/v/GAs - Voting

Trade Curly for her Machine Gun and help the professor when he falls into the hole. Dude, trust me.

Cave Story

Studio Pixel

The perfect balance of Kojima's finely-crafted character studies with a minimum of his filler and bullshit. Definitely the last one, as told by Kojima himself during release.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Konami, Kojima Productions

EMBRACED TO DIE/ CAMARILLA IS A FUCK/ KILL EM ALL 2004/ I am Malkavian Man/ 410,757,864,530 DEAD THINBLOODS.

Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines

Troika Games

Arguably improved on the original in a number of ways. Except the Boost Guardian.

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Retro Studios

Purple pikmin break the game harder than the President of Hocotate breaks the bank.

Pikmin 2

Nintendo EAD

If you've been paying $14.99/month since launch, that's almost 4 thousand dollars.

World of Warcraft

Blizzard Entertainment

M-M-M-MONSTER KILL!

Unreal Tournament 2004

Epic Games, Digital Extremes

20 years later, and there's still nothing quite like it! For better, or for worse.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Intelligent Systems, Nintendo

It ain't gay if the balls don't touch.

Katamari Damacy

Namco

The GTA that has yet to be topped. "But what about F-?" NOPE. Still the king.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Rockstar Games, Rockstar North

I watched Weird Al perform "You're Pitiful" live in 2008 and everybody cheered at this line. No joke

Halo 2

Bungie, Microsoft Game Studios

The great gunplay, the comeback of a one of the big PC classics and the first true 'cinematic' video game experience, a high the industry has been trying to chase ever since.

Half-Life 2

Valve Corporation