YOUR GREATEST GAMES except for Aunt Alison who is lazy

The 'getting off the board'feature in Underground was a helpful thing, but I think 4 is just better balanced and has the better levels. Not too big or weird.

I'm going to have to do a top 10 I think. Too many other games to consider:

In no particular order:

Dark Souls 2
Bloodborne
Thief Gold
System Shock 2
Shadow of the Beast 2
Death Stranding
FEAR 2
C&C: Red Alert
Quake 2
Control

I pefer the original to Gold. I think it flows better and the opera house is the only really good new level. The gambling den level is awful

I have a soft spot for Skate 2. I do like the controls and how satisfying it can be to do some pretty down to earth moves, but I am a sucker for arcade or 'gamey' games. I can't imagine how many hours I put into those Tony Hawk games growing up.

When you put it like that, Rodney Mullen is the real king of skateboarding.

Okay, here is my brain splurge. Organised by the machine they are on:

BBC Micro - err none. All games here have been very much surpassed many times over.

Gameboy - Final Fantasy Legend 2, FF Mystic Quest and of course Zelda: Link's Awakening were equally fantastic at the time.
Gradius Interstellar Assault sealed my love of shmups forever.

SNES - Chrontrigger and Final Fantasy VI were my top games for obvious reasons

Megadrive - Thunder Force III & IV are so good I happily return to them still today. Nod to Streets of Rage 2 of course.

90s PC - Doom/Doom II, Hexen, Baldur's Gate 1&2, No One Lives For Ever, Half Life 1 & 2
Those 90s shooters hold a special place in my heart, unfortunately then the likes of Call of Duty took over.

Playstation - Final Fantasy VII, Vagrant Story
Most of the SquareSoft games of this era were superb to be fair. 

PS2 - Final Fantasy X & XII, God of War 2, Resident Evil 4. Possibly my least favourite console generation (not counting the first three which I missed). The games I played certainly were enjoyable, but they have all been surpassed by PS3 & PS4 games in my opinion (other than the four mentioned).

PS3 - Ketsui,  Portal 2, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 (although I played the PS4 version) and Uncharted 2

PS4 - Battle Garegga, Bloodborne, Alien Isolation, Uncharted  4, Witcher 3 and maybe even Final Fantasy XV

I've yet to play the following likely contenders: Dark Souls 3, Sekiro & Elden Ring. Nier Automata, God of War and many others...bit behind the curve here

Also I have a massive load of shmups yet to properly play, especially a ton of the most highly regarded ones.

Apart from apparently hating anything post 2011 that looks like a solid enough list to me

I read that entire post as Frank from always sunny..

It's a good list!

I think VC is probably my favourite soundtrack, because there's so little I actively avoid. There's no country, I was incarcerated in a carseat and therefore had to listen to the pop stations when those songs were playing and hair metal was a nice throwback when the game released

SA I basically switch between the hiphop and grunge stations

Forgot one on my list

Silent Hunter - Probably played 4 the most, but have very fond memories of the original. 12 years since 5 came out, it's probably a dead series now, but could look stunning on modern machines.

I won't lie but playing Mario Kart Double Dash and Tiger Woods 2004 at a mate's house at uni convinced me to get a GameCube after being PC only for so long. They really don't make golf games like that anymore and Ready, Steady, Go by William Orbit is burned into my memory.