Favorites of all Time

Wanted to close this year, my first year in this page with this list.

These are not only good games in my eyes, they also have an special place in my heart. Some due to nostalgia, others due to ones that speak to me personally or others that are just straight up good games, or all of them at once. This list was made on December 31, 2023.

(Mostly) everything in this game is perfect. The Time Loop allegory, the mystery, the identity shift, the vibes.

Love it.
My personal guilty pleasure. It has everything I want in a game and goes straight to the point with fun gameplay.

Endlessly replayable, secrets, demon compendium, demon fusion, everything. Love it.
Best Metal Gear Solid, and it doesn't even start Solid Snake. Straight to the point too, the narrative starts to build but it turns to be all [REDACTED].

The details in objects, the funny soldiers AI, the cinematics, the great soundtrack and characters. It's subversive, and a timeless masterpiece.
What can I say? Absolute unit of decision making. Endlessly replayable, funny glitches to exploit, awesome radio, awesome story.

My only problems relay on the amount of mods you need to get it running properly on PC. It's Bethesda aight but still. Love it nonetheless.
Hotline Miami's crazier and unhinged younger brother. It's more like the same case as in The Silver Case.

The narrative is confusing on a first playthough but it demands time to be fully understood. Piecing everything together was incredible, you'll see what I mean once you play it and if you have played you know what I mean already.

Fun Fact: I have world record, yes the world record of time in "Blood Money" on Hard Mode. Legally of course, the other 3 on top are hackers because duh, PC.
Silver Case's crazier and unhinged younger brother. It doesn't suggarcoat anything in Correctness, it's wild.

Both Placebo and Matchmaker are more in line with something that does make sense in a long run, specially Matchmaker. But Correctness is creepy, rash, unpredictable and beautiful.

The OST is one of my favorites too, specially the ones composed by Akira Yamaoka.
Personal favourite Mother title. There are good reasons it never released in the west. From the combat, to the tear-jerker story (as described in one of the trailers).

Made me sob, not going to lie. Everything is on place, it's not anything ambitious mind you but is perfect down to the most single detail.

Can't recommed this enough.
One of my very first Wii games believe it or not. This isn't the Wii version specifically, Plus came with a bunch of extras and fixes but it is based on the Wii release.

I love it, just love it. Probably I've played more than 20 times already on different platforms. The endings were off-putting as a kid, for me of course.
The ultimate comfort game. Call your friends on Xbox Live, everyone will have fun on the SuperMegaPark. I mannaged to stealth my way into an Xbox Live conversation with strangers, they were talking about nuclear war, disney and death metal. I felt at home.

The licensed soundtrack is also one of this game many strengths.
The very best of the Mega Man Zero series. They stopped experimenting with the mechanics and actually started improving what was already there and everything just clicked.

The story is also the best on the franchise. And that ending, is one of the best in the Mega Man series. Mega Man Zero 4 was a strech in my opinion, and I didn't feel it had something to tell instead it was a long closure.
The very best X title out there. Only quality among my favorites. It's a time capsule to better times for me, again one of my many childhood games.

The level desing is fair, the weapons are balanced, the ost is great. Everything just clicks you know. Outside the bad acting, of course.

This is a Zero game too, that adds points to it. Zero is a good character, but they did him dirty in the X series.
Classic-vania! It's a huge department from the more conservative Dracula ones. This stands out to explore zones in Europe, a long travel up to Romania to kill what seems to be Vlad.

A second character "Eric Lecarde" is added, no whip just lance. He's more fun to play than the main protagonist and the levels layout change to accomodate this changes too.

The best Classic-vania alongside Rondo of Blood, but I prefer this one.
YUME. This is this game, dreams. Fullfil everyone dreams. It is mostly a Haruka centered game, everything is centered around here weirdly enough.

The comabt, the ost, the setting, the 5 cities, everything just clicks. Not the story pacing though, that can be debatable. The story is a huge mess, but it's beautiful.
Sam Lake's noir action game. It's that blend between the campy humour, horror, and the snowy noir new york that leaves you with good sensation of a quality product.

The one liners are also incredible, might use them someday in real life. I just need the right place and time to do it.
Adrenaline Junkies sometimes want action, real action. FAST action. I'm one of them and F-Zero X clears every game in that department.

From the Comic book inspired funny super heroes, to the music and the incredible fast races. Not the best racing game I've played, but it is the perfect arcade racer for me until Nintendo decides to pick up the franchise again or something.
Mega Man again, reperesenting the classics. The easiest and most polish of the classic era. A lot of people will agree when I say this is one of the best of the bunch.

It is my favorite because it's the best, plain and simple. Mega Man 9 is also great but this one is iconic.
Grasshopper's Soul. It is the most ambitious too, Killer7 took a lot of notes from it.

It is a visual novel alright, so I can't discuss much in terms of gameplay but the story clicks with me and it is something that I yearned from a long time.

Love the characters, the music and the writting.
It differs from Silent Hill 2 in many ways. It is a continuation of the first game, and that itself confused me because I thought every title was it's own game, you know.

