Remember High Fidelity? It's a movie in which a very memorable trio of record-store employees, portrayed by John Cusack, Todd Louiso, and Jack Black, make up lists of their top five albums that fulfill certain qualities, and they then proceed to argue about whose choices are more snobby and esoteric. The movie may have been exaggerated, but it represents a very real type of conversation that people have regarding all of their favorite pastimes, including video games.
In this inaugural edition of GameSpot's Pick Five feature, we asked several GameSpot editors to meet this criteria: "Pick five games you have in your collection because you think it makes you look cool." Without much guidance (and with our tongues notably implanted in our cheeks), the editors were asked to interpret and answer the question in seclusion, which we now present to you in raw form.
Once you've finished reading their choices, head on over to the Features Forum and assemble your own Pick Five. Are you the Jack Black to our John Cusack? You can make any choice you want, but you can only Pick Five.
Bob Colayco | Editor
1. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PS)
2. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GC)
3. MoonBase Commander (PC)
4. Onimusha: Warlords (PS2)
5. SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighter's Clash - Capcom Version (NGPC)
Here's the common theme among all these games--they're all sitting on my shelf, still in the shrink wrap. I bought these games either on the strength of an eager, glowing review or word of mouth. Once the package finally arrived or I got home with the box, the euphoria of finally owning such an obscure masterpiece or genre-defining game wore off, and I realized I really didn't care to play the game anymore. In my mind, that's the true definition of owning a game strictly out of vanity--you never even bothered to play the game in question!
Greg Kasavin | Executive Editor
Wait, hold on just a second. No one ever told me anything about games making me look cool. I grew up carefully attempting to hide the fact that I was obsessed with computer and video games, but failing miserably to do so. But at least I had enough time and money to support my addiction, since, to be honest, I wasn't exactly scoring all the hot dates. But hey, that was then and this is now, and today, if you don't have an opinion on what's going to happen to the Master Chief and how awesome Grand Theft Auto is, you're nobody. So does the opposite make you somebody, and more importantly, does it make you cool? Let's find out. Following are the five games in my collection that crystallize my coolness. I list them in alphabetical order below, because of how cool alphabetical order is.
1. Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (TCD) You're definitely not cool if you need me to tell you the more-conventional name of the popular series Dracula X belongs to. What's important to know about Dracula X is that A) it's expensive to import and B) it's got good music. It's also fun and a whole lot better than the equivalent games that were hitting the Genesis and Super Nintendo at about the same time, which is why it's considered a must-have by all those cool video game collectors out there. Best. Import. Ever.
Man, I wish I had hair that cool. Or any hair. I guess that'd be pretty cool, too.
2. Fighting Street (TCD) You know this game as Street Fighter. It's a perfect port of Capcom's original Street Fighter arcade game, and it bears the distinction of being the very first CD-ROM game released for consoles. I've got the Japanese version, and it's copyrighted 1988. That's, like, probably older than you are. And it's sure as all hell cooler than you are.
3. Garou: Mark of the Wolves (NeoGeo) One of the priciest games in my collection--and money buys coolness. Mark of the Wolves is the last, best game in the Fatal Fury fighting game series for the NeoGeo, not that you'd need me to tell you that since you're cool. This game was SNK's answer to Street Fighter III, and since it's one of the last great NeoGeo fighting games and was created in limited supply, it's hard to find. I was one of the first in line for it, though, and it was worth every penny of the $300-odd dollars I initially paid for it.
4. Ikaruga (DC) This is probably my favorite Dreamcast game, followed closely by The House of the Dead 2 bundled with Sega's light gun, released only in Japan. Ikaruga is both a throwback and a modern classic. It came out on the GameCube in North America, but if you're cool, you were playing it on the Dreamcast a year before it came out on these shores. Maybe you were even playing it in Japanese arcades, using both player one's and player two's joysticks at the same time, which would make you extremely cool.
5. Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (Apple II) The only North American game to make my list, but to make up for this, it's really, really old. Ultima V is arguably the best game in what's arguably the all-time greatest role-playing series, and I've kept the packaging for the original Apple II version in fine shape. The game came with two fancy manuals and an amulet, plus a whole bunch of double-sided floppy disks. So this is cool on the level of, say, owning an original VHS copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special. Except Ultima V won't destroy your brain. I played it, look how I turned out!
Carrie Gouskos | Features Editor
1. Dragon Warrior III (NES)
2. Dragon Warrior IV (NES)
3. EarthBound (SNES)
4. Suikoden (PS)
5. Suikoden II (PS)
When I first started playing video games, I was too young to actually think or care about whether people thought I was cool for playing them. Besides, everybody I knew had a Nintendo; it wasn't so much a status symbol as it was equivalent to owning shoes...or LEGOs. Anyway, flash forward 10 years or so, and I guess I fell into the idea that playing video games made me a certain way. And because I played them so much, I had to get superdefensive about it and act like they were cool, even if I had no basis for thinking so.
Over the years, I've bought a lot of video games and video game systems. Most of them were because I had a genuine interest in them, but on occasion it's been out of the need to make my collection better. The sad thing about collector's items is that these games are usually the ones that I've got the least interest in playing. I'm one of those I'll-only-play-this-JRPG-if-it-has-"Final"-and-"Fantasy"-in-the-title people. Yet, because these games were once rumored to be worth more than $50, I've had to purchase them all. And then I can drop in conversation that I own a game that's worth over $100, a game that I have never wanted to nor ever will want to play, but is worth something to someone somewhere, until they rerelease it. I'm like those people who refuse to buy boxes that have the Greatest Games stripe on them.
My experience with Dragon Warrior IV begins and ends with the box art.
About five years ago, I purchased Dragon Warrior III for $40, Dragon Warior IV for $50, Suikoden off of someone for a fluke $10 (even though it was supposed to sell for $50), and Suikoden II for $30. A friend of mine gave me a copy of Earthbound. All of those games were estimated quite rare and valuable by various collector's sites and selling on eBay for upward of $100 each. I checked eBay this morning, and I guarantee you that I couldn't get what I paid for those games back, let alone $500 for the lot.
Five games that I couldn't be less interested in playing, which I absolutely had to have, and will never ever sell because they round out my collection. So yeah, I have all the NES Dragon Warrior games. I don't know what that means, but I have them anyway.
Alex Navarro | Associate Editor
1. Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO (Xbox)
Look, let's just get this out of the way right now. You didn't buy Capcom vs. SNK 2 EO because you're such a huge fan of the Capcom vs. SNK series. Well, maybe a few of you fighting-game fancy lads out there did, but the majority of us bought this game because someone said "STREET FIGHTER ON XBOX LIVE AAAGGGHHH," and every kid who ever plunked down an entire week's allowance on a day's worth of Street Fighter action perked up and took notice, because to those folk, online 2D fighting was like the coolness holy grail...at least, it was back in 2003. I couldn't tell you the difference between a C-groove and a K-groove if you put a gun to my head, but I do know that getting my E. Honda on online was totally rad, even if I was getting my ass kicked by the aforementioned fancy lads 99 out of 99 times. Nowadays, there are a billion online 2D fighters, but most of them completely suck. Maybe when Hyper Fighting comes out for Xbox Live Arcade, it'll finally unseat this one as the coolest online fighter. Or, actually, maybe it won't.
See! We know what it means to say Guitar Hero makes you look cool!
2. Guitar Hero (PS2)
I can't remember a game I was ever more eager to force people to sit down and play (or, at least, watch me play) than Guitar Hero. I think a lot of people had the same reaction when Dance Dance Revolution came around, in that half the novelty of the game was just showing off how crazy you could dance and how awesome the concept was. Except that DDR wasn't, and still isn't awesome. Guitar Hero, on the other hand, is the best rhythm game ever made, and it's totally bad ass to watch when the person playing knows what they're doing. At what point in DDR can you watch a guy hold the controller behind his back and play without looking? Or do fat windmill strums? Oh, wait, never? Yeah, sucks to be a DDR fan, doesn't it. Why don't you abandon that candy-raver jungle-house crap and come hang with us rock-and-roll types. You know, the dangerous types your parents always worried about. The cool kids.
