Grubby ranks his TOP 10 FAVORITE GAMES EVER!
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00:25 Number 10
03:24 Number 9
05:44 Number 8
07:26 Number 7
10:35 Number 6
12:36 Number 5
15:18 Number 4
19:40 Number 3
22:58 Number 2
30:15 Number 1
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I wonder what #1 is going to be Clueless
Elden Ring ofcourse
Hello kitty island adventures
Cluegi
barbie and her friends: the crazy adventure of the puppies
It was Cluedo speedrun
I want a 2 hour essay video on StarCraft 2
Yes!
I’m subbing just for that.
Would love that
Is 1 hour ok?
same
Perfect ending of a video :D
1 - StarCraft - Brood War (basically found all my friends through it when I was moved to a different school, defined my life for so many years)
2 - StarCraft 2 - Same reason but later, started taking it seriously ended up being Top 8 nationally, but dropped it after HotS cos life happened, but to this day I still watch a ton of YT videos, mainly WinterStarcraft and LowKo
3 - Heroes of Might and Magic 3 - Cannot count the hours me and my brothers put into this game, staying up late at night doing hot seat games
4 - World of WarCraft - Just the best MMORPG in the market basically, so many combinations and playstyles, classes. The amount of content is just mindblowing and the difficulty is so high that I can rarely finish the highest content in the seasons
5 - Borderlands 2 - I'd say if you ever want to try out a chill FPS that doesn't need to be taken seriously, BL2 is the game. Incredebly funny yet lot of builds exist and the Diablo-like loot system + extra difficulty you can add really makes it shine. Also who doesn't want to hear their character laugh when they just blow up an enemy :D
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borderlands 2/3 were sweet. loved the world design
It's crazy how many people have dota as "that game I really want to play, but can't"
on the other side there are plenty of players who hate the game but can't not.
Smurfs😂
Dota 2 would probably be my favorite game ever if the community experience wasn't 90% toxic cancer.
dota 2 best game but bad matchmaking 😂😂
For me it's the game I can play but really don't want to.
1. Mass Effect Trilogy - I genuinely think you would love this series. The pause/play gameplay is kind of the inversion of WC3, FPS with a little strategy mixed in.
2. Path of Exile
3. WC3 - Specifically the custom maps, I didn't really play the multiplayer.
4. Control - Insanely beautiful game
5. Dawn of War II - Specifically the campaign, again I think you would adore this. The hero/RPG elements blended so well with the RTS gameplay.
1. Dungeon Keeper 2
2. Warcraft 3 TFT
3. Dwarf Fortress
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Fallout: New Vegas
Great list, Grubby. The thousands of hours I must have spent playing WC3 custom games and random team matches in high school... It will always have a special place in my memory. Before that, Dungeon Keeper 2 was my introduction to the RTS genre. I fell in love with the dark humor, music, and playing as the villain. I still go back to it from time to time.
I love Dungeon Keeper 2, wish it kept Dungeon Keeper 1's money system but the change in 2 was also good, just too slow for my taste
In no particular order:
- Super Mario Odyssey. Perfect relax game which I play through yearly.
- Europa Universalis 4. Instead of the RP experience being centered around i fantastical creature/hero, you get to RP as a nation.
- Victoria 3. Same as the one above.
- World of Warcraft: Vanilla/Classic. Fantastic times with one's friends.
- Brood War. Barely play it, but watch it religiously (thank you Nick and Dan)
- Diablo 2. Childhood defining game.
- Dota 2. Fantastic game. Looking forward to every TI.
- Pokemon blue. Got a little emotional when I came to think of it, especially the soundtrack.
- Mafia 1. Played it soo much in 2002 or so when it released. One of the best games ever.
Special mentions:
- WC2 and Dune 2000. My earliest RTS experiences.
- Fifa 98
- WC3. Tower defence on LAN was some of the most fun things you could do.
- Battlefield 1942/Vietnam.
- CoD2
Wow, amazing list. Kudos to you sir. I guess we're in the same age range. I'm born 1988.
Tower defense was the best
I still play Heroes3, it's unbelievable how alive this is stilll today, people building new map templates, tournaments happening, streamers online :)
I still play it, but where are these tournaments? :D
@@AA-rg6xy Heroes 3 tournaments mostly take place with HotA (fan made, very high quality) expansion. Scene is very active. Check out Lexiav - his channel is a good source of info about H3 competetive scene.
Dude your brood war story is exactly how my brothers and I used to play too. I had 2 brothers, I was always the Protoss player, one loved Terran and the other loved Zerg. We were all so bad at the game but boy was it fun trying to go though the campaign. It’s hard to remember memories as iconic as these growing up!
lol too funny, me and my two brothers also selected one of each :D.
Awesome to hear, haha. Precious memories
"...if you are 5% better than your opponent..." shows game against ToD 😬😄 ❤
1- Dota 2
2- Diablo 2
3- Dark Souls
4- Chrono Trigger
5- Starcraft: Brood War
Honorable mention to Team Fortress 2
Love you Grubby
Bet you've never even played Dota 2 (the current game is Dota 11)
@@dankduelzperuvian well i've been playing dota 2 for almost 12 years so yeah i'm not quite sure what you mean but pretty sure i've dabbled with dota 2 😅
@@biohazarcl Dota 2 ceased to exist with the release of patch 6.78 (that's almost 11 years ago), 6.84 = Dota 4, 7.00 = Dota 5, 7.07 = Dota 6, etc.
The game stopped being a DotA game with the release of Dota 4
My top 10 favorite games:
1. Warcraft 3 (Original and Frozen Throne)
2. Heroes of might and magic 3
3. Starcraft 1 (Original and Brood war)
4. Ultima 8: Pagan
5. Resident Evil 4
6. Doom 3
7. Syndicate Plus
8. Doom 2
9. Starcraft 2
10. Heretic
You mispelled Ultima 7: Black Gate but otherwise great list
It's so hard to pinpoint 5 games only, but I think this is my list.
1. Age of empire 2 DE
2. Age of Mythlogy (the original one, and the voobly custom patch is surprisingly good too).
3. The soulsborne series (especially Dark souls 3 & Bloodborne, Elden ring was a banger too tbh, Sekiro best gameplay).
4. Baldur's gate 3
5. Dwarf fortress (I sunk so many hours in this so quickly lol).
Honorable mentions: Dark age of Camelot, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, the X-Wing series from lucasart & XWA, SCBW, Faster than light, Lies of P (I'm not done yet with that one, but it's a great game), portal 1 & 2, dishonored 1 & 2, L4D & L4D 2, frostpunk, Hades, Darkest Dungeon, Tunic, Hollow Knight.
really awesome list, every one of these games is incredible
AoE2 and Mythology were great games!
FTL is amazing. I don't understand why they did not make a sequel. I would be like printing money.
Ah man, I forgot About MoHAA, but the garand sound lives in my head to this day rent free. My dad also liked that game, even though I could rarely get him to play any games, he finished that one. I wish I tried to get him play more while I could.
MOHAA! I remember playing the demo or beta or something where it was the same map over and over where you fight down the main street of a town and then hook a right as allies to blow up Flak guns in front of a church with a field around it. I loooved that game.
