What Are Your Favorite Video Games?

[Belle]

- Borderlands 2 (PC): What do you get when you take the wonderful loot of Borderlands, improve it, and put it in a game with good story? Borderlands 2!

- Mass Effect series (if I have to choose a favorite, 3) (PC): Ending notwithstanding, this series was a helluva ride. 3 takes my top spot as favorite because it kept me entertained WAY after the story with its multiplayer. It's actually probably up there for my favorite multiplayer of all time, definitely the best Horde mode game I've ever played.

- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Subsistence) (Playstation 2): Good game. Good story. A real gutpunch ending. Everything good about Kojima's approach to games is represented here.

- Super Smash Bros. Melee (Gamecube): I can't begin to estimate the number of hours I lost to this game, first with friends in high school, then college. I still sometimes wistfully reminisce about it.

- Secret of Mana (SNES): My first RPG, and one of the first (maybe the first?) co-op games I ever played. It's one of my favorite games on the SNES.

- Final Fantasy 7 (Playstation): This game CONSUMED me. I remember my entire Christmas vacation in 1997 being spent in front of the TV, playing through the game. I cried! A fucking game made me cry! Admittedly I was just a baby, only 13 years old, but still. It has a fond place in my heart.

- Shadow of the Colossus (Playstation 2): Fucking amazing game. This was my first exposure to Team Ico, and I was floored. All bosses, a compelling story filled with dread, told wordlessly.

- Kerbal Space Program (PC): I currently have 909 hours played on this game in my Steam library. A truly amazing sandbox, one that gets even better because the devs deliberately made it easy to mod the game. There dozens of great part packs out there that deepen, not cheapen, the game, mods that change entire systems, like making the aerodynamics more realistic, adding resource management, build times, needs (water, air, food), etc. Every time I come back to the game there's something new, and I end up losing like 50+ hours to it. Challenging and fun, and you actually learn something about orbital mechanics!

- Hitman: Blood Money (PC): One of the better stealth games of the 'modern' era. I immensely enjoyed sneaking around like a ghost and getting people killed without ever being noticed.

- Thief 2: The Metal Age (PC): The pinnacle of the sneaking genre in 2000, and still a top contender. I couldn't get enough of this game, and played through it over and over and over. The thing about Thief 2 is that it did non-linear paths probably better than any sneaking game since. Levels were HUGE, you'd never see the whole thing on the first play through.

- DARK SOULS/BLOODBORNE (multiple platforms): "Fuck shit fuck fuck goddamn fuck OH COME ON THAT'S BULLSHIT argh try again fuck shit fuck fuck fuck YES NO FUCK NO YES AAAAAAH."

- Undertale (PC): It made me feel things. I love it. Goofy humor, an amazing score, fun mechanics, and great cast. If you haven't played it, you probably should, and avoid spoilers.

- Freespace 2 (PC): If any game even comes close to emulating the feel of this game I'll be goddamned happy. FS2's blend of arcadey space shooty with its unfolding storyline takes the cake for space sims for me. There are so many cool moments from this game that are burned into my mind. ("DIVE DIVE DIVE, HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!!!")