Favorite Five Game?

[Gears]

Hmmm not  easy but ill try

    5. Donkey Kong 64 ( Chunky Kong FTW )

    4. Star Ocean till the end of time (ps2)

    3. Kingdom Hearts 2 (overall play improvement but still like the ending from KH1 better.)

    2. Super Mario World (Snes one not the DS one)

    1.  Advance Wars 2 ( yup i will always love it first)

I definitely love your #2

[Smith]

It's been awhile, so I figured it's time to redux my list.

1 - Roller Coaster Tycoon (Hasbro Interactive, Microprose, PC, 1999)
I recall spending hot summer days (and nights) in our 1-story home in East Vancouver as a 7 year old and enjoying myself immensely on one of the first games I ever truly fell in love with. I remember getting my population of Evergreen Gardens (the map called the worst and toughest) over 10,000. I recall giving every single one of my staff members their own name, and assigning them to various parts. I remember feeling my heart drop when my beloved, popular roller coaster malfunctioned, killing 25 people. I remember picking up the little people and dropping them into Leafy Lake and watching them drown. Roller Coaster Tycoon was simply a phenomenal sim game, one that I feel really set the bar for everything to follow. I'll still play it now over essentially every other game in existence, which is astonishing when you think about it.

2 - Final Fantasy X (Squaresoft, Playstation 2, 2001)
I rented Final Fantasy X for my brother because I had heard Final Fantasy was "cool", from my best friend's elder brother. It was shocking seeing the CG cutscene to open the game, and the battles that followed were unlike anything I'd ever seen. About a year later, I bought Final Fantasy X for 14 dollars from Rogers Video one day before church, and it's probably the best purchase I've ever done. Final Fantasy X had beautiful graphics which still stand among the best on Playstation 2 even today, but it was the story and characters that really drew me in. I nearly cried at the ending revelations, and when the game was over, just like a great movie, I was a little upset that it was over, I was devastated. Even so, the time and memories with Final Fantasy X really raised to bar for me when I consider cinematics and story presentation in a game.

3 - Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games, Playstation 3, 2008)
Grand Theft Auto is one of my most beloved series of all time, and I don't think I've put more time into a game than GTA San Andreas.  By the time GTA4 rolled around, I was at least old enough to appreciate the more mature qualities of gaming. A very sophisticated script, realistic physics, and a very impressive city were the highlights of GTA4 for me. While it has been called as "stripped down" or "lighter" than its predecessors, GTA4 in reality was a streamlined experience. It had a phenomenal single player story that featured one of the greatest characters yet seen in a videogame in Niko Bellic, its action could stand up to the best out there, its driving was better than most racing games, and even better, it was the complete package with a story that stretched over 25 hours, and a multiplayer mode that could get creative given you were playing with the right people.

4 - Mass Effect 2 (Electronic Arts, Bioware, Xbox 360, 2010)
Yes, Mass Effect 2 was released just on the 26th. Yes, I know I ALWAYS overreact when a great game is just released. Hear me out, please. Mass Effect 2 has great action, yes. It is insanely fun to freeze enemies with cryo ammunition, or to use the Vanguard's biotic charge or to issue squad commands seamlessly. Yes, it is a plus that the role playing elements have been streamlined making it much easier to pimp out your Shepard. These are the things Mass Effect 2 did extremely well. What Mass Effect 2 did even better is integrate a story that gets me to care about the characters this much. When I'm not playing Mass Effect 2, I'm thinking about Tali and her Quarian problems, or Jack and her past, or Garrus and his new attitude. I'm completely drawn into the universe Bioware has created and just like Final Fantasy X before it, I love the story. It's just fantastic. Only this time, words can't get it right. Hopefully placing Mass Effect 2 in my top 5 games of all time somewhat gets the point across of how strong of an effect this game has not just on my senses, but on my mind, and in all honesty, my soul. I absolutely cannot wait for part 3, and I could absolutely see myself playing Mass Effect 2 dozens of times through just to see every last bit there is to see in this incredible game. If there was just one game that should make everybody run out and buy an Xbox 360, Mass Effect 2 is it. It's not that good, it's about six billion times better than that.