1. Starcraft Brood War
2. Warcraft III The Frozen Throne
3. Star Wars KOTOR
4. Aliens vs Predator 2 (2001 game by Sierra)
5. WoW Wrath of the Lich King
Starcraft II was also a disaster from a storyline point of view.
Also a disaster from a design point of view
@@darrenc8697 Grubby did mention it in his video but, yes, you are right.
AVP2, amazing choice ... I was too young back then (13) to enjoy it as much as other games I kept playing but what a crazy good game.
Aliens vs Predators 2 was such a banger
My list is the following:
1 - Dragon Age Origins
2 - Battle for Middle Earth 2 ROTWK
3 - Dota 2
4 - Warcraft 3
5 - Starcraft 2
Too young to play Starcraft 1 and Baldurs Gate 2, hence not included.
My top 5 games of all time is
1. Baldurs Gate 3
2. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
3. The Witcher 3
4. Total War Warhammer 3
5. Starcraft 2
Witcher 3 is overrated change my mind. The existence of witcher items ruined the game for me.
Because you get to level 16 or whatever, you get your witcher set... and that is the equipment you'll have FOR THE REST OF THE GAME. No other equiment matters, so all quests from that point feel inconsequential.
You are a real one for WotR.
@@Lightn0x what ???
Mass effect legendary edition was one of the best gaming experiences I have ever had. I was gutted when I finished the game. Luckily I hadn't watched the expanse yet, and that sorted out the emptiness I had after completing mass effect.
I am guessing BG3 has the same impact, I still need to play it.
@@Lightn0x sounds like you played it trying to min/max like a WoW raid or something. Just enjoy the story and gameplay... worry about armor sets later
1. Path of Exile. I literally have been playing this game every league for 10 years or so.
2. Starcraft. First RTS, still have great memories on it.
3. Rocket League. Amazing game, and the way the skill ceiling evolves is insane and beautiful.
4. Warcraft 3, great memories
5. Soulcalibur
6. FF VII
7. Crash team racing haha. Loved that game
8. Tomb raider
9. Some abandonware like Super Off Road, Another world etc
and I'll stop there :)
I started poe when affliction came out. It was amazing. I had one month of work during christmas and i racked up 430 hours played in one month. I forgot to take scheduled medicine, i forgot to eat and ofc i forgot time. What an amazing game.
Solid list - Warcraft 3 forever! 💯💯
I was glad to see Heroes of the Storm make the list too. I was surprised by how good HotS was when I first played it.
Great points on how Warcraft 3 is less cheesy.
My top 5 games:
5. Doom (1&2)
4. Quake (1&2)
3. Diablo 2
2. StarCraft
1. Warcraft 3
My Top 5:
1. Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne - Best RTS Game (and sandbox game)
2. Minecraft - Best Building Game
3. Team Fortress 2 - Best FPS Game
4. Plazma Burst 2 - Best 2D Flash Game
5. Killing Floor 2 - Best Zombie Wave Based Game
Same
plazma burst was such a fucking banger
Final Fantasy Tactics, Warcraft 2, Civilization 1, Baldur’s Gate 1, Diablo 1
1. Leauge of legends
2. Warcraft III frozen throne
3. Warlords III (darlords rising)
4. Baldurs gate III
5. Age of emipres II
6. Dungeon siege 2
7. Heroes of might and magic 4
8. Hearthstone Battlegrounds.
9. Civ 6
10. Hearthstone arena
Amazing list
I was scrolling until Warlords 3 was on a someone's list
Warlords 3 DLR nice
Nice video
Dota 2 fan myself
can you make a video talking about how would you improve dota 2?
Fun vid! Can't decide the order, so I'll just throw in my all-time favs:
- WoW Classic/TBC/Wotlk
- Starcraft Brood War
- Starcraft 2
- Dune: Spice Wars
- Diablo 2 LoD
- Warcraft 3 TFT
- HOMM 3-4-5
- Dota & Dota2
- Dune2000
- Emperor: Battle for Dune
- Wildstar
- Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
- Quake3: Arena
- The Stanley Parable
Finally, a couple low budget/roguelite/roguelike/DOS/browser favs: Vampire Survivors, Prosperous Universe, Papers Please, Chants of Sennaar, Urbo, Crimsonland, Dune2, Cryo's Dune, Lotus, Retal, Prehistorik2
Oh, Wildstar... Now it hurts again.
my favourites: SP: single player MP: multi player
1. Rayman 3 [SP - 3D platformer, amazing music and game design just oozes variety-gimmicks and fun easygoing bosses - short fast playthrough]
2. Team Fortress 2 [MP - arena shooter]
3. Super Metroid [ SP - I dont have to tell you this genre it is it's own]
4. Underrail [SP - CRPG]
5. C&C Tiberium Wars [SP] / Kane's Wrath [MP]
Super Metroid is a must for anyone.
@@KeMeEscupaUnPollo and Rayman 3 is just showing why video games are art. And how creative they can be in a variety of ways beyond their main genre. You can race your own shoes in a battle of autoscooter in this game. Especially the land of the livid dead I personally think is the best designed level. That freaking magic tower. The breathtaking harmonic music.
1 - Doom 2 - The first game is massively influential in defining the first person shooter before FPS was a colloquial term. D2 fleshes out the gameplay with excellent additions to the beastiary (Mancubi/Revenant etc.) along with the iconic Super Shotgun. Active modding scene keeping the game very much kicking to this day.
2 - Starcraft: Brood War - Rushed home to log onto battlenet and play custom games day after day with friends from school. Likely a routine many Starcraft owners shared.
3 - Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast - Addicting Star Wars game on the Id Tech 3 engine. Dueling and lightsaber combat peaked imo with Outcast/Academy.
4 - Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne - Ahhh the days of finding Grubby vods on wc3replays and stealing strategies to badly imitate on the ladder. C tier Orc player, S++++ Uther party player. (
#1 - Dota 2
#2 - DotA AllStars
#3 - Defense Of The Ancients
#4 - That game where your carry throws.
#5 - Ogre Magi Midas
#6 - Kill The Roshan
#7 - PA vs Tormentor
#8 - Steal the Wisdom
#9 - Zeus, ult!
#10 - Herald Express
Are these all games?! Number 4 is lol?
They're all DOTA references@@patinho5589
@@patinho5589 nah those are all either DotA2, DotA1, or both
@@patinho5589 this is meant to be a joke comment lol the only game he plays is dota
When I was 10, home computers and Windows 95 became a thing.
There was a magazine called "Computer Gaming World".
There was often a CD with a bunch of little demo versions of upcoming games.
There was a game called "Z" on one of them.
That was the first RTS I ever played.
At 10 years old, I thought it was the coolest game ever.
When SC1 came out, I fell in love.
Shortly after BW came out, I got a 28K modem for and an e-Machines PC with a Celeron processor for Christmas.
BW was the greatest game ever... in extra high latency and all.