But, it can be perfectly enjoyable not knowing much about the first in the series. The ambience is much more creepy, and the religious themes were ahead of it's time. And the OST, a time capsule to the 2000's and Yamaoka's best work in my opinion.

Heather is great too, she's brave and funny and doesn't deal with anyones bullshit.

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Years taking digital dusk on my Steam library, in a boring evening I decided to try it out of curiosity. People say Portal 2 is better, but I haven't try that one yet.

Puzzle game were you travel through portals around a goverment controlled facility. As a guinea pig of sorts we are controlled by a giant mean robot that will our life impossible.

There, is how I can describe it with a few words. Everything clicks, while it isn't that long it is the right amount of length for a game of this type imo
From Schwarzwelt with love. My favorite MegaTen game. I'd love to see a second title some day with the same setting.

Fuck Sector Eridanus.
I always was a Wii kid, I still have it with me. Before the Switch announcement with the Smash 4 reveal of Shulk I decided to try this one out.

It is your typical big JRPG; big ridiculous swords, ridiculous costumes and top it brittish people. It was part of Project...something set by Nintendo to get more JRPGs to places like Europe and North America. Sucess!

It is one of the Wii few big RPGs and I love it to pieces.
ZX is the last canonical entry from the classics to zero, then this one. The first title has it's problems mainly the metroidvania-esque map desing.

But...you know it takes me back in time to the 2000's. I'm a 2000's person as you can see this list covers mostly old games so this one isn't a surprise.

ZX is better than Advent in a lot of ways. It's the better version of it. Takes me back in time, that is all I can say.
Best Crash all around. The levels weren't hard as Crash Bandicoot 1, and weren't as fragmented as Warped. Plain platformer goodness here.
The best resident evil game, no one can take me that away. Though, it shifted towards a more action oriented experience can't say I miss the puzzles.

Holds a special place in my heart, played with a friend all day long unlocking secrets, mercenaries and such. It was the best time I had with someone playing. Nowdays, it's just isn't the same.
I'm slowly shifting away from Nintendo and all of that the more time it passes. Paper Mario grabbed me at the time I was most obessesed with my Wii, checks out. Everything was alligned to just enjoy it.

People say TTD is better, but I disagree.
Ever wanted to crash against someone so hard they get launched out of the window? No? Me neither, in real life. But Flatout 2 can accomplish that very dream everyone has but cam reach for biological and legal reasons.

2000's indie rock, check. Dumb cars, check. A simple but effective physics engine, check. Everything you want in a derby game is here.
Super Mario Galaxy 2, as it's known in some special places as Super Mario Galaxy 1.5 is the more gameplay centered version of Super Mario Galaxy.

Made with a bunch of what was left in the original Galaxy. It's not that I don't like Galaxy, far from it but Galaxy 2 improves on Galaxy on everything but atmosphere and story, not that it really needed one anyways.

"Postal games are bad" -Someone without any taste whatsoever but was right. Brain Dead sets up to fix that very issue people had with the franchise.

Quality meets Postal, weird right? Still, it's not Postal 2 dark humour but it is still convincing for someone like me.
The brittish attacks! Back in the day I had a lot of love for this couple, way before it's Ultimate announcement. Though I played the superior Xbox 360 port the N64 original release still stands tall as one of the best collectathons out there.
Get your ass beaten by cyberpunk people. Unreal Tournament 2004 to be exact is my arena shooter. It had a great support for Linux too, so it made my life easier to set up and play without any headache.

It is raw fun. Kids were playing Halo, adults were playing Quake III Arena, others Counter Strike, but my group was always loyal to Unreal.
Love to play it once in a while. Everything clicks, everything is lovely crafted. I can't say much about it.
Another childhood game, the absolute classic. Nowdays I can see the flaws in level desing, star placement and such. But at the time it was memorization, clean and fast without any errors.

The movement is the soul of this game, no way around it. It was meant to be modded by the community with new levels, new mods and so on. It is the total opossite of Banjo Kazooie to some degree.

But I hold so many precious memories with it.
As a kid I loved to play Mario Kart 64 Online with people. You heard me right, online as in with other people. Set up, an emulator and race with strangers with shitty connection.

Always loved to pick up Donkey Kong because he makes funny noises. For the most part everyone was trying their hardest to win with the likes of Toad, Yoshi and other lightweight characters that ran fast. I was just there having fun on last 5th place.
Latin America PC market was always big. Can be compared even to some parts of Asia or Eastern Europe. When the console market overlooked these regions the PC market raised to crazy levels and it's still to this day really.

San Andreas was on every...let's call them "computer shops were people gather to play games for a little fee" or in simpler words "Internet Café" just without the cofee.

What does it had to do with San Andreas? It was really popular here in Latin America, ask any brasilians they will agree. Full with mods, support from the community, and the game itself is great too.
More Crash, the best entry to some. I don't agrree, to some extent but I can see why it was the best to some. Still, I consider it a hit for how simple and varied it is.

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3 months ago

pretty banger list

1 month ago

flower sun and rain at first 🧎


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