Over the years, we’ve ranked entire franchises, applauded critical darlings, and publicly shamed those that let themselves down. What we’ve never done, however, is curate a list of the games that are, in our humble opinion, nothing short of brilliant. TO BE CLEAR, this isn’t a list of the best games ever according to the likes of Metacritic, nor are we actually ranking them, so the game featured in the top spot isn’t necessarily any better than the game at number 101. Instead this list is our way of chronicling 101 fantastic titles that will always have a place in our hearts. The only thing we’ve stipulated is that they must be available on either current-generation hardware or the previous one, i.e., any console released since 2012, or on a PC. After all, it wouldn’t be very cool of us to recommend games that it’s near-impossible to get hold of. Here are the 101 Video Games that Everyone Should Play At Least Once.
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin) & Ben Potter (@Confused_Dude) & Ashton Matthews (@ScrambledAshton)
Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Ciaran Henry (@CiaranHenry268)
101 Video Games That Everyone Should Play At Least Once:
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Assassin’s Creed II
• Batman: Arkham Asylum
• BioShock
• Borderlands 2
• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
• Cave Story+
• Celeste
• Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
• Dark Souls
• Dead Space
• Deadly Premonition
• Detroit: Become Human
• Deus Ex
• Devil May Cry
• Disco Elysium
• Doom
• DuckTales
• Elden Ring
• Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture
• Fallout 3
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy X
• Gears of War
• Ghost of Tsushima
• God of War
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Grim Fandango
• Half-Life 2
• Halo 3
• Halo Reach
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Heavy Rain
• Hitman: Blood Money
• Hollow Knight
• Journey
• Katamari Damacy Reroll
• Kirby’s Adventure
• L.A. Noire
• Life is Strange
• Limbo
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Mass Effect 2
• Mega Man 2
• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Metroid Prime
• Minecraft
• Mortal Kombat 11
• Nier: Automata
• Outer Wilds
• Perfect Dark
• Persona 5 Royal
• Pikmin 3
• Pokémon Yellow
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Quake
• Red Dead Redemption 2
• Resident Evil
• Resident Evil 4
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Sid Meier’s Civilization IV
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Soulcalibur II
• Spider-Man
• Spyro the Dragon
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
• Stardew Valley
• Super Mario 64
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• System Shock 2
• Tetris Effect: Connected
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Last of Us
• The Last of Us: Part II
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• The Sims 3
• The Walking Dead
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• TimeSplitters 2
• Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2
• Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
• Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End
• Undertale
• Unpacking
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• World of Warcraft
• Yakuza 0
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Constructive critic, the color of the recordings are very inconsistent. Example: borderlands 2… It makes the game look kinda unconfortable to look at, its not a well made recording.
I'm not saying it deserves to be on this list but i honestly genuinely expected to see at least one of the Monster Hunter games.
Ik it's just preference really but in my experience it has one of the highest playability of any game I've ever played, especially even as a solo player. (Not considering games like Pac Man & Tetrus ofc even though I've barely played them as much either)
Last of us is no longer ps exclusive though
Yeah last of us is the best reason to buy a ps
Limbo is a great game where you are looking for your sister, and you never find her, because you are stuck in limbo, because you have died and are not ready to move on.
What about Prey(2006)
Where's Dishonoured?? 🙁
1:04:29 WAAAAAAAAAAA
Many of those titles are totally blend and uninteresting but I understand it's rather a list "what people I know liked to play in their childhood and recent past" – while it has some good title, it misses the point, I would change the title
Less than 10mins in and Ive stopped watching due to all of the inaccuracies. Do yall fact check anything before you post it, do any of the people involved in the making of this actually play video games? Even basic stuff like saying Pokemon Yellow was released on the 3DS in 1998 (Not to mention that the 3DS released in 2011, a year before your self-imposed cutoff date.), or that Ciri is Geralt's adopted daughter. Im guessing the rest of the video is just as bad. This is what happens when you hire casuals.
play elden ring! listen to your own advice!
I like this channel alot. But please, no more singing lmao. Steve Perry is peerless anyways. Even among talented singers imo
Yeah I know some humor is normal thing, nice list and all… but please, don't try to sing again in such videos, even as semi-joke… 😛
Very good, I was looking for such a video. No fast forward, with short comments on the listed games. I am surprised that there are many titles that I have not yet played.
KENSHI
Im convinced the writer has no idea what the word titular means and heard it for the first time a day before writing the script
Ugh, A LOT of this game is not A MUST play, and there is A LOT of that you skip and MUST be played.