5- Resident Evil 4 (Capcom, Playstation 2, 2005)
What can I say about Resident Evil 4? It was pretty, it was scary, it was deep, and it was incredible. Another game that I would have just as much fun watching as I would playing. The first time I saw Resident Evil 4, I knew it was something special. It essentially revolutionized third person action games, and I have to give it credit where credit is due, leading way to Gears of War, Dead Space, and pretty much every other great game in the genre that has taken cue from Resident Evil 4.

[Gears]

Okay, here is my list (thanks for posting in this thread to show me that I hadn't made my list yet, smith)

5. Call of Duty 4
    This was another hugely immersive game, because of its online. I had never been into online that much until I played this game, and now it is one of my favorite features in games. Although it was a good story, it was short, and that's mainly why this game wasn't a little higher on the list.

4. Halo
    Doom might've been the game to get me into the FPS genre, Halo was the one to make me love it. With its great campaign, wonderful story, and badass main character, this game really made me appreciate video games to the fullest.

3. Walt Disney World Quest: Magical Racing Tour
     My very first video game. I put so many hours into this game. I would sit in my basement for hours at a time each day and play this. Since I wasn't in school yet, that gave me even more time to love this game. I still played this throughout my kindergarten years, and continued for a while after that, until I got my Dreamcast. I am positive that I haven't played any game to date as much as I played this one.

2. Doom
     This game was another one of those games that I spent a ton of time playing. I would watch over my dad's shoulder as he played it, until one day e let me play it. I was in love with it, and never wanted to stop playing.  I would play co-op with my dad on our LAN network, and we almost beat the game (got stuck at the end of the 4th campaign). Even with those pixelized graphics, this game could scare the crap out of you. Oh yeah, it also made me love the horror game genre too.

1. Super Mario World
     Let's juts face it, this game was joygasmically fantastic. The controls were simple. The game was very long. It was hella fun. Every single level was different, making the game even more exciting. The adreneline rush of having tons of enemies around me, and somehow getting out of there with each enemy smashed under your boot killed and having my fire suit still on made me feel like the best. Even when I was frustrated with the game because I couldn't figure out what to do, or I couldn't beat some stupid boss, I would still keep playing on, because, even if it did seem like it was out to truly piss me off, it was still extremely fun. This game can truly only be described as fantasteriffigasmicbeastransmorfinglyawemazingly effing fun.
     

[Smith]

Lovin' Super Mario World as your #1, I had to keep it off as well as Crash Bandicoot 3, because I just HAD to get GTA4 and Mass Effect 2 onto my top 5.

[pikmin08]

5. Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Ah good times I loved the story mode, played online (at least trided) and just the group of all my favourite characters put in one game is awesome. I think this was the first game i got it the day it cam out.

 4.  Kirby 64 Crystal Shards - This game was so great that it had to be put on my list. The concept of kirby is great and they used it very well in this game. I played this all the time when I was little, always trying to get cool power combinations.

3. LittleBigPlanet - All my life I dreamt of a game that I could make and when I saw LBP I had to have it so I did before I got the PS3. This will never stop making me happy, now that they fixed the online I've been playin with my buddies online.

2. Pokemon: Gold Version - What can I say I'm still a sucker for Pokemon just look at my collection of Pokemon cards. Anyways this was the best of all Pokemon games I think. It had a lot of new things brought to it that were not done in the others. I still remember going to my friends house and all of us huddled up playing trying to catch them all. :*) So many memories.

1. Pikmin 2 - How could this not be number one. I love this game so much, I have beat it 3 times, twice by myself, and once with my sister. It's just the whole way path the game takes you this tiny little thing destroy creatures 7 times your size with thing that are half your size. Plus it all makes sense unlike other games where the villian some how lives getting killed in every sequel (seriously how is bowser still living). This is truely my favourite game. I will be playing this when my kids are playing on their PS5's.

[Gears]

Bowser is still living because he never dies. He just gets seriously injured and heals by the time of the next game. lol, besides, as we all agreed long ago, Mario is just one big acid trip anyways. That won't keep it from being my #1 though.

[pikmin08]

Bowser is still living because he never dies. He just gets seriously injured and heals by the time of the next game. lol, besides, as we all agreed long ago, Mario is just one big acid trip anyways. That won't keep it from being my #1 though.

I know I was just kiddin