As an avid gamer, video-games is something that i have grown up with all my life. i do find it very difficult to narrow it down to just five games, however there is five that i can think of even to this day that i am happy that i have had with me growing up with throughout my life. My favourite genre of games are very different from each other. I love FPS, MMO, RPG, space and futuristic games. A lot of the games on this list are games that people can relate and understand what i mean by how important these games are to me and i know at least one of these games will also be on your top 5 games of all time.
In my number 5 position my first favourite game came out in 2011, The Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim. Skyrim is an open world RPG dragon slayer game developed by Bethesda Studios that takes place on the mythical island known as skyrim and your destiny is to save it from the return of the dragons and there leader, Alduin. With this game, without the three DLC’s in the game you can easily waste 1000+ hours like i have.
In my number 4 position is Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 is an online massive multiplayer based in the mythical continent Tyriel. you play as a customisable character who wants to play his part in the world by becoming more and more powerful to destroy the undead and dark magic who have returned to the continent and there leader one of the elder dragons. i first discovered this game back in 2010 when i watched my favourite youtubers play the game on there channel. I’ve been playing the game ever since, spending hours and hours on the game and making new friends from around the world everyday. The only reason why this game isnt in my number 1 position is the frames in the game because of how poor my computer has become.
In my number 3 position is and i am one hundred percent sure you have heard of this game is Minecraft. Minecraft is an open world sandbox game made entirely out of blocks where the only limit is your imagination. You can build a house, a farm, a castle, anything you think of. you can go and adventure down to the deepest mines, the most foreign and exotic lands and to different dimensions. Rain or shine you can do all this and fight mobs that attack you and your friends who join you on this adventure. your objective is to simply keep getting resources and making yourself stronger until you are able to go to the final dimension and defeat the Ender dragon. (your probably seeing a pattern of games i play involving a lot of dragons).
In the final two games are ones that i will go into great detail with as they are the ones who have given me the best memories i have had playing video games.
In my number 2 position and if this isnt on your top 5 games i will be in shock. My number 2 position is Halo : Reach. You play as a lone wolf spartan that has been ordered into a team of spartans known as Noble team on the planet Reach that is currently under siege from the alien speices known as the covenant. Your name is noble 6 a combat, pilot and assassin specialist Spartan, your in a team of another 5 members, some who like you and some who dont like you that much. The team members names are Carter, The leader of noble team. Cat, the intel specialist of the team and isnt really fond of you at first. Jorge, the heavy specialist who you bond with quite quickly in the game. Jun, the scout specialist, you relationship with jun isnt too close except for one mission you do with him half way through the game. And finally is Emile, the close quarters combat specialist, the same with him is you dont have too close of a relationship with him as he likes to stay to himself most of the time and enjoys mocking all the other members of the team. The reason why you are not on the best terms with them at the start of the game is because you are a replacement to the previous noble 6 who was killed in an explosion he set off on a space-ship. It was supposed to be cat who sets off the bomb on the ship but on her way she was hit with a mortar shell ripping her arm from her body.
- Noble 1 – Carter
- Noble 2 – Kat
- Noble 3 – Jun
- Noble 4 – Emile
- Noble 5 – Jorge
- Noble 6 – You
As you progress through the game you get dropped down into massive warzones, stealth operations and search and destroys. The games offers beautiful scenery of the planet and it pulls at your heart strings way too often. you unfortunately have to witness the loss of your teammates, hundreds of deaths and destruction and all the loss of absolutely everything. as you progress through each mission you loose one member of your team every few missions all due to heroic sacrifices they make. You loose Jorge to an explosion that he sets off on the covenant flag ship. He saves your life by throwing you from space and you plummet down back to the planet. You then loose kat as you all are trying to escape the covenant.she dies from a plasma bullet through her head. Jun survives from leaving the team by bringing Dr. Halsey to an evac site. Carter sacrifices himself by crashing a pelican (military plane)into a covenant tank called a scarab so you and Emile can escape. Emile then gets ambushed by Elites and gets stabbed to death with energy swords. All thats left in noble team is you. you decide to stay behind to man an aerial gun to defend the ship, ‘the pillar of autumn’ from covenant attack ships. Once the ship escapes with probably the most important technology and spartan in the franchise and video game history, The AI Cortana and Spartan Sierra 117 also known as the master chief, you are back to your roots as the lone wolf to fend for yourself in a last stand as you fight off waves of Covenant elites. you eventually get swarmed and end up shot and stabbed to death. In the epilogue of the game however you discover that reach was won back again even after the covenant have won the first war of reach. it gives you a bitter sweet ending to the game you helped save the planet and galaxy but at the cost of your own life.
And now we are finally onto my final number one position in my list. Ill try to keep the plot of the game short as it is something special to experience on your own without any spoilers. in my number one position is Destiny 2. I have made so many friends playing this game. Friends who sit next to me everyday in college and friends across over in america. This game means so much to me that me and my friend are getting tattoos of the game. The game is designed to bring people closer together to support each other in raids and strikes. To keep the plot of the game spoiler free, Earth is in ruins, it happened when a massive technological orb known as the traveller was found on mars and brought to earth. Cities and countries were destroyed when aliens from around the galaxy travel to earth to steal its power and they almost succeed until the traveller deceides to go into a permanent hibernation and gift certain people in the last city of earth the power of the light to fight off the darkness. you are known as the guardian by the people, you and hundreds of other players who are along side you on the journey. You have a choice of personal customisation and a choice of three classes, the titan, the hunter, and the warlock (warlock master race). The last city of earth gets attacked and taken over by the cabal, an alien race from the depths of mars. they trap the traveller so there leader can feed on all the light and become the most powerful being in existance. it is your mission to stop him and bring back the vanguards to create an army to stop him.
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