My list:
1) StarCraft: Brood War
2) StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void
3) StarCraft
4) StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty
5 ) StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
6) Final Fantasy 7
7) Super Mario RPG
8) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
9) The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
10) Tekken Tag Tournament
Ah man, I loved Super Mario RPG. I don't remember if I could ever beat the last boss or not.
The real feat was beating Jinx, then Culex.
Z was super nice
1 - Halo 3
2 - Stronghold Crusader
3 - Battlefield Bad Company 2
4 - Command and Conquer 1 (actually played that only on the PS1 lol)
5 - Overwatch 1
Honorable mentions: WC3, BFME1, Dota
Too many people sleep on Stronghold, such a great franchise!
Get the C&C steam remake, it's a must. It even has the console missions
@@KeMeEscupaUnPollo I got it a while back but just started playing it, so fun so far :)
Bad Company 2 was peak Battlefield. I wish the same team (or at least the same quality of people) made the recent BF games. The latest one makes me puke. BF V only became a somewhat decent 1.0 by the time they stopped developing it. smh
1. Starcraft II
2. Baldurs gate 2
3. Cyberpunk 2077
4. Anno 1800
5. Warcraft 3 : Frozen Throne
1. Newerwinter Nights
2. World of Warcraft (up to WoD)
3. Dune: Spice wars
Neverwinter Nights gave incredible things to the people. With the expansions sets and the mods it became one of the ultimate "simple but good" games. I also consider it a rather smart game. 💜
1. Dota 2
2. Counter Strike
3. Witcher 3
4. Cities Skylines
5. Warcraft 3
In no particular order(too hard):
The Witcher 3
Diablo (1995)
Heroes of Might and Magic 3
Alex the kid in miracle world
Warcraft 3
Total war warhammer 2
Final Fantasy 8
Tekken 3
Pokemon Silver Gold Crystal
Chronotrigger
1. Starcraft
2. Counterstrike (untill patch 1.6)
3. Command & conquer: Red Alert
4. Top Spin
5. Heartstone
6. Ninja gaiden
7. Fifa '94
8. Tony Hawk 3
My father actually caught me playing C&C Red Alert for 10 hours straight back in 1997, when I was 7 years old. This was so excessive for a child that age, it wasn't even funny. My father was in deep shock and felt very guilty at himself when he realized just how long I played and that he didn't intervene earlier. It never happened again.
@@kooroshrostami27 Nowadays it is about standard that kids spend around 10 hours a day on the ipad. Makes me sad.
Top nostalgia picks that I can't rate objectively today because they were such formative parts of my childhood/adolescence
#1 Warlords: Battlecry
#2 Dungeon Keeper
#3 Dragon Quest Monsters 2
#4 Warcraft 3
#5 Digimon World
5 favorite games of my adult life
#1 Subnautica
#2 The Long Dark
#3 Kenshi
#4 Vermintide
#5 Undertale
Honorable mentions
Dawngate, the actual best MOBA and one of the best games of all time, RIP, I cannot express how much my heart is still broken. Would be top pick if it still existed.
Against the Storm, feels too recent to really call it one of my favorite games of all time but definitely my most recent favorite.
Soulsborne series, because I can't narrow it down to one.
warlords battlecry 3 is amazing and I never see this series get mentioned anywhere so that made me happy
In no particular order:
Warcraft 3
Silent hill 2 (I hate horror games, but this one is too good)
Dune 2/2000 (probably could name most of early WestWood games tbh)
XCOM/UFO
Civilization 2/3/4/5/6
Red Dead Redemption 2
Path of Exile
Dune 2 was amazing.
I begged my parents to buy me a PC because of that game.
I used to have a Commodore 64 up until that point.
Man, we were poor, but I got some dinky used PC and an OLD monochrome monitor that was only able to display different shades of green and whatever and looked more akin to a giant nuclear toaster than a monitor. But was I happy? Yes sir!
Xcom was also amazing. It just had a really shitty progression system and you quickly maxed out everything and life became kinda boring, but as a kid I loved it.
I probably spent a good chunk on my youth on Civ 1 2 3 4. Sadly, 5 and 6 were crap "Civ Light for Idiots". But now that I think about it, maybe it would be a good gateway drug for young my kids.
Top 5 games: Total Annihilation, Warcraft 3 TFT, Terraria, Valheim, Mario 64
Awesome that our tastes are really close. My top 5, off the top of my head, would be:
1. Age of Empires 2
2. X-COM: UFO Defense
3. Heroes of Might and Magic 3
4. Kingdom Hearts 2
5. Mega-Bomberman (Sega)
Honorable Mentions: LOTR: Shadow of War, Neverwinter Nights 2, Twisted Metal 2, Starcraft: Brood War, X-COM 2, Diablo 2, Age of Empires 4, Shining Force.
Heroes of the Storm was by far my favorite MOBA. Loved playing TLV.
TLV is great fun, just either super underpowered or as a last pick super overpowered (depending on the map, in the metas I played in)
1. Heroes 3- all versions including the new mods
2. Dota- the original scenario in warcraft 3 and Dota 2
3. Warcraft 3- playing the campaing as well as multiplayer and mostly all the custom maps
4. Star Wars KOTOR
5. Arcanum
6. Fallout- the whole serries
7. Diablo 2
8. Baldur's Gate - the whole serries 1,2,3
9. Neverwinter nights - 1,2
10. Mortal combat 2
Honorable mentions-
Battle realms (2001)
and my first RTS- Dune 2 (1992)
1. Best game in the entire world is 100% Warcraft 3. Not just because I got it when i was only 5 years old and played the campaign 200 times in the span of a year. It is objectively the best game because whatever game ever existed outside of it can be found within its custom maps. You like playing WoW? There is a custom map. Like playing RPG games like Divinity Original Sin and Baldurs Gate? There is a custom map. Like playing among us? There is a custom map. Like playing survivor type games? There is a custom map. Literaly everything is there. Not even gonna mention the custom campaigns specifically The Chosen Ones. To this day the best D&D experience I have ever played. WC3 is peak of gaming. Everything after that is just an extention.
2. I love Dragon Age Origin for its writing. The best writing in the genre by far even comapred to its sequels.
3. Bioshock trilogy is the best FPS by far thanks to its increadible story and plot twists which encompass every sigle game you have ever played as well as the real life.
4. I guess its time for some honorable mentions which include CS 1.6 and Dota 2 as well as the all time classics which took thousands of hours of my time like the Ensembles: Age of Mythology (yes, over the AoE ones); Sid Meiers Civilization too. Divinity Original Sin changed its genre for a time as well. And there is this one indie game called Pyre which is to this day the only game I gave 10/10 raiting.
1# World of Warcraft
- Before this WcIII was on number one. I was super caught in the lore at this time i couldnt believ my eyes making my first steps in Azeroth. Later i got into progress raiding which was the second enlightment and the third was mythic+. In Addition the pet system in WoW was the better Pokemon in my Opinion which was also a lot of fun. There is just so much to do in this game its crazy.