Dammit, I'm serious. Put down that stupid Paul Oakenfold CD and listen to some Danzig! And then let's go do burnouts in the Safeway parking lot in your brother's Cougar!
3. Ikaruga (GC)
People who are way into Ikaruga are the video game-fan equivalent of people who are way into old Guided by Voices albums, David Lynch movies, and anything written by Hubert Selby Jr. It's not that any of those things are bad, Ikaruga included, mind you. It's that there is a level of dedication toward loving these things embedded within their fans that transcends any level of quality they actually put forth. The fandom goes well beyond what is rightfully deserved.
I couldn't even begin to explain it, honestly. I like Ikaruga fine--I played me a good bit of it when I bought it. But I also don't think I ever got past the third stage more than a couple of times in my life, and I also don't think it's much greater than most other great scrolling shooters. However, it is an undeniably cool game for reasons that escape most and that are inescapable to the dedicated cult following that the game has garnered over the years. You say to someone who "gets it" that you're into that there Ikaruga, and it's like you just said the magic password to get into the Freemasons or something. It's definitely a game that is cool to have, but more for its status among the hardcore and its relative rarity than for the game itself.
If you had a cool hat like this, maybe you, too, could be cool.
4. Otogi: Myth of Demons (Xbox)
The Ikaruga argument could pretty much be made about Otogi, as well, although the fan fare for Otogi is even less so, and Otogi is arguably more enjoyable, simply for the fact that you're a friggin' zombie samurai that knocks demons around with a big-ass sword and breaks up the environment like a zombie wrecking machine. Plus, you know, it's got that whole "aesthetic beauty" thing the artsy kids like so much.
I think Otogi sold like a dozen copies total, so by virtue of that fact alone, people who like obscure things latched onto it all the more. And if you have this game in your collection and can speak intelligently about the crazy, creepy princess voice that says totally opaque things to you throughout the game, or can explain why things that are Japanese are inherently superior to anything American, then you're probably a lot cooler in the eyes of people you probably don't think are all that cool. And that's cool...I think...wait, is it?
5. Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Oudou Keishou (N64)
Ah, yes, the requisite import title. Every cool kid has to have at least a few obscure Japanese games floating around their collection. Games that are in English are so passé.
Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 is from AKI, the maker of all those WCW and WWF (back when it was the WWF) wrestling games for the Nintendo 64 that all the kids got totally horny over. But VPW 2 is about a billion times better than the vast majority of any of those games, and anybody who knows anything and is cool totally already knows that. Despite the lack of familiar American wrestlers, the game still had a ridiculous number of available characters from various Japanese federations, as well as lots of excellent modes and the best create-a-wrestler mode of any wrestling game ever. Despite coming out before No Mercy, it had stuff that didn't even find its way into that marquee title, such as a mask editor and programmable wrestler AI.
I suppose there is one gigantic flaw in this argument, in that wrestling games are inherently not cool. But the thing about that is...shut up.
Jeff Gerstmann | Senior Editor
1.Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
2. Madden NFL 06 (PS2)
3. Guitar Hero (PS2) or Dance Dance Revolution Extreme (PS2)
4. The Guy Game (PS2)
5. Halo 2 (Xbox)
Let's face it, nothing says "I'm cool" quite like having a large collection of games. Well, actually, most of the people that see my game collection (or at least the recent stuff, which is the only stuff that's on display in my living room) are somewhat troubled by the disturbing number of games I have. To people that aren't spending significant amounts of time playing games, seeing 1,000 games all in one place can be a little intimidating. But there's an easy way to calm them down. And that's where my list comes in.
