Darn holidays :P

I think I'll skip the hints for the top 10.

10. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

The quintessential Zelda game, if not the best. An amazing overworld, used again in another top 20 game, A Link Between Worlds. Terrific dungeons, side quests, and secrets. An interesting, surprising story and amazing tunes.

9. Super Mario 64

This most revolutionary game features an amazing sense of place, joyful platforming, and dozens of nooks and crannies to explore. As with all the 3D Mario games, this one is overflowing with inventive, diverse, easy-to-grasp gameplay challenges.

8. Xenoblade Chronicles

My pick for best Wii game, Xenoblade is just a masterpiece of world-building, RPG mechanics, and non-linear quest design. With 100+ hours worth of immersive, engaging fighting, strategy, and exploration, it's a role-playing game for the ages.

7. Half-Life 2

Valve doesn't seem to make games anymore, so this may be destined to forever be its best. Its peerless non-verbal storytelling, varied episodes, and bleeding-edge graphics and physics make it a must-play for shooter and action-adventure fans.

6. Resident Evil 4

Boasting tactile third-person shooting mechanics, addictive action-adventure gameplay, and an effective horror setting, Resident Evil 4 is the greatest in one of the industry's best franchises. 

5. Final Fantasy VI

This is such a deep, rewarding, emotionally-powerful, gorgeous, tactically-engaging RPG. Godly music, all-time great characters, amazing side content and boss battles, so much to explore and conquer. 

4. Deus Ex

There's a lot to love here: the music, story, alternate endings, level design. But its most special feature is its emergent gameplay, where players are encouraged to make every scenario and interaction their own.

3. Halo: Combat Evolved

Later series games made things shinier and more replayable in terms of multiplayer options, but non captured the transcendent improvisational gunplay that makes the premier Halo a top 5 game.

2. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

There's not a lot to add to all the superlatives that already hang around Ocarina. Extraordinary use of 3D space; terrific dungeons and interconnected overworld sections; all-time great sound design; a clever time-traveling system that adds layers to exploration, puzzle-solving, and storytelling; a touching story, etc.

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Okami

#3: Pikmin 2 (2007, Wii) 

A plethora of caves, beautiful environments (Particularly for the time) and buckets of charm (the letters between Olimar and his family are particularly fantastic) , combined with intuitive and engrossing gameplay make this not just one of the best RTS , but one of the greatest games of all time.

#2 Dragon Quest V (1991, SNES)

An incredible story of loss, growth, adventure and friendship, DQV is the pinnacle of classic RPGs. Building and expanding on earlier world while still remaining recognisable. It's soundtrack is fantastic too.

And now for the big one, my top game of all time!

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#1 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky (2007, DS)

An absolute masterpiece from start to finish. The writing is fantastic (and may I say well beyond anything is ever expected of a Pokemon game), the music at once perfectly atmospheric and grand, the art style the best any Pokemon game has seen, and the gameplay engrossing and approachable. The order of the rest of my top five was difficult to decide, but this one was easy. No game comes close for me. 

Positions #50-#46 and honorable mentions: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8943647

Positions #45-#36: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8944604

Positons #35-#26: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8945131

Positions #25-#16: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8946152

Now, the next 10 positions:

#15 - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

What I like the most about this game: The feeling of being in a grand adventure and the sense of discovery that the game gives you, the charming and endearing story and main characters, the side-quests and the side characters, the beautiful and ageless art style, the outstanding soundtrack (dat Dragon Roost Island theme). I must say that this game has my favorite incarnation of Ganon in any Zelda game.

#14 - Kingdom Hearts

What I like the most about this game: The great charm that it has, its moving and memorable story, the selection of Disney movies used for the game's worlds; the design of the worlds (Atlantica and Deep Jungle get criticized for being frustrating, but I don't mind them), in particular, I love the Hollow Bastion world; the Disney characters having good protagonism in the story, the overall mysterious atmosphere of the game, the fantastic soundtrack. That moment when you reach Hollow Bastion for the first time is so magical.

#13 - The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

What I like the most about this game: The memorable side-quests and side-characters; the ominous and yet hopeful atmosphere of the game; the Clock Town, which feels truly alive; the relatively simple but very impactful main story; the 3-days system, which adds a unique element of tension to the game; the mask transformations, which add an interesting twist to the traditional Zelda gameplay; the masterful soundtrack.

#12 - Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep

What I like the most about this game: The super fun battle system, where you can select different attack/magic/item commands from a customized deck, rather than the fixed commands menu from KH1/KH2; the commands melding system, where you fuse commands to get new ones (I found this system to be really addicting), as well as the levelling-up of commands (spent so much time doing that); the story,  which sometimes can be heartbreaking (especially near the end); the different play styles of the three protagonists, the Command Styles, the soundtrack. Also, I really enjoyed the Rumble Racing mini-game and the Command Board.

