Find Your Favorite Game Of All Time*

* From a very small list of 128 games picked by the GameFAQs community.

I came across this quiz you can take to generate a list of your favorite games. It is far from perfect but the top ten does seem pretty spot on to me minus a few games like the original Legend of Zelda which wasn't on the list.

Here is my top 20 according to the quiz:

1 Mass Effect 2
2 Zelda: A Link to the Past
3 Super Metroid
4 Mass Effect 3
5 Mass Effect
6 Final Fantasy VI
7 BioShock Infinite
8 Chrono Trigger
9 BioShock
10 Star Wars: KOTOR
11 Super Mario Bros. 3
12 Final Fantasy IV
13 Super Mario World
14 Fallout 3
15 Zelda: Ocarina of Time
16 Castlevania: SOTN
17 Skyrim
18 The Walking Dead
19 Oblivion
20 Zelda: The Wind Waker
20 Pokemon X/Y

Funny thing about the 2 number 20s is that I never played either of those games. I have always wanted to play Wind Waker (and the Zelda series is still one of my favorite gaming series even though OoT was the last one I really played) and so it got picked a few times over some other games. I have never played any Pokemon game though and I didn't choose it over another game ever but I think it got a bunch of "I feel the same way about both" votes.

Took me 477 choices to generate my list and probably 15 minutes or so. I would sort of like to take this idea and make something a bit more robust out of it. With a bigger list of games and the ability to remove games you don't like or haven't played from the list.

Thoughts and what does your top 20 look like?

It might help people to answer your question if you linked the quiz you talked about

Thin_J wrote:

It might help people to answer your question if you linked the quiz you talked about ;)

It's a test of mental fortitude: can you endure GameFAQs long enough to find the quiz? I accidentally saw the forums ("Super Mario RPG is better than GTA V? LMFAO no.", "Can we just admit that this sites userbase is more or less a joke?") and had to close the tab.

Marion, don't look at it!

I did the exact same thing!

Sounds interesting but, yup, link please.

Quiz link added to first post. Sorry y'all I was eating breakfast and jonesing to get back to Fallout 4.

Another link just because.

I completely agree with my top ten, but once it gets beyond no 15 everything goes catty wampus with games that I don't particularly like being higher than ones I do. At any rate my top ten:

1 Skyrim
2 Civilization V
3 Dragon Age: Origins
4 Mass Effect 2
5 World of Warcraft
6 Diablo II
7 Starcraft
8 Fallout 3
9 Smash Bros. Wii U
10 The Walking Dead
10 Oblivion

Neat tool. My top 15 were fairly accurate. Some seriously tough choices. Can't believe the original Super Mario Bros. and Final Fantasy weren't there.

Nothing comes close to the countless hours playing Goldeneye with my friends in high school though.

1 GoldenEye 007
2 World of Warcraft
2 Metal Gear Solid
4 Starcraft
5 Red Dead Redemption
6 Super Mario 64
7 Final Fantasy VII
8 Star Wars: KOTOR
9 Final Fantasy VI
10 Final Fantasy X
11 Portal 2
11 Uncharted 2
13 Resident Evil
14 Super Mario Galaxy
15 Warcraft III

Some of them I had to guess what they were like because I haven't played them. Some of them I don't remember which I liked more - like Half Life 1 or 2. The list seems reasonable for the games that were included.
1 The Last of Us
2 The Witcher 3
3 Dark Souls
4 Dragon Age: Origins
5 The Walking Dead
6 Mass Effect 3
7 Civilization V (replace with Civilization IV and move up 1)
8 Half-Life
9 Portal
10 Portal 2
11 Demon's Souls
12 Half-Life 2
13 Skyrim
14 Fallout 3
15 Mass Effect 2
16 Baldur's Gate II
17 Metal Gear Solid V
18 Red Dead Redemption
19 Fallout: New Vegas
20 Bloodborne

I had a lot of ties. I don't know how to choose between some of these games. After these, I had a 4-way tie for 15th and an 8-way tie for 19th:

1 Dark Souls
2 Zelda: Ocarina of Time
2 Monster Hunter 4U
4 Smash Bros. Melee
5 Portal
6 Super Mario RPG
6 World of Warcraft
6 Shadow of the Colossus
9 Mass Effect 2
10 Pokemon Red
10 Demon's Souls
10 Super Mario 64
10 Final Fantasy Tactics
10 Persona 4

I'm not sure what my list would look like if I sat down and really thought about it. Neat exercise though, as those are all definitely some of my all time favorites. If nothing else, this exercise made me realize just how much reverence I have for Portal and Pokemon Red.