#2 Warcraft III tft
- I play ladder from time to time but what really caught me is the campaign and of course the custom scene. At the moment this is the only game iam still playing. Sometimes i scroll through the custom lobbys and cant believe that i still find new and exiting mods i havent played yet. Btw you mentioned unit voicelines, i remembering times when you click one or two times more than necessary on a unit , hearing a line you never heard before ... its just a small detail that shows the love and dedication went into this game
#3 Halo 1
- first shooter and first non-handheld game i ever played. Fantastic story and also a super cool custom mod scene and the first time i played online against other real people.I remembering snkeaking to my neighbour to play this over and over because i was like 11 or 12 back than ^^
#4 Pokemon Heart Gold
- after playing the earlier Pokemons on Gameboy Calour this blew me away. I spent so much time in this game to fill the Pokedex. I had no Internet back than and therefore the secrets in this game were really secrets.
#5 Diablo III RoS
-its the same story evrytime a season starts, level up kill bad demons repeat. Sounds fucking boring but it is so fucking enjoyable to slice throught endless amounts of monsters over and over.
Havent found any other Hack and Slay that transports this felling , including Diablo 4.
1. World of Warcraft
2. Football Manager (Championship manager) series (starting with CM 93/94).
3. Quake 1-2, Doom 1-2
4. Warcraft 3 / Starcraft 2
5. Goldeneye
I used to win small time Quake 1 championships as a kid. I had a heavily modded Quake installation with bots. My cousin was 7 years older and they named and textured the bots after their teachers in high school and they would print some custom message if you killed them or if they killed you. It was awesome.
Almost 30 years later, lol, I could probably still play the campaign with eyes closed.
I find lists can vary wildly if you go "best" or "favorite" or "most played" or "most childhood bias"... so to avoid a generic list full of Worlds of Warcrafts, Frozen Thrones, Leagues of Legends, Battlefields, and such, here is instead a list of my most UNIQUE and/or criminally UNDERRATED games ever:
- Sacrifice (2000)
- Dungeon Keeper 2 (1999)
- Silver (1999)
- Ground Control (2000) (or a spiritual successor like World in Conflict or Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak)
- Ultimate General: Civil War (2017)
- Northgard (2018)
- Anno 1404 Venice as a cutthroat PvP multiplayer game instead of a chill, casual city builder (2010)
- Cossacks 2 (2005)
- Helldivers (2015)
- Highfleet (2021)
That's a good angle at it!
I double the Northgard take (and the recent Dune Spice Wars too), and from myself I wanna add:
- Super Monday Night Combat - the perfect hybrid between moba and shooter that we all deserved
- Battlerite - the perfect controls and feeling for a top-down arena-like game, way more enjoyable than mobas to me. High skill, high pace combat and nothing else
- Battleborn - the actual good hero shooter with actual hero customization and meta game, and (shocker) a functional coop PVE campaign... which died only because it launched too close to Overwatch and could not compete with Blizzard's marketing and, ahem, power of fanservice
@@eldrevo I am actually surprised at myself by how disinterested I was about Dune SW considering how much I loved Nortghard though to be fair, didn´t give it much of a chance.
Agree on Battlerite, could have easily been on my list. The best bits of mobas without the worse bits of mobas, all condensed in a quick and intense, and still deep and strategic game. Somehow I played a lot of it but didn´t have much of a lasting appeal.
Haven´t played the other two.
1. Ultima Online
2. Track Mania
3. Solder of Fortune Double Helix.
4. Starcraft 2
4. Hearthstone
5. League of Legends
6. D2
7. D3
8. Overwatch
9. Terraria
10. Skyrim
cant believe i see soldier of fortune enjoyer. For me its the first game from 2000.
Great list Grubby! I absolutely second your take on AoW:planetfall, such a deep, strategic and tactical game that probably only suffers from a lack of popularity, just because it doesn't feature the classic fantasy setting of the original series. As for the Heroes of M&M series, yeah, I'm one of those guys claiming that 5 is the best, even though I consider part 3 to be a close second. I recently picked up Warcraft3 again and having a lot of fun with it, although my personal top 5 would be *1. Hearts of Iron 4 *2. Civilization 6 *3. Hearthstone (mostly Battlegrounds) *4. Nova Drift 5. Supreme Commander Forged Alliance
It was a special time when you’d log in and there was a new version of Defense of the Ancients out and you had to download it upon joining the game.
Thanks for the excellent overview! My top 5:
1 - Deus Ex
2 - Freespace 2
3 - Radiant Silvergun
4 - Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (especially the FAF multiplayer)
5 - Quakeworld
Team FAF represent!
@@txdmsk FAF is an absolute blast, and the devs keep improving it. Team games are especially fun!
Awesome that you have HoMaM3 on your top 10 list, a bit sad it's so low on the ranking though. ;)
My top 5 Games:
1. Warcraft 3
2. Sekiro
3. Red Dead Redemption 2
4. Heroes of Might and Magic 3
5. World of Warcraft
Edit: One game that i'd love for you to try is 'Battle Realms' if you haven't already. One of the great RTS games I played growing up. Love your content Grubby!
Floppy Disk Handler😅
1. Starcraft
2. WoW
3. Zelda:OoT
4. Final Fantasy 7
5. WC3/DotA
6. Final Fantasy 14
7. Final Fantasy 10
8. Elden Ring
9. The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion
10. Mount and Blade: Warband
1. Dota 2
2. Slay the Spire
3. Hades
4. Minecraft
5. Rollercoaster Tycoon 2
4 and 5 are mostly childhood nostalgia, but it still feels great revisiting them from time to time
1. Path of Exile - simply best game ever made
2. Civilization 5 - the only turned based strategy I played and it makes a solid top 2
3. Dark Souls - the most well crafted world design, satisfying and challenging combat, immersive world and underlying philosophy that intertwines with the gameplay in a one-of-a-kind fashion
4. Skyrim - one of the most immersive worlds out there. Great replayability, hilarious bugs, greatest modding community
5. Rimworld HSK - no, not vanilla, but the modpack that changes the game to the core. Depth and complexity, endless variety of situations and problems, customization of experience, simply amazing
Honorable mentions: Crysis, CoD MW2, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Starcraft 2, TrackMania SE & NF, NFS Carbon & MW, Mount and Blade: Warband, Warframe, Factorio
Nice selection Grubby, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
1. quake
2. halo
3. Unreal Tournament 99
4. Brood War
5. Morrowind
6. Ninja Gaiden Black
7. Advance Wars
8. Counter Strike 1.6
9. Link to the Past
10. Final Fantasy 1
1) Red alert 2
2) Seven Kingdoms 2
3) Warcraft 2 and 3
4) Starcraft 1 and 2
5) Tiberium Sun
Oh, Red Alert 2, this and Diablo 2 was a good half of my childhood
Favorite games are Xenogears, Starcraft 1, Deus Ex, FFVII. I consider Starcraft 1 the greatest video game ever made. Heroes like Tassadar were friggin' heroic and when they spoke, you listened. Same with Zeratul. Even the villains. Kerrigan was kinda cheesy sure, but Duran and the Overmind...chills. You got to play as legitimate bad guys who weren't just "misunderstood."
It's one where you stayed up late reading the booklet that came in the box. You read about this thing called the ultralisk, and you had to have it. Then you read about the carrier...and you were like, "It's the big ship of the strongest race and it can't attack?" But after you saw multiple carriers in action...your life changed.
