BoB's Top 100 Games

[Shauna]

I remember particularly liking the character Minfillia.

I can tell you haven't played this in a while...He name is Millenia.

I thoroughly enjoyed Grandia, and Grandia II. Definitely up there in my favourite games.

[NeoCracker]

I remember Grandia 2. It was pretty good!

[Loony BoB]

I remember particularly liking the character Minfillia.

I can tell you haven't played this in a while...He name is Millenia.

I thoroughly enjoyed Grandia, and Grandia II. Definitely up there in my favourite games.

Ahahaha, Minfilia is a major character in FFXIV, I obviously just got 'em mixed up due to playing so much FFXIV lately. xD

[Tigmafuzz]

I remember Grandia 2. It was pretty good!

Also the first one. They're both worth spending the time to play, which can't be said about a lot of games these days.

[Jiro]

I remember particularly liking the character Minfillia.

I can tell you haven't played this in a while...He name is Millenia.

I thoroughly enjoyed Grandia, and Grandia II. Definitely up there in my favourite games.

Ahahaha, Minfilia is a major character in FFXIV, I obviously just got 'em mixed up due to playing so much FFXIV lately. xD

I noticed this and was like "that's a coincidence". Huh.

[Loony BoB]

53. Alundra
PlayStation, 1997

Oh man, going through the screenshots of this game gave me such a nostalgia hit, and it's not the first time this year I've wanted to play the game. Last time I did get a bit of it done, but I would be playing this game so much if it were downloadable on PSN. Is it? Someone find out for me. xD

Anyway. For those unfortunate and unaware, this was what you played instead of Zelda if you didn't own a Nintendo. And it was awesome! I seriously loved the gameplay, the storyline, the terrible name places (seriously, what unfortunate bastard decided on those?), the general feel of the game... all good. The graphics and sound weren't terrible either, given the year. I always get the feeling I'll really enjoy the Zelda games if they're anything like Alundra, which I'm told they most certainly are.

EDIT: Unfortunately all the best screenshots I can find at work are located at lparchive, which doesn't allow for hotlinking. =x Another thing I recalled while going through the screenshots is the more, uh, sombre side of the story, which for those who have played it may go without saying.

[Shauna]

I tried Alundra, and I just couldn't get into it. I ended up roaming around with no idea what I was doing, then turning it off, never to play again. xD Maybe I should give it another shot one day...

[Scotty_ffgamer]

I downloaded Alundra from the PSN quite a while back, but I have yet to play it. Someday I need to get around to that as it looks quite fun.

[Loony BoB]

52. Batman: Arkham City
PlayStation 3, 2011

This game was great - the massive world, the rewards for exploration, the endless riddles (okay, maybe a little too many, although I got them all eventually), the Catwoman antics, the quality story, the correct voice-acting staff, the dramatic events... this was great. It didn't capture me as much as I thought it would in the end, though - I can't remember exactly [i]why[i], either. Perhaps it suffers for me in the same way GTA games suffer in that there is simply too much to do! I definitely played the crap out of it and tried for some time to get all the various trophies before realising that there were too many and some would take too long for it to be even vaguely reasonable. And I say that as someone who Platinum'ed FFXIII.

I felt this game did so much right, though. Just can't place what it is about the game that didn't capture me in the same way as many other games as the mechanics, the characters and just the general gameplay were all top drawer. Perhaps it really is the "too much to do" thing, because I can't think of anything else. Sometimes I like to be able to have a little less going on, I suppose. Time to just enjoy a game. Better pacing, perhaps, would have done well? Either way, it's definitely deserving of being in the top 60. So is the next game on this list, and actually the next game probably deserves to be much higher and I'm saying this now as damage limitation for when certain people soon notice what I've put it all the way down at #51. xD

[NeoCracker]

The Arkham games are intense.

Can't wait for Origins. <3

But yeah, City was amazing. Ras was my favorite part of the game.

[Shauna]

Is Arkham Asylum higher up on the list? Asylum was better than City (I felt).

[Slothy]

I agree Shauna. I felt Asylum was a tighter, more focused experience. City was good, but I felt it didn't do as much as it could have with the more open world concept.

[Jiro]

I only played a bit of City at face's but I think the problem with City is that its open world has no life. It's just Batman and bad guys. I dunno. It felt off. But still a good game.

[Skyblade]

I only played Asylum, and I didn't get far into it. I remembering having some problems with the controls in the free roaming parts (camera seemed screwy), but I really just didn't like the combat. It felt...slow. Like I was controlling a tank, not a person. I've been meaning to go back and retry it.

[Loony BoB]

51. The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
PC, 2002

I've been dreading this moment because I know people are going to lambast me for putting such a great game so far down on the list. On some level, I'm one of those people, but I can only go by how much fun I remember having when I played a game and sadly it's just been that long since I last played Morrowind. It ranks as the highest of the games that I struggle to remember everything about, and also (due to Pike's never-ending mentioning and praise) remains one of the games that I am most keen to replay should I ever find the time and enthusiasm.

That aside, this game is awesome. It was the combination of many things done right. The incredible lore, the excellent reward for exploration and likewise the reward for leveling up in that it opens up even more exploration opportunity. As a very, very big fan of games that reward exploration, this game naturally fitted well with me. I also liked the magic system, as if I recall it included not just walking on water but also the ability to fly, which is great. I can't remember anything about the story and I don't remember being overly interested in it, to be honest, but the world was just a wonderful one to walk around completing random quests in. I like that it didn't hold your hand too much and that you had to figure things out for yourself based on clues instead of saying "HEY YOUR NEXT STOP IS HERE LOL".

The environment, though, is the big thing for me and Morrowind just excelled so much in that regard where other Elder Scrolls games such as Oblivion did not. Morrowind had everything - mountains, swamps, beaches, volcanic areas, rolling hills, islands, lakes, the works. It was extremely well done, and I adored exploring, I adored leveling because it allowed me to explore more... it was just great.

Oh, hey, look, I'm half done. xD