I figured my list would have a lot of Japanese games on it, but I wouldn't have thought there would be that many. 11 of 14

I feel like there's some huge holes in the games offered up, specifically some more recent stuff, but for the most part I'm ok wit the list.

1 Starcraft
2 Diablo II
3 Half-Life
4 Metal Gear Solid 3
5 Mass Effect 2
6 Red Dead Redemption
7 Metal Gear Solid
8 Call of Duty 4
9 Half-Life 2
10 Halo: Combat Evolved
11 Metal Gear Solid V
12 Metal Gear Solid 2
13 Metal Gear Solid 4
14 Uncharted 2
15 Portal 2
16 Portal
17 Assassin's Creed II
18 Mass Effect
19 Age of Empires II
20 Mass Effect 3

The only thing on the list that caught me off guard was Age of Empires 2. I always forget that game but I played quite a lot of it.

Zelda: Link to the Past
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Super Mario Maker
Bayonetta 2
Super Metroid
Mega Man X
Tetris
Portal

Link to the Past is the real #1 though at the end I was just clicking real fast and Halo wound up on top even though I've only played a few minutes.
After that Castlevania: SOTN, Bayonetta 2 based on first, Super Metroid, Mega Man X should be on there based on love of formula.
Haven't really played the rest.

Wow that list assumes I've played a lot of games I actually haven't. I was sort of clicking in a confused daze by the end. "I prefer Minecraft over Red Dead... I prefer Red Dead over Minecraft... we've always been at war with Eastasia..." My top 20 goes:

1 Skyrim
2 Portal
3 Chrono Trigger
4 Final Fantasy VI
5 Portal 2
6 Super Mario Galaxy
7 Final Fantasy IV
8 Shadow of the Colossus
9 Minecraft
10 Morrowind
11 Half-Life 2
12 Super Mario World
12 Oblivion
14 Fallout 3
14 Okami
16 Assassin's Creed II
17 Super Mario Galaxy 2
17 Red Dead Redemption
17 Bayonetta 2
20 Paper Mario: TYD

Skyrim at the top is correct, but I wouldn't put a lot of stock in the rest of the sorting, especially since I've never played Bayonetta 2 and would rather play any Paper Mario game than it.

I could have looked at the games and sorted them manually for a more accurate and faster list. And the selection is detrimentally limited. Not a single racing game?

Gravey wrote:

Wow that list assumes I've played a lot of games I actually haven't.

Yeah. They should've had an option for I've never played either, rather than force me to select I feel the same about blahblahblah and yaddayadda... over and over and over again.

They didn't have the Thief games, or No One Lives Forever, or Icewind Dale, or Burnout Paradise all of which would be high up there for me, but the top 12 of my results is a fairly good representation of some of the greatest games in my opinion.

1 Fallout 3
2 Diablo II
3 Baldur's Gate II
4 Portal 2
5 Half-Life 2
6 Borderlands 2
7 Team Fortress 2
8 Minecraft
9 Portal
10 Half-Life
11 BioShock
12 Dragon Age: Origins

Gravey wrote:

Wow that list assumes I've played a lot of games I actually haven't.

Indeed. Of the game represented, I had played less than half of them (about 44% to be exact). Some franchises were disproportionately represented too, even though the differences between games weren't remarkably different.

Still, I feel the top five for me were pretty spot on. After than it started to get a little wonky for the series represented.

1 Chrono Trigger
2 Final Fantasy VI
3 World Ends with You
4 Portal
5 Portal 2

6-15

Spoiler:

6 Zelda: Twilight Princess
7 Super Mario 64
8 Super Mario Bros. 3
9 Planescape: Torment
10 Chrono Cross
11 Binding of Isaac Rebirth
12 Castlevania: SOTN
13 Borderlands 2
14 Civilization V
15 Zelda: A Link to the Past