In time, you didn't need cheat codes to beat the campaign, and you noticed something: twenty siege tanks making an impassable zone of exploding death is even more fun than carriers. Best personality too.
En Taro Tassadar, Executor
Top 5!
1. Final Fantasy 6
2. Final Fantasy Tactics
3. Diablo 2
4. StarCraft: Brood War
5. Icarus
1. Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne.
2. Diablo 2 LoD
3. WoW Wotlk
4. Rome Total War 2
5. Empire Earth 1
First of all, thank you for all these years of great moments!
So, the list:
1. Magic: The Gathering
2. Warcraft III Frozen Throne
3. Dota 2 (I don't play anymore, same motive)
4. Guild Wars 2 (BEST community ever of everything by muuuuch far, you should really try)
5. Tibia (I don't play anymore, same of Dota 2 plus the decisions made by Cipsoft)
6. Chess
There is no other games that make me feel like these ones.
Ohhhhhh MTG. MTG:A as well or just the card game?
@@GrubbyTalks Do you have any experience with mtg? Even in school? If not, I strongly recommend based on your tastes and points of view. It's the best and most complex/complete game ever. I mean the paper mtg. If you looking for games to stream, nowdays theres a lot of ways to stream paper mtg. And there is non official plataforms like Untap where you still can play ""like"" paper without any restriction or addicional costs.
MTG Arena is a great way to start, but is not the same game for many factors. The principal to me, is the game is totaly automatic, so you don't need to keep checking your triggers, and this is not the real game, the program doing everything for you. The most fun thing in mtg is exactaly express your creativity despite all the restrictions of the rules, game state, momentum and others players creativity, and this is truly possible only when you became to understand the subtlety of the game - and there's a lot for good eyes like yours.
Ps.: MTG is a path without return. Be careful. xD
Ps²: Almost forgot, but, I doubt you don't have good friends that play paper mtg, call they and enjoy some great time just for fun. Who knows? Maybe you will find a lucky surprise.
My list:
1. Dota 2
2. TES 3 Morrowind
3. Heroes 3
4. Starcraft Broodwar
5. Slay the Spire
Of course, it's hard to make such a list, and there are many, many games that could've made the list.
Will keep the list to strategies.
1. Heroes of M&M IV (all of it)
2. Dota (Warcraft 3 versions 6.x, Icefrog)
3. Red Alert 3 (& Uprising)
4. Heroes of M&M III (specially Chronicles)
5. Rise of Nations (original)
6. Red Alert 2 (Yuri exp., mods like Reborn)
7. Age of Empires 2 (Forgotten Empires fave and before, latest editions created too weird nation perks)
8. Age of Mythology (original)
9. Warcraft 3 TFT & ROC (Countless legendary custom maps, melee, never really liked the upkeep mechanic, but I respected the challenge it brought to the RTS genre ... is actually place 2 just for Dota but this is the only game I respect so much that it deserves an additional place on this list alongside one of it's maps)
10. Warlords Battlecry 1-3 (if you or anyone else loved the HoMM music and ambient overall, you should at least like this one as well)
My first Blizz experience in strategies was Warcraft 3, so I could never find much love for the previous instalments and Starcraft as they felt like a downgrade.
Honorable mentions
- Anno 1602 (one of the most relaxing experiences)
- Emperor Rise of the Middle Kingdom (short and fun, liked the ambient)
- Dungeon Keeper 2 (fun, great thematic design, think it will remain an evergreen in that regard)
- Army Men (great campaign and theme is on point)
- Dark Planet: Battle for Natrolis (had some frame rate issues, other than that I loved it, 3 races fantasy RTS)
- C&C Generals (regular and even more so Zero Hour)
- Heroes of Newerth (if Icefrog didn't leave ... where would it be ...)
- Dota 2 (probably something better than this :P) P.S. I love Valve games: Half Life series, CStrike, Team Fortress 1 and 2, Portal, L4Dead, numerous others, love Dota 2 as well, just feel like it could've been better with a bit of a different approach ... wish Gabe could learn how to count to three but that's a whole other story
(edited: cos I forgot about Rise of Nations)
Hey Grubby, a game I’d really love to see you play is an old ps2 game that’s since been re-released on steam called ‘Army Men RTS’. This was the first game my parents ever bought for me and to say I played it religiously would be an understatement. Given your experience with strategy games, I’d really love to hear your thoughts on a game that essentially defined my childhood!
Ok, here's the list. Skipped W3 for a reason - is well knowned on this channel. Those 5 games would be maybe not my best, but every one of them has a special reason to be presented. Here we go:
5. The Chronicles of Myrthana: Archolos - today I'm not that big Gothic fan, but this is an example, how fan-maded content can surpass oryginal. App. 110 h of playing, made by hearth from fandom for fandom.
4. Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - probably 3 is better, but this one's role of building my love not only for games but for fantasy as well. Atmosphere of the game was just one word: 'MAGIC'.
3. Dark Forcess 2: Jedi Knight - in the childhood, this game was that same canon and importance for me like the Old Trilogy of Star Wars. Kyle Katarn was hero like Luke, Jerec dangerous enemy like Vader. When I replayed two years ago realized, how they felt the climat of Star Wars, and how they tried to do something interesting with FPS. Climat of agent in space, ventilation shafts sneaking, secret bases, star ships. Small resources and big dreams.
2. Diablo 2 Lord of Destruction - first time I saw the game, early 2000's and reaction was "OMG, the graphics is like real life!". :D Today unbelievable, but the climat, clarity, dynamic, design of monsters, weapons, magic, it kept my soul and is immortal even today (still can practice hardcore mode on single).
1. Planescape: Torment - if any game changed myself, it would be definitely that one. Storytelling masterpiece. In final moments You can realize how every part of game was one puzzle in the bigger picture. Game forcing You to face moral and existential questions about Your nature. I'm kind of evangelist of this game, feel obligated to presented, why should be more legendary than it's cousin - Baldur's Gate :)
May the games magic be with us all!
Top 5 most memorable games for me in no particular order are:
Brute Force
Total Annihilation: Kingdoms
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II
Age of Wonders II
Stronghold
My brother and I always wanted to play Stronghold. But for some reason we couldn't find the game!
@@GrubbyTalks Getting a physical copy of any lesser known games was hard. They'd either sell out and you didn't know it existed, stay on the shelf for a few visits and decide to give it a try, or the store would just have one copy being at the right place right time.
I always have a hard time comparing video games to board/card games unless they have some notable similarities, like comparing Slay the Spire to Ascension.
