Favourite Games

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This list features my all-time favourite games on different platforms. The list will be continued as soon as a new great game enters my life (or when I´ll remeber one) ;-).  You may wonder that some games are listed on multiple platforms while others are not (though they existed on other platforms too). I only list the platforms I´ve played the game.

The ranking categories :

• PLAYING TIME – how long have I played the game (from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest))
• WOW EFFECT – how impressed have I been by the game (from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest))
• GRAPHICS – my personal visual impression (from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest))

• OVERALL RANKING – a simple summation of the other 3 ranking categories

A note on the GRAPHICS category. The rank given there refers to the time (and the system) the game was released on (the platform I´ve played the game). It is not comparable with today´s standards and should not be.

The list is sorted by OVERALL RANKING but can be sorted by any column. Happy discussion !

(a click on a game directs you to Wikipedia or other sources about the game)

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Game	Platform / System	Release	Developer	Playing Time	WOW Effect	Graphics	Overall Rating
The Last of Us	PS3	2013	Naughty Dog	7	10	10	27
Heavy Rain	PS3	2010	Quantic Dream	6	10	10	26
Forza Horizon	XBOX 360	2012	Playground Games / Turn 10 Studios	10	7	8	25
Uncharted 2	PS3	2009	Naughty Dog	6	8	10	24
RalliSport Challenge 2	XBOX	2004	DICE	9	6	8	23
Goldeneye 007	Nintendo 64	1997	Rare	5	10	8	23
Resident Evil	PSX	1996	Capcom	6	9	8	23
Resident Evil : Code Veronica	Sega Dreamcast	2000	Nextech / Capcom	6	8	8	22
GTA IV The Ballad of Gay Tony	PC	2009	Rockstar	7	8	7	22
Street Fighter 2 Turbo	SNES	1993	Capcom	8	6	7	21
Trials Evolution	PC	2012	RedLynx / Ubisoft Shanghai	7	7	7	21
Super Mario World	SNES	1990	Shigeru Miyamoto / Nintendo	8	6	6	20
Sega Rally Championship	Arcade Sega Model 2 / Sega Saturn	1995 / 1997	Sega / AM5 / AM3	7	6	7	20
Velvet Assassin	XBOX 360	2009	Replay Studios	6	7	6	19
Transport Tycoon Deluxe / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe	PC	1995 / 2004	Chris Sawyer / Microprose / OpenTTD Team & The Community	10	4	5	19
Grand Prix 2	PC	1996	Geoff Crammond / Microprose	6	5	7	18
Sega Rally 2	Arcade Sega Model 3 / Sega Dreamcast	1998 / 2000	Sega / AM5 / Smilebit	7	5	6	18
Screamer	PC	1995	Grafitti	6	4	7	17
Prisoner Of Ice	PC	1995	Infogrames	5	5	7	17
Tetris	Nintendo Game Boy	1989	Alexey Pazhitnov / Nintendo (license)	10	4	3	17
Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis	PC	1992	Lucas Arts	4	5	5	14

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Some additional blabla to the games on the list follows here :

You may wonder why GTA IV – The Ballad of Gay Tony is on the list and the original GTA IV not. Well…I could have placed both of them on the list but I think that TBoGT is the cherry on the cake.   Though TBoGT is much much shorter than the original game the story is straighter and more focused on an exciting and arresting game progress. The characters are authentic and bizarre at the same time and in every second of TBoGT I was really involved in the things going on there. My final conclusion – TBoGT is the better GTA IV.

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Update 28.09.2014

Added The Last Of Us. No explanation needed ;-). Play it.

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Update 05.12.2013

I have added Trials Evolution to the list. It wasn´t an easy decision because I had to choose between Trials HD (predecessor) and Trials Evolution. Trials HD reinvented this genre and so far I played it more often than its successor. But Trials Evolution invented the really great Supercross multiplayer and so I decided to choose it for the list.

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Update 27.03.2013

Wow…it needed nearly 2 years to add a new game to my favourite games list. And the winner is: Forza Horizon. For me one of the greatest racers of all time and mainly because of its edge cutting mixture between arcade and racing simulation and for a superb car handling.

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Update 09.03.2011

I´ve added Velvet Assassin and Goldeneye 007 to the list. You may know the last one, but you may be wondering about Velvet Assassin.  It´s a stealth action game situated in the 2nd world war. It´s on the list because it has a very dark, depressing, emotional and scary atmosphere.  Regarding the game mechanics it´s far from perfect and also definitely not the best stealth game, but the atmopshere is really really really great. One level is situated in the Warsaw Ghetto and while playing that, I really felt depressed and appalled from this gigantic crime of the nazis. By the way – not a game for children. Not at all !!!

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Update 28.04.2011

I´ve added Heavy Rain and it easily gained the 1st position on the list. It´s a genre defining game and shows how much more video games can be rather than just simple entertainment.

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Update 13.01.2011

I´ve changed the PLAYING TIME for Transport Tycoon Deluxe / Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe from a 8 rating to 10. Simply because I find myself playing OpenTTD again and again. And it´s never getting boring in some or another way. So I think this is just fair.