if he saw the impact of powerfully potent neutronic missiles upon its fragile frame? What would he make of the strange pod that ejected from the ruined remains, just in time to avoid its mysterious inhabitant’s destruction? And would he gape in wonder at the dozen or so strange canisters that burst from its hold and fell towards the atmosphere of our guileless globe? What emotion would pass through his mind as he observed these selfsame containers as they passed through our atmosphere and fell upon the surface of an unsuspecting metropolis? So many questions and so few answers…until now dear viewers…until now….”

Hint 2: This is a real time tactical RPG.

Hint 3: This PC game pays homage to silver age comic books, especially those created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

#2  I want to give you the whole picture
Yeah, I'd love to tell you more
The girl Messiah was your lover 
or maybe the girl next door?
The first one died and she can't come back
Because she's like no other
The other went in and brought you back
Which will be your lover?

Yay!

Yay!