Personally, I think this is a pretty cool game that I own. But this list isn't for me. Or you.
Make no mistake, this list isn't for you. If you're reading this article, chances are you'd be more interested in my Japanese copy of Rez or the creepy, unopened copy of MiniMoni: Shaker and Tambourine! Dapyon! that I have. Or my fine collection of games for the Famicom Disk System. Or even my fine collection of Make Your Own Music Video Sega CD titles. But most of the people I come into contact with, and most of the people that roll through my place, only want the classics. And by "classics" I mean "recent stuff they've heard of, played, and are acceptable from a mainstream gaming perspective." What, you didn't really think I was going to say that Madden was a cool game, did you?
More often than not, the mainstream audience is onto something. I mean, millions of people don't run out and buy Grand Theft Auto games because they're bad games. They buy them because they're actually (well, usually anyway) awesome games. Same deal with Halo 2. Hey, I finished the single-player, sunk some time into multiplayer, and moved on. But chances are there's a legion of dudes with backward baseball caps out there right now, playing matchmade games and calling each other gay while waiting for their soul patch to grow in. Not to overly generalize, of course, but those millions of players aren't wrong.
Guitar Hero might fool your non-game-playing friends into thinking you're some kind of wicked musician. And you look either more or less foolish than you do when you're playing DDR, but it's also a bit tougher to grasp. If there are girls at your house and they are drinking alcohol, DDR is probably a better choice. Hey, flip a coin, I guess.
And then there's The Guy Game, which has boobs in it. And not Team Ninja boobs, either. Real ones. That game's pretty lame, but it can capture a crowd's attention like nobody's business. You know, if I'm going to be honest, people don't really come over to my place to play games very often. They come over to watch The Knife Show. But that's a story for a different time.
And now for your Pick 5...
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In no particular order
1)All FIFA games
2)GTA LC VC SA
3)Boxing games(fight night round 3)
4)All Tekken games
5)All Resident Evil games
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Games do not make people cool, trust me. Very few people will think your cool if queue 5 hours and pay a 1000 bucks on something you'll never use.
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All these games made me cool with my friends. When these fisrt came out, they would camp at my flat for days to play them!
Metal Gear Solid (ps1) Street Fighter 2 Champ Edition (Megadrive)
GTA - Vice City (PS2)
Soul Calibur 2 (Dreamcast)
Resident Evil (PS1)
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Streets of Rage 3 - Supposdly pretty rare! Gears of war - Its the rage at the moment i guess (good game though)
Sonic (all of them) - Who hates sonic?!?
Resident Evil 4 - Best game ever made!
Street Fighter 2 - Rememberance of arcade machines!
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World of warcraft makes me feel "cool"
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1. Legend of Zelda...anything zelda is brilliant
2. Crash Bandicoot...I loved these games Easy to pick up and play
3. Metal Gear Solid...The first maturish game i played and it was legend
4. Gran Turismo...first brilliant racing game i got and made me obsessed
5. Mario games...brilliant platformers and most sport game r gd
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1) metal gear solid 3 (ps2)...best game ever, and you will like it even if you haven't played the other mgs.
2) resident evil 4 (ps2)...brilliant. The new camera angle is amazing. The special edition case is awesome
3) metal gear solid 2 (ps2)...incredible game, even if you play as raiden, not as solid snake this time. It doesn't get the second spot only because the videos are too long and sometimes boring
4) metal gear solid (ps1)...Amazing story and gameplay, i hope they make it for the PSP aswell. A must have for the ps1
5) gran turismo 4 (ps2)...easily the best driving simulator on ps2 and beyond
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1 Blood omen legacy of kain (ps1): for a ps1 game this is still filled with more stuff than both final fantasy series and Dragon quest
2 suikoden (ps1): story wise better than ff8+
3 DOOM (dos): its doom do i need to say more
4 Frequency (ps2): you LOVE GUITAR HERO love the first and the best if for nothing else 5 xenogears (ps1): if you can get a game that can beat this for rpg elements and have the perfect hidden 2 player robot fighting game NAME IT
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1) Disgaea (PS2) - To complete this game 100% will take thousands of hours.
