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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[@1990erre]

I wonder what #1 is going to be Clueless

[@memelordozai8553]

Elden Ring ofcourse

[@dewwwd3431]

Hello kitty island adventures

[@wybe211]

Cluegi

[@yjlom]

barbie and her friends: the crazy adventure of the puppies

[@qT1ify]

It was Cluedo speedrun

[@Carnevour1]

I want a 2 hour essay video on StarCraft 2

[@Atulack]

Yes!

[@Atulack]

I’m subbing just for that.

[@hommhommhomm]

Would love that

[@CallMeEphraim]

Is 1 hour ok?

[@chitusplum4849]

same

[@krpp]

It's crazy how many people have dota as "that game I really want to play, but can't"

[@Foolofatook]

on the other side there are plenty of players who hate the game but can't not.

[@reubenthawmte8504]

Smurfs😂

[@kooroshrostami27]

Dota 2 would probably be my favorite game ever if the community experience wasn't 90% toxic cancer.

[@pukelust]

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.

[@NrGDime]

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. (

[@biohazarcl]

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

[@dankduelzperuvian]

Bet you've never even played Dota 2 (the current game is Dota 11)

[@biohazarcl]

@@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 😅

[@dankduelzperuvian]

@@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

[@mbra8228]

I still play Heroes3, it's unbelievable how alive this is stilll today, people building new map templates, tournaments happening, streamers online :)

[@AA-rg6xy]

I still play it, but where are these tournaments? :D

[@stiken4421]

@@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.

[@Delebriel]

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

[@zsegyuro]

Basado

[@eriksen59]

lol player detected

[@user-bz2ev5vi8f]

borderlands 2/3 were sweet. loved the world design

[@RiffandRoll.]

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

[@adamp6320]

You mispelled Ultima 7: Black Gate but otherwise great list

[@AkerfeldtMikaelOpeth]

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

[@LookAtTheBacon]

Wow, amazing list. Kudos to you sir. I guess we're in the same age range. I'm born 1988.

[@AeneasMeier]

"...if you are 5% better than your opponent..." shows game against ToD 😬😄 ❤

[@Zettern96]

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

[@Lightn0x]

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.

[@adamkmet8936]

You are a real one for WotR.

[@semiramisubw4864]

@@Lightn0x what ???

[@Truthseeker-iz3dj]

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.

[@Donz01]

@@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

[@bvang321]

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!

[@snuffeldjuret]

lol too funny, me and my two brothers also selected one of each :D.

[@GrubbyTalks]

Awesome to hear, haha. Precious memories

[@TheGorrum]

1. Newerwinter Nights 2. World of Warcraft (up to WoD) 3. Dune: Spice wars

[@avionblacksmithwannabe]

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. 💜

[@damo9961]

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

[@nbchannelnb]

1. Dota 2 2. Counter Strike 3. Witcher 3 4. Cities Skylines 5. Warcraft 3

[@ruibarian5187]

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.

[@calculatorade]

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

[@txdmsk]

Ah man, I loved Super Mario RPG. I don't remember if I could ever beat the last boss or not.

[@calculatorade]

The real feat was beating Jinx, then Culex.

[@user-bz2ev5vi8f]

Z was super nice

[@nicolasgodfraind4287]

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.

[@umamifriends]

really awesome list, every one of these games is incredible

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@mickcraftgaming]

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

[@user-wv5ut7hq1q]

Very RTS heavy, respect. But I loves me some FFVII and Diablo 2 LoD.

[@deusredux]

Final Fantasy Tactics, Warcraft 2, Civilization 1, Baldur’s Gate 1, Diablo 1

[@michalvrabec454]

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

[@SteaksOnSpear]

Same

[@fet_frug]

plazma burst was such a fucking banger

[@Snailing_Suika]

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]

[@KeMeEscupaUnPollo]

Super Metroid is a must for anyone.

[@Snailing_Suika]

@@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.

[@niuage]

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 :)

[@Kallut1337]

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.

