[ALL] Leftwich's Top 100 Games of All Time

[Leftwich]

Vice City is my favorite out of all of the GTA's. I know San Andreas will be higher on the list, but everything about Vice City epitomizes awesome.

San Andreas was already posted. That leaves one more GTA.

 

[KNUBB]

I stand by my statement. Vice City is da best

 

[wingsfan77]

I played Vice City soooooooooooo much, I think it's the only game I've ever tried to find all the little things. I remember sitting in front of the TV with the fold-out map that came with the game circling all of the ramps on it so I could hit all of them.

 

[Leftwich]

49

The Sims

Platform: Everything

The Sims is another game that came out on a lot of consoles but the PC version is by far the best. As a young teenager I spent a lot of time on the family PC hogging it from everyone else as I tried to have the perfect fake life. It has spawned numerous sequels and expansion packs for good reasons which I’m about to tell you about right now.

What the Sims basically is boils down to a life simulator. You take control of either one person and try to make it in the world or you can take control of a family and live their day to day lives. I will give you guys the run down in the easiest way possible, as a single man from adulthood to death. You start out in a little town/neighborhood. You can either move into a house by buying it or build one from the ground up. Building from the ground up is the most self rewarding route but with little money you’ll likely end up living in a shack with little more than a bed, tv, kitchen and maybe a computer. You can’t go all rich to start out because first and foremost you need to get that paper (money). Once you get a job you have to gameplan your day around it. Your sim needs to eat, sleep and interact with people. You will end up with bills and it is the utmost importance to pay them or people will reposes things in your house. When I struggled to make ends meet I usually sold walls or floor tiles just to pay the bills. As time goes on people will visit you and you need to make friends with them or you will suffer from being socially isolated. You can choose to pursue a romantic relationship with them, become best friends or become enemies. It is completely up to how you interact with them through choices you have. When you do choose to get married you can have them move in with you or move into there house. Freedom was always a big thing with The Sims. For work you can move up the corporate ladder through reading, working out or gaining charisma by talking in the mirror. It goes more in depth but you will stay where you are at in the workplace if you don’t increase your stats. As you gain more money and become more financially stable you can choose to make sexy time and have a kid. The kid can be taken away after they are born if you neglect them and their happiness and needs fall in the red. Bascially your life will live out like this as you go from adolescent to young adult to adult and finally elder. When you reach the elder state your time as a sim will slowly come to the end and eventually the grim reaper will pay a visit. It comes down to rock paper scissors with that honky and if you lose, you’re dead and the game is over. The game can consume a lot of your real world time as you try to become more successful at work, with family and socially. That’s how life lives out for your sim and before I wrap things up there are a lot of funny things I’d like to add. If your toilet becomes clogged you have to fix it or deal with your sim complaining about the filth. Robbers will break in and take your stuff and if you don’t have an alarm your sim may not wake up and awake in the morning to a living room with a coffee table and a desk lamp while your TV and coach are gone. One of my favorite things to do is when a neighbor I hate comes over I invite him to swim in the pool. He gets in, I get out and enter the building mode. What I do in the building mode is quite grim, I remove the ladder and watch him drown. My inner Charlie Manson comes out as I laugh at his demise.

This review doesn’t do this game justice at all. There is so much to do in the sims and its subsequent sequels. So do yourself a favor, watch the video below and maybe check out Potatoes’ Sims chise.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6UHmDPZ3eQ"]The Sims 1: Trailer - YouTube[/ame]
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[Leftwich]

I'd like to thank you guys once again. Now that we're in the bottom 50 of this thing, i'm sure you guys will all appreciate these games.

 

[BrntO4Life]

I'd like to thank you guys once again. Now that we're in the bottom 50 of this thing, i'm sure you guys will all appreciate these games.

If Busby II or Vectorman aren't there, I'll burn this whole thread TO THE GROUND.

 

[G-men]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 was by far the best in the series. Tony Hawk Downhill Jam on the Wii is actually a ton of fun as well, definitely a change up from the rest of the series because it is a racing game instead of a trick/challenge game.

 

[calgaryballer]

The Sims is hte most addictive game ever

 

[Buzzman]

After The Sims 2 the series became too much of a chore adding in way too many things you had to do to survive and shit. Just keep it basic and simple bitches.

 

[calgaryballer]

After The Sims 2 the series became too much of a chore adding in way too many things you had to do to survive and shit. Just keep it basic and simple bitches.

Agreed. And the expansions for Sims 3 keep coming! It would cost like $400 to get fully up to date

 

[StealthShot]

Im gunna go back and beat vice city pretty soon, loved that damn game.

 

[Leftwich]

48

Counter-Strike

Platform: PC and Xbox

This is the only game on my entire list that is not made by actual developers but instead made by the community namely two guys named Minh Le and Jess Cliffe. This game in my opinion is what started massive first person shooters online. This game brings back a lot of memories of long sessions and epic frustration.