2) Soul Calibur (DC) - The definitive fighting game.
3) Football Manager (Series) - Completely engrosing.
4) Baldurs Gate 2 (PC) - Stunning D&D gaming.
5) MechAssault (Xbox) - On Xbox Live, it was godly.
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1)GTA VC-PROB MY FAV GAME EVER
2)GTA 3-GREAT START TO 3D GTA'S
3)GTA SA-SHOULD HAVE BEEN NO.2 BUT DIDNT HAVE THAT SPECIAL THING
4)ANIMAL CROSSING DS-ONE WORD "FAB"
5)THE SIMS 1-USED TO BE MY FAVOURITE GAME OF ALL TIME!!!
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1)LOZ:OOT BEST GAME EVER! Who says faries make a game uncool?
2)GTA 3/VC/SA- 3 was inspirational, VC was unbelievable and SA was overwhelming!
3)As much as i would love to say Super Mario Kart, it has to be MGS 3 4)Final Fantasy 7
5)Tekken 3!
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1) Super Street fighter 2 (SNES)
2) Mario Kart 64 (N64)
3) Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
4) Fallout 2 (PC)
5) Final Fantasy 6 (SNES)
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1) COUNTERSTRIKE (PC) - PERFECT MULTIPLAYER
2)CHAMPIONSHIP MANAGER UP TO 03/04 THEN FOOTBALL MANAGER (PC) - ENDLESS FUN.
3)MARIOKART 64 (N64) - PERFECT MULTIPLAYER
4)SYNDICATE (PC) - PURE GENIUS
5) QUARANTINE (PC) - EARLY FREEFORM GAMING PERFECTION
this list ignores pro evo soccer which i had to mention somewhere, just because... I'm sorry ok?
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Streetfighter Collection (Saturn) For the discerning Streetfighter and retro fan.
Ferrari F355 (DC) It doesn't get tougher, or more real. I hope. Ultimate Fighting Championship (DC) If you don't know what you'tre doing, fights last 2 seconds. If you do, you might make 30 seconds.
Super Metroid (SNES) It's boxed, original, and bought on release day....
Sega World Soccer 97 (Saturn) I'm in it.
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Def jam fight for NY (PSP)
Liberty city stories (psp)
Super mario 64 Ds version (DS)
Gta vice city (PC) old but great
Resident evil deadly silence (DS)
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Metal Gear solid
Marvel Vs Street Fighter
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Mortal Kombat 2
Soul Calibur
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The best are :
1.Resident Evil 4 (PS2)
2.Final Fantasy VII (PS)
3.Jak II (PS2)
4.Mafia (PC)
5.Onimusha : Dawn of dreams
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Definitely:
Snowboard Kids, It was that or 1080, looking back I would have much rather had 1080, but this game was hyped to be great.
Diablo II, great game don't get me wrong, but not my cup o' tea
Sonic Heros, I spent money on this because it was Sonic
DDR, actually, my sister bought this, but it is kinda fun with lots of attractive girls, and alcohol, but it is just fun to say you own it.
Mario Party, this is a requisite with friends, I personnally don't enjoy it to much, but it is a great party game, and very, very aggrivating
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So many games to choose... even though these games do make me feel cool, they're some of the best I've played and most enjoyed-
1. Guitar Hero (PS2)
2. Devil May Cry 3 (PS2)
3. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
4. Metal Gear Solid 2 (PS2)
5. Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
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first of all there are lots of cool games no wa days, making it harder to choose. it's like clothes from time to time you need to change, it depends how much you where them or in this case how much you play those games. so next time there could be some changes. ok here are my top five, and the reason why...