Cone on shadow of war should be on there for its nemesis system
No real rts games like rome total war age of empires or command and conquer games
Cities skylines and two point hospital for those that like builders
Battlefield 1 for its immersion and best fps about
Sleeping dogs also a classic
Other thn tht i like the list 😂😂
1:04:44 ALIEN INVASION IN 2023, HOW DID THEY KNOW??
Arkham City is even better than Asylum. And Knight (gameplay wise) is the best.
Skyrim, GTA 5, Minecraft are the top 3 greatest games of all time.
I'd throw in Jade Empire myself, considering that was Bioware's pivot to 3rd person action from the isometric era. It also shows the early ideas that were refined in KOtOR, Mass Effect, and Dragon's Age. A rough game at times but I enjoyed it when it came out and love looking back at it as a foundation of some great games.
Mass effect 1 was the best game in the trilogy Mass effect 2 was the beginning of the decline of the franchise (((( d.v))))
NOBODY SAYS TITULAR THIS MUCH GOD THAT SCRIPT IS AGONY
What # is the Witcher 3? It’s better then Skyrims because no talking character voice, it’s look lonely.
Gears of war was the first game with the "Rally Run" and over the shoulder aiming. It was also a game that you felt like you accomplished something when you beat it.
Titular.
Gears of War and Halo was the main reason I got a 360
No Kingdom Hearts should be illegal
No left 4 dead 2? 🙂
1:04:46 ayo nah
OMG. What a great list of games. Even though I don't think that TLoU Part 2 should be here, the rest of those games are really awesome, and a must play. BTW, from The Sims series of games, The Sims 3 and 2 are really great. And I get it why it was hard to choose. There are other awesome games that weren't present on that list. So if you haven't made another video, I think that you guys could make another list.
It the same games like every video lmao
Defiantly try Dead Cells.
Ash be my over the pond girlfriend
Elon musk made a portal gun before he was a teen. lol
You forgot thunder force and gradius
Usually don't agree with most lists as they are very repetitive, only include nostalgic games or are dependent on taste and favoritism. None of that is in this list, just a perfect list of the best of the best games of all times with a shoutout or two at some games of the same franchise.
No Kingdom Hearts, or Paper Mario? Hmmmmmm.
As one who has played most of these games i can confidently say you're not missing much if you do not play almost any of these games.
Find a genre you like and keeping to that will fare you much better than wasting your time and money on most of these games.
Some of these games are quite good most are quite skippable.
*Full disclosure: i think Dark Souls type games and also "Pick and pop" turn based games suk.
Super Metroid….all I will say. 😛
No behemoth games???
interesting games that
do not suck at all I might need to jot these titles down to remember them in a game interesting enough list .
I dunno what my 101 would be but I would certainly include some older games like Baldur's Gate , Half Life , Tomb Raider and Dungeon Master in it .
Nice try, but no MI 3, MI and MI 2 (only Grim Fandango in the list, INSTEAD of these gems), no AOE 2, no StarCraft, no Settlers, no Aladdin (platform side-scroll, instead of c*ap Mario)…
While, in the list…
…c*ap Super Mario
…violent abomination GTA 5
…nightmarish Resident Evil – and TWO ENTRIES, on top of that
…c*ap military total military c*ap COD
…abomination Walking Dead
…Mario Kart (whatever this is, supposedly race with a car) in the list and NO NFS, not a single entry, are you serious?!!
TWO BIG FAT THUMBS DOWN, to your list!
Was I the only one who noticed that Ocarina of time they didn’t include that it was originally released on the N64?
I can't believe you forgot Bloodborne and sekiro
Mine craft is absolute trash, has no business on this list.
Deadly premonition is probably the most bat shit crazy game I’ve ever sat down and watched an LP for but I love it❤😂 from the fun nerdy campy BGM to the psychological shit, it’s a fun ride if you’re willing to stomach the pure bullshit✌️
I love controversial games so the last of us part two was amazing and Abby is probably my favorite character ever but I don’t think I could ever get into. Yakuza, i’m not into mafia themes or violent shit like that which is why I can’t play GTA games either— i’ve come to, except that I am just not a hard-core gamer, I am actually very picky… Regardless of what I have bought at full price and still haven’t played😅
No dark souls or superhero games… not my cup of tea, I know I know but I’m not a gamer, so bite me… I really wish I was a gamer but I’m not
REMINDER: This is not a definitive list of the best video games ever made but rather our personal picks for titles we reckon you NEED to play, and as such is in *no particular order*. These games have been selected with availability in mind, so a title won't make the cut if you can't easily get your hands on it today! OH, and Marvel's Spider-Man is coming to PC on August 12th & Persona 5 Royal is coming to Xbox Series/Nintendo Switch on October 21st (recent announcements).
🎮With that said, how many of them have you played, and what would make your personal list? 🎮