#11 - The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

What I like the most about this game: The amazing dungeon design and the puzzles (this game excels in both quality and quantity of dungeons); the interesting themes of some of the dungeons, for example, the Snowpeak Ruins and the City in the Sky; the items, some of which are really creative (in particular, the double clawshot is my favorite item from any Zelda game); the epic boss fights (Stallord and Argorok are soooooo amazing); Midna, who is one of my favorite characters of all time; the Cave of Ordeals, the horseback battles, the underrated soundtrack. This game really nailed that sense of being in an epic adventure.

#10 - Final Fantasy VI

What I like the most about this game: The cast of characters, which is my favorite from any RPG; the interactions between the characters; the story and all its memorable moments (dat opera scene); the main villain, Kefka, who is my favorite villain ever; the fantastic side-quests, which tell you more about the backstories and struggles of the characters; the Esper system, the fast-paced ATB-based turn-based battle system; the masterful soundtrack, the ageless sprite work, the overall sense of adventure of the game.

#9 - Shadow of the Colossus

What I like the most about this game: The subtle way the story is told and how the game makes you question the morality of your actions as you continue killing the colossi; THE ENDING; the amazingly designed and imposing boss battles, each of which is like a big brilliant puzzle (this game has some of my favorite boss battles ever); the atmosphere of loneliness that the game has, the sense of scale of the world, the fantastic music (the theme that plays when a colossus dies got particularly stuck in my mind).

#8 - The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

What I like the most about this game: The amazingly designed dungeons and their puzzles (Ancient Cistern is one of my top 3 dungeons in any Zelda game); the areas outside the dungeons, which have really amazing level design and puzzles (the Timeshift Stone puzzles are just so brilliant); the boss battles (dat Koloktos), the items and how they are useful even outside the dungeon where you found them (which is an improvement over TP); the memorable story and characters, especially Zelda (my favorite incarnation of Zelda) and Groose; the combat (yes, I really enjoyed the motion-based combat); the NPC-related side-quests, which have their own mini-stories; the art-style and, of course, the soundtrack. This game is so underrated.

#7 - Tales of the Abyss

What I like the most about this game: The interactions between the characters and how their relationship evolves with time (also, Jade is one of the my favorite characters ever); the character development of the protagonist Luke and his romance with Tear (which develops progressively through the game); the story and the overall plot; the concept of the game's world, which has a really interesting lore (some say it's complicated but eh); the villains, all of whom have their own backstories; the gameplay (it was the first Symphonia-style Tales game to feature the free-run mechanic, so it doesn't feel nearly as dated as Symphonia + the Field of Fonons is a really nice addition); the soundtrack. Btw, the opening theme "Karma" is soooooooo amazing.

#6 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

What I like the most about this game: The incredible dungeons and their layouts and puzzles (the Forest Temple and the Spirit Temple are favorite Zelda dungeons ever); the fantastic boss fights, such as Twinrova and Phantom Ganon; the relatively simple but incredibly moving and memorable story; the good pacing of the story, the atmosphere of mystery that the game has and how it changes to a more depressing  atmosphere when you become Adult Link; the items and how they're very well used through the game, the side content; the soundtrack, which is one of my favorites ever (dat Gerudo Valley theme). This game blowed my mind the first time I played it and it remains my favorite Zelda game.

No one guessed #3? I don't think I can make it any easier...

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- The name starts with 'Eme' and ends with 'rald'

#1
- I'm not going to give a hint for my favourite game. It's just the best game.
Here's the rest of my list: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8917192
My #1 is the most logical game that's missing on the list.

Both correct!!

Starcraft 2?

Best guessers:

Mnementh: 15, 17, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, 31, 33, 42, 46, 47, 48

The_Liquid_Laser: 6, 7, 11, 13, 16, 19, 24, 25, 28, 30, 36

S.Peelman: 5, 8, 10, 12, 18, 32, 34, 40, 44, 49

Rolstoppable: 35, 37, 38, 39

Marth : 1,3

Platina: 14, 22

Landale_Star: 41, 43

Peh: 2

ARandomGamer: 4

OTBWY: 9

Mr.GameCrazy: 27

axumblade: 45

(I didn't do a hint for #50.)

Cr*p. I have car trouble. Which means I won’t be posting #2 anytime soon. Which in turn means I might as well hint the #1;

#1: There this game, that’s kind of legendary.

I still don’t know lol. XD

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?