Video Games
1) Hades
2) Slay the Spire
3) Sekiro
4) Bloodborne
5) XCOM 2
6) Elden Ring
Board/Card Games
1) BattleCON
2) Mage Wars
3) Race for the Galaxy
4) Mage Knight
5) Marvel Champions
Honorable mention: Puzzle Strike
Mostly ordered by number of hours played:
1) Dota 2
2) Halo 2
3) Heroes of Newerth
4) Diablo 2: LoD
5) Warcraft 3: TFT
Some other honorable mentions: Elden Ring, Halo 3, World of Warcraft: BC (when it originally released in Jan 2007), Counter Strike (played all significant versions since 1.6), civ 5, morrowind, skyrim, and some others I'm probably forgetting
1) Dota 2 3) HoN (Dota) 5) Wc3:TFT (Dota) 😏
@@spyfire242 my favorite thing in BC was 5v5 arena. I was very annoyed how 5s wasn't taken seriously at least on my server and the first two seasons of arena we went ~90-5 and then couldn't find matches anymore (we would sit in queue for hours at peak hours with no match multiple days a week). 2s/3s felt like rock paper scissors once you got good enough. 5s has the most possibility of variation in strategy, requires the most coordination & teamplay.
Someone invited me to closed beta of Hon and it scratched that same itch as arena (and did a better job of it) so I continued down the moba path. I only played Dota 1 a handful of times. It was definitely in my custom map rotation at one point but I think I played at most 100 games of it.
I should've also included brood war in the honorable mentions.
I used to be a really high rating HoN player like 15 years ago, lol. Although I never took the game seriously. I really loved some of the character designs and skins. I wonder if my account still exists with the unlocks and stats and everything. It was a much better game than Dota 2 back then.
1. Warcaft 3
2. Super Smash Bros Melee
3. Halo 2
4. Diablo 2
5. Starcraft 2
6. Terraria
7. Dota 2
8. Noita
9. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
10. Ninja Gaiden Black
1. World of Warcraft (Vanilla, TBC, WoTLK)
2. Dota 2
3. Team Fortress 2
4. Warcraft 3
5. Counter Strike / Brood War tied. They were my first online multiplayer games
GREAT LIST! Had some good overlap with your gaming experiences.
You definitely need to add Darkest Dungeon to your list of games to play in the future.
And if you’ve never played Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, or Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic the original, you definitely should take a look as well. And Freelancer which is a a gem, not often enough spoken about. All great story telling games.
And a new game I loved, Rebels Inc. Escalation, is also definitely worth a look.
Big fan. Keep up the entertainment work. You’re a cool guy. Truly.
P.S. Have you ever played Dungeon Keeper? The original and second game? As far as strategy goes, it was such a unique experience back in the day.
Age of Mythology?
Freelancer! Such a gem. Microsoft developed or publishes not many games but those rare games are such gems! Dunno if it changes anything but ye can always vote on the requested freelancer GOG port.
My favourite multiplayer games of all time.(on PC)
1.Dota (1&2)
2. Counter-strike (1,3)
3.Aoe(1&2)
4.Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne
5. Star Wars Jk: Jedi Academy
6. Mordhau
7.Command and Conquer Red Alert
8. Settlers (1-4)
9.Knights and merchants
Mordhau looks awesome
Ha, did not expect Knights and merchants to pop up. It was a great game.
Settlers 1-4 are also amazing. I played some S4 games last year, maybe I will play some more. I wish its game design flaws were fixed, it would be an amazing game even in 2024 as an adult. The meta of having only 1 cluster of forts to defend, and one stack of doom troops to fight with is somewhat stale.
Played the Knights & Merchants demo as a kid for literal months. One of the most memorable "off brand" city builderish strategy games.
KaM remake got me to play the full game as an adult. Could still sink so many hours into it. Takes a lot of time for one map, but something about it just makes that time fly by. Had to get the classic balance patch for it though; the reworks done by the remake team made it extremely difficult to the point I couldn't even beat a certain mission after days of trying!
Also have fond memory of the older Settlers games. Shame the newer ones went off the rails.
Honestly gameplay wise I never got into the RTS genre but I have such fond memories watching my older brother play Blizzard games that they're in some sort of top 10 for me. I watched him play the entirety of Starcraft, Brood War, SC2, and Warcraft 3. WC3 was especially interesting for me because it felt the most unique; I used to play Command and Conquer and had a lot of fun with it, but WC3 has the hero units, neutral creeps, items, and more factions than most RTS games that made it stand out the most to me as a kid.
Maybe someday I'll try learning how to play an RTS competitively, but whether or not I do WC3 will always have a place in my heart as a timeless classic.
I have a really hard time creating a top 10 list and not a top 80 list or something, but if I had to, then my 10 favourite games:
1.) Fallout 2
2.) Warcraft III (Mainly the World Editor and custom games)
3.) Heroes of the Storm
4.) Quake
5.) Imperium Galactica II
6.) Mass Effect
7.) Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever
8.) World of Warcraft
9.) Warcraft II
10.) Civilization IV (Modded)
10.) Starcraft: BW
10.) Diablo: Hellfire
10.) Heroes of Might and Magic III
10.) Dungeon Keeper
10.) Command & Conquer: Red Alert
No matter how you look at it, this is a top 10 list!
...Yeah, I ended up cheating.
Very RTS and high fantasy heavy! Mine is:
1. SC2
2. Metal gear solid 2
3. Hollow Knight
4. WC3
5. Half Life
6. Final Fantasy X
7. DOOM Eternal
8. Silent Hill 3
9. Nier Automata
10. Last of Us 1
Would also put Devil may cry and bioshock as honorable mention
My preferences reveal themselvse! Heard good things about Nier Automata
#1 OldSchool RuneScape
#2 Dota
#3 Roller Coster Tycoon
#4 Loop Hero
#5 Among us
Honorable mention: Towerfall Ascention when played with friends or family together on the spot.
Also favourite game/e-sport to watch: StarCraft II
1- Path of exile
2- Killing floor 2 (coop)
3- Payday 2 (coop)
4- Crash team racing (ps 1)
5- Warcraft 3
6- Resident evil 4
7- Old star wars battlefront 2 (ps 2)
8- Left 4 dead (1)- (coop)
9- hitman blood and money - ps 2
10- Black - ps 2
Honorable mentions:
11- new star wars battlefront 2
12- Spyro the dragon (ps1)
13- Grim dawn
14- Resident evil 3- ps 1
15- counter strike 1.6
16- resident evil 5 (coop)
17- Rainbow six Vegas 2 (coop)
18-spartan total warrior -ps 2
19-Theme hospital (old version)
20-Battlefield 1942
Others:
21- Bioshock saga
22- Skyrim
23- dota 2
24- dota 1
Someone else with CTR in their list, nice!
Ah man. Theme Hospital was AMAZING.
The new "Two Point Hospital" is not bad either. Give it a try if you haven't yet.
@@txdmsk Thanks for the tip! I bought two point hospital a few years ago. Also enjoyed it, but not as much as the original.
1. Thief TDP
2. Jagged Alliance 2 with 1.13 mod
3. Deus Ex
4. Might and Magic 6-8 (the RPGs not the strategy ones)
5. Broken Sword
Not gonna rank BW and SC2 or HoMM3. For me they are in a league of their own.
