When was the last time a game cracked your Top 3?

[AndrewGPK]

For about 20 years my top 2 were:

1) ZOoT
2) Mario 64

and I really didn't have a solid order for the rest of my Top 10-20.



Now I have a Top 3:

1) Bloodborne
2) ZOoT
3) Super Mario Odyssey

Bloodborne was my entry into the Souls-like games and shot to #1 and since then Dark Souls and Sekiro are also in my Top 10-20 games. Super Mario Odyssey basically supplanted Mario 64 for me - the true sequel (to both Mario 64 and Banjo and Kazooie) I had been waiting around 20 years for. I played SMO at launch and Bloodborne sometime in 2018.

 

[petethepanda]

Last one was Nier Automata in 2017. I think it needs a while yet to settle, but Outer Wilds is... pending.

In addition to the top 3 swapping out repeatedly, over the last 7 or 8 years my previously long-standing top 10 has been almost entirely changed.

 

[noinspiration]

I basically only have a top 2, Dark Souls and Resident Evil 4 are so far above everything else. So it's Dark Souls by release date, but I only played RE4 in 2015, so if we're going by when we played it it's that.

The third spot would shift around all the time, but the most recent games I can think of that might get there would be Prey from 2017 or Dishonored 2 from 2016.

 

[TheWorthyEdge]

2 of my top 3 are from 2020.

1. Xenoblade Chronicles DE
2. The Last of Us 2

 

[MarvelousIntent]

In 2019: Outer Wilds tied for the Number 1 spot
In 2018: Monster Hunter World took the 2nd spot
In 2017: BOTW BOTW took the 1st spot.

Before those two shook things up, my top three were Kingdom Hearts 2, Sly 2, and Golden Sun.

 

[FinalArcadia]

Hmm, it's been a long time, since like the Gamecube and GBA-era. Loved a LOT of games since then, but I really don't think my top 3 of Skies of Arcadia: Legends, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance or Paper Mario (hard to decide between those two) has much chance of changing. Every time I play them, I love them just as much as I ever did.

Top 10 though? Yeah, there are several games from the last 10 years I could make a case for there.

 

[DreadfulOmen]

When tlou2 came out.

 

[Tavernade]

2012 with Fire Emblem Awakening?

My top 10 is REALLY fluid, with Metroid Prime and Pikmin 2 'usually' in the top three but not in any particular order. I don't think Awakening is #1, but it probably pops into #3 sometimes.

Responding to this I realize I don't 'actually' know what my favorite game of all time is.

 

[QisTopTier]

Ys 8 2017

 

[Karateka]

Kotor
Ocarina of time
Halo 3

Gosh, 2007.

 

[Anth0ny]

2001 super smash bros melee

Coming up on 20 years!

rdr2 cracked my top 10 in 2018

 

[JDHarbs]

Doom 2016

 

[pastry knife]

God of War (2018) and Fire Emblem: Three Houses

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Three Houses here as well, which was 2019. We're the only ones to mention it so far that I've seen!

Before that, Animal Crossing New Leaf (2012), and then Dark Souls 1 (2011). But my top 5 or so are kind of flexible.

 

[The_Orufus]

All 3 of my top 3 are fairly recent but I would argue that I didn't properly appreciate games as a kid.

The World Ends With You
Sekiro
Breath of the Wild

 

[DustyVonErich]

Demon's Souls PS3 joined Ms. Pac-man and FF VI. It barely edges out MGS4 for me, I think.

 

[PersianPrince]

My top 3 is

1. Chrono Trigger
2. Final Fantasy VII
3. Super Mario RPG

As you can imagine these games have been on here for a long time. They hold up incredibly well. The last time a game cracked my top 10 was Bloodborne at number 7.

 

[Dragon1893]

Last year (TLOU2)

 

[hypostatic]

Breath of the Wild. Revolutionary and pretty much a perfect game, in my opinion.

 

[ReginaldXIV]

Disco Elysium, it will be there for years unless video game narratives take a giant leap in the near future.

 

[CasuallyDressed]

ICO went straight to the top when I played it for the first time in like 2014.

Breath of the Wild came incredibly close in 2017. It's 4th.

 

[Jinfash]

I finally played DQXI when it dropped on GamePass. It ended up landing on my GOAT list. I think top 3 too.

Disclaimer: my memory is extremely short-term. I don't even know what the other two are lol.

 

[Jinfash]

Random question: do people create literal lists to keep track of their top 10 things of all time? I probably should start one.

 

[redflamingolingo]

Last June. TLOU Part II.

Before that, 2013 with TLOU.