1 The Witcher 3 - never played, but I kept voting for it since I love the concept and really enjoyed the half of Witcher 1 that I played.
2 The Walking Dead - loved it
3 Final Fantasy VI (loved it back in the day)
3 Assassin's Creed II - never played ANY Assassin´s Creed games!
3 Planescape: Torment - started about 3 times and gave up less than 5 hours in each time!
3 Super Mario Galaxy 2 - never played
3 Mass Effect - never played ANY Mass Effect games!
3 Minecraft - put lots of time into it, but it´s not a favorite
3 Final Fantasy VII - only ever got 2/3 through.
3 Journey - never played
11 Shadow of the Colossus - ok
11 Red Dead Redemption - I´ve played an hour.
11 Silent Hill 2 - I´ve played 3 hours.
14 Starcraft - ok
14 Virtue's Last Reward - I´m an hour in.
16 Zelda: A Link to the Past - loved it
16 Super Metroid - one of my top 5 ever.
......lots and lots of not played or barely played games, and a few I finished and liked....
54 Phoenix Wright - this should be way higher...

So, this quiz was a major bust for me.

A pretty solid result for me. The first twenty or so at least doesn't contain any games I haven't played. I imagine that if the base list included my other favourites then the list would have been spot on.

Rank Game
1 Baldur's Gate II
2 Persona 4
3 Persona 3
4 Suikoden II
5 Demon's Souls
6 Silent Hill 2
7 Final Fantasy XII
8 Dragon Age: Origins
9 Mass Effect 2
10 Dark Souls
11 Halo: Combat Evolved
12 Chrono Trigger
13 Star Wars: KOTOR
14 The Walking Dead
15 World Ends with You
16 Fallout 3
17 Final Fantasy VIII
18 Starcraft
19 Final Fantasy VII
20 Tales of Symphonia
21 Mass Effect
22 Phoenix Wright

Some other games I absolutely adore are Star Control 2, Warcraft 2, Tales of Vesperia, Suikoden 3, Silent Hill 3, Ultima 7, Walking Dead S2, Geometry Wars 2&3, Lumines: Electronic Symphony, Super Stardust HD.

Yeah, I wish I could have said "tie, they're both good" or "tie they both suck" (particularly the interminable Japanese rubbish it kept foisting on me). It also had a terrible list, with nothing from Paradox, no X-Com, no Mirror's Edge, not much indie stuff (no Kerbal, SpaceChem, Braid, Castle Crashers, Fez, Papers Please), and no Forza.

This worked better than I thought, especially when it kept foisting games I've never even considered touching on me. Some weird oddities though.

1 The Witcher 3
2 Starcraft
3 Mass Effect
4 Half-Life
5 Half-Life 2
6 Mass Effect 2
7 BioShock
7 Destiny - Never played, curious but probably never will, no console.
7 Virtue's Last Reward - Never heard of it
10 Warcraft III
11 Dragon Age: Origins
12 Baldur's Gate II
13 Mass Effect 3
14 Portal
14 Pokemon Gold/Silver Never played a Pokemon. Curious, but never had a portable nintendo, probably never will.
14 World Ends with You Lolwut?
17 Age of Empires II

From there it completely falls apart.

I think I broke it:

1 Skyrim
2 Morrowind
3 Tetris
4 Oblivion
5 Portal 2
6 Fallout 3
7 Civilization V
8 Planescape: Torment
8 Mass Effect
8 Minecraft
8 Halo: Combat Evolved
8 Journey
8 Super Mario Bros. 3
8 Age of Empires II
8 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
8 Uncharted 2
8 The Walking Dead
8 Life is Strange
8 Mass Effect 3
8 GTA: Vice City
8 Final Fantasy VIII
8 Super Mario World
8 Animal Crossing New Leaf
8 Metroid Prime
8 Half-Life 2
8 Super Mario 64
8 Mario Kart 8
8 Final Fantasy Tactics
8 Resident Evil 2
8 Zelda: Twilight Princess
8 Skies of Arcadia
8 Persona 4
8 999
8 Mass Effect 2

Of the 27 games tied for 8th place, I've played 4 and only have any interest at all in a couple of the others.

The top few are fairly accurate amongst the selections provided:

1 Dragon Quest VIII
2 Super Mario Maker
3 Persona 3
4 The Witcher 3
5 Skyrim
6 Chrono Trigger
7 Final Fantasy VI
8 Diablo II
9 Skies of Arcadia
10 Smash Bros. Wii U
11 Super Metroid
12 Zelda: A Link to the Past
13 Dark Souls
13 Civilization V
15 Zelda: Ocarina of Time
16 Banjo-Kazooie
16 Baldur's Gate II
18 Super Mario Bros. 3
19 The Last of Us
20 Mass Effect 2

It starts to gets funky after the first ten-ish.

