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10. Tony Hawk's Underground 2
I don't normally like sports games, but historically there have been three major exceptions. 1. I really enjoy some racing games, when they are well done. 2. I love NCAA '08, and it's pretty much the only football game that I play. 3. The Tony Hawk's Skateboarding games.
I grew up on these as a kid and have played them straight through from Tony Hawk's Pro Skater through Tony Hawks Project 8. Project 8 was the "jump the shark" moment for me and I lost interest shortly thereafter. I feel the game was at its best with Tony Hawk's Underground and Tony Hawk's Underground 2. While I appreciated the more realistic tone of Tony Hawk's Underground, I think the goofy tone of Underground 2 had more replay value. Each of the cities you went to had a ton of stuff to see and a bunch of secrets.
And this fun doubles when you and a friend play together. Many are the hours spent with me and my older sister playing this game, exploring the ridiculous levels, getting into competitions... we even had a game to see who could get into the most horrific bail. Quick list for fellow players. My favorite levels. #3: Boston. Yeah it's the first level and not too exciting, but I love the fact that they have a subway, library and bank as secret areas to screw around with. #2: Barcelona. The largest level in terms of space, even if most of it is just that dock. My favorite thing about this level is the gondola. Seriously, I spent an hour riding it and finding tricks to do by jumping off of it. #1: Say it with me now, New Orleans. It's Mardi Gras, it's New Orleans, and you can raise the freaking undead. What's not to love?! After this, Skatopia was a huge let down.
9) Dokapon Kingdom
My God how my LITTLE sister and I loved this game. The very concept was ingenious. Turn an RPG into a Mario Party-esque game. The gameplay was simple, the matches intense, and there was even a little bit of bloodthirstiness between us players.
The only reason I put it relatively low on this list is because, frankly, the charm does wear off pretty quick and I can rarely sit through an entire match.
Grand Theft Auto - Any of them.Okay, okay, with the exception of IV there really is no multiplayer to speak of, which is why this one isn't higher on the list. But my friends and I found a few things we love to do. Who can last the longest without dying? Who can pull off the best stunt? Who can get into the most devastating accident? Who can murder the most innocents with just a vehicle?
Ah well, boys will be boys. Next entry.
7) WiiSports
Or, more accurately, WiiSports Bowling. I'm telling you, for a game that's older than some first graders it still gets whipped out whenever we have a family gathering. It's one of the few games that even my parents will play! You know you still play it, so stop groaning.
6) Castle Crashers
Oh my god, what can I say about Castle Crashers that hasn't already been said by many many others. It's retro beat-em-up at its absolute best. It is the Portal of beat-em ups. The variety of characters and the fact that your characters level up independently really adds a lot to the replay value of this gem.
My sister and I spent a week playing nothing but this game and played straight through to the final boss and won. We honed our strategy very well but found that with four players things got even better. One of us was "the Tank" who stocked all their points into health and strength. Yours truly was the "Mage", sinking all my points into magic, and then health after I'd mastered magic (and let me tell you once you've mastered the Red Knight's lightning attack, you are untouchable.) My sister was "the Medic", stocking all of her points into Health and Agility, allowing her to zip around the battlefield and revive us if we fell. She also became ridiculously powerful with bow attacks. And the last person was just the Everyman, who had balanced stats, allowing them to help us all. That seems to be the best strategy to assure that everybody has a good niche... though the Tank has an advantage in fighting for the girl.
5) Dungeon Defenders
Here's some brilliance right here. Take the fun of an action RPG, and add in tower defense elements. My brother and our mutual friends stopped playing Halo 4 wholesale when we found out about this game and beasted through it for weeks before returning. It's a relatively new game, but if you haven't played it, seriously, go download it and play it right now. But you absolutely need a team; single player is pretty boring.
4) Halo 4
For me, this probably the one that I play the most, but it's not my number 1 because shooter games are pretty polarizing; it's not gonna be a game that everybody feels like playing. But my afforementioned team loves to go beasting through Halo and tearing stuff up (much like we did tonight). Are we dorks? Yes. Will we find something better to do with a Sunday night? Hell no, it's Halo Time!
3) Mario Party 2
Really, I like most Mario Party games that I've played, but Mario Party 2 is what started the obsession and while the matches can drag on a little bit, it's still really fun to play in groups. A few months ago we played Mario Party 8, with 8 people. We formed into 4 teams. It was actually really funny. The teams were:
Myself and My Wife
My Sister and Her Fiance
My Friend and His Girlfriend
My Other Male Friend and Our Other Female Friend
I made a joke that it was the four stages of male - female relationships: Married, Engaged, Dating and Platonic. But as fun as that was, the edge does go to Mario Party 2 for both starting the obsession and (in my opinion) having the most solid level design and balance.
2) Super Smash Bros Melee
I love the stage editor in Brawl, but that game that handled the best, and the ones that we constantly break out at parties is Super Smash Bros Melee. I'll admit I get sick of it after three or four matches, but those three or four matches are intense. We all know what SSBM is all about so I'll just leave it there. So, what is my number 1 game?
You're gonna probably hate me.
1) Rock Band
I like to drum, okay? I'm actually pretty damn good at it. I'm honestly pretty damn good at every part, except for singing, I'm awful. I've even done a trilogy of "One Man Rock Band" where I play all four parts in a split screen view (Here's the one that shows off my instrument skills the best (One Man Rock Band Foreplay/Long Time) It also shows off how bad I suck at singing, so that's pretty cool too.
[Edit: But I will say that I do rock RE: Your Brains. That was way more in my range...]
But whenever I get friends together, I alway drag this game out, and I can usually get people to play for quite a long time (the fact that I have downloaded such a wide assortment of songs really helps).
So that's what does it for me. There's a lot of games that didn't make this lit that I do enjoy, such as Soul Calibur, GoldenEye, Call of Duty, and so forth, but I don't play them as often as these games.