[@Koozje]

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

[@Sindamsc]

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

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@Nuvizzle]

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.

[@vitas5333]

warlords battlecry 3 is amazing and I never see this series get mentioned anywhere so that made me happy

[@kingdavey90]

Top 5 games: Total Annihilation, Warcraft 3 TFT, Terraria, Valheim, Mario 64

[@TheSchrimpRundung]

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

[@lenrundblad]

Too many people sleep on Stronghold, such a great franchise!

[@KeMeEscupaUnPollo]

Get the C&C steam remake, it's a must. It even has the console missions

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@KeMeEscupaUnPollo I got it a while back but just started playing it, so fun so far :)

[@txdmsk]

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

[@brav0wing]

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.

[@darrenc8697]

Also a disaster from a design point of view

[@brav0wing]

@@darrenc8697 Grubby did mention it in his video but, yes, you are right.

[@Dandyphonic]

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.

[@henrybottomsworth]

Aliens vs Predators 2 was such a banger

[@Skumtomten1]

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.

[@CyanMentality]

Nice selection Grubby, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

[@Dubstepec]

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)

[@slawless9665]

love the "Populous II Disk Whisperer" story; I feel like I did something similar on one of my games to make it work through some combination of digital AND physical manipulation, can't remember which one though

[@Vindicator7777]

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.

[@txdmsk]

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)

[@dawnstar81]

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

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@KorisnikBr1]

Nice video Dota 2 fan myself can you make a video talking about how would you improve dota 2?

[@metabalancetv]

Top 5! 1. Final Fantasy 6 2. Final Fantasy Tactics 3. Diablo 2 4. StarCraft: Brood War 5. Icarus

[@higochumbo8932]

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)

[@eldrevo]

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

[@higochumbo8932]

@@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.

[@alexe9325]

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

[@GrubbyTalks]

Mordhau looks awesome

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@Muerdra]

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

[@GrubbyTalks]

My brother and I always wanted to play Stronghold. But for some reason we couldn't find the game!

[@Muerdra]

​@@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.

[@iNsOmNiAcAnDrEw]

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)

[@tomfiver4148]

I think its bit sad Faeria never found a real sucess...imho its a better and more strategic game than Hearthstone

[@darthbergi]

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!

[@ferencdojcsak8576]

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

[@user-gl4jq5ih4h]

Oh, Wildstar... Now it hurts again.

[@Donz01]

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

[@mihneatotescu5868]

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.

[@dcp2047]

My top 5 ever: 1 - SC2 2 - Ark Survival Evolved 3 - Warcraft 3 4 - Skyrim 5 - GTA V

[@henrybottomsworth]

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.

[@gog3366]

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

[@spyfire242]

1) Dota 2 3) HoN (Dota) 5) Wc3:TFT (Dota) 😏

[@gog3366]

@@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.

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@ZahhibbDev]

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!

[@Hdtk2024]

Floppy Disk Handler😅

[@Yayadays111]

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

[@GrubbyTalks]

My preferences reveal themselvse! Heard good things about Nier Automata

[@SylvesterInk]

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

[@txdmsk]

Team FAF represent!

[@SylvesterInk]

@@txdmsk FAF is an absolute blast, and the devs keep improving it. Team games are especially fun!

[@JoakimEngfors]

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

[@txdmsk]

It's only 4 games, bro. I feel cheated.

[@Ulve124]

#1: Warcraft 3 - even though I was never good at ladder, I spent thousands of hours on custom games and there are still more to be discovered. My top custom games are castle fight, farm TD, pokemon legends, vamp zero, orcs vs elves, masin RPG, enfo's TS:MT, run kitty run, wintermaul reforged.. I could go on and on probably :D #2: Diablo 2 LoD, nowadays made even better in project diablo 2. #3: World of Warcraft vanilla and TBC.. But it can't be played now, except fringe private servers like turtle wow, because blizzard doesn't moderate the game anymore #4: Terraria #5: Minecraft

[@txdmsk]

I prefer Median XL to Project Diablo 2. Check it out if you haven't yet.

