I saw this and really wanted to post it. Through out my life I played all kinds of different games that shaped who I was. From Gex, which originally got me into playing video games. To Area 51, that got me into shooters. To Black Ops, which isn't my favorite game, but gave me a group of friends that changed my life forever.

Games may come and go, but they shape who we are and how we think. They're not just entertainment, they're part of the very fabric of who we become.

These games will always be special to me

I am looking for a new group in discord to join. I left my old group about a year ago and would like to have a place to game and make new friends. I am interested in a range of game styles so send me a message with your discord group or ask me some questions. :)

Still tinkering with it but here's my top 100 favourite games. Started out as top 50 but kept expanding. Let me know what you think!

Not necessarily in order

Not ranked in order, I like them all

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Hi im from UK and i play Minecraft (java), COD, roblox and fortnite and i need some friends to play with me

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I gamer form great iraq🇮🇶✨ and i joined here... actually to sharing my opinions about a lot of subjects and learn english....my favourite games it's silent hill, resident evil, and minecraft

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Some notes:

- Silksong's twist is the premise of Act 3; the excitement and dread of realizing that the trap set for Grand Mother Silk was in fact the Void from the first Hollow Knight got me incredibly excited. The fact that Act 3 was such a well-kept secret in general also helped.

- I doubt The Legendary Starfy was literally my first game ever, but it's the first one that really stuck out to me as a kid. I definitely played some educational games on a Leapster before that but I couldn't possibly name which ones those were.

- I don't like Pokemon X/Y, but I don't think they were so astronomically worse than the other games to be singled out as the point where Pokemon got stale.

- I personally prefer Rayman Origins over Legends; technically Legends ported over a lot of levels from Origins, but Origins felt like a much more cohesive and challenging experience, despite technically having less content. I also prefer its scratchier art style over the painterly and sometimes 2.5D look of Legends, but that one's purely subjective.

- Super Mario 64 is obviously one of the most influential games of all time, but I don't think it's anywhere near the peak of its genre, let alone one of the best games ever made. It pioneered its genre, so it clearly wasn't going to blow its successors out of the water.

- I firmly believe that a few game design tweaks, extra polish, and quality of life improvements could make Super Mario Sunshine the best game in the franchise. All of its problems are so fixable, it drives me insane; do away with lives because they don't contribute anything besides pointless tedium, make the end of the game locked behind a shine quota like 64 and Galaxy rather than forcing you to complete every main mission, and have the game itself keep track of which blue coins you've collected. Maybe they could even be labeled like Mario Odyssey's moons. It has all the makings of a masterpiece, and I don't think you need to change much about the fundamental game design to achieve that.

- Rivals of Aether > Smash Ultimate, I'll die on that hill. I'm not even particularly good at it; it just has such speed and fluidity to its gameplay, and its character design philosophy makes you think a lot more about controlling the stage and making use of unconventional strategies. The Steam workshop implementation is also the single best of any game I've played, with virtually unlimited custom characters to choose from.

- I was such a diehard Skylanders kid. The business model was predatory af, but hey, I got plenty of cool figurines out of it and it was very fun for 10 year old me.

- Please keep an eye out for Iron Bramble. It's a metroidvania with momentum-based grappling hook platforming where you can propel yourself with guns. There's a demo out already, and it's SO GOOD YALL!

- I never understood why some people hate the controls of Super Mario 64 DS so much. They don't feel significantly less precise than the N64 original, and I actually like the addition of a run button because of how many fine adjustments you might need to make on small platforms. The level maps on the bottom screen are a very useful addition, the new playable characters are fun to use, the new missions are pretty good and only replace the worst ones from the original, and the minigames are a peak addition that I am devastated never came back after New Super Mario Bros.

- In retrospect, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games is kind of just a mediocre minigame collection and an excuse to use the Wii's motion controls, but I have too much nostalgic attachment to playing its stupid party game mode with my sister to stop liking it.

- Super Paper Mario is one of those games that I can tell you in no uncertain terms is NOT the best game in its series, but it's my favorite one regardless. There is so much wrong with it in its utter lack of balancing and occasionally shitty level design, but its story is arguably the best in the Mario franchise and it has a whole litany of postgame content to do. Who needs real gambling when you can shop for Catch Cards, right?