My top 5 ever:
1 - SC2
2 - Ark Survival Evolved
3 - Warcraft 3
4 - Skyrim
5 - GTA V
Ranking games is a bit silly for me but I guess if I have to I might put these 5 as my top favorites:
Faeria - Turn Based Strategy (great blend of gaming genres)
Monster Sanctuary - RPG (lots of choices for party members)
MagiCat - Platforming (lots of combat, lots of optional challenges)
Saga Frontier - RPG (a good sci-fi game that has several single player campaigns, I recommend the Remastered version)
Heroes of the Storm - Multiplayer (memories of characters mixed with quick and fun gameplay)
After that it gets harder to add games but I definitely enjoyed a lot:
Lightning Returns:FF13 - RPG (if you enjoyed Starcraft's music you might also enjoy this game's music, and the earlier FF13 games also had great music!)
Super Mario Maker 2 - Platforming/Creative (the main reason I bought a Nintendo Switch)
LeveLHead - Platforming/Creative (a sci-fi version of SMM2, they also do much different from eachother for creative options)
Cosmic Star Heroine - RPG (a good sci-fi game that is very unique for turn based combat)
Bravely Default 2 - RPG (a fantastic blend of Final Fantasy story tropes and a great set of side quests with many build options, it's like a greatest hits of older FF games)
Honestly there are other really good games that arguably deserve to be in top 10, such as:
Warcraft 3:TFT / Starcraft:BW - Campaign / Multiplayer (for obvious reasons)
Triangle Strategy - Turn Based Strategy (for having a better story than any other RPG I've ever played)
Final Fantasy VIII - RPG (for just being great to explore)
Threads of Fate / Dewprism (same game) - ARPG (for being years ahead of its time)
I wouldn't add Dota 2 or League of Legends because the matchmaking system has always felt corrupted to me. I could replace them with Hearthstone or Shadowverse but let's be honest I don't like those games that much. Instead I'll put in a game for top 15th that I only played for less than 5 hours( I don't want to get addicted to another card game).
Creatures of Aether - Cards (it does what FFVIII did for a card game, but much better)
I think its bit sad Faeria never found a real sucess...imho its a better and more strategic game than Hearthstone
1 - Super Smash Bros 64 (any of them really)
2 - Heroes of the Storm (HOTS)
3 - World of Warcraft
4 - Team Fortress 2
5 - Heroes of Might and Magic 4
6 - Command and Conquer Generals Zero Hour
7 - Need for Speed Underground 2
8 - Tony Hawk Pro Skater
9 - Pokemon Blue (gameboy color)
10 - P.N. 03
Honorable mentions: Halo, Super monkey ball, Pokemon Stadium, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2, James Bond, Mario Kart, Diddy Kong Racing, Elden Ring
Viper should do the same thing ! Fun concept.
Hey Grubby, based on the bottom part of your top 10, I think you would really enjoy "SpellForce: Conquest of Eo". It's a great single player game that mixes RPG and 4X elements on a static story-based map. It's not very popular so i doubt it will come up on sub-sunday. Good luck on your Elden Ring journey!
Loved it! Top 5 games is hard, but without putting too much thought into it, here goes, in no particular order: Tibia, Heroes of the Storm, Faeria, Dota Underlords
It's only 4 games, bro. I feel cheated.
1. WarCraft 3 (obviously)
2. DotA (1, the funmap)
3. Age of Mythology
4. Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
5. Hearthstone (all modes tbh)
Honorable mentions: Elden Ring, BG3, Morrowind, Desperados, Pokemon Silver, both StarCrafts, Tekken 3, Age of Empires 4, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
World in Conflict is a RTS/RT-Tactics Masterpiece that everybody should try, even though its about 15 years old now. It aged great and has one of the best campaigns and a great multiplayer (that sadly just works on low pop community servers now)
My Top 5 Favourite Games of All Time [non-chronological order]:
BioShock
Condemned - Criminal Origins
DOOM II - Hell on Earth
Wolfenstein [2009]
WarCraft III - The Frozen Throne
1. Warcraft 3
2. Titanfall 2
3. Skyrim
4. Rome: Total War
5. Age of Mythology
6. Call of Duty Black Ops 2
7. Zoo Tycoon 2
8. Dungeon Seige
9. Fable The Lost Chapters
10. Doom Eternal
Honorable mentions: Elden Ring, Age of Empires 4, Starcraft 1, Destiny 1, Minecraft, portal 2, half-life 2
Good list grubby, thanks for the video
You preferred dungeon siege 1 over 2? That’s a rare opinion to have.
@@anoobplays386 i grew up on it and loved playing it with my dad. 2 didnt feel the same. I liked the locations and characters less and you couldnt have as many in your party for the beatdown so it wasnt as fun.
@@anoobplays386
Dungeon Siege 1 was much better than 2. My cousins and I loved that game and pretty much grew up with it, lol
Zoo Tycoon 2
Dungeon Seige
Half Life 2
Nice ones yep I also preffered 2 over 1
1. Gothic 1-2
2. Warcraft 3 (mostly customs!)
3. NFS MostWanted
4. Prime World
5. Can't decide between Path of Diablo (Diablo 2 mod) and Lies of P.
These are my top 10 games, but not in a particular order.
-Crash Bandicoot 2
-Red Alert 2
-Heroes of Might and Magic III
-Tiberium Wars
-Half-Life 2
-Left 4 Dead 2
-Team Fortress 2
-Guild Wars 2
-Minecraft
-Dota 2
1. Factorio
2. Ratropolis (a mix of Slay the Spire and Kingdom, but more fun in my opinion)
3. RimWorld
4. Hearthstone
5. CrossCode (among many indie adventures this one has exceptional quality and storyline)
6. Crimsonland
7. Morrowind
8. Silent Hill 2
9. Renowned Explorers: International Society (the only game I'm aware of where speaking friendly to the enemy and convincing them is a part battle mechanics)
10. Age of Wonders 1 (I like the first part the most, it does not have 4X strategy elements, but has the most focus on individual units in the series)
Close to the top: Dungeon Keeper 2, Terraria, UFO: Enemy Unknown (original game from 1994), WarCraft 2 (I didn't learn how to play it properly, but still like it), Perimeter (quite obscure and unconventional RTS).
Dungeon Keeper 1, Diablo 2, Starcraft Brood War, Commandos 1, Warhammer 40k Dawn of War
1. Dota 2 = Elden Ring. Despite the fact that I have been playing Dota then Dota 2 for over 16 years, Elden Ring is truly out of this world. My heart would say Dota 2, but my mind would bend towards ER. Really can't make a decision on the 1st place.
2. Baldur's gate 3
3. Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne
4. Sekiro
5. Bloodborne
6. Total war: Three kingdoms
7. Dark souls 3
8. God of War
9. Total war: Warhammer 2
10. Pokemon Fire Red
Honorable mention to Der Langrisser, Fire Emblem Franchise and Pokemon Franchise :D.
Anyway great list Grubby, many of games on your list are also my favorite as they are my childhood. And you are too. Keep it up champ!
I can't decide how would I rank my favorite games so I will throw some of the most memorable and impactful games that I have played chronologically.
