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#17: Sounds Castlevania-esque but I couldn't place which one (if it's indeed that series).

It's not Castlevania.

I might nip in with the steal and say Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night? Sounds familiar to me, been a few years since I played it, and the Castlevania guess got me thinking.

It ain't Bloodstained either. Its franchise is nothing like those two, and it's very popular.

#46: Ori and the Will of the Wisp

Here's another game that blew me away with it's amazing art direction. Ori of the Will of the Wisps is a perfect sequel, it took what worked from its predecessor and fixed what didn't. This means we get fluid exploration of gorgeous environments like before and get an actual good combat system this time around. The story is touching and the characters are charming, oh did I mention the game is beautiful too? The charm system (I know they're called something else but Hollow Knight rules!) provides variety in how you handle the game's baddies and the trial and error escape sequences from the Blind Forest are now replaced with boss battles which is another plus in my book.

#45: Resident Evil 5

If you want to enjoy Resident Evil 5 to its full potential, do yourself a favor and find yourself a friend to play with in co-op mode. I played through the campaign twice: once by myself cursing at Sheva for wasting ammo and not knowing how to place things in her inventory and the other have a blast with my brother with most of the game's annoyances taken away. Of course, while playing alone I could spend more time looking at Chris' arms but I digress...

While it's more action focused, I personally feel it didn't go too far in that direction (*cough* RE6 *cough*). We get to fight tons of zombies, kill many monstrous atrocities and punch boulders to avoid complete global saturation. Also, having Wesker as the main bad guy is always a treat.

24. Hitman 3

This may fall into a bit of a grey area in the rules. I know there's no collections allowed, but DLC is, and technically, all levels of the new Hitman trilogy DLCs within Hitman 3. As such, Hitman 3 is the ultimate game in the franchise. A beautiful, vast collection of assassination goodness. And, best of all, they're still not done adding to this game. In January it's going to get a whole new mode, free for everyone, that will bring a rogue-like element to all these wonderful levels and add even more replay value. 

23. Battlefield 3

One of my all-time favorite MP shooters. This is my favorite BF. I played it almost non-stop for about a year. The clan I was part of during the time entered several tournaments for it. I captained 2 teams for it. We placed 1st in one of those on a photo-finish final match with the team that had taken 1st in the prior season. Yea, really just great memories. High adrenalin moments. Good friendships. And the game itself was just brilliant as far as multiplayer goes. I'll probably never play anything that competitively ever again, but I'll always look back fondly on those times.

22. Max Payne 2

I feel like Max Payne is a game you instantly gravitated to as a teenager. The Matrix-like bullet time action, the dark, edgy tone, the comic-book style story panels...the game just oozed everything that you would probably find cool growing up during that time. So, yea, I loved Max Payne. And the sequel took everything I loved about the first game and turned it up to an 11. I also think this is when Remedy really hit their stride creatively. The storytelling here was on another level to what they'd done before, and Mona Sax, imo, was one of the best complimentary characters to ever grace a video game.

21. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

This is the game that sparked my love for stealth games as a whole. I especially loved the brilliant Spies vs Mercs game mode. Me and my friends used to play this at LAN parties all night back in the day. That game of cat and mouse...except the mice are hiding in the dark waiting to cut your throat lol...it was just awesome. Whether you won or lost, it was always a good time, and you always wanted to go another round. We need Splinter Cell back.

20. Path of Exile

I'm a sucker for these ARPGs, and when Diablo 3 didn't really quite give me what I needed, I turned to Path of Exile. This is probably my most played game of last gen, with somewhere around a thousand hours played. I've heard that people aren't particularly thrilled with the way it's being updated these days, but man, when I was playing it, the live-service aspect of this game was phenomenal. Best in class, probably. Every season always brought something unique to the table, with the best elements being rolled over into the core game moving forward. The amount of depth this game offered, over a sustained period of time, is crazy. And as a F2P title no less. Nothing but respect. It's been a while since I've heard anything about it, but I still have very high hopes for PoE2, whenever it does come out.

19. Alan Wake

I'm a huge Stephen King fan, so the style and tone of this game immediately gripped me. I know a lot of people tend to take issue with the fact that this game wasn't particularly scary, so it didn't scratch that horror itch for them. To me, I actually tend to connect more with horror when it's in writing. That way, I can kinda build up the horror in my mind. That's how it's the most real for me. Visual entertainment rarely, if ever, gives me that. So, I didn't need Alan Wake to be horror. I just enjoyed the atmosphere of that world, and the way the story reminded me of various aspects of other stories that I loved. I particularly enjoyed them really leaning into the more twisted aspects of level design in the DLC, some of which I think served as later inspiration for the fantastic level design found in Control. Hopefully we can see them leaning more into this fantastical otherworldliness with the long-awaited sequel, rather than simply focusing on full stop horror. 

