Ah is 26 Odyssey then? (still hat related)

23. Dragon Age Inquisition 

The best Dragon Age in my opinion with an amazing combat system somewhere between real time with pause and action. I spent 320 hours in my two playthroughs with this game, the second on the highest difficulty for the platinum and it was such a fullfilling time. The story beats are great and well paced, exploration gets better in the latter levels and many secrets and side stuff to do like defeating 10 really tough dragons and great collectibles. The characters are fantastic if just tipping over into a slight childishness from the writers at times, as if the writers didn't know how to write or have experience enough to write good small talk dialogue and witty moments as well as romance scenes, just a bit too on the nose but I can forgive that for that epic adventure this game is. The base of operations is cool. The world outside of that is cool. Just about everything is cool, even the mission where you spend no time in combat, it all just works well to keep you engaged. The OST is fantastic and has some really high points like when the cast break into song which gave shivers. 

I never got into Origins, not far enough to make a decision on the games quality anyway but this one really sucked me in and this is the start of my list where the game go from great, Fantastic even to masterpieces. Dragon Age Inquisition just misses the mark ever so slightly but is left somewhere in between. If Veilgaurd wasn't a complete waste of time, I'd go back and playthrough this again before going for Veilgaurd but the latter has done irreversible damage and knowing the story becomes a Disney film with writing so poor it would make Enlish Translations of Kojimas work look natural and fluid. 

Almost masterpiece level. 

#25

Change YoY: +1   My Rating: 9.3/10

Very few video game series have  ever climbed up in my estimation as quickly as The Legend of Heroes did after I first discovered it. I played Trails in the Sky 2015, the sequel the following year, and then the first two Trails of Cold Steel games in 2017, and at that point the only series I held in higher regard than it were Final Fantasy and Dark Souls. Now, the issue here is that this is now the third time I'm talking about a Trails game, and I've still have four more to go after this, and trying to come up with new and interesting ways to say "I really like this one" is getting a bit difficult, especially since these games have a shared continuous storyline that spans the entire series, characters that play a role in much of it, and a battle system that retains it basic foundations throughout. Essentially, the reasons why one of these games is great, are quite often the exact same for why another one of them is. Even putting them in any specific order within the series itself can be very difficult, as it is in essence a single extensive narrative that runs through nearly a dozen games at this point.

I guess the one thing I can say about Trails of Cold Steel, is that it was basically the game that cemented the series' place in my mind as something truly great. As mentioned above, I had previously played the first two Trails in the Sky games and loved them, but this was the game that showed the franchise could keep the quality high beyond the confines of that one sub-series. It could introduce new characters and settings and make me care about them just as much as the ones I already knew, a trend that has continued ever since with each new installment I've played. Almost no other franchise has ever held up this well across so many different titles for such an extended period of time, for me personally at the very least.

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This game was my everything for four years. I played it nearly everyday, sometimes all day. In the beginning it was just for funsies in all the local single-player modes, then I got really into For Glory mode where I really valued every win against an online stranger, then I became one of the best players in my local region, and then I travelled across the country to play in tournaments, meeting a bunch of people along the way. It was all really, really awesome. The community was super awesome too, and having those friendships for all of those years is probably what kept me sane this late into my 20's. It all came crashing down when Smash Ultimate came out, though. I don't know if it has any correlation with the game's differences, but soon enough all of the worst in people started coming out, and as I distanced myself more and more from the community, I realized most of those people were not friends at all.

Still, I do cherish the amazing memories this game gave me, and how exciting it felt to learn a platform fighter for the very first time. The slower pace of Smash 4 compared to the more recent games I've played in the genre still stands out to me as one of its best aspects - this game was far less about frantic movement and insane execution, and far more about just reading your opponent's moves. It felt much more mental than technical, and as much as I like to be technical, I think reads are the heartbeat of a fighting game. Or maybe it's just cause it's what I do best, and that helped me be good at Smash 4.

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Exactly right, yes.

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There was once a time, before my VGC days, where I regarded A Link to the Past as my favorite game of all-time. And by that metric alone, it feels heretic to my own self to put it this low on the list, never mind for two years running. But I suppose that's what happens when you replay a game endless amounts of times in just a few years, you get burned out. At this point, it's been so long since I last played this that I'm starting to think it might feel like a fresh experience again if I ever try replaying it. That's a big if though, not gonna lie.

Anyway, as much as it's aged for me through all the burnout, this game is way too amazing for me not to list it. Heck, it's not like #23 is actually "low", all the games around here are games I'd consider all-time favorites anyway. And yeah, this one will always stay with me. From the early childhood years of stumbling my way through Hyrule with no understanding of the english language, to my teenage years of finally playing through it all the way, to my current adulthood of having gone possibly over a decade without touching the game at all, it remains special and will always remain special.

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Gonna drop a hint before bedtime. Good night y'all

#22 - Taking control of otherworldly entities makes your character's hair blue, because anime I guess

Classic anime. It's Astral Chain.

25) GTA online before GTA online

• Another 3 letter abbreviation. The game had a failed launch then got Reloaded
• All Points Bulletin

24) Eight. Eight. Eight. Eight.

• This game that got an "Ultra Deluxe" version which was technically a remake, is technically a remake itself
• This is the story of a man named Stanley

23) Error 37

• Third game in a series named after the villain who might be one of the most iconic in gaming
• Stay a while, and listen

25 - APB reloaded, gotta be

24 - The Stanley Parable, lmao, ive got no clue 

23 - Diablo 3???? Im gonna say Diablo 3.