My top 3 favorites are:

1. TLOU Part II
2. TLOU
3. Dark Souls

 

[Flipyap]

2007, Halo 3

Bioshock also sneaks in there sometimes, depending on my mood and how strongly I currently feel that the setting and atmosphere matter more than anything else in a video game.

2017's Prey is #4 when Bioshock is #3. My top "10" is a formless, shifting thing.

Random question: do people create literal lists to keep track of their top 10 things of all time? I probably should start one.

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Not for all things, but people talk about "top X" games often enough that I did end up making a list to try and organize some thoughts that usually don't take the form of a leaderboard. It's fun, even if I don't expect to ever settle on a definitive top 10.

 

[Drachen]

Monster Hunter World + Iceborne.

 

[jerf]

The Last of Us

 

[Karateka]

Random question: do people create literal lists to keep track of their top 10 things of all time? I probably should start one.

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I have a pretty set favorite 7 or 8 games and whenever someone asks this question I spit out whatever order I think up at the time.

 

[Lightjolly]

Disco Elysium so, two years ago

 

[Bedameister]

RDR2 in 2018. Absolute banger

 

[aiswyda]

Probably high school, although FF7 (which I played in 2018 for the first time) is def clos and probably sometimes in slot 3...
Plenty has hit my top 10-15 though in the last few years though.

 

[xstaticprocess]

Without a doubt Nier Automata did when I finished it yesterday.

 

[Sharivan]

Resident Evil 2 Remake in 2019

My top 3:

1. Shenmue 1 and 2
2. Resident Evil Code Veronica + RE 1 and 2 Remakes
3. Batman Arkham Trilogy

 

[N.47H.4N]

God of War 2018, I have to replay The Last of Us Part II

 

[jazzneversleeps]

A certain game from 2015, pretty much instantly when I started playing it. My top 3 hasn't changed since.

1. Bloodborne
2. Shadow of the Colossus
3. Super Metroid

 

[Powerofthecloud]

There is no Top 3 only Zuul.

 

[Haze]

2011. Dark Souls.

 

[Peleo]

My top 10 would likely be:

Majora's Mask
Super Smash Bros Melee
Breath of the Wild
Pokemon Silver
Team Fortress 2
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Splatoon
Hades
The World Ends with You
Animal Crossing Wild World

So 20177

 

[bounchfx]

honestly hard to tell but the closest recent ones that come to mind are Hollow Knight and then Celeste

 

[Blackleg-sanji1]

2005

😂
Suikoden 3
Ape escape 3
Kingdom hearts 2

This probably will never change. Unless eiyuden Chronicles is absolutely amazing

 

[NCR Ranger]

Fallout New Vegas, so 2010. You would have to go back to 2004 when both Bloodlines and Kotor 2 took the top spots, which I just realized two of my favorite games came out within a month of each other. I was there day one for Kotor 2 and 6ish months late on Bloodlines though.

 

[Magnus]

I feel like it's:

World of Warcraft (cracked my top 3 in 2005, when I first started playing)
Hearthstone (cracked in 2015, when I realized how much I loved it)
And then, either Super Mario Galaxy or Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI or VII....all of which came out way before Hearthstone.

So...Hearthstone I guess! Nothing's come in for the last 15 years like Hearthstone has and shaped/changed my gaming and taken over as much time as it has. Warts and all, it's been a go-to game for me fairly consistently for six years.

 

[Diogo Arez]

2018, both GOW and RDR2

 

[Agni Kai]

2020. The Last of Us Part II was one of the most fantastic experiences I've ever gone through. I still think about it (and it's prequel) to this day.

 

[Etoh]

2018, Hollow Knight.

Before that, Breath of the Wild in 2017.

 

[KenOD]

Tetris 99 in 2019.

However that is more due to the fact playing my previous #1 of Tetris DX turned out to be disappointing as it no longer was as fast, technical, or challenging enough. So 99 just replaced DX.

 

[Ravenwraith]

Breath of the Wild is No. 1. Devil May Cry 5, Streets of Rage 4 and Katamari Damacy all broke the top 5, but not the top 3.

 

[KENMASTERS1]

i would say last year with FFVII Remake

 

[Servbot24]

1. Metroid Prime
2. Mega Man X
3. Celeste

Hollow Knight is also in my top 10 somewhere

 

[giallo]

Dark Souls and then Bloodborne.

 

[Brodo Baggins]

BotW was the last one and my first playthrough experience probably puts it at #1. Just a magical experience for 125 hours of gameplay on a new console day one. Playing through it and talking about the game with my friends totally recaptured the magic of talking about video games on the playground as a kid in elementary school.