18. Dark Souls

The game that created its own sub-genre. There's not much to say, is there? We all know why it's great. There's a reason everyone wants to make a Souls-like these days. I actually bounced off this game when I bought it initially. Probably played it for about an hour or two, wasn't really feeling it, and then left it on the shelf for a few months. Didn't even really dislike it, but a FromSoft game is definitely a game that you have to be in the right frame of mind to play, or you're not likely to have much fun. I knew of that reputation beforehand, of course, the whole "Prepare to Die" mantra and all that, but it didn't fully appreciate it until I'd actually got my hands on it. Anyway, when I eventually returned to it, it was absolutely one of the most engrossing video game experiences I'd ever had, and I loved every minute.

17. Assassin's Creed 2

I'm gonna be honest. I tend to bounce around a bit with this franchise in terms of which entry I think is actually the best. I'm not gonna get into all the particular arguments for or against the various titles here, cus that would take too long, but having (fairly) recently replayed most of them, I've landed back on AC2 for the time being. It's got everything I love (or, in some cases, used to love) about AC. The free-flowing parkour, great level design (Venice in particular), a great story, one of gaming's greatest ever protagonists, wonderful music, stylish combat, a beautiful historic backdrop, and an over-arching sci-fi/mystery element that the series sadly fumbled, butchered, and then all but abandoned entirely as they sought to stretch the series in perpetuity. The sad truth is that this may well be a franchise that never lives up to its full potential, but AC2 is probably the closest we'll ever get.

33: Bioshock

The first playthrough has some of the most memorable moments of any game I've played.

32: Uncharted The Lost Legacy

I think what I appreciate most about Uncharted TLL is that it doesn't have hours of bloat. It's an Uncharted package without boring sections.

31: Super Mario Bros 1

30: Super Mario Bros 3

I played these both in the Super Mario All Stars Collection. They were two of the first games I've ever played, and they are still great. 

29: Kingdom Hearts 2

Slightly improved gameplay but worse story compared to KH1 is my personal feelings on it.

28: Kingdom Hearts 1

For me, Kingdom Hearts 1 still stands as the best. In large part, because it did something more unique. The latter games seemed to be concerned about retaining the story of each world. Whereas this one had a more unique story to bind everything together.

27: Jak II

Jak 2 is a game that a lot of people hate for getting away from the formula that Jak and Daxter created and arguably perfected. But I appreciate the story changes. It isn't as a lovely a world that Jak and Daxter had, but I think there's lots of room for both kinds of stories and both kinds of worlds. The biggest problem with the game is that it has quite a difficulty curve. 

26: Mass Effect

25: Jak 3

24: Mass Effect 3

23: Batman Arkham City

A sequel to AA, but bigger and better in a lot of ways.

22: Batman Arkham Asylum

Funnily enough, I had a passing interest in Batman before this game. It came out the same year as one of my all time favorites, and it was one of my first PS3 games. I was absolutely floored. The combat, the world was amazing to play through. This game made me much more interested in Batman.

21: Paper Mario

20: Dark Souls 2

The black sheep of the Souls games. Coming off of Dark Souls 1, there were a number of changes that I really appreciated. The fact that fast travel was available at the start, you have a faster walking speed, there's more options for healing. At the same time, this feels like the least polished Souls game. It doesn't quite have the world or level design quality of the other games. 

19: Jak and Daxter

This was the first game that was actually mine. And I still love it. It has a generally cheery world, and it's generally a joy to adventure across.

18: Mass Effect 2

17: Portal 2

I'm not great at puzzles, but this game is a joy to play. Lots of great writing and monologue sequences.

16: Age of Empires 2

I am probably underrating my personal feelings for this game. It is my quintessential PC title and I have spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours throughout the years. I haven't played many games that allow you to resource collect, build cities, create armies and fight. But this is the gold standard that I compare every RTS I play to.

15: Skyrim

A huge open world filled with quests and items. The combat could use some work, but it made up for that with how diverse and huge the experience was. I feel like this game really tried to be a world and not just a game. You can settle down and build a house if you wanted to.

I'm also of the opinion that Kingdom Hearts 1 is the best one of the bunch. KH2 bore me to death in the opening hours with Roxas and the story does devolve into nonsense. The first game was a really fun mash up of Disney and Final Fantasy worlds and it was really something new at the time.