Top 5 games of all time... pretty difficult. Here are mine.
1. Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy VI
3. Suikoden II
4. The Curse of Monkey Island
5. SimCity 2000
Honorable mentions: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Metal Gear Solid, Shadow of the Colossus
In no particular order for series:
Shin Megami Tensei series
Front Mission series
Ace Combat series
Star Ocean series
Armored Core series
For specific titles:
Jagged Alliance 2 (PC)
Virtual-On: Oratorio Tangram (Arcade/Dreamcast/360)
Demon's Souls (PS3)
X3: Reunion/Terran Conflict (PC)
Almost any light-gun arcade game (Bonus points if the gun is as big as an SMG or needs 2 hands to wield)
The basis for my list is the amount of time I spent playing these games. I'd put MGS, but I remember putting the controller down once I finished the game.
Franchises:
Diablo
Armored Core
Ace Combat
Gran Turismo
.hack
Standalone titles:
Castlevania - Symphony of the Night
Valkyria Chronicles
Metal Gear Solid - Snake Eater
Xenogears
Tetris
For me. I'd go for:
Final Fantasy series
Disgaea
Advance Wars
Valkyrie Profile
Shin megami tensei series
Etc. Mostly the ones with turn based strategy type of gameplay.
AC is an exception!
This thread is just begging for Kanye West to appear >.>
Armored Core: Last Raven
Armored Core: Silent Line
Chrono Trigger
StarCraft
-reserved for the future-
FF6
FF7
Resident evil series
sukoiden series
disgea series
honorable mentions:
valkrie profile
rule of rose
fatal frame 2
haunting grounds
My world my way
RPG and horror survival....KYAAAAA
Xenogears
AC series
AC series (Ace combat)
Total Annihilation
Monster Hunter series
may subject to change (especially PS3 and PC)
Top 5 games
Armored core masters of arena (This is where i learned every AC basics even though i played the first two series)
Twisted Metal Black (The best twisted metal of all time)
Chrono Cross (kid is cute)
Vagrant Story (DAT ASS)
Starcraft 1 (even created my own set of missions)
honorable mentions:
Armored core 3
Top 5 PS1 games
Armored Core masters of Arena
Chrono Cross
Vagrant Story
Syphon Filter 1
Psychic Force 2
honorable mentions:
Silent bomber
Soviet Strike
Twisted metal 2
Top 5 PS2 games
Twisted Metal Black
Armored Core 3
Soul Calibur 2
Devil May Cry 1
Armored core Last Raven
honorable mention
Gradius V
Fatal Frame 1
God Hand
Top 5 PS3 Games
Valkyria Chronicles
BlazBlue
Resistance 1
Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots
Mercenaries (I'm Rebecca)
honorable mentions
Killzone 2
Bayonetta
Devil may cry 4
Top 5 PC games
Starcraft 1
Red Alert 2
Call of Duty 4
Worms Armageddon
Starcraft 2
honorable mention
Counter Strike
RF online
Command and Conquer 3: Kane's Wrath
My personal top 5:
Ace Combat Series (AC4 is the 4th PS2 game I ever gotten and the first I loved and seriously played).
Armored Core Series (AC2 is the 5th PS2 game I ever gotten, I fell in love with AC here).
Starcraft trilogy (not too excited about the online multiplayer, but the story and campaign is so rich).
Megaman Battle Network series. (started with 3 Blue version, have played both 5s (not double team yet) and both 6 and watched through the entire anime series and read through some parts of the manga).
Pokemon series (Very repetitious, but it's still a classic to me. No matter how many games there will be, I will eventually play them, no matter how many anime episodes/movies are released, I will watch them all).
These are only the ones I have played. I'm dying to play the A.C.E. series, but I can't read Japanese, don't have a modded or Japanese PS2 to play the older games and R is too expensive for me at the moment.
And the AC (Assassin's Creed) series. Whose plot and lore is very interesting.
for the A.C.E. series just read the translation parts of the game guides and your set story wise as long as you know the stories of the involved anime series in the game you can easily deduce the rest (not to mention the aforementioned translation guide. As with most banpresto games its mainly confusing at first but with time it becomes easy to understand and hey it may help you learn a bit of japanese too ><.
which reminds me necessary top 6 for my list.
6. SRW series
Armored Core (PSX, PS2) (fuck the PS3 version)
Front Mission (SNES, PSX, PS2)
Ace Combat (PSX, PS2)
Chrono Trigger (SNES)
Clock Tower (SNES, PSX) (fuck the PS2 version)
Honorable Mentions:
MGS (PSX, 2, 3, P)
Tales of Destiny (PSX)
Silent Hill (PSX, 2)
Team Buddies (PSX) --> Real creative stuff from Pygnosis, before they got bankrupt.
Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusion (Megadrive) --> Feels like watching The Brave Little Toaster (dark and gloomy, but you learn much more and sympathize than the ridiculously happy cartoons), only that you're Mickey Mouse; "Tim Burton's" Mickey Mouse.
Okami (PS2) --> Work of art, like Castle of Illusion.
5. Resident Evil Nemesis
4. Parasite Eve 2
3. Soul Calibur 3 [for the nice concept]
2. Xenogears
1. Armored Core MoA
Special Mention: Thousand Arms