I liked Mario 2, back in the day it got some heat for being so weird but I still loved it. I remember it took a while to clear, had some fun bosses and levels.
Top 28 of all time though? ......eeeeeeeeeehh
Id probably rate it 29th.
GodModeEnabled said:Id probably rate it 29th.
Same here.
#26. Quest For Glory/Heroes Quest : So You Want To Be A Hero
Heroe's Quest (later renamed Quest for Glory due to a lawsuit from Hasbro): So You Want To Be A Hero is one of those games that I always felt like never quite got its due. As far as I'm concerned this game is the predecessor for virtually every modern day large scale Western RPG. It combined the then standard gameplay of a typical puzzles of a text based adventure game (and later as a point-and-click game when it was remade),a small class system, a stat based character with a couple dozen skills that you would level up as you used them and progressed through the game, and a real-time combat system. It wasn't just the hybrid gameplay that made it special. The story was very novel. You were a guy trying to be something more than an adventurer. You wanted to be a hero. And while the game had its share of humor, it never crossed that line, so you always took the situation seriously even if at times it seemed like no one else around you was. I played and replayed this game at least a dozen times with the different character classes, trying to find new secrets, new ways around puzzles, and max out my stats so I'd have an even better character to import for its sequel. It's a PC classic and one of the games that my life revolved around as a teenager.
#25. Scorched Earth
I'm proud to say that I left a legacy at my old highschool. As of 1992 students were no longer allowed to play games on the library PC's. You know why? Me. Me, this game, and whatever other 9 people who were in the area. Scorched Earth was a turn based artillery game - an early predecessor to Worms (and also my introduction to Shareware). The gameplay was simple. Aim, adjust your power, adjust for windspeed, and try to kill the guy next to you before he killed you. Unlike a lot of games from the time it gave you the added ability to earn money and shop for more impressive weapons, shields, and other things that made the screen go boom. The graphics were crude, even for its time, but who the hell cared? It was fun. Destroying the CPU controlled opponents or friends. Regardless of who you killed, they'd go out with a snappy line or insult. It was also the first game that let me play with more than 4 people at a time. It was multi-player fun at its finest. Up to 10 people could play together, and that meant everyone got loud.... and ultimately banned from the library. And getting banned from the library is a surefire way to know you're having fun.
"And getting banned from the library is a surefire way to know you're having fun."
I don't think it's particularly hard to get banned from a school library... 
Foolz said:"And getting banned from the library is a surefire way to know you're having fun."
I don't think it's particularly hard to get banned from a school library...
Kicked out of the library, no that's easy. Banned for the remainder of the semester on the other hand takes some skill.
Scorched Earth was great at school.
robio said:Foolz said:"And getting banned from the library is a surefire way to know you're having fun."
I don't think it's particularly hard to get banned from a school library...
Kicked out of the library, no that's easy. Banned for the remainder of the semester on the other hand takes some skill.
Only the semester? My statement was working on the assumption that you were perma-banned. 
Well in all fairness that was the spring semester and I was asked not to return to the school that fall. So maybe the ban would have held. Who knows.
#24. The Saboteur
Sometimes a leading character is so good, and fits the game so perfectly you can overlook a whole host of imperfections simply because you want to see where the story takes him and how he’s going to react to the next barrell of shit that’s thrown at him. That’s Sean Devlin, a foulmouthed Irishman (is that redundant?) defending the French by killing the Germans in WWII Paris, and his story is told in The Saboteur. The game itself is a stealth-combat take on the sandbox genre. The gameplay and NPC interaction is more limited than other sandbox games, but The Saboteur's focus on stealth gives it a very unique feel. The game has a few shortcomings, mainly in the driving sections, which play a major role in the game, but the rest of the game is so good it's easy to overlook. The characters, the soundtrack, the French setting... it captures a mood, time and place just perfectly. Oh and also, boobs.
I never played that game, I kind of wanted to.
Fantastic game. Made me want to go to France.... you know, assuming there weren't French people.
#23. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
If you aren't convinced by the brilliance of this game after all the acclaim it's gotten over the years, there's nothing else I can say to convince you. It's a radically different Zelda, with less emphasis on dungeons and more on.... well I'm not actually sure what the new emphasis is. But time management, social interaction, thinking outside the box, and really awkward wannabe fairies all take center stage at some point or another. Plus, it features Clock Town. Argueably the greatest city ever featured in a game. With the game's 3 days of "real-time" Clock Town feels alive, moreso than any other town I've seen in a game. There's so much going on, right up until "the end" that it can be hard to leave. That one town alone would make the game worth the price of admission alone, but then you top it off with the masks. Oh those wonderful masks. It's like Link gets to play Super Hero. All of it does more than just make it a Zelda game unlike any other Zelda game, but simply a game unlike any other.
I absolutely adore Majora's Mask. It dares to be different, to turn the Zelda formula on its ear. The town really does feel alve and the sense of time really does bring a sense of foreboding and dread.
23... 23?! Unless its code for Michael Jordan like GOAT then this list fails.
robio said:Fantastic game. Made me want to go to France.... you know, assuming there weren't French people.
That's why they cast an Irishman as the protagonist. After all, considering the French disposition, the French Resistance must have been composed entirely of foreigners.
Dvader said:23... 23?! Unless its code for Michael Jordan like GOAT then this list fails.
I'll tell you why it's only 23. When I made this list I sort of had one big guiding principle. Is this is a game I liked so much that I have replayed it? And if I haven't do I want to replay it? I went through MM, and for the most part never touched it again. I played about a couple hours of it again when it was on that Gamecube collection, but didn't make it too far. And for whatever reason if I had the chance I probably wouldn't replay it today. So, yeah excellent game, but it's not quite top 20 material for me. Now shut your pie hole and keep watching 
Got a feeling no one will really like my top 10 except for maybe Leo.... time will tell.
DOES YOUR TOP TEN HAVE PENIS IN IT?!
Hooray! Monster rape!