[@gooseberry41]

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).

[@MrYokugan1]

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.

[@GrubbyTalks]

Ohhhhhh MTG. MTG:A as well or just the card game?

[@MrYokugan1]

@@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.

[@txdmsk]

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.

[@bakacs1n]

I loved this. Guessing the game from the first seconds of the music :D Here are some of my games which are closed in my hearts: Starcraft 1-2 - amazing time in computer clubs playing 8 team melee big game hunters Warcraft 3 - Learned English from it + best story ever + I just loved everything about it Diablo 1-2 - Started hard because "just one unit" after starcraft, but got instantly hooked Heasthstone + BG (now only BG) - another one to get the wife into gaming, BG + podcasts or listening YT vids + eating Heroes of the storm - best game with wife Lotr Battle for middle earth 2 - another best with wife Command and Conquers - can't decide which, RA2, Generals, Tib sun or Tib wars Homm3 - the one and only (the rest are just good games), the icon of Turned base strategy, like starcraft 1 for rts CounterStrike 1.6 - probably the best fps ever created Carmageddon - the best car game for computer clubs Quake 2-3 - computer clubs Unreal Tournament - computer clubs DOTA 1 - Grubby you probably would have loved this 100x more than dota 2 (which just sucks, it destroyed too many lives) Skyrim - the best with kid, chasing butterflies Dragon Age - one of the best RPGs ever created Titan Quest - the best Diablo 2 copy ever created Neverwinter Nights - the first really cools DnD like rpg, the predecessor of Dragon Age The Sims 1 - the joy of getting the big house after the grind of making friends Worms Armageddon - the pinnacle of fun with friends Need for Speed Hot Pursuit - played a lot with my brother And last but not least for today: Delta Force 1 - the first game I ever played on computer, when I won a 1 hour playtime in a computer club, in a TV show game

[@Viper40758]

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

[@anoobplays386]

You preferred dungeon siege 1 over 2? That’s a rare opinion to have.

[@Viper40758]

@@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.

[@txdmsk]

@@anoobplays386 Dungeon Siege 1 was much better than 2. My cousins and I loved that game and pretty much grew up with it, lol

[@user-bz2ev5vi8f]

Zoo Tycoon 2 Dungeon Seige Half Life 2 Nice ones yep I also preffered 2 over 1

[@chickncz]

Hey Grubby, I totally agree with the W3 choice. I grew up playing W3 on LAN parties with my cousins, playing DOTA1 in W3 as well as making my own maps, learning how to script the AI/maps. All of this inside one game. This said, i'm sad i do not see World of Warcraft in the list. World of Warcraft was such a huge game when it came out and I just love the W3 lore in it, the locations, heroes, interaction, cooperation when raiding or doing dungeons together. It might not be the same experience as it was the days it came out, but you can still try it. Blizz made WOW "Classic" expansions for people to experience WOW for the first time. You can play either the total "Classic" WOW first expansion, or there is currently a Wrath of the Lich King Expansion which is more close to the W3 Frozen Throne story. As a massive W3 fan and enjoyer, I really suggest you to try it out if you havent already. I know it is an MMORPG (different style) but can be played however you want (solo experiencing)

[@rjculliford]

Enjoyed listening to a RTS veteran's favorites, and you made me interested in AoW Planetfall and I'm gonna try that one for sure. 10. Geoguessr 9. VtM Bloodlines (with the unofficial patch) 8. Super Meat Boy 7. Deus Ex (with gmdx) 6. Elden Ring 5. Football Manager 4. Planescape: Torment 3. Team Fortress 2 2. Slay the spire 1. chess

[@kazzardiusthetomato7968]

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

[@GrubbyTalks]

Amazing list

[@mcleanoglesby207]

I was scrolling until Warlords 3 was on a someone's list

[@pavelchurlyaev257]

1. Space rangers: a war apart 2. Mass effect series 3. Dota 2 4. Starcraft II 5. Gothic 1-2

[@georgeousguy]

Заметил, что в коммьюнити Грабби много русских, интересно) Может потому что у нас было очень активное коммьюнити в варкрафте 3?

