All-Time Favorite Games

In order to get clear in my thinking about which kinds of games are most entertaining to me, and thus make good decisions about which games to buy, I assembled the following list of my all-time favorite games. It shows me some useful things about my own gaming tastes. At any rate, the following is the list of games I've played from best to worst in descending order.

In ranking them, I've tried to place them in terms of the complete picture; i.e., I've tried not to focus on any specific attribute. Instead, I've tried to place them in an overall hierarchy in terms of the total amount of enjoyment produced by each. That's a pretty subjective measure, but it is clear to me that I enjoyed (and still enjoy) Dungeon Keeper II, for example, more than any of the other games listed below it.

  1. Dark Messiash of Might and Magic
  2. Blade of Darkness
  3. X-COM: UFO Defense
  4. Dungeon Keeper II
  5. Starcraft
  6. Raven Shield
  7. World of Warcraft
  8. Lord of the Rings Online
  9. Titan Quest
  10. Section 8
  11. Star Wars: Republic Commando
  12. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
  13. Gears of War
  14. Battlefield 2
  15. F.E.A.R.
  16. Knights of the Old Republic
  17. Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
  18. Diablo II
  19. Splinter Cell
  20. Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
  21. DOOM 3
  22. Hellgate: London
  23. Half-Life 2
  24. Tron 2.0
  25. Ghost Recon (and expansion packs)
  26. Baldur's Gate II (Unfinished)
  27. Undying
  28. Prey
  29. Battlefield 1942
  30. Unreal Tournament 2004
  31. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
  32. Battlefield Vietnam
  33. Jedi Academy
  34. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
  35. Baldur's Gate
  36. Jericho
  37. Guild Wars
  38. Tribes: Vengeance
  39. Call of Duty
  40. Call of Duty: United Offensive
  41. Jedi Knight II
  42. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
  43. Rune
  44. Unreal Tournament
  45. Tribes 2
  46. System Shock 2
  47. Star Wars: Battlefront
  48. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
  49. BloodRayne 2
  50. Thief II: The Metal Age
  51. Neverwinter Nights (Unfinished)
  52. Rogue Spear
  53. BloodRayne
  54. Rise of Nations
  55. Earth 2150
  56. Homeworld: Cataclysm
  57. Thief: The Dark Project
  58. Sacrifice
  59. Homeworld
  60. Command & Conquer: Generals (and the Zero Hour expansion pack)
  61. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (and the Spearhead expansion pack)
  62. Far Cry
  63. Star Trek: Elite Force 2
  64. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
  65. Savage: The Battle for Newerth
  66. Quake 4
  67. Unreal Tournament 2003
  68. Freedom Force
  69. Myth II: Soulblighter
  70. Homeworld 2
  71. Team Fortress
  72. Darklands
  73. Warcraft III
  74. Civilization III
  75. Civilization II
  76. Starfleet Command II (Unfinished)
  77. Rainbow 6
  78. Starfleet Command
  79. Diablo
  80. Alpha Centauri
  81. Half-Life (and expansion packs)
  82. Red Faction
  83. Soldier of Fortune 2
  84. Dark Age of Camelot
  85. Dungeon Siege
  86. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
  87. Deus Ex
  88. Painkiller
  89. Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
  90. Serious Sam
  91. Unreal II: The Awakening
  92. Battlezone
  93. Halo
  94. Prince of Persia: Warrior Within
  95. Starfleet Academy
  96. Klingon Academy
  97. Quake II
  98. Quake
  99. Operation Flashpoint
  100. Max Payne
  101. Star Trek: Armada
  102. Rainbow 6: Lockdown
  103. X-COM: Terror from the Deep
  104. Civilization
  105. Railroad Tycoon
  106. Tribes
  107. Falcon 4.0 (Unfinished)
  108. X-COM: Apocalypse
  109. Tunnels of Doom (TI-99/4A)
  110. Hexen
  111. DOOM ][
  112. DOOM
  113. Heretic
  114. X-COM: Interceptor
  115. Counterstrike
  116. Black & White (Unfinished)