The 2025 Desert Island Video Game Draft

[Löwenherz]

Oh lord, Sid Meier's Pirates!

Maybe the original, maybe Gold or maybe the early 00s pc with the dancing minigame. hmmm.

I still haven’t played that even after buying it and asking on here years ago for programs to get a PC Steam game to run on a. Mac.

Obsolete indeed.

 

[Löwenherz]

Such a rad game. One of the five games that brought me out of retirement and back to the hobby including <Mega Man 9>, <Valkyria Chronciles>, <Mirror’s Edge>, and <Borderlands>

I also went and redacted this reply to Sluggah’s Batman: Arkham Asylum pick. Truly an awesome set of five titles to bring me back to gaming.

Also, wanted to close the loop on the whole “war room” thing. Total bust. They’d moved on by round 4. Surprised me too because I worked with a friend last time to make some picks and it went fine. Turns out wanting XCOM and not wanting Dark Souls were deal breakers.

I didn’t make a list per se, but if I had, my 15 picks fit fairly nicely within my personal top 30 (subject to change).

1: Chrono Trigger (SNES)
2: Mega Man 3 (NES)
3: Odin Sphere (PS2)
4: Bioshock: Infinite (PS3)
5: Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast)
6: Valkyria Chronicles (PS3)
7: Civilization II (PC)
8: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
9: Persona 5 Royal (Switch)
10: Hollow Knight (Switch)

11: XCOM: Enemy Unknown (PS3)
12: Secret of Mana (SNES)
13: Super Metroid (SNES)
14: Hades (Switch)
16: Mega Man X (SNES)
17: TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge (Switch)
18: Disco Elysium (PC)
19: Mega Man 9 (PS3)
20: Cyberpunk 2077 (PC)

21: Mirror’s Edge (PS3)
22: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (PSX)
23: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (N64)
24: Super Mario Brothers 3 (NES)
25: EarthBound (SNES)
26: StarCraft (PC)
27: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PS2)
28: Super Mario Kart (SNES)
29: D&D: Shadow over Mystara (Arcade)
30: Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3)

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

2: Mega Man 3 (NES)

The first game in the franchise I actually played.