Tetris, Red Alert 1(PC), Warhammer: Dark Omen(PS1)
Mario Kart(N64), Goldeneye(N64), FIFA 98 RTWC(PC), StarCraft: Brood War, Heroes of M&M 3, Fallout 1
Warcraft 3:TFT, Half-Life, Counterstrike, Diablo 2, StarWars: KOTOR, World of Warcraft:TBC
League of Legends, Hearthstone, Civilization 5
#5 Chess
For me chess it’s a video game, I can’t remember when was the last time I touched a real pawn, but everyday I will fire up five or ten blitz games. Chess is exciting, it’s fast, it’s all about thinking quickly, outsmarting opponents and being vigilant, never dropping your guard. I think it’s a perfect game for any RTS lover. It has it all: learning builds, punishing greedy developing, answering threats and setting traps.
#4 Magic The Gathering: Arena
I’ve been playing mtg since middle school and I just love how junky and funny the game can get, I love understanding it on the deeper level, wielding rules like magic itself to bend the game and do really strange things. I have never payed a dime for Arena and I’m getting to the top mystic ranks every season, because the game rewards good players with tons of cards.
#3 Morrowind
This game is the one closest to my heart, I sadly did every single quest, visited every place, talked to every npc. I love the unique atmosphere, the secret lore, and how easy and fun it is to abuse its mechanics. The game is not scared to give you incredibly powerful tools and you can really feel like a god, traveling from city to city with a single jump, throwing ten fireballs per second and running faster than the game can load.
#2 Star Craft II
I haven’t played in years but I still think about SC with lots of love. No other game, not even chess, gave me that much of the feeling that sky is the limit, that I can learn for ever and get better in every single aspect of the game. I treated it really seriously, analysed tons of my games and always believed the results come only from skill, not luck, so I never ever got tilted. Never got to very top ranks so my diamond perspective has to be more rosy than yours.
#1 Dwarf Fortress
For me this game goes beyond what all other video games are. It’s like from another universe, where game development went totally different way. It is incredibly detailed, no other game can come close. But it’s hard to play, not because of the skill requirements, but because you need to be able to see it properly, to build your own narration. To treat your dwarfs like heroes of the book, to follow their actions and over interpret everything, finding little details that add up to a story that could never be created using different tools. Many people lack this ability and miss out on how invested you can become in the life of your dwarfs.
1. Dota 2
(I never had much interest in multiplayer games. I was always digging RPGs, Plattformers and later Roguelites. Dota 2 just blew me away though. A billion games challenge you, but the way Dota does just speaks to me.)
2. Final Fantasy X
(Wonderful characters, world & battle system as well as a creative, extremely satisfying and free leveling system. Plus, it has the best "minigame" I ever played in RPGs)
3. Witcher 3
(Nowadays, it would be consider a quadruple A game. ^^ It appeared and quickly became THE archetype for how a RPG should look like. Plus, Blood & Wine is the best DLC I have ever seen. The story & characters are amazing and as many probably can agree, it is so satisfying to witness a story that places trust in the viewers intelligence to understand and appreciate what's happening without the need to be blunt.)
4. Super Mario 64
(Oh, the countless hours lil' old me spend searching every nook and cranny for another secret of the castle. The game is heavily carried by it's nostalgia, it is not nearly as good as the above. But I have many vivid memories of it and how it stimulated my problem solving skills and creativity as a little boy.)
5. Minecraft
(For the wonderful time I spent with my little brother. The game itself doesn't speak to me too much and I still spend a lot of time full of love and mutual respect with my brother. But our Minecraft times had an unmatched frequency and remembering how he radiated joy of spending the time with me in this game still warms my heart.)
1. Space rangers: a war apart
2. Mass effect series
3. Dota 2
4. Starcraft II
5. Gothic 1-2
Заметил, что в коммьюнити Грабби много русских, интересно) Может потому что у нас было очень активное коммьюнити в варкрафте 3?
@@georgeousguy hola
@@georgeousguy я помню диски из "игромании" с реплеями Грабби, в школьные годы смотрел )). Может нас таких много было. Ну и да, варик популярен был очень, в клубах рубились только в путь.
Fantasy empires was such a awesome game! Used to coop in 4 people.
Lord's of the Realm 2 was highly underrated. And old school Kings Quest games were awesome!
1. Against the storm
2. DotA2
3. Dragon Age : Origins
4. Anno 1404
5. Sunless Skies
I also love DA:O. Haven’t played the others. Have played lots of league of legends.. lots.. most addictive game for me..but not in my top 100… I just can’t say I enjoy it.! Weird!
1. Dota 2
2. Path of Exile
3. Elden ring
4. Baldur's Gate 3
5. Witcher 3
I'd love to see Grubby go back in time and play Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter. You can get free plugins for Myth 2 that allow you to play the TFL campaign missions in the much improved Myth 2 engine.
That ending was amazing 😂My top 5:
1. Warcraft 3
2. Slay the Spire
3. Heroes of Might and Magic 3
4. Total Annihilation
5. Diablo
Anno 1503, EE AoC, C&C Generals, Counterstrike 1.6, HoMM3, Monkey Island 1-3, WOW (TBC), Diablo 2 & Baldurs Gate 2
This one is tough... I don't think anything except Dota 1x6 are really massive jumps in my enjoyment of the game. My biggest metric is replayability value.
1. Dota 1x6 (Dota arcade mode)
2. Fallout: New Vegas (with modding)
3. Darkest Dungeon (soon to be modded after I beat the game on hardest difficulty)
4. FTL (with modding)
5. Baldur's Gate 3 (when I get back into it, probably going to mod it too)
You can probably tell I really enjoy modded games and just user content in general xD I may soon get into Darkest Dungeon mods also such as Black Reliquary but I just want to complete the vanilla game on hardest difficulty first.
I can't really put BG3 here with the most confidence since I am waiting for an enhanced edition to get back into playing it as I have only gone through Act 1 and most of Act 2 and have yet to touch Act 3 but I know its got that same Fallout: New Vegas vibe. BG3 also is going to soon have a map editor, more modding support so the well of enjoyment to get out of that game is endless. Maybe if Hearthstone did not try to suck the player of all their time or force them to use microtransactions to play the game I would put it at 5 which may make it the only non-moddable game on here. Or maybe The Binding of Isaac which also has modding support.
5: Gnomoria (similar to Populous that you don't control the characters directly)
4: The Binding of Isaac + DLC (fav roguelite, haven't tried StS yet :D)
3: OpenTTD (haven't tried Factorio yet :D)
2: The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
1: Golden Sun 1&2 (Was originally supposed to be 1 game, but the GBA cartridge didn't have enough capacity. Would love if there was a fantasy book series released with this game's story)
That's an interesting list. I like the same genre games, but Gnomoria confuses me a bit as #5, because it was abandonned by its developer and does not feel finished. I would put Rimworld as my #1, which is the same genre, but you feel a lot more effort and love from the dev, although in general I also prefer a fantasy setting over sci fi. Still, I would even rate Dwarf Fortress higher than Gnomoria. The other ones are really good games, no doubt about it.
@@Jashinthegiant DF just didn't hook me like that yet, once I'd learn the game, I'm sure it would be amazing. I started playing Gnomoria when it was still being actively developed and I loved it as an unfinished game already. Probably helped that I was following some Let's Players (Danger and Aavak) thanks to whom I didn't have to put any effort into learning the game. Luckily I never had any horror stories with savegames or bugs.