All-Time Favorite Games

In order to get clear in my thinking about which kinds of games are most entertaining to me, and thus make good decisions about which games to buy, I assembled the following list of my all-time favorite games. It shows me some useful things about my own gaming tastes. At any rate, the following is the list of games I've played from best to worst in descending order.

In ranking them, I've tried to place them in terms of the complete picture; i.e., I've tried not to focus on any specific attribute. Instead, I've tried to place them in an overall hierarchy in terms of the total amount of enjoyment produced by each. That's a pretty subjective measure, but it is clear to me that I enjoyed (and still enjoy) Dungeon Keeper II, for example, more than any of the other games listed below it.

  1. Dark Messiash of Might and Magic
  2. Blade of Darkness
  3. X-COM: UFO Defense
  4. Dungeon Keeper II
  5. Starcraft
  6. Raven Shield
  7. World of Warcraft
  8. Lord of the Rings Online
  9. Titan Quest
  10. Star Wars: Republic Commando
  11. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  12. Gears of War
  13. Battlefield 2
  14. F.E.A.R.
  15. Knights of the Old Republic
  16. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
  17. Diablo II
  18. Splinter Cell
  19. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  20. DOOM 3
  21. Hellgate: London
  22. Half-Life 2
  23. Tron 2.0
  24. Ghost Recon (and expansion packs)
  25. Baldur's Gate II (Unfinished)
  26. Undying
  27. Prey
  28. Battlefield 1942
  29. Unreal Tournament 2004
  30. Battlefield Vietnam
  31. Jedi Academy
  32. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  33. Baldur's Gate
  34. Jericho
  35. Guild Wars
  36. Tribes: Vengeance
  37. Call of Duty
  38. Call of Duty: United Offensive
  39. Jedi Knight II
  40. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
  41. Rune
  42. Unreal Tournament
  43. Tribes 2
  44. System Shock 2
  45. Star Wars: Battlefront
  46. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  47. BloodRayne 2
  48. Thief II: The Metal Age
  49. Neverwinter Nights (Unfinished)
  50. Rogue Spear
  51. BloodRayne
  52. Rise of Nations
  53. Earth 2150
  54. Homeworld: Cataclysm
  55. Thief: The Dark Project
  56. Sacrifice
  57. Homeworld
  58. Command & Conquer: Generals (and the Zero Hour expansion pack)
  59. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (and the Spearhead expansion pack)
  60. Far Cry
  61. Star Trek: Elite Force 2
  62. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
  63. Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  64. Quake 4
  65. Unreal Tournament 2003
  66. Freedom Force
  67. Myth II: Soulblighter
  68. Homeworld 2
  69. Team Fortress
  70. Darklands
  71. Warcraft III
  72. Civilization III
  73. Civilization II
  74. Starfleet Command II (Unfinished)
  75. Rainbow 6
  76. Starfleet Command
  77. Diablo
  78. Alpha Centauri
  79. Half-Life (and expansion packs)
  80. Red Faction
  81. Soldier of Fortune 2
  82. Dark Age of Camelot
  83. Dungeon Siege
  84. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  85. Deus Ex
  86. Painkiller
  87. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
  88. Serious Sam
  89. Unreal II: The Awakening
  90. Battlezone
  91. Halo
  92. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
  93. Starfleet Academy
  94. Klingon Academy
  95. Quake II
  96. Quake
  97. Operation Flashpoint
  98. Max Payne
  99. Star Trek: Armada
  100. Rainbow 6: Lockdown
  101. X-COM: Terror from the Deep
  102. Civilization
  103. Railroad Tycoon
  104. Tribes
  105. Falcon 4.0 (Unfinished)
  106. X-COM: Apocalypse
  107. Tunnels of Doom (TI-99/4A)
  108. Hexen
  109. DOOM ][
  110. DOOM
  111. Heretic
  112. X-COM: Interceptor
  113. Counterstrike
  114. Black & White (Unfinished)

 

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