If you "feel the same way about both" 127 times, everything will be tied for 1st place.

...and when you choose only the left option 448 times, this happens:

1 Chrono Trigger
2 Ratchet & Clank 3
3 Dragon Quest VIII
4 Persona 3
5 Batman: Arkham City
6 Mega Man X
7 Final Fantasy X
8 Half-Life
9 Smash Bros. Melee
10 Portal
11 Pokemon Gold/Silver
12 World Ends with You
13 Metal Gear Solid 4
14 Kingdom Hearts II
15 The Last of Us
16 Halo 3
17 Final Fantasy VI
18 Assassin's Creed II
19 Paper Mario: TYD
20 Tales of Symphonia
21 Star Wars: KOTOR

Took me 464 battles out of 448 apparently. Results are close. Some anomalies, but I can get behind most of it. Deus Ex should be higher, though. I clicked that one every time.

1 Final Fantasy VII
2 BioShock Infinite
3 Final Fantasy IX
4 The Last of Us
5 Final Fantasy X
6 Grand Theft Auto V
7 Portal
8 Castlevania: SOTN
9 Final Fantasy XII
10 Deus Ex
11 Half-Life 2
12 BioShock
13 Portal 2
14 Skyrim
15 Mass Effect
16 Uncharted 2
17 Final Fantasy VIII
18 Starcraft
19 Zelda: Ocarina of Time
20 World of Warcraft

Doesn't make sense trying to rank these games in a specific order, but every single one of these games would certainly be contenders for my top 20.
Number 1-4 are pretty much spot on.

1 Dark Souls
2 Baldur's Gate II
3 Mass Effect
4 World of Warcraft
5 Mass Effect 2
6 Planescape: Torment
7 Star Wars: KOTOR
8 Portal
9 The Witcher 3
10 Civilization V
11 Dragon Age: Origins
12 Bloodborne
13 Final Fantasy X
14 Diablo II
15 The Last of Us
16 Demon's Souls
17 The Walking Dead
18 Final Fantasy IX
19 Mass Effect 3
20 Warcraft III

Once I realized it took 300 or so votes, I quit. I was at 150 and only at 25% complete.

I guess I don't get the deal, it's just ranking it based off of direct comparisons right? If A>B and B>C then obviously A>C.

After 408 battles my top 20 is pretty accurate although at least one of the first three Thief games should be in the top 20 for me. I was a long time member of the TTLG forums. My number of completions seems pretty accurate to my love for each of these.

Also EverQuest should be in the top 5 with how much time I've played it in the past. I still have flashes of Lower Guk randomly when I'm sleep deprived.

1 The Last of Us - completed 4 times
2 Zelda: The Wind Waker - completed twice
3 Final Fantasy Tactics - completed once, played through most of it several times though
4 Metroid Prime - completed twice
5 Zelda: A Link to the Past - completed at least 5 times
6 Starcraft - completed an unknown number of times
7 Diablo II - completed an unknown number of times
8 Civilization V - my highest hours of play according to Steam
9 Half-Life 2 - completed at least 5 times
10 Super Metroid - completed at least 5 times
11 Skyrim - completed once
12 Baldur's Gate II - completed once
13 Mass Effect 2 - completed once
14 Zelda: Ocarina of Time - completed once
15 BioShock - completed once
16 Super Mario RPG - completed once
17 BioShock Infinite - completed once
18 Super Mario Galaxy - never completed
19 Planescape: Torment - never completed
20 Dragon Age: Origins - never completed

obirano wrote:

I guess I don't get the deal, it's just ranking it based off of direct comparisons right?

...and with lots of omissions -- like the entire racing and space-sim genres, turn-based strategy except for Civ V, others I didn't even notice...

Guild Wars came to mind, probably one of my best online experiences.

Couldn't we just generate a list of our favorite games by, er, writing down a list of our favorite games?

beeporama wrote:

Couldn't we just generate a list of our favorite games by, er, writing down a list of our favorite games?

