{"id":2095,"date":"2009-11-24T16:12:39","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T00:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2009-11-24T16:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T00:29:58","slug":"top-ten-favorite-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2009\/11\/top-ten-favorite-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Favorite Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Industry Gamers asked Cliff Bleszinski<\/a> about his top ten games. Nick Chester linked to the interview and posed the same question<\/a> to Destructoid readers (with a bunch of Dtoid staffer and community answers in the comments). Here are my favorites, in no particular order:<\/p>\n

Rez HD<\/strong>
\nOkay, the rest<\/em> are in no particular order, but Rez<\/strong> sits firmly at the top with its perfect mixture of simplicity and depth. Whenever I want to just zone out and play a game, this is the game I go to.<\/p>\n

Mail Order Monsters<\/strong>
\nProbably the first game to really hook<\/em> me, and a franchise I’d love to revisit as a designer. I still have a handful of monster disks around here somewhere.<\/p>\n

Myth: The Fallen Lords<\/strong>
\nWhile the sequel was the better game, Myth: TFL<\/strong> led the way, and I do prefer its soundtrack (introducing me to the fine works of Marty O’Donnell and Michael Salvatori) over Soulblighter<\/strong>. Amazingly, the series is still strongly supported<\/a> by developers in the fan community.<\/p>\n

TRON<\/strong>
\nOne of my earliest arcade memories is of walking into the Starcade at Disneyland and witnessing the overbright glow of multiple TRON<\/strong> cabinets, each with a spectator monitor mounted on the top. The experience burned something right in my brain, and I’ve been a huge fan of the franchise ever since.<\/p>\n

Cave Story<\/strong>
\nCharacter, music, style, gameplay… Cave Story<\/strong> has it all. It still blows me away that Daisuke Amaya was able to create this entire game single-handedly, and I’m eagerly looking forward to Nicalis’ upcoming WiiWare release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Herzog Zwei<\/strong>
\nGrowing up as an Atari kid, I discovered the Genesis late, and Herzog Zwei<\/strong> even later. To this day, I don’t think anyone has done RTS on the console better.<\/p>\n

Valkyria Chronicles<\/strong>
\nLacking the polished veneer of nostalgia, recent games are always rarer on these lists. Valkyria Chronicles<\/strong>, flaws and all, was a breath of fresh air this year, and I enjoyed every moment of it. <\/p>\n

Magical Drop<\/strong>
\nI’ll take any of the three in the series, really. Magical Drop is perfectly enjoyable as a single player experience, but the game really shines in versus play. Most frantic puzzle game ever.<\/p>\n

Rampart<\/strong>
\nBack in school, I used walk through the student union at UNLV between classes and play a round on the (usually vacant) Rampart cabinet. One of the first genre-mashup games (see Puzzle Quest<\/strong>, etc), the alternating segments of arcade action and puzzle building strategy hooked me.<\/p>\n

Halo: Combat Evolved<\/strong>
\nWhen Halo<\/strong> was announced<\/a> at Macworld 1999, I was blown away. Halo<\/strong> was the title that sold me on the original Xbox over a PS2, and Halo<\/strong> LAN parties are some of the most fun I’ve ever had gaming.<\/p>\n

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So that’s my list. What are your top ten favorite games?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Industry Gamers asked Cliff Bleszinski about his top ten games. Nick Chester linked to the interview and posed the same question to Destructoid readers (with a bunch of Dtoid staffer and community answers in the comments). Here are my favorites, in no particular order: Rez HD Okay, the rest are in no particular order, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia","category-video-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}