1) FINAL FANTASY X (PS2): if there would be a top five of game franchises this would be FF. these are all pearls, but for now i choose X. played +300 hours and counting, finished the game just to see how it ends but then decided not to save...i wanted perfect characters, dream team blitzball, to kill penance and those dark aons. a greater challenge indeed, only FF XII can beat this one.
2) GTA: III, VC, SA (PS2): these are all classic any of the three will do. be the bad guy just for fun...
3) GOD OF WAR (PS2): this one keeps you alive, even God himself would play it! maybe he created it, top game
4) SOULCALIBUR II (PS2): the best beat 'em up, pure fun
5) METAL GEAR SOLID 3 SNAKE EATER (PS2): Snake at his best! you want to know what survival is? play with this game, and you can even survive on a deserted island. might come in handy
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1. Resident Evil: Director's Cut (I only playing the series so I can be fair in comparing this to Silent Hill)
2. Final Fantasy X
3. Resident Evil Code: Veronica X
4. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (always wanted to play a Zelda title)
5. Indigo Prophecy (to some extent, though, I wanted it long before)
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1.Halo2
2.Halo
3.GTA: SA
4.Counter Strike
5.Goldeneye 007
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1: Dragon Ball Budokai 3, Im a huge fan and proud of it
2: Resident Evil 4, This game has good action and horror
3: Halo 2
4: Metal Gear Solid 3 Subsistence, The multiplayer I can play forever
5: Half-Life 2
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I'm going to just tag series if there is more than one title bearing the name (unless a sequel was especially heinous so as to deserve exclusion) but WILL include the system as some titles are still going 20+ years strong:
(In No Order)
1. Super Mario Brothers- NES: Hail to the King, Baby!
2. Dragon Warrior- NES: The Root of the Modern RPG
3. Knights of the Old Repubic- PC: Redefined what an RPG experience could be
4. Baldur's Gate- PC: Rehauled and totally redefined the RPG genre
5. Halo- X Box: The product of the FPS evolved to its highest form
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1. Final Fantasy VII (PSX of course)
2. Harvest Moon Back to Nature (PSX)
3. International Track and Field (PSX)
4. UFC Sudden Impact (PS2)
5. Need For Speed Most Wanted (PS2)
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1.Xenogears >Non-GH
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1- GTA San Andreas (PS2)
2- Gran turismo 4 (ps2)
3- Kingdom hearts 2 (ps2)
4- Devil may cry 3 (ps2)
5- God of war
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1-Lego star wars (ps2)
2-revenge of the sith (ps2)
3-the sims (ps2)
4-Rome total war (PC)
5-star wars empire at war (PC)- best starwars game ever made.
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1. Legend of Zelda: OOT
2. Burnout 3
3. Gran Turismo
4. SSX 3
5. MGS 2
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world of warcraft
world of warcraft: the burning crusade
that would be enough but i get to choose 5
halo 3
legend of zelda: twilight princess
starcraft: brood war
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1. Metal Gear Solid 2
2. Halo
3. Burnout 3 takedown
4. Grand Theft Auto Sanandreas.
5. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
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1: Super Smash Bros Melee
2: Sonic 3 and Knuckles
3: Street Fighter 2
4: Halo 2
5: 007 Golden Eye
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1. Dragonquest VIII (PS2)
2. Final Fnatasy VII (PS)
3. Elders Scroll III (PC)
4. World of Warcraft (PC)
5. Kingdom Under Fire: Hero's (Xbox)
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You need games you can play over and over again and not be bored. Classics...
1. God of War
2. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
3. Madden 2006
4. Manhunt
5. SmackDown vs. Raw 2006
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1.Final fantasy VII. (ps)
2.Metal gear solid 1. (ps)
3.The elder scrolls 3 Morrowind. (pc)
4.Heroes of might and magic 3. (pc)
5.Hogs of war. (ps)
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1. Combat (Atari VCS)- the original pack-in. This is where the home console really started, and nothing wows guys that REALLY know there stuff like a perfect first year ATARI VCS (later 2600) with 2 joysticks, paddles, trackball, 50+ games and the first 3 years of Atari Age magazine next to your 60" HDTV all in the original Atari fake wood grained smoked plastic holding case.