[@krioni86sa]

​@@georgeousguy hola

[@pavelchurlyaev257]

@@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.

[@mst-4898]

i knew you from dota and you got me hooked on warcraft, much love Grubster, you made me grub 1) Dota 2 2) Elden Ring 3) Darksiders 2 4) Far Cry 3 5) Assasin's creed Black Flag Honorary mentions are valorant and the batman games

[@scottdouglass2]

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

[@magicalesquilax7232]

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

[@niuage]

Someone else with CTR in their list, nice!

[@txdmsk]

Ah man. Theme Hospital was AMAZING. The new "Two Point Hospital" is not bad either. Give it a try if you haven't yet.

[@magicalesquilax7232]

@@txdmsk Thanks for the tip! I bought two point hospital a few years ago. Also enjoyed it, but not as much as the original.

[@MrNightLifeLover]

Great video and a nice choice! Now I just have to figure out how to get WC3 working again...

[@johnalevetsovitis1775]

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!

[@PurpleBraveGiraffe]

Viper should do the same thing ! Fun concept.

[@Madmuli]

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

[@MiguelAnton1994]

10-Street Fighter Alpha 3 9-Shove it! (Sokoban) 8-Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses 7-Lode Runner (NES) 6-Crash Bandicoot 3 5-Spyro 2 4-Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure 3-Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty //I'm kind of traumatized too and I don't want to touch it, but it was an important game for me. 2-Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne //Mostly the editor, I'm a gamedev now 1-Dota 2 I started playing Dota 1 because SC2 became too stressful for me (and I couldn't concentrate too much because of personal issues). I only played Venomancer because it was a Hydralisk. Honorable mentions: MK9, SC Brood War, Company of Heroes 1, Super Bomberman 5, Wu-Tang (PS1), MK Shaolin Monks, Naruto Ultimate Ninja 2 and 5. I notice many games have editing capabilities (even unexpected games like Super Bomberman 5 (in japanese!) and Wu-Tang allowed some customization), my brother and I would create our own story modes.

[@yuzycute]

5 - Guity Gear XX Accent Core Plus R 4 - Monster Hunter World 3 - Batman Arkham City 2 - Dota 2 1 - Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

[@officialrobertcenox]

Warcraft was my first pc. Game at 14 year old and I felt in love with the storyline campaign . Wow cames after that again to see the storyline in 3D .

[@Vince-tt1uj]

3:05 I had the same thing happened to my original Starcraft vanilla disc, had to put the disc, check how its loading if it stutter I had to get it back, clean it, etc

[@chainfire1000]

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?

[@Dandyphonic]

now my list :) 1) Dota 2 2) Diablo 2 3) Warcraft 3 (could include the 2 in the list) 4) Hearthstone Battlegrounds 5) Total Anhilation Kingdom 6) Slay the spire 7) Total war Warhammer 2 8) Left for dead 2 9) Borderlands 2 10) Alien versus Predator 2 So many forgotten: Hell Let Loose, Battlefield bad company 2, Baldur's gate 3, Divinity Original sin 2, etc

[@aleksandartosic8131]

Nice list, tbh after recently quitting Dota 2 I did not expect to see it on your list, but I guess that just proves your own greatness. As for me, top 5 would be: 5. Stronghold 2 4. Knights of Honor 3. Castle Strike (highly recommend to try the game if you still haven't had the chance, it was the RTS that more-so introduced me into the world of video games) 2. Dota 2 1. World of Warcraft - Wrath of the Lich King

[@alenand314]