Like I said before, Counter Strike is not a game originally for sale. It was developed by modding what was already there with Half Life. I’m not necessarily going to go out on a limb here and say that a lot of you played this. It came out in the fall of 2003 and didn’t have a big following until the winter of 2004. Around the same time this game came out I had finally got high speed internet and a friend of mine had turned me onto this game. When I first tried it out I wasn’t a big fan but after a week or two of forcing myself to play it, I fell in love. You had two choices, be a terrorist or be a part of the counter-terrorists. Both had two different objectives and if you’ve ever played Search and Destroy on Call of Duty you would realize where they got their inspiration for that game type. There is no story to this game it is just strictly online play. If you’re a gamer who doesn’t like just online games then this is not for you. As a terrorist you have the objective of planting a bomb. Once the bomb explodes you win. If your team is unable to plant the bomb and you are all killed by the counter terrorists you lose. If you are the terrorists and eliminate all the counter terrorists you win without ever having to plant the bomb. The beauty of Counter Strike is the simplicity. You get one life and health does not regenerate. It taught you how to strategically play a first person shooter. Not so lucky for me, I forgot how to play after such a long time and struggled when I got back into FPS’s. You gain money for kills, bomb plants, bomb explosions and rescuing hostages. If you die you are forced to spectate but after the round is over you can spend money you have earned on guns, equipment or what not which is pretty simple but still requires strategy. The graphics aren’t the best in this game but for something built off of Half Life it wasn’t expected to be. There were a few maps in the game but I honestly can’t remember any of them but de_dust. Still with limited graphical capabilities and very simple gameplay, it was a lot of fun to play.

This may be a shorter review than others but it was still a lot of fun to play and a lot of games that are being played now pay homage to this game. Counter Strike was revolutionary in many ways and is a very under appreciated game. It’s not for all but judge for yourself by watching the video below.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvQknD8hno"]counter strike clip - YouTube[/ame]
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[IamMedellin]

PLayed it on the PC

most fun I ever had in an online FPS

 

[Leftwich]

PLayed it on the PC

most fun I ever had in an online FPS

It really is. So barebones its not even funny.

 

[calgaryballer]

Feels so weird watching left handed charecter models...

 

[j.hen]

Holy shit I wanna play Pokemon right now because of that post. I spent way too many hours on that game.

Just wait.

http://www.virtualsportsdaily.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53614

 

[G-men]

New Poke'chise. Make it happen.

 

[Leftwich]

47

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out

Platform: NES

This is the greatest boxing game to ever touch a gamer’s hands. Fight Night, Ready 2 Rumble or any other game can not hold a candle to this great achievement in gaming, that in its home console version, even 25 years later. Yeah its hard to believe this game is 25 years old this year.

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out is not a port of the popular arcade game of 1984 known as Super Punch out, not to be confused with the one that came out for the SNES. Mike Tyson’s Punch Out puts you in the gloves of Little Mac. You’re trying to work your way up the ranks of professional boxing. You will face many iconic fake boxers on your way until you face the real deal known as Mike Tyson. He is later called Mr. Dream after Nintendo lost the license to use him but in the versions not featuring his name you can still tell it is him by his insane difficulty and the gap in his teeth. The gameplay is pretty basic. You have five punches to throw, 2 to the head, 2 to the body and your special uppercut you can use when you hit enough punches to gain a heart. The uppercut is pretty much your equalizer for knocking the shit out of the computer controlled opponent. You can also dodge, duck and block blows from the opponent and if you’re a smart player you will use those a lot more than you actually deliver punishment. This game is not a button masher; you have to be cold and calculating to get the upper hand. Sure for the first few opponents you can dish out the punches but as the game wears on so does the difficulty and you have to know when to strike and when to block. The rounds maxed out at 3 so you had to find a way to knock out the opponent or win by decision which sometimes was hard but at least you got up to 3 retries unless you were facing Tyson. If you lost to Tyson, it was game over. I’ve never beat Mike Tyson in all the times I’ve played the game so I can’t tell you how it ends. I plan on playing it at some point in the future but I can’t deal with the frustration now. As far as the opponents you face, there were some classics like Bald Bull, Super Macho Man, Glass Joe (the first opponent), King Hippo (who had the famous bandage on this belly) and many more. Very iconic enemies if you ask me. For the graphics and sound they are about what you would expect for an early NES game. Although character models did look pretty good for limited capabilities and the inclusion of a decent looking Mario was a nice touch as well. Sound had some background music, crowd cheers and hits and stuff but nothing too, too spectacular.

Mike Tyson’s Punch Out was a classic for the NES and is still a classic to this day. I would spend literally days playing it just to try my hand at Mike Tyson. Unfortunately I was never able to beat him. Watch the video below for more.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdZOp1bnLzE"]Mike Tyson's Punch Out one hit run - YouTube[/ame]
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[1ke]

Did Karnov make the list?

 

[SethMode]

Man, old school NES covers really knew how to sell it to a kid. The Punch-Out cover is fucking awesome (and, in true NES fashion, nothing like the actual game).