[Question] Top 20 Games of the last 20 Years?

I made a list a while back and started typing up descriptions for each game, but I never got around to finishing it. So I figure I'll just paste what I've got and be done with it.


Sonic CD

Oh come on, I did a whole article about this game on that GFF Gamer Month thing we used to have here so how could this not be on the list? Honestly I should just link the thing here for my summary as to why this is probably the best Sonic game ever made.

You take control of Sonic as you make your way through several different zones on the Little Planet, which can happen in the present but you can also time travel back to the Past version of the zone as well as the Future (Good or Bad, it all depends on if you destroy a couple of things in the past or if you collect all of the Time Stones).

The controls are spot on and the levels are pleasing to the eye. It was definitely something different for a Sonic game considering the only ones we had played up to this point were Sonic 1 and 2 for the Genesis and Game Gear. One really great thing about the game was the music. Now a lot of people prefer the JP/EU music, but give me the US version anyday. I don't consider the JP/EU version bad, it has some pretty sweet tunes such as Quartz Quadrant Good Future, Metallic Madness Past, and Toot Toot Sonic Warrior. However, I grew up on the US music and Sonic Boom still kicks ass to this day.

"So taking into account all of the possible variations of each zone, 4 for the first two and 2 for the third zone, each level has a possible 10 zones and since there are 7 levels, that’s a total of 70 playable zones in the game along with the 7 special stages. That makes it the largest Sonic game in existence."

Also, MECHA SONIC. Yes even though the translation was corrected in the later games as Metal Sonic, we first knew it as Mecha Sonic.

http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/ge...tml#post749664



Super Mario 64

This game not only set the standard for gaming in the 3rd dimension but is still hailed as one of the best Mario games in the series. It's still a fun game to pop in to this day. Different levels, hidden stars, epic fights with a huge freakin Bowser, this game had it all.

But what's more amusing it's how this game is speedrunned (is that even a word?). Gamers have been finding new glitches and tricks to be able to beat the game much more quickly, starting with needing only 16 stars and the backwards far jump glitch on the endless stairs all the way to a freakin 0-star run.



Goldeneye 007

Sticking with the N64, prior to Goldeneye the only FPS I had played was Wolfenstein on DOS. This was the game that started to get me going on FPS's. It followed the story of the movie (with the addition of some side plots) for the Single Player mode. You had a large arsenal of weapons to pickup and use against your enemies from the PP7-Silenced, to the AR-33 Assault Rifle, to the insanely overpowered RC-P90.

Quite a bit of my time on this game was spent trying to unlock the cheats. Some were easy with the Agent level while a lot of them were insanely difficult on 00 Agent, so much so that I needed to use a body armor cheat with Gameshark to accomplish some of them. By far, the most difficult was that damn Invinicibility cheat where you had to beat the Facility in 2:05 on 00 Agent difficulty. One thing that always pissed me off was finding that blasted Dr. Doak since he was in random locations when you started playing.

But where Goldeneye really excelled was the local multiplayer. 4-way split screen against your friends was insanely fun but also frustrating whether your friends were good or the tv you played on was small. It's what LAN parties were before we even had LAN parties.



Unreal Tournament

What Goldeneye did for me on Local Multiplayer FPS games, Unreal Tournament did for me on Online Multiplayer FPS games. This fast paced awesomeness taught me terms such as Shock Whore, Rocket Whore, and Spooge Sucker. Auto taunting your opponents was just icing on the cake when you killed them.

Playing online on your 56k modem was alright at the time...unless your friend was hosting in which case they had an unfair advantage since they didn't have to deal with the lag.

You could also make some mods and maps for the game, pretty fun and funny ones at that. A couple I remember were crotch shot, similar to a head shot where you could kill your opponents with one hit.

Another great mod was the StrangeLove, where you could ride your nuclear missile Redeemer through the map and either eject off of it before it hits the target or kamikaze with it.

There are actually still servers for this game which goes to show that it has quite the following.



Ninja Gaiden Black

To this day, this is still the best Ninja Gaiden out there and for good reason. The story is decent, the cutscenes are short and they don't take too much away from the gameplay. The gameplay at the time was very fluid and you got to flip around and wall jump like a ninja.



Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Musical orgasm for your ears, epic Adventure mode, online play (though a bit laggy at times), and finally the first true game where Mario and Sonic can fight each other.



Metal Gear Solid

"Metal Gear!? It can't be!" You bet your ass it is. Metal Gear Solid was the first PS1 game I ever played. Prior to this I had played the NES classics of both Metal Gear and Snake's Revenge. However, when they talked about some of the past story elements with Gray Fox and Big Boss, I was rather confused because I didn't remember seeing any of that in Snake's Revenge. Later I found a couple of summaries included in the game regarding Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake. This is when I first found out that Snake's Revenge wasn't the true sequel.

*need to finish this later*


Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Mario Kart 7

Jak II

Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix

Counter-Strike: Source

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Chrono Trigger

Mortal Kombat 9

Ikaruga

Trauma Team

Metal Gear Rising

Sonic 3 & Knuckles

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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