BoB's Top 100 Games

[Pike]

I still prefer Super Mario Kart to this one, also, but this one is good.

Super Mario Kart was great, although funny thing, I never could go back to it after playing MK64.

[Aulayna]

Mario Kart 64 is great craic. Though I have a soft spot for Double Dash and 7.

[Loony BoB]

58. Dune
PC, 1992

This is the game that people sometimes wonder about when they recall Dune II. "Wait, if it's called Dune II, what's Dune I?" This is that game, and it's completely different but still wonderful. I think it's probably one of the very first story-based video games I played and probably has a lot to do with why I love RPGs so much, despite not being even close to what RPGs are today. I hadn't read the book at the time, but I loved the story regardless - a new, mysterious world with ornithopters and Fremen and sandworms and houses and all that. At some point it started mixing in startegy along with the adventure apsect... in retrospect, this game was well ahead of it's time. I can't say a huge amount more as it was still a rather simple game (and it's been a long time), but yeah, quality game and deserving of a top 100 spot. Definitely overshadowed by it's younger brother, though!

[Slothy]

Though I have a soft spot for Double Dash and 7.

[Loony BoB]

57. Crysis
PC, 2007

First up, you snipe the guy with the binoculars from range so he doesn't catch you as you get close to the base. Then you go invisible, walk into the enemy camp. Break a guy's neck without him even realising you were there. Plant some explosives on a vehicle. Switch to strength, jump up onto a roof and grab a guy by his throat and throw him into a few enemies below. Sprint off at hyperspeed, they grab the car to follow you... you click the trigger. Boom! This game was awesome... well, until (SPOILER)it got cold. There are two stages to Crysis - the extremely fun initial stage where you fight humans, and the boring, skill-based, unengaging second half where I got bored and stopped playing. The aliens didn't get angry or scared, they just felt like robots and I found them so incredibly dull. Not to mention that the reason people raved on about the visuals was because of the gorgeous landscapes and never did people rave on about the "amazing snow". The second part ruined both the fun and the aesthetics for me.

Still, oh man, roaming around a hot, tropical island jungle taking out donkey-brained enemies - this I just couldn't get enough of. So much fun. I really wish the game did better financially, particularly with multiplayer, because I really feel that it deserved a lot more attention than it got. Unfortunately it severely limited it's audience by making the requirements so high, but for those of us that were playing it... worth it. Well. Until that point I mentioned earlier in the spoiler. Everything before that was good enough for it to still be this high on the list, though.

Another thing worth mentioning was how much I loved that crazy British bastard, Psycho. Danielle and I got a copy of Warhead to play later on, which was worth it just so we could actually be Psycho instead of boringface Nomad.

56. Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced
GameBoy Advance, 2003

I never did finish this game, but I did play it endlessly for a good month or so. xD I couldn't be too bothered with the storyline, I wanted to finish every single quest and level up all my characters and so forth. This game falls very heavily into the One More Turn kind of addiction for me... I think Penny Arcade sum it up quite nicely, really (see below). Anyway, someday I might actually finish this game, but I'm not rushed. It's got that kind of appeal that I know will last with me until I'm retired, and an aesthetic to match.

[Pike]

Oh my god. I blame FFTA for why I quit caring about college. Because taking my Game Boy Advance to the library and marathoning FFTA was soooooo much more interesting than yet more studying.

[NeoCracker]

FFTA kind of bored me actually.

...Tactics isn't showing up on here, is it?

[Spuuky]

FFTA kind of bored me actually.

...Tactics isn't showing up on here, is it?

I've never played Final Fantasy Tactics.

Of course, FFT really SHOULD be on a list of the Top 100 games, but oh well.

[NeoCracker]

Oh, must of missed that line.

[Spuuky]

Oh, must of missed that line.

No, probably not. It was from a completely different thread.

[NeoCracker]

Oh, must of missed that line.

No, probably not. It was from a completely different thread.

Oh, well at least I didn't go as Crazy as I had originally thought!

[Bolivar]

Of course, FFT really SHOULD be on a list of the Top 100 games, but oh well.

[Jiro]

FFTA is just all round an excellent game. Just. I don't even know how to describe it. It's great.

[Skyblade]

I don't necessarily dispute that. But FFTA would be higher on the list than FFT.

[Del Murder]

I loved playing Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced on my GameBoy Advanced.