Top 10 Games

Horizon Zero Dawn. Thought it looked stupid in the advertisements and wound up falling in love with it.

God of War 4. Best plot of any GOW game so far...

Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Played both this and the expansions through twice. I truly wish they would remaster the first two.

Pokemon Red original: All I wanted for Christmas in 1999 and I got it. I used to stay up late with a clipon gameboy flashlight under my covers in case my parents checked on me. My first intro to RPG's.

Final Fantasy 7: Never defeated sephiroth in the final fight, or the emerald weapon. Got that Golden Chocobo though.

For Honor: This truly was thrilling game. It was Mortal Kombat with a full 360 aspect. Customizing your fighters was one of my favorite parts. Toxic Gamers constantly barraging everyone with hateful messages chased me away from this game.

If you won, you were cheating. If you lost you were of course trash.

Call of Duty Black Ops 2: I broke up with my then (2011) girl friend of two years. I was the person that broke it off so I wasn't wallowing too much, but I did feel guilty even though it was ultimately the best thing for both of us. With two 24 hour shifts and 5 days off every week (Fire Department schedule), I had nothing but time on my hands. I got so good at PvP that I started strictly playing with "Sticks and Stones" weapons. The crossbow, the ballistics knives and my personal favorite, the Tomahawk. My absolute favorite moment was when I got the game winning kill with a tomahawk. Showing it in slow motion while the opposing team cussed me out was a high I'll be chasing for the rest of my life.

Monster Rancher 2: This game is one of the most underrated of all time in my humble opinion. If you never played it was a PlayStation 1 Game similar to Pokémon with a interesting spin. I'll let Wikipedia explain...

"Besides the monster types you can unlock from the beginning, there are many more which you can raise. There are three different ways in which to unlock new monster types for raising: plot events, expedition, and errantry. The most common way these new monsters are given to you is by the gain of an item, which when used to combine monsters, will produce this new type. After that happens, CDs will now be allowed to produce monsters of that type."

... I wish Nintendo would just port the damn game to American Switch already.

Ghosts of Tsushima: The gameplay was fantastic but the story was beautiful. The ending broke my heart and left me wondering if I made the right decision for a whole day after.

GTA 5: Performing multI-faceted heists with a couple of bros over headsets was some of the most fun I've ever had with online gameplay. Talking smack on each other, coordinating vehicles with the squads colors (Black and Green), hunting down players that blew up your boys jet, all of it was a blast.

The only one of these I could put in order would be Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Best game, best RPG,

and best storyline(s) of any game I have ever played.