2. Gyromite/Stack-Up (NES/Famicom)- technically 2 games, but lets not quibble. I've got the original import R.O.B. and both titles.
3. Lords of the Realm 1 and 2 (PC)- one of the first TBS-RTS hybrids. While the turn based parts aren't in the same class as Civ or AoE, and the real-time movement is a weak imitation of C&C and Warcraft, it's an addictive title thats fun as a single player or multiplayer game. It's old and barbaric by todays standards, but as much as it copies the best of each strategy type, the basis of todays best strategy stuff starts here. It's a real shame that LotR 3 dropped the ball and abandoned the heart and scope of the first 2.
4. Panzer Dragoon Saga - (Sat)- the greatest 32-bit RPG. Yeah, thats right, better than FF7, Dragon Quest, Baldur's Gate or anything else put out until that point, and maybe even to this day. If you don't believe me and you're SERIOUS about games, instead of blowing $70 on the next ho-hum Directors Cut title, pick up a used Saturn and PD1, 2(Zwei), and Saga. 1 and 2 are sweet old style shooters, but they're more than worth it.
5. Shenmue (DC)- forget reality TV, try reality gaming. Nothing says hard-core gamer like a reality/mystical/set in '80s Japan/Action RPG that plays like real-life work and still reigns as the most expensive game to make, ever. Peter Molyneux and Richard Garriott stand aside, the award for most ambitious undertaking belongs to Yu Suzuki.
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1. DBZ: budokai 3
2. super smash bros melee
3. RE4
4. mario party 4 or any fun multiplayer game
5. LOZ: windwaker
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1. DBZ: budokai 3
2. super smash bros. melee
3. DBZ: budokai 2
4. RE4
5. LOZ: windwaker
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1. Halo
2. GTA (anyone, doesnt matter)
3. Super Smash Bros. Melee
4. Zelda: Ocarina of Time
5. Donkey Konga
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1. Shenmue
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Halo 2
4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarine of Time
5. 007: Goldeneye
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One of the most kick butt games i have played are these.
1)Devil May Cry
2)Metal Gear Solid
3)Grand Theft Auto : Any title
4)Half Life
5)Mortal Kombat (All Tiltes. Partly naked chicks kicking each others ass has to be cool)
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1) Ikaruga
2) Devil May Cry 3
3) Gran Turismo
4) God of War
5) Ninja Gaiden
Bought them because they looked cool and hard games mean you're cool. But I ended up enjoying them immensely.
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1. Legend of Zelda Orcania of Time(N64)
2. Halo (Xbox)
3. Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt(NES)
4. Halo 2(Xbox)
5. Oblivion(X360)
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1.fifa world cup - x360
2.fifa manager - pc
3.call of duty 2 - pc
4.oblivion - x360
5.project gotham racing 3 - x360
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1) Battlefield 2 (PC)
2) Civilization 2 (PC)
3) Fifa 05 (XBOX)
4) Fight Night Round 3 (XBOX 360)
5) Bejeweled Deluxe (PC)
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1. Kingdom hearts 2
2. god of war
3. gta san andreas
4. hitman blood money
5. mercenaries
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Dragon Warrior VII (PSX)
Chrono Cross (PSX)
Kirby's Dream Course (SNES)
Kingdom Hearts 2 (PS2)
Dragon Quest VIII (PS2)
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1. Akumajo Dracula X: Chi no Rondo (TCD) = Maybe the best 2D side scroller ever.
2. Ico (PS2) = One of the most beautifully crafted games ever.
3. Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (X360) = It shows off what next gen is all about. A living breathing world waiting to be explored.
4. Halo (XBox) = Because no one will take you serious as a gamer unless you own it.
5.Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (GC)= Because it totally messes with your head while you play.
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