BoB's Top 100 Games

[Spuuky]

There's nothing wrong with Civ 5.

Well, there are a few things wrong with Civ 5, but I forgive it because I will do anything to get away from stacks of doom, which were always by far my least favorite part of any Civ game.

Today I learned that, for some reason, X-COM isn't called that outside of North America. Even they should call it X-COM, though, given that all the other games in the series related to it are called that.

The new X-COM game is reasonably good also, except for the CONSTANT game-crippling bugs.

[Pike]

My main issue with Civ V is that one unit per title doesn't really work right on a map size that small. Like, if it was 100 times bigger it might work. But this is mostly me griping as a wargamer who goes full on grognard with her strategy games.

Anyways yeah X-Com (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) should really be higher on the list. And yeah the new one is pretty fantastic.

[Spuuky]

My main issue with Civ V is that one unit per title doesn't really work right on a map size that small. Like, if it was 100 times bigger it might work. But this is mostly me griping as a wargamer who goes full on grognard with her strategy games.

Anyways yeah X-Com (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown) should really be higher on the list. And yeah the new one is pretty fantastic.

But Civ 5 isn't a war game. It's a civilization game, of which war is a single facet. Also, something that should be relevant to a wargamer, all the previous Civ games USED SQUARE TILES.

[Pike]

But Civ 5 isn't a war game. It's a civilization game, of which war is a single facet.

Oh of course. It's a 4X TBS game. I use wargamer in a general sense because it's quicker to say than "grognardy-strategy-game fan".

[Jiro]

I expected this to be higher on the list but again, at least it made it on there. I am sure his taste will disappoint you harder than this soon enough.

[Del Murder]

I wonder how many new games will break BoB's top 100 before he finishes posting this list.

[Loony BoB]

I haven't played Alien: Colonial Marines or Civilization V.

I don't think I'll be playing many if any new games before this list is done, outside of A Realm Reborn and perhaps Lightning Returns (I forget when that is out).

64. inFamous
PS3, 2008

I found it rather hard to place this game because I know I enjoyed it a lot when I played it and it's one of those rare non-Uncharted/FF games that I hit Platinum on, but at the same time it's not a game I fell in love with but simply a game I really, really enjoyed playing. I feel I could have placed it anywhere from 40 to 80 and still not felt it was quite right, but it ended up here after a lot of messing about with rankings for a good hour or so (a few games did this to me - everything below #20 tended to require a lot more thought).

The story was great, the gameplay was fun (if at times a little repeptitive, which I mostly put down to environments), the characters were good enough. I loved the various abilities, particularly those that weren't a cheap imitation of standard weapons (ie, shoot, grenade, etc). That means riding the railworks and power lines, gliding, the force attacks and so forth... they were where the game caught my attention enough to seperate it from the many other games out there at the time I played it. The collectables were great fun for me, too, because I'm a whore for that kind of thing when I'm playing a game I really, really like.

But yeah, I would say this is a game that doesn't get an A+ in any area, but doesn't get lower than a B anywhere, either... which is probably why I never found any reason to put the controller down until I had done everything there was to do in the game.

[Jiro]

I don't know how you hit platinum on this game.

Honestly.

I did it and afterwards I wanted to kill myself, it had some of the least enjoyable troutting challenges. It is up there alongside FFXIII as the least enjoyable max challenges I have ever done. smurfing shards.

It's a pretty great game (all things considered) and I had fun but I don't think even KotOR and Fable can top how blatantly black and white the morality system is: "Should I share my food with these people... or should I murder them with lightning?" That was just bulltrout xD

But yeah, inFamous was alright. It was nice to have a sandboxy type game and a superhero type game that wasn't same-same - just sucks that Prototype was probably the better of the two released at the same time.

[Loony BoB]

Eh, the shards may have been a bit annoying when it comes to tracing them but once I found an online map of where they are, I was happy to hunt down which ones I'd missed. =] Didn't take anywhere remotely near as long as it took me to do FFXIII's Platinum, that's for sure, and probably didn't take me longer than Uncharted 2/3's Platinums either. I found the challenges trickier than the shard hunting - the challenges were seriously tricky at times, especially after I'd alread 'finished' the game, meaning I had to hunt down the correct enemy spawn areas.

[Aulayna]

Gamer Confession:

I have never finished all the achievements on a single game. Ever.

[Synoptikal]

Gamer Confession:

I have never finished all the achievements on a single game. Ever.

So glad I'm not the only one! Closest I've gotten is Skyrim, followed closely by Bejeweled! XD

But I enjoyed inFamous as well and to think I only picked it up in the compensation deal PSN offered because I didn't like the look of any of the other games, except LBP. :P

[Loony BoB]

Hahaha, that's how I got it, too.

[Inferno]

Gamer Confession:

I have never finished all the achievements on a single game. Ever.

Just try NFS Most wanted, finish the game, and there you have it.

[Bolivar]

2009 was my first platinums with kz2 and infamous and killzone was a lot harder because you had to place in the top 1% of global players that week in multiplayer. I think the only thing I struggled with was finding a big enough group to slam down into but inFamous was otherwise pretty easy. I got the game and a guide for my birthday (along with the Chinese/English import of Demon's Souls ^_^) so I was able to just put a transparency over the map of the shard locations and just check them off with a marker when I got them. And yeah a lot of the side challenges were repetitive but they were so damn fun I didn't care.

InFamous is definitely a case where it might not be an unsurpassed artistic achievement in gaming, but it sure is one of my favorite games on PS3.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

Only game I got all achievements for was Journey, which doesn't have a Platinum. I need to finish Infamous one of these days. I've never gotten very far before I get distracted by a different game and forget about it.