My Top Five Games

This article from my original post on JRNetwork.net. It’s my top five favorite games of all time. There is probably more games that I think is just as good as those five games, but this are the ones I remember and this are the ones I pick for now. I did modify the article a little before posting it here.

1. Black and White 2 

Seriously the best game I’ve ever played, I love how you can play a god, pick up villagers (and throw them around, give them a title, rename them and give them a job) and build whatever you would like. I usually fall in love with games just because you can create something or build something , but this game brings in tactics as well and that makes my body squirm a little because of excitement. As you fight different enemies to proceed into the deep enjoyment of playing, this game really throws you over and feeds you with fun. I like how they give you the alternative of building an impressive enough city to make the enemy citizens to migrate or make a giant army and smash their cities, burn the enemy citizens with spells or do whatever you feel like to reach the goal of the game. You have attributes to evil and good. Your city changes according to how you act; if you are good, your city becomes brighter and godly. If you are evil, your city is all out evil and the ground changes to some kind of volcano terrain.
The extension pack is fun as well, giving another (evil) god into the play.

Storyline: 7 – There is a lack of storyline, but the developers did well at the “teaching you how to play” part. A Storyline is not what makes this game to what it is. 
Originality: 10 – The first of its kind (actually the second, if you think about the first game). And I have not found anything like it at the current time either. 
Game-play: 10 - The control’s is perfect, the graphics is amazing and it is totally unbelievable that this game was made in 2005. I wish they added a multiplayer to it though. 
Fun: 10 – The most fun I’ve ever had except from plants vs. zombies, I am still wasting my time on it today, even thought I first played it five years ago and although there is not more than five maps. 
Overall: 10 – WOOO! Self-explanation; I like it. 

2. Fable 1: The Lost Chapters

This is by far the best RPG (Role-playing game) I’ve ever played. After playing it, I simply started finding all other RPG’s bad, this game is that good! It puts all the other games in this genre in a bad spotlight. Making me wonder why no other RPG developers learn from them, and at least take a little of the good stuff from this game. This game is also made by the creators of Black and White 1 and 2. You make your character and form him or her after how you would like him or her to be. Seems pretty much like every other RPG, but this game brings it to a totally new aspect. It differs with the road of other RPG’s and does it in its own unique way. The map is giant in my opinion. And if you have played any other fable game, you will know the drill about buying and owning your own house, marry and have kids and so forth. By saying that, you might end up thinking this is something like sims (if you have ever played sims), but actually it is not, you got very little to do in your houses  except from sleeping, be proud and having sex. You fight monsters through the game and the weapons you gain while playing gives you some sort of give you a feeling that you are successful. Just so it is said, this game is a lot more unique than the other fable games. So if you have played fable 2 or 3 and do not like those games, then there is still a possibility that you might like this game. The only common thing among the games are the fact that you can talk to stone doors and have a little house and a wife.

Storyline: 9 – The ending is very classical to games set at the time before weapons was made. It’s the only thing I remember from this game, accept from the fact that it was AMAZING. 
Originality: 10 – Those developers are good at making stuff original. At least before Microsoft bought them up (2006). 
Game-play: 10 – The controls are again; perfect. This company is known to over-do graphics to the extreme. Simplified, they make the graphics as good as they can get it.
Fun: 10 - I do not play it today, but I would if I still had the game in my hands. 
Overall: 10 – This genre is not something for me, I went bored of it after a while, but this game did it good.

3. Portal 1/2 

I never had a good relationship with Valve before I played the first portal game. There is nothing special to say about it other than what the title says, mainly it is portals, robots and puzzles. Just to go to a direct approach – I just love GLaDOS. When it comes to the player, you need to be into a good storyline and actually having fun solving puzzles to enjoy this game to its fullest. What I really like about portal 2 is how they made GLaDOS, they seriously made the perfect (villain) character. I did enjoy the puzzles on the first game better than the ones in the second game, I am not sure why, I believe that it was because the second game gave me all of this crap to do to reach the goal, while it was simple to do, the second game needed a lot less time to figure out how to do the different levels, and this in return made it all seem a bit repetitive and boring compared to the first game. The first game gave you more tricky stuff to do, it was pretty straight on what to do when you first figured it out, and when you were done, you had to price and award yourself with a cake for the good job. In my opinion, what makes the second game is that they did the storyline and the feeling of the maps betters, the first puzzles show how aperture have been slowly demolished over time. And both of those games does the flips on storyline really unexpected, you simply cannot know what to expect next from either of those games.

Storyline: 10 – Play it yourself, and you will see why. 
Originality: 10 – What is more original than portals? 
Game-play: 10 – Nothing bad at all that I can find about the game-play. 
Fun: 9 – For the ones liking puzzles, yes, fun as hell. You do not need to like puzzles to like the games, you got a lot to pick about. 
Overall: 9 - I am not complaining about anything. Really well spent waste of time. 

4. Plants vs. Zombies

I first got the impression that this game was for children or something, the graphics is childlike, but after watching the ending video and knowing it was the same people making Peggle. I sat of some time actually to get into it and learn how to play. And suddenly, it’s the best fucking choice of graphics fucking ever. It is also damn fun, plants vs. zombies throws new stuff onto you every time. Even after completing the game it is a lot left to do, and a lot left to discover!
Just… Play the game.

Originality and fun: over nine-thousand , Godamnholyfuckshit, this game would not even need any storyline or basic stuff, it messed by brain up when I were playing it. I love it to the extreme.

I also strongly recommend:
Total War: Shogun 2 – Tactics Game.
Minecraft – Block based game, you can do anything in it.
Trine – Well done story-based puzzle solving game.
Aquaria – Do not know what genre, just a really amazing game.
World of Goo – A really adorable game and fun as well.
If you are searching for free games, also check out team fortress 2 (Multiplayer shooting game).

*PS: Before taking the bother to point out that this is only four games, since portal 1 and 2 are two games. This is my top 5 games. I got lazy.