BoB's Top 100 Games

[Pike]

I think Goldeneye 007 is my favorite shooter of all time. The graphics aged terribly but back in the day I played this for months.

[Agent Proto]

I don't often check these kind of threads, mainly because there's a lot that I have missed but considering you have named Goldeneye 007 as #45 meant that it's a freaking good game! This I do agree with because it's a great multiplayer and shooter. I'm sure I could still pick it up and enjoy it nowadays, but I may cringe at the now slow frame rates. Back then, it was pretty good.

[Bolivar]

Overrated by those hip and stylish rose-tinted glasses, but it's still list-worthy off the strength of the memories alone. I think only Smash Bros. edges it out as the top N64 party classic for me, if only because it still plays and looks good.

[Raistlin]

Yeah it probably is 95% nostalgia, but Goldeneye was so damn fun when I was 10. I don't think I've ever again played multiplayer in another game as much as I did for Goldeneye. I don't think I ever even bothered to beat the single player mode.

[Del Murder]

Goldeneye is awesome. Half my college freshman year was spent playing this with my roommates.

Also I wonder how long I will be in the EoFF grave before BoB gets to number 1 on this list (which will probably be something lame like FFXIII or Journey).

[Loony BoB]

That all depends on how soon you die, Murd.

44. Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
aka Dune II: Battle for Arrakis
PC, 1992

Oh man! I loved this game so much! I played it like crazy. I won with all sides, of course, but Harkonnen was my favourite because I like brutal high powered tanks. I have a soft spot for the Atreides purely because of Fremen usage (shame Ornithopters were so easily destroyed, though), but hey, this is one game I actually enjoy being the bad guys, so I'll take that. I would build epic fortresses with far too many rocket turrets for any opponent to break through, send out scouts for recon duty and then, when strong enough, send down about two thirds of my forces and pretty much bulldoze the enemy.

This game is pretty much the Godfather of RTS and every RTS since has generally been modelled from the Dune II system, and I adore how well they did everything from the get-go. There were a few key things missing, sure, but this game is still playable today if you have the patience for the lack of group-select system. Handing out individual orders all the time can be a slight pain. Anyways, yeah, just everything about this game was golden for me when I played it. Great fun.

[Bolivar]

Never played it but I'm so immensely thankful for what this game did for the medium. It not only defined what Real Time Strategy is, but think about how many subgenres came out of it, like Real Time Tactics and now, the most popular genre in the world today, MOBAs.

[Skyblade]

Go ahead and play it, Bolivar. It's easy to emulate, and still a decent experience. It's got some technical flaws and issues, but it's still a fun game.

I'd like to point out that this game had a console version as well, and it's kind of fascinating how this remains one of the best console RTS games ever. The controls still aren't optimized for an RTS, but this game does the best it can, and was clearly designed with the limitations in mind (or just working in an entirely new field, as one of the first RTS games period). With a relatively low unit count and slow time system, it lets you use the clunky controls better than almost any RTS since. You have time to react, plan, build up, and even micro effectively if you want to, which is pretty much unheard of in a console RTS game. The PC version is still definitely better, but the console one is worth playing, in my opinion, just to see how well it functions compared to most of those that came sense.

Also, the new house, House Ordos, has some pretty awesome stuff, and is a well plotted out addition to the lore. Though I don't really follow the lore. Sorry, not that much of a Dune fan, I just like the games.

[Loony BoB]

43. Age of Empires
PC, 1997

The original, because anything involving guns and cannons just doesn't interest me nearly as much as bows, arrows, swords and spears will. My cousin, Sus, had a friend who would occasionally come over with four desktops, set them up in her kitchen and we would all play against each other. It was like RISK... broken alliances were commonplace and as we couldn't see each other's screens, the chuckling/cackling that would occasionally come around would set everyone else in the room on a wild panic. xD

The game was well designed, I loved the balance in it all, and we always had loads of fun. I tried the later AoE games but couldn't really get into them like I did the first. It's like the RTS version of Civ... I like starting from scratch, not with a bunch of technology already under my belt. All in all a great game.

[Spuuky]

Wait, but AoE2 has all the characteristics you mentioned but is objectively a better game.

[Loony BoB]

They have gunpowder in AoEII!

[Spuuky]

Only in the latest ages, and only a few.

[Loony BoB]

Exactly. They had it. I guess, really, though, it comes down to experiences. I just never enjoyed the atmosphere of AoEII nearly as much as AoE. I don't know what it was - perhaps the people I played the game with (okay, this definitely played a part), perhaps the lack of a British civilization, I dunno. It just seemed so much more 'fantasy' than the second game.

[Spuuky]

Exactly. They had it. I guess, really, though, it comes down to experiences. I just never enjoyed the atmosphere of AoEII nearly as much as AoE. I don't know what it was - perhaps the people I played the game with (okay, this definitely played a part), perhaps the lack of a British civilization, I dunno. It just seemed so much more 'fantasy' than the second game.

Even though it is actually much less fantasy? I see. Well, fair enough. By the way, gunpowder predates the military dominance of the English longbow.

[Bolivar]

I've only played the second game but I'm sure they're all amazing titles and I could see how whichever one you have the most memories with would be your favorite. AoEII was absolutely epic to play over LAN with some buddies, I'm hoping to get the HD remaster on Steam so maybe one day we could keep the good times rolling, yeah?