What Are Your Favorite Video Games?

[Corporal Light]

Favorite video games, huh? Got a list of a few, from 1 to 6, with 1 being the highest.

1. Age of Mythology
My all-time favorite game I've ever played. Everything about it is awesome. I love its strategy, its graphics, story, multiplayer, and overall gameplay. However, what I love most about the game is that it had, as the title implies, Greek, Egyptian, Norse and Atlantean mythology as a focal point of the game. I love the ancient mythology, so getting to play as ancient heroes and use myth units (also, the game has a pretty extensive amount of history for each unit, which is even better) is a huge bonus for me. Also, the soundtrack is simply amazing and one of the best I've ever heard. I get nostalgic feelings whenever I hear it or just think about the game, it was that good.

2. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Over the top action at its finest; it's the only Metal Gear game I truly like. All the others I either find okay or just plain annoying to play through (mostly because I'm not a stealth genre fan.) Thankfully, in comes Metal Gear Rising that draws me in with awesome action through a dynamic slow-down slice-em-up mechanic, and amazing boss fights. Don't forget the even more amazing soundtrack. Also, like the other Metal Gear games I've played, the game isn't entirely mindless, and always had something to say. I think Metal Gear Rising has given me a lot more to think about in terms of story then most others have, which is why it ranks so high on my list.

3. Undertale
After experiencing this game through piracy (because I'm a cheapass and can't pay the 10 dollars,) I will willingly go to jail having experienced one of the best RPGs ever (subjectively.) It's combat is fun, if slightly annoying; it's funny, and full of quirks that separate it from other RPGs. But the best thing about it is that, underneath the ball of happiness, is a heart of darkness that I love to get depressed and saddened over. My first playthrough I literally said "Fuck it. As soon as I beat this game, I'm restarting." when I saw Alphys before meeting Asgore. I NEEDED to see the "happy ending." Or did I? I don't know, but if a game can make me uninstall it because I could jeopardize the happy ending, then I think that's proof of how emotional a game can be (or I'm a total wimp.)

4. Spec Ops: The Line
This game is awesome. Plain and simply awesome. It's rich with detail, full of symbolism, and is very, very dark. Its story and overall themes are dark, and nothing about the game is happy. Which I like in a very strange way that killing people in games is fun (I hope I didn't just sound like a psychopath there.) The gameplay itself isn't even that bad, despite it not being "innovative" as most reviews claimed. Personally, I think that this game should go down in history as a work of art purely because of everything it was trying to say and do, and succeeding in so many different ways.

5. Alan Wake
There's something about Alan Wake that I like a lot. It's atmosphere is downright creepy at some points, it has an unique plot involving transcripts predicting the future and an amnesiac writer, and its gameplay is interesting despite not really being anything different. Alan Wake isn't any higher because, despite how hard I try, I can never pinpoint exactly why I like it. All the other games before I can pinpoint exactly why, but not this one. Strange.

6. Five Night's at Freddy's
I know someone somewhere just vomited because of this, and I'm really sorry. However, I just can't deny the story created within the franchise was worth witnessing. The games were overall quite scary, at least for me, and each story was awesome purely because they weren't afraid to go to some dark places. The only part of it that puts me off is the horror, which is the only other thing I hate besides stealth games. FNAF brings the bottom for that very reason alone, which should prove how much I dislike horror games in general.