BoB's Top 100 Games

[Slothy]

The only problem is that it's impossible to go back to the early Resident Evil games now, because the controls are soooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Also, the graphics aged really poorly.

Disagree. Any of them from the RE1 director's cut on are pretty playable since they have auto aim. Movement is a bit tricky when camera angles change, but it's not like these are action games or anything, and I tend to adapt to the controls quite quickly.

[Sephex]

The only problem is that it's impossible to go back to the early Resident Evil games now, because the controls are soooooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. Also, the graphics aged really poorly.

Disagree. Any of them from the RE1 director's cut on are pretty playable since they have auto aim. Movement is a bit tricky when camera angles change, but it's not like these are action games or anything, and I tend to adapt to the controls quite quickly.

I agree. I never found the controls of the original games difficult. Once my mind wrapped around the fact that controlling a character is sort of like controlling a RC toy, I was all good.

[Ayen]

I first played this game when I was six and never had any problems with the controls.

[Loony BoB]

30. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
PS3, 2011

I love me some Uncharted dialogue, I love me some Chloe Frazer, I love me some Charlie Cutter. This was definitely the blockbuster of the series, pulling out the absolutely ridiculous at every opportunity. But I'll be damned it it wasn't entertaining if completely unbelievable (but then, that should be expected in a lot of video games).

Charlie Cutter scenes were probably my favourites in this game, and the end boss fight was rubbish, but the game overall was still really enjoyable if you took the entire plot with a large dosage of salt. I just really love the gameplay in this series, and I really love the banter between the characters. It's just pure fun, and I never stopped wanting to play just a little bit more.

[Jiro]

argh I desperately need to get Uncharted 3. Loved the first two to bits.

[Bubba]

Uncharted 3 has some of the greatest action sequences I've ever seen in gaming or indeed film. I agree that Uncharted 2 is a better overall game but the chapter 'Rough Seas' in U3 is one of the most impressive things I've experienced in gaming. Simply phenomenal.

[Loony BoB]

29. Final Fantasy XIII-2
PS3, 2011

What I'd give for a state-of-the-art 3D home console Pokémon game. I think this is the closest I'll get to it! I loved this game a lot. For all the flack XII & XIII get from different fans, they clearly found a great balance in this game - plot excepted, but then I don't think it was any better or worse than the plot in some of the "golden generation" of Final Fantasy, either. FF has always had poor endings, easily spotted plot holes, etc. So long as the gameplay is good and the characters are enjoyable (either by being interesting, funny or simply fun) then I've always been able to forgive a poor plot. In this case, Square Enix showed how much they can listen to the outcries from FFXIII and fixed almost damned near everything to be better in a gameplay sense.

It's a massive shame that so many people will probably never get around to giving this game a shot, because I think it really does point fans towards a sign that Square Enix is still capable of providing a true Final Fantasy. The only thing really missing from this adventure to stop it being a fully fledged FF was a large number of playable characters, but that is pretty much par for the course when it comes to the FF sequels. I just really hope that SE look at what they got right in this game and use that to develop future FF's in a way that fans can really enjoy. I'm ever an optimist, so I'm pretty sure they can get it right in time. I'm still not 100% sold on whether FFXV will be "that game" that brings back lost fans, but I still feel that there is a strong future in this series in the long run.

As for this game in particular, I hit Platinum on it as I did with the original. I wasn't really happy with how they worked the plot at all, particularly the very first part of the game and the very last. I think they could have done things better with Serah's interactions with Snow, too. But the gameplay, oh man. It was much more fun to Platinum than it's predecessor, and I loved growing my collection of creatures. When I first heard about the "accessories" system where you could slap on a ribbon to a creature or whatever, I was firm in the belief that I would never use it. But... but then...

[Jessweeee♪]

I loved collecting all of the different monsters c:

[Pete for President]

Heh, that does sound kinda fun. Maybe, just maybe I'll pluck this out of a budget bin some day.

[Jiro]

Yeah Final Fantasy XIII-2 was pretty decent but like I just it just didn't feel right I don't know. Too many options monster wise imo. I'm not a big fan of those kinds of games for whatever reason (but like I totally support it as a concept).

[Hollycat]

I think Ni No Kuni was closer to pokemon. It even had evolution.

[Del Murder]

Nice trolling.

[Loony BoB]

28. XCOM: Enemy Unknown
PC, 2012

This game wasn't as brutal as the original. There were some things, such as the low number of people you could have on a mission, that I felt were a shame. But overall, this was an incredible game, and I loved it. The balance was a fair bit better, and while not as difficult as the original, it was still insanely hard to get that Ironman run completed. This was an old, somewhat forgotten style of gaming thrust into the modern world's gaming audience in exactly the right way.

My team would generally consist of one support, three heavy's and a couple of snipers - one with Squad Sight, one with Snap Shot. The last of those mentioned generally goes against what most people prefer, but I got saved by Mr. Snap Shot on many occasions where he normally could not have managed it due to some random tree or whatever. Squad Sight may have been the one that ended up with the most kills, but Snap Shot was definitely the one that ensured my Heavy and Support characters would survive.

I was very lucky to get that Ironman, I felt, because I had so few deaths. During my earlier "education" runs with saves I could fall back on, I would find the learning curve came down to one simple step: Killing Chryssalids the second you saw them. Thankfully I managed to do that on my first Ironman run and it all flew from there on in.

So yay for XCOM! Man, I love getting to this stage of the Top 100 because I get to talk about all these games I love so much.

On a sidenote, having played a bunch of AC games recently, I'm thinking I'd probably slot Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in at around 40-43, the same level as the likes of Mass Effect 3, Halo 3, Age of Empires etc. The other games would probably be further down, if they were in the list at all. I think I'd have ACII at around 70 or just below it, and AC at around 91-92. Revelations might go there too somewhere, but eh, it just felt like it really needed a lot more to it. Still yet to finish ACIII, but I would say that goes in around the late 80's/early 90's, too.

[Pike]

You'll have to adjust your list again when you play ACIV seeing as it's the best AC game.

Anyways did you hear about the guy who beat Impossible Ironman XCOM with no deaths?

[Loony BoB]

No deaths? That's on par with cheating! Was it livestreamed?