Nice list Grubby! Motivated me to check out AoW: Planetfall, I enjoyed AoW2 back in the day. Also, crazy story about the floppy, I thought only old consoles worked like that 😅 Love all types of games, but RPGs mostly: 1. Persona 4. 2. Final Fantasy VII. 3. Catherine. [Look it up, it is its own type of game!] 4. Starcraft: Brood War 5. Super Mario 64 6. Assassin's Creed 2 7. Ghost Trick [A DS game. One of the best told stories, if anyone liked Phoenix Wright look it up.] 8. Chrono Trigger 9. Warcraft 3: TFT 10. No One Lives Forever

[@txdmsk]

Ah man. Totally forgot about No One Lives Forever. NOLF 2 was also amazing. We played the shit out of those games. In LAN as well. My father loved them too. I wish they made a proper sequel!

[@JohnnyTightIips]

World of Warcraft Monster Hunter World Fable 2 Age of Mythology or Battle for Middle Earth 1 and 2 Fromsoft games (Dark Souls 1 and 3 / Elden Ring)

[@kanafly9273]

Anno 1503, EE AoC, C&C Generals, Counterstrike 1.6, HoMM3, Monkey Island 1-3, WOW (TBC), Diablo 2 & Baldurs Gate 2

[@osYukari]

I had really fond memories of WC3 and Heroes of Might and Magic too with my brother. We had only one computer to share, and we were both young and stupid and without internet, so we ends up alternating between turns (for HMM) and between games versus AI (for WC3). And on TV we always have gaming channels replaying WC3 so despite not being able to plays as much, we kinda grew up with WC3. Though, if I had to choose one game for the nostalgia game pick, it'll had to be Counter Strike. Really wish I had chance to enjoy SC2... but when SC2:WoL was out, my PC is so bad that whenever I get to 150 pop or more the game framerate drops to single digits when Im lucky, worse case it could freeze for a whole minute..... single player is bearable, but there's no way I could do PVP. And so by the time I got a good PC, I already moved on from SC2...

[@MercuriaLTFT]

Fun vid! But trust the list is missing teamfight tactics, then you get the best from moba/rts style fights together with more slay the spire like gameplay and close to no toxic players even though being a competitive game :D. So for me it is 1 - Dota 2 (the first game I really played a ton) 2 - Teamfight Tactics 3 - HS or HS Battlegrounds 4 - Valorant 5 - Warcraft 3 (first moba and auto battler as mods there so it's the mother of my favourite games :)))

[@user-gh8kf2sr3d]

Actually I was very surprised by: - HS top3 - Dota top2 - No SC2 - No RoC

[@flashingslayer3625]

1. Divinity Original Sin 2 2. Warcraft 3 are the games that i had most fun with ever. They are my all time favorites and i think they share the number 1 spot but unlike many people who just like the RTS aspect of warcraft 3, i just played custom games 24/7. Grindy rpg maps ( I still play The World RPG btw), tower defense maps , arena maps, rogue-like maps, hero defense maps and much more.

[@GorastMK]

#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

[@ovalmo]

I just recently tried to list top 100 of my favorites and top 5 ended up being: 1. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 2. The Witcher 3 3. XCOM 2 4. Elden Ring 5. Hades Heroes of the Storm just missed out this time, but I feel like outside of HoMM3 all the others might change depending on how I happen to feel when making the list. HoMM3 was love at first sight back when I was 10 and it's still just so damn good

[@snuffeldjuret]

which x-com 2? :D

[@ovalmo]

@@snuffeldjuret I loved the base game itself, but WOTC obviously was still a huge improvement. Haven't tried Long War. Maybe next time I get the itch for XCOM

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@ovalmo I didn't understand anything of that, so it is safe to assume you are not talking about tftd? :D Maybe I am the only one calling that xcom2 :D.

[@ovalmo]

@@snuffeldjuret No I'm not talking about that :D I think you might be living couple of decades in the past :p I have never played the originals, only the reboot/remake/I don't even know. The 2012 XCOM and 2016 XCOM 2

[@snuffeldjuret]

@@ovalmo sad boomer noises :D I love the first xcom2 soo much but the love is rarely, if ever, shared :). I think the majority under water activity is pure brilliance, probably why it really resonated with me.