I tried to do that a few years ago by browsing through the GameFAQ listings for every single console I ever owned or played a considerable amount of (I have never been much of a PC gamer so I easily generated that list from memory) but I didn't make it much past generating a Google Doc with a list of all the games I really liked on each platform. I have always said my top five in no particular order were probably Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy 3/6, Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana but Mass Effect 2 probably belongs in there as well (maybe edging Secret of Mana off the list).

If I had more time to work on it and a better knowledge of statistics I would like to code something like this quiz with some of the obvious improvements (custom game list, the ability to do it in multiple sittings, and a better method of comparing games if one could be thought of).

I would consider "my" top ~10 reasonably accurate out of the selections provided. The biggest problem is that the selection is pretty heavily skewed towards mainstream console titles. As misplacedbravado pointed out, there are almost no strategy games: no Total War: Shogun 2, XCOM, Crusader Kings 2, Dominions 4, Wargame: Red Dragon, or Endless Legend. There are no adventure games other than Phoenix Wright, and very few indies.

1 Final Fantasy Tactics
2 Okami
3 Shadow of the Colossus
4 Fallout: New Vegas
5 Chrono Trigger
6 Journey
7 Zelda: A Link to the Past
8 Fallout 3
9 Civilization V
10 Persona 4
11 Valkyria Chronicles
12 Demon's Souls
13 Final Fantasy VI
14 Dark Souls
15 Planescape: Torment
15 Super Mario Galaxy 2
15 Mass Effect
18 Star Wars: KOTOR
19 Xenoblade Chronicles
19 Fire Emblem: Awakening
19 Super Mario Maker
19 Baldur's Gate II
19 Phoenix Wright: Trials
24 Final Fantasy XII
24 Zelda: Majora's Mask
26 Suikoden II
27 Ratchet & Clank 3
27 Persona 3
27 Batman: Arkham City
27 Mega Man X
27 Final Fantasy X
27 Smash Bros. Melee
27 Portal
27 Pokemon Gold/Silver
27 World Ends with You
27 Metal Gear Solid 4
27 Kingdom Hearts II
27 The Last of Us
27 Halo 3
27 Assassin's Creed II
27 Paper Mario: TYD
27 Tales of Symphonia
27 Xenogears
27 Smash Bros. Wii U
27 Minecraft
27 Halo: Combat Evolved
27 Final Fantasy VII
27 Super Mario Bros. 3
27 Age of Empires II
27 Pokemon Red/Blue
27 Tetris
27 Portal 2
27 Sonic the Hedgehog 2
27 Uncharted 2
27 The Walking Dead
27 Life is Strange
27 Undertale
27 Mass Effect 3
27 GTA: Vice City
27 Final Fantasy VIII
27 Super Mario World
27 Animal Crossing New Leaf
27 Skyrim
27 Phoenix Wright
27 GoldenEye 007
27 Diablo II
27 Metroid Prime
27 Morrowind
27 Half-Life 2
27 Super Mario 64
27 Mario Kart 8
27 Resident Evil 2
27 Zelda: Twilight Princess
27 Skies of Arcadia
27 999
27 Zelda: Ocarina of Time
27 Hearthstone
27 Monster Hunter 4U
27 Warcraft III
27 Final Fantasy IX
27 Kingdom Hearts
27 DK Country 2
27 Banjo-Kazooie
27 Castlevania: SOTN
27 Cave Story
27 Final Fantasy IV
27 Metal Gear Solid V
27 Perfect Dark
27 Super Metroid
27 Call of Duty 4
27 Super Mario Galaxy
27 Dragon Age: Origins
27 Bloodborne
27 Grand Theft Auto V
27 Shenmue
27 Oblivion
27 Super Mario RPG
27 GTA: San Andreas
27 Shovel Knight
27 World of Warcraft
27 Chrono Cross
27 The Witcher 3
27 Binding of Isaac Rebirth
27 Metal Gear Solid 2
27 Resident Evil
27 BioShock Infinite
27 Metal Gear Solid
27 Splatoon
27 EarthBound
27 Borderlands 2
27 Team Fortress 2
27 Red Dead Redemption
27 Bayonetta 2
27 Metal Gear Solid 3
27 Mother 3
27 BioShock
27 Silent Hill 2
27 Starcraft
27 Destiny
27 Mass Effect 2
27 Virtue's Last Reward
122 Dragon Quest VIII
122 Half-Life
122 Zelda: The Wind Waker
122 Pokemon X/Y
122 Deus Ex
122 Resident Evil 4
122 Paper Mario