[@prawtism]

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)

[@Jashinthegiant]

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.

[@prawtism]

@@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.

[@spyfire242]

Starcraft: Brood War will forever be my favorite e-sport, I still watch Tasteless and Artosis cast ASL to this day and the game is still evolving and interesting and balanced. I think one thing that puts it above WC3 for me personally is I favor macro focus over micro focused gameplay in RTS. As amazing as WC3 is at a high level there isn't really any room for simply overwhelming your opponent with a better economy and units, you must have excellent unit control and mechanics like upkeep disincentivize large unit counts. I remember my favorite strategy in WC3 was to overwhelm my opponent as undead with meat wagons and necromancers but that only took me so far. In Brood War on the other hand I can focus almost entirely on macro and attack move my units at the enemy with only minimal micro involved.

[@bixuxi]

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!

[@TheMuffinBagare]

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.

[@Mysterious-Stranger]

SC2 is probably still my favourite game of all time... Maybe joint favourite. But I suppose it helps that I was on a "break" from competitive for most of Heart if the Swarm (coincidentally, not because of SH), and really came back and put quite a lot of hours into ladder during LotV. Heroes of the Storm is my second/third favourite and I still play fairly often. People in the community still seem to hold out hope that it could be actively supported again, and as crazy as it may seem, I think I get it. The game is just so fundamentally good and fun that if any game is going to get pulled out of the trash heap this is a great candidate. My joint-first or joint-second favourite is a bit outside of the Grubby context - it's Pokemon. I've been invested in the series since I was a kid, but also dipping into and out of both competitive scenes (official and Smogon) for a while. I don't think I've ever heard you mention Pokemon at all, Grubby, but if you ever want to give it a try I'd watch the heck out of that. Online battle sims remove a lot of barriers to entry.

[@sawwallace]

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

[@333berzerk]

hi grubby, was kinda interested in what mmr u have (or think u could achieve if not playing) in sc remastered?

[@GordonDoesntNeedtoHearAllThis]

My top ten 1 Skyrim 2 Half-Life 3 Counter-Strike 4 Beyond Good & Evil 5 NFS Most Wanted 6 Red Dead Redemption 2 7 Disco Elysium 8 Dishonored 9 GTA San Andreas 10 Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield

[@cavemantero]

1. Starcraft Brood War 2. Street Fighter 2 (+ all the variants) 3. The Legend of Zelda III: Link to the Past 4. Final Fantasy VI 5. Chrono Trigger 6. Secret of Mana 7. Star Craft 2 8. Final Fantasy VII 9. Final Fantasy V/Final Fantasy Tactics 10. Rimworld

[@Busido1995]

1. Rocket League - 2.5k h and still loving it,not grinding but purely playing for fun/relax. 2. Counter Strike - ~5k h was fun but age did its part to reflexes. 3. Terraria - 400h super fun! 4. Warcraft 3 - ~1k h Custom maps [ Defi4nc3's was fav. ] 5. Homm3 - ~ 200h, my childhood first turn based game. +Bonus, Rise of Nation - fun singleplayer fast game. Have you seen/tried Command&Conquer franchise?

[@gdgoosebumps1966]

1. Dota 2

[@stabiloviclegrande9813]

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)

[@paolocappelli7242]

Ok let's do a top ten! In no particular order: - Starcraft 2 - Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne - Dofus (because nostalgia mainly) - World of Warcraft - Final Fantasy XIV - Age of Empires 2 - Endless Legend - Baldur's Gate 2 - Total War: Warhammer series - Diablo 2 P.S.: Grubby have you ever tried Endless Legend? I think you might like it if you like Planetfall. It's a 4x set in a "fantasy" (but really sci-fi) world with great artstyle and music and very asymmetrycal factions that are full of lore and character. It's a bit simpler than the Age of Wonders games, but surprisingly deep once you learn it.